Chapter 431: A Flood of Arrivals
"Immediately conduct a self-examination within S.H.I.E.L.D., and report all the abnormal behaviors in the near future.
Nick Fury gave the order as he walked briskly down the hallway.
"Natasha, from now on, you will start to investigate and evaluate the internal personnel, and form a trustworthy team to be responsible for the internal supervision work in the future."
"And what about my current mission? Zhan Liu's side doesn't matter?" Natasha stepped on high heels and followed behind Nick in small steps, holding a pad in her hand, on which she picked the first batch of trustworthy right-hand men, without raising her head, and asked casually.
Nick frowned, the light in his single eye flickered twice, and said decisively: "Since his danger is not so high, let's find a reason to bring back a warning first, let him be honest, and then lower the monitoring level and transfer the manpower back."
"Understood, then I'll arrange for Melinda Mei to deal with it, she is very experienced in dealing with Chinese."
Nick nodded noncommittally and continued to instruct: "Report to the Security Council, for the government, military generals, and leaders of key scientific research projects...... These key figures are going to have to go through a round of investigation to prevent the Skrulls from replacing them."
"Ugh...... I'm afraid it's very difficult, because they are very privacy-conscious, and they may not be willing to cooperate." Agent Hill grimaced, embarrassed.
As the Council's designated liaison to S.H.I.E.L.D., Agent Hill has always been more measured, not challenging Nick's authority as the director, but also acting as a lubricant between S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Council. Therefore, Nick is generally more polite to her and will not give her special problems.
Nick pursed his lips disdainfully, "Those black-hearted guys, I don't know how much dirty things they have in private, and of course they don't want to be known. I don't expect them to cooperate, but this attitude must be shown, otherwise in the future, if something goes wrong with this group, we will inevitably take the blame. You just apply, it doesn't matter if you don't get approved."
"Okay, I see." Agent Hill happily accepted the order, took out his cell phone and began to make calls.
While he was talking, the alarm bell suddenly rang upstairs, and then there were gunshots.
First there was the sound of scattered pistols, then assault rifles, and finally the roar of grenades, shaking the dust from the ceiling and startling everyone in the building.
This is S.H.I.E.L.D.!
Whether it's the security guard at the door, or the little sister at the front desk, the building is full of agents.
Within ten seconds of the alarm bell ringing, everyone dropped the papers in their hands, found the nearest cover, took out their guns from their bodies, and prepared for battle.
At the same time, each person has an internal mobile phone and begins to receive information and confirm the enemy's situation.
Nick stopped in anger and turned to look at Natasha who was holding the pad.
Natasha pulled out the surveillance video in twos and twos, and after glancing at it, Tong Kong shrank back, didn't say anything, stretched out his hand, and put the screen of the pad in front of Nick.
On top of the surveillance video, Natasha, a tightsuit, is like electricity, killing in and out of the corridor, like entering a no-man's land. The rain of bullets and bullets of the special operations team had no effect on her, and it was impossible to stop her from advancing.
[The app that has been running stably for many years is comparable to the old version of the book-chasing artifact, which is used by old bookworms.]
"She was so familiar with the place that she found a paraglider on the 22nd floor, and before I could get there, she cut through the window and glided away." Natasha's voice was also depressed, "But don't worry, boss, I'll catch her!"
Nick hesitated for a few seconds, but finally decided to focus on the big picture.
"You put her matter aside first, and then talk about it after the internal investigation of S.H.I.E.L.D. is completed. There are now two Clints in the room where you were held, you can tell which one is an impostor!"
Although the fierce battle just now made S.H.I.E.L.D. busy for a while, it was not fruitless, and when everyone raised their vigilance, the anomaly was quickly discovered.
In the game, two Clints appeared!
Realizing this, everyone turned their guns on the two Clints, and they were taken prisoner.
The two Clints, like the two Natasha before them, confidently cooperated with their colleagues and were imprisoned in a S.H.I.E.L.D. cell.
Natasha came to the door of the cell with a fire in her belly, swiped her card to enter, and the first thing she saw was not the two Clints being held on the opposite side, one on the left and one on the right, but the bulletproof glass curtain wall of the cell that looked like it had been shattered by directional blasting.
In the cell where Natasha was held in the tights just now, the bulletproof glass had been completely shattered and scattered on the ground, piece by piece, full of stubble.
She crept to the door of the cell, trying not to spoil the traces of the scene, twitching her nose and not smelling gunpowder. Then he reached out and touched the broken stubble of the shattered bulletproof glass, the stubble was very rough, obviously not cut by a weapon such as a laser, but was hard-chiseled by some kind of low-level violent means.
But as one of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s top Level 10 agents, Natasha knew very well what the door to this cell was made of and how strong it was.
Not to mention people, even a brown bear or a giant elephant, after being put in a cell, don't even think about escaping from it.
This thing was first designed, and it was not intended for humans at all, but for those mutants, aliens and other superpowers, which is not only strong and abnormal, but also extremely resistant to extreme high and low temperatures.
In addition, there is a narcotic gas jet inside the cell, and if a prisoner is found to have a tendency to escape, a large amount of narcotic gas will be immediately released under the control of a predetermined procedure, disintegrating the prisoner's ability to resist.
Natasha checked it carefully, there was no problem with the procedure, and the anesthetic gas was indeed released, but the tights Natasha was too fast, and before the anesthetic gas could take effect, she smashed the cell door and escaped.
Ignoring the two Clints in the nearby cell greeting her, she left them to dry there for a while and began to check the surveillance footage in the room. She was more curious about how the Skrull had escaped.
When she saw the video, the tights Natasha cracked the tempered glass with one punch, and successfully broke out of the door with one more kick, she couldn't help but grin.
With this exaggerated force value, it is not a human being at first glance!
