Three-stream detection simulator

"It turns out that there are many enemy undercover agents in SHIELD, and they haven't discovered it yet." Sibida's pupils stood up, and she said with enlightenment, "This is the real trump card, Nick Fury will definitely beg for it. I'm not allowed to tell anyone, so that I can use S.H.I.E.L.D. as an ATM, and if I have cat food, Hehe will have your breakfast... But that's not right."

It flicked its tail and asked: "If all the undercover agents are dead, why are there still people attacking our plane? Even if they are not all dead, hiding still is better than jumping out to show their presence."

You must know that this is not a time when people know nothing about undercovers. At that time, it was reasonable to nip the risk of exposure in the bud, but after the attack on SHIELD, everyone began to doubt internally and forcibly attacked SHIELD. The detective hired by the bureau only confirmed his identity as a traitor.

Hercule did not deny it, but asked an irrelevant question: "Who do you think killed the enemy undercover?"

"The Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. hiding in the dark...?"

"Well, if he confirmed the list of traitors in the bureau through some means, then why not deal with it openly but resort to assassination?"

"Perhaps it's because those people's positions are very important. Fury feels that he can't move easily or has no evidence, and he wants to get rid of them all as soon as possible." Xibida gradually felt that it was unreasonable, "He could have stood still and kept secretly He was trying his best. Could it be that he was discovered by the enemy just after he got the list of traitors and was unable to show up to avoid being hunted? The other people in SHIELD did not have enough authority and ability to fight against the undercover agents, so they had to resort to violent methods."

However, the biggest contradiction here is that Nick Fury is the director of SHIELD with real power. If he is really reduced to the point where he has no power to resist, it means that the agency has been completely infiltrated. Even if he wants to send It is also difficult for people to assassinate people. And if he still has the strength to resist, there are a hundred better ways than to directly attack the undercover before the undercover agent is exposed.

On the other hand, assuming that he has a list, he can contact those subordinates who have not betrayed and cooperate inside and outside. If he is not sure who is the undercover, it will be contrary to the results of the assassination that hit the target time and time again.

At the moment, people don't know exactly what happened to Fury, and they can't judge why he behaved like this. But there is actually another possibility, that is, there are actually three parties involved.

"There is another group of people who are more likely to know the internal division of forces in SHIELD in the 21st century than Nick Fury who is in the Bureau." Hercule said.

Brother Cat suddenly realized: "It's the Strange Universe!"

The detective nodded: "And you just saw that one of the founders of S.H.I.E.L.D. is Howard Stark, right? This makes me think even more that someone alive in the Strange Universe has the motive to organize such an assassination operation. ”

"Is that...that one," Xibida couldn't remember the other person's name, "is the one who sent the drawings to the female CEO of Stark Group some time ago?"

Morgan Stark.

She has a special status. Even if she understands the situation of S.H.I.E.L.D., it is difficult to gain the trust of local people from outside to the mainland and reform them, so for her, violence has become the best method.

And she happens to know someone who has the ability to walk around S.H.I.E.L.D. without being exposed. This message comes from something Loki once said:

"She (Morgan) has been hiding for a long time. If Mystique hadn't come to her aid, Hydra's pursuers could have killed her."

Mystique, a mutant, has blue scaly skin and a pair of reptile-like golden eyes. She can change her appearance, size and voice at any time, and her aging rate is much slower than that of ordinary people. She was active in the mutant community when Professor Due to differences in their ideals, Mystique chose to integrate into ordinary society in a low-key manner until today.

So the truth may be this: Morgan Stark managed to give Mystique in the 21st century a copy of SHIELD's undercover list and persuaded her to help. Mystique used her special powers to infiltrate Trispin, Operations Headquarters, and Special Agents. Engineering kills the target and leaves calmly, which makes sense from the timeline.

And this leads to an interesting result, that is, neither the undercover party nor SHIELD knows the origin of the killer. When S.H.I.E.L.D. was scrambling for the sudden attack and the missing director, perhaps the undercover party was also enjoying the same shock and panic——

Who is hitting me? !

"Hydra undercover agents can serve as both senior agents and teachers in the agent academy, which shows that they and SHIELD have been almost inseparable from each other for a long time, just like the vampire vines wrapped around the host."

It was actually hard for Hercule to believe that such an outrageous setting could actually happen in the real world, but he thought about the problem from a logical perspective. Even if he doubted life emotionally, he could continue to reason along the following lines:

"The connection between the Lost Universe and the 21st century is currently cut off, which means that it is difficult for Morgan Stark to find many helpers. No matter how outstanding Mystique is, she is only one person, and it is impossible to directly overthrow the organization. A group of cleansing candidates must be those who are in particularly important positions and are qualified to contact Hydra directly. Killing them is equivalent to cutting off the animal's cerebellum, making it unable to control its body balance for a short period of time."

