One day later, in the fifth-floor office of SHIELD headquarters.
Nick Fury was working on documents at his desk, and he was so anxious that he scratched his hair from time to time.
Jingle bell bell…
The harsh ringtone of the phone suddenly rang, and Fury grabbed the phone and put it to his ear. But before he could speak, a loud roar came from the phone:
"Agent Nick Fury, it has been almost a month. Have you found the murderer of Mr. Stark? Have you found the secret base of Hydra?"
Fury took the microphone away from his ear with a look of disgust, and then replied:
"Director Pierce, I'm working hard to find you. As you know, most of the agents in the agency have been assigned to protect the personal safety of senior executives in the agency and their families. I am short of manpower."
"Don't look for other reasons. I leave this matter to you because I trust you, to give you a chance for promotion, and to think about your future. I have such high hopes for you, so you just take advantage of the lack of manpower.
Any reason to prevaricate me?"
"Director Pierce, SHIELD is really short of manpower right now. Otherwise, you can bring back the 20 agents you transferred. I need them to help me collect intelligence."
"Those 20 agents are used to protect me and my family. What should I do if I give them to you?"
"But others only need 4 agents, you want too much..."
"Agent Fury, have you ever talked to your boss like this?! I'm telling you, if I give you another month, if you still can't find any information, you can go back to your civilian job!"
After saying that, Pierce hung up the phone angrily.
Hearing the beeping busy tone from the phone, Fury shook his head helplessly. He put the phone back on the phone, put his hands behind his back, stood in front of the window, and stared at the setting sun outside.
After a long time, the setting sun was blocked by the high-rise buildings in the city, and the lights in the office automatically turned on under the control of the light sensor.
Fury seemed to have made up his mind, returned to his desk and picked up the phone again to dial.
"Agent Romanoff, come to my office."
A few minutes later, the black widow in casual clothes opened the office door and said:
"Sir Fury, what do you want from me?"
"I want to confirm with you all the details of what happened to you at Kamiantang Manor."
Although Black Widow didn't know why Fury suddenly wanted to hear this, she still patiently repeated the encounter in the Kapok underground base.
Fury listened and wrote down something in his notebook.
By the time Black Widow finished speaking, Fury had already memorized everything in his notebook. He paused before asking:
"Do you believe the man named Ivan Avatar who calls himself Dr. Zola's assistant?"
"What are you referring to?"
“All aspects!”
"His name should be false, but everything else should be true."
"Why do you say that?"
"intuition!"
Black Widow saw Fury frowning and said in a more serious tone,
"It's a woman's intuition!"
Fury shrugged nonchalantly, then took out a small memory device and a note with a bank card number written on it from the drawer, and said:
"I'm going to pay the so-called Mr. Avatar one million dollars, which is what he calls life money. Do you think he will say thank you to us?"
Black Widow's eyes lit up and she asked:
"You want to get the location of the Hydra base out of him?"
Fury had a smile on his face and said nothing. Black Widow was slightly surprised and guessed,
"Don't you want him to tell you who in SHIELD are Hydra spies?!"
At this time, Fury smiled and said:
"Why, do you think it's impossible?"
"It's not impossible, but I think you're going to bleed a lot. This kind of information can't be bought with just a million dollars."
Fury smiled and said: "Heroes think alike, I'm ready for a lot of bleeding!"
Black Widow also smiled, but after she finished laughing, her face seemed to change and she asked seriously:
"Why are you telling me this? You already have a complete plan, you can just go ahead and do it yourself."
Fury put his hands on his back again, his eyes seemed to focus on infinity, and said slowly:
"Sometimes, to do something, you need the approval of others."
…
The next morning, in Minnesota, the state television morning news channel was broadcasting the news.
"From noon the day before yesterday to last night, many armed robberies occurred in towns of all sizes in our state, causing great panic among residents in the state.
But what is puzzling is that most of the people who were robbed were local rogues, gangsters, and even gang members.
Some gang members who were armed with guns and deeply hated by local residents even had gun battles with unknown robbers, and were beaten to death with blunt instruments in the end.
At present, the police have intervened in the investigation, but the local residents do not buy it. Not only do they not cooperate with the investigation, they also call the robbers vigilantes.
After repeated visits and investigations, the police obtained some basic information about the robbers. The robbers were two men, and they appeared to be in their twenties.
Although these two people did not show any malice towards ordinary people, they were armed, robbed, and killed without any scruples.
This station is here to strongly advise everyone not to go out at night recently, and if you find suspicious persons, please call the police immediately..."
The two knights who robbed the gang were naturally Leo and Bucky. At this time, they had already left Minnesota in a black van.
In the car, Leo was wearing jeans, sneakers, and a blue baker's jacket. Bucky was similarly dressed, but he wore a pair of gray gloves more than Leo, covering his left palm made of steel.
"Bucky, how do you feel about robbing an entire state in two days?"
"It's not good. This is not the America I'm familiar with. How could those gangsters do such a thing as asking an old woman who lives alone to collect protection money? And the local police didn't even ask!"
Bucky looked very angry and frowned and said,
"Leo, if you hadn't stopped me, I would have killed the entire gang and even demolished the police station!"
"You can't do this. If you kill a group of people, another wave of people will appear and continue to do this kind of thing. This is not only the case in the United States, but also all over the world."
"We fought tooth and nail to win World War II, sacrificing our lives for the United States and for a better future for the whole world. Now, the world has become better and ordinary people are living richer lives. Why do some people go astray?
!Why??"
Leo asked Bucky calmly:
"Didn't there be black sticks in the era before you? There were, too! All of this was driven by profit.
When gangsters are profitable and can enjoy unearned wealth by being ruthless and risking their lives, some people will go down this road."
"Isn't there a solution?"
"Of course!"
"What can be done?"
"When you become the gang boss of the entire United States, you can customize the order of the dark kingdom at will!"
After hearing this, Bucky nodded thoughtfully. Then, he suddenly asked:
"When I was in Minneapolis, I heard from their gang boss that all gangs in the United States surrendered to a man named Kingpin.
So according to the rules of the gang, does it mean that if I kill him, I can become the boss? Leo, do you know where he is?"
"What? You have a new life goal so soon?!"
Seeing that Bucky was silent, Leo continued,
"Of course I know where Kingpin is! I'm taking you to find him now!"
At this time, Bucky said:
"Thank you, Leo. But why do you seem to know everything?! Why do you know so much?"
Leo touched his nose, chuckled and said perfunctorily: