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Washington, D.C., Potomac River, S.H.I.E.L.D. Trident Building.

As the headquarters of the secret service agency, the interior of this building adopts a large number of silver-gray decorative styles, the space lines are simple and clear, the layered design is staggered, and the decorative materials and walls are all in the same color, which makes the overall building full of the cold and tough metal atmosphere of the post-industrial era, perhaps influenced by this architectural style, the internal atmosphere of S.H.I.E.L.D. often makes people feel a little tense and depressed.

Coulson’s mood at this time was exactly the same as this atmosphere, he had just returned to Washington from New York, did not have time to rest, and walked directly to the director’s office with top-secret documents, he had important information that he must report to Fury himself.

Ascending from the dedicated elevator and entering the |security area through the verification process, Coulson soon arrived in front of Fury, who had been waiting for a long time.

The one-eyed black bureau chief sat in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, with his back to the light outside the window, and on the other side of the conference table sat former chief Alexander Pierce.

The last time I encountered an unknown intruder to grab the Cosmic Cube, Pierce fell into the hands of the other party and suffered a lot, perhaps because of his old age and weakened his resilience, his injury has not healed now, and his seriously injured right hand is wrapped in white gauze layer by layer, and |the whole person’s spirit is a little sluggish.

“Sir.” Coulson saluted the two.

“Good work, Phil.” Fury nodded slightly, and then asked casually: “Have you heard about the matter in New York?” ”

“If it’s about Dr. Banner, I heard a little on the way back, and the specific experience is not clear.” Coulson replied.

“No need to inquire, here is a comprehensive report, you can take it back and study it slowly, now tell me the mission, from beginning to end, Mr. Pierce needs to understand the whole process in order to explain to the White House and the World Security Council why our people are involved in illegal and dangerous activities.” Fury dropped a document and leaned back in his chair, light coming from behind, casting his expression entirely in shadow.

Coulson, knowing the seriousness of the problem, nodded silently and began to recount the results of his investigation.

He was originally ordered to approach Ross and investigate the superpowers that appeared in the air attack, but during the investigation, Coulson accidentally discovered that some of the suspects belonged to the S.H.I.E.L.D. active agent sequence, and the leader of the rapid reaction force, Brock Rumlow, turned out to be the leader of the superpower criminal gang. After this news was transmitted back to the headquarters, it immediately attracted the attention of the high-level. In order to get more information about the case and find out how many insiders were involved, he had to stay in New York for a while.

After the joint operation led by General Ross, S.H.I.E.L.D. was once again shocked by the urgent telegram sent back by Coulson. Only then did they learn that not only was Block involved in the attack, but Agent Sitwell, who had claimed to be on vacation in Europe, had become the main leader of the secret gang, and he was the one who led the big case.

In order to find the answer from Sitwell, Fury personally contacted the general, paid a great price and finally took the investigation into his own hands, Coulson conducted an urgent interrogation of Sitwell on the way back to New York with Lieutenant Colonel Spar, obtained some confessions that were very unfavorable to S.H.I.E.L.D., and then returned quickly to bring these vital information back to the director for determination.

The video of Sitwell’s interrogation is shown in the projection, and Fury and Pierce are quite familiar with the mid-level backbone, with the military and Coulson’s rotational examinations, plus their personal identification is enough to determine that it is not someone else impersonating.

At the end of the video, the office fell silent for a long time before the silence was broken.

“So there is a Nazi gang hidden around us that has survived during the Great War?” Pierce sat up straight, his tone rather solemn.

“I’m tempted to deny it, but I’m afraid that’s exactly what happened.” Coulson, who owes himself, showed respect for the former director.

According to the military’s investigation, Sitwell’s subordinates come from a variety of sources, from mercenaries who are impressed by interests to active or retired agents of other agencies, but in any case, the people of S.H.I.E.L.D. occupy the main part, more than half of the total number, and basically belong to the backbone force, which is an undeniable fact.

