"I hope this is a secret interrogation, Nick. You know this group of cunning terrorists always think they have the capital to negotiate, so I will talk to them." Pierce walked quickly through the corridor of the underground detention room and turned his head. Said to Nick behind him.
Nick nodded, and instead of following Pierce at the next intersection, he walked alone in another direction.
Soon Pierce came to the front of an interrogation room. He nodded to the agent guarding the door. When he opened the door, he saw two interrogators recording something with serious faces.
Pierce stood behind them and took a look, but did not find any valuable information. He looked up and looked behind the railing again. Schiller was sitting there with a normal expression, not looking like a person who had been interrogated for seven days.
The interrogation methods used by SHIELD are no different from modern interrogations. They mainly rely on fatigue torture. This method has a very significant effect on 99% of brutal criminals, because as long as they are human, they will be tired.
There are always people who think that ancient torture was more advanced than modern interrogation. As long as the physical pain is sufficient, there is nothing that cannot be asked. But in fact, human beings are very fragile. The upper limit of torture is too low. Basically, it only takes one time and the other party will not let go. There is no other way, but modern interrogation methods can reveal almost any secret.
Some people may have relatively high physical resistance, but after fatigue, there will always be a time when the spirit relaxes. At that time, the secrets that pain and intimidation cannot allow them to tell will be naturally hidden in the gaps in their words. When they come out, professional people will analyze and summarize the information in every sentence they said.
And this does not harm your health. You can start over again after recuperating for a while. The longer you are detained, the more pieces of information you will get. One day you will be able to piece together a complete puzzle. In this case, if you are caught Basically means exposed.
But now it’s not a question of whether Schiller will be exposed. Everyone knows that he is a Hydra. They want to get more information about Hydra from him. But from the current point of view, Schiller is the most difficult one to deal with. person on trial.
He always wants to lead the topic and regain the initiative. Although this will increase his energy consumption, it will also make the interrogators feel tired faster, and they will have to speed up their shift change.
But the more frequent the shifts, the lower the continuity of the interrogation. The next interrogator has to start from the beginning. After repeated iterations, the information density obtained is as low as a crisis public relations apology video.
After standing in the interrogation room and watching for a while, Pierce knew that Schiller was an extremely sophisticated opponent. Most of the SHIELD agents in prison were helpless against him. If anyone had to pry it out of his mouth, If there is information, Pierce believes it will be Nick Fury, but before that he must take insurance.
Soon Nick walked in and led a team of agents to force Schiller out of the interrogation room and take him to a secret interrogation room.
There are no surveillance cameras in this room, and there is nothing else besides the interrogator and the person being interrogated. Therefore, some unconventional methods can often be adopted here, and it can also be used as a place to make deals with some tainted witnesses.
Schiller stood behind the railing in this small room, without handcuffs or a chair, but in fact there was not much space left for him behind the railing. He could only stand still or take half a step forward, left and right.
There wasn't enough space for him to raise his arms.
Pierce's side was much more spacious, and he could even pace around the room, which was equivalent to Schiller being locked in a cage with Pierce watching him.
After the door was completely locked and the soundproofing device was activated, Pierce was about to strike first when he heard Schiller say: "Long live Hydra, Lord Pierce, there is no doubt that this is the trap set by Baron Strucker for you, Nick."
The clues that Fury found were deliberately left by the Baron in order to make him doubt you."
Pierce was shocked and suspicious for a moment. He stood behind the railing and stared straight at Schiller's face, trying to find a trace of lying on his face, but Schiller was as calm as ever, with no emotion at all.
"The Baron said that you betrayed him and betrayed the trust of him and his subordinates. I don't know what the story is between you. I just made a deal with him."
Pierce had a bad feeling in his heart. He stared at Schiller and asked, "What deal?"
"I will testify against you as a tainted witness, and let Nick Fury take you down before you go to work at the United Nations."
Pierce's face fell to the bottom of his face.
Schiller gently spread his hands and said in a relaxed tone: "Look at the current situation. Either I make a deal with him and let you go to jail, or you make a deal with me and let him go to jail."
"Either I let you die here." Pierce said in a cold tone: "Then no one will go to jail."
"You know this won't work, Nick is staring at you." Schiller grabbed the railing with both hands, put his face close to the railing, and showed a slightly childish and evil smile. He said: "Either I give myself a knife now, and then you go
Bet on the possibility that Nick thinks you are going to kill someone after seeing this scene."
"you……"
"Pierce, you are just a waste who has taken advantage of the times. You are a complete coward and a Yankee. In order to keep your glory and wealth, you will not care about anything. This is the price you should pay!"
Pierce's eyes opened even wider. He looked at Schiller and said: "Schiller... Schiller... you are a German? You, you are a subordinate of the Red Skull?!"
Schiller raised his head slightly, noncommittal, but Pierce gritted his teeth and cursed: "Damn NAZI!"
He took a deep breath, looked at Schiller with gloomy eyes and said, "You know we don't talk about doctrine here. Please give me a price."