Natasha shook her head speechlessly, thankfully she was a step late, otherwise she might have been killed by the alien's punch.
After putting down the surveillance footage, Natasha began to try to interrogate the two Clints.
At the same time, Nick also watched the whole process of how Natasha escaped from the building.
After reading it, his face became even more gloomy.
He had been dealing with the Skrulls for many years, and knew them very well, and ordinary Skrulls were a little stronger than earthlings, but they were very limited, and it was impossible to break the cell door.
Moreover, as the director of S.H.I.E.L.D., Nick has received far more information than Natasha.
In the report submitted by the special operations team at the scene, it was clearly recorded that many bullets hit Natasha's body in the tights, and then they were easily bounced away, and they couldn't even break the defense. Even the armor-piercing bullets specially changed by the special operations team failed to penetrate Natasha's body.
And the flattened bullets found in the on-site inspection also prove
The special operations team was not dazzled, these bullets did hit Natasha's body in the tights, but the opponent's body didn't even shake for a moment, and they were completely ignorant of the bullets that could beat the giant elephant into a sieve.
There is only one possibility for a Skrull who can possess this kind of exaggerated force, and that is a super Skrull!
That's the problem!
Among the Skrull clan, the Super Skrull is also the only one in 100 million, and they are definitely the top core backbone personnel in the race, the top of the high-level, and the candidate who can be qualified to become the future emperor of the Skrull Empire.
Although Nick Fury is a proper big earther, he is not arrogant enough to compare the earth, a planet that has not even been able to go out of the solar system and has only one planet of life, to the three major empires of the universe.
As a candidate for emperor among the three major empires of the universe, he is a proper superhero compared to any cosmic civilization or cosmic empire!
Such a cosmic-level "big man" came to a small place like the border earth, definitely not for vacation, he must have a big plan, and it is difficult to be good.
Sure enough, as the intelligence spread outward and the power of the system became operational, there was soon a new harvest.
On the military side, two Lieutenant Colonels James Rhodes were found and arrested together. It's just that the military refuses to hand over people to S.H.I.E.L.D. and decides to interrogate them themselves, perhaps with the idea of picking some benefits from aliens.
As for the large-scale screening around the world, due to various reasons, the results cannot be obtained for the time being, and the only way to track them down is to rely on S.H.I.E.L.D.'s current satellite network.
Just as Nick was worried about this, Natasha came back to her life.
"What do you mean when you say they're all true?" Nick stared at Natasha in surprise as he stared at the one eye.
"It's literal." Natasha shrugged her shoulders and said helplessly:
"Through DNA blood testing, the DNA of the two people is very consistent."
"And I went out of my way to test their eyesight and shooting skills, and the two of them were on par with each other, which perfectly matched his nickname "Eagle Eye"."
"As you said, the Skrulls can't inherit memories from too far ago."
"I've talked to them separately, and according to the information you provided before, I asked them for some information from a long time ago, and from the content of their feedback, I can't tell their authenticity."
"I asked them about some things from 10 years ago, and they all answered like they didn't look like impostors at all."
Natasha paused and explained with some embarrassment, "Even if the enemy wants to search for information, it is impossible to find out all the words that the two of us flirted on a date many years ago, right?"
"Although, according to you, super Skrulls can do that. But just look at the super Skrull who broke out, and you know that we can't stop a super soldier of this level at all. If there's a Clint who is a super Skrull, there's no need to talk nonsense with us here, just kill him."
"But at the moment, both of them are very cooperative, and there is no resistance to our censorship. I deliberately relaxed the regulations during the test, but I didn't find any intention of any of them to break out."
"Hmm...... What do you say......" Natasha hesitated, pondered her words, and said, "They give me the impression that they don't look so much like Skrull transformations, but like clones, clones that have been completely copied from all of them, including memories and abilities."
"Clones?" Nick was stunned, he had only heard of cloning, but he had never heard of any technology that could completely copy people's memories and abilities.
However, as the director of S.H.I.E.L.D., he also knows very well that this world is very vast, and any kind of black technology may appear.
Maybe some mad scientist came up with this kind of technology, but it's completely uncertain.
But if it's not a super Skrulls, it's just a madman on Earth, then the difficulty of this game is much lower!
"Perhaps, these two waves of people
It's not a gang." Natasha continued, "Maybe the Super Skrull is alone, but the Clint clone is something else."
Nick clasped his hands on his chest, frowned and thought for a while, shook his head, and said, "It's too far-fetched to say that, they all broke out on the same day. Moreover, these two are not the only ones, the outside world has already caught a lot of guys of the same type."
"How's the Skrull cloning technology? Is it possible to do this?" Natasha asked suddenly.
"I've asked Taros, the Skrulls don't have this technology." Nick immediately shook his head and dismissed the idea.
But Natasha doesn't think so, "How many years has it been since those Skrulls left the Skrull Empire? Whether new technologies have emerged over the years, presumably he may not be clear, right? Moreover, looking at their downcast appearance in a foreign land, they must not be from a big family, and they may not know the advanced technology in the Skrull Empire!"
"It's like ordinary people who don't know what black technology we have inside S.H.I.E.L.D."
"That's the three great empires of the universe, after so many years, it's normal for technology to take a leap, right?"
"I can't think of anyone other than the Skrull Empire, which can replicate other people's memories, to develop this forbidden technology of replicating people."
Natasha's words were like a slap in the face, "saving" Nick from the trap of preconceived thoughts, and suddenly thought that this was a possibility.
Just as he was pondering what to do with this, Agent Hill knocked on the door and entered, reporting:
"Director Fury, Agent May, who went to capture Zhanliu, was killed by that alien Zhanliu, and now Zhanliu is on his way back to S.H.I.E.L.D."