Chapter 521 She Deceived All of Us
United States, New York, Avengers Building——
A Quinjet with the identity of SHIELD slowly landed on the tarmac of the building. The door opened and Nick Fury, the director of SHIELD wearing a black fur coat, walked out of the cabin with a serious look on his face. .
Following closely behind him are Captain America, Hawkeye, Black Widow and other Avengers who often travel to S.H.I.E.L.D.
"Oh, the big boss has come to investigate in person. I'm afraid we're in trouble."
Since the floor of the Fulian Hall is made of transparent glass bricks, everyone can clearly see who is visiting unexpectedly this time.
When she saw that the leader was none other than Nick Fury, the director of SHIELD, Skye couldn't help but frown.
"It's only a matter of time anyway. Wouldn't it be better for him to come in person?"
Tony held the whiskey in his hand and looked down at the one-eyed Director Nick Fury at his feet.
"Is it my imagination? Why does he always look like someone owes him hundreds of millions every time I see him? Is he short of money?"
He looked away from Nick Fury with some disgust. When he saw Nick Fury, Tony felt that the wine in his hand had changed.
"Maybe. It feels like the expenditure in the bureau has been a bit tight recently. The demand for alchemy potions that I used to get from Leni every month has become less this month. It feels like..."
"Reducing costs and increasing efficiency?"
Simmons jumped in to pick up what Fitz had left unfinished, with the same thoughtful expression on his face.
"There seems to be some big move in the Bureau during this period. Although Coulson won't let us discuss it beyond our authority, it is inevitable that we will still hear some rumors."
Skye rubbed her chin, she had some clues, but after seeing Leni remain silent, she simply kept silent.
After all, she was still receiving two salaries. Although SHIELD no longer required her to participate in any secret operations, she still had to abide by some rules.
"Big move, I hope the big move you are talking about is not what I thought."
Dr. Banner took off the glasses on the bridge of his nose and said with a little fear.
"If you are worried about what kind of super weapon he wants to develop, then I can only congratulate you for guessing it right."
Tony waved his hand and summoned a development authorization report on the anti-gravity engine.
"This is a brand new anti-gravity engine that I developed based on the needs provided by Braised Dantou. If my guess is correct, such a large output power will only be used on a kind of big guy..."
Following Tony's train of thought, Fizetti raised his eyebrows.
"Helicarrier."
"Bingo!"
Tony snapped his fingers, put down the wine glass, waved his hand to dismiss the holographic projection, and finally looked in the direction of the elevator door.
"Relying on this technology, I made a lot of money from this one-eyed director AKA Mr. Stingy..."
Everyone rolled their eyes when they heard this, thinking that the person who made Nick Fury look like someone owed him money was the real person.
bite!
The elevator door opened, and at the center of everyone's conversation, Nick Fury, Steve and others filed in.
"What's the matter? My big customer, do you need me for after-sales service?"
"Hmph! I hope we don't need your genius scientist for after-sales service one day."
With a cold snort, Nick Fury ignored Tony's teasing, looked around the environment in the building, and narrowed his eyes to look at everyone one by one.
"Can anyone introduce to me that these people are the Avengers that I founded?"
Nick Fury had sarcasm written all over his face.
"I'm sorry. Forgive me for my blindness. I only saw a plate of loose sand."
Upon hearing this, Steve next to Nick Fury looked a little embarrassed. He knew very well the purpose of Nick Fury's sudden request to come over for a visit, but in this situation...
However, everyone present, except for Captain America who gave some reactions to Nick Fury's words that Nick Fury wanted to see, the others didn't think much of him at all.
Tony was there, sipping whiskey and watching Nick Fury's jokes;
Fitz, Simmons and Maya were busy in the experimental area, as if they didn't see Braised Eggman coming in at all. The three of them had completely formed their own little world;
Skye ran to the fitness area, asked Jarvis to turn on the soundproofing and play music, and started doing aerobic exercise inside.
Dr. Banner simply took Sif, who was visiting Earth as a guest, aside to chat and laugh.
No one in the audience paid any attention to Nick Fury's heartbreaking words.
As for Leni?
She has been sitting on the balcony on the third floor to bask in the sun since this morning. Except for lunch time and going to the toilet, she has not left the recliner at all!
I hope she can give Nick Fury some good looks, even if she is not living in a dream.
Seeing that no one was paying attention to him, Nick Fury's already dark face became even more ugly.
But he couldn't just leave the matches here without ends, so he looked directly at Tony and started talking about business.
"Where is Thor?"
"Um...he and his girlfriend went on their honeymoon. They should be in...Jarvis now?"
Tony gave Nick Fury a step in a funny way, but it didn't embarrass him too much.
"Mr. Saul is currently in France touring the beauty of the Seine with Miss Foster, Sir."
"Yeah, that's it."
Nodding to Nick Fury, Tony stood up and walked to the bar to get two more glasses, filling them up, and then walked to Natasha with one of the glasses.
