Institutions such as the Strategic Crisis Intervention and Logistics Intelligence Service have their own bases in various regions of North America.

After 2 years at the agency, Merlin also learns a lot about it. Merlin, for example, knew that somewhere in California, there was a place similar to a secret service academy, near the Nevada desert, that was dedicated to field agents for combat training.

It is said that some of the laboratories involved in dangerous tests are also located in that secret base.

Fury has been there since May. It is said to be to train a group of new recruits that he personally recruited.

Fury had high hopes for this new batch of agents, and at this point in time, it was only a matter of time before the incompetent Kohler, who had been giving him trouble, would fall, and Fury might soon have to regain control of the entire agency, in which case it would be very troublesome to get to work quickly without a group of trusted agents under his command.

After all, in the past 2 years, Kohler's perverse actions have almost left the good foundation of the original Strategic Science Corps almost bad.

Once Fury is back in power, then including Victoria. Hand, John. Veteran agents such as Gatler, Patton, Natasha, and Merlin will be immediately promoted to the middle of the organization, and at that point, the vacant positions they leave at the grassroots level will be gradually accepted by this group of newcomers.

And when this group of rookie agents recruited by Fury himself really grows up, Fury will be able to truly achieve complete control of the organization from top to bottom.

At that time, the Strategic Science Corps, which once shined in the Cold War, will be truly reborn!

Well, though, that's for later.

If everything goes well, it will take at least 4-5 years for this to happen.

"Bang"

Dressed in a black casual suit and carrying a suitcase, Merlin pushed open the door and stepped into the fully guarded laboratory.

Outside the lab, at least 40 heavily armed soldiers are guarded, members of the Special Operations Team of the Strategic Crisis Intervention and Espionage Logistics Branch, drawn directly from the military.

To be able to dispatch this standard armed force means that this time something really happened.

"Fury? What the hell is going on. ”

Merlin walked into the lab and saw Fury standing in front of the dissecting table, holding an ice pack over his forehead. After hearing Merlin's voice, Fury turned his head and beckoned to Merlin.

"You come here first."

Merlin walked over, and Fury stared at him, to be precise, at his face, back and forth, as if to find something. This made Merlin a little strange, and he asked:

"What's wrong?"

"How did you get here so fast?"

Fury looked at Merlin suspiciously and said:

"It's at least six hours to get from New York to California, right? It's only been 4 hours since I called you! ”

"It was Ms. Carter who found me a private jet."

Merlin frowned and replied:

"You can call her and ask, and, what the hell is going on? And this smell... It's disgusting. ”

Fury motioned for Merlin to wait, and he stepped aside and made a phone call. After a few moments, Fury hung up the phone, and then said to Merlin:

"Well, you're true. As for why..."

Fury turned around and pulled the black back from the dissecting table behind him, revealing the corpse of a strange creature. He said to Merlin:

"I was just yin by this guy, and I almost died at his hands. So now, everyone looks like an alien in disguise. ”

"Why do you keep encountering such things?"

Merlin complained that the last time in Manhattan, Fury was almost attacked by a shapeshifter, and he seemed to be very unlucky, always encountering creatures that could transform and disguise.

Soon, though, Merlin was drawn to the strange creature in front of him.

It was a humanoid corpse.

It appears to be slightly taller than Fury, about 2 meters tall. The whole body is covered with green, strangely textured skin that feels like some kind of smooth fiber.

The creature's skin was covered in lines, and it had arms and legs like a human, but its face was more like the elf Merlin had ever seen.

The chin is full of folds, the eye sockets are deep, and it has a pair of sharp ears, no hair, no lips, but it has black stripes on its scalp that resemble hair, which looks very odd.

Merlin noticed that the creature had blue-purple blood stains on its nostrils and the edges of its mouth, which looked very strange. He reached out and lifted the corpse's eyelids, revealing a pair of blue-purple eyes that were the same as its blood. But in that eye, it has completely lost its luster.

In the creature's heart, there are 2 bullet holes, which are its fatal wounds.

Merlin picked up the tweezers and removed the two shape-shifting silver bullets from the wound, and he threw them into the plate on the side, observing the creature's wounds, and he asked Fury:

"What the hell is this? And how did you kill it? Its musculature is well developed and at least twice as strong as yours. If it really wants to kill you, you should already be dead. ”

Merlin asked, and Fury replied with a hint of obscurity:

"This should be... The Skorru. ”

Fury sat on a chair to the side, and he put an ice pack over his eye sockets, and he said:

"If I'm not mistaken, that's what the weird woman called them, and she said that these guys were a kind of shapeshifter. As for how I killed it... Very simple. ”

Fury took out a slightly smaller pistol from his pocket, and said to Merlin:

"After knowing that there are some gods and ghosts in this world, I always carry two guns with me. This monster morphed into the rookie student who went out with me today, and it snatched a gun from me, but I still have one... That's why it's dead. ”

"So what the hell is going on?"

Merlin put on medical gloves and a mask, and was about to begin dissecting the corpse in front of him, when he asked:

"The more you talk about me, the more confused I become. Who is the Eccentric Woman? How did you encounter them? ”

"Don't move!"

Fury stopped Merlin from picking up the scalpel, and said to Merlin:

"A special forensic doctor will come and dissect it. After the autopsy was done, we had to send it to the Bridges and Tunnels Authority, and they would take care of the finishing touches. ”

"Okay, then I'll listen to your story."

Merlin put down the scalpel with some regret, he almost went to medical school that year, and he also chose Potions when studying magic, which proves that he is indeed interested in medicine.

Merlin sat down in a chair on the other side, and Fury began to talk about the bizarre things he had encountered today.

