Marvel: The Greatest Hero Era

As Zhao Chen spoke, he took out the documents and handed them to the captain and Peggy Carter. After reading them, their expressions turned grim, and they remained silent for a while before speaking to Zhao Chen.

"Zhao Chen, thank you. Bucky is a very important person to me. He is my best friend. When I had nothing, he was the one who stayed by my side."

"Captain, I understand how you feel, but Tony is also a very good friend to me. I believe you can understand that. Our relationship is no less than yours with Bucky."

Zhao Chen said this to see how the team leader would react. After Zhao Chen finished speaking, the team leader fell silent again and only spoke after a long while.

"Zhao Chen, I feel like we're family."

After the captain finished speaking, Zhao Chen burst into laughter. Captain America is a representative of honesty and justice, so the fact that he could say such a thing shows that he was struggling internally.

“Captain, you don’t need to feel guilty. I didn’t hide it from Tony for your sake. It’s because we share the same view on this matter.”

“I don’t think this was Bucky’s fault, and he wasn’t the killer. He was just being used by someone else; he was a tool in someone else’s hands.”

“We need time to resolve this matter, we need the right time. I guess you didn’t intend to keep it a secret forever!”

The captain just told Zhao Chen that we are family, which was actually a subtle plea for Zhao Chen not to tell Tony and to keep this a secret.

The captain is a very principled person, so saying these words was particularly difficult for him.

After Zhao Chen finished speaking, the captain felt a little better. Zhao Chen had just deliberately teased the captain. At this moment, Zhao Chen turned to look at Peggy Carter.

Zhao Chen's expression was very serious when he looked at Peggy Carter.

"Miss Carter, I need your help with something."

Zhao Chen paused here, put his hand on Nick Fury's shoulder, and then continued speaking to Peggy Carter.

“S.H.I.E.L.D. has disbanded, but Hydra has not completely disappeared. There are still Hydra agents all over the world, and Nick wants to gather intelligence on them.”

"This intelligence isn't just for us, it's for the whole world. I hope you can go with the captain."

“You were an intelligence specialist before, and your experience is extensive, so it would be best for you to go. I also want you to establish our own intelligence channels.”

Chapter 734 Departmental Meeting

"Captain, take Bucky with you, and then together we'll pick some people with special abilities for the Avengers and try to persuade them to join the Avengers."

"Captain, given your character and your eye for talent, I think only you can do this job."

Just then, Nick Fury spoke up.

"I feel like I'm working for you guys right now."

Nick Fury said this with a face full of dissatisfaction.

“We are doing this to protect the world, and I don’t think this should be divided into ‘yours’ and ‘mine’.”

Zhao Chen replied with a smile, and the conversation between Zhao Chen and Nick Fury made the captain feel much better.

The captain understood that Zhao Chen arranged for him to go out because he was worried that he wouldn't be able to face Tony for the time being, and that he should go out to adjust his mood, with the work being just a side thing.

"Zhao Chen, I've already said it, but I still want to say it again: thank you so much."

The captain thanked Zhao Chen once again, this time with even greater sincerity than before.

“Steve, you are the commander of our Avengers. We all call you Captain. Consider this your honeymoon trip.”

"Whether you're with Bucky or with Peggy Carter, it's fine."

Zhao Chen started teasing the captain, a mischievous smile on his face. After they finished chatting, they went their separate ways.

In the end, Captain America, Peggy Carter, and Bucky went with Nick Fury, while Agent Hill applied to join the Avengers.

Agent Hill's addition also improved the logistics and communication for the Avengers.

Zhao Chen's plan is to prevent the Avengers from becoming like the storylines he's seen, with only a few superheroes. He envisions the Avengers becoming a well-organized group comprised of various departments.

The goal is for the Avengers to replace S.H.I.E.L.D., and if possible, the Security Council as well. However, they would be different in one way: the Avengers would primarily consist of superheroes.

The Hydra affair was considered over ahead of schedule. Zhao Chen was a little curious as to why the system hadn't given him any tasks this time.

"System, are you there?"

"What can I do for you, host?"

"Destroying Hydra should be a mission, so why didn't you give me one?"

Zhao Chen wanted the mission and the rewards. If there was a mission this time, he could get a lot of rewards because he had completely wiped out Hydra this time.

Thinking about this, Zhao Chen felt like he had lost a hundred million, and he was extremely sad.

"After the last great war, the missions changed. The missions after that all involve Infinity Stones, mainly to make your combat power stronger."

