"I'm here to protect you."

The nurse, whom Captain Rogers called Kate, also put away her pistol after seeing Captain Rogers.

"Who sent you?"

【"he."】

[Kate didn't immediately answer Captain Rogers' question; instead, she glanced at the injured King lying on the ground before speaking.]

After a preliminary examination of King's injuries, Nurse Kate immediately pulled out a walkie-talkie.

"Foxtrot is injured and currently unconscious."

"Please dispatch rescue teams immediately."

"Have you confirmed the shooter's location?"

"Tell them I went after them."

Captain Rogers suddenly caught a glimpse of the figure seemingly about to leave, and immediately chased after it after speaking with Kate.

[Rogers trusted Kate based on his intuition. Ganujiang told Rogers that Kate was trustworthy, and Rogers' intuition was usually quite accurate. Rogers immediately grabbed his shield, smashed through the window, and leaped several meters into the building across the street.]

"It feels like Rogers is taking revenge on King from before, just abandoning the unconscious King like this."

Ichikawa Kyotaro watched the enemy being chased through the light screen and confidently handed the injured and unconscious King over to Kate. However, from a certain perspective, Rogers might not be as professional as Kate in handling such injuries, and Rogers himself trusted his intuition, so there shouldn't be any problems.

Kyotaro Ichikawa felt that he didn't need to worry about it.

Captain Rogers, having leaped into the building opposite, quickly pursued the fleeing enemy. He traversed walls and rooftops, taking shortcuts whenever possible. When encountering glass or thin doors, he would charge straight through, sometimes even crashing into walls in time to leave large dents.

[After smashing through another door, Rogers saw through the corridor that the enemy who attacked King was leaping down from above.]

[After smashing through the window, Captain Rogers hurled his shield at the man. The shield spun rapidly, sending a chilling whistling sound through the air as it hurtled towards him. The man didn't dodge; instead, he suddenly stopped and turned around. A pair of sharp, emotionless eyes, like those of a ruthless killing machine, met Captain Rogers's gaze. Then, Captain Rogers saw the man's outstretched left hand grab his shield.]

[Instead of dodging, he gripped the shield by the handle, directly squeezing the edge. Knowing that the shield's high-speed rotation would have shattered an ordinary person's arm, this person not only didn't retreat but also stopped Captain Rogers' shield in that very stance.]

[Captain Rogers then noticed that the hand gripping his shield wasn't an ordinary hand, but a metal arm. It seemed the white light he'd seen earlier was a reflection of the light shining on the metal arm.]

337: The Death of Nick Fury

"Hey, you didn't create this guy, did you?"

Deidara looked at the left arm of the guy who attacked King on the screen, which was a gleaming silver metal arm, and nodded to Sasori beside him. In Deidara's opinion, only Sasori would do such human modification, and turning flesh and blood into cold and powerful machinery was something Sasori liked.

Scorpion wasn't sure, since he had only released so much information afterward. But judging from the guy's metal arm, it was clearly not made of ordinary metal. Scorpion guessed that some organization had probably recruited him and modified him.

However, Scorpion felt that such a possibility was unlikely. He would probably hide for a long time and then make a powerful appearance. But if the other party was determined to find him, Scorpion suddenly thought that the Hydra organization might actually do that.

So you've become a member of Hydra?

Sasori fell into deep thought, leaving Deidara completely bewildered as he watched Sasori nod and shake his head intermittently before suddenly falling into deep thought.

[Then the man with the metal arm swung his shield at Captain Rogers. Captain Rogers, naturally, didn't simply grab the shield with one hand like the man did. Instead, he found the right angle, gripped the shield tightly with both arms, and used his abdominal muscles to force it to stop. Even so, the terrifying force from the shield still forced Captain Rogers back several steps.]

When Captain Rogers went to look for the guy, he found that the man was no longer on the rooftop. Captain Rogers ran to where the guy had been, which was the edge of the rooftop. He looked around but couldn't find him; he had clearly lost track of his target.

Outside the hospital, Black Widow Vermouth anxiously drove alone to the hospital late at night. Following the location sent by Captain Rogers, she went directly to his room. As for her apprentice, Hundred Ghosts Gvia, since she didn't live with her and Rogers had told her not to make a fuss, and it was late, Black Widow Vermouth didn't bring her along.

[As soon as Black Widow Vermouth entered the ward, she saw Captain Rogers with a very somber expression, and through the glass in the other room, she could see King undergoing surgery.]

"Will he pull through?"

[Black Widow Vermouth said.]

【"I have no idea."】

"What does an assassin look like?"

[Black Widow Vermouth asked.]