It is absolutely impossible to do this alone with the authority of Sitwell’s sixth-level agents, which is enough to prove that there is indeed a secret organization that creeps in without S.H.I.E.L.D. undetected and controls a considerable part of the power.

This news made the two generations of bureau chiefs present a little anxious, but their anxiety did not stem from the same reason.

Fury was worried about how many people his men were still reliable, while Pierce had other ideas.

But they didn’t know that Sitwell could have managed to escape and then continue to lurk, but it was Ross and Ororo who captured him and did some tricks in his consciousness through Qin’s psychic induction.

Of course, Ross knew that the head of Hydra in S.H.I.E.L.D. was the former director Alexander Pierce himself, but he did not intend to help Fury complete the internal purge, a pure and united S.H.I.E.L.D. would only hinder his plans, and a chaotic and divided secret service was in his interest, so he wanted to use Sitwell to make S.H.I.E.L.D. suspicious of each other, and by the way, he could also use this incident to hit Mr. Senator who was calculating himself.

Just as he expected, soon the name of the senator appeared in the confession.

“…… Senator Stern is the mastermind, the late Watsonton Pharmaceutical Chairman Kenny Watsons II is an important veteran of this organization, they maintain a huge underground power, a series of superpower cases from North America to Central Asia are related to the Hydra organization, and future attacks are still possible… Do you find his words credible? Fury’s voice came from the shadows, and Coulson could hear the chief with reservations about these confessions.

“Sitwell is an excellent field agent, he is familiar with our interrogation process and knows how to fight interrogation, so we directly use the truth vomit, if our special truth agent is reliable, then we know so much, of course, this does not rule out him using autosuggestion to intervene in the subconscious.” Coulson replied sincerely.

“And what about Sitwell, the general is still unwilling to hand him over to us?” Pierce interjected, undoubtedly a loyal warrior in his opinion, and Watsonton’s words must have been used to confuse the sight. Although such an organization will inevitably have to endure the pain of abandoning some chess pieces, this confession seems acceptable to Hydra.

Of course, if possible, a Sitwell who is forever shut up is the best Sitville.

Pierce’s expectations were partially met.

“After our interrogation, his mental state suddenly deteriorated, and the general sent someone to rush him to the Army Central Hospital for first aid, I am afraid that it will be difficult for us to contact him in the short term.” Coulson continued to answer.

“That’s really bad news.” Pierce’s eyes were intense, but his tone was flat.

Although the results of the interrogation were disturbing, this clue was enough for him to explain to the White House and the World Security Council that the next investigation of S.H.I.E.L.D. was not possible because of the involvement of high-ranking senators.

Pierce left the commissioner’s office with his calculations, and Coulson carefully closed the door and walked back to Fury.

Now they can talk about another task.

“What is Ross’s explanation for the incident that appeared in the Sky Restaurant?” Fury came out of the shadows and stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window quietly looking at the distant horizon.

He insisted he saw nothing but that a mob turned into abomination and hunted Banner, and then he hid until the attack was over. Bullock and the people he brought into the bathroom are dead, only the person sent to guard outside the door is still alive, and their last contact with Bullock was to control Banner’s ex-girlfriend Betty, and later the situation is not good and they can only take the hostages through Samuel’s helicopter. ”

“Because the scene was chaotic and no witnesses survived, no one knows what really happened. As for Ross’s own reply, that’s all, if I continue to ask, he will ask a lawyer to speak for him… Ross is a famous entrepreneur, and I can’t bring him back for interrogation like I do with street gangsters. Coulson replied with a shrug of his shoulders.

“That means we still don’t know anything about what happened to Ross Byrne.” Fury furrowed his eyebrows.

“You suspect something is wrong with Ross?” Coulson asked in a low voice.

“There are some suspicions, but there is no evidence to support it, and at the moment we can only guess that he has a connection with the mutant, but we cannot determine what level this connection is.” Fury shook his head.

