Chapter 56: The Strange Warehouse
"Where are we going? What kind of super criminals are you s.h.i.e.l.d. unable to deal with this time, mutants or superpowers? In the S.H.I.E.L.D. car, Bucky asked Coulson on the side.
"It's a strange incident, and until now, we don't know exactly what caused all this."
Coulson's answer made Bucky even more confused, and asked Coulson suspiciously, "Something?" Not human? Could it be aliens or creatures like Godzilla? ”
Glancing at Bucky, Coulson didn't answer, but nodded silently.
"Hell, I knew that S.H.I.E.L.D.'s mission was definitely not going to be done." Bucky patted his thigh and grumbled.
The unknown is the real unsettling, if it is a super criminal like a mutant or a superpower, Bucky is still somewhat sure of subduing them, but looking at Coulson's performance, Bucky understands that what he has to face this time is probably even more weird.
"Last night, the storekeeper of a New York farmer's trading company called the police and said he heard strange noises coming from the warehouse. Later, when the police station sent police to the warehouse, they did not find the storekeeper who called the police, and most of the wheat originally stored in the warehouse had disappeared. ”
Coulson briefly told Bucky about the specific circumstances of the case, which gave Bucky a bit of a headache, he was not good at analyzing the case, and he was not able to analyze any useful information from Coulson's introduction.
"Could it be that the Administrator is stealing from him?" Bucky asked, tentatively.
"If that's the case, where is the need for us to do it from S.H.I.E.L.D.? Please, we're special agents for special events, not the cops who patrol the roads every day to catch thieves! Hawkeye, who was sitting in the front seat of the car, suddenly interjected, his tone full of disdain for Bucky's analysis.
Bucky stopped talking, he wasn't a person who liked to make random comments in areas he wasn't good at, and although Hawkeye's tone wasn't very friendly, Bucky understood that what Hawkeye said did make sense.
It didn't take long for the group to reach their destination. At this time, several cars with S.H.I.E.L.D. logos were parked outside the warehouse, and several heavily armed agents were directing traffic nearby, and no one was allowed to approach the warehouse.
After getting out of the car, a middle-aged woman wearing a white coat and thick glasses immediately stepped forward, nodded to Coulson, and said: "The colleagues inside are doing further inspections, and there is not much information that can be determined now, but one thing is certain, someone died here not long ago, and it is very likely that it is the warehouse manager who called the police." ”
Hearing the news that the storekeeper had been killed, Coulson couldn't help frowning, unable to get first-hand information from the storekeeper, which undoubtedly increased the difficulty of finding out the truth.
"Thank you, Agent Clark." Coulson then introduced Bucky and Hawkeye, "This is Agent Veranica Clarke, who has achieved a very high level of achievement in many fields of scientific research, and this time he is assisting us in investigating this case. ”
Bucky and Hawkeye greeted Villanika Clark warmly, but it was clear that the Clark agent didn't like to communicate with people, and only nodded coldly, in response to Bucky and Hawkeye.
In this regard, Bucky doesn't care, people who engage in scientific research will always have some quirks of one kind or another, and this kind of indifference to rejecting people thousands of miles away is just a common problem of many scientific researchers.
Following Agent Clark into the warehouse, there was immediately a foul smell that made Bucky and Coulson frown, and the hawkeye on the side was even more unbearable, and they retched while holding on to the door frame of the warehouse.
Ignoring the retching Hawkeye, Bucky focused on the situation inside the warehouse. It can be seen that this is just a temporary storage warehouse for wheat, and the original wheat in the warehouse should be packed, but now, broken woven bags can be seen everywhere, and the wheat inside is also scattered in every corner of the warehouse. On the surface, it really doesn't look like a human thing.
"What's the deal with this stench, God, it's terrible!" Hawkeye, who was finally a little accustomed to the stench in the warehouse, pinched his nose and asked Agent Clark with a bitter expression.
Agent Clark pointed to the location of the four or five researchers in white coats next to him and said, "There's a lump of feces left by an unknown creature, and that's the stench it emits. ”
Following the direction of Agent Clark's finger, Bucky looked from a distance and saw that there was indeed a lump of dung, but the size of the dung was a little too large, and Bucky suspected that the elephant might not be able to pull such a big lump. And several researchers around the feces have already put on gas masks, and it seems that the smell there should be even more terrifying than their own.
According to the volume of the dung, I am afraid that the monster that produced the dung is definitely not small, but the contradiction is also here, the walls around the warehouse have not been damaged in the slightest, could it be that this monster swaggered in from the door of the warehouse.
"The storekeeper, how did you know for sure he was killed?" Bucky asked Agent Clark on the side. The easiest way to solve the doubts in your mind is to find the storekeeper who called the police.
Agent Clark pointed to a small tent on the other side and said, "After ultraviolet testing, it was found that the place was stained with a large area of blood, and although it was cleaned up, it still couldn't escape our inspection. The test report of the blood stains over there just came out, it was human blood, and the time was no more than 12 hours, and the estimated amount of bleeding reached almost 60% of the blood of an adult man's body. It can be inferred from this that the bloodstain should belong to the storekeeper who called the police, and he himself should have been killed. ”
With a sigh, Bucky began to look around the warehouse, trying to find useful information, but after turning around, he found nothing, so he could only return to the warehouse door and meet up with Coulson and Hawkeye, hoping that the scientists would bring good news.
"We found a few animal hairs in the warehouse, which looked like rats, and we found nothing other than to prove that the warehouse didn't do enough to prevent rats." Agent Clark told the three Bucky about the latest discovery, but it didn't seem to help.
"It's normal for there to be rats where there's food, and I just found a rat hole." Hawkeye said disapprehantly.
Suddenly, a voice came: "Agent Clark, we've made a new discovery!" ”