Chapter 531 The Director Is Dead! Pierce Starts the Show!

After a long time, an emergency center——

There was a bang, and the glass door of the waiting room was suddenly pushed open by someone from the outside. After receiving the news, Leni and Colson rushed into the waiting room one after another.

"What's wrong with Fury now?"

As soon as she entered the door, Leni was the first to ask about the condition of the braised egg head, but the atmosphere in the room was particularly gloomy at the moment.

Colson looked at the operating room through the glass on the wall, but saw that all the medical staff had stopped moving.

"What time is it now?"

The chief surgeon suddenly spoke.

The nurse on the side looked at the clock on the wall and read the exact number on it in a deep voice.

"1:03 am."

Hearing this, the chief surgeon sighed, and finally announced the death of Nick Fury.

"For the record, time of death: 1:03 am."

For a moment, the entire waiting room fell into deathly silence, and everyone in the room looked livid at the moment.

Leni turned around silently, closed her eyes in silent mourning.

Coulson, who was beside him, clenched his fists so hard that his arms could not stop shaking.

Natasha, Hill, Steve, Sitwell, all of the people who could come here at this moment had dull expressions and dull eyes.

"How could this happen? Could it be that even the alchemy potion couldn't save him?"

Natasha murmured to herself, still unable to accept it for a while.

She has seen how powerful the Paradise Potion is. In the past, injured people who were more serious than Nick Fury were rescued. Why did it not work when it came to Nick Fury?

Steve on the side also turned his attention to Leni when he heard this, and his eyes couldn't help but have some indescribable meaning.

Sensing the former's gaze, Leni slowly opened her eyes and sighed softly.

"Sharon said that when you rescued him, the alchemy crystal did not take effect, right?"

Steve once again recalled the entire incident, and finally nodded and confirmed Leni's statement.

"That should be correct..."

Leni turned around, walked slowly to the glass partition window, stared at Nick Fury lying on the hospital bed soundlessly, and said in a deep voice the real reason why the alchemy potion failed.

"If my guess is correct, when you used the alchemical potion on him, it was not the first time that Fury used the alchemical potion in a short period of time."

Leni's alchemy potions have a time limit each time. Just like most potion props in the game have CDs, alchemy potions also have usage restrictions.

When a person uses alchemical potions to heal himself multiple times in a short period of time, the healing effect provided by alchemical crystals or golden goat milk will be greatly reduced.

The therapeutic effect of one or two cuts may not be obvious yet, but when the alchemical potion is used more than three times in a short period of time, its therapeutic effect will be greatly reduced and eventually approach nothing.

This is why Leni's alchemical potion is regarded as a life-saving treasure in SHIELD. Agents who have not used alchemical potions are even strictly ordered to re-hand in the alchemical potions they hold until the next mission is reassigned!

"When you saw him, I'm afraid he had already used alchemy potions to treat himself many times. As a result, when you tried to save him, the alchemy crystal completely lost its effect."

"But……"

"Even the Paradise Potion is the same. The life force that can be extracted from the human body in a short period of time is limited. It is a miracle that just the life energy of that small bottle can help Fury persist until now."

With a deep sigh, Leni turned around and glanced at Hill, who was standing nearby with a wandering look.

"Hill, Fury is here to trouble you. I'm afraid we have to go back and clean up the mess."

Maria Hill was stunned for a moment when she was called, then she immediately came to her senses and quickly agreed.

"Colson, call all the senior agents who are still at the headquarters immediately, we have to do the next comfort work;

Sitwell, please contact Alexander Pierce and ask us what to do next. SHIELD has lost two important leaders in a short period of time, and he must stand up. "

Arranging the next thing with a serious expression, Leni turned her head and looked at Steve and Natasha meaningfully.

"You two come together, Tony is not in New York right now, and I need you to stabilize the others. Besides..."

Meeting Steve's gaze, Leni's pair of green pupils suddenly ignited with two balls of piercing golden flames!

"I want to know the whole story."

Steve resisted when he heard this, but Natasha, who was looking aside, did not refuse. If he tried to shirk it at this moment, it would be too obvious.

