The sun hangs high in the sky, shining on the beautiful scenery of New York City.
In a vacant lot in the southern suburbs of Queens, construction is going on and it is very busy.
Leo, wearing a safety helmet, and Old Tom, accompanied by several leaders of the construction team, were inspecting the construction work of the second base.
This base covers a large area, and its architectural blueprint was designed by Leo himself. It is planned to use a large Ark reactor to provide independent power supply.
There are many buildings designed in the base, including experimental areas, sales areas, construction areas, etc.
However, due to the limitation of the amount of liquidity of Erwin Technology Company, the construction of the base did not start on all buildings at the same time, and only focused on the construction of a main laboratory building.
Once completed, this building will be Leo's exclusive laboratory. When the time comes, Leo will also transform this laboratory into a "trolley suitcase".
Leo was standing in front of the far unfinished laboratory at this time, looking around.
Looking as far as the eye can see, the surrounding area is empty and there is not a single large building. This is really a suburb within a suburb.
A large area of vacant land around it had been bought by Old Tom in Leo's name, spending a total of tens of millions of dollars.
Leo looked around, stood upright, and suddenly felt a sense of pride: This large piece of land would belong to him, Leo Erwin, from now on.
Even if he does nothing and waits patiently for twenty or thirty years, the value of the land alone will increase dozens or hundreds of times.
"Boss Leo, are you satisfied with this place?" After Old Tom sent the construction team members away, he walked up to Leo and asked.
With a smile on his face, Leo patted Old Tom on the shoulder: "I'm very satisfied with this place. You did a good job."
Old Tom was very happy. He smiled, looked around like Leo, and asked:
"Boss Leo, we bought such a large piece of land to build a base. Have you given it a name?"
Leo had already made up his mind: "This building under construction will be called Erwin Laboratory from now on."
Old Tom's face suddenly froze, and he was deeply impressed by Leo's ability to come up with names.
He swallowed and asked tentatively: "What about the other planned buildings?"
"I haven't thought about those yet. But I have already thought of the name of this entire base." Leo suddenly became proud, "The name of the base is Marvel."
"Marvel Base?" Old Tom wondered, "Does it have any special meaning?"
"Of course it has deep meaning." Leo gave Old Tom a "but I won't tell you" look.
Jingle bell bell~
Just when Old Tom wanted to ask again, Leo's cell phone suddenly rang.
Old Tom wisely stopped asking and walked aside. Only then did Leo take out his mobile phone and saw the phone number showing "Unknown".
Leo's eyes suddenly dawned, he smiled slightly and answered the phone.
"Hi, Leo, this is Fury." A deep voice came from the phone.
Leo said without any surprise: "When I saw the phone number was 'unknown', I guessed it was you. What? The review is finally over?"
"Well, it ended in the morning. After I handled some formalities, I just returned to where I was staying, so I called you."
Before Leo could ask further questions, Fury took the initiative to reveal the results of the review.
"The agent level was reduced to level one, he was restricted from leaving the country for ten years, and he reported his work to the organization on a regular basis every week. This is the result of the review."
"Tsk, tsk, it's a bit miserable." Leo shook his head.
"I think it's okay, it doesn't matter." Fury chuckled and said seriously again,
"I'm not calling you today to make a fuss with you. What I want to tell you is that the Security Council ultimately found no evidence that Pierce was Hydra. Pierce's punishment was the same as mine. He has also been punished today.
Released."
Leo raised his eyebrows: "Then what do you want me to do with Pierce?"
"It's up to you to make your own decision. I can rest assured that you will do the work." Fury chuckled and hung up the phone.
Leo slowly stuffed his phone back into his pocket, with a playful smile on his face.
If he were left to make the decision, it would be best if Pierce completely disappeared from this world.
With this in mind, Leo said hello to Old Tom and then drove away from the Marvel base under construction.
The car roared past on the road, and after turning a corner, there was a harsh sound of brakes.
Leo got out of the driver's seat and looked back and forth to make sure there was no one on the road.
With a wave of his hand, the special car turned into a small and exquisite toy car, which he stuffed into his storage belt.
The next moment, through the transfer box, he took out a palm-sized locator from his storage belt. After operating it twice, the screen of the locator displayed Pierce's current position.
What surprised Leo was that Pierce had already left Washington at this moment, and was moving south quickly, almost reaching Frederick.
Is this, absconding out of fear of crime?!
Leo originally thought that given Pierce's city, he would try to play the dark trick and continue to stay at the S.H.I.E.L.D. base.
But he ran away just in time, and it was easier for Leo to take action halfway.
So he stuck the locator on his waist, put on the seventh-generation Viper armor, and instantly flew into the sky, chasing after Pierce.
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In the open field, a white car was speeding on the road, and the roar of the motor could be heard in the distance.
Suddenly, a black figure fell from the sky and landed two hundred meters directly in front of the white car.
But the white car seemed not to notice it, its speed did not slow down at all, and it crashed straight into the black figure.
The black figure raised his right hand slightly, and a blue light group condensed in his hand. The next moment, the white car turned over, car parts flew out, and the tires rolled a hundred meters away.
The black figure was Leo, and the person driving the white car was Pierce, who had just left the SHIELD base.
The moment the car shattered, Leo shrank his armor, escaped the impact of the car fragments, and then returned to its original size without any damage.
His eyes swept across the mess on the ground, and then he saw Pierce lying on his back on the roadside thirty meters away.
Leo walked over quickly, bent down and looked at Pierce condescendingly, and the mask automatically shrunk and disappeared:
"Mr. Pierce, racing is not a good habit, and trying to kill someone is even worse. How do you feel now?"
Pierce was lying on the ground at this time, his right leg twisted into a weird arc, blood was flowing on his forehead, and the corners of his mouth were cut, looking extremely embarrassed.
But he did not die. Instead, he opened his eyes wide, stared at Leo's face viciously, and gritted his teeth and said:
"Are you Leo Erwin? Dr. Zola's assistant? The traitor who escaped from the Hydra base?!"
Finally, he belatedly said,
"Could it be said that the destruction of the Hydra base, the exposure of spies within S.H.I.E.L.D., and even the death of leader Sienna were all caused by you?"
Before Leo could answer, or in other words, Pierce was not ready to listen to what Leo had to say. Pierce, who was originally weak, suddenly swung his right fist quickly and hit Leo in the face.
Leo raised the corners of his mouth, easily raised his hand to block Pierce's right fist, and said with a playful smile:
"I was already prepared for your attack. I was thrown more than 30 meters from a car traveling at a speed of 140 yards. I only had some skin scratches and a broken leg. And you didn't cry or scream.