The Coulson team's proprietary Quinn plane was damaged in the previous battle with the Hydra, and the stealth system also had a problem, and it was only partially repaired not long ago, and it couldn't be driven out yet, so Coulson and the others had only driven an unobtrusive small plane on their previous trip.

But they never expected that when they returned to the secret base, the Quince plane they had been keeping in the hangar would be gone.

Not only that, but the entire base was empty, May, Ward, Skye, and Kenig were all gone, and even all the internal surveillance footage in the base was deleted.

Thankfully, the hangar landing assist system is separated, and the camera moves according to the person's movements, from which they found some clues.

After they left, everything was normal at first, until Melinda left alone with her luggage.

Soon after, Ward left the base with Skye in a Quinn plane, and everyone was explained, but Kenig was the only one who didn't know where he was.

There is no sign of damage to the entire base, so it is not that someone is attacking, no one is invading, and it is not fleeing, but why all their phones can't get through, and not only that, the communication lines of the entire base are middle-sized, what happened, everyone has a lot of discussions, and they can't find an answer.

"Someone's here!" Ling Xiao, who was standing behind everyone, suddenly wrinkled his nose, as if he smelled something, and suddenly some horror appeared on his face, and he pinched the law in his hand slightly, and a fresh breeze was already wafting throughout the base.

"Follow me!" Ling Xiao nodded at Coulson and the others with a solemn face, and although everyone didn't know what was going on, they still followed closely.

Ling Xiao followed the smell of blood in the wind, and led everyone to rush forward, and finally came to the warehouse of the base.

As soon as he walked in the door, Ling Xiao stopped, and after motioning for everyone to come in, he closed the door again, and his eyes fell on the wall behind the door.

If the door hadn't been closed, no matter who came in, it would have been impossible to notice, and there was a dark red blood line behind the door, and the blood line had been left from the ventilation channel above, and what was inside was already self-evident.

"Ahh Simmons couldn't help but scream when Ling Xiao pulled Kenig's body out of the ventilation tunnel, this was the first person she had seen recognized as her companion die in front of her eyes in such a long time.

Kenig's body was found, and a search began, and new evidence was soon found behind a wall painting, only to see that the wall was written in crooked lettering, 'Ward is a Hydra', and the handwriting acquaintances knew at a glance that it was left by Skye.

Standing in an empty room, Simmons performed a simple autopsy on Kenig's corpse, while on the side, Fitz kept walking back and forth, muttering, "Impossible, this can't be, I don't believe how Ward could be a Hydra." He won't, he's our friend, there must be some other reason, sir, maybe someone is just trying to confuse us! ”

Fitz's gaze lingered on Ling Xiao and Tripley, and here only the two of them were unfamiliar to him. Tripley was a member of Garrett's special team before, and although Ling Xiao was a member of the Avengers, how could he not be suspicious when he suddenly appeared here.

"Calm down, Fitz, and hear what Simmons has to say, her autopsy is over!" Coulson's eyes fell on Simmons.

Simmons gently covered Kenig's body with a white cloth, and then he was a little stunned, and said with a somewhat expressionless face: "He died of suffocation about ten hours ago, and it is certain that it was after May left, and it has nothing to do with her." ”

Simmons's words did not reassure everyone, but made people's faces more solemn, the current situation is very sure that there is a problem between them, there is a conspiracy between them, and this person is either Skye who previously worked for the Rising Tide organization, or Ward, who used to work with Garrett on a mission. And these two people, no matter who knows about the Hydra spy, will make them suffer a heavy psychological blow, after all, they have been friends who have been born and died together many times.

Everything can only show that the word friend is too cheap, Simmons continued: "The murder weapon is a thin wire, and Kenig's trachea was compressed and partially cut, which shows that the murderer was in a hurry." Given the angle of the tear, the killer was at least one meter nine tall and strong enough to lift him ......"

