Ten minutes ago, on the top floor of SHIELD headquarters.
"Sir, are you really not leaving?" Rumlow asked in confusion.
Pierce stood in front of the bright and transparent window. At first glance, his suit looked the same as before, but the details were slightly different. Compared with before, he seemed to be inexplicably more refined today, as if
Calmly preparing for the protagonist who is about to participate in an important banquet.
He straightened the tie on his chest with both hands. Rumlow's question did not cause any fluctuation on his face. His eyes were staring at the calm river outside the building, and he carefully smoothed the tie with his hands until he lowered his arms.
At this time, a smooth and docile red silk scarf was exposed on the chest, which seemed to be just right on the black suit.
Turning around, he said: "Everything is ready. Next, it is our time."
Rumlow... Talos was filled with confusion. He felt that Pierce might have gone crazy.
Pierce suddenly turned his eyes and looked over. Talos's transformed Rumlow's eyes were once again filled with deep doubts.
"Anyone of you can leave, but I can't leave."
"Why? It won't be safe here soon."
"No place is truly safe, at least until we really deal with that evil dragon, no place is enough to make me feel at ease. Even if the three motherships of the Insight Plan all rise into the sky, they will still be
Got beaten down."
"We have a complete and sound defense system."
"Can you stop that evil dragon?"
Talos was speechless. Of course he knew he couldn't stop it, so he deeply believed that Pierce's idea was just a fantasy. It was not a plan that could help Hydra rule the world, but a plan to help the enemy quickly eradicate Hydra.
Suicide action.
Pierce could easily see through his thoughts, so the old man smiled and said: "The insight mothership can't stop him, but we can also use other methods."
Talos frowned, thought about it and shook his head directly: "Sir, with all due respect, our actions may not tie his hands and feet. He is a strong man. Although people outside call him a hero, we all call him a hero."
Know that he was never who everyone thought he was."
Otherwise, he wouldn't have joined Hydra.
This is the simplest thought in Talos' mind.
But Pierce seems to be a step above him.
"You are right, but you also need to understand that when a person is called a hero by the vast majority of people, he must make a heroic choice at a critical moment, whether he wants to or not."
Talos frowned and said, "Mr. Pierce, I know what you mean, but I always feel that he won't play his cards according to common sense."
"Well, he's really not a stickler for rules, so we won't stick to a fixed way."
"Will those three women really change his decision?"
"I don't know. But this is our only chance."
"We can leave first, and there will be opportunities later." The reason why Talos is so concerned about Pierce's life and death is not because of the strong friendship or superior-subordinate relationship that has been born between the two of them, but because Talos
I think Pierce is a very good assistant. He needs such a person to help him better control SHIELD and even Hydra.
Unfortunately, this agent who has already entered old age seems to have really fallen into coma.
"Go ahead, catch that woman, retreat quickly according to the planned route, and then hide. As long as you don't have to track me, I'm safe."
Talos was silent, and after a moment he asked again: "Sir, this matter can be left to others."
"No, I am the leader. This is my responsibility and my mission." After that, Pierce did not want to listen to Talos's inquiry anymore. He waved his hands repeatedly and said: "Go, he will definitely come to me first."
, this is his pride, and this is also my next opportunity."
Talos himself, as a leader, sneered at Pierce's statement.
The Skrulls were once much more powerful than Hydra, and their history was richer than Hydra. They even did things like hiding undercover agents better than Hydra. But on the key issues
In terms of decision-making, Skrulls and humans have natural perceptions and differences. Talos and other Skrulls never felt that there was anything wrong with their evacuation. This was the experience brought to them by existing in the interstellar environment.
Pierce continued: "Besides, we all know that he has a method similar to a space gate. If I don't wait for him here, then he may be able to quickly eliminate all our arrangements." As he spoke, he turned to look.
Looking to the sky outside: "Everything should be ready now."
Talos nodded: "Sir, they have been ready for a long time."
Pierce nodded lightly, waved his hand and said: "Go ahead and take that woman away. There is no special protective force around her. Take her with you and leave as soon as possible on a fighter plane. Don't show up again in a short time and wait for notification."
"good."
When Talos turned back, there was still some confusion in his eyes, but these doubts quickly turned into relief. He is also the leader, a bigger leader than Hydra, and it was enough to be aggrieved to crawl in front of Fury.
, now that Fury is dead, he still has to bow his head in front of Pierce. Although he is loyal on the surface, he is actually ridiculing and teasing, but this feeling is not comfortable at all.
After going out and closing the door, he let out a silent breath.
Talos knew he would never see Pierce again.
He is dead.
Not long after, sparks flew into the room, and Pierce turned around immediately.
Seeing Hong Fei approaching, there was no trace of panic on his face. Instead, he welcomed him with a smile as usual: "Mr. Hong, are you here to witness history in person?"
"No, I'm here to kill you."
Pierce's smile became even wider for a moment. He walked aside and poured himself a glass of wine: "It's a pity that you don't drink. This bottle of wine comes from France. It has everything that is very commendable. It can no longer be bought outside.
