Chapter 35: Meetings in the Base
"Are you sure?" Fury frowned and looked at Maria very seriously.
Although I hope that this is the answer, this matter is obviously not a casual decision, especially since this is still a small-scale meeting, and it is better to ask some things clearly.
"Sure? No, I'm not at all sure, it's just the most likely scenario I can think of. Maria looked at Fury's serious expression and said seriously.
Of course she couldn't be sure, aliens, this thing, in itself, is a kind of thing full of accidents, who knows if they have a dormant period like some seasonal creatures, or if the ship itself is an alien? It's all possible, at least until they get their hands on the ship, and everything they do in the office is just speculation.
Fury's face was very bad, obviously he couldn't agree with this answer, this is not an intelligence analysis room, there is no need for possibility, what is needed here is an opinion that can help him make a decision.
Now there are hundreds of bases up and down S.H.I.E.L.D., all waiting for his orders, and if you are not careful, it may lead to the death of countless people, and it is even possible that the existing civilization of mankind will be destroyed.
No one knows what kind of changes that spaceship will bring to the earth, if it is really an unmanned spaceship as Maria said, and there is no subjective ideological commander on it, then that spaceship is likely to make human science and technology progress a lot.
But if there are real aliens on that spaceship, the situation becomes much more complicated, are the aliens good or bad? What they think of human beings, etc., etc., these are all things that Fury needs to consider.
As the director of S.H.I.E.L.D., he may be under far more pressure than a head of state in some special circumstances, because the decisions he makes are likely to affect the direction of the entire human world.
The World Security Council is not just a regulatory department, the five major members, in the face of a situation like an alien invasion, will definitely seriously consider the course of action of the World Security Council, and the executive arm of the Council is S.H.I.E.L.D.
Just as Fury was about to say something, his communicator suddenly rang.
Fury gestured to the person in the conference room, walked out of the conference room, connected the communicator, and said, "Agent Romanoff? ”
"Director, I'm Natasha, and there are some things I think I need your further instructions." Natasha on the other end of the communicator was in the toilet of the apartment where Debbie was at the moment, holding the communicator very carefully.
"What's the matter?" Fury himself is not in a very good mood today, there are a lot of messy things, the Cosmic Cube hasn't been done yet, Captain America hasn't dealt with it, and the damn spaceship, and now Natasha is coming to fill in the matter for him again, which can still make Natasha feel good.
Hearing Fury's voice a little cold, Natasha also froze, although she and Fury have a superior-subordinate relationship, they usually speak, and they are not so concise.
Natasha also guessed, it is estimated that Fury's mood is not very good now, and she said with some hesitation, "Director, I found that recently, there are always people following the target when he goes to school." ”
"Decide for yourself, as long as it doesn't threaten the safety of the target, you can decide for yourself about other things, except for surveillance, remember to protect the target!!" Fury didn't expect that Natasha would notify him of such a matter, and after thinking about it, he still let Natasha have a certain degree of autonomy, so he said this to Natasha.
After "popping", Fury didn't wait for Natasha to pick up, so he directly disconnected the communication and walked back to the previous conference room.
Back in the conference room, Fury sat down in his place, looked at the crowd and said, "Alright, let's move on......"
"Ahem." Coulson, I can't get used to Fury anymore, what is this Nima doing? Just for us to continue? However, Coulson didn't dare to talk nonsense with his big boss, just coughed twice, and straightened his attitude.
"Ciel, I hope you can make a more accurate plan!!" Fury didn't care about Coulson's appearance either, and said to Maria seriously.
"Okay." Maria nodded, just a plan, it's still no problem, although some things can't be accurately defined before the ship is determined, but some contingency plans can still be made.
Fury then explained some trivial matters and announced that the meeting was adjourned.
"I said, have you noticed that the director's temper has been getting bigger and bigger recently." After the three of Coulson walked out of the conference room, Coulson whispered to the other two.
"This problem, I think it's not just you who are aware of it, it seems that the director has not been very good lately." Norton looked around, and after making sure that there was no one else around, he said cautiously.
To be honest, according to Norton's habit in the past, it is impossible for him to say such a thing, as a guy who is motivated to get a promotion and a raise, it is obviously a conscious grave to talk about the boss behind his back.