As Coulson said earlier, even if Fury has deep doubts in his heart, it is impossible to capture a celebrity like Ross for interrogation.

For ordinary members of the same society, people who hold huge | social resources can also be regarded as some kind of superpowers, and they, like those who are truly superpowered, can easily accomplish feats that ordinary people can never accomplish, even high-ranking people like Fury have some scruples.

It is precisely because of his awareness of the rules of society that Ross never hesitates when it comes time to show strength. Because only those who never do things will not leave any traces, but as long as there are sufficient excuses and high enough status, even if they occasionally leave a few fingerprints, no one dares to act rashly.

Coulson still has some doubts, though.

“Associating with mutants is not an important crime, we all know that Magneto is of Jewish origin, he has always been involved in the Jewish consortium, and many people trade privately through the Mutant Brotherhood, even if Ross and S.T.A.R. do that, it should not pose much of a problem.”

“It’s not too much of a problem, but the problem is that we can’t find a channel for deep | understanding, so we can only guess from many sides… Just like Pierce, I’ve known him for so long, it’s him who gave me the position of director, and we’re good friends, but I still don’t understand why he took out the Cosmic Cube late at night, and it was without my authorization, so you see, deep | understand how important it is to understand someone. Fury turned slightly, and the topic went in a different direction.

Coulson was slightly startled, and then he realized that what Fury wanted to say was not Ross, but something else.

“An invisible hand is seeping around us, Brock and Sitwell are just the first examples, they are the tip of the iceberg, and I doubt how much amazing insider is hidden beneath the surface. So see more, listen more, think more, observe with your own heart, think with your own brain, and do not express opinions easily. Fury raised his index finger to stop his subordinate from speaking, and then brought the topic back to its place.

“Young people like Tony and Ross have always been our focus on observation, and I’ll admit I’ve underestimated Ross and Cutting-Edge Labs before. For Stark Industries, we can buy some of the stock and even elect people to | to the board of directors as key members, and his secrets are difficult to hide from us, and this method can be applied to most goals, but the cutting-edge laboratory is an exception, and it is difficult for us to work on it with the same means. ”

“Because they don’t go public and don’t apply for patents?” Coulson guessed.

“That’s just the appearance.” Fury shook his head. “In the past, your level of secrecy was not enough, so you could not access these secrets, but now I can tell you that since the cutting-edge laboratory has shown amazing creative ability, we have been searching for relevant information, sending agents to it, trying to install our own people in it, and monitoring the internal situation of the laboratory… Although we are not deliberately targeting it, there have been no significant gains so far, which has to be alarming. It’s like a separate kingdom, and the two-tier structure of S.T.A.R. seems simple and transparent, but the more you study it, the more it feels like a very efficient firewall, blocking all the outside world. ”

“Why did Ross do this, just to monopolize the formula?” Coulson was a little surprised.

“That’s what I want to know.” Fury’s eyes were deep, and he walked slowly around the office with his hands behind his back.

“Highly institutionalized, strictly hierarchical, highly shielded information levels, thoughtful and tightly organized… Such a strange organization that integrates scientific research, manufacturing, and defense, and can be almost self-sufficient, if it continues to develop, what will you think of? Fury suddenly turned his head and stared at his loyal subordinate and asked.

“S.H.I.L.E.D.？” Coulson burst out.

“That’s right, it’s S.H.I.E.L.D.” Fury nodded, others may not realize it, but as the leader who single-handedly developed S.H.I.E.L.D., he was more sensitive to | latecomers than anyone else.

“So we have to keep an eye on him all the time, be patient enough and maybe it will turn out to be just a false alarm, but don’t let your guard down.” As Hamlet says, the truth will always rise to people’s eyes, even if it is useless to suppress it with the earth’s soil. But before that—- there was a hint of gloom in the chief’s eyes.

“We must first think about how to remove the threat of Hydra.”