"Fast, strong, and with a metal arm."

At this moment, Agents Twilight and Yor entered, looking at King across from them. Twilight clenched his fists. If he had arrived any faster, perhaps his superior, King, wouldn't have been so seriously injured and was now in critical condition in the operating room. Even though they had successfully brought in the best surgeon in the area, Twilight was still very worried.

"Ballistic analysis?"

"Three bullets, no rifling, completely indistinguishable."

[The Twilight Agent heard Black Widow Vermouth ask, "..."]

"He's dying."

[Black Widow Vermouth noticed King in the operating room and said.]

"The ambulance must be here quickly!"

"Nurse, unfold the sheet."

"Blood pressure has dropped; administer defibrillation."

"Charged to 100 joules."

Inside the operating room, the monitors showed King's life was rapidly declining, and urgent resuscitation efforts began.

"King, you can't die."

[Black Widow Vermouth murmured, looking at King lying unconscious on the operating table.]

"Step back, three, two, start!"

At this moment, electric shocks were also initiated in the operating room.

"Is there a pulse?"

But King's pulse remained unchanged.

【"No."】

"Charging to 200 joules."

The doctor in charge of administering the electric shocks also increased their intensity.

"Three, two, one, go!"

"Does the patient have a pulse after receiving an adrenaline injection?"

【"No."】

As Hoshino Aiku and Aimi watched King being resuscitated in the operating room on the screen, they recalled their own days as doctors performing surgery. However, back then, they were obstetric and gynecological surgeons, primarily responsible for welcoming new life into the world, while the doctors on the screen were responsible for snatching lives from the clutches of death.

"King, you can't do this, you can't die."

[Vermouth looked at King on the screen. As someone who had worked for others and for two different organizations, Vermouth felt like an actress at the brewery, from waking up to closing her eyes and even in her dreams, she was always playing her role perfectly.]

[After being noticed by Hawkeye Shirou and recruited by King as an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., Vermouth, who received the new name Black Widow, also felt that her life was much better than before.]

Captain Rogers also left the room.

"What time is it now?"

"One point past three minutes."

[Huanhun glanced at his watch and said.]

Meanwhile, in the operating room, King's death was definitively declared.

"Time of death: 1:03 AM."

[The Twilight Agent, with his arm around his wife, Agent Joel's, shoulder, walked out of the room, unable to bear looking any longer at Director King, lying on the operating table, already far away from them.]

"No, King, you just let yourself be assassinated like that?"

Saitama said with some disbelief, "As the director of S.H.I.E.L.D., Saitama felt that even if King were to die, it should be in a very important occasion, such as the Chitauri invasion, and his death should have a significant effect, such as the death of the Western agent strengthening the unity of the Avengers."

Now they're telling him that King was assassinated by the enemy.

"I'm just an ordinary person, a mortal with only flesh and blood."

"Since the enemy is trying to assassinate me and has sent such a force, it will be difficult for me to escape even if I want to."

King spoke calmly, as if the person lying on the operating table on the screen was not him but a completely unrelated person.

"Mr. King is so open-minded, he has already put life and death aside. I suppose he was prepared for this day when he took on the position of Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. He is truly admirable."

Genos, standing to the side, looked at King, who remained calm, and said...

Rogers looked at the USB drive in his hand. King had given him this before he fell unconscious; those guys must have come for it too.

338: A S.H.I.E.L.D. Version of the Feast at Hongmen

Captain Rogers clenched his fist, gripping the USB drive tightly in his palm. As something King had entrusted to him before his death, Captain Rogers was determined not to let those people get their hands on it, and he was determined to bring all the murderers of King to justice.

In the hospital morgue, King's body was temporarily kept there. Black Widow Vermouth looked at King lying on the cold bed, now completely gone, a tear welling in her eye. Inside the room, Rogers, hands in his pockets, fidgeted with a USB drive. Captain Rogers wanted to ask Black Widow Vermouth about the USB drive, what the contents she had copied on the launch ship were, and why they had led to King's death.

At this moment, Agent Dusk also entered. Although Dusk was equally downcast, he forced himself to cheer up and, imitating Rogers, leaned against the wall and spoke to Captain Rogers.

"We need to take Chief King's body away."

Rogers naturally knew that they couldn't just leave King's body in the hospital. If the people who dared to assassinate King knew his body was there, they would definitely come and steal it. Captain Rogers felt that taking King's body back to S.H.I.E.L.D. for safekeeping would be much better than leaving it in the hospital.

Captain Rogers walked over to Black Widow, Vermouth, and spoke.

"Vermouth."

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