Chapter 528 How to Highlight the Status of an Undercover Agent without Being Mysterious?

“…pointing guns at the whole world and calling it protection.”

Standing under the three daunting aerospace carriers, Steve’s mood was not to be underestimated.

He could not agree with Nick Fury’s “ahead of others” approach, and he could not accept his so-called analytical technology that determined a person’s goodness or badness from the DNA level.

If the environment can really determine a person’s character, morality, good and evil, wouldn’t the world have been in chaos long ago?

“We have compromised before, but everything we have done in the past is to allow everyone to live freely and equally under the sun.

But what you are doing is not freedom at all, but creating fear!”

However, Nick Fury still insisted on his opinion, even though Steve was not the first person to warn him not to do so.

"SHIELD's view of the world is realistic, not idealistic. You should keep up with the times and be aware of current affairs, Captain."

"Then don't count on it."

As a matter of course, Steve refused to argue with the director who was stuck in a dead end. He left the Trident building with a look of disappointment after leaving a mocking remark.

"The guy with the egg head can't change his old bad habits. Suspicion is his way of rooting and living. Keeping a suspicious attitude towards everyone can indeed help him build the towering tree of SHIELD, but... it can't help him develop a dense forest."

Recalling the evaluation of Nick Fury by Lenny when they talked about SHIELD in the past.

At this moment, Steve finally understood why Lenny insisted on separating the Avengers from the power structure of SHIELD after the Avengers were announced.

I'm afraid she had guessed that there would be such a day in the future.

Set all the people in the world as imaginary enemies, and eliminate all possible evils, and would rather kill them by mistake than let them go.

This practice of sentencing all humans to life imprisonment or even death from the beginning is simply nonsense!

Steve felt that he had to stop all this from happening, while it was still not too late!

…

Watching Steve leave until the former completely disappeared from his sight, Nick Fury turned around with a gloomy face and took the elevator back to the office.

Nick Fury did not understand what Steve said, but his experience over the past years and his vigilance against alien creatures made Nick Fury firmly believe that this part of the sacrifice was worth it.

But this also reminded Egghead that the Insight Project, a high-tech weapon that is several times more threatening than nuclear weapons, must not fall easily into the hands of politicians with a brainless mind.

The previous Director Priss is an example. This kind of idiot who can casually sacrifice thousands of New Yorkers, if the Insight Project falls into his hands, I am afraid that even if Tony Stark is given ten lives, he can't save the whole of New York!

Thinking of this in his heart, Nick Fury couldn't help but secretly touch a USB flash drive in his pocket.

This is the SHIELD data that Natasha was ordered to save during the rescue mission last night.

"Close the office."

Back in his office, Nick Fury immediately ordered the artificial intelligence assistant to shut down all the monitoring systems in the office and physically isolate the entire office from the outside world.

Then, Nick Fury took out the small USB flash drive and connected it to the office's intelligent system.

"Open the launch file of Lemuria."

"Access denied."

Of course, the intelligent system prompted that the launch file was encrypted with permissions, and people who did not obtain access permissions could not access the file.

So the egg head performed deep decryption according to the usual practice.

"Decrypt the file."

"Decryption failed."

Unexpectedly, Nick Fury's permissions still could not decrypt this file.

This made Nick Fury have a bad premonition.

"Permission rewrite, Nicholas J. Fury."

However, the new round of text prompted by the intelligent system made Nick Fury's heart sink at this moment.

"Reject rewrite, all files have been sealed!"

The level 10 authority he possesses can't even rewrite the authority level of this file?

What a joke!

Could it be that SHIELD can have level 11 authority? !

You know, SHIELD's authority structure from one to ten was authorized by Nick Fury himself.

In the entire SHIELD, the number of people who can have level 10 authority can even be counted on one hand.

In addition to those SHIELD veterans who have passed away, the current SHIELD senior executives who have level 10 authority, except Nick Fury himself, only have one person left...

"Who authorized it?"

After pondering for a moment, Nick Fury still asked the doubts in his heart.

"Nicholas J. Fury."

This answer was unexpected, but reasonable, and also a little ironic.

He actually blocked the files that he had the right to access under his authority without knowing it, making his level 10 authority a pseudo level 10.

Fury's heart was pounding, and an extremely dangerous possibility appeared in his mind.

"End the lockdown."

Walking out of the office with a solemn face, Nick Fury had two suspects in his mind.