However, Norton is indeed a little depressed these days, as the director of the super-outer space monitoring base, the last month, may be the busiest time in his life, basically he can only go home at eleven o'clock every night, and sometimes he is so tired that he doesn't even want to take a shower, so he sleeps.
His wife has complained countless times, and even his wife even suspects that he is raising a mistress outside, what a strange thing.
However, as a member of S.H.I.E.L.D., Norton is still very clear about the secrecy rules or something, even if his wife complains, it is impossible to say what he is doing now, after all, if he does, it is estimated that it is not only him, it is estimated that even his wife will have to go to the small black house.
"Do you think I'm not going to report it to the director?" Maria suddenly stopped, tilted her head, and looked at the two of them with some curiosity.
At this moment, Coulson and Norton only felt that a cold air quickly rushed from the tail vertebrae to the top of their brains, and Coulson looked at Maria with a very innocent expression.
And Norton, who was beside Coulson, fell directly in front of Maria, and said bitterly, "Don't do this!! I still have family!! ”
Coulson watched Norton's performance and was shocked, is this really a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent? Have fun, right?
"I say, Director Norton, where's your discipline?" Maria covered her forehead and said helplessly, to be honest, she really didn't expect Norton to behave like this.
In fact, she just wanted to make a joke, and in the recent paragraph, the three of them got along quite well, so Maria felt that everyone might be friends, so she made such a joke.
How do you know that Uncle Norton is so serious, it's okay to kneel directly, what kind of trouble is this?
"In this era when you don't wear shoes, you're afraid of breaking your feet, that thing, hehe!!!" Well, in fact, this is also a joke, in fact, he also knows that such a half-joking ridicule, even if Fury knows about it, he will pull it down at most.
Although Norton is the oldest of the three, it is obvious that he gets along very well with the young people, and the three of them giggled along the way, and soon arrived outside the base.
"Alright, I have to complete the task given to me by the director, what about the two of you?" At the gate of the base, Maria looked at her two new friends and said with a sigh.
"We?" Coulson and Norton looked at each other, also a little confused.
Fury had arranged for them to stay at the base and observe the spaceship, but after getting along for the past few days, the two of them knew each other, and they didn't understand these aliens or spaceships at all.
In this base, their existence is at best, listening to the reports of those scientific researchers, and then reporting step by step.
As for what they can do, hehe, it really doesn't matter much.
After seeing Maria off, Coulson and Norton had a meal together and returned to the base.
There are a total of 38 floors above and below ground in this base, eight floors are on the surface, the other 30 floors are all underground, and the location of the command room is also underground, the lowest floor.
The two came to the command room of this base, the empty and huge command room, there are many giant screens, which display various data, and on one of the screens in the center, is the picture of the spaceship, a group of scientific researchers who are busy in front of various screens, and they don't notice the arrival of these two goods at all.
Coulson and the others were also happy to be idle, and found a random place to sit down, and in this place where they were unexpectedly busy, they could chat with peace of mind.
Occasionally, one or two people saw them and didn't pay much attention to them, and simply ignored them.
"Sir, the ship has moved!!!" Suddenly, just as Coulson and Norton were chatting, a somewhat shrill voice rang out.
But before they could answer, they saw a middle-aged white man in a white coat with a rigid face walking in the direction of the voice.
"Fourth, the ninth long-range telescope is aimed at the target, the energy measurement is ready, and the data set is ready to be recorded!!" A series of orders came out of the middle-aged man's mouth, and all the scientific researchers acted according to his orders.
"You're a nice guy!!" Coulson looked at the middle-aged man and said with some appreciation, a large part of this base has not received professional training from S.H.I.E.L.D. at all, so Coulson has always felt that these people are the kind of players who are relatively unreliable.
Especially after encountering some special events, the way ordinary people react is completely different from that of trained people.
"Actually, he was transferred from NASA. But for the time being, he's really my subordinate. Norton shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly, in fact, he mainly didn't like to do things in this base, so he didn't know a lot of things, although he was the administrative director of this base, but even without him, he knew that this base would still run as usual.
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