34. Assault
Cyber returns to Gotham after dealing with New York, and as he says, he doesn't really like the city of New York, because every time he comes here, it means a whole bunch of things coming over him, as if he's always here to clean up the mess for the city.
It's a really hard feeling, and no one likes trouble, does it?
However, his departure has relieved many people, not only the guys who are hiding in the shadows and plotting their own plots, but also those guardians of New York and even the entire country on the surface.
Yes, I'm talking about S.H.I.E.L.D.
At 11:37 a.m., the lights were still on in the office of the mysterious delta wing, and Nick Fury sat on his desk, looking through a pile of papers, there are many, many things happening in this country every day, terrorist attacks, riots within the country, and some battle plans that cannot be seen by ordinary people, these things may have nothing to do with his jurisdiction, but as a mature spy, Fury himself has become accustomed to finding contact points from these unrelated things.
This is the norm for his job, the lives of agents are not as cool as in the movies, 80% of the work is actually done in the office, and conversely, if an agent does everything only by brute force, then he is definitely not a qualified agent.
"Director, this is an urgent document from the island of Bahrain!"
Coulson hurriedly walked into the director's office and handed him the document in his hand, Fury took it and looked at it, the only remaining eye narrowed, but he didn't raise his head, but continued to flip through the documents, he asked in a low voice,
"Asazzo escaped from prison, and the reason is marked as "accident", so are you sure it's not the overbearing Mr. Magneto?"
Coulson shook his head,
"No! Eric Lansall has been in Canada since the war in New York, and our secret agents are watching over him, and this time he is very cooperative, although I think he is planning some kind of far-reaching plan, but Asazzo's escape from prison may really have nothing to do with Magneto. ”
"So it's judged that he disappeared accidentally?"
Fury rubbed the corners of his forehead and put down the papers, he leaned back in his chair and crossed his hands, "Another dangerous mutant is missing, there is one more factor that cannot be controlled, the situation is becoming uncontrollable, there have never been as many changes in the past 15 years as this year, it is so elusive, this is not normal! Coulson, this is not a normal situation." ”
Coulson looked emotional, but in fact it was some kind of inquiring gesture in the face of Mr. Director, he pulled over his chair and sat down opposite Nick Fury, he was silent for a while, and the veteran agent, known as the "American Secret Service Model", organized his words, and he whispered,
"Fury, we've known each other for more than 20 years, and I've always treated you as a mentor and an elder, and in my opinion, you have enough secrets, and you've protected this country very well in the past ten years, but..."
Coulson accentuated his tone, but lowered his voice,
"You also said that the situation has changed, and even the Supreme Mage, who is powerful enough to shake the world, has calmly admitted this change, but in my opinion, you have not put down your posture, just look at your treatment of Cyber Hawke, he is no longer the pawn who can be threatened by us in the past, even if we don't want to admit it, but now, he is the leader of a powerful force, we should treat him as an equal, not a certain code name in the plan, a certain coordinate. ”
"Why are we so passive?" Fury?"
Coulson asked rhetorically, "Why are we so powerless in the face of mutants, in the face of Cyber, and even in the face of the Mystic Side invasion? You might say that it's because there are traitors within us, a force that we haven't known before, that's all right, it's all for reason, but I think there's another reason that can't be ignored, Fury." ”
Coulson didn't call Fury the director, but whispered like a normal friend,
"We can't control everything anymore! We have to put down our bodies and get back to thinking about the last world war... We have to accept our status as pawns, instead of always trying to be a chess player when we are not strong enough, like the incident you are planning about the third Ghost Knight, and you set his intended enemy to be Cyber Hawk, which is not necessary, Fury, I don't think we are enemies with Cyber!"
Coulson stared at Fury without blinking,
"At least not now!The Supreme Mage won't allow us to fight, whoever dares to strike first will definitely be hit by her, you're doing a dangerous thing!And once exposed, it will attract a full attack like a cyber mad dog, isn't the lesson of the Hand and the Foot Gang enough?"
"You! you're spying on me!"
Fury's voice became dangerous, "You shouldn't have seen those files!"
"Let's just make a mistake. ”
Coulson shrugged his shoulders, he leaned back in his chair with a relaxed face, "I accept any punishment, I just said what I thought, and now I will fight against Cyber, the gains outweigh the losses, and our greater threat is inside!"
His fingers tapped on the table,
"S.H.I.E.L.D. with integrated resources doesn't need to be afraid of Cyber, our strength is ten times that of the Devil's Gang, when Cyber kills 1 of us, we can kill 10 Devil Gang, and he will definitely be defeated in an all-out war! He just looks crazy on the surface, he is actually very smart, he is using crazy counterattacks to cover up his weaknesses, I don't believe you can't see all this. ”
Fury didn't continue to be angry, the leader was sometimes blind because he could only see what he wanted to see, and Coulson's advice gave Fury a completely different direction, rubbing his chin and a thoughtful look in his one eye.
"Let's not talk about this question aside, do you mean that we should cooperate more deeply with those colleagues on the other side of the ocean?"
"It's not just them, we're going to join the system led by the Ancient One, and work more closely with the others, I mean..."
