The night was inky, and flawless white snowflakes fell from the heavy lead-like clouds, fluttered with the north wind, and finally fell on the frozen Potomac River, where the heavy snowfall lasted for several hours, covering the thick ice with a layer of snow seven or eight centimeters deep.

The north wind is howling, the snow is sad, the sky and the earth are the same, everything is white, and there are almost no other colors, and the magnificent Trident Building, in this heavy snow, seems extraordinarily small, and this iconic building cannot be seen from a little distance.

Similarly, even if you stand on the top of a building hundreds of meters high, you can only see snowflakes reflected by the searchlights, and the city lights in the distance are blocked by snowflakes flying in the sky, so that Alexander Pierce can no longer enjoy the lights of the White House, the center of power of American imperialism.

It's four o'clock in the morning, and it's silent, but Alexander Pierce doesn't feel sleepy at all, standing by the window with a gloomy face, looking at the snow outside the window in a daze, the heavy special glass isolates the biting cold wind, and the warm air blown by the air conditioner makes the room feel like spring, but it can't make Alexander Pierce feel a little warm.

He had just finished a video conference, the ninth in a week, in which senior Hydra officials had come together to discuss how to deal with the crisis and identify the enemies that remained in the shadows.

As in the past few meetings, only at the beginning of the discussion calmly, to the back is a fierce quarrel, the public says that the public is reasonable, the mother-in-law says that the mother-in-law is reasonable, one by one the old men who are over half a hundred years old, the quarrel is blushing and the neck is thick, but the per capita education doctor is crazy to greet each other.

The root of it is that the leak was found inside, the leak of the Zola algorithm, the sudden transfer of Coulson, and the fact that Nick Fury did not have the permission to delete it... Everything made the veteran agents suspect that something was wrong within.

If the previous S.H.I.E.L.D. information leaked, it may have been done by Stark; The leakage of Helicarrier's data and insight plan may have been the work of former S.H.I.E.L.D. agents such as Coulson or Hill; So the leakage of confidential information such as the Zola algorithm is so detailed, it is necessary to wonder if there is something wrong internally.

This is an extremely serious matter, if the Hydra really appeared with an inner ghost, when did it appear? Whose downline is he? How much intelligence was revealed?

Not to mention anything else, just proving to the world that Hydra is still 'alive' is enough to cause Hydra a lot of trouble, and now all kinds of evidence suggest that Hydra's existence is probably not a secret, or I don't know if the Avengers or Coulson's side knows about it.

Hydra is to prepare for the worst, and Alexander Pierce has already begun to implement it, allowing the unexposed Hydra agents to continue to lurk, and the exposed criteria are that they have not been transferred to Trident headquarters or promoted to key positions.

There is also an internal screening of Hydra's secret base, which is unprecedentedly strict, and such a large-scale operation has led to the suspension or even cancellation of many experiments and operations, which has made some senior Hydra cadres who are scientists extremely dissatisfied, which led to quarrels as soon as the meeting began.

Alexander Pierce is not as easy as them, because he is on the bright side, his people are the most involved with S.H.I.E.L.D., if something really happens, the other Hydra can continue to hibern, the loss will not be too great, and he will lose 99% of the personnel.

A bad old man with no subordinates and no power, under the strict hierarchy, who will take you seriously, this can be referred to Baron Straker, whose base was dismantled by Kamen Rider and Hela, and now sits in a wheelchair under the fence, relying on Pierce to give a central base to continue his experiments.

This is still Pierce who gave him a base after seeing that he had made achievements, otherwise he would not care whether he lived or died at all, and this is what happened to Pierce after he lost power, from a big man on top to a worthless little man.

Of course, Hydra will arrange a beautiful environment for the nursing home to live in, and there is no need for food and clothing, provided that Hydra can always exist. But if you lose power, it is better to kill these big people directly.

Alexander Pierce did not want to fail, and did everything he could to find the leaker, gag him, and prevent him from talking nonsense, although the current situation is still bad, but it can still be handled, and time can dilute everything.

But what makes him anxious is that he hasn't been able to find a clue so far, it's easy to find a person in the vast network, but it's easy to be invisible, depending on your skill level, and Stark happens to be a skilled master.

According to Hydra's style, suspicion can be removed, but the problem is that it is Iron Man, the identity of the billionaire is not his umbrella, but the Iron Man suit, and the Avengers, there is no normal person there, and the assassination that Hydra is best at is a joke in front of them.

As for sending special squads, one or two used to deliver food at all, and even if all the special squads of S.H.I.E.L.D. rushed up, they would all be killed.

As for the use of large-yield weapons of destruction, in exchange for deep mountains and old forests, Pierce may fight in desperation, but that was Manhattan, which hated making trouble in Chinatown back then, and warships did not dare to launch missiles when they reached the open sea.

General Ross used helicopter gunships and infantry armored vehicles, and as a result, he went to court-martial, and if it weren't for Hydra's action, he would have been in prison for a few years of soap, how could he have been promoted and raised.

What's more, launching missiles is not necessarily effective, and the battle of the Zetari invasion, the nuclear bomb fired at Manhattan, disappeared without a trace in plain sight, and it is still unknown how Kamen Rider did it.

"What should I do?" Alexander Pierce was unprecedentedly confused, and it was the first time that he had been an agent for decades and had encountered such a helpless situation, even if he was surrounded by rebels, he was not so alarmed, because those were people, who could kill one with a gun, one bullet.

But in that building, there are monsters, one can't be blown up with a nuclear bomb, another can turn a nuclear bomb into nothing, and another gives him materials, he can make a nuclear bomb by hand, which makes Alexander Pierce, who is a mortal, what can he do, he is also desperate.

"Avengers, Avengers—" Alexander Pierce tried to clench his fists hard, but twenty hours without rest left him exhausted and weak, and his head ached, which did not bode well for an old man.

But the violent snowstorm outside made it impossible for him to lie down and sleep peacefully, and those fools still felt that they were in power, but Alexander Pierce vaguely felt that a bigger storm was still to come, and he must not sit still, he had to do something, even if it was a desperate fight.