…

A few hours later, many S.H.I.E.L.D. agents who received the news arrived at the emergency center, together with the rapid response force led by Rumlow.

Suddenly the entire floor was filled with armed guards and secret service personnel.

"What does the murderer probably look like?"

Leaning against the door, Leni looked at Natasha sobbing beside Nick Fury's bed and sighed.

"Long hair, wearing a mask, cold eyes, and a mechanical arm."

Steve described the image of the enemy he saw in a deep voice.

"He's fast and strong and can easily catch my shield."

"The three bullets were all specially made, had no ballistic trajectory and could not be traced."

Hill on the side handed over a holographic tablet, which showed the three metal warheads found by the on-site evidence collection personnel.

However, judging from the picture, there is no obvious reason for the three deformed bullets.

"A product of the former Soviet Union."

Suddenly, Natasha, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly interrupted and raised a possibility.

As a female agent who escaped from the Soviet red house, she is of course extremely familiar with this kind of special bullet that cannot find its source.

But if this kind of bullet really comes from the hands of those people...

"The former Soviet Union...you mean this matter has something to do with Maozi?"

Sitwell's face froze, and he couldn't help but glance at Leni beside him.

However, this small action did not escape Steve's eyes. Almost subconsciously, Steve recalled the previous "Operation Lemuria Star".

Why did Sitwell appear on that transport ship?

Then think of the words Nick Fury told himself before he died, and the USB flash drive still hidden in his pocket...

Steve couldn't help but become more and more suspicious of the two people in front of him, and even Coulson, who was beside him, was labeled "tentative" by him.

You know, if you ignore the conjecture about the former Soviet Union that Natasha just raised, isn't there someone who can make that kind of incredible sniper attack, sitting right in front of you?

Ignoring the limitations of space and carrying out ultra-long-distance space sniping on targets, isn't that what this "gunner" from heaven is good at?

Even if he indeed saw the suspected killer of Nick Fury, who can be sure that the person who actually shot him was that person?

.

50-caliber special sniper bullets. The man in front of him has a lot of them in his empty warehouse...

"Why are you still here?"

Suddenly, Rumlow's voice came from the door, interrupting Steve's thoughts.

"Captain, you are asked to return to the bureau immediately."

Rumlow ignored the others present and explained his purpose to Steve.

Thanks to Sitwell and Coulson's previous reports, all senior agents still on duty in the agency have learned of the death of Director Fury.

Even the Security Council heard about the situation and immediately decided to recall Steve Rogers and ask him if he knew why Nick Fury appeared in his home.

"Okay, I'll go later."

Steve wanted to stay a little longer, but unexpectedly Rumlow's attitude was very firm.

"They told you to go back now."

Hearing this, Steve's brows jumped and he couldn't help but glance at Leni, who was calm beside Rumlow.

"I see."

Seeing this, Rumlow restrained the aura that he inadvertently exuded.

"Then I'll wait for you outside. Please hurry up. They're in a hurry."

Then Rumlow nodded towards the rest of the people present, turned around and exited the room.

As the saying goes, plans can't keep up with changes. Seeing this scene, Leni simply stopped asking about the murderer.

"Let's go, I'll go back with you. You can't handle that old boy Pierce alone."

…

"So, Cap, why was Nick Fury at your house last night?"

It was this question again, and Steve couldn't help but feel his heart sink.

Since the incident last night, almost everyone has asked him this question.

So does Leni, so does Natasha, even Coulson.

It seems that except for the cause of Nick Fury's death, everyone is concerned about why Nick Fury came to him instead of others.

So what's the real reason?

"I have no idea."

Steve shook his head.

"Did you know your home was bugged?"

Pierce looked into Steve's eyes with a kind face, observing every expression on the latter's face.

"I know, Nick told me."

"Then he told you that the person spying on you was actually him?"

Steve frowned when he heard this, and for a moment he didn't know how to answer this question.

In the end, Leni intervened.

"Lu Dantou listens to everyone, but that guy doesn't really trust a few people. We all know this. What does this mean?"