"Long time no see, Agent Romanoff. If you can't work at SHIELD one day, you are always welcome to return to Stark Technology."
Natasha smiled and took the whiskey.
"Oh? Really? Then what happened before..."
"Write it off."
Tony was obviously NTRing Nick Fury in person, but Natasha was happy to cooperate.
"Then I have to think about it carefully."
"You are always welcome. Pepper is in urgent need of a reliable assistant. You know, Happy is only suitable to follow me."
Natasha showed a look of understanding when she heard this, and raised her glass to clink with Tony.
While taking a sip of the wine in the glass, Natasha glanced at Nick Fury's reaction from the corner of her eye.
Seeing that he was still looking like he was going to ask for an explanation, he simply walked over to Dr. Banner and Sif with a glass of wine in his hand and listened to their conversation openly.
"If you figure it out, remember to email Jarvis at any time..."
Getting the expected result, Tony raised his eyebrows slightly and turned to look at Clint who was also looking at him.
"Hey, don't expect me to bring you a glass of wine in person. If you want to drink, go get it yourself. The matter between the two of us is not over yet. I still remember the arrow that shot me before."
Clint smiled and shook his head.
"Heh, I don't remember such a thing."
"So you want to deny your debt?"
"How is that possible? If you insist, you bumped into it yourself..."
The two of them walked to the bar, talking to each other, completely ignoring the existence of Nick Fury and Steve, and began to bargain aimlessly.
Seeing that all these people deliberately ignored him, Nick Fury could only vent all his anger on Steve beside him, staring at the latter with one eye.
Being stared at by the other side's one eye was really uncomfortable, so Captain America had to sigh and lead Nick Fury to the balcony upstairs.
The attitude of the others was already very clear. Nick Fury, if you have the ability, go and talk to Lainie in person, don't use us as a mouthpiece.
Obviously Nick Fury himself also saw this, otherwise he would not have come here in person.
The two walked up the stairs one after the other, and then walked to Lainie and stood still.
"Laini, Director Fury wants to discuss with you what happened in London..."
Noticing that Lainie's eyes under the sunglasses were still closed, as if she was asleep, Steve had to cough lightly to try to wake her up.
But Lainie didn't move at all. No matter what Steve said, she just didn't move.
If it weren't for her chest still rising and falling regularly, others would have thought that Lainie was dead.
He tried to push Lainie twice, but she still didn't move. Steve didn't want to do anything too much, so he turned around and showed Nick Fury an expression that he had tried his best.
The meaning was obvious: "It's not that I, Steve, don't want to help you, Steve, but Lainie is in a special period now, and it's not good for you to offend her..."
Nick Fury's face became even uglier when he saw this. The anger suppressed in his chest finally became unbearable, and he actually went directly to Lainie and shouted in a deep voice!
"Laini! Get up if you're not dead! I need an explanation!!!"
This shout really scared all the Avengers. They all looked over. Seeing that Nick Fury was really angry, they quickly shut their mouths and watched the fun.
As if awakened by Nick Fury's shout, Lainie, who was lying on her back on the recliner, shuddered, and then sat up straight from the recliner with a blank look on her face.
"Damn! Who is it? Disturbing my nap!"
Everyone was stunned when they heard this. Lainie was silent all day and was really sleeping in...
"It's me!"
Nick Fury was also amused by this guy, and the originally aggressive expression on his face almost didn't hold back.
"Oh, Egghead, I thought it was some random guy, why are you looking for me?"
"I'm here to ask you for an explanation about London!"
Nick Fury almost squeezed out this sentence from his teeth, staring into Lainie's eyes.
"What explanation? Didn't Coulson explain it to you when he went back? And wasn't Steve there too? Didn't you explain it to him?"
Laini took out an ear pick from the void and picked her ears, pretending to be indifferent.
Steve opened his mouth when he heard this, thinking that he was busy calming down the chaos everywhere, so he didn't have time to pay attention to the situation in Greenwich University. What he actually saw was not even as much as Simmons who had been staying in the temporary base.
"You know what I'm asking! Stop playing dumb!"
Unable to tolerate Lainie's careless look, Nick Fury slammed the coffee table next to the recliner, causing the water cup on it to make a crisp clang.
"What's going on with Jane Foster? What's going on with the ether particles? Why did those dark elves come to Earth! And most importantly, where is Meister now!!!"
Nick Fury was almost mad at people like Leni. Not only did he go to London without permission and cause so much trouble, he even brought Loki to Earth!
Although Thor later announced the death of Loki, how dare Leni bring such a dangerous person to densely populated London!
And this is not the most outrageous thing. The most outrageous thing is that they went to London and lost a living person after they came back!
In the end, everyone kept silent about it, even Coulson looked vague.
Why isn't Nick Fury angry? Why isn't he going to press charges?
However, after hearing Nick Fury say Mestre's name, Leni stopped talking, and the nonchalant look on her face disappeared.
"Speak? Why don't you speak?"
Seeing Leni playing silent with him, Nick Fury suddenly became even more angry.