, this is the last bottle, they found it in a count’s house and gave it to me specially. This is my fate with it.”
Hong Fei pulled the corner of his mouth and smiled: "Killing and stealing can also be related to fate. You white people are not thin-skinned."
Pierce turned back and said: "Mr. Hong, can I interpret your words as racial discrimination?"
"If you insist on thinking that way, then there's nothing I can do about it."
Pierce picked up the wine glass and shook it gently, then took a sip, looking like he was enjoying it.
Hong Fei watched silently as he pretended to be cool.
"This is the best wine I have ever drunk." Following his words, waves suddenly rolled up from the bottom up in the river outside the Sanquyi Building, and the water rumbled to both sides. After a while, there was almost a wave.
The metal surface that covers the entire lake rises, and after the water flows cleanly in all directions, the sunlight reflects sharp and bright light on the metal.
Pierce's smile made the wrinkles on his face become deeper and deeper.
"Mr. Hong, we can actually continue to cooperate."
"Why do I feel like you've got me?"
"It seems that is indeed the case." Pierce drank the red wine in one gulp, put down the glass, and said directly when he turned around: "Those three women are not a secret, but you have to be smart enough to separate them..."
"That's wrong. Separating them is not to prevent you, but to prevent them from fighting."
"Hahaha, the Dragon King is also afraid of women?"
"It's respect."
"If I respect you, I won't find three girlfriends at the same time. Hydra has many good-looking women, all of whom are beautiful and pure. If you need them, I can give you dozens of them at any time."
"Send? You are the real disrespecter, be careful with Iron Fist."
Pierce chuckled, walked slowly to Hong Fei, looked at him, raised the corner of his mouth and said sarcastically: "Carol is the opponent I prepared for you first, but she doesn't live up to her expectations, so we can only do it ourselves."
coming."
What responded to him was Hong Fei's slap.
There was a crisp sound, and Pierce hit the ground like a sandbag. His head hit the floor, leaving blood instantly. He coughed several times, and several bloody teeth rolled far away on the ground.
"I don't like to get too close to men, especially old men like you."
When Pierce heard this, instead of being annoyed, he quickly shook his head and looked at Hong Fei: "Do you think my preparation is only for your woman?"
"What? You also placed nuclear bombs around the world? If I kill you, you will detonate them and kill tens or even hundreds of millions of people?"
Pierce's eyes suddenly trembled.
Hong Fei smiled and said, "How would I know?"
Pierce frowned at first, but then quickly let go: "It's useless even if you guessed it, you don't know where they are."
"Why should I know?"
"Oh, stop pretending, I know you are very anxious now, but as long as you promise from now on..."
"You're so thoughtful. I'm not in a hurry at all. I might even want to thank you."
Pierce frowned again.
Hong Fei still smiled: "You did something that I had thought about but was unwilling to do it myself."
Pierce's eyes narrowed suddenly.
"There should be no doubt to you whether I am a good person, but you still expect me to dismantle nuclear bombs. You are really old."
"I don't believe it. It's impossible for you not to care about the lives of so many people."
"Of course I care. I am a hero, but heroes are not omnipotent. That is a nuclear bomb. You are doing these things behind my back. It is understandable that I am too late, right?"
"Do you know the consequences? The explosion of so many nuclear bombs will not only kill many people, but will also impact the existing order of the entire world."
"That's right. If the meaning of a hero's existence is to purely and eternally maintain the existing order, then the hero will one day stand on the opposite side of the majority of people. You should have heard the word revolution. Only by having the courage to revolutionize yourself can you ensure long-term success.
There is no eternal law in the world, and there is no eternal order. When necessary, heroes must become the vanguard of changing the order. Before changing the lives of others, they must change themselves first."
Pierce's face trembled when he heard it, and he struggled to squeeze out his voice: "As expected of that country, did your foundation have impure motives from the beginning? You just want to change this country and even the world. You are the same as us."
"It's different. The difference is huge. At least, I am much stronger than all of you combined. If your success rate is 1%, then my success rate can jump to 100%."
"You are too confident."
"Confidence is the basic quality of the strong. But for the weak, it is deadly poison."
With that said, Hong Fei stepped forward and gently stepped on Pierce's neck: "Where are those nuclear bombs?"
Hearing this, Pierce suddenly laughed: "Haha, you still said you don't care?!"
"You still don't understand. I really don't care, but not caring doesn't mean I have to wait and see. You and I are really different."
Soon, Hong Fei found all the locations where nuclear bombs were hidden in his mind.
Facing the names of the global and international metropolises, Hong Fei had only one word in his mind:
frenzied.
If these nuclear bombs really detonate, the death toll will definitely not be hundreds of millions, but most likely all of them.
Because the whole world will fall into the cloud of nuclear war, and no land with human beings will be spared by then.
Even if a nuclear war breaks out passively, the consequences for mankind will be absolutely catastrophic or even extinct.