New York, Long Island.
In a large manor, Gideon Malik, the leader of the Malik family, is standing in his study, looking at the outside courtyard quietly through the floor-to-ceiling windows.
The sunlight shone on the window, refracting the light on a document on the desk, and glowing white shimmer.
Bang bang…
The sudden knock on the door called Roar back his thoughts from the memory of decades ago.
"Come in."
Turning around, Gideon Malik saw his daughter, Stephanie.
"Father, Lord Pierce is here…"
Nodding slightly, Gideon Malik waved his hand and said, "Please come over."
"OK."
Moments later, Alexander Pierce, the former director of S.H.I.E.L.D and now a member of the World Security Council, sat opposite Malik.
Knocked on the file on the desktop, Malik asked Pierce: "How is your investigation?"
Pierce pushed the black-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose and said, "It's almost done."
Malik picked up the whiskey on the table and took a sip, "Tell me, this Avengers plan, can we control it in our hands?"
Pierce frowned tightly, and the folds on his face became deeper:
"It is very regrettable that after my contact with the other people on the list, I think it is difficult for us to gain control of this team."
Hearing these words, Malik couldn't help but look up at Pierce and asked, "Why?"
"In the primary list submitted by Fury, apart from Tony Stark, an uncontrollable billionaire, the other three are Fury's confidants…"
Malik interrupted briefly: "You mean, Scavenger, Black widow and Hawkeye?"
"That's right!" Pierce nodded slightly, and continued: "The three of them, the most loyal to Fury, is Hawkeye."
"He accepted Fury's recruitment a long time ago and joined S.H.I.E.L.D. Now he is one of Fury's henchmen. If we want to pull him into our camp, the result is obviously futile!"
"What about the other two?" Malik frowned, and continued to ask: "I have read the files of these two people. They both joined S.H.I.E.L.D last year. Their loyalty to Fury should not be too high."
"It is a pity that the difficulty of recruiting these two people is also very high."
Facing Malik's slightly puzzled gaze, Pierce had no choice but to continue to explain: "The "scavenger" Leon Coulson is the nephew of Fury's confidant Phil Coulson."
"Although he has just joined S.H.I.E.L.D not long ago, he has been promoted from a fourth-level agent to a sixth-level agent in just six months."
"Fury is very optimistic about him. This is already a well-known secret for the entire S.H.I.E.L.D."
Feeling a bit dry, Pierce also picked up the whiskey on the table, took a sip, and then said:
"As for "Black widow", according to my investigation, she defected to the Red House and joined S.H.I.E.L.D to a large extent because of Leon Coulson."
"The relationship between the two does not seem to be simple."
Pierce's explanation made it easy for Malik to come to a conclusion: "So, this Leon Coulson, is this a breakthrough for us to control this team…"
At this moment, Pierce suddenly said, interrupting Malik's thoughts:
"Apart from the Avengers Project, I do have an interesting news that I want to share with you."
Malik stared at Pierce closely with those turbid eyes, and asked, "What is it?"
"I found the outsider who sneaked into the Roxon underground facility and stole all the research data."
Malik frowned and immediately thought of something, and then asked: "You mean, this person is in S.H.I.E.L.D?"
"Yes, that person, it is…"
"Leon Coulson!"
For Pierce, who has level 10 permissions, the entire S.H.I.E.L.D is transparent!
Regardless of any confidential task, as long as it is recorded, he can check it.
Even any secret that Fury personally listed as a level ten secret…
Hearing this news, Malik was a little unexpected.
However, this is also good news.
Although the cooperation with Roxon was handled by Baron Strucker.
However, because this plan is too important, it is of great significance to HYDRA's cause of ruling the world.
Now that the foreign invader has been found, he must pay the price!
After lowering his head to meditate for a while, Malik raised his head, looked at Pierce, and whispered in a hoarse voice:
"In this case, for this Leon Coulson, we have only one choice…"
At the moment, Malik's tone suddenly became murderous:
"Any obstacle that hinders our great cause must die!"
Along with Malik's voice, an autumn breeze suddenly blew in the courtyard, which took away a yellowed leaf from the tree.
This slowly falling dead leaf seems to indicate something…
. . .
Returning to his New York residence from Malik Manor, Pierce kept calling himself under S.H.I.E.L.D's number one man in front of him.
"Sir, what do you need me to do?"
Looking at John Garrett standing in front of him with his hands on his back, Pierce picked up the cup on the table and took a sip of water. After feeling that his throat was not so dry, he whispered:
"I need you to get rid of Leon Coulson!"
John Garrett didn't ask why, but thought about it, and in a slightly hesitation tone, he asked, "Do you need me to wake him up?"
"No!" The tone rose sharply, Pierce's tone of voice was unquestionable: "His existence cannot be exposed. I need you to find other means. It is best that no one can know, that is ours. …"
John Garrett nodded slightly, expressing his understanding.
Immediately, he seemed to have thought of something and proposed:
"Sir, I have received news that a killer group called "The Hand" in New York is searching for a young brown-haired man recently. I have seen the portrait and it seems to be very similar to Leon Coulson."
"Maybe, we can start from here…"
Pierce nodded slightly, "Well, I'll leave this to you."
"Yes!"
Watching his subordinates leave, Pierce came to the floor-to-ceiling window, overlooking the night of New York. He could not help closing his eyes and sighing softly: "In order to make this world a better place, some small sacrifices are nothing else…"