Marvel: The Greatest Hero Era

They didn't get Thor back; instead, they got someone else: Nick Fury, a severely injured Nick Fury on the verge of death. "Things are much more serious than I imagined. I don't know who to ask for help anymore," were the first words Nick Fury said to Zhao Chen after they met.

“This is not just a minor matter. If you hadn’t come to me today, and had gone elsewhere, we would probably have heard the news of your death tomorrow.”

"What happened to you? Did your wife beat you up? If so, I have to give her a big thumbs up, she's amazing." Zhao Chen joked with Nick Fury while treating his injuries, trying to lighten the mood. "Activate the defense mode and put my armor on standby." Tony activated the base's defenses and then slowly walked to Zhao Chen's side.

"God, are you really Nick Fury? You're the director of S.H.I.E.L.D., and someone dares to lay a hand on you? Are you secretly keeping a mistress?" "And then your wife found out, and she gave you a good beating. Tell me the location of your mistress right now!" "I need to go there and take care of her. If the reporters find out, you, the director of S.H.I.E.L.D., will be on the front page." (Requesting flowers)

Tony made an exaggerated expression on his face as he slowly walked towards Nick Fury, saying, "Tony, you and Zhao Chen are both bastards."

Although Nick Fury was seriously injured, he has recovered a lot after Zhao Chen's slow treatment. He is now weak, but he can still raise his middle finger.

“Save your energy, Nick. Instead of giving us the middle finger, tell us what happened.”

"You, the director of S.H.I.E.L.D., are injured so badly."

Zhao Chen reached out and slowly lowered Nick's middle finger, then casually asked, "This is extremely serious. I'm not kidding you."

At this point, Nick Fury's face turned serious.

“If possible, you’d better find a safe place as soon as possible. Go and wake up the rest of you right now.” “This base is not safe right now. If they only want to deal with me, they’ll probably just send a few elite assassins.” “But I’m in the Avengers’ base right now. I don’t know how many people they’ll send, or what kind of people they’ll send.” Nick Fury finished speaking, his serious expression still showing how serious the matter was.

“Nick, I don’t think Zhao Chen and I can be called bastards. The biggest bastard is you, Jia Siwei. Call everyone down here right now.” “At the same time, activate the underground emergency shelter.”

Chapter 705 Emergency Shelter

After saying this to Jia Siwei, Tony looked at Nick Fury. "Did you already know about this, Nick?"

Tony's tone and attitude were very unpleasant when he spoke to Nick, while Zhao Chen, standing to the side, looked puzzled and somewhat astonished. "What were you talking about? What emergency shelter?"

Nick Fury received emergency treatment from Zhao Chen and is now out of danger, but he's still incredibly weak. He spoke to Zhao Chen and Tony with barely any energy. "Let me explain this to you, Tony '657,' you go help the others and make sure everyone has their gear." After Nick finished speaking, Tony immediately left to help the others, and Nick began to explain to Zhao Chen.

“Obadia Stanislav built a small warehouse beneath this warehouse. After his death, we followed his business dealings and found this place.” “This place appears to be just a Stark Industries warehouse, but it was actually one of Obadiah Stanislav’s largest underground weapons depots.”

The Avengers' base was chosen here because Nick Fury guided Natasha to select it, and after that, Tony carried out the construction here.

Finally, Tony discovered the place. Nick Fury knew Tony's personality would definitely be altered; he would either use it as a secret base or a refuge. Nick Fury pretended to know nothing and let Tony do as he pleased—this was also Nick Fury's method of monitoring the Avengers. After Nick Fury's words, Zhao Chen understood everything and grinned at Nick.

However, the smile was extremely unpleasant, and Zhao Chen then slowly spoke.

"Nick, you're destined to be alone for the rest of your life. You have no friends, no family. You're a complete bastard." Nick Fury was indifferent to what Zhao Chen said.

"I'm not a superhero, but what I do is what I think is the greatest thing in the world, except that I do it using some rather despicable means." "And I'm used to it. I have no friends, no family, I'm all alone, and no one talks to me."

While the two were talking, the rest of the Avengers came downstairs. The situation was very urgent, and Tony led the others straight to the door.

Nick Fury was very weak and unable to walk, so Zhao Chen tucked Nick under his arm and channeled his internal energy into him to help heal his injuries.