Coulson flicked his fingers, "If we can't guarantee that those uncertainties will become friends, then at least we can't make them our enemies, like Doctor Strange Steve Strange, who recently commanded the New York Sanctuary, or that playboy Tony Stark, or Batman, the dark symbol of Gotham, and even the hellish detective who has been traveling between the world and hell very frequently lately, the annoying Konstantin." ”
A headache appeared on Coulson's face,
"It seems to me that they are in a very delicate relationship with us, they are friends with Cyber but strangers to us, and if we have a conflict with Cyber, which side will they be on, and how many resources do we allocate to deal with them?"
Level 8 agent stood up, straightened his clothes, and ended his speech with a single sentence,
"Cyber is a classic lesson, we can't fall on the same stone twice, and I think Fury, our attention should be distracted, the monitoring of the mysterious side and the internal inventory, the importance of these two events is almost equal, and your energy is limited. ”
Fury nodded, and when Coulson turned to leave and walked to the door of the office, there was a lighter behind him, which made Coulson froze for a moment, because Fury was not a smoker, he turned his head, and saw Fury take out a cigar from the drawer, put it in his mouth, and lit the fire with some unskillful skills, he swung the lighter in his hand and looked at the burning flame.
"Coulson, you and Ciel are in charge of the mystical side surveillance, you come to deal with those freaks... You're right, it's time for me to focus on something more important. ”
He looked up at Coulson,
"Captain, I can't give it to you now, I need his super ability to find out some things for me, and other resources are distributed by you!"
Coulson didn't refuse, he nodded very flatly, and gestured his finger at Furyby,
"Leave it to me!"
"Ding Ding Ding Ding"
The phone in the S.H.I.E.L.D. office rang suddenly, Fury held a cigar in his mouth, put the phone to his ear, and asked in a low voice,
"Hey, this is Nick Fury, what's the matter?"
The person on the other side said a few words, Fury's expression that had just relaxed immediately became serious again, and after a while, he put down the phone and looked at Coulson in front of him with a somewhat strange expression,
"Very well, Coulson, your first trouble in office is that the president has just been assassinated, and the assassination has failed, but the problem is that the entire 37 security personnel in the White House can attest that the assassin was a mutant, and that he also left a blatant mark, which actually sounds more like a botched demonstration, or the reopening of an old but effective conspiracy. ”
The head of S.H.I.E.L.D. shrugged, and he yawned,
"But it's not my trouble, Coulson, go about your business, look at the busy half of the month, I can finally get a good night's sleep." ”
The expression on Coulson's face also fell, he didn't say anything, and walked out of the office, and 15 minutes later, the S.H.I.E.L.D. helicopter stopped on the tarmac of the chaotic White House, and Coulson, wearing sunglasses, stepped off the plane and was greeted by heavily armed soldiers standing at every entrance with weapons in hand, they looked like they were facing the enemy.
But Coulson's face was calm, he didn't believe the White House spokesman's account of the assassination at all, not that he thought they were lying, but as an agent, he could see through this trick at a glance.
This is obviously a blame!
Especially when he saw the so-called "evidence", Coulson was even more sneering at the operation steps of this incident, rough, too rough!
He wore white gloves, put the dark red dagger in his hand, and looked at it repeatedly, the dagger itself was nothing special, except for a red strip of cloth at the end of the dagger, on which a sentence was written in Latin,
"Guaranteeing the freedom of mutants"
Opposite him, the surprised old president was drinking from the water glass, it was obvious that the old man was frightened, he was still trembling in his hand, Coulson's eyes swept over him, he put down the dagger in his hand, took off the white gloves, and said to the president,
"Are you sure you see him for what he really is?"
The old president nodded,
"It's a blue, yes, blue-skinned devil, I'm sure! He has a tail like a triangular arrow, and all sorts of weird runes tattooed on his skin... He's holding that dagger, and if it hadn't been for Deck hitting him at the last minute, I'd guess it would..."
A middle-aged military attache standing beside him nodded, comforting the old president,
"That's nothing, sir, it's our duty to keep you safe. ”
After speaking, the military attache turned his head to look at Coulson, his gaze was clear, "We all saw that guy, that guy seems to have a kind of ability to travel through space, he alone knocked down 17 defending soldiers, it was those mutants who did it!"
Coulson didn't refute, he nodded and muttered for a moment,
"But with all due respect, Mr. President, it's quite possible a despicable misfortune, and to be honest, I don't think the head of the mutants would be so reckless. ”
"But they did! After I lifted the restrictions on mutants, they still savagely wanted more!! shouldn't S.H.I.E.L.D. GIVE ME AN ACCOUNT?"
The old president was very excited, which is natural, for example, you pass by death, and then someone next to you tells you to calm down and think, this is an impossible thing, human beings had this kind of scheme long before civilization began to develop, but he can continue to thousands of years later, it can only say one thing.
It really works, especially when it's aimed at some of the big guys.
Coulson glanced at the Romanov agent beside him, he took a step back, nodded slightly, and did not argue with the president again,
"Okay, leave it to us, Mr. President, and we'll give you a satisfactory answer. ”