Chapter 161 Pierce's Thoughts

Then Li Heng told Coulson about the two children's situation. When Coulson was angry, he looked at everyone and said, "Okay, everyone, now that everyone is here, I will tell you what happened again."

Here, Nick Fury was talking to Natasha, and Coulson turned to Li Heng halfway, which made Nick Fury very angry.

After all, Coulson was a subordinate he valued very much at first. Who would have thought that in such a short period of contact with Li Heng, Coulson had been abducted by Li Heng.

Yes, in Nick Fury's eyes, Coulson's actions today all showed that he had changed his direction and followed Li Heng.

Fortunately, Natasha did not do the same as Coulson and went directly to Li Heng, otherwise Nick Fury would probably be seriously ill today.

But even so, he was very angry. First, the Deep State was infiltrated by Hydra, and then, in his eyes, Coulson was considered to have "defected to the enemy." These made him in a bad mood.

So when facing Natasha's report, Nick Fury kept a gloomy face and acted like a boss while listening to Natasha's report.

After seeing how Nick Fury behaved, Natasha roughly understood why Nick Fury behaved like that.

After all, Nick Fury always looked at Li Heng and Coulson with resentment on his face, which made Natasha, who was a smart person, easily understand what she meant.

However, although she understood, Natasha would not easily get involved, so after completing the simple report, Natasha sat aside and waited for what happened next.

After a while, Li Heng began his pre-operation speech, the gist of which was to tell everyone how he and Steve discovered that SHIELD had been infiltrated by Hydra.

Then he talked about their plan, and how they called everyone here this time because they wanted to gather everyone's strength to catch Hydra in one fell swoop. Steve didn't want to let any Hydra members go.

After explaining the cause of the incident to everyone, Li Heng looked at his mobile phone, which happened to be the message that Xiao Zhuge sent to Li Heng.

The content of the information is that the recruitment of Hydra has been completed. All Hydra members who know the evidence have been called back from other places by Li Heng in the name of Nick Fury, and are now all in S.H.I.E.L.D.

When Li Heng saw the news about Little Zhuge, he knew that now was a good time to take action.

So he looked at everyone in the living room and said, "Everyone, now all the Hydras have been called back to SHIELD. They are all together. This is a good time to act."

"Then let's start the action according to the plan I just mentioned!"

Li Heng did not waste any more time and directly announced that the action was about to begin.

Seeing that everyone changed their usual demeanor and started to take things seriously after hearing his announcement, Li Heng knew that no Hydra in SHIELD would be able to escape this time.

When he heard that the action had begun, Steve was the first one who couldn't sit still. No one knew that during the two days of waiting for Coulson and Hanatasha, Steve would check the locations of the many Hydras in SHIELD every once in a while.

Steve felt relieved only after confirming that they were heading to SHIELD, but he would check the location of Hydra every once in a while.

And at Nick Fury's reminder, Steve paid special attention to Pierce's situation.

However, at the beginning, I don’t know whether Pierce didn’t notice it or he was pretending not to know. Pierce didn’t make any unusual movements and went to work and left work at normal times as usual.

However, just as more and more Hydra agents and staff returned to SHIELD, Pierce finally noticed something.

Because these days, Nick Fury seemed to have disappeared after the attack, and no one knew where Nick Fury was.

So all the big and small matters in S.H.I.E.L.D. eventually piled up on Nick Fury's desk.

Fortunately, when Pierce was about to take action against Nick Fury, he had already anticipated this situation, so he temporarily announced that he would replace Nick Fury to handle the affairs of S.H.I.E.L.D.

This order did not arouse any suspicion.

After all, Pierce is also a former leader of S.H.I.E.L.D. Now that Nick Fury is missing, no one will doubt it if Pierce temporarily takes over Nick Fury's duties.

While Pierce was performing his duties these two days, he gradually discovered something was wrong.

He discovered that SHIELD's employees who were away from home began to gradually return to the headquarters to report, and the number of these returning employees was increasing, and soon SHIELD was packed.

Pierce, who noticed this, began to screen the reasons for this situation, and finally found the order issued by Nick Fury on his internal account.

It was such an order that aroused Pierce's suspicion.

First of all, this order was issued after Nick Fury was attacked. Does this mean that Nick Fury is hiding there now and watching his actions in S.H.I.E.L.D.?

Pierce thought about it and based on his understanding of Nick Fury, it was very likely that Nick Fury did just that.

Then, Pierce began to think about why Nick Fury would, contrary to his usual practice, call back so many SHIELD people.

Then after searching, Pierce, with the help of his subordinates "Crossbones" and others, finally discovered that the people called back by Nick Fury were actually the subordinates developed by Hydra over the years.

Because Hydra adopts the method of the top directly leading the bottom, even Pierce would not know all the people in Hydra.

It was this discovery that made Pierce's heart tighten. For no reason, Nick Fury's face with an eyepatch appeared in front of him, and he looked at Pierce as if he were a clown.

At this time, when Pierce found out that Nick Fury had called back all the Hydra personnel, he already felt something was wrong.

Then he returned to his office and prepared to think about whether he should run away right away.

After all, if it was a trap set by Nick Fury, Pierce didn't think that Nick Fury would leave him any loopholes for him to exploit, whether intentionally or not.

The only way to ensure his safety is to leave SHIELD in advance and flee abroad directly.

However, Pierce thought about how he had developed Hydra step by step in SHIELD over the years and made it the most powerful branch of Hydra. Pierce was reluctant to give up such a huge force.