Chapter 162 Reaching a Cooperation Intention with Fury
The Hydra agents are embedded within SHIELD, like maggots in the tarsus, and must be eliminated.
But if Leo's condition is that he wants to be the boss of S.H.I.E.L.D., Fury will never agree.
Although Leo is alone, it seems that Fury can agree verbally first, and then when the matter is done, he will disobey Leo's instructions.
But this is not a matter of words. Not only is Fury unable to pass the test in his heart, but Natasha has just described Leo's horror to Fury on the phone.
If he promised Leo in advance but regretted it later, who knows whether Leo would kill him Fury directly in anger.
Fury thought about it carefully and felt that this possibility was quite high.
Although Leo is reasonable, if others break the rules first, Leo will definitely be more unruly than others.
Therefore, Fury would never dare to agree to the condition of letting Leo become the boss of SHIELD. He did not want SHIELD to enter the tiger's mouth just after it came out of the wolf's den.
Thinking of this, Fury felt that there was nothing worth bargaining with Leo, so he simply said:
"Mr. Erwin, I understand what you mean. Although I have never been able to figure out why you are willing to help me, it seems that I have no choice but to cooperate with you now.
I am happy to take on the honor of getting rid of the leader of Hydra, and I want to get rid of the spies in SHIELD even more. I am even interested in the position of director of SHIELD.
However, there are limits to what you can get from me.
You can ask for money or skills from me, no problem. Even if you want to be a national idol or hero like Captain America, I can do my best to help you shape it.
However, I will never agree to let you be the person behind S.H.I.E.L.D., nor do I want you to interfere in any US government agencies.
This is my bottom line! Even if I die, it will not change."
After hearing what Fury had said, Leo knew that he could no longer be the boss behind S.H.I.E.L.D.
But Leo himself doesn't want to be a person in power at all, otherwise what he told Fury last time should have been "I will be the director of SHIELD, and you will be the second in command" instead of "You will be the director of SHIELD, and God will be the second in command."
The shield secretly belongs to me."
In fact, Fury misunderstood what Leo meant. What Leo called a secret place was really a secret place.
He is not prepared to dictate the affairs of Fury and SHIELD at all. What he actually wants is a convenient identity within SHIELD and all the high-tech gadgets in SHIELD.
According to Leo's original plan, if he mastered S.H.I.E.L.D., he should be able to obtain the Cosmic Cube naturally. This is what Leo really wants to plot.
Moreover, through SHIELD, he can naturally get to know various superheroes that will appear in the future, and then try his best to quietly draw them into his camp.
Then let these superheroes work hard for themselves to collect and compete for other infinity stones.
But these ideas are not worth analyzing in detail with Fury.
So Leo said:
"No problem, I don't have to be the person in charge behind SHIELD, but I need an identity that can flow freely within SHIELD.
There is no other meaning. You just need to give me full access to SHIELD's database and the ability to use SHIELD's resources to a certain extent. I just use SHIELD as a technical knowledge storage warehouse.
To be honest, your SHIELD only has some technology and intelligence that I can appreciate."
Leo cleverly changed his statement. As long as he has such an identity, he can still do what he originally planned, and it will not arouse too much resistance from Fury.
Sure enough, Fury could accept this condition, and he asked:
"Then how can we cooperate?"
Fury agreed to Leo's conditions. He still believed in Leo's character, at least he felt that Leo would not go back on his word.
As for the identity that Leo was asking for, Fury felt that that identity had no real power at all, so there was no harm in agreeing to it.
At this time, Leo heard that Fury wanted to ask about the details of the cooperation and asked instead:
"Do you want to achieve your goal violently or peacefully?"
"What do you mean by the more violent ones, and what do you say by the more peaceful ones?" Fury was a little confused.
"The more violent thing is that I go to the SHIELD base and kill all the spies one by one. The more peaceful thing is that we search for evidence, and then you take legal measures. Then you should know their fate better than me.
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Leo himself doesn't have a good impression of Hydra, so there is no psychological burden on him when he kills SHIELD members.
Fury's attitude changed very quickly. At this time, he was already thinking about the problem from the position of director:
"It's better to make peace first, otherwise more than half of SHIELD's people will suddenly die, and it will be a mess even if I take over."
"If this is the case, we have to work hard to search for evidence. In fact, I also have more detailed personal information about Hydra spies. I wonder if this can be used as evidence?"
Leo was referring to the information obtained from Dr. Zola's database, which included the growth and training experience of the agents.
Fury was indeed very interested:
"Can you send it to me?"
Leo does everything he can.
Next, Leo hung up the phone and together with Natasha moved Sienna and Bucky, who were still in a coma, into the chairman's office on the sixth floor.
Leo took off his armor and stuffed it into the cabinet behind the door, then sat at his desk and turned on the computer.
"Steem, authorize this computer to access the lab's database."
Stim's "ears" and "eyes" have been installed in Leo's office, but there is no "mouth" yet, so Stim can only do it silently.
Leo did some operations on the computer, and then pulled up the list of Hydra spies. Finally, he sent this information to Fury through the communication channel between Natasha and Fury.
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About ten minutes later, Fury called back again:
"I took a quick look at the information you just sent. If it is targeting those young and low-status Hydra spies, this information is enough. That group of people will never withstand investigation.
But if you want to target those who are older and more powerful, this information is far from enough.
According to their resumes, they were legal citizens when they were born, and they were not even corrupted when they joined SHIELD. The corruption only started within SHIELD, so their resumes can withstand inspection.
This information is not enough to send them to jail, and I can’t explain the origin of this information.”
After listening to this, Leo thought for a moment and said:
"Fury, I do have a plan. Maybe I can lure snakes out of their holes, and I can also make snakes fight with other snakes."
"What's the plan?" Fury asked.
Leo said:
"It's too troublesome to talk about this plan on the phone. I think we should talk about it in person."
But Fury suddenly fell silent and didn't say a word.
Leo immediately guessed Fury's thoughts and said with a smile:
"Why, you don't dare to meet me in person? We are now a cooperative partnership. Are you afraid that I will harm you?"
"To be honest, it's really a little bit."
Fury was very honest, but he finally made up his mind to meet Leo, so he asked,
"When are you going to come over?"
When Leo sets out to meet Fury depends on when Bucky and Sienna wake up.
So Leo could only say vaguely:
"It can take as short as two days or as long as a week. I will call you in advance when the time comes."
Fury hummed, agreed, and then hung up the phone.
In a small single apartment in San Francisco, Fury put down the phone and sat back on the chair.
Although it was only five o'clock in the morning and it was still dark outside, Fury was not sleepy at all and had no intention of going back to sleep.
Today he and Leo reached a cooperation. Although it was the result of careful consideration, he still couldn't help feeling a little uneasy.
It's crazy to think about killing the director of SHIELD and then sitting in that seat.
Fury shook his head, suppressed the excitement in his heart, straightened his sitting posture, and began to check the information that Leo had just sent on the computer.