Chapter Ninety-Three: Gathering Intelligence
"S.H.I.E.L.D. agents?!"
In the antique store, Li Ran looked at the content displayed on the data panel and subconsciously raised his eyebrows.
Although he expected that S.H.I.E.L.D. would contact one of the parties to the Chinatown incident, that is, Ip Man, he did not expect to start acting so soon.
Moreover, through Ip Man in the martial arts hall, he looked at the young white man on the other side who was unaware and completely unaware that his identity had been exposed.
Li Ran complained secretly in his heart.
Are you sure you're an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. and not Hydra?
Well, at this stage, until Hydra is completely exposed, there is nothing wrong with saying that it is an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. What's more, even if S.H.I.E.L.D. has really been corroded and disintegrated from the inside by Hydra in the past few decades, there will always be some loyal agents, and this one in front of him will not be the one.
"Master, what's wrong?"
Ip Man's gaze was a little unnatural, and the young white man immediately asked.
Out of confidence in the disguise, he doesn't think it's because of the relationship he exposed.
"Nothing." silently retracted his gaze, although the true identity of the person in front of him had been undoubtedly exposed in Li Ran's eyes, but he still decided to continue to act, the other party came to the door so hard, kneeling and worshipping, he always had to give some face.
Thinking of this, Li Ran manipulated the clones in the martial arts hall and made a gesture: "Although I have promised to teach you martial arts, I will naturally not break my word." However, as the saying goes, if you want to really practice Wing Chun well, you must first practice the basics, and no matter how good the martial arts are, it is just a castle in the air, not worth mentioning......"
“……”
Ip Man talked a lot, but the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents in front of him obviously didn't pay much attention.
After all, he came to find out information, not really to learn kung fu.
It's just that what he doesn't know is that Ip Man on the other side didn't really come to teach kung fu when he glanced at him.
If Li Ran still wanted to teach the other party a few hands to look at it when he didn't know the identity of the other party's agent before, when his identity as an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. was revealed, Li Ran naturally extinguished this thought. Anyway, the other party didn't really come to learn martial arts, what did he teach so enthusiastically.
After a brief lecture, Ip Man looked at the young white man: "So, your name is." ”
"Mike, master, you can call me Mike."
Nodding, regardless of the truth or falsity of the name, Ip Man immediately said: "Mike, since you want to learn Wing Chun, then you must first stand firm on the horse steps." ”
"Horse step?"
What Ip Man said next involves the core basics of kung fu.
Even Mike, who is an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., doesn't know everything, after all, to put it bluntly, he is just an ordinary level 5 agent within S.H.I.E.L.D., and he is assigned a mission that is only in contact with intelligence gathering, not a more important mission.
"Horse step is the foundation of all kung fu, as the so-called practice of boxing does not practice, to the old one, this skill refers to the basic skill, that is, what I call horse step."
As he spoke, Ye Man straightened his body, raised his hands into fists to his chest, and bent his knees inward in a strange posture: "From today onwards, you will have to practice this posture every day. ”
……
"So, that's what you learned when you ran to the martial arts hall?"
S.H.I.E.L.D., New York Division.
Nick Fury looked at the strange pose of the agent in front of him in his office, and couldn't help but raise the only brow he was showing.
"To be precise, the name of this movement is called the two-character tong yang horse, which is the basis for practicing Wing Chun."
"That's not what I wanted to ask." Interrupting the explanation of the man in front of him, Nick Fury said in a deep voice with a straight face: "Agent, remember your mission, I didn't really let you go to Chinatown to learn the so-called Wing Chun, what I needed was information about the other party and everything that happened in Chinatown before." ”
Nick Fury's words made the agent quickly come out of the atmosphere of martial arts training, put away his horse steps, looked at the eye-catching one-eyed director opposite, and then swallowed his saliva and said, "I understand, Director." ”
"So tell my agent, what did you find?"
"After my investigation and questioning of the residents near Chinatown, as well as the investigation and evidence collection of the police system, it can basically be concluded that the destruction of Chinatown mainly comes from a guy named Huoyun Evil God?"
"Fire Cloud Evil God?"
A name that he hadn't heard of before, made Nick Fury subconsciously repeat a sentence.
"That's right, it's interesting to note that we also found the name Huoyun Evil God in our internal police reports, which originally came from the mouth of an Asian man named Ah Xing who didn't have any identification. From the description of the police report, as well as the rewind of time, we finally found the traces of the other party in the previous Manhattan incident, according to the news reports at the time, a Chinese man kicked away the flying cement stones. ”
Nick Fury is no stranger to the Manhattan incident in the mouth of the secret agent, and the trouble caused by the military, even the location where the trouble is currently hidden, S.H.I.E.L.D. has control.
"After that, where did this Ah Xing go?"
"I don't know." Shaking his head, the chaotic situation in Hell's Kitchen, coupled with the concealment of the Hand Clan's activities, even S.H.I.E.L.D. can't hold all the information in their hands.
"However, the other party has briefly appeared in Harlem for a few days before, and has dealt with a gang leader in Harlem, and has mentioned more than once that he is from a place called Penglai."
"Penglai?"
"We investigated and only found a description of a place called Penglai Xiandao in some Chinese myths and legends."
These descriptions of the agent made Nick Fury fall into a short contemplation, unlike ordinary S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, he had experienced various wars and knew many secrets unknown to most people in this world, so he would not ignore clues because of the lack of information.
After a pause, Nick Fury brought the conversation back to the target.
"So, what about this one in the martial arts hall?"
"People in Chinatown have always called him Master Yip, but I have asked for his name before, and he said that his name is Ip Man."
"Ip Man."
With the somewhat tongue-twisting name in his mouth, Nick Fury looked up and was about to say something when there was a knock on the office door.
"Come in."
Pushing open the door, Agent Hill walked in with the information: "Director, we have found some important information. ”