Shadow trail of the beautiful world

Chapter 229

This night, in the office of the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D., Fury and Merlin looked at each other.

The atmosphere in the office was very cold, not at all the harmonious atmosphere that the two of them had before.

Facing Fury's anger, Merlin remained expressionless. He said to Fury:

"Yes, I suspect you."

"It's not just me. Before she disappeared, Ms. Carter also reminded me that S.H.I.E.L.D. is not as 'pure' as I thought. There is a force entrenched in our organization."

Merlin looked straight at Fury without fear, and he said:

"In my investigation, almost all the clues point to you. Those hidden cash flows are all related to you. Outside of the Trident Building and several bases in Nevada, you are still secretly building base."

"You told me that the search of Sector 7 turned up nothing, but I learned through my sources that all the secrets in Sector [-] were transferred [-] days before Agent Hitterwell secretly went there, and most importantly ..."

Merlin looked at Fury, and he said:

"The Department of Defense almost found my agent information! Fury."

"impossible!"

Fury categorically denied it, saying:

"Your information is stored in a 5-fold physical encrypted database. Without a physical key that matches your sequence, even the top hackers can't get in!"

"That's the problem, Fury."

Merlin retorted:

"You always think that everything is under control, but the Ministry of Defense also has the so-called matching key! Don't ask me how I know it, I just know it! If it wasn't for the help of a friend of mine, I'm afraid I would have been Ambush."

"How much do you know?"

Fury looked at the paper at hand, raised his head, and said to Merlin in an indifferent tone:

"How much have you found?"

"not much."

Merlin says:

"But it's definitely not as rare as you might think."

"boom"

Fury slammed his fist on the table fiercely. He looked at Merlin. He couldn't suppress the burning flame in his heart. He shouted to Merlin:

"You're defying our rules, Merlin!"

"You don't have any authorization, you don't have the right to collect information inside us through our channels. The confidentiality regulations are there, and you should keep them in mind on the first day you become an agent! But you seem to have forgotten these .”

"Your behavior has no bottom line, Agent Merlin Riley!"

Fury said in a cold tone:

"Now, get the hell out of my office! Stay at your house and get ready for scrutiny!"

"What are you angry about? Fury."

Merlin was disappointed by Fury's attitude. He put his hands on the table and just looked at Fury like that, with undisguised anger appearing in his eyes.

He aggravated his tone, really provocative, and said to Fury:

"Is it because I made you angry by investigating your secret? Or because I offended your dignity as the director?"

"It's not because you provoke anyone. You've always been like this, Merlin, thinking that the rules are for other people."

Fury rubbed his forehead and said with a headache on his face:

"The worst thing is that you always think that your behavior is justified because you got lucky and escaped punishment after punishment...but you are just messing around! I thought you were a lot more mature and settled than before , but that reckless gene still exists in your will."

"I'm punishing you, Merlin. I want you to remember this punishment and the price of breaking the rules."

Fury looked at Merlin, took a deep breath, and said:

"Evil things done in the name of justice are still bad things, and bad results will not become good just because of your original intention to do good things."

"You did something like this, if I don't punish you, soon there will be a second, a third follow your lead, and our organization will collapse from within...Merlin, calm down, for our As far as humans are concerned, rules are far more important than you think."

"Nick Fury! Because of your rules! Those secrets! Richard and Mary are dead!"

Merlin wasn't calm, he couldn't.

He shouted in a roar:

"Two agents who trusted you died just like that, in a canyon in South America that no one knows about! Shouldn't I be angry? They are not only my colleagues, but also my family! It's inside S.H.I.E.L.D. It was the darkness that killed them! It was the incompetence of our defenders that killed them!"

He pointed to the papers:

"These! Look, Fury, these things! These things killed them! It was the secret you ordered them to keep that killed them! I collected their bones with my own hands, and I still have those things on my hands." Innocent blood, you let me calm down?"

"How do you tell me to calm down!"

"There are traitors hidden inside S.H.I.E.L.D. They have done evil things! I know all of this. You, as the director of S.H.I.E.L.D., can't you feel it?"

Merlin looked at Fury's expression, and he said:

"A knife is hidden in your shadow, ready to pierce you and pierce our chest, don't you feel it?"

"I...Of course I noticed."

Amidst Merlin's roar, Fury stood up abruptly, with anger in his eyes, he reached out and took out a document from the drawer behind him, and put it in his hand.

"Why do you think I set up a secret base in Canada? Why did I transfer those cash flows? I sensed the danger, Merlin, I'm not as incompetent as you think!"

Fury stared at Merlin, he said a little irritably;

"But unlike you, a reckless person like you who came here to ask questions after knowing something, I know that I have to plan before going to war! I know that if I want to kill an opponent, I have to understand them first! I know that before I find out No matter where the opponent is, just swinging the sword so easily will only cut yourself."

Fury handed the document in his hand to Merlin, and he said in a deep voice:

"You want to know what Richard and Mary are studying? OK, I'll tell you!"

"But it's not something you're supposed to see. After reading it, you'll be suspended indefinitely! Until the truth of this matter comes to light. Do you accept it?"

Merlin looked at the document Fury handed out, and his heavy breathing gradually became steady, which represented that he had regained his composure after being affected by emotions.Sitting back in his chair, he reached for the cigarette case Fury had given him, took a cigarette from it, and lit it.

Amidst the smoke fluttering, Merlin said softly:

"I accept!"

The next moment, the document in Fury's hand was held by an invisible hand and fell into Merlin's hands.

"After watching, lock these things in your mind!"

Fury warns:

"It's not other insignificant things, Merlin, if you give them away..."

