Chapter 540 Only the Dead Will Not Be Killed

It was unknown how long it took for Sitwell to wake up from his coma. However, as soon as he regained consciousness, he felt discomfort all over his body.

"Ah, it hurts!"

After grinning for a long time, Sitwell gave up struggling and turned to look at the guy next to him who was wearing a quick response team uniform and a riot helmet.

"How long have I been unconscious?"

"Not long, just over half an hour."

A familiar voice sounded, and Sitwell was stunned for a moment, then shook his head helplessly and sighed.

"I didn't expect that the person who came to save me in the end was you."

Hearing this, the "quick response team member" chuckled, then reached out and took off the helmet on his head, revealing the increasingly dangerous hairline underneath.

This man turned out to be Phil Coulson, the 8th-level agent of SHIELD who had been out of Hydra's sight for a long time!

"You owe me again now."

Coulson took out an empty alchemy potion bottle and shook it in front of Sitwell's eyes.

Sitwell naturally knew what potion it was, and also understood that in his previous situation, only Lainie's Paradise potion could save him.

"And us."

Accompanied by a pleasant voice, the remaining three members of the quick reaction force in the car also took off their riot helmets, revealing their true faces underneath.

They turned out to be Skye, Sif and Melinda from the investigation team!

It turned out that half an hour ago, the Winter Soldier pulled him out of the car window, and then threw him from the viaduct on one side, across 5 lanes, and threw him outside the viaduct on the other side!

That was a distance of 5 lanes, and there were trucks on the road. It was a miracle for mankind that Sitwell was not killed on the spot by the fast-moving traffic.

However, even so, after falling from a viaduct more than ten meters high, Sitwell's injuries must not be light.

There was almost no good place on his body. In addition to his life, it can be said that he took in more air than he exhaled.

If Coulson and his team hadn't arrived in time and given him a bottle of Heaven Potion as soon as possible, he might not have survived until the rescuers came to rescue him.

As for why Coulson and his team suddenly appeared, it all started more than an hour ago...

"Coulson, we found Captain Rogers and his team!"

In the cabin of the Airbus, Fitz and his team had been on the plane since this morning, searching for the location of Steve Rogers and his team.

Originally, they thought that Steve and his team would continue to pursue the Winter Soldier and track down the guy in various states.

Unexpectedly, the two of them actually ran back to Washington, DC overnight and "kidnapped" Agent Sitwell!

"Are they... interrogating?"

With the help of the ultra-high-definition imaging system carried by the Veronica satellite system, Fitz and his team were able to see Steve and his team clearly on the roof of the building.

Then they found that there seemed to be a guy they didn't know among the people present.

However, the next second, the man's information was retrieved by Veronica and displayed in front of everyone.

"Sam Wilson, who served in the US Air Force Parachute Rescue Team and carried out the EXO-7 Falcon secret plan?"

"What is the EXO-7 Falcon?"

Skye and Simmons were a little puzzled. When did the military come up with the Falcon plan again?

And it was done under the nose of Skye, a super hacker who had read all the military secrets.

Coulson was knowledgeable and guessed the general content of the plan after just one glance.

"It should be the flying device on his back. The bureau had secretly investigated this project before, but due to some accidents on the military side, the plan was completely stopped."

Coulson used his authority to retrieve a document about the Falcon plan that SHIELD had collected in the past and found a photo.

The photo recorded above was a photo of Sam Wilson and his teammate Riley when he was a pilot in the Falcon plan in the past.

Without mentioning Riley's sacrifice to Skye and others, Coulson quickly retrieved a piece of information about the final disposal of the Falcon plan in the data.

"It says that the last set of flight equipment is sealed in Fort Meade. Doesn't that mean that the reason why Steve and his team attacked Fort Meade was actually to get this set of equipment?"

Skye frowned, and things became more and more strange.

For some reason, the bureau began to keep silent about Nick Fury's death. Even if Skye used some personal connections to inquire, he still couldn't get any effective clues.

In addition to Coulson's deliberate concealment, Skye couldn't help but start to wonder if the bureau had completely isolated the people at the Slingshot Base?

However, no matter how Skye imagined this, they were ordered by Coulson not to act without permission, so they could only stay in this aircraft warehouse passively and do nothing.

Dinglingling~

Suddenly, a mobile phone notification sound came from Coulson's arms, and everyone looked over at the sound.

Since yesterday, Coulson seemed to have been waiting for someone's call. Although he concealed it well, the frequency of checking the phone far exceeded the daily situation in the past, which still made everyone realize that something was wrong.

Coulson glanced at the people who were eagerly waiting, and naturally understood what they were thinking at the moment.

Therefore, he did not deliberately avoid them, and took out his mobile phone to read the contents.

【Sitwell will explain everything to you】

A short line of content that only mentions Sitwell's name, but the amount of information is not small.

Coulson couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, raised his face and cast his gaze on the holographic screen, his gaze firmly fixed on the little bald man in the screen...

"...Skye later found a target suspected of being the Winter Soldier through the satellite system, and he was following your car!

Skye thought the guy was dangerous, so he called Leni for instructions, but the order he got was...save you. "

Colson looked at his old friend with a smile, and the meaning in his eyes was self-evident.

"Ah, that's it..."

Sitwell laughed, not understanding what Coulson meant by his smiling words.

He is now a little confused about where Coulson belongs.

It turned out that he and Mr. Pierce both thought that Coulson would be a die-hard fan of Nick Fury, but they never thought that after the incident, this guy would pick himself off immediately and then make a fool of himself.

Coupled with Leni's relationship, Mr. Pierce has never taken action against the investigation team and the Slingshot Base.

Anyway, as long as the insight plan is successfully implemented, all obstacles will be in vain under the firepower of the space carrier.

