Chapter 31: True and False Lies
S.H.I.E.L.D.'s underground base in New York is not particularly large, and S.H.I.E.L.D.'s main area of activity is still in Washington.
The S.H.I.E.L.D. underground base in New York is actually a large underground parking lot with protection.
There weren't many staff inside, at least Natasha had taken Xiao Shixuan all the way, and Xiao Shixuan hadn't seen more than three hundred S.H.I.E.L.D. agents.
The entire underground base is not a bit busy.
"Alright, I'm going to do some routine testing on you, and if you find anything out of the ordinary, you can stop at any time." Natasha was holding a tablet that was not available on the market today, and she didn't lift her head, her fingers were running on the tablet like piano silk.
Xiao Shixuan glanced around at the agents around him who were all buried in front of the computer, the ring finger of his left hand hanging on the outside of his thigh trembled slightly, Xiao Shixuan asked very curiously, "What kind of test are they?" Will it hurt me? ”
"It doesn't hurt, it's just a matter of psychological evaluation and a record of what happened to you during this time." Natasha put her right hand on the tablet and said indifferently.
"Identity Read, Agent Level 8, Ms. Natasha."
As a bright light flickered on the tablet, the positions where Xiao Shixuan and Natasha were standing began to sink continuously.
I don't know how deep it fell, but with a mechanical click, the sunken ground finally stopped moving.
Natasha took Xiao Shixuan down the elevator, pointed to the bright hall in front of her, and introduced: "This is the office of our S.H.I.E.L.D. level 5 and above, and we usually rest or train here. ”
The hall in front of him was full of brightness, and it was even colder than the slightly crowded hall that Xiao Shixuan had just seen above.
Xiao Shixuan glanced over, and there were only a few people he didn't know sitting in the hall.
Xiao Shixuan glanced up at the elevator that had just descended, it was dark now, and there was a constant sound of mechanical operation inside, and he didn't know what was hidden inside.
"Since you're the fiancé of Spider-Woman, you have the right to know our S.H.I.E.L.D. office in New York for the time being, but you'll have to sign a non-disclosure agreement when you leave." Natasha led Xiao Shixuan all the way to the depths of the hall.
Natasha introduced to Xiao Shixuan as she walked, "Because of your fiancée, Ghost Spider-Woman, she has now become a senior agent of our S.H.I.E.L.D., and due to her special identity, she does not need to live in the S.H.I.E.L.D. base for the time being, but she must come to the base every day to report." ”
Xiao Shixuan kept everything Natasha said in his heart tightly, knowing how S.H.I.E.L.D. operates in New York, which is an opportunity for Xiao Shixuan.
He has too many secrets on him, and these things must not be known to S.H.I.E.L.D.
It's good to know how these agents operate, not to mention what to do, at least hide from these people......
Xiao Shixuan and Natasha sat facing each other in a white room, the floor was white, the walls were white, and the light was slightly yellowish.
Natasha sat across from Xiao Shixuan, a thick stack of papers on the table in front of her, and a gold-black fountain pen on the paper.
After an agent placed two cups of coffee in front of Xiao Shixuan and Natasha, Natasha took a sip and began the routine psychological evaluation and incident recording.
"Shall we record the incident first? What do you think? Natasha carefully looked at Xiao Shixuan, who was sitting across from her, without a trace of superfluous expression on his face.
Seeing Xiao Shixuan nodding, Natasha's eyes lit up.
"At Imperial College in New York, when Spider-Woman the Ghost was attacked by a killer, what do you remember when it happened?"
Xiao Shixuan's gaze swept over Natasha's face, and he slowly opened his mouth and said: "After someone shot at that time, everything was too chaotic, but I saw Gwen being attacked on the stage, so I didn't have time to withdraw immediately, and when Gwen told me to leave, I turned around and bumped into a man." ”
"Wait! You say it's a man? Natasha frowned, holding her pen against the paper in front of her.
"Yes."
Natasha blinked, "Can you briefly describe what that man looks like?" ”
"He was wearing a black-gray hood with his face hidden in the hat and was a little shorter than me, and he was smoking a cigarette in his mouth when I saw him." Xiao Shixuan slowly painted his imaginary image of a man.
"And then?"