"I know, I will go to the isolated island prison to spend the rest of my life in self-isolation."

Merlin glanced at Fury, and he said:

"Is this the only way you threaten people?"

Fury didn't answer. He sat back on the chair and looked at the few pieces of paper Merlin gave him. His expression was not good, and his brows were deeply frowned.Obviously, the news that Merlin brought was not just "skin" as he said.

Merlin also opened the file in his hand.

He regretted a little in his heart.

As Fury said, anger and pain really messed up his thinking, but...as a living person, how can he turn a blind eye to such things?

"Spider, this is a creature that exists all over the world. It may seem inconspicuous, but it has strange abilities that we haven't discovered yet."

This is a sentence at the beginning of a certain experiment report in that document.

This report was full of various scientific terms, and Merlin felt a headache reading it. At the end of the article, he saw the names of Richard and Mary, which indicated that this article was written by them.

According to the information that Merlin obtained after roughly browsing, Richard and Mary's new research project should be a biological reinforcement plan related to spiders.

Behind this obscure article, a series of research data is appended.

Just judging from the data, this should not be the first time that Richard and Mary have studied spiders.They should have done in-depth research before, and this time they just expanded this research into the field of biological reinforcement according to Fury's plan.

Judging from the date of those experimental data, Richard and Mary's research is progressing very fast. As of the last experimental results 2 days before their plane was launched, their theoretical work on biological reinforcement has been completely completed, and It has entered the process of the third round of biological experiments.

"They succeeded?"

Merlin looked at these experimental data, and he asked:

"Is it because they succeeded that they caused their death?"

"I am not sure."

Fury glanced at Merlin, and he replied:

"It will take time to investigate. What I can tell you is that the research of the Richards is part of the 'Avengers' program. In the SHIELD system about the Avengers, their research is extremely important. We The search for superheroes around the world is not going well, and there are still too few heroes discovered in this world."

"So we changed our thinking. Instead of spending huge manpower and material resources to find them, we should create 'heroes' ourselves."

Fury took a deep breath and said:

"It's like the story of the most legendary hero Steve Rogers in World War II. We will conduct another super soldier project. The research of Richard and Mary is born for this."

"You blame me for killing Richard and Mary, but Merlin, you have no idea how closely I protect them."

Fury rubbed his forehead, he said:

"In the entire S.H.I.E.L.D. system, the only people who know about the existence of this project are me, Hill, and the Silver Bullet Agent. Before the accident, they did not study in South America as you imagined. In fact, they Right here in some lab in New York, right under my nose."

"They are going to South America this time to process the last information on the handed over dragons."

Fury looked at the night outside the window, he sighed:

"A hundred secrets and a sparse one. Those people... seized this opportunity."

"Those dragons..."

Merlin looked at Fury, and he said:

"Who did you give those things to?"

Fury gave Merlin a hard look, and said:

"You have been suspended, Merlin, this is not a secret you should know."

"You can choose not to speak."

Merlin put the file back on Fury's desk, and he said to Fury:

"But I'm going to keep looking, and I'm sure I can find it."

"I won't allow it!"

Fury tapped the table and said:

"From now on, I forbid you to consult our database privately. This is not to prevent you from exposing those darkness, Merlin, I have confidence in your search ability, but your excessive reckless behavior will only expose my preparations, just Like this time."

Having said that, Fury sighed, looking at the paper Merlin brought, he said:

"But I also have to admit that what you found is really interesting. Therefore, from now on, I will share the intelligence about the traitors with you, but you also have to promise me that unless you let you act, otherwise you must Hold your hands."

"You should know, on such an important matter, the dire consequences of beating the grass and scaring the snake away?"

Fury warns:

"Those people, they were able to bypass the layers of S.H.I.E.L.D. and killed the Richards without me noticing, which shows that they not only infiltrated our intelligence system, but also the resources and power they possess , far beyond our imagination.”

"Facing such opponents, we must beat them to death with one blow. If we can't kill them, then it is very likely that we will die."

"let me consider it."

Merlin didn't immediately answer Fury's proposal. He rubbed his chin and said to Fury:

"Tell me first, where did those dragons go?"

"Emperor Organization."

Fury hesitated for a few seconds before saying:

"Hill is directly responsible for contacting them. That Dr. Serizawa is very interested in alien life like dragons. He transported those dragons to a small island with a closed ecosystem in the Atlantic Ocean. They will be responsible for helping us tame those savage creatures. creatures."

"Ah, it's them."

Merlin nodded knowingly, and said:

"Give it to them, it is indeed a professional counterpart."

"Then how are you going to find out those traitors?"

With coldness in his eyes, he said:

"Richard and Mary's faces are on my mind and I have to do something about them."

"I can only tell you that I will investigate in my own way."

Fury put away the files, and he said to Merlin:

"I've got news, and I'll let you know. Now, you can go to rest... You can rest as long as you want, Mr. Merlin."

Merlin understood what Fury meant, and the suspension was not a joke.

This is a punishment.

And Merlin was willing to accept this punishment.

Fury did nothing wrong. For an organization like S.H.I.E.L.D., rules are indeed very important. If you violate the rules, you should pay the price.

This has nothing to do with his personal relationship with Fury. This is something Fury must and should do.

Merlin stood up, took his cane, looked at Fury, and said:

"So, you're saying there's nothing I can do now except wait?"

Fury glanced at him and said:

"No, you can have faith."

"This joke is not funny!"

Merlin shook his head. Looking at the night outside the window, he said softly:

"This night...is too long."

"I should go, leave disappointed, and take home the worst news."

"Fry, don't make me wait too long."

(End of this chapter)