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Chapter 13
On the surface of the Pacific Ocean, on the floating carrier of Aegis.

The black Airbus spewed a rapid airflow and landed vertically, and finally landed smoothly on the deck of the mothership.The cargo door slowly slid down, and S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Phil Coulson, Level [-], stood behind the cargo door in a neat suit, welcoming the guests who were about to board.

Several senior Aegis agents who had been waiting on the deck boarded the plane along the gangway.Victoria Hand, a black-framed woman wearing black glasses, said as she boarded the plane: "You know, Agent Coulson, there's something called 'telephone conference' now, right? "

"Nice to see you again, Agent Hand." Coulson smiled slightly, and the hatch slowly closed behind them. "Thank you very much for coming as soon as you were notified. I will be there when we reach fifty thousand feet." will explain everything."

He leaned down and gestured: "This way please."

After a brief stop for resupply, the plane soon took off again.Agent May, who was in charge of driving, switched the system to an automatic stance when it climbed to an altitude of [-] feet, and got up and returned to the waiting room to join the conversation.

"The cruising altitude has been reached, 90 degrees above the North Pole." She said to everyone, and nodded to Coulson, "We can start."

"Thank you." Coulson looked around at the senior agents present, and said, "I'm sorry for making it so complicated. But we are doing this to prevent problems before they happen."

"Prevent what?" The questioner was Agent Sitwell, a bald man with round glasses and a neat suit.

"'Clairvoyance,'" Coulson explained. "If he's really a telepath, then we'd better get as far away from him as possible before we start."

"Besides, the Northern Lights might also interfere with his mind-reading wireless signal." Level [-] agent John Garrett shook the mug with the Aegis Eagle logo in his hand, "Clairvoyance is a very long time. Always one step ahead of us in time, he misappropriated our strategic means and caused us a series of troubles."

"I'm sure you've all read Agent Garrett's latest report, and Agent Garrett believes there are signs that we're getting closer to the truth," Coulson said.

"What truth? His identity?" Agent Hand asked.

"The pool of potential targets has been narrowed down to 13," Garrett explained. "I double-checked S.H.I.E.L.D.'s roster of people with special abilities, especially those who have dealt with us but were not included in the end. people. Some of them are thought to be possibly telepathic."

"You mean S.H.I.E.L.D. might have had access to Clairvoyance?" Sitwell asked.

"Think about how many superpower-related cases S.H.I.E.L.D. has reviewed. It's not just possible, it's very likely," Coulson said.

"Okay, let's assume that your guess is correct," Agent Hand interrupted, "If we are really facing someone with the ability of clairvoyance, you already have a plan how to fight him?"

"Break the information into pieces," Garrett said.

Coulson said: "I have a pattern recognition analyst on my team. She can crunch the data, prioritize the people on Garrett's list, locate them, and then randomly break up all of us into groups. We didn't know each other all the details of the mission."

After finishing speaking, he paused for a moment, his eyes swept over the agents present: "So, does anyone have any questions now?"

No one spoke.

"Very good." Coulson nodded, "Then let's start working quickly."

***
The process of division of labor is not complicated.Each agent involved in the operation was issued a mobile phone with a set of coordinates in the phone's memory that would lead the holder to one of the clairvoyant suspects.When the bearer gets within a mile of that coordinate, his partner in the same group will receive the suspect's name and file on their cell phone.

However, since the number of agents involved in the operation is odd, three people must be assigned to the same group in the end.In this grouping, the three happened to be Phil Coulson, John Garrett and Grant Ward.

The coordinates received by the three-person team were located in Indiana, and the mobile phone navigation guided them to an abandoned and deserted electronics factory in a remote location.

"This is really weird." Agent John Garrett frowned and looked at the coordinates displayed on the phone, "There is no one in this place for at least two miles, what kind of suspect would be in this kind of place? Ward , Have you received any information about the suspect?"

Ward glanced at his cell phone: "There is no movement at all."

Garrett curled his lips at Coulson: "Maybe your people got the wrong position?"

