Arresting Nick Fury

S.H.I.E.L.D.!

After hearing Pierce’s account, Nick Fury frowned and asked, "084 Item? What does Blood God want that obelisk for?"

Pierce asked, "How would I know? Do you think we should trade?"

Director Fury thought for a moment, then nodded. "Trade. That Mind Scepter is very dangerous!"

"Fine, I’ll notify someone to make the exchange!"

Pierce nodded in satisfaction. He also favored the trade. Within Hydra, aside from the missing Whitehall, no one cared about that obelisk at all. On the other hand, everyone wanted the Mind Scepter! After a moment of silence, Pierce said, "Fury, I’m afraid you won’t get through this one!"

Director Fury asked expressionlessly, "Is it that serious?"

"The whole world needs a scapegoat to bear responsibility for the alien invasion!"

Pierce gave a bitter smile. "Unfortunately, our S.H.I.E.L.D. is that scapegoat!"

Director Fury sighed. "I hope you can buy me some time!"

"Three days. I’ll do my best to stall for three days. Also, I’ll have Hill temporarily take over your duties!"

Pierce said, "You don’t need to worry too much either. I’ll do my best to pull strings and keep you out of prison."

"I know too much. They won’t let me leave!"

Director Fury shook his head. "Thank you, Pierce!"

"We’re old friends. Why say such things?"

Pierce patted Director Fury on the shoulder and turned to leave. "Damn it, those damn bastards do nothing but hold me back. Without me, who will keep the world safe?"

After Pierce left, Director Fury cursed bitterly. Then he shook his head and hurriedly began making arrangements. Prison? In his dreams. Nick Fury still had to protect the world—how could he possibly go to prison? No one could make him go to prison either! Three days later, Nick Fury was taken away from S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters by a special envoy from the World Security Council. Countless people cheered at the news. As a seasoned paranoia addict, Nick Fury’s popularity was exceptionally terrible! At a mysterious American base, Coulson held a tablet and smiled at Nick Fury, who should have been locked in prison. "Director, a lot of people are calling for you to be sentenced to death!"

"Then sentence me. It’s not me in that prison anyway! No one can catch me!"

Nick Fury snorted and asked, "How is your special squad coming along?"

"It’s already assembled!"

Coulson said, "But Director, what is my mission?"

"Your mission is to keep an eye on Blood God. He has become humanity’s greatest threat!"

Nick Fury was in the middle of speaking when the door was smashed open with a bang. Then Captain America, looking as imposing as ever, and the valiant Carter walked in together!

"Captain? Ms. Carter?"

Fury and Coulson were both stunned. Why were they here?

At that moment, Steve smiled faintly and shouted, "Hail Hydra!"

"Ah?"

Fury and Coulson’s eyes widened at the same time, both looking utterly dumbfounded. In that moment, they even wondered if they had misheard. Captain America was Hydra?

While the two were still horrified beyond measure, Steve smiled at Carter and said, "Judging from their expressions, they probably aren’t Hydra!"

"Steve, make fewer jokes like that!"

Carter punched Steve irritably. Then she stepped forward and said, "Nick Fury, I suspect you are Hydra. You are formally under arrest!"

"What?"

Fury came back to his senses and frowned. "Captain, Ms. Carter, what exactly are you playing at? Didn’t Hydra get wiped out long ago?"

"Unfortunately, Hydra was not wiped out. It has been hiding within S.H.I.E.L.D. all along. At least thirty percent of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents are Hydra!"

Carter sighed. "Not only that, Hydra is also among S.H.I.E.L.D.’s core upper ranks! You and Pierce are both suspects!"

"Thirty percent? That’s impossible! How could the S.H.I.E.L.D. led by me, Nick Fury, have thirty percent Hydra agents?"

Fury shouted loudly. You could insult his character, but you could not insult his competence! Thirty percent of Hydra and he had not noticed? Was Nick Fury some useless idiot?

"It’s at least thirty percent, not thirty percent. I’m not one of Hydra’s top leaders, so I don’t know exactly how many Hydra agents there are!"

At that moment, Level 8 Agent John Garrett of S.H.I.E.L.D. walked in from outside with his adopted son, Grant Ward!

Upon seeing Ward, Coulson finally understood how the Captain and the others had found him—Grant Ward was the core member of his newly formed team!

Fury turned and asked, "You’re Hydra?"

"Yes. My title in Hydra is Clairvoyant!"

Garrett nodded. He said, "However, I’ve switched sides now. I work for Blood God now!"

"Blood God?"

Fury froze, then shouted, "Captain, Ms. Carter, this is obviously Blood God’s scheme. He wants to deal with S.H.I.E.L.D.!"

"If this really were Blood God’s scheme, I’d laugh myself awake from a dream. But unfortunately, it isn’t. S.H.I.E.L.D. really has become Hydra S.H.I.E.L.D.!"

