Los Angeles, United States, eight o'clock in the morning.
Nick Fury woke up from home, rubbed his sleepy eyes, and prepared to go to the toilet to wash up.
But when he just opened the bedroom door, he suddenly found a man in a suit and leather shoes sitting in the living room. He was so shocked that he picked up the coat rack at the door, stepped closer, and shouted:
"Who are you?"
The man sitting on the sofa turned his head, saw the coat rack in Fury's hand, spread his hands and said:
"It's me, Leo Fury, what are you doing with a coat rack? Do you want to hit me with that broken thing?"
"Oh, God! Leo? What the hell are you doing here? You scared me!"
After Fury recognized who the person was, he put down the heavy coat rack and asked in surprise,
"This is my home. If you suddenly appear in my living room like this and come in without saying hello, does that count as trespassing?"
"No, strictly speaking, I said hello to you."
Leo raised a hand and stretched out three fingers,
"Three hours ago, I sent you three messages. But you never responded to me, so I had to find them myself."
"Really?"
Fury took out his pager, looked at it over and over again, and then said after confirming again and again,
"No?"
Leo was a little speechless:
"Fu Rui, where's the rice phone I gave you? That's the destination for my text messages!
Are you still using a pager?
Since my rice company was founded, rice mobile phones have become popular throughout the United States, and pagers have been eliminated for almost two years!"
"But I prefer to use a pager. It's so easy to use, but I couldn't get used to your high-tech products for a while. And you also gave me the latest model a year ago, with dazzling functions, and I couldn't get used to it.
"
Fury stopped looking for the rice phone. Instead, he sat across from Leo and asked,
"Why did you come to me?"
Leo suddenly touched his nose with his hand and said expressionlessly:
"Fury, I think you should go wash up first. You have some... bad breath!"
Fury:......
Ten minutes later, Fury finished washing up, took some food from the refrigerator, sat across from Leo, and handed a portion to Leo.
Leo waved his hand and refused. New York is three hours faster than Los Angeles. He flew here after eating fried dough sticks from Hell's Kitchen.
Fury stopped being polite and ate breakfast alone. While eating, he said:
"Leo, please tell me if you have anything to do. I have to go out on the field at half past eight. Now I am only a third-level agent. Without the luxurious life of sitting in an office, I am only left with a life of hard work.
If I'm late, my salary will be deducted."
Hearing what Fury said, Leo stopped talking and decisively took out a stack of photos and threw them in front of Fury:
"Tell me what you know about these photos, and then you can go."
Fury glanced at the photo, his eyes condensed, and he stopped drinking milk and eating bread. He held the photos in his hands and looked at them carefully one by one.
While watching, he asked in surprise:
"Where did you get these things?"
"In a Hydra base in Africa, Dr. Zola wanted to destroy these photos, but I happened to snatch them away."
Leo replied casually,
"Also, that base has been destroyed by me, so you don't need to worry too much."
After hearing Dr. Zola's name, Fury immediately understood the importance of the matter. With a solemn expression, he took out a photo from the pile and placed it on the top of the pile.
Leo looked at it carefully and found that the photo Fury pulled out was the one marked "#084".
"Is there anything special about this photo? What is 084?" Leo asked knowingly.
Fury adjusted his sitting posture and replied slowly:
"According to SHIELD's practice, 084 is a general term that identifies things with unknown origins, unknown uses, unknown good or bad, etc.
084, It can be a thing, a living creature, or even a person."
"Since the establishment of SHIELD, many types of 084 have been discovered, but most of the 084s were finally studied clearly, so the title of 084 was removed.
As for a small number of things that have not been studied clearly, different containment measures have been found based on different levels of danger.
Those 084s are either locked in warehouses or guarded by special personnel. Some even extremely harmful things were thrown directly into space without any safe solution!"
Hearing this, Leo wanted to complain: You are creating space junk! Be careful that the Environmental Protection Bureau of the Universe will issue you a ticket!
But the current atmosphere was not suitable for him to tell this joke, so he asked seriously:
"Then what does 084 in this photo refer to?"
Unexpectedly, Fury simply replied: "I don't know."
"I don't know?!" Leo frowned, "This is something from the Strategic Science Corps."
"I know it's something from the Strategic Science Corps, but I still don't know!
When I was in S.H.I.E.L.D., I had quite high authority, but that was because I had a high rank in the Army before I transferred here."
Fury explained,
"Actually, when I joined S.H.I.E.L.D., the Strategic Science Corps had already changed its name, but the thing in this photo has the serial number of the Strategic Science Corps printed on it. It's an old thing that has been gathering dust. I don't know how normal it is.
Therefore, this thing may have been studied clearly and the code name 084 has been removed. It may also be hidden in a warehouse, or it may be sunk to the bottom of the sea or launched into space.
Moreover, it is very difficult to find out how to deal with it!"
Fury regained his interest in eating, took a sip of milk, ate a sip of bread, and continued,
"If I were still the original senior agent, I could use my authority to check it for you. But now, my level is too low to help you."
After hearing this, Leo was slightly disappointed.
He was about to speak, but Fury suddenly said first:
"I guess you want to ask 'who knows', right?"
Fury's skill of "saying your words and leaving you speechless" was very slippery, which made Leo feel quite uncomfortable.
So Leo glanced at his watch and said expressionlessly:
"You have 12 minutes left to explain this 084 clearly. If the explanation is not clear, just wait for your salary to be deducted!"
Fury was instantly deflated and could only raise his hands as if surrendering:
"Okay, I'm not going to be too pretentious, I'll say it.
Regarding the details of this 084, Director Peggy Carter must know best. Because the meaning of the number 084 was determined by Director Carter. It is said that the first 084 was contained by Director Carter himself.
If you want to know what is in this 084, you should ask Director Carter."
After saying that, Fury wolfed down the bread in his hand, drank the milk in the glass in one gulp, glanced at his watch again, and remained silent.
And Leo also crossed his legs, tapped his fingers on the table, and thought secretly.
He was thinking about whether it was worth investing energy and risk to track down this 084 himself?
Soon, Leo weighed the pros and cons and came to the conclusion that it was "not worth it".
The first reason is that it is not worth contacting "Peggy Carter" because of this matter.
There is a big boss standing behind Director Carter. Once things go wrong and the big boss is forced out, Leo's next "plan to dig out and conquer Captain America in advance" will be ruined.
The second reason is that it is not worth wasting precious time on this 084.
Leo never forgets that his ultimate goal is to collect the Infinity Stones.
In order to obtain as many infinite stones as possible, Leo made a detailed plan, and his timetable has been arranged for two years.
Therefore, busy Leo has no time to worry about other things.
This time it was just a coincidence that when he led his team to eliminate the Hydra base, he happened to discover this 084, and then he decided to find out.
But now that he knows how troublesome this 084 is, he has the idea of getting rid of this trouble.