But in general, those who died, whether high-level agents or cabinet members, did not seem to be so important that they were irreplaceable.

"What was the last job of Nick Fury, the director of SHIELD?"

To be honest, Hercule was even thinking at this moment - would the biggest and most dangerous traitor in SHIELD be the director himself? Otherwise, how could such a large organization become a breeding ground for enemies?

The words and deeds of Nick Fury went through his mind like a video recorder. If this person was an undercover, then from the perspective of acting, it was absolutely fair for other decent people to lose.

"Let me see." Xibida popped out his claws and pressed letters on the keyboard, and gave up after a few seconds, "I don't understand, the screen is full of bird language, you should do it."

Hercule flipped the screen and slid down, frowning: "His friend, US Secretary of State Alexander Goodwin Pierce, was assassinated while on vacation, and Fury went to participate in the rescue and investigation?"

What is the identity of the Secretary of State?

The highest-ranking cabinet minister in the federal government, second only to the vice president, the speaker of the House of Representatives and the president pro tempore of the Senate in the order of succession to the president, is one of the heads of government who absolutely controls national power. The news that he might have met with an unexpected event has not yet been reported. When the national media rushed to report it, it was a big news that was no less than "The Joker attacked Washington". No wonder some agents in SHIELD thought that this was the reason for inviting Hercule Hugo.

In addition, Alexander Pierce is also responsible for supervising SHIELD, and even the director was appointed by him.

So a new question arises-

Who is this snakehead standing behind so many undercovers?

If it is Nick Fury, then the death of the Secretary of State is likely to be done by him. A government official was killed, and in order to avoid mistakes, he had to be there in person, just in time to help the murderer clean up the evidence, but he didn't want to be attacked from the Universe and disconnected from SHIELD.

It makes sense to replace him with the Secretary of State. However, even if the Secretary of State's identity as a werewolf is ironclad, it seems that it cannot prove that Fury is innocent...

After all, he and the other party are recognized as close friends!

Thinking of this, Hercule said to Hibida: "The person who approved the mental damages for you may not be Mr. Nick Fury. The position of the director of SHIELD may need to be replaced by someone else."

Since the people in SHIELD could not tell who could be trusted in a short time, Hercule called the Avengers.

The person who answered the phone was Captain America.

"Hi."

His greeting was not very skillful and seemed a bit stiff, while the detective was more formal than him: "Hello, Mr. Rogers."

"Uh, are you looking for Tony?" The captain just came out of the training room, wiped his sweat and turned back to look for his teammates, "Maybe you can wait here for a while, I guess he is in the laboratory now..."

"No, no, what I want to say is related to SHIELD, and it is more appropriate to inform you than to tell Iron Man."

Hercule roughly talked about his guess on the phone. Anyway, at this juncture, at least one of the Secretary of State and the Director of SHIELD who was in trouble was an undercover agent, so it would not be considered as slandering someone's innocence out of thin air. But he underestimated the amount of information in this passage. Steve Rogers interrupted him halfway and said seriously: "Wait a minute, I need to call my companions over."

"Are you sure they can be trusted?"

"——?" Captain America was doubtful, but still said in a relaxed tone, "This is not something you would say. You have known them as long as I have."

"Sorry, I was joking." Although he said so, Hercule's tone did not sound like he was joking. "The Avengers were led by SHIELD. I have no reason to doubt you, Captain. Your past experience is special enough, but not all of your teammates are like this."

"Is this a joke too?"

"You can understand it this way."

Captain America paced on the spot for two steps and said calmly: "I can also call the Justice League. They are not so closely connected with the government."

Batman and Wonder Woman, two of the three giants of the Justice League, have not had time to set off, because the former insisted on being fully prepared and never fall into the situation of Constantine, who had no food to eat, was half-starved, and had a starfish stuffed in his mouth. This happened to coincide with the excitement of SHIELD, and everyone was surprised.

"To put it simply, the Secretary of State and the Director of SHIELD are both untrustworthy, and although the judgment is a bit arbitrary, you must be more vigilant against the lucky one among them who survives, no matter who it is."

Nick Fury, whose status was unknown in the distance, paused in his survival movements and suddenly sneezed heavily: "Who is scolding me?"

After Hercule shared the intelligence and ensured that the righteous people would not be killed by the enemy, he hung up the phone and rethought the armored man on the plane. As Xibida said, if there were only two parties, the undercover and SHIELD, it would be unwise for either side to send people to attack the detective, but what if the two sides did not realize that there were actually three forces?

SHIELD did not know that there was an undercover or a third party, and they invited Hercule, the fourth party.