Simmons is a little unable to continue, the facts are very clear, only Ward meets such conditions, and only he has the skills to kill Kenigan.

Fitz couldn't believe such a reality, especially after Simmons affirmed that 'the murderer is Ward', and smashed everything he could get his hands like crazy.

"No, no, no, Fitz, calm down." Simmons hurriedly ran over and hugged Fitz and whispered comfortingly, "Okay, don't do this. ”

That is, Simmons was able to persuade Fitz, and when Fitz calmed down, Coulson continued: "Fitz, you have to cheer up, listen, no matter how much anger, no matter how much pain, we must refrain and concentrate on finding Skye." She must still be alive, and she knows that Ward killed the man, and she still goes out with him holding hands, which shows that she is cheating on him, and we must find her before she is exposed. ”

After speaking, Coulson glanced at Ling Xiao, who was expressionless, before he said to Fitz in a deep voice: "Listen, Fitz, we have to fix the communication system, we have to find that plane, can you do this?" ”

Coulson was clearly using his work to deflect Fitz's anger and distract him.

Although Fitz obviously knew that this was the case, he still nodded vigorously, he was going to find Ward and kill him with his own hands.

It's hard for the average person to imagine the feeling of betraying you at a critical moment with someone you have paid full trust to.

Ling Xiao somewhat understood why Hande had to kill Ward and Garrett, and everyone had a heartfelt hatred for traitors.

It's a pity that Ling Xiao has never regarded himself as a member of S.H.I.E.L.D., so he doesn't have a deep understanding of this feeling, but if he puts himself in his shoes and stabs him in the back at a critical moment, this feeling is not difficult to understand.

Seeing the others leave one after another, Ling Xiao raised his head to look at Coulson, and said solemnly in front of him: "Phil, we need to have a good chat!" ”

"Hmm!" Coulson knew what Ling Xiao wanted to talk to him, so he nodded and led Ling Xiao directly into the secret room of Kenig's room.

"Phil, you tell me that Fury is not dead, you didn't tell Ward, did you?" Ling Xiao stared at Coulson and said in a deep voice, "And that task?" ”

"Nope!" Coulson shook his head resolutely before he sat down, sighed, and said, "Kenig said that this was Fury's order, and no one else should know about it except me. As for the quest to find the Psychic Scepter, I still haven't figured it out, let alone told them. ”

"That's good!" Ling Xiao's gloomy face relaxed a little before he continued: "No matter what, the two traitors Ward and Garrett must be eliminated, they know too many things, it's not good, now this place has already been exposed, we must leave, otherwise it will ......"

Coulson knew the seriousness of the matter, he nodded calmly, and said, "As soon as Fitz determines the location of the plane, we will set off immediately." ”

"Let's go, let's go out and have a look." After Ling Xiao finished speaking, he followed Coulson to the office outside, Fitz was quickly operating on the computer, Ling Xiao hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "How is the situation?" Is there any progress? ”

"I used the relay on the jet to give it a function, and the tracking system should be up right away." Fitz didn't look at anyone else, and continuously mobilized several satellite images on the computer, and after a while, a place that Ling Xiao was very familiar with appeared on the satellite image, which turned out to be Los Angeles.

"Finally found, Fitz immediately asked Tripley to prepare the plane, and we set off immediately." Seeing Fitz leave, Coulson looked at Ling Xiao and asked suspiciously: "Ward is a hydra, then Garrett must be alive, Agent Hand should have been killed, it should be the two of them who broke through the refrigerator base, released those people, and got the weapons they needed, but we don't know anything about it, but why take the risk to come back?" ”

Ling Xiao said with great certainty: "It must be you who have what they need here. ”

"What could it be?" Coulson couldn't think of it for a while, and looked back and analyzed: "All our intelligence materials are on that hard drive, they only need to make a copy...... Yes, Skye must have done the encryption program on the hard drive, and Ward must have come back for Skye. ”

(End of chapter)