The Infinity Stones are the Tesseract, but Thor didn't bring the Tesseract back with him, because Odin forbade Thor to bring it.

Odin felt that the current Tesseract would only bring disaster to Earth, but he also said that if Zhao Chen needed to use the Tesseract for anything, he could go directly to Asgard to use it.

Zhao Chen desperately wanted to absorb the power of the Tesseract, but this opportunity was once in a lifetime. He could use it to build the framework of the Avengers.

So Zhao Chen chose to stay on Earth. The Tesseract couldn't be escaped, and he planned to go to Asgard to ask Odin for the Tesseract after some time.

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Two days later, the department will hold a hearing on this matter, which is actually an attack on the Avengers.

This incident made them lose face, and they wanted to salvage what little dignity they had left. Zhao Chen and his team guessed what these people in the department were thinking.

This time, they also intend to thoroughly humiliate these people, making them lose every last bit of dignity they have left.

The hearing was held at a resort at 9:00 AM. The department staff arrived early, half an hour beforehand to prepare.

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Everyone had taken their positions and were all in high spirits, waiting for Zhao Chen and the Avengers to arrive.

Aside from the department staff, the media arrived very early as well, making today's meeting a focus of global attention.

On the Avengers' side, only three people attended: Zhao Chen, Natasha, and Tony. Tony had made some special arrangements for their arrival.

Their three cars didn't slowly arrive until after nine o'clock.

As soon as Tony got out of the car, he was bathed in the spotlight. Tony was incredibly dashing, and he thoroughly enjoyed the cheers from the reporters.

Just as Zhao Chen and Natasha were about to go inside, Tony grabbed them, and the three of them posed for photos outside, completely unconcerned that they were late.

Although they hadn't gone inside yet, they had already taken a shrewd move against the department representatives who were already prepared to confront them, turning the tables and letting them know that they weren't to be trifled with.

Chapter 735 Aggressive

The three of them posed for numerous photos outside until the reporters said they had had enough, at which point they finally went inside the venue.

With smiles on their faces, the three of them walked in with great presence, as if they were walking a red carpet.

“This is a serious hearing, yet you are 15 minutes late, no, you are now half an hour late.”

As soon as Zhao Chen and his two companions sat down, those who had arrived 20 minutes earlier, growing increasingly impatient, began to cause trouble.

"I have a question. Has anyone from the transportation department come over?"

Tony said "113" while taking off his sunglasses.

“If no one steps forward, it means no representative is here. I want to tell you that we set off more than half an hour early.”

"But this damn traffic has made us late. I'm complaining about this situation. If you don't have money, Stark Industries can give you some."

"We need you to build more roads or bridges so that we won't get stuck in traffic and can get here on time."

Tony was the one who had just spoken, but he quickly changed the subject to defuse the situation.

"The reason I called you all here for this meeting isn't about transportation. And why isn't Captain America here?"

"Today, the three of us represent the Avengers. If you insist on arguing about why Captain America isn't here, then we'd like to ask you the same question: why isn't your highest leader here?"

They came here today to show no respect, so Tony retorted to every word the other party said, with no intention of backing down.

“Mr. Stark, on behalf of the department, we have something we want to remind you: S.H.I.E.L.D. has been disbanded.”

"Your Avengers are an emergency response team of S.H.I.E.L.D. If S.H.I.E.L.D. is disbanded, you will be an illegal organization, so you have no right to represent us."

Before they could even get to the point, Zhao Chen and his group were already facing challenges from multiple angles.

"Don't you know? The Avengers is a registered commercial company, and we are shareholders in the company. We can fully represent the Avengers."

"Do you need me to have someone retrieve the tax payment records?"

Your language is incredibly sharp.

"Alright, let's get straight to the point. I have a question for Mr. Zhao Chen."

"You were a former consultant for S.H.I.E.L.D., don't you know that S.H.I.E.L.D. has its own intelligence system? Now that S.H.I.E.L.D. has been disbanded, how can it protect our national security?"

They had witnessed Tony's sharp tongue, so they began to attack Zhao Chen.

"I don't even want to answer your question. Protecting national security, isn't that your responsibility? What does it have to do with me? Do you want me to teach you how to do it?"

However, what they didn't know was that Zhao Chen was even better than Tony.

"You caused S.H.I.E.L.D. to be disbanded, and we lost our intelligence sources, which is why the country's security was threatened."

Zhao Chen didn't speak; this time, it was Natasha who spoke.

"S.H.I.E.L.D. is now full of Hydra agents. All the information S.H.I.E.L.D. can give me and you is fake. What use is fake information to you?"