The S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters is located on the canal connecting the sea between Manhattan and Queens. It is composed of an artificial island under the water and a tri-curved wing building on the ground. The official name of this building is The Trident (The Triskelion).
At this time, a small helicopter crossed the river and landed slowly on the apron in front of the tri-wing building.
"According to common sense, this building should belong to Atlantis." Rachel Fisk, or the "White Queen", stepped off the helicopter and looked at the sign of the building.
"..." Following her off the plane, Natasha, who was a little unsure of what she meant, could only keep smiling and change the topic: "Please follow me, the director has been waiting for a long time."
"Personally, I don't really care too much, but are you sure you want to take me through the interior of the building instead of falling directly to the top floor?" The White Queen turned the cane in her hand: "If a Hydra spy is discovered, can I take action directly?
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"...This time I just invite you to register and take the test. Please be sure not to do that." Natasha's expression was a little tense: "If you are willing, you can give me the list afterward."
"Help you find the lurking Hydra and conduct registration and testing on the way?" The White Queen nodded: "If the concentration of Hydra is too high, can I summon Leviathan to sink this place?"
Who had the idea to build the headquarters in the middle of the river in the first place? Although the space carrier is convenient for taking off and landing, and it is also conducive to confidentiality, it will not be able to escape if it is attacked by a tsunami or sea monster.
...Although it is impossible to encounter that kind of thing under normal circumstances.
"Please... consider it carefully before deciding," Natasha said with difficulty: "Even if 99% of the people here are Hydra, shouldn't the 1% survive?"
The White Queen did not respond immediately, but looked at her with a look like "Don't you know this very well?"
"..." Natasha regretted for the first time why she had achieved such good results in the "Observation of Motive and Color" training.
If nothing else, the White Queen should have read the minds of the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents who appeared after the Destroyer was defeated, claiming that they were not mind-readers, and the entire army was wiped out.
However, this kind of result is also expected. Someone who can clearly know the daily night running route of Captain America, which has such a high level of confidentiality, will definitely have a high position in SHIELD, especially since the bullet that hit Captain America is still there.
I deliberately applied a virus that is useless to ordinary people, but is particularly effective for those who have received the "super serum".
However, according to Steve's subsequent inspection, it was found that the virus only took effect for a short period of time and then immediately failed. No, it did not fail, but disappeared, just like they were suddenly destroyed during the process of replication and division.
It's like people "sucked" it away.
Recall that the White Queen once clearly said that the captain was not allowed to leave the restaurant on the sea until he recovered. Tsk... Atlantis is really mysterious.
"I think most agents are just deceived," Natasha continued: "They may know that they do not belong to SHIELD, but they do not know that they work for Hydra. Most of them think it is the FBI, CIA or the like.
After all, Hydra would not dare to publicly declare its identity, so as long as it finds those leaders..."
"'Cut off one head and two will grow.'" The White Queen continued smoothly.
"Please... don't do anything before the test is over," Natasha sighed: "This is my personal request."
"Well, okay."
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For the first time, Natasha felt that it was a mistake to choose black for SHIELD's uniforms.
Although this color can give people a mysterious and dangerous feeling, that is only if there is not enough bright light.
At this time, the White Queen dressed in white was walking in the corridor of the SHIELD building. All the SHIELD agents who met her along the way subconsciously stepped back to make way, as if they wanted to find a corner to hide themselves.
Although there are rumors that the White Queen can read minds, it is more about the suppression of her aura.
Although this metaphor is not appropriate, she is really like Moses parting the Red Sea at this moment.
This "Moses" has just completed all the tests and is preparing to meet and say goodbye to Nick Fury.
To Natasha's relief, she obviously listened to what she said and did not react specifically to any suspected Hydra agents during the entire test.
Regarding the testing of ability users, SHIELD has had long-standing contact with people with extraordinary powers, so it naturally has a mature evaluation system, which is mainly divided into intelligence, strength, speed, endurance, energy emission and combat skills. Each ability has another
Divided into 7 levels.
In addition to energy emission, the standard value for a healthy ordinary person should be level 2, while level 7 is almost impossible to achieve.
For example, Natasha's own evaluations are: Intelligence: 3 (learned), Strength: 3 (normal limit), Speed: 2 (normal), Endurance: 3 (enhanced), Energy Emission: 1 (cannot emit),
Combat skills: 6 (proficient in various fighting methods).
For humans, combat skills are the only ability that can be upgraded to level 7, which is "proficient in all fighting methods", but she has not heard of such a person so far.
The White Queen has always been in a state of ease in various test projects provided by SHIELD. Natasha can even see that she has obviously neglected some projects. The final result is:
Intelligence: 5 (genius), Strength: 4 (beyond ordinary people, less than 25 tons), Speed: 5 (supersonic speed, Mach 2), Endurance: 1 (sickly), Energy Emission: 2 (release energy through close contact)
, Combat skills: 1 (not good at).
Who are you lying to?
Oh, you lied to Hydra, that's fine.
The result of this examination, in the words of the White Queen, was that she was a "weak woman with double A in strength and speed."
Natasha relied on her instinct of combat knowledge and immediately concluded that if she wanted to deal with her, she would have to fill a small space, such as an elevator, with people who were proficient in fighting and thoughtful, and then attack her unexpectedly.
You can subdue her.
What a dream!
Natasha laughed angrily at the conclusion she came to.
Although since coming into contact with the White Queen, she has indeed not shown any strength beyond the results of this examination, but that is just a disguise no matter how you think about it.
Once Hydra really targets her in that way, she might happily show off her hidden fangs and claws, tear those people to pieces while laughing wildly, and then bow down gracefully in the boundless sea of blood.
Previous sentence: "Thank you for the hospitality."
"..." The White Queen turned her head and glanced at Natasha with a look that said, "Be careful, I'll sue you for slander."
Is this what the Eastern proverb means by "connecting minds"?
"Meow-!"
At this time, the two of them had just arrived in front of Nick Fury's office when they heard a shrill meow coming from inside.
Has Hydra decided to take action against the Director?!
"Director!" Natasha opened the door and rushed in.
There was no expected attack in the house, only the back of an orange cat that had just jumped out of the window and fled, and Nick Fury, who had six more cat claw marks on his face and an inexplicable look on his face.
And a crystal clear blue cube still spinning on the desk.
