"I hope this is a secret interrogation, Nick, you know these cunning terrorists always think they have the capital to negotiate, then I'll talk to them." Pierce walked briskly through the corridors of the underground detention cell and turned to Nick behind him.

Nick nodded, and instead of following Pierce at the next intersection, he walked alone in the other direction.

Soon Pierce came to the front of an interrogation room, nodded to the agents guarding the door, and when he pushed the door open, he saw two interrogators recording something with serious faces.

Pierce stood behind them and looked at them, finding no valuable information, and then looked up behind the railing, where Schiller sat with his usual expression, not at all looking like a man who had been interrogated for seven days.

The interrogation methods adopted by S.H.I.E.L.D. are no different from modern interrogations, mainly relying on fatigue torture, which has an extremely significant effect on 99 percent of murderous criminals, because as long as it is human, it will be tired.

There are always people who think that ancient torture is more sophisticated than modern interrogation, as long as the physical pain is in place, there is nothing that cannot be asked, but in fact, human beings are very fragile, the upper limit of torture is too low, basically as long as the other party does not let go of his mouth once, there is no way, but modern interrogation methods can ask almost any secret.

Some people may have a high physical resistance, but there will always be a time when the spirit relaxes after the fatigue is superimposed, and at that time, the secrets that pain and intimidation cannot let them tell will be naturally hidden in the cracks of their words and revealed, and there will be professional people who will analyze and summarize the information in every sentence they have said.

And it doesn't hurt your health, you can start all over again after a period of recuperation, and the longer you are imprisoned, the more information fragments you get, and one day you will be able to put together a complete puzzle, and being caught in this situation basically means being exposed.

But now Schiller is not a matter of being violent or not exposed, everyone knows that he is a hydra, and they want to get more information about the hydra from him, but from the current point of view, Schiller is the most difficult kind of person to be tried.

He was constantly trying to pull the topic back to regain the initiative, which exacerbated his energy exertion, but also made the interrogators fatigue faster, and they had to speed up the shift change.

But the more frequent the shifts, the less continuous the interrogation, and the next interrogator had to start from scratch, and after repeating it many times, the information density was similar to that of a crisis PR apology video.

Pierce stood in the interrogation room and watched for a while, and knew that Schiller was an extremely sophisticated opponent, and that most of the agents in S.H.I.E.L.D. couldn't do anything about him, and if anyone could get the information out of his mouth, Pierce believed it would be Nick Fury, but before that he could take care of it.

Soon Nick walks in and leads a team of agents to squeeze Schiller out of the interrogation room and take him to the secret interrogation room.

There are no surveillance cameras in this room, and there is nothing other than the interrogator and the interrogator, so it can often be used as a place to make deals with some tainted witnesses.

Schiller stood behind the railing of this small room, not handcuffed or chaired, but in fact there was not much space left for him behind the railing, he could only stand in place or take half a step forward, and there was not enough space for him to raise his arms.

Pierce's side was much more spacious, and he could even pace around the room, which was equivalent to Schiller being in a cage while Pierce watched him.

When the gate was completely locked and the soundproofing device was activated, and Pierce was about to strike first, he heard Schiller say: "Long live Hydra, Your Excellency Pierce, there is no doubt that this is the trap that Baron Straker has set for you, and the clues that Nick Furry has found are deliberately left by the Baron in order to make him suspect you." ”

Pierce was momentarily startled and suspicious, he stood behind the railing and stared straight at Schiller's face, trying to find a trace of lying on his face, but Schiller was as calm as ever, and he couldn't see the slightest emotion.

"The baron said that you betrayed him and betrayed the trust of him and his men, I don't know what the story is between you, I just made a deal with him."

Pierce had a bad feeling in his heart, and he stared at Schiller and asked, "What deal?" ”

"I testify against you as a tainted witness and let Nick Fury take you down before you go to work at the United Nations."

Pierce's face sank to the bottom.

Schiller spread his hands lightly and said in a relaxed tone: "Look at the current situation, either I will complete the deal with him and let you go to jail, or you will make a deal with me and let him go to jail." ”

"Either I'll let you die here." Pierce said in a cold tone, "Then no one will go to jail." ”

"You know it's not going to work, Nick is staring at you." Schiller gripped the railing with both hands, put his face close to the railing, and then gave a slightly childish smile and said, "Either I'll give myself a knife now, and then you can bet on the possibility that Nick sees this scene and thinks you're going to kill someone." ”

"You ......"

"Pierce, you're just a waste who has taken advantage of the times, a complete cowardly Yankee, in order to keep your glory and wealth, you don't care about anything, this is the price you should pay!"

