To S.H.I.E.L.D.'s disappointment, Joker had succeeded once again.
Furthermore, he had secretly transported away twenty-four members of the express squad and twelve S.H.I.E.L.D. agents.
Whether it was Rumlow, who had quickly arrived at the border of Vermont, or the police who had rushed into the cargo hold of the Maryland dock, they didn't find a single person.
Even the guard who had smuggled the special item on the cargo ship had been taken away along with the box that contained the item.
Everybody in S.H.I.E.L.D. looked at each other in dismay, feeling a lot of pressure.
Nick Fury, on the other hand, maintained his dark expression as he stood in the hall, his heart almost unperturbed.
He didn't give many orders, and nobody expected him to do anything.
After the incident, they had to investigate if they wanted to solve the puzzle and find Joker.
Although the director was unlucky, he wasn't a psychic, and couldn't divine Joker's whereabouts just by opening his mouth.
Everything still depended on the hard work of his subordinates!
Hating Joker and worried about their colleagues, the S.H.I.E.L.D. staff were all caught up in their busy work.
Luke wasn't in a hurry to make a move. Naturally, he wanted to squeeze out the remaining value of these people.
The previous two bad guys who had been sent to hell had actually been caught and interrogated first, and only started the livestream after they were no longer of any value.
This time, he had to find out which of the thirty or so people were Hydras.
Secondly, how many Hydras they knew, and even suspected targets were also important information.
In particular, Luke and Nick Fury's judgment of the twenty-four members of the express squad was basically the same: there couldn't be a lack of Hydras among them.
He also had the same regret as Nick Fury — Rumlow hadn't come.
He had thought that Nick Fury would trick this guy into coming, but who knew that the guy would be in the first group?
Although Rumlow had indeed been fished to the border of Vermont, Luke didn't have any plans to surround him and attack reinforcements.
It wasn't that he wasn't prepared, but that he absolutely couldn't take the risk of facing S.H.I.E.L.D.
If he wasn't careful, the other party might very well send a mothership to Vermont to ambush him.
That might be an exaggeration, but it really wasn't hard for S.H.I.E.L.D. to lower their standards, dozens of fighters and dozens of helicopters, and more than five hundred mechanized ground troops.
No matter how confident Luke was, he wasn't stupid enough to fight an organized ground and air force head-on.
After this Live Broadcast, Nick Fury may still have some thoughts of catching people alive, but Hydra may already want to blow Joker to pieces.
It was the European branch that absorbed Garrett into Hydra, so it was a relatively unique "snakehead".
So Garrett doesn't know who the higher-level Hydra in S.H.I.E.L.D. is, and he's not even sure if such a person exists.
But several of the more senior Hydra leaders knew Garrett.
Tempting Garrett to rebel was just a habitual behavior of Hydra. No one expected this guy to really become the backbone of Hydra and the backbone of SHIELD after more than a decade.
Garrett is a very important part of Hydra's plans.
Even if they threw him out as cannon fodder in an emergency and let Nick kill him, he would still be able to stall S.H.I.E.L.D. for a while.
Now, such a useful and important chess piece was gone.
Ward is not that important, but he is also a future seed player of Hydra.
Coupled with more than a dozen people this time, Joker has made a big hole in Hydra's arrangement in SHIELD.
In addition, more than fifty low-level Hydra members have also been lost in the sporadic attacks on the agents.
Adding up these losses, the control of Hydra in the Tri-Curved Wing headquarters has dropped by at least thirty to forty percent.
Without this thirty to forty percent control, many of the operations that could be carried out without Nick Fury's knowledge would be unsafe.
That's the trouble with an agent organization.
As long as one's control is a little low, it's easy to detect a problem.
Thus, after Luke (blindly) messed around (blindly), Nick Fury and Hydra both felt that their current situation was a little awkward.
Both sides were reluctant to give it their all and fight at once.
If they didn't take action, the other side's strength would be restored.
…
Putting aside how tangled the situation inside S.H.I.E.L.D., Luke's side has gained a lot again.
More than half of Rumlow's two squads are black-red and extremely evil, which means that each of them is worth at least five hundred points.
After the show is over, these big gifts are all Luke's.
Luke balanced the twelve agents with the twenty-four members of the rapid-fire squad. He swapped the four members of the twelve agents who are also black-red to the rapid-fire squad, and adjusted the eight members of the rapid-fire squad who are the least evil to the twelve agents.
After mixing the two sides, they formed two groups of guests for the new trial game.
After all, there are too many people this time, and the livestream has to save time, so the dichotomy is undoubtedly the simplest.
Originally, six of the twelve agents were yellow neutrals, and killing them would result in a deduction of points.
It's too much of a coincidence that all the Hydra members are going to die this time, so he simply swaps some of the members on both sides to level the numbers and confuse the public.
While Luke was busy at home, Selina opened the hood of the remote chair not far away and sat up. "Okay, the two prototypes have been parked in the designated spots."
Luke hummed in response. "How does it feel to work with Frank?"
Selina tilted her head. "It's not bad. It's pretty simple. Even if he doesn't chat, not even a word, I can't force him. "
Luke chuckled. "Think about it. What did he say during the battle in New York?"
Some memories flashed through Selina's mind, and she nodded regretfully. "Indeed. Apart from orders and responses, he didn't say anything else. "
Luke said, "He's a professional. He wouldn't play around in the middle of an operation."
Selina was vexed. "Isn't it because you led me astray?"
Luke absolutely admitted that, but he still said, "I was just trying to relax you. Think about it, when you went out to beat someone up, you only kicked the hooligan in the center before you were so scared by his screams that you retreated several meters. "
Selina flew into a rage out of humiliation. "I was just afraid of his excrement, alright?"
"That's just saliva. What excrement?" Luke said, "Well, fine, maybe there's also some phlegm. I did lead you astray. Should I learn from Frank when I carry out missions in the future? "
Selina said, "Are you trying to suffocate me?"
Luke said, "Hehe, let's do it as usual."
Selina nodded in satisfaction, before she asked another question, "Is Frank's skull helmet an imitation of Big Dipper? Hm, although it doesn't really look like it. "
Luke said, "That's his own doing. But I had him modify it slightly. It won't look like the skull on the chest of the new Punisher armor. "
Selina had a strange expression on her face as she looked at the video of the Shadow Bear's battle on her screen. "This … bear, it can't be Angel's idea, right?"
"She said she couldn't think of it herself, and asked me to help her make something that wasn't ugly and didn't remind people of the Cage King," Luke said matter-of-factly.
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