The others followed Tony across the lawn to the edge of the woods, where Tony then told them to stop.

Tony looked down and found a stone bench, then pressed his right hand under the bench, and a green light appeared.

A green numeric keypad appeared where Zhao Chen was pressing his hand, and Tony entered the password on it without thinking.

The stone bench started to shake. Tony waved his hand behind him, signaling everyone to take a few steps back. A few seconds later, the stone bench and the stone bricks beneath it rose up...

Then a staircase appeared in front of everyone. Tony ignored the others and went in first. The others didn't ask any questions or say anything, and followed suit.

They walked down a long way, not knowing how deep they went, until they reached the top of the stairs and stopped.

They are now facing an elevator that is twice the size of a normal freight elevator.

“This place is actually an emergency exit. There used to be a very hidden entrance here, but I sealed it off.”

"I intended to use it only when absolutely necessary, but I didn't expect that bastard Nick to have known about this place all along," Tony explained to the others. Nick, standing to the side, showed no embarrassment and then spoke up.

"Actually, I didn't want to come here, but right now, the only people I can trust, and who have the ability to save me, are you." "Nick, did you encounter Hydra?"

Just then, Peggy 4.1 Carter suddenly spoke up and asked a question.

Peggy Carter looks younger than Nick Fury, but she's considered his senior, and Nick still treats her with great respect. "Ms. Carter, you guessed it, it's Hydra, and the situation is much more serious than I imagined."

“I previously thought they only had people planted within S.H.I.E.L.D., but it's not just within the Security Council or among the department's higher-ups.” After Nick Fury finished speaking, Peggy Carter didn't ask any more questions, thinking she would wait until everyone was seated before continuing.

Chapter 706 experienced violent shaking.

The shelter was dug very deep, and Zhao Chen, standing inside the elevator, could feel that the elevator they were riding was moving very fast.

Although they were quick, they stayed in the elevator for about twenty or thirty seconds before stopping and getting out.

As soon as the elevator doors opened, I saw a very large conference table, along with a row of chairs, and on top of that were some computers and control panels for the equipment.

Further inside, you can see fitness equipment, a tea room, and many rooms with closed doors on both sides. From this, you can tell that this is a well-equipped underground base.

They walked over to the chairs, chose one, and sat down. Zhao Chen sat next to Nick, his other hand resting on Nick's shoulder, showing no intention of letting go. "Alright, now let's hear from Director Nick Fury about the situation. It's very safe here at 23. We're currently over 100 meters underground." "Even if those people send out a lot of missiles, it will only cause a slight tremor; it won't have any real impact." Tony slapped the table and spoke. As soon as Tony finished speaking, the underground base they were in began to shake violently, knocking Betty Ross and her chair over.

Not only that, but a lot of dust appeared in the cracks of the ceiling above them, falling on everyone. Even Zhao Chen had a hard time stabilizing himself.

Although there was a violent shaking, Zhao Chen was fine. However, the shaking came so suddenly that he almost threw Nick Fury out of the room.

Zhao Chen steadied himself and steadied Nick Fury beside him, then loudly questioned Tony, "Is this a mere sway? Tony, don't you know what a 'slight sway' means?"

"They probably used something really powerful. It's strange that this thing could cause such a huge shaking in our underground base."

"Nick, damn it, we're 100 meters underground now. I want to ask if 100 meters underground is still considered 'Yo'? Can I rush out now and kill that one-eyed pirate captain?" Tony Stark was extremely frustrated, whether it was his home, his building, or the Avengers' base.

None of the buildings that belonged to him, or those he particularly liked, or those he frequently visited, remained intact; they were all subject to various forms of damage. "Tony's in trouble. Let's have Nick Free speak first, let him tell us what's going on. It seems the situation is indeed quite serious," the captain said at this moment.

"This is serious, guys. Just now, our base was blown up. It was our base. Are you all so calm?" "Banner, and Clinton, tell me, isn't it a big deal that our base was just blown up like that?" Tony Stark hadn't recovered from what had just happened.

“Actually, I don’t really care about this, because the house is yours, Tony. You’re so rich, I don’t think you should be bothered by this,” Banner said when Tony asked him.