"Okay, if you don't tell me, I will tell you for you. As a person as big as Meister is missing, what is the reason you gave me as the person directly in charge? Missing, there are only two words missing!
What's the reason? What are the causes and consequences? Where did she go, where did she disappear, what actions did she participate in, and who was the last person to see her before she disappeared? You didn't even write it down. You just wrote that I was missing in the report!
Are you kidding me! Do you think human life is a piece of waste paper that you can just write on and get rid of? ! ! ! "
Nick Fury vented his anger angrily. He was completely disappointed with Leni.
I thought that after such a long time and after so many life and death experiences, this girl Leni would eventually make some progress. Even if she really had to retire from the position of director one day, she would be able to justifiably hand over S.H.I.E.L.D. she.
But looking at it now, not only did Nick Fury dare not hand over S.H.I.E.L.D. to Leni, he even felt disgusted that he had hoped for it before!
"That's the truth, whatever you want to say."
Faced with Nick Fury's loud reprimand, Leni behaved exceptionally calmly, with no emotion that she should have seen in the past on her ruthless face.
It wasn't that Leni didn't want to write down the report, but that she felt that what happened to her second sister was so unbelievable that she didn't dare or even couldn't explain everything to Nick Fury.
For others, Mestre's disappearance was a mystery. Even Skye and others who witnessed Mestre and Malesky competing for ether particles could not figure out why only Lai was left when they returned to Earth. Ni one.
However, how did they know that Mestre himself was an unfathomable mystery to Leni.
Why does she appear here, and why does she know him so well?
Why does the system in her body allow her to call it, and what does the system have to do with Bakar?
Leni couldn't understand everything herself, so how could she dare to explain it directly to others?
"Oh, okay, okay!"
Nick Fury was completely offended by Leni and laughed. He repeated the good words in his mouth, reached out and took out a small metal cube from his arms and threw it on the coffee table.
"Do you think I won't investigate on my own if you don't tell me? What do you think I found?"
Leni raised her eyebrows when she heard this and looked at the metal Rubik's cube that released holographic projection on the coffee table.
"Based on the report submitted by your investigation team, I specially sent someone to go to Meister's hometown. The result surprised me."
Nick Fury put away his angry expression just now and put on a very solemn look.
"Based on the information recorded in the file, we found Mester's parents, but they actually claimed that they never had a daughter named Mester!"
As soon as these words came out, not only Leni was stunned, but everyone present except for a few people from the US team showed signs of shock.
"How is this possible? Doesn't SHIELD check everyone's information?"
Fitz was the first to raise his question.
"Yes, when SHIELD recruited Mester to join the academy, didn't they investigate Mester's family in advance?"
Simmons' expression was also ugly. She often watched science fiction movies and thought of some possibility.
"That's the problem! The person in charge of Mester's identity verification was Coulson, and he never makes mistakes in this kind of thing."
Nick Fury's eyebrows were lowered, and his heart was in turmoil at this moment.
Everyone gasped when they heard this, and the shock in their hearts was simply indescribable.
"This...how is this possible?"
"What about her friends and classmates? Doesn't anyone remember her except us?"
Skye's thinking was obviously different from the others.
"Except for her interpersonal relationships in SHIELD, all the people in the files who had a relationship with her in the past, or even appeared together, have all forgotten Mester's existence."
Nick Fury stared into Leni's eyes coldly, trying to see the answer he wanted from the other person's eyes.
“All of us were deceived by her, she was like a spy who suddenly inserted herself into our midst and deceived us all.
Now, such a dangerous person who is extremely good at demagoguery suddenly disappeared, and the only one among us who knew the inside story, Miss Leni Stark, still kept silent. How could I feel at ease and not be afraid? ! "
He hammered the coffee table again, knocking the water cup over on the table. The water in the cup flowed along the coffee table and all over the floor...
“Now, it’s not me who needs an explanation, but people all over the world who need a reasonable explanation!!!”
Everyone was silent, and then they all turned their attention to Leni, who kept her head down and said nothing.
They could understand that Leni had her own difficulties. When Leni suddenly returned to Earth alone that day, she looked worried about gains and losses. Everyone had already guessed that Mestre might not be able to come back.
But now Nick Fury suddenly told everyone that Mester's identity was a mystery, which inevitably caused everyone to make some bad guesses about Mester.
"I believe Miss Meester."
Suddenly, a cold voice came from the crowd. Everyone heard it and turned away. The person who stood up to speak turned out to be Sif.
Seeing that everyone was looking at her, not only did Xif not show any timidity on her face, but she looked sincere.
"I believe in her. Everything she has done for Asgard is not a lie, and everything she has done for me and Leni is not a lie either!
Maybe she has deceived you, but the heroic sacrifices she made so that all of us can survive are not fake!
We will engrave her name on the monument that records the history of the Nine Realms, and she will also be firmly remembered in the hearts of all Asgardians.
Because that is what we have experienced and witnessed!
None of them are fake! "