The weather near the Potomac River is always very good. At this time, the sun has just risen from the east, and the sky is blue. After a long journey of more than eight minutes, the sunlight shines into an office, illuminating the office.
Two scrapped lightweight power arms are lying quietly on the desk in the office.
There are three people in the office, discussing something.
In addition to Black Widow and Hawkeye, there is also a strong black man, who is the senior agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., Nick Fury. At this time, Fury's left eye is not blind, and his hair has not yet bald.
At this time, Natasha, who had already taken a rest, was reporting to Fury what she had seen and heard in the Hydra base.
Natasha said:
"..., to sum up, this Hydra base must be one of their extremely important strongholds."
"You said that in addition to the 'Original Sin' Sienna Schmidt and the robot Zola, there is also a serum-modified warrior whose left hand has been replaced with a mechanical arm? Do you know who he is?"
Fury didn't know that Natasha knew the Winter Soldier, and Natasha didn't want Fury to know, so she chose to hide it:
"I don't know him. But he has a very strong fighting ability. I have fought against him, and the outcome is 50-50."
Fury rubbed his forehead, seeming to remember something. After a long time, he continued:
"You just said that you were captured by the Hydra organization, so how did you escape in the end?"
Natasha did not hide anything, she told everything about her conversation and transaction with Leo in detail, and emphasized the second item of the transaction.
After listening to Natasha's words, Fury was silent for a while, then rubbed his forehead again and said:
"Agent Romanoff, do you want SHIELD to pay the million dollars?"
"I am a person who keeps his word. Since I promised him, I have to fight for it."
"Impossible. It is absolutely impossible for SHIELD to pay such a large amount of money for this. We have no extra funds. Besides, there is no reason for SHIELD to sponsor the enemy!"
Fury put his hands behind his back and continued calmly:
"Besides, I have already organized a rescue team. The entire base will be captured the next morning at the latest and you will be rescued. The so-called money to buy your life is simply a joke."
"A joke? You didn't care whether I was dead or alive, so you sent out troops rashly, and you kept saying it was to rescue me. Isn't this a joke? You just wanted to destroy the enemy."
Natasha's words were sharp and to the point.
"Because SHIELD doesn't know if you're dead or alive."
Fury was choked by Natasha and told the truth without thinking. Then Fury comforted her with a slightly gentle voice,
"Natasha, you have to understand my difficulties. This is the way SHIELD performs its tasks. You cannot sacrifice the interests of the country because of your ego."
"I have had enough of indifferent organizations. It is precisely because of this that I betrayed my country! Now it seems that SHIELD and them are all the same. So what reason do I have to agree to your recruitment and continue to work for you?
Do you work?"
"Because if you don't work for SHIELD, you will be imprisoned for life and have no freedom for the rest of your life."
Fury told the cruel truth in a calm tone.
Natasha snorted coldly, stopped answering, and chose to remain silent.
"Agent Romanoff, S.H.I.E.L.D. is actually much better than you think. After discovering that you were missing, Chief Fury immediately sent dozens of agents, including myself, to investigate intelligence near Kapok Manor, and...
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"Hawkeye, stop talking. What I did was not as affectionate as you said. You, I, and she all know it."
Nick stretched out his hand to interrupt Barton, and then continued,
"Agent Romanoff, you can only continue to work for S.H.I.E.L.D., you have no other choice! Well, this time you took a great risk in performing the mission, and you helped the United States eliminate a huge potential threat.
Organizational research has decided to directly upgrade your agent level from level four to level six. If you don’t want to be used by others anymore, just perform well in the next mission. When your agent level is high enough, no one can dominate you.
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In addition, Hawkeye, after review by the bureau, your agent level has also been upgraded by one level, and is now level seven.
This operation has been assessed as a level six operation. Please be careful not to reveal information to agents who are not of sufficient level. Let’s do this for today, and you two can go and have a good rest.”
After speaking, Fury grabbed the two lightweight power arms on the table with one hand, turned around and left the office.
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"Hello everyone, this is New York TV, News 30 Minutes...
A few days ago, a big explosion occurred in Kamiantang Manor and triggered a forest fire. Fortunately, the fire in the forest has now been controlled. However, the area near Kamiantang Manor has been placed under 911 martial law. Unrelated persons are requested not to stay nearby.
, to avoid accidents.
According to people familiar with the matter, the manor violated fire regulations and built a large-scale cotton processing station without permission, which caused the line to be overloaded and caused the disaster. The surviving person in charge of the manor has now been arrested by the police..."
"Hmm~ah~"
Leo, who was sitting on the leather sofa with his legs curled up and watching TV, stood up and stretched.
“It seems that American officials are extremely skilled at minimizing big issues and minimizing trivial matters!
There was a big explosion in the University of Nova Scotia and even a nuclear leak. In the end, the US officials found an excuse to deal with it. For this reason, they even set fire to the forest within a 5-mile radius!
Tsk tsk tsk..."
After Leo sighed, he picked up the remote control and turned off the TV, then sat back on the sofa in a daze.
At this time, three days had passed since Leo and his party left the secret base in Ka Mian Tang.
The place where he lives now is another secret base of the Hydra organization, located in the famous American city of Boston.
Leo didn't know how many strongholds the Hydra organization had. He only knew that this time he no longer had to live underground!
This time the base is an 18-story building, and he currently lives in a luxury suite on the 10th floor of the building.
He was able to have such good living conditions thanks to Sienna's mental control over him last time. Sienna thought she had successfully controlled Leo, so she decided to train Leo as the future chief scientist.
Of course, this incident was also facilitated by the glaring old man Zora, who kept whispering in Sienna's ears.
In the end, Dr. Zola saw that Leo's intelligence level did not show a downward trend, so he felt relieved and let Sienna go.
For the past three days, Leo stayed in his bedroom in the name of "recuperating". He occasionally read the news and spent most of his time organizing his thoughts.
Suddenly, Leo seemed to remember something and jumped up from the sofa. He picked up a laptop next to the bed and hacked into a foreign bank website.
After entering the verification information, Leo saw that his bank account still showed 0.00, and he thought so!
As expected, S.H.I.E.L.D. did not pay Leo Black Widow's "life money", but Leo did not feel disappointed, regretful, angry or other emotions because of this, because all of this was within his expectation.
One million dollars is not a lot of money, so of course SHIELD can save it. But SHIELD still doesn't know the seriousness of the matter. How can Leo's money be owed to them?
Exiting the webpage and deleting all traces of his browsing, Leo changed his clothes and prepared to go out.
It was getting late, and he was a little hungry now. Today he heard that the canteen would have a limited supply of Boston lobster, so he had to go earlier.
After dinner, he had to attend the regular meeting at the base.