Pierce frowned slightly when he heard this, glanced at this little fox who was causing trouble to him, and had no choice but to change the subject.

"Let me show you something."

As he spoke, Pierce reached out and clicked on the console beside him, unfolding a holographic image.

Above is the culprit of the previous "Operation Lemuria Star", George Bachok!

"Huh? You caught this guy?"

Leaning on the sofa, Leni crossed her legs with interest, intending to watch how Pierce, the old fox, performed.

"Is this reality?"

Steve was also very surprised. He had just suspected that there was something fishy about the Lemuria Star incident, but this Security Council member actually found evidence?

"Yes, they caught him in a safe house in North Africa last night..."

Just as Leni expected, Pierce poured dirty water on the deceased Nick Fury from the Lemuria Star incident.

And defined Bacoc, a wanted criminal, as a robber hired by Nick Fury, with the purpose of confusing the audition.

"You mean Nick hired those pirates, why?"

"The most likely explanation is that the hijacking was a cover for obtaining and selling classified S.H.I.E.L.D. information, and then the deal fell apart and Nick lost his life."

Leni raised her eyebrows when she heard this, and her eyes stayed on Steve's face for a moment.

"Where's the evidence?"

Pierce glanced at Leni and thought, "Can't you just keep your mouth shut?"

"There is no evidence, this is just a conjecture on my part."

"If you really know Nick Fury, you know there's no way he would do that."

Steve would never believe that a man like Nick Fury, who was devoted to his career as an agent, would betray the entire S.H.I.E.L.D. for money.

You must know that he is the director of SHIELD, and money is just a number to him after all.

Even if he really wanted to sell secrets, he would never come up with such a roundabout idea as hijacking a transport ship.

There is obviously the simplest and safest way in front of him. How could Nick Fury leave Leni, a super transport soldier, instead of using this extremely dangerous transaction method?

But Pierce is obviously aware of this.

"Of course, otherwise I wouldn't have asked you to come back and talk."

Pierce stood up from the sofa, walked to the large floor-to-ceiling window, and gave a profound speech to the two of Steve with his back to them.

What he expressed was that he wanted to explain that he had a close relationship with Nick Fury, and that he did not believe that Nick Fury would be the kind of person who would rob himself.

Immediately afterwards, Pierce came back to his senses and said to Steve righteously:

"Captain, when Fury was still alive, you were the last person to see him. You must also know that this is no coincidence, so I want to ask you again, why did he go to find you?"

Seeing this, Leni also stopped watching the show, stood up from the sofa, and silently walked between the two of them, while she waited solemnly for Steve's answer.

Although Leni already knew what would happen.

But she still wanted to see if, after some manipulations of her own, the story would continue to develop as it had originally.

Facing the pressure coming from the two people in front of him, Steve's heart sank again and again at this moment.

He couldn't figure out the truth of the matter, and he couldn't tell whether the two people in front of him were trustworthy.

But all he can do now is to keep the confidential information while remaining suspicious of everyone.

"He told me not to trust anyone."

"Including itself?"

"Sorry, that was the last thing he said to me."

Having made up his mind, Steve didn't want to linger here any longer. He planned to find out the truth of the matter by himself without telling anyone.

But in order to get out of here, he must reveal something to the two people in front of him, especially Leni.

"Sorry, that's all I know. I'm sorry."

Seeing this, Pierce's eyes narrowed slightly and he sighed secretly.

"Okay, then I won't keep you for now. I will also discuss SHIELD's next arrangements with Leni. After all, SHIELD cannot live without its leader."

Seeing that Steve could no longer stay, Pierce simply stopped insisting. He glanced at Leni and immediately issued an eviction order.

Steve nodded upon hearing this, took his shield and quickly left the Security Council's office.

"Alas...what a pity."

Seeing Steve's figure disappear completely, Pierce took a deep breath.

Looking away at Leni, who looked heartless, Pierce reached into his pocket and took out his cell phone, and sent an edited message to Rumlow.

【Hands on】

Leni raised her eyebrows when she saw this, thinking that maybe the classic elevator scene would be staged next.