One of them was easy to solve, but he was very worried about the other result.

And now, Nick Fury plans to confirm one of those possibilities.

"Security Council."

"confirm."

The elevator went down to the office floor where the members of the Security Council were located, and Nick Fury successfully met his teacher, Alexander Pierce, who dealt with everything every day.

"We stay in the same building every day, and you don't want to come to me until there is a kidnapping incident?"

"Of course not, I will be here if there is a nuclear war."

Nick Fury catered to his teacher quietly, trying his best not to make the other person wary of him.

"Are you busy?"

"You know about things like special appropriations. Although I am now a director, if you want to get funds from the Security Council for S.H.I.E.L.D., you still have to seek the opinions of other people."

The old fox Pierce found an excuse at random.

Of course he would not admit that he had just been discussing with other directors in the conference room how to impeach Nick Fury.

However, Nick Fury did not delve into it, he just found a random topic to get familiar with.

"I...I actually came here to ask you for a favor."

Pierce's heart sank when he heard this, but his face showed no emotion at all. He just stared into Nick Fury's eyes, waiting for the latter's next words.

"I would like to ask you to initiate a vote to propose an immediate postponement of InSight."

Nick Fury stared at his teacher, carefully observing every detail after the other person heard these words.

However, Pierce's face only frowned slightly, showing some confusion.

"Nick, this is no small matter. You know this is going to take a long time."

"I know, but there are some small problems here, maybe not even small problems, but I have to take some time to check..."

Pierce's face turned solemn upon hearing this.

"What if there is a problem? Your expression tells me that the problem is probably not a small one."

Nick Fury sighed secretly.

"Then we will all be thankful that we didn't lift the Helicarrier into the sky that day."

The eyes of the two looked at each other, one with persistence, the other with... helplessness.

"Okay, I will try my best to stop Project Insight, but you have to ask Iron Man to come to my nephew's birthday party, and you have to bring Leni with you."

"..."

Standing by the large floor-to-ceiling window, Alexander Pierce watched Nick Fury's car drive out of the Trident headquarters, and the expression on his face was no longer kind.

Pierce could certainly guess the purpose of Nick Fury asking him to help stop the Insight Project this time, and he also knew exactly what secrets were hidden on the Lemuria Star transport ship carrying the satellite.

Originally, he didn't want to take action against his beloved disciple so soon, but the death of Agent Carter, the veteran of SHIELD, gave him an opportunity to realize his plan.

He ordered his office to be closed and told his secretary not to let anyone disturb him.

Pierce took out an ancient mobile phone from the drawer of his desk, and then dialed a number skillfully.

"Get me... Leni Stark."

…

Meanwhile, in the heart of New York—

Laini, who had nothing to do, was lying on the lounge chair on the balcony as usual, sipping cocktails and sunbathing.

Since the group of them came back from London, she seemed to have done nothing but stay here and bask in the sun every day.

Suddenly, Leni looked at the Empire State Building in the distance as if aware of it.

"That's..."

After muttering something in a low voice, Leni narrowed her eyes slightly and enhanced the active detection efficiency of her APG-63 radar system.

Just now, her radar system reported that someone in the Empire State Building opposite was hostile to Leni, which triggered an alarm in the radar system.

However, when Leni took the initiative to search, she found that the hostility had disappeared.

Just when Leni was thinking about whether to screen it carefully again, her mind suddenly moved, and she stood up from the recliner.

"I'm going out and will come back later. If you want to eat anything, you can send me a message in advance and I will bring it back for you."

"Huh? It's strange. Miss Leni, who has nothing to do but bask in the sun every day, actually has a day to go downstairs to do some activities. The sun is really out in the west."

A familiar strange voice came from the experimental area, and Leni knew who the person who said it was without having to guess.

"Shut up, Tony. If this girl is in the mood to run errands for you, just be satisfied."

Not in the mood to argue with Tony, Leni said hello to a few other people in the building, then pressed the elevator and left the Avengers Building.

It wasn't until they drove far away that Leni took out a classic-looking mobile phone from the void warehouse.

Ring ring ring~

Almost as soon as the signal was restored, the mobile phone rang. The person on the other end of the phone had already been waiting impatiently.

No reason, Leni simply picked up.

"Hello? You old man, what are you doing with this girl?"

The other end of the phone was silent for a moment, and then a strange and mechanical voice came.

