Chapter 068: Thanksgiving Dinner
"What is this?" Agent Sitwell asked, taking the folder.
"It's full of investigative reports about this incident, and with this, I'm sure it won't be difficult for you to find out which agents were involved in this incident."
Colonel Stryker picked up his knife and fork again and prepared to continue his meal, "It would be better if you could give me an answer directly, but if it's really inconvenient, at least give me a list, and I'll figure out the rest myself." β
"It's not hard to find someone, but are you sure you want to do it?"
Agent Sitwell's voice was slightly solemn, "If Fury finds out that you dare to attack someone from S.H.I.E.L.D., with his character, he won't care who is standing behind you, you have to think clearly......"
"What can you do if you find out, just find a scapegoat when the time comes, for such a trivial matter, does he dare to tear his face with the military?" Colonel Stryker said disapprovingly.
"You don't know him." Agent Sitwell shook his head.
"I think you're scared by him." Colonel Stryker scoffed.
Seeing that Colonel Stryker was so conceited, Agent Sitwell didn't bother to talk nonsense, just as he didn't speculate for more than half a sentence, he directly stood up with the folder and said:
"I'll send someone to send you the list when I have it...... I still have some things, so I will go first, so I don't need to send it. β
Without waiting for Colonel Stryker to reply, he turned and left.
Only the whole glass of red wine that had been poured on the table and had not yet been drunk was left.
Looking at his departing back, Colonel Stryker sneered twice, and had no intention of keeping it, but continued to eat slowly.
More than half an hour later.
Agent Sitwell appeared in Alexander Pierce's office.
ββ¦β¦ That's about it. After debriefing Pierce on his encounter with Colonel Stryker, Agent Sitwell asked, "So, are we going to continue working with him?" β
"Why not?"
Pierce patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Stryker's conceit is destined to clash with Fury, and when the time comes, as long as we guide him a little, even if we can't drive Fury out of his position at one time, he will have no time to worry about other things, isn't it great?" β
"But I'm afraid he'll expose us early......" Agent Sitwell frowned.
"Don't worry, a Stryker won't be bad." Pierce smiled and reassured, "Besides, this matter also involves the 'Tahiti Project' that can bring people back from the dead, and Stryker may be able to do us a favor if he continues to investigate, so let's let him take the lead." β
"Yes."
"By the way, what's going on at the academy?" Pierce asked again.
"Lord Garrett has already set it up over there, but I don't have time to know the specifics." Agent Sitwell replied after a moment's thought.
"Did Garrett arrange it himself? That shouldn't be a big problem, it's impossible for a layman to escape from Garrett's palm......" Pierce nodded when he heard this, and asked no more.
Although he is nominally John Garrett's boss, in Hydra they are all senior cadres on an equal footing, but they have their own division of labor.
He had no right to interfere in Garrett's affairs, and it was inconvenient for him to ask more.
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"Kerry, are you sure your brother agrees with us going to your house?"
Under the moonlight, Lorna asked Clarisse with some weakness.
She was a little scared of Clarice's mysterious brother, and she wasn't the only one, as far as she could see, John and Sonia were clearly similar to her.
Although she was very tough when she faced Raymond last time, it was just a fierce inward-looking.
After all, she was only a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl, and in her past not rich life experience, the most murderous and terrifying thing for her was the Sentinel Secret Service, which had been chasing mutants for a long time.
And when she learned that Raymond was from a larger organization than the Sentinel Secret Service, she inevitably felt a little afraid of Raymond in her heart.
Especially after hearing about Raymond's bloody slaughter of more than 30 mercenaries from Sonya, he became more and more afraid of Raymond.
This time, Clarice invited the three of them to the house for a Thanksgiving dinner, and of course they would not refuse.
But when I think of Raymond, it's impossible not to be nervous.
"Don't worry, I've already told my brother, and he has agreed, it's going to be fine." Clarie said unconcernedly.
Unlike a few friends, although Clarice witnessed Raymond's bloody exploits, Raymond was her brother after all, and Raymond was also the one he killed because he secretly protected her.
After the initial shock, she quickly adapted.
The two also reached an agreement, Raymond did not tell Fang Mo and his wife about her becoming mutants for the time being, and she also pretended not to know how powerful Raymond was.
This Thanksgiving dinner is very special for their family.
for Raymond returned safely.
In order to celebrate, Fang Mo and his wife decided to make the dinner a little more lively, not only inviting relatives from their mother Roland's side, but also asking Raymond and Clarice to call their friends to come with them.
Clarice's first instinct was to call Lorna, John and Sonya, because she knew that her friends had not experienced the warmth of home for a long time.
Some of them are rejected by their families and kicked out of their homes, while others run away from home to avoid disturbing their families, and Thanksgiving is a special day when families are reunited.
Clarice also wants to share her warmth with her friends.
Of course, she also considered whether Raymond minded the question of a few friends coming to the door, so she did ask Raymond in advance, and Raymond did say that it didn't matter.
If it weren't for that, she wouldn't dare to take a few friends home.
Ding dong!
When the doorbell rang, it was his mother, Roland, who opened the door.
"Hello Auntieβ"
As soon as they saw Roland, the three of them greeted each other in a restrained manner.
"You're okay too." Roland smiled enthusiastically and said to Clarisse, "Klee, aren't you going to introduce me to your new friends?" β
Only then did Clarice react and hurriedly introduced the three of them.
After recognizing who the three of them were, Roland didn't say much, but smiled and said to Clariss: "Your brother and his friends have also arrived, and they are sitting and chatting in the backyard...... You young people should be able to talk to each other, so I won't accompany you, but I'll go and prepare dinner first. β
"Okay."
Clarice nodded, and walked to the backyard with her three friends.
When they came to the backyard, they saw Raymond chatting with a few people, but because they were all facing away from them, they couldn't see what they looked like for a while.
I could only see that the back of one of them was very tall, and just sitting there gave people a huge sense of oppression.
"You're here...... Come and sit. β
Raymond saw them as well, and beckoned to them.
The three of them also looked back at this time.
However, it was good that they didn't look back, and as soon as they turned around, Clarice and Lorna's faces immediately changed dramatically!
Because among these three, there is an 'old acquaintance' of theirs.