"Early this morning, as usual, I took those rookie agents around the city for reconnaissance and counter-investigation training. As a result, I got a phone call. ”

Fury recalls the events of the morning, saying:

"It was a security guard from a theater who told the police that he had spotted a woman who seemed to be an alien falling from the sky last night, falling into the Blockbuster store, and destroying some things. The police transferred the call to our office in New York, and you know, in the scope of our work, we have a check on all this nonsense. ”

"The New York side transferred the call to me because I was the closest commander to the scene of the crime. So I rushed over. ”

Fury shrugged:

"I also had a rookie agent in my car at the time, and I didn't have time to send him back, so I drove him there with me. Then we were in a phone booth and met a woman. ”

"An eccentric woman!"

Fury accentuated his voice, and he described to Merlin:

"She was blonde, tall, and dressed in a strange green outfit, somewhat like a wetsuit. She calls herself a member of the Star-Troops, she calls herself Firth, and she has come to Earth to find the Skoruls who have infiltrated here, and says that they are going to wage a subversive war on Earth. ”

"Well, it sounds like a crazy person, or a young man who is obsessed with watching movies."

Merlin commented, which Fury agreed.

"Yes! I thought so at the time, and I thought she might well have escaped from some mental hospital, until she blasted a wave of light with her fist in front of me and blew up a wall. ”

Fury made a punch, saying:

"It's like this! Sou... Bang! ”

"Lightwave?"

Merlin became interested, Fury thought about it, and he described it in detail:

"To be precise, it's like a thickened electric current, and it's quite powerful. I suspect it was fired by the woman with some kind of weapon, but I didn't see a weapon on her arm. ”

"Star Trooper, she can also emit light waves, which shows that she is dangerous."

Merlin thought with his eyes closed, and he said:

"It's possible that it's a soldier from another planet. Let such a man with weapons and use the city as a battlefield go on a rampage, no wonder you want me to come over immediately..."

"Nope."

Fury shook his head, and he said to Merlin:

"That woman! She doesn't look like an alien, Merlin. Even though she kept talking about the cosmic translator, I could hear it! She speaks our language, with a northeastern accent. ”

"If it weren't for her ability to shoot light cannons with her fists, I would definitely think she was an authentic American."

"Okay."

Merlin shrugged:

"There's no way an ordinary woman can smash a wall with her fists, and to your description, it doesn't look like magic. Where is that woman now? ”

"She ran away."

Fury said with some obscurity:

"A disguised Skorru attacked us, she saved me, and then she rushed out to chase the guy. The rookie agent and I hurried after him, but halfway through, the real rookie called me and said that I had left him at the scene of the crime. And then this guy! ”

Fury pointed to the aliens on the dissection table, and he said:

"This guy just grabbed the gun... It seemed to want to threaten me, but it didn't realize that I had another gun. That's all there is to the story. ”

"You mean, this rookie in alien disguise even hid from you?"

Merlin asked rhetorically, he knew that although Fury was an ordinary person, his perennial spy career had made him very observant, not to mention that Fury had been with the rookie agents for 2 months, and he was already very familiar with them.

"Yes, exactly the same!"

Fury said with some palpitations:

"There's not a hint of difference, Merlin, and it gives me some fear. If what the woman said was true, and there really was a group of Skrulls who had infiltrated Earth, then they might have disguised themselves as anyone! Like the president, like you, or even... Another me! ”

"Don't be afraid."

Merlin comforted:

"At least you're not in their disguise."

Merlin pointed to his eyes, and he said confidently:

"They can disguise the body, they can't disguise the soul!"

"That's what I summoned you for!"

Fury said solemnly:

"I received the news that there was a motorcycle apology case nearby, and according to the clues provided by the owner of the motorcycle, the car thief should be the woman Firth."

"You want me to track her?"

Merlin asked, Fury didn't hide it, and he said calmly:

"Of all the agents, you're the only one who has the potential to track her down without her detecting her. When it comes to confronting these paranormals and characters, Merlin, you know, I don't have many options. ”

"Do you have a picture?"

Merlin nodded, he lifted his suitcase, and said to Fury:

"Give me more information."

Luckily, surveillance captured her face. Unfortunately, we only have this photo. ”

Fury handed a photograph to Merlin, who took it in his hand and glanced at it. The photo shows a woman in a strange costume, not a very beautiful type, but unexpectedly a touch of heroism.

It's like a real female warrior.

"Leave it to me."

Merlin pocketed the photo and turned away neatly with his suitcase.

Fury stopped him, and he lifted his BP machine and shook it at Merlin:

"Merlin, remember to use this connection!"

"Why?"

Merlin looked at Fury suspiciously, it was already 1994, and more convenient mobile phones had begun to replace BP machines. Merlin had also seen Fury's newly issued mobile phone, which was much lighter than the previous bricks.

"First of all, the information security of this thing is guaranteed. Kohler kept an eye on us. ”

Fury said with a look of disgust:

"That bastard even went all the way to California to try to get our new agent."

"Secondly..."

Fury's face was a little embarrassed, he took out a smashed mobile phone from his pocket, and said:

"This thing shattered during the fight with the Skorls..."

"Uh, okay!"

Merlin shrugged his shoulders, waved the watch with the BP function, and said to Fury:

"Remember to read the message... Wait for my message. ”

Fury watched Merlin leave, and he sat back down at the alien's corpse, contemplating the strange thing that had happened to him, but a few minutes later, the door was pushed open again.

Fury, who was awakened, looked back and saw a guy in a suit and leather shoes and gold-rimmed glasses, standing indifferently at the door of the laboratory, looking at him.

"Kohler!"

Fury frowned and said:

"What are you doing here?"