Schiller let go of his hand, lowered his eyes and smiled. He tilted his head and said: "You two are like buyers bidding in an auction house. Whoever bids the highest price will be on whose side I will stand.
I can say that all these actions were ordered by the Baron, or you, and one of you will inevitably lose your freedom or even your life, so what price do you plan to put on your freedom and life?"
"Don't think too highly of yourself, they can't kill me."
"But I can." Schiller's eyes became cold. He looked at Pierce and said: "You know that losing your freedom is equivalent to losing your life. Once you are no longer the director of SHIELD, killing you will become easy. You owe
I have owed a lot of debt to many people, and I am willing to collect it for them and charge my own interest at the same time."
Pierce's lips turned white. He knew that the key point was Nick. If it were in the early years, and everyone in SHIELD was his people, he would have countless ways to make a person on trial die silently.
But after he was ready to be promoted, he relaxed his control over SHIELD. Nick has now formed his own team, and Pierce knows the weight of the legendary agents.
Pierce is betting that as long as he can be promoted with a perfect image, the alliance between him and Nick will become unbreakable, because Nick has the same strong confidence in himself, and he is sure that he has not seen Pierce's flaws, then he
It is believable, which is a good backing for Pierce to continue to climb up.
But similarly, once he takes a wrong step and makes a mistake, Nick will not hesitate to break the trust he had in him in the past, and then seize him faster than anyone else, making him suffer the consequences of prison.
Before this incident happened, the entire plan had come to an end. In order to show his friendliness and trust, Pierce further delegated power to Nick in exchange for further help in the future, but it happened that the last step went wrong.
Pierce can no longer take risks. Once Schiller's testimony against him leaves a shadow of doubt in Nick's mind, he will never have a peaceful life in the future.
But do we have to allow this cunning Nazi to open his mouth to him? Pierce is not willing to do so.
After ending this secret conversation, Pierce has been thinking about how to solve the current dilemma.
If it keeps dragging on, Schiller will identify him sooner or later. Even if there is no evidence, if Nick continues to investigate along this line, he may not find out something. But if he tries to kill Schiller, Nick will still be suspicious.
Suddenly, Pierce thought of a way. He still had one card that was useless, and that was Tony Stark.
It is very difficult for Pierce to send people to Eastern Europe to destroy Hydra. On the one hand, SHIELD is all agents and not good at large-scale operations. On the other hand, Nick's people go first, and it is difficult to make small moves if he is watching.
But as long as Stark is driven to Eastern Europe to kill the Baron, not only will Nick be unable to stop Stark's revenge, but Schiller will also lose his trading counterparty. Then he will have no choice but to trade with himself, which will prevent him from swinging from side to side.
As a result, a high price was offered.
But getting Stark to go to Eastern Europe is not that easy. Pierce feels that the current hatred is not enough to make Stark take risks again. If he wants him to go over and kill the Eastern European Hydra, he needs to add another layer of bargaining chips.
In a high-end apartment in Manhattan, Eric hung up the phone with a cold face. He had just learned from a mercenary broker that someone was investigating his past resume.
"Obadiah..." Eric whispered a name. He could only think of this possibility. When he went to Obadiah to take over the position of security director, the other party acted very suspicious.
Eric knew very well that he was able to fool Stark because he was a scientist and had little experience in the world. But Obadiah was the kind of old fox who could tell by looking at his face that he had been in the mall for many years. This kind of person could not be fooled at all.
No, it is definitely his biggest threat.
Obadiah investigates him, so once he tells Tony Stark the results of his investigation, all the trust and favor he gained from him will be in vain.
This must not be the case, Eric thought, the Stark Group is his best springboard, and he must not let this opportunity slip away from his hands.
For this plan, he must find a way to bring down Obadiah. Only by exposing him for plotting to kidnap Tony Stark will no one believe every word he says.
Time was urgent, so Eric didn't make much preparation. He took his thermal dagger and a pulley bow and drove to Obadiah's only way out of Stark Tower.
If you want to ask why he went to Obadiah instead of going directly to the TV station, the main reason is that he has no substantive evidence. Anyway, Obadiah has already investigated him, so he might as well break his face and defraud him, and go directly to him when necessary.
Take action and pretend it's an accident.
The car stopped at the exit of the Stark Tower underground parking lot. After Eric rolled down the window and waited for a while, he saw a familiar car driving out of the underground parking lot. The person sitting in the car was exactly
Obadiah.
Eric immediately closed the window, turned the steering wheel, stepped on the accelerator and followed Obadiah's car. Not long after, he saw Obadiah's car driving into a wealthy residential area.
Eric parked his car outside and sneaked into the residential area alone. The security guards in the wealthy area could not stop him at all. When he chased him to the door of the residence, the driver was backing the car into the garage.
Eric saw Obadiah's figure in the bedroom upstairs. He squeezed the miniature thermal dagger in his hand, climbed over the courtyard wall, and entered the house quietly.