Carter sighed. "To destroy Hydra, we must first destroy S.H.I.E.L.D.!"

Fury cried out in alarm, "You want to destroy S.H.I.E.L.D.?"

"No, we want to destroy Hydra!"

Carter said, "All right, let’s get out of here. Fury, we’ll have plenty of time to talk afterward!"

Fury’s eyes flickered as his right hand quietly reached into his clothes. Just then, he suddenly flew into the air against his will, his body spread out in the shape of a star!

Immediately afterward, Wang Bert walked in. With a beckoning motion, the pager in Fury’s clothes flew toward him! Wang Bert caught the pager and said to Fury, "It’s not time for her to come back yet!"

Fury asked in shock and anger, "You know her?"

"I know a little!"

Wang Bert put away the pager and lowered Nick Fury to the ground. "Director Fury, reform yourself properly and strive to turn over a new leaf soon!"

Fury gritted his teeth. "Don’t expect to get any information out of me. I took a special drug, so you can’t control me. If you force it, I’ll die immediately!"

Wang Bert could not be bothered with Fury. He turned to Steve and said, "Captain, Thor is leaving today. Do you want to come see him off with me?"

Steve shook his head. "No, I still have things to do here. Say goodbye to him for me!"

"Fine!"

Wang Bert did not waste words. He turned and left. He had come solely for the pager. As for everything else, Carter and Steve could handle it themselves. He only needed to wait to wrap things up in the end! Agent matters were for agents to resolve! After Wang Bert left, Coulson could not help asking, "Captain, are you really going to kidnap the Director?"

Steve walked over to Coulson, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "Coulson, do you trust me?"

With the Captain patting him like that, Coulson’s bones practically went soft. He involuntarily said, "I trust you, Captain!"

Fury rolled his eyes fiercely and sighed. This time, he had truly fallen hard.

At Blood God Manor, Wang Bert, Tony, Ivan, and the others had all come to see Thor off. Yet no one showed the slightest sadness at parting; instead, they all urged Thor to leave quickly!

Even the mild-tempered Dr. Banner could not help shouting, "Thor, hurry up and take Loki away. If he keeps looking at us like that, Hulk is going to come out!"

Everyone nodded repeatedly. Loki was too disgusting, constantly staring at them with resentful eyes.

"Isn’t this all Bert’s fault? I came to find my brother, and ended up bringing a sister home!"

Thor said irritably. Wang Bert handed Thor the device containing the Tesseract and said, "Wasn’t she your fiancée?"

"I really want to punch you!"

Thor took the device and said, "Bert, thank you for this. Once I’m done using the Tesseract, I’ll return it as soon as possible!"

Wang Bert said, "All right. You don’t need to worry about Jane. She works at my company and will receive the best care!"

"Thanks for the trouble!"

Thor said no more. He turned to Loki and asked unhappily, "Can you stop being so disgusting?"

Loki said nothing, merely making his gaze even more resentful. Everyone shuddered and hurriedly urged Thor to get moving. Thor sighed, activated the device, and vanished with Loki in a flash of light!

After Thor left, Tony nodded to everyone and hurried away. He still had a hearing to attend that afternoon. These past few days, he had been busy to the point of utter exhaustion. Worst of all, he even had to sleep on the sofa at night!

Ivan said maliciously, "Bert, Stark Industries’ stock price is about to crash through the floor. Want to take the opportunity to acquire it?"

"The most important asset of Stark Industries is Tony Stark. Without Tony Stark, Stark Industries is worthless!"

Wang Bert shook his head. He took out the pager and said, "Ivan, I have a task for you. Study the communication technology in this. Remember, do not damage it, and absolutely do not send out a signal."

Ivan was stunned. "What is there to study about such an old pager?"

"The signal emitted by this pager can reach beyond Earth!"

Wang Bert said, "The greatest weakness of Drone Armor is communication. If we can solve that, we can deploy Drone Armor across the globe. By then, Earth will wear a suit of armor and gain the ability to defend itself!"

"It can reach beyond Earth? Could it be Quantum Communication?"

Ivan’s eyes lit up as he immediately snatched the pager away. Wang Bert hurriedly said, "Be careful. Don’t break it!"

Ivan said carelessly, "Relax. Although I drink vodka every day while researching things, I’ve never broken anything!"

That really puts my mind at ease. Not!

Wang Bert was speechless. He was now seriously wondering whether giving the pager to Ivan had been the right decision. If this guy summoned Captain Marvel, there would be a fight on their hands!

Wang Bert’s eyes flashed as he secretly wondered, Could I beat Captain Marvel now?