"No, she didn't." Coulson folded his hands in front of him, expressionless, "Actually, it's because I moved a little bit in this set of coordinates—just like I also moved in the random grouping process." Like hands and feet."

Garrett was taken aback, and looked at Ward: "What do you mean?"

"Let's skip the nonsense and get straight to the point." Agent Coulson's tone was calm, as if stating an unimportant trivia, "You and I both know that 'clairvoyance' doesn't matter at all. Telepathy, he's just an S.H.I.E.L.D. agent with high-level clearance. Oh no, correct me, you're not even an S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, are you, John Garrett, a top HYDRA agent?"

Both Ward and Garrett showed surprise, and the latter's expression seemed to contain a hint of amusement in addition to shock: "Wait, wait, Phil, I'm sorry, even if it's a joke, what you just said has some information Too much. Are you trying to say that I'm clairvoyant and that I work for Hydra? An organization long since defunct during World War II?"

Coulson remained expressionless: "What makes you think that I must be Agent Phil Coulson?"

When he spoke this time, even his voice changed, and it was obviously completely different from that of the real Agent Coulson.Garrett was stunned again for a moment, and his face suddenly darkened.

"It's you," he said, "'The Black Knight'?"

Coulson, who is actually Michael wearing a digital mask disguised as Coulson, tilted his head: "'Black Knight'? So Fury gave me such an uncreative name? But it's quite interesting Aegis style."

After a pause, he said, "Long time no see, John Garrett. Of course, there is also this Grant Ward, your follower?"

Garrett is Ward's supervisor, and it was he who introduced Ward into S.H.I.E.L.D. In fact, both the mentor and the apprentice are Hydra spies who were placed inside S.H.I.E.L.D.

At this moment, Ward's hand was pressed on the holster, and his eyes wandered back and forth between the two, as if he couldn't make up his mind what to do now.

"I received a message from you last time, Tolander." Garrett stared at him intently, as if he wanted to see through the digital mask to see everything about him, "Are you Dr. Norton?"

"For you, yes." Michael replied, "but that identity was abandoned by me three and a half years ago."

"We've been looking for you for a long time, but we've found nothing. Mind sharing the trick?"

Michael shrugged: "A little magic."

"So you're not going to be honest, but you can't say I'm surprised." Garrett shook his head.

It may be hard for Garrett to believe, but Michael is telling the truth.Five years ago, he traveled to this world as a researcher of Hydra. Three and a half years ago, after defecting from Hydra, he immediately set off for Kathmandu to find the legendary magical holy land "Kama Taj".The protection of magic concealed his whereabouts. Although the Hydra had tentacles all over the world, it could not reach the territory of the supreme mage after all.

Immediately after leaving Karma Taj, Michael created a whole new identity for himself.He changed his appearance with a magic spell, hacked into the US Immigration Service and the federal database, and forged a number one person like Michael Paso without a trace, a brand new identity.

"You're acting like that," Garrett eyed him for a moment. "Since when did you replace the real Coulson?"

"Probably right before you draw lots. The real Agent Coulson should be dozing off in the Airbus storage room right now, but he'll probably wake up in another twenty or ten minutes."

"So you took all the trouble to sneak in, just to expose me face-to-face as a clairvoyant?"

"The first reason is to record the conversation just now, so that I can save a little effort to prove the identities of you two Hydra spies." Michael said lightly, looking away from Garrett and the breath-holding vigilant Agent Ward swept over, "Reason [-], you may also know that I am preparing for a full-scale war against Hydra recently, and I would be happy to let Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D. Get rid of a few superpowers and other rough jobs, but as for the job of cutting off the heads of Hydra, I'd better watch you die in person to feel more at ease."

Garrett squinted his eyes and looked at him for a while, then burst out laughing.

"You are a genius in scientific research, Dr. Norton, I admit it." He smiled, "But you realize that we now have two senior agents with top fighting skills, and you only have one person who is alone and does not bring your A magical piece of armor, isn't it?"

Ward pulled the pistol from the holster, opened the safety and pointed it at Michael's head.

Michael was unmoved.

"You can try."

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