Laura's Beautiful Journey

Washington, D.C., S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters.

"How's it going? Did you find them?"

Pierce stared at the men who pushed in the door with a terrifying look, as if he would be eaten alive if the word "no" came out of his mouth.

"Definitely, the locator has been activated, showing that they are moving at high speed, and their destination is not clear yet."

"Bring it here, let me see!"

Seeing the captivating light in the eyes of the minister who had taken off his glasses, his subordinates quickly leaned forward and handed over the tablet.

"Ok?"

Seeing the movement of the flashing light spots on the real-time satellite positioning map, Pierce was a little puzzled for a while.

Since there is no news and no bodies have been found, he can only temporarily believe that Winter Soldier Zero and One have been controlled by the enemy, and Nick Fury has also been rescued by those people. There is a high probability that that guy prepared it in advance. Backhand.

Based on his understanding of Fury, if the other party did not suspect his identity, they should return to SHIELD headquarters, and now the light point showed that it was accelerating away from Washington, DC.

"Jingle Bell"

"Hi, I'm Pierce."

"The action report of the special operations team has been delivered. Minister, you need to take a look at it quickly!"

Hanging up the phone with a "click", Pierce temporarily put the tablet aside, woke up his work computer, entered the password to log in to the encrypted mailbox, found the report file, and browsed it carefully.

Two days ago, one of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s mobile satellite launch platforms, the Lemuria, lost contact in the Indian Ocean, and all communications on board were interrupted.

Three hours after losing contact, a French mercenary calling himself Baroque called and claimed that he had complete control of the ship and asked SHIELD to spend $300 million to redeem the ship and all its crew members.

Although Pierce, who knew the secrets on the ship, was troubled by the lawlessness of these iron-headed mercenaries, he had to inform Nick Fury, the current director, and secretly dispatched the newly reorganized special forces team.

The special forces team that lost the captain Brock Rumlow and more than a dozen senior members is obviously not as smooth as before. The once ace saber of SHIELD is now much duller.

Under the powerful intelligence network of SHIELD and Hydra, it took them three hours to find the precise location of the Lemuria Star. However, the new special forces' debut was obviously a failure. After the sneak attack was discovered, It took a full fifteen hours to complete the critical rescue mission.

Needless to say, the result was that nearly half of the hostages died in the crossfire between the two sides, and the mercenary leader Bartok managed to escape after injuring three team members.

Of course, it doesn't matter to Pierce how many people died or what mercenaries escaped. He cares about other things.

"Agent Sitwell is nowhere to be found. Are there signs of intrusion and copied files in the ship's system?"

Seeing this line of text, Mr. Minister finally realized that the matter was serious. All the bullshit pirate mercenaries were a cover-up. He was 80% sure that the man behind this incident was Nick Fury, who had just escaped pursuit!

Pierce immediately grabbed the phone on the table and answered his secretary's call while operating on the keyboard:

"Hello? Immediately send an online emergency meeting notice to the members of the Security Council in my name."

"Okay, Mr. Minister, what is the time and topic of the meeting?"

Pierce looked at the words "User permission has been successfully revoked" displayed on the computer screen, breathed a sigh of relief, and said:

"After five minutes, there is no need to report the issue, just tell them this is a Class A incident."

The secretary was shocked when she heard this. The latest A-level incident happened in New York when the Chitauri army invaded. It seemed that life was not stable again.

"Okay, Mr. Minister, your notice has been delivered. Please go to the top-floor conference room in five minutes."

Time was running out. Pierce stood up from the boss's chair, took the coat handed over by his subordinates, and prepared to put it on before heading to the top floor. During this period, he inadvertently glanced at the tablet he had placed on the edge of the table.

"We've already entered New Jersey. With such a fast speed, it seems that it must be SHIELD's Quinjet. Nick, you idiot is so scheming."

At this point, Pierce's movement of arranging his clothes suddenly stopped, and then he once again confirmed the position displayed on the tablet and the action report on his screen.

"Sitwell! You weakling! Ahhhhhhh!!!"

He connected all the clues together in an instant. It must be that soft-ass bald man from Sitwell who confessed! In other words, he and many Serpentis Shield agents have been 100% exposed to Nick Fury and others. He must seize the little time left!

His subordinates didn't understand why his boss suddenly cueed the bald civilian agent. In his opinion, the guy had always behaved like a coward, and besides being a mere fourth-level agent, S.H.I.E.L.D. would arrest a lot of them. There are still eighty, so why is the minister so angry?

"You! Don't be in a daze! Go to the war room immediately to convey my order and call all the staff of the Insight Project over to me, quickly!"

Furious, Pierce thrust the tablet into his arms and pulled him out of the office in a hurry.

Five minutes was short, but in the eyes of the anxious Pierce, time suddenly seemed to slow down extremely. He arrived at the conference room early and locked the door with his own authority, then paced back and forth in front of the glass table.

"Alexander, what happened? Do you have to pull us over now?"

Congressman Rockwell asked straight to the point as soon as he came online.

"That's right, an A-level incident. Don't tell me there's another alien invasion? Is it still New York? How do you do your intelligence work?"

The female congressman opened her mouth with accusations, but the Asian congressman noticed some signs that something was wrong:

"Mr. Secretary, where is Nick Fury, Director of SHIELD?"

After his reminder, several other congressmen also discovered that the usually annoying one-eyed black bald man who kept talking about running funds did not appear in the conference room today.

"Congressman Yan, you asked a good question."

Pierce walked up to several light screens and said in a serious tone:

"Our topic this time is closely related to Nick Fury. After careful investigation, we found that he was the mastermind behind the hijacking of the Lemuria Star two days ago."

"Wait, Nick Fury, the director of S.H.I.E.L.D., hijacked his own scientific research vessel? Are you really kidding?"

The bearded congressman interrupted his speech, and several others also looked puzzled.

"It's simple, because Nick Fury's true identity is the remnant of Hydra!"