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Chapter 426 If you surrender to S.H.I.E.L.D., the benefits will be huge! (Seeking monthly votes)
Hydra returned to base, ostensibly having successfully escaped Spider-Man and gathered more information. However, Hydra knew that Spider-Man had seen through his hints and that they would soon have another encounter.

He secretly found his only remaining teammate, Sandman Flint Marko. The two had discussed surrendering beforehand, and Marko agreed with Morphling's plan. After all, Whirlwind's death was too decisive and left no room for maneuver; he had been abandoned so easily.

Anyone who sees this will feel disheartened.

“But can this work?” Marco couldn’t help but ask. “You have to understand, since you and I both know that we’re not as loyal to Hydra as we used to be, then the Hydra people must know that too, and they will definitely be wary of us.”

"Of course I know that, so we will never defect until S.H.I.E.L.D. actively provides us with protection and helps us resist the curse. We have to put our lives first."

The water elemental retorted bluntly, "We have to protect ourselves! What are we doing out here? Are we here to help Hydra conquer the world? What a joke! We're here to make money, even if we've been modified, it's still to make more money, even more money!"

Sandman didn't think that money was the only ideal in life, but he was pretty much the same; he just wanted to make a lot of money and then do bigger things. The reason he joined Hydra was simply because only an organization as unethical as Hydra would be willing to conduct human experiments on them and then transform them into superhumans.

Without superpowers, they're nothing.

But now, if you ask them to work their butts out, sorry, they can't.

The Sandman's concern was that Hydra had definitely noticed their little scheme, and if they actually went through with it, Hydra might physically eliminate them. Their core desire was to avoid death, so they preferred to avoid any form of demise.

After discussing it secretly, the two decided to leave a message for Spider-Man the next day to see if he could find it and then discuss some negotiation information.
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"Really? You ran out of someone's bedroom when that giant water giant appeared?"

Jessica whispered about Felicia's ability to bury her head in the table. Felicia was now filled with regret, deep regret. Why had she taken the easy way out and gone straight through the front door? Why hadn't she jumped out the window?

"That was a misunderstanding. I went into the wrong room. Why is everyone so interested in this kind of news?"

Felicia, somewhat distraught, fabricated an explanation for herself. Jessica, clearly unconvinced, asked, "If you didn't have the key card for that room, how did you get in?"

"The door wasn't locked!"

Fine.

Seeing that Felicia clearly didn't intend to delve deeper into the matter, Jessica could only pout and give up. Felicia, exasperated, tossed her hair and asked, "I heard you were saved by Spider-Man yesterday?"

"Yes, that's right, and I've roughly figured out his height. Given enough time, I can find Spider-Man. But thinking about it, what my father said makes sense, and I've already thanked him. Maybe there's no need to find out who Spider-Man really is."

Felicia sighed, looked out the window, and saw something distorting... the air?
No, it's not that the air is distorted, but rather that tiny water droplets are floating in the air, causing the light to refract and distort. This is a signal from the Water People, and it's very cautious.

I wonder if that kid will notice? Peter certainly did. He appeared on the rooftop wearing his stealth suit, and he was invisible. After waiting a moment, he used dew to write on the rooftop floor. As he wrote a line, the water on the ground quickly began to move, forming a new line of words. It was the water elemental beginning to communicate with him.

Basically, the Waterman was asking one question: could S.H.I.E.L.D. guarantee their safety, and when could they do so?

Peter, of course, couldn't give a direct answer. He could only say he had a lead and that everyone should wait, stay with Hydra, avoid causing serious damage, and wait for further instructions. Then Peter began asking the Water People what intelligence they possessed, not needing too much detail, just a general outline.

Waterman understood that this was the stage of bargaining, and he needed to prove to S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Avengers that he was valuable. So the two began a fierce negotiation.

The Water Man's bottom line was to ensure the safety of himself and the Sand Man, and to plead guilty in exchange for a limited pardon. Of course, he initially made various demands, including things like having a tainted witness in exchange for acquittal.

As for Spider-Man, Peter has no bottom line at all, because Fury doesn't think Hydro-Man can really surrender.

His initial bargaining was solely to prevent the Water Man from realizing that S.H.I.E.L.D. was actually playing him, so he tried to project an attitude of "we are indeed considering your proposal."

So the two people, who weren't very good at negotiating to begin with, ended up having an awkward conversation on the rooftop, with one of them invisible and the other not even there, resulting in an extremely inefficient exchange.

Hydra felt like a master negotiator. He managed to thwart many of Spider-Man's initially harsh demands, relying on the intelligence he possessed. This made him realize that S.H.I.E.L.D. actually knew very little about their enemies; they didn't even know Hydra was behind it all. They only knew that a transnational criminal organization was pushing forward with illegal human experiments in a weapons expansion program.

They had a lot of bargaining chips on their side. The water elemental only revealed a little bit of inside information, without even revealing the name of Hydra, and obtained huge concessions, finally finalizing the agreement.

Both sides were very satisfied, and then they went home.

After obtaining conclusive information near Hydra's stronghold, the Water Elemental left. Upon returning to the stronghold, however, it unexpectedly received a peculiar message.

"Spider-Man and his team have suddenly changed their plans? They're not going to Athens anymore, they're going straight to Budapest?"

The water-man was surprised, then looked at Dr. Arnim Zola: "So, are we going to Budapest?"

“No, no need. Budapest is not a place that Hydra agents of your caliber can access.” Arnim Zola laughed. “Besides, we have some other issues, Mr. Maurice Bench.”

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