"If that was just a slight tremor, what would happen if there was a really big tremor? Would the light bulbs above our heads fall down and hit us?" Hawkeye said after Banner finished speaking. "Sigh."

Tony looked at Banner and Clinton, and the two of them couldn't help but sigh.

"Alright, you win. Now let's hear Nick's story about saving the world."

Nick is currently being supported by Zhao Chen, who needs to continue channeling his internal energy into Nick. Otherwise, Nick will be too weak and may have to gasp for breath after only a few words.

They didn't know when Nick would finish telling them everything, so Zhao Chen could only continue healing Nick to help him recover some strength.

After the previous great battle ended, Hydra slowly surfaced, including Brock Rumlow, whom they already knew.

There were eight Hydra agents infiltrating S.H.I.E.L.D. Nick Fury captured them all and imprisoned them in separate rooms.

They are interrogated every day, but they are incredibly stubborn and won't answer no matter how they are questioned.

The interrogation process was also very difficult. Two days later, six of the eight Hydra members died suddenly, and the whereabouts of the other two were unknown.

At this point, Nick Fury realized that there might be more Hydra agents within S.H.I.E.L.D. than just these few; other Hydra agents might be lurking inside, perhaps even high-ranking ones.

Chapter 707 Insight Plan

Then came the S.H.I.E.L.D. purge, which was Nick Fury's covert investigation, while secretly, he also had Agent Hill review the mission records.

The other party is Hydra, and they must have their own purpose in coming to S.H.I.E.L.D. Since they have a purpose, they will leave some clues unintentionally.

The investigation on the surface resulted in the arrest of many people, but these were all small fry, people that Hydra had sent to S.H.I.E.L.D. to find out about, and they were all their scapegoats.

Whether these people are arrested or not is irrelevant; it doesn't make much difference. Hydra and Nick Fury are well aware of this, and they are both stalling for time.

Agent Hill's covert investigation uncovered increasingly alarming findings, including the disappearance of the female supporting character's scepter, which should have been in the S.H.I.E.L.D. warehouse.

In addition, there were also significant loopholes in the records of other items or missions, all of which Agent Hill told Nick Fury.

When Nick Fury found out, he was very surprised, but he didn't show it. However, he did a lot of things in secret.

He slowly filtered out those who were absolutely loyal to S.H.I.E.L.D. and couldn't possibly be Hydra, while simultaneously trying to create a large net to wipe out all the Hydra agents.

However, before weaving a grand scheme, Nick Fury needs to bring all of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s current plans and activities to a halt.

We don't know the location of Hydra within S.H.I.E.L.D., nor how many of them there are. Many of our plans are no longer viable.

One of the plans was Project Insight, and Nick Fury quickly located Alexander Pierce, the former director of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Tell him to stop Project Insight, and Alexander Pierce immediately agreed after Nick Fury's request.

Furthermore, he stated that he would approach the security council members to persuade them to agree to halt Project Insight.

After talking with Alexander Pierce, Nick Fury returned to his office.

When Nick Fury returned, he wanted to view some files, but found that he couldn't view any of them. He was told that his access had been restricted and he was no longer authorized to view them.

Nick Fury never expected that he would be the one whose account was frozen, which meant that his access had been tampered with.

Nick Fury immediately realized something was wrong and left S.H.I.E.L.D., which was now fraught with danger.

He simply summoned Agent Hill, the only person he could trust, to stabilize the situation at S.H.I.E.L.D., while Nick Fury was attacked halfway there.

The other side deployed law enforcement officers and blocked off all the streets in the vicinity.

Judging from this situation, Nick Fury knew that it couldn't have been orchestrated by just one of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s agents.

After Nick Fury finished speaking, everyone fell silent. They hadn't expected that these people were carrying out Project Insight, monitoring all of humanity.

The plan was intended to nip all dangers in the bud, eliminating them before they became a major threat.

The plan had an undercurrent of malevolence that made it hard for everyone to breathe, and Zhao Chen, who was standing to the side, also showed anger on his face.

He even tried to remove his hands from Nick Fury. Zhao Chen really didn't want to save someone like him, but they needed him now.

Since Nick Fury needed to tell them more, Zhao Chen could only continue to place his hand on Nick's body and transfer his internal energy to him to help him feel better.