Xiao Shixuan pursed his mouth helplessly, "Then my eyes turned white, and I couldn't see anything, and then I felt as if I was in a sea of fire, and I heard a man say something that he didn't want to manipulate me or something, and then when I woke up, I was already in a park." ”
This time, Natasha's brows were completely furrowed, and her clear eyes were full of suspicion when she looked at Xiao Shixuan. However, Natasha did not directly deny Xiao Shixuan.
She has checked a lot of relevant information these days, and no one has seen the man Xiao Shixuan said, because no one was wearing a hood at that time.
"Do you know how you moved from Imperial University Square to that park?" Natasha jotted down a few words on the paper that seemed to be moving at high speed.
Xiao Shixuan said honestly, "I don't know, but I feel that the time between them is very short. ”
This was originally the truth, because how Xiao Shixuan moved from the Imperial University Square to the park at that time, he himself did not know, it was not he who controlled his body at that time, it was more like the Vengeful Flame himself controlled his body.
Not seeing anything from Xiao Shixuan's face, Natasha skipped the question.
"Where did you go in the next few days? Why don't you connect with Spider-Woman the Ghost right now? ”
Seeing that Natasha didn't ask about the matter at the Imperial University at that time, Xiao Shixuan breathed a sigh of relief.
Since the lie in front of him has dragged on, the rest of the thing is easy to answer, whether Natasha believes it or not, unless she finds actual evidence.
Half of a lie is told, and half a lie is a real lie.
What Xiao Shixuan had to do just now was to create the Flame Giant out of thin air, and he wanted to let everyone who knew about it know that he was just a lucky person who was not killed by the Flame Giant.
And there is also the guy named Erickson, although it is only a one-sided relationship, but Xiao Shixuan knows that that guy is by no means a simple character.
Now what Xiao Shixuan has to do is to use Erickson's guy to create a story for Natasha and them of a flame giant controlled by a mysterious organization to fight back.
An ordinary person who gained the power to control the flames in a secret laboratory in Erickson's hands, was then chased by Erickson's mysterious organization.
Xiao Shixuan is just an inconspicuous innocent person in this story.
The flame giant in the story is fake, but Erickson is real, and Erickson's mysterious organization is also real.
Xiao Shixuan, who had thought of these as early as when he was eating, opened his mouth and came without hesitation.
"Actually, when I was in the park, I thought I was lucky to escape, but a guy named Erickson grabbed me and said he was going to use me as bait to catch Gwen."
Natasha's brow furrowed completely, and the pen against the paper was pressing regularly one by one, and her heart was very confused now.
She originally thought it was just a flame giant, but she didn't expect that there were other people in it......
"Erickson?"
"Well, he's a man with a lot of temperament, a lot like an artist with a temperament, and he says he's a psychiatrist himself!" When Xiao Shixuan said the word psychiatrist, his eyes couldn't help but show a trace of fear, "That person is a madman who plays with people's hearts!" ”
Silently remembering a grudge against Erickson in his heart, Xiao Shixuan had already thought about it before coming to S.H.I.E.L.D., using S.H.I.E.L.D.'s hand to get rid of that terrible guy, even if he couldn't get rid of it directly, he had to find him with the help of S.H.I.E.L.D.!
Anyone who plays with people's hearts can't die well!
And a man who knows his secrets!
"I was taken by him at that time, and he seemed to know that my fiancée was Spider-Woman the ghost, and he wanted to use me to blackmail Gwen against the flame giant, but the next day the flame giant went straight to the door, but the flame giant just glanced at Erickson and was subdued at that time."
Natasha's handwriting became more and more messy, as messy as her heart was now.
"They captured the Flame Giant, but the guy named Erickson didn't let me go, he wanted to use me to control Gwen.
Fortunately, the flame giant came to his senses in time and a fight broke out on a farm, and I took advantage of the chaos of their battle to quietly grab an off-road vehicle and leave the farm. ”
"Then I got into a car accident and met the kind-hearted Pepper Potts......"
After listening to Xiao Shixuan's half-truths, Natasha stared at the paper in her hand and was silent for a full minute.
Xiao Shixuan's words were too fragmentary, but she didn't doubt the truth of what Xiao Shixuan said, and it was not easy to judge whether it was true or false now.