"I'm not looking for you, Mr. Pierce is looking for you."

"Pierce?"

Hearing the other party say this name, Leni raised her eyebrows, and then a playful look appeared on her face.

"Okay, put through."

As soon as the voice fell, a beeping sound came from the other end of the phone, and it took a while before someone picked up the phone.

"Is it so troublesome every time I want to contact you?"

"That can't be helped. You don't want me to be discovered by those people, do you? Especially with Jarvis's presence, only in this way can you bypass Jarvis's detection."

Laini controlled the steering wheel with one hand and parked the car on a relatively secluded roadside. Listening to the voice coming from the phone, she teased:

"After all, I am also an undercover agent. If I don't make it a little mysterious, how can I highlight my undercover status?"

Pierce felt the veins on his forehead twitching when he heard it, and it took a long time to calm down.

"Okay, I don't have time to chat with you. Nick Fury has noticed the problem."

"Really?"

Laini took out a lollipop from the void indifferently, peeled off the sugar coating and stuffed it into her mouth.

"I've said it before, your plan is too ostentatious. Even a group of pirates can't hide it. Do you want to hide it from the egg head?"

Pierce's eyelids jumped again when he heard it on the other end of the phone.

"Who told you about the pirate hijacking?"

"Who else could it be? Sitwell. That guy was slapped in the face by Bazok's men. Who in the bureau doesn't know about this now?"

Lennie chuckled and complained that Sitwell deserved it, while scanning the entire street, looking for a restaurant that looked good.

"What are your plans?"

"Me?"

Lennie was stunned.

"Why are you asking me? Shouldn't you ask Baron Stark about this? It was his men who leaked the news, otherwise..."

"I will naturally hold him accountable. I'm asking you how to deal with Nick Fury!"

Pierce secretly suppressed his anger and rubbed his eyebrows.

"Solve? What, you old guy finally decided to do something to your beloved disciple?"

A sly flash of cunning flashed in Lainie's eyes.

"He has crossed the line, so I have to resort to this desperate measure."

"Come on, don't give me that. To you, Egghead is just a tool. Now that the tool is useless, you just want to discard it. Don't be so hypocritical."

Laini mercilessly exposed Pierce's hypocrisy.

"If I hadn't sensed your hidden tricks when I returned to Trident Headquarters, the person you called today wouldn't even be me, but a guy called the Winter Soldier, right?"

The person on the other end of the phone didn't say anything, but this still acquiesced to Lainie's statement.

Seeing this, Lainie chuckled and simply didn't beat around the bush with the old fox, and went straight to the show.

"We agreed before that you would provide me with help from SHIELD, and I would help stabilize the Avengers and Captain America, and we wouldn't interfere with each other.

Now that you have made such a big mess yourself, it's impossible to expect me to fill the hole for you."

Pierce didn't reply with a sullen face, and his dissatisfaction with Lainie in his heart became even worse.

If this little fox hadn't been very useful to me and Hydra, and the Insight Plan hadn't been hidden from her, I'm afraid I wouldn't have...

"However, I can help you stabilize the Avengers. You can do whatever you want. I can guarantee that Tony and the others won't go to your side to interfere."

"What about Captain America and that Russian woman? They were directly involved in the operation on the Lemuria Star."

"Then I can't control it. Their feet are on their bodies. Can I stop them from going to SHIELD?"

Laini bit the lollipop in her mouth with a click, and continued in a vague voice:

"In short, you can do whatever you want, as long as it doesn't affect me, otherwise..."

"What if it's not?"

Pierce frowned, and his heart was immediately alert.

"Otherwise, I don't mind taking advantage of the situation to drive you and Nick Fury out of office together."

After saying this, Lainie simply hung up the phone and put it into the void without paying any attention to the other party's reaction.

Then he opened the car door and walked into a restaurant across the street.

…

Beep~beep~

Listening to the busy tone from the other end of the phone, Pierce's face was livid, and he was neither angry nor not angry.

He even wanted to throw the mobile phone in his hand!

However, considering that it would be troublesome to call a new encrypted phone later, Pierce finally forced himself to bear it.

"Alas... Nick, don't blame me for being ruthless..."

Pierce sighed, pondered for a long time, and finally made up his mind. He picked up the mobile phone again and dialed a special line number.

"Hello? Connect me to the Winter Soldier."

It's too cold in my hometown, my hands and feet are frozen, and I'm frozen when I type.