Chapter 360 Pierce's Funeral
"Director Alexander Pierce has worked for S.H.I.E.L.D. for more than 30 years. He is our predecessor. He is a kind elder and a wise guide."
"Because of some despicable means, the remnants of Hydra lurked in our S.H.I.E.L.D. and launched a split to disintegrate our S.H.I.E.L.D. crisis. Director Pierce stepped forward and resolved the crisis for us regardless of his own safety. We had to leave this natural leader sadly. This is not the shame of Director Pierce, but ours! The enemy has trampled on our dignity!" Hill raised his fist, indicating that he was very angry.
At this time, Qiao Ke's voice came out of her mind: "I'm laughing to death, are you talking about Pierce, haha..."
As the new deputy director of S.H.I.E.L.D., Qiao Ke naturally also arrived at the scene today, wearing a black suit and black trousers which is rare.
"...Stop talking nonsense!" She replied to Qiao Ke in her mind, pretending to cough, indicating that she was a little excited, but she was actually reorganizing the language.
"Predecessors will always leave something for us to learn. What has Director Pierce taught us? It is progress, the spirit of always moving forward, and learning. It is the tenacity of an old man over 60 who is still teaching himself computers and researching cutting-edge big data algorithms."
"S.H.I.E.L.D. has gone through World War II, the Cold War and has been up to today. Director Pierce has contributed a lot. He has led S.H.I.E.L.D. for more than 30 years and maintained world peace. Now this burden has been handed over to us."
Does sending the Winter Soldier to assassinate JFK count as maintaining world peace?Hill also can't say well...
"I see uncertainty in your eyes. You don't know whether what you are doing is meaningful. When the green-skinned monster outside beat the enemy like a sandbag, when the posing in the steel suit flitted the dazzling fireworks in the night sky, and when the strong man in the red cape and holding the silver hammer flew over the sky of New York, I also asked myself, is what S.H.I.E.L.D. is doing still meaningful?"
The agents below are all well-trained. They will not applaud desperately after hearing a few words of chicken soup like ordinary citizens, and Hill's language is not that strong.
"I think it makes sense. People need to see a community. They need to see ordinary people like them fighting on the front lines. They need to see people who are working and trying to make this world a better place. I'm friends with a lot of superheroes and work together. We respect each other, but I will say that S.H.I.E.L.D. is indispensable. It is the link between superheroes and human beings."
"Ordinary people are not a burden, they are the source of our strength to protect the world."
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The funeral ended soon, and Choco kept watching Pierce's coffin until the other was buried. There was no change, and there was no sign of life.
Qiao Ke, Hill, Wanda and others left the scene quickly. SHIELD is now alternating between old and new powers, and there are reforms, and a lot of follow-up events are waiting to be dealt with.
"What do you think? Is our decision really the right one?" Hawkeye and Black Widow have now become alternatives to S.H.I.E.L.D. Many agents now just nod when they see them, and they are no longer as enthusiastic as they used to be. Regarding the early retirement, Hawkeye wants to ask his companions for their opinions.
The black widow didn't respond to him, leaving a hasty sentence to talk about later, and she rushed into the crowd.
At the moment just now, among the crowd outside the church, she saw a familiar figure, which was the reason why she dropped Hawkeye.
An acquaintance, a very familiar person appeared, and her vigilance and desire to explore were mobilized. At this time, how could she have the leisure to think of eagle-eyed thoughts.
Quickly shuttling through the crowd and buildings, the Black Widow found that the steps, occlusion techniques, and anti-detection methods used by this suspicious person were exactly the same as hers, which allowed the Black Widow to confirm the identity of the other party.
He was the instructor of the Black Widow when she was training in the Red House in the Soviet Union, and perhaps the only man she ever loved in this world.
At that time, they didn't know each other's names, they only had two numbers when they were in the Red House, teacher number 01 and student number 1445.
Black Widow's grades in training were not good. Apart from her beauty, she had no strengths. The prominent surname Romanov made her suffer countless injustices.
Fighting, infiltrating, killing, poisoning... She is not as good as others, she was a kind and caring girl back then.
But now everything has changed with her, she is the strongest spy in the world, no one can get rid of her stalking, not even the former instructor.
When turning a street corner, an alarm came from my heart.
She didn't change her face, as if she had expected it long ago. This scene seemed to have been rehearsed countless times. She bowed her head, drew her gun, and at the same time flew her body forward and sideways, and performed several movements in one go.
With a "boom", the silver-white mechanical arm hit the corner of the wall where she was about to appear. Seeing that his shot missed, the Winter Soldier no longer hesitated, rolled to the side, and avoided the black widow's shot.
The Winter Soldier throws a dagger and knocks Black Widow's pistol away before attacking again.
The familiar figure didn't let the Black Widow show mercy. She flew up, clamped the Winter Soldier's neck with her jujitsu legs, and then used her waist to throw him down.
After exerting force twice in a row, the Winter Soldier's feet seemed to be rooted in the ground, and he did not fall down.
She knew it was broken, and the always unfavorable moves were offset by the powerful back strength of the Winter Soldier. The situation of the Black Widow was very dangerous. She could only clenched her fists with both hands and slammed the Winter Soldier's head, trying to stun him.
One stroke, two strokes, and by the third stroke, the Winter Soldier regained his balance. He let the Black Widow hang on his body, like a violent bear crashing into the wall in front of him. , the mechanical hand grabbed her neck.
"You can at least recognize me, right?" Black Widow said quickly without waiting for the other party to exert strength.
The Winter Soldier looked at the familiar yet unfamiliar face of the Black Widow, his thinking froze for a moment, he unknowingly let go of his fingers, and took two steps back.
The Winter Soldier has been brainwashed and manipulated by Hydra all year round, and his thinking is chaotic. He is trying his best to find his own memory. He wants to completely return to normal and return to himself.
But memory is an illusory thing, and it does not depend on the individual's subjective wishes. If you can't remember it, you can't remember it.
Seeing Pierce's funeral today in the news, the Winter Soldier came nearby to watch Pierce's burial with complicated and unspeakable emotions.
He didn't wear the combat uniform, nor did he hang those scattered weapons. Instead, he changed into an ordinary person's jacket, wearing a baseball cap, and observed from a distance.
Black Widow rubbed her neck and stood up slowly. This battle was unjustly lost. She didn't have poor skills, but she lost because of the asymmetry of physical strength between men and women. Of course, there was also the mechanical arm of the Winter Soldier.
She repeated herself again: "Don't you know me yet?"