In Asgard, the atmosphere was somewhat strange. Odin had wanted to reprimand Loki, but when he saw Loki’s resentful gaze, he felt uncomfortable all over and did not know what to say! Thor was also rather awkward. At that moment, Loki suddenly said in an extremely gentle voice, "I think that Vampire’s proposal was quite good. What do you think?"

Ugh! Thor and Odin both felt like vomiting. Loki burst into laughter. He could not beat them, but he could disgust them to death!

Odin hurriedly waved his hand. "Take Loki away and lock him up."

The guards quickly stepped forward and took Loki away. Odin sighed. "I hope this lesson will make Loki understand where he went wrong!"

"Hopefully!"

Thor had no hope whatsoever. He raised the Tesseract and said, "This is the Tesseract Bert lent me. I have to return it after I’m done!"

"Lent?"

Odin frowned, then said, "A loan is fine. It’s not bad for the Tesseract to remain on Earth!"

For Asgard, there were two greatest threats. One was Hela, and the other was the Great Serpent. Both were sealed on Earth, and the Space Stone could ensure that the seals remained stable! Though that meant Earth would have three Infinity Stones, that was Ancient One’s problem. Ancient One would handle it.

Several days later, in the underground space at the lowest level of Blood God Manor, Anton Vanko stared at the Chitauri mothership and said incredulously, "Blood God, you actually captured an interstellar mothership and hid it underground without anyone noticing?"

"Magic can do anything!"

Wang Bert smiled. "Old man, I hope you can stay here and focus on studying Chitauri technology, deciphering all of it."

"No problem. I’ll stay and research it, but you need to find me some assistants!"

Anton Vanko said excitedly, "Howard left Tony a New Element. I, Anton Vanko, will also leave my son a grand gift!"

"Then I’ll leave it to you. I’ll provide all the assistants you need!"

Wang Bert nodded in satisfaction. Thinking of something, he added, "Oh, right. I captured all the Chitauri higher-ups and locked them in the prison over there. I’ll try to find a way to make them cooperate!"

Unfortunately, the Purple Man Virus did not work on aliens, otherwise everything would have been simple. As for the Penance Stare, it could be used, but memories flickered past far too quickly to remember much!

Anton Vanko said, "If they refuse to cooperate, find a way to extract their memories directly."

"That can be considered!"

Wang Bert smiled and left the lowest level, heading upstairs to find the experts researching the Purple Man Virus. He gave them a new order: "Research how to make the Purple Man Virus control aliens!"

Inside the manor, Mindy, Lina, and Little Hela were watching the news—coverage mourning Manhattan. None of the three little girls was sad. Mindy said, "Master and Dad are too much. They actually wouldn’t let me join the battle. I’m a Super Hero too, okay?"

While eating a Chicken Leg, Lina said regretfully, "So much food got destroyed in the fighting. What a pity!"

Little Hela, with her cold expression, said, "Too few people died. Oh, right, who was that guy with the hammer? Why do I want to beat him up the moment I see him?"

The butler beside them secretly wiped away cold sweat. Were little girls these days all this terrifying? At that moment, Wang Bert returned. Mindy hurried over and pointed at Lina and Little Hela. "Master, Madame Gao said Lina and Hela are both once-in-a-century martial arts geniuses. She hopes you’ll take them as disciples!"

"Wait, aren’t there too many once-in-a-century geniuses?"

Wang Bert asked suspiciously, "You are one, Peter is one, and now there are two more? That makes four in two years!"

Mindy spread her hands. "How would I know? That’s what Madame Gao said!"

"I’ll ask her next time!"

Wang Bert turned to Lina and Little Hela and asked, "Are you willing to take me as your master?"

Lina tilted her head and asked, "If I take you as my master, will there be food?"

Wang Bert took a gold card from his pocket and smiled. "Take this. You can eat for free at every restaurant under Blood God Group!"

"Really?"

Lina’s eyes shone brightly. She did not even bother chewing her Chicken Leg anymore, rushing over to grab the gold card as she said, "You’re so nice! I’ll take you as my master!"

Mindy covered her face. This girl was too embarrassing. She was actually taking a master just for food! "Very good!"

Wang Bert smiled. He did not think Lina’s love of food was a problem. Could the mighty Blood God not afford to feed a little girl who loved eating? Then Wang Bert turned to Little Hela. He looked her up and down and remarked, "Those dark circles of yours are really distinctive. You don’t even need makeup!"

Little Hela glared at Wang Bert unhappily. She did not want to take a master at all, but under Mindy’s threatening gaze, she still nodded. "I can take you as my master, but you have to teach me how to destroy life!"

"Destroy life? Why do you want to destroy life?"

Wang Bert was stunned. Hit-Girl’s friend truly was no ordinary person.

The butler hurried over and explained how Little Hela had appeared. Then he said, "I investigated her, but I couldn’t find any information about her at all!"