Chapter 69: Undercurrents
One of Hydra's bases in the United States was just destroyed.
Although it is said that Hydra is a very powerful one, lurking in various places, and has a very large number of bases in the United States and even around the globe. But even if there are more bases, directly destroying one is still a very serious loss for Hydra, not to mention that this base is still in a place like New York. Compared with other bases, this base is better than other bases in terms of equipment, manpower and elite.
So Pierce, the former director of S.H.I.E.L.D., is the top head of Hydra within S.H.I.E.L.D. After he heard the news of the destruction of this base, his face was directly gloomy, and he didn't drop the phone in his hand, which was already very restrained.
You know, Hydra is divided into several factions, and he is only the leader of one of the factions, so he only controls part of the power of this Hydra, and the power in this base can almost be said to be the most powerful force in addition to the power of Hydra within S.H.I.E.L.D., but now that it is gone, it is strange that he can feel better, so he said that he did not drop things, it is really enough restraint.
"Chief, what are we going to do next?" Hitwell, eh, is also a bald head. The bald head stood cautiously in front of Pierce, who was Pierce's assistant and, of course, a member of Hydra, because he knew more, he knew more about what the destruction of a base was for Pierce.
"It's not the time to cover up, especially Nick Fury, I've always thought he's a little weird lately, so it's important to cover up the past and not leave him with clues." Pierce commanded Hitwell in a deep voice.
"It's the leader, I'll take care of it." Hitwell nodded hurriedly.
"Yes, about the person in Saitama, you must continue to follow up with me, the base is destroyed, he is unharmed, and the woman who Skye is not hurt at all. There must be something wrong with this, or a big secret. Pierce thought of the fact that he had asked the base to target Saitama before, but the target was okay and the base was destroyed, and he couldn't help but have a trace of gloom in his eyes.
"Do you still want to take action against Saitama next?"
"Nope! Don't act on Saitama until you find out who Saitama is, just do a little surveillance, no, there is no need to arrange for Saitama's arrows, Nick Fury himself is already staring at Saitama, let's just intercept Saitama's information from there. Pierce calmed down.
"Yes, Chief!"
"Let's go down."
While Pierce was targeting Nick Fury, Nick Fury's side was also investigating the matter.
After all, here in New York, a base suddenly appeared, and the most important thing is that this base has been destroyed. A secret base that no one knew about, not even their S.H.I.E.L.D. could not. What kind of base is this? What forces were established? A secret base of the US military? No, apparently not. So what exactly is it? What is the purpose of construction? And, by whom?
What is exposed?
Of course, after investigation, it seems that S.H.I.E.L.D. has discovered that it is actually a secret base set up by Middle Eastern terrorists, specifically targeting them in the United States.
But this explanation, this reason, how could Nick Fury believe. It seems that the derrorists in the Middle East are indeed very strong, and they are making terror events everywhere, but they definitely do not have the ability to establish a base in New York, under the nose of S.H.I.E.L.D., without being discovered by their S.H.I.E.L.D.
Nick Fury suddenly thought of the group that had targeted Saitama before.
After that group of people was arrested, they didn't even start the interrogation, and they were directly killed, you must know that the escort of those people, but their S.H.I.E.L.D.'s rapid reaction special forces can be said to be an elite team in S.H.I.E.L.D., but they are still succeeded by the other party, that is, the other party is a force that is not inferior to the rapid reaction special forces at all. Plus the information he distilled from Saitama's confession.
Nick Fury directly targeted Hydra!
That's right, Hydra has been wiped out before. But Nick Fury remembered the Hydra slogan well, cutting off one head and growing two. At the time, Nick Fury just thought it was just a slogan for Hydra. But now it seems that this is not the case.
Nick Fury suspects that the base in New York, which is a base for Hydra, was destroyed because of an accident. Of course, this is just Nick Fury's feelings, and there is no evidence, not even any substantial evidence. So, does this prove that Nick Fury's guess is false?
No, it is precisely for this reason that Nick Fury feels that the problem is serious, because the more this is the case, the more it can prove that there is really a problem within S.H.I.E.L.D.
Nick Fury now even thinks that the other party is an agent of Hydra, even Coulson, Hawkeye, Black Widow Natasha, etc., these can be said to be his most proud subordinates, but Nick Fury, as the king of agents, is still suspicious of them. He was suspicious of everyone but himself, and of course, that was his character, and that's why Pierce made Nick Fury the head of S.H.I.E.L.D. in the first place.
Nick Fury decided to investigate, no, in fact, he had been secretly investigating since the last time, and the investigation was even directly from within S.H.I.E.L.D. Nick Fury felt that the destruction of Hydra's base this time was still an opportunity, a chance to find clues. Of course, everything has to be done in secret, and he will not tell anyone about the secret operation.
As a result, an undercurrent began to surge within S.H.I.E.L.D. As for the culprit of this incident, Saitama was lazily lying on the sofa, with one hand on his head, watching TV listlessly, and at the same time feeling a little itchy in his belly in boredom, he reached out and scratched his belly, and then yawned.
ps: Many readers say that Saitama doesn't kill people, well, that's true, in one punch, Saitama punches the weirdo to death, but against humans, it doesn't seem to be ruthless. But, how to say it, it feels, the reason why it is like that is because humans face a common threat, so Saitama will kill monsters but not humans. It's just that now I've come to the Marvel world, and in this world, there is no race like weirdos that threaten humans and stand opposite to humans, well, after all, aliens haven't appeared yet.
Saitama in One Punch is mainly to fight monsters and solve the bad guys by the way, but what Saitama can deal with in the Marvel world is just the bad guys, so it shouldn't be a big problem to replace these bad guys with the ranks of weirdos.
Hmm, the author reluctantly explains it like this.