Pierce's eyes widened, he looked at Schiller and said, "Schiller...... Schiller...... Are you a German? You, you're Red Skull's henchman?! ”

Schiller tilted his head slightly, noncommittal, while Pierce gritted his teeth and scolded: "Damn the German guys!" ”

He took a deep breath, looked at Schiller with gloomy eyes, and said, "You know that we don't talk about doctrine here, so let's make an offer." ”

Schiller let go of his hand, lowered his eyes and smiled, he tilted his head and said: "You two are like buyers bidding in the auction house, whoever bids the highest price, I will stand on his side, I can say that all these actions are instructed by the baron, or you can say that you will definitely lose your freedom and even life, so what price are you going to put for your freedom and life?" ”

"Don't think too highly of yourself, they won't kill me."

"But I can." Schiller's eyes became cold, he looked at Pierce and said: "You know that losing your freedom is equivalent to losing your life, once you are no longer the head of S.H.I.E.L.D., killing you becomes easy, you owe a lot of debts to many people, and I am willing to recover it for them, and by the way, I will collect my own interest." ”

Pierce's lips pursed white, he knew that the key point was Nick, if it was in the early years, S.H.I.E.L.D. was full of his people, he had countless ways to make a person on trial die quietly.

But as soon as he was ready to be promoted, he loosened his grip on S.H.I.E.L.D., Nick had now assembled his own team, and Pierce knew the weight of legendary agents.

Pierce is betting that as long as he can be promoted in a perfect image, the alliance between him and Nick will become unbreakable, because Nick has the same strong confidence in himself, and he is sure that he doesn't see Pierce's flaws, then he is credible, which is a favorable backing for Pierce to continue to climb up.

But in the same way, once he makes a mistake, Nick will not hesitate to shatter the trust he has in the past, and instead grab him faster than anyone else, and let him suffer prison.

Before this incident, the whole plan had come to an end, and in order to show his friendship and trust, Pierce further delegated power to Nick in exchange for further help in the future, but it was the last step to go out of the pool.

Pierce couldn't take any more chances, and once Schiller's testimony left a shadow of doubt in Nick's mind, he wouldn't have a peaceful life.

BUT IS IT NECESSARY TO ALLOW THIS CUNNING NAZI TO OPEN HIS MOUTH TO HIS LION? Pierce was not reconciled.

After this secret conversation, Pierce has been thinking about how to solve the current dilemma.

If it drags on, Schiller will identify him sooner or later, even if there is no evidence, if Nick follows this line of thought, he may not find out something, but if he finds a way to kill Schiller, Nick will be suspicious.

Suddenly, Pierce thought of a solution, he still had one card that didn't work, and that was Tony Stark.

It is very difficult for Pierce to send people to Eastern Europe to exterminate Hydra now, on the one hand, S.H.I.E.L.D. are all agents and are not good at large-scale operations, and on the other hand, Nick's people go first, and it is not easy to make small moves if he is targeted.

But as long as Stark is driven to Eastern Europe to kill the baron, not only can Nick not stop Stark's revenge, but Schiller also loses the other side of the deal, then he can only trade with himself, so as to prevent him from swaying from side to side, so as to make a high price.

But it was not so easy to let Stark go to Eastern Europe, and Pierce felt that the current hatred was not enough to make Stark dangerous again, and that he would have to add another layer of bargaining chips to let him kill the Eastern European Hydra in the past.

In a high-end apartment in Manhattan, Eric hung up with a grim face, having just learned from a mercenary broker that someone was investigating his past history.

"Obadia......" Eric whispered a name, he could only think of this possibility, he had been suspicious when he had gone to Obadiah to take over the position of head of security.

Eric knows very well that he can fool Stark because the other party is a scientist and has not been deeply involved in the world, but Obadiah is the kind of old fox who knows that he has been in the mall for many years just by looking at his face, this kind of person can't fool at all, and is definitely his biggest threat.

Obadiah investigates him, and once he tells Tony Stark the results of the investigation, all the trust and favor he has gained from him will be in vain.

It must not be so, Eric thought that Stark Group was his best springboard, and he could not let this opportunity slip through his hands.

For now, he must find a way to bring down Obadiah, and only by stabbing him out of his plot to kidnap Tony Stark will no one believe everything he says.

Time was of the essence, and Eric didn't do much to prepare, grabbing his thermal dagger and a pulley bow, and driving to Obadia's path out of Stark Mansion.

If you want to ask him why he went to Obadiah instead of going directly to the TV station, the main thing is that he has no substantive evidence, anyway, Obadiah has already investigated him, he might as well tear his face to deceive him, and do it directly when necessary, pretending to be an accident.

The car stopped at the exit of the Stark Building's underground parking lot, and Eric rolled down the window and waited for a while, then saw a familiar car pull out of the underground parking lot, and it was Obadiah sitting in the car.

Eric immediately closed the window, twisted the steering wheel, stepped on the accelerator and followed Obadia's car, and it wasn't long before Obadija's car drove into a wealthy residential area.

Eric parked the car outside and sneaked into the residential area alone, the security guards in the wealthy area couldn't stop him at all, and when he chased to the door of the house, the driver was reversing the car into the garage.

Eric saw Obadiah in his upstairs bedroom, clenched the miniature thermal dagger in his hand, climbed over the courtyard wall, and quietly entered the house.

(End of chapter)