On the other side, Luke and Selina came out of the window and returned to the car. They immediately removed all the tracking devices from the two men in black suits and threw them into the grass on the side of the road.
The car started up and drove into the night.
In S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Eastern Europe branch, the surveillance personnel were already explaining the situation. "The two targets knocked down four agents and took Carlson and Litt away. Tommy and Fisher were left in the bathroom on the second floor of the bar."
"The two targets returned to the bathroom and checked on Tommy and Fisher. They left again."
A supervisor frowned. "How long will it take for reinforcements to arrive?"
"It'll take at least ten minutes for them to arrive," another staff member replied.
The supervisor nodded and murmured, "What's going on? Are the targets that strong, or did they have companions lying in ambush? "
Of course, he didn't expect that Targets One and Two were actually two groups of four, and not the two people who had appeared on the battlefield.
This time, Luke and Phil didn't attack after the power was cut off. Instead, they used the Thousand Faces system to make masks for Targets One and Two in advance.
This was to make S.H.I.E.L.D. think that they had misjudged the strength of Targets One and Two, and that the two missing people had been killed.
Creating a "missing person" was a technical job, and had to be done openly.
Just now, the two of them had deliberately shown their faces in front of the surveillance cameras of the four S.H.I.E.L.D. agents to make sure that S.H.I.E.L.D. didn't recognize the wrong people.
After this incident, it wouldn't be so easy for S.H.I.E.L.D. to catch these two official agents again.
Even if the other party confessed truthfully, they wouldn't believe it, and would most likely suspect that the two of them were making excuses.
It wouldn't be hard to stall for a few weeks or even a month or two.
…
A week later, Luke met up with Phil again in New York.
After the counterattack in the bathroom in Sokovia, the two of them returned to New York.
The third operation would take place here, but it would take a little longer.
There was nothing they could do about it.
They suspected that the targets wouldn't completely follow Nick Fury's plan.
Nick Fury had to arrange things flawlessly so that Hydra wouldn't notice any traces of human manipulation.
Three people were arrested in the first two operations, and none of them were wrong. All three were members of Hydra.
They had given up eight Hydra members in S.H.I.E.L.D. Apart from Garrett, who had long been targeted, the highest level was only level four.
Obviously, they did not come into contact with other senior members of Hydra.
But neither Nick Fury nor Luke were disappointed. On the contrary, they were very satisfied.
This meant that they were on the right track.
These people who have confirmed the identity of Hydra will expose more people.
However, Luke and Nick Fury had very different ideas.
Nick Fury's mood is much heavier, as Hydra's lurking is not only a fact, but the scale is also rapidly exceeding his expectations.
Luke, on the other hand, "listened" to SHIELD's intelligence report from the three Hydra members.
Subconsciously, these people were dismissive of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Their evaluation of S.H.I.E.L.D. was basically equivalent to Hydra's "meat on the chopping board."
Nick Fury might still be fantasizing about saving S.H.I.E.L.D., but Luke was already scheming.
According to the thoughts of these Hydra members, S.H.I.E.L.D. can't be saved!
If ten to twenty percent of the people in a secret agent organization were to be quietly corrupted by another secret agent organization, then no purge would be able to save it.
Because no one could prove the innocence of the rest.
Even if someone directly killed dozens of Hydra members, it might be a ruse.
Nick Fury's opinion didn't matter at all. In any case, the five members of the World Security Council would never trust this organization again.
Thus, Luke basically sentenced S.H.I.E.L.D. to death.
If it were anyone else, the most likely outcome would be three consecutive — sorry, there's no saving it. Goodbye.
But for the sake of the experience and credit points, Luke felt that he had to help Nick Fury.
Well, as for whether S.H.I.E.L.D. would still exist after he helped? What did that have to do with Luke? It wasn't like he had Hydra corrupt S.H.I.E.L.D.
He was just a diligent and enthusiastic hero who didn't ask for anything in return for maintaining world peace and stability.
Phil's mental state wasn't bad.
Although he had been working overtime recently, Luke had helped him quickly get started with the Kunlun Qi Refinement Technique many times.
Phil was someone who had some talent for Qi Refinement, and could quickly enter a state of cultivation, which was much better than Robert, who could barely get started after thirty minutes.
The Kunlun Qi Refinement Technique, on the other hand, could greatly relieve fatigue.
Selina's sleep time was reduced to five hours, and that was with a lot of physical training every day.
For someone like Phil, who mainly used his brain, he would be full of energy after two hours of training every day and three or four hours of sleep.
After meeting up with Luke in New Jersey and handing over the operation intelligence, Luke sent him for training.
S.H.I.E.L.D. was a broken ship that was destined to sink, and Phil definitely wouldn't jump ship early.
If he didn't kill Hydra, who had destroyed it, he wouldn't be able to live up to his youth in S.H.I.E.L.D.
Thus, Luke had to increase Phil's survivability as much as possible so that he wouldn't be buried with S.H.I.E.L.D.
As long as Phil was fine, he would be Luke's best "guide."
For example, with a phone call, the thugs would be in place, and the Hydra would be captured and attacked. This could become the norm.
Luke also had to worry about local law and order when he killed gang members.
Even if he killed ten thousand Hydras, the world would only be safer.
In this regard, Hydra, the Hand, the Fraternity, and the top of the High Table were all similar targets. It was efficient, safe, and didn't have any side effects.
If he invested a little more in Phil now, the returns would be greater in the future.
After an hour of training, Phil was sweating profusely and panting as he paced around Luke.
Luke stopped what he was doing and stretched. "Ask me anything you want to know."
Phil smiled. "Why do you hate Hydra so much?"
Luke got up and poured himself a cup of coffee. He grabbed a can of juice and tossed it to Phil. "I don't hate it."
Phil opened the bottle and took a sip of juice. He asked in confusion, "But now …"
He gestured at the computer and the warehouse to show that he didn't understand what Luke was doing.
Seven Dipper definitely wasn't an official. His hands were too evil, and he had killed more bad guys in one go than Phil had done in his entire life.
He didn't seem like a homicidal maniac either.
That was because a homicidal maniac didn't care about whether the target was good or bad. As long as they could satisfy the conditions in their hearts, they wouldn't be able to control themselves.
Luke, on the other hand, was clearly only targeting criminals.
Apart from the fact that he went overboard, he wasn't much different from Batman.
Pondering for a moment, Luke asked, "Do you know anything about China's culture?"
Phil was stumped for a moment. "A little."
Luke said, "What I'm doing is punishing evil. In China's culture, this is also a way of doing good. So, I'm just saving people. "
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