First, they did find traces of the Flame Giant's battle with a mysterious organization, and they also saw traces of a person trapped and then escaped from that underground base.
Then, the authenticity of what Xiao Shixuan just said should not be doubted.
The mysterious organization, a psychiatrist named Erickson, the flame giant also said that it would never be controlled, why did the mysterious organization catch Xiao Shixuan, and why did the flame giant not kill Xiao Shixuan.
Many fragments of stories are linked, and a story is full of formation in Natasha's heart.
Natasha silently made up her own cognition in her mind for a while, and looked up to find Xiao Shixuan staring at her, and smiled awkwardly, "Sorry, I'm thinking a little bit of a daze, we can do a psychological assessment now." ”
"It's okay, I'm sorry, the guy named Erickson kept me with him at the time, and I didn't see the true face of the Flame Giant." Xiao Shixuan seemed to be very annoyed and preached to Natasha.
"It's okay, as long as we know the name, our S.H.I.E.L.D. will soon find out the news of this kind of terrorist." Natasha comforted Xiao Shixuan.
However, Natasha was still making up the story in her mind, and she didn't notice Xiao Shixuan's flickering eyes when he looked at her.
It seems that she has already believed what I say!
Xiao Shixuan sneered in his heart, this time, he wanted to borrow a knife to kill!
Erickson, that guy knows too much!
Looking at the thick multiple-choice question handed over by Natasha, the pride and murderous intent that had just risen in Xiao Shixuan's heart suddenly fell.
In front of an agent who is proficient in hundreds of skills, anything that is wrong will be grasped, and Xiao Shixuan does not dare to try whether Natasha has this ability.
After spending more than half an hour completing this multiple-choice answer sheet, Natasha took Xiao Shixuan out of the white and flawless room.
"Barton is in the third room ahead of Gwen in the process of filing an identity file, you can check it out."
Looking at Natasha, who hurriedly turned to leave, Xiao Shixuan glanced at the room that had not yet closed the door, and there were two cups of coffee on the white and flawless table.
One was Natasha's own, and the other was his own, and he didn't take a sip.
Seeing a woman in a uniform next to him walking in with a plate and taking out two cups of coffee, Xiao Shixuan stretched out his hand to the plate in the blonde woman's hand with some embarrassment, "I'm sorry, this cup of coffee is mine, I didn't come to drink it just now." ”
"Huh? Sir, it's okay, I can make you another drink. ”
"It's okay, it's a waste, I like cold coffee anyway."
Xiao Shixuan took the cup of coffee he hadn't drunk, smiled at the woman, and walked in the direction that Natasha pointed out to him just now.
All this was clearly recorded in the monitoring of Xiao Shixuan's head.
After leaving Xiao Shixuan, Natasha contacted Hill Maria in Washington, D.C., in a special communication room.
"Flame Giant and Ghost Spider-Woman, I have an intel to report on my side."
In the picture, Hill Maria's expression immediately became serious, although she usually looked serious.
"The ghost spider-woman's name is Gwen, the specific name has not been found, and Xiao Shixuan, a Chinese who has died, has been confirmed to be not dead."
"No deaths?" Hill Maria looked at Natasha in shock, "Didn't you already confirm death last time?" ”
Natasha shook her head, put the file in her hand on the transfer machine and transferred it directly back to Washington, "This Flame Giant incident, there are a lot of problems in it, I suspect that the Flame Giant is a laboratory test subject of other institutions, after he escaped, it is estimated that he was for self-preservation, and it was very likely that he appeared at the Ghost Spider Woman's award ceremony at that time to contact Ghost Spider Woman, after all, both of them are people with superpowers." ”
Hill Maria, on the other side, nodded secretly while looking at Natasha's record, she thought the same thing.
"As far as I know, from Xiao Shixuan, this flame giant should be an experimental subject under a psychiatrist named Erickson, and I need to inquire about Erickson's information here." After Natasha finished transferring the file, she didn't transfer Xiao Shixuan's mental test as well.
She threw her hand into the shredder that she left aside.
"Tomorrow I'll pass you on the psychiatrist named Erickson."
For some reason, Natasha apparently saw the helplessness on Hill Maria's face after she reported Erickson's name.