Hydra was better than them because they were undercovers, and with someone in the government, they should not suspect that SHIELD suddenly became wise and learned to fight back. However, given that the relationship between the Paranormal Universe and the villain forces of the 21st century has always been based on semi-coercion and semi-cooperation, even if the people of Hydra have heard of or seen the leader of a force in the Paranormal Universe, it is unlikely that they will suddenly find the real murderer.

Therefore, Hydra most likely drew its sword and looked around in confusion, seeing that everyone was an enemy.

In this situation of burning buttocks and leaderless, they have the motive to kill the detective - the third party force only kills people and does not make the information of the undercover to the public. From the perspective of Hydra, this may be due to the murderer's lack of evidence, or Or the murderer is an enemy of Hydra but not a friend of S.H.I.E.L.D. And regardless of whether Hercule Hugo comes from the legendary third party, his appearance as a detective will inevitably be accompanied by the birth of evidence, and then he will really be finished.

The above speculation is based on the fact that Hydra does not know Hercule's "immortality".

This is also the doubt that Hercule couldn't understand and didn't say it out loud: before Hydra, every force with a tradition of immortality in the 21st century was well aware of the setting of immortal detectives, such as the Court of Owls and the League of Assassins. These people never thought of challenging Hercule's only fixed superpower.

How did they know?

It's very simple. Everyone has managed to survive the apocalypse in the strange universe, and let future generations come back to inform them. If those in power had lived longer, they might have warned themselves.

Hydra should have been treated this way. Their leader Red Skull once said: "If you chop off one (Hydra's) head, two more will take its place." This means that fascism and Nazi ideas will not follow suit. disappeared with the advancement of science and civilization. To a certain extent, they relied on evil ideas for eternal life. Therefore, in the timeline of the Strange Universe, Hydra did not die, but became more rampant.

Not to mention that the Red Skull himself, John Schmidt, also lived an extremely long life.

As a result, Hydra in the 21st century is like a fool who is isolated and ostracized. Hercule looked up at the ceiling and thought for a long time. He felt that he could not underestimate his opponent. He stood up and planned to find the wise Agent Hume.

Hibida asked: "What are you looking for him for?"

The detective lifted the cat and stuffed it into his pocket and said, "Let's see if he sees some clues that he didn't realize he had."

Agent Hume was imprisoned so tightly that he lost his freedom. When he saw Hercule he asked excitedly: "Are you here to take me away?"

"...No," the detective said, "But would it make you feel better if I said that when your boss, the director of SHIELD, comes back, you will receive the same treatment as you?"

Agent Hume: "?"

He suspected that this was a cold joke told by Hercule, and said suspiciously: "Then why did you come to see me? I am not a Hydra undercover agent. All the information I know has been reported to my superiors. You can't get it from me." Ask for what you want.”

Hercule sat down on the chair opposite him: "Besides you, the two agents A and B on the plane, who do you think is the undercover agent who released the armored man?"

Agent Hume was suddenly speechless.

After a while, he frowned and asked, "Did the cavalry ask you to interrogate me?"

"No, relax, wise Mr. Hume, I just asked casually out of my own will." Hercule's tone was very relaxed, "Just give me the result based on your intuition."

Agent Hume was silent for a long time. I wonder if he was moved by the word 'Sart' that the detective insisted on using. He said with some hesitation: "I don't doubt either of them. Let me tell you the truth, detective, the one who comes to the plane is the most suspicious right now. The person besides me is actually the first officer.”

First, the cockpit is positioned forward, closer to the access to the lower warehouse.

Secondly, the captain died from a small-caliber pistol shot, but the co-pilot was fully capable of killing the captain, letting the armored man out and avoiding triggering any forward cabin alarm system.

As long as the armored man comes out and adds another blow, that's it.

Hercule nodded and asked, "Have you met the first officer before?"

"...I've seen it." Agent Hume rubbed his chair uneasily and adjusted his sitting position. "We have a pretty good relationship, and we get together to drink on rare occasions. He has a slight tendency to drink, but he has never been delayed because of drunkenness. It's business, so our boss doesn't know this. You see, alcoholism is also a sign. If he is really a Hydra undercover, he must be under a lot of pressure..."

Hercule interrupted his incoherent talk: "Thank you, Mr. Smart, where is the bar he frequents?"

Agent Hume was stunned for two seconds before accepting his new name: "Uh, uh, wait, I'll write down the address for you - God, you reminded me! Is that a Hydra stronghold?! "

The detective ignored the question, nodded to him and left without hesitation.

At this moment, there was another person who had been waiting in the tavern for a long time.

"Ding dong."

The phone sounded an inconspicuous text message notification sound.

The woman sitting in the corner lowered her head and saw the words written on the dim screen:

"From Charles Xavier:

Did you go to Washington? Be careful, there's been a lot of scrutiny there recently. "

She smiled, holding her chin and typing with one hand:

"Believe in my ability, Charles. Besides, I'm not going to engage in illegal activities, I'm just going to meet a friend."