"Let's go back to the plane first. We'll talk about the details later."

Seeing that Sitwell had no intention of continuing the conversation, Coulson did not continue to ask.

Instead, he secretly guarded against being run away by this guy, and then sent a message to the two Fitzs in the cab in front, asking them to lead everyone back to the Airbus at an accelerated speed.

…

At the same time, Steve and his group——

Using almost the same method as Coulson and others, Agent Maria Hill also rescued the three Steves under the eyes of a group of rapid reaction force members and Rumlow, and brought them to the rescue. It was brought to an abandoned reservoir that looked quite old.

"Come with me, I will take you to meet someone first."

Agent Hill signaled Steve and the three people who were still in a daze to follow him, then pushed open the rusty fence door and walked in first.

When the three of them saw this, they looked at each other. At this point, they had no choice but to follow quickly.

Just as Steve and others expected, this reservoir had been abandoned for many years, and the footsteps of several people echoed in the long and narrow corridor, which sounded particularly deserted.

Hill, who was walking at the front, seemed determined to tell the truth and had no intention of explaining anything along the way.

But looking at her leisurely look, Natasha, who was thoughtful, guessed something.

Not only did she think back to some dead girl, because that guy had pulled a similar trick on Coulson once, and had tricked all of them.

After a while, everyone came to the end of the corridor and arrived at the huge factory building where the generator set was originally located in the reservoir.

As soon as they entered the door, Steve and others' eyes were attracted by a large number of various medical equipment.

Then he naturally turned his attention to the hospital bed placed in the center of the many medical equipment, as well as the man lying on the hospital bed at the moment.

"Ha~"

Seeing the man, Natasha couldn't help but sigh helplessly. For a moment, she didn't know whether to laugh or be angry.

But this also confirmed her previous guess that Nick Fury had indeed used this trick.

"Wellwellwell, you are here."

Struggling to stand up from the hospital bed, Nick Fury sat up from the hospital bed, and then looked at the three Steves with a playful expression.

"Is it tetrodotoxin?"

Steve is not a fool. At this point, how could he still not guess what kind of tricks Nick Fury had played before.

But the feeling of being deceived twice in a row by the same trick made Steve feel particularly unhappy.

"Strictly speaking, it should be considered a product of the combination of tetrodotoxin and some kind of strange sleep hormone."

Another voice sounded, and Steve and others heard it and went out, only to find that the person who spoke was the surgeon they had met at the emergency center before!

"Is it you?"

After hearing this, the doctor nodded to Steve as a greeting and smiled in an approachable manner.

"Sleep hormone, are you talking about..."

Keenly aware of a certain key point, Natasha interrupted Steve who was about to speak and asked first.

"As you might think, this part of the hormone was taken from Agent Fitz Simmons of the investigation team. The project code-named 'Frigga Bullet' submitted previously."

Hearing this, a look of understanding suddenly appeared on Natasha's face. She didn't expect that this thing was actually made by those two people.

"As expected... Well, by the way, they are actually two people, although people often mistakenly think that they are one person."

"Oh? That's it. Thank you for reminding me."

"..."

Ignoring the two people's pleasantries, Steve simply turned his attention to Nick Fury again, walked to the bedside and carefully looked at the latter's current injuries.

"So, what's going on? Why did you hide it from even us?"

When Nick Fury heard this, he raised the corner of his mouth quite meaningfully and slowly uttered a sentence:

"Only the dead will not be killed."

"So you lied to Pierce and made them think you were dead?"

Steve naturally understood the meaning of Nick Fury's words, but what he didn't understand was why this guy would specifically look for him in the end.

"Pierce is not that stupid. He can certainly think of things that you can think of, so I have to act more realistically, so realistically that even Lainie thinks I am really dead."

The biggest reason why Nick Fury still looks sick is here.

The new pufferfish toxin can indeed make his fake death so real, but Nick Fury still thinks it is difficult to deceive Lainie's unique detection ability.

In order to cover up the truth of his fake death, Nick Fury had to gamble his life and actually die once.

In the process of avoiding the pursuit of the Winter Soldier, he really used up all the alchemy potions on his body, resulting in Sharon Carter and Dr. Fine being unable to use alchemy potions during the operation.

The intense situation in the operating room at that time was actually not an act at all. Dr. Fine was indeed shocked by the serious injury of Nick Fury when he was first sent in.

If it weren't for Agent Hill's reminder, this fake death plan might have been aborted before it even started.

As for what happened next, it was simple. After confirming that he had been judged dead by SHIELD, Nick Fury was finally able to observe the current situation of the entire SHIELD from the perspective of an observer.

"The authorities are confused, the bystanders are clear..."

Natasha murmured:

"The reason why Coulson took the initiative to leave the Trident headquarters was to let himself jump out of that vortex..."

"Not only that, he also brought the entire investigation team."

Nick Fury smiled playfully.

In his opinion, Coulson was able to think of jumping out of that vortex at the first time.

But what was beyond his expectation was that Coulson actually pulled the investigation team in at the first time.

"Investigation team?"

Sam, who had been silent all the time, suddenly interrupted and asked.

Although it was not appropriate for him to speak now as an outsider, since he had already waded into this muddy water, he would never be so careless as to be used as a gun by others.

Steve could certainly be trusted, but he did not expect the one-eyed agent in front of him to tell the truth.

"Well, the team led by Lainie and Agent Coulson has been responsible for handling special events that were more difficult for agents but did not require the Avengers to be dispatched."

Agent Hill explained, but Sam's face turned strange when he heard it.

"Laini? Doesn't that mean that those people in the investigation team may also be Hydra's people?"

For a moment, the atmosphere in the factory area became quiet, and everyone's face was a little strange.