In the evening, the SUV of Hydra's only special operations team drove through the streets of Gotham under Ward's driver, heading towards the suburban tarmac. The original seven-seater car now only carries five people, and the interior space is much more spacious.

However, in stark contrast to the spaciousness, the atmosphere inside the car is quite oppressive. One of the reasons was the team's setbacks in the Gotham Theater, and the other was Coulson. The leader of the squad was sitting in the passenger seat, his eyes unblinking, his face terrifyingly pale.

"Tell us about it, Coulson. Where did you send May? And what happened when Rhaegar and Bus couldn't get in touch? ”

The only one who dared to ask so directly was Skye. Seeing that Coulson still didn't mean to speak, she raised her voice and tried to find supporters.

"I don't have to look at your face to be sure that something bad is happening, otherwise you wouldn't have let us in the car at the Grand Theater just now, and we should have stayed there over there. So, let's talk about it, if both Rhaega and May are in danger, we have the right to know, and we can only help them better if we know earlier! ”

Skye's words really made Fitz and Simmons even more worried. The science baby's face, which was already a little frightened, became even more anxious at this time. They stared at Coulson from behind, hesitating whether to speak, how to speak, and in what tone. In the driver's seat, Ward also frowned, and unconsciously stepped on the accelerator a few times less, so that the car slowed down.

"Sir, what the hell is going on?" The highest-ranking agent on the scene besides Coulson, and the calmest and least talkative agent in the team except for Mei, couldn't help but ask, "You said before that Mei had another mission, and you said that she would be fine." And just now we had to suffer the defeat with one less person, and now we can't even contact Bus. Why?! ”

This time, Coulson was no longer silent.

"May's departure has nothing to do with the defeat at the Grand Theatre just now. Even if she was there, we wouldn't necessarily be able to keep that monster. Also, Agent Ward, you should keep the speed of the vehicle, we need to get back to the bus as soon as possible to find out the situation as soon as possible! ”

The squad commander seemed to lose his cool all of a sudden, and the above sentence was almost shouted. Normally, his men would have been silent at this time. However, no, there is another person in the team who is more 'qualified' to lose his temper than him, whether it is gender, personality, or status.

"Really? No! The way we can know the situation earlier is if you tell us what you're hiding! ”

Well, Skye isn't throwing a tantrum either. She just said what her teammates didn't dare to say, just a little louder. And at her louder voice, Coulson finally regained his composure. He sighed before he spoke.

"I didn't tell you directly, because I was afraid that you would be worried, and at the same time, I was afraid that you would be sad. But you're right, I should have told you earlier—May did have another assignment, and it was from me. I asked her to spy on Regamalik. ”

Hearing Coulson call out the surname 'Malik', even Fitz and Simmons, who were the most sluggish in the atmosphere, realized the seriousness of the situation. Due to Rhaeggar's own insistence, the team members have always only called Rhaegar by his name, except for the occasional miscall in the first few days, and Coulson has done the same. But now......

"Let May spy on Rhaeggar, why? What do you think he, what private plans does he have? ”

Skye still didn't utter the word 'betrayal'. Neither emotionally nor intellectually, she could not accept it - and the former was more of a part. But if she doesn't say it, someone else will.

"It's too late to say that." Ward said in a deep voice, stepping on the gas pedal, "May is spying on him, and he is out of touch with Bus and May, there is only one possibility - he betrayed us." ”

"No, it can't be!" That's what Fitz said, and Simmons kept shaking his head next to him. "Rhaegar has been a member of Hydra for more than a decade, why betray. And it's impossible to say that we will choose this time, we haven't achieved anything, it can't be for Bus. I mean, the Bus is a very advanced and very powerful plane, yes, but ...... Is it worth exposing the identity of more than a decade? Also, if he wanted Bus, he would have had countless opportunities when we went on a mission and he stayed on Bus! ”

Fitz and Simmons' analysis is spot-on. Skye gave them a thumbs up, and then prepared to give a comment about Rhaeggar's possibility. But Coulson reached out to stop her.

"Emotionally, like you, I can't trust him to do something bad for us. I was also thinking about possibilities along the way, and I couldn't figure out what he would do at this point in time. You're right, there may be some surprises. That's why I didn't contact the headquarters immediately after I lost contact with Bus, but chose us to rush back to the internal process. But I want you all to understand that Rhaegar has enough suspicions now, and Bus is missing, and the point is that there is Mei in there, so no matter how much you like Rhaeggar, I hope you can calm down and be objective. ”

At the end of the conversation, Coulson spoke almost to Skye alone. Of the few remaining members of the team, Skye was the one who had the deepest relationship with Rhaegar and Coulson believed to be the most likely to make some reckless decisions.

And now that the matter has been said, Coulson doesn't mind changing the almost unplanned plan of going directly to the tarmac to investigate the situation. He ordered Ward to continue to control the car's acceleration, instructed Skye to find the answer through all the cameras in the vicinity and even Hydra's dedicated satellite, and asked Fitz and Simmons to assist Skye. Soon Skye gave the news: the bus was still in the same helipad.

"Look, I'll just say that Rhaegar didn't betray us!" Fitz said happily.

In this regard, Coulson shook his head: "The Bus is still there, it doesn't mean that Rhaegar has not carried out other activities, and it is not yet known why we can't connect to the cameras or other devices in the Bus, and May is still in a state of disconnection." ”

Well, we'll find out soon.

When they arrived at the tarmac and looked at the open Bus loading ramp from afar, the uneasiness of the team members rose to the top. Then before the SUV stopped on the loading ramp, Skye and Coulson quickly got out of the car, and saw that the loading ramp was further inside, across the aisle of the laboratory, and Mei was lying on the operating table inside, not knowing whether she was alive or dead.

The answer seems obvious.

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