Alexander Pierce was sitting in his office, with many documents placed on his desk, and above those documents, a holographic projection was beating.

"Kill me and let it end in blood."

"puff"

Blood splattered everywhere.

As the projection jumped, Merlin took a step forward, pressed his right hand on Gideon Malik's shoulder, and the sacred silver sleeve sword popped out with his left hand accurately penetrated the chest of the World Security Council director. The knife was straightforward, without any hesitation or hesitation.

The expression on his face also seemed very calm, as if he had done something insignificant.

"Look, it's really cold."

Pierce looked at the frozen picture in front of him, and subconsciously wiped his neck, and he said:

"If one day, such a Merlin stood in front of me, it would be really hopeless."

"So you have to start first."

A gloomy voice rang out from the phone next to Pierce's desk, like an invisible devil who instigated his inner malice, it said:

"You can't let him continue to be strong anymore. Although I don't understand these magical things, if he can defeat an evil god, it means that most of the conspiracy methods you can use have been invalidated for him."

"oh."

Pierce took off his reading glasses and said calmly:

"Your own revenge failed, so you want to kill someone with a knife?"

"IMHO, robot, maybe your data module is advanced, but your conspiracy is terrible, it's just funny. You don't need to remind me that I have my own way, and I have my own plans."

“It’s not the time yet.”

Pierce played with the eyes in his hand, he said:

"I'm even more curious about how you secretly took these pictures? I heard that Merlin had a powerful artificial intelligence to assist him. As far as I know, the eavesdropping machines from various forces in his office have never worked."

Hearing Pierce's inquiry, the Decepticon, who specialized in hiding and reconnaissance after rebirth, said softly:

"By your human standards, Miss Icarus is indeed scary enough, but in my opinion, she is just a little girl who has just learned to walk. If she wants to truly understand the secrets of data and machinery, that lady still has a long way to go."

"But even if I want to explain to you the principle of the 'virtual information beacon' I use, it is difficult to understand at your engineering level. In short, Mr. Pierce, you only need to understand, as long as I want, I can see and capture a lot of things that only stay at the data level."

The sound of the sound wave paused for a moment, and after a few seconds, it said to Pierce again:

"For example, Miss Icarus is about to decipher the data card left by poor Mr. Gideon to Merlin. Mr. Pierce, what exactly did you leave in that data card?"

“That was a surprise.”

Pierce picked up the handkerchief and wiped his reading glasses. He smiled and said:

"After my old friend Gideon died, Merlin still had suspicion. I could feel that he still didn't believe that Hydra would die, and so did Fury. To make them completely relieved, they had to take the last step and make some sacrifices. But fortunately, I had prepared for it for a long time."

Pierce put his glasses back in his hand. He picked up his water cup and walked to the office window. He looked at the city in front of him. He took a sip of water and said softly:

"As for acting, you always have a happy ending."

On the other side, in the Trident Building, in Merlin's office, Miss Icarus' deciphering of the data card has reached its last step.

Merlin leaned against the office chair, on the lens in front of him, and in the screen of the data flow in his left eye, the progress bar in front of his right eye was growing slowly.

He was really curious about what kind of information was hidden in the data card obtained from Gideon.

"Cracking is completed."

Accompanied by Icarus' gentle voice, the cracked and complicated data were completely expanded in front of Merlin in the form of documents or photos.

That is a summary of many tasks, as well as various financial reports. This should be the "work summary" within Hydra, including some personal information about Gideon Malik.

But there is no information about the personnel Merlin wants to see.

Think about it, Hydra, who has been fighting with S.H.I.E.L.D. for so many years, shouldn't be stupid enough to leave a list that records all the information of the personnel. To be honest, if that list really appears, Merlin would doubt its authenticity.

"Search this information, Icarus."

Merlin said:

“Find out the most valuable ones.”

"Hold on."

The chaotic data and information in front of Merlin began to be quickly arranged. In the bounce of the briefing-style documents, Merlin also saw a news briefing that recorded the murder of Howard Stark, as well as a summary of a series of civil war information in the Middle East, as well as some social news in Eastern Europe, and reports on several minor internal political subversions.

This means that behind these things, Hydra is intervening.

In addition to the chaotic and huge data information, Merlin also found a weird mini program in the data card, and he asked:

“What does this program do?”

“That is an information sending and receiving program.”

Icarus took the initiative to run the program, and after a few seconds, she replied:

"It is an internal communication system. It uses special white noise to interact with specific information by allocating quantum keys to the gap between multiple communication frequency bands. It is not advanced at the conceptual level, but the design is exquisite and difficult to detect. This should be the internal communication program of Hydra. Maybe Gideon Malik sent instructions to subordinates through this program."

"It sounds like the encryption method used by agents during the Cold War, and of course, they added new things to the old method."

Merlin rubbed her chin and said:

"This is a great opportunity for Icarus to keep the program active and turn it into a wiretaper hidden in the Hydra communication band, capturing and tracking every communication signal that appears in the frequency band."

Meilin narrowed his eyes, and there was a cold light rushing in his eyes, he said:

"When there are enough signals captured, we can catch all the remaining scum in one go."

"OK."

Icarus responded that for a high-level artificial intelligence like her, maintaining such a tracking program will not take up too much computing resources. Following the clues through the signal source is also a very simple operation.

A few seconds later, Icarus had finished retrieving the information in the data card. She seemed to have found something. She hesitated a little, but she still said to Merlin:

"Maybe you should look at this, Lord Merlin."

"Swish"

A screenshot of the briefing style appeared in front of Merlin. It was a document of the traitor hunting of Hydra.

There are many such documents in the information, and Hydra is not a monolithic piece of paper. There will always be people who try to break away from this organization. Of course, Hydras are not gentle in treating those who break away.

In fact, SHIELD also has procedures for dealing with defectors. As far as Merlin knows, there are two field agent teams under Agents Natasha and Patton who specialize in tracking defectors.

For a strictly regulated organization, if it cannot be dealt with in a timely and effective manner, it will greatly harm the internal unity of the organization.

A traitor's blow to his own morale is far more terrifying than a powerful enemy.

But the pursuit document in front of Merlin was indeed a bit special. When it appeared, Merlin's eyes immediately widened. Obviously, the contents of it shocked him very much.

He stared at the briefing and the photos on the briefing, which was a friend he was very familiar with and trusted.

"John Gatler"

"Code name Qianliyan"

Merlin was silent, he carefully read every sentence and every word in the briefing. After more than ten seconds, he stood up, walked to the window, and looked at the crowded highway in front of the Trident Building.

"This may be a trap left by Hydra on purpose to provoke your relationship with your friends."

Icarus persuaded:

"You are not very suspicious, Gideon Malik's death does not mean that the Hydra is completely extinct. Perhaps, this is just a part of the conspiracy. Calm down, Merlin, calm down."

"I'm very calm."

Merlin reached out and lit a cigarette. As the smoke rose, he took a deep breath and said to Icarus:

"Contact Colson and let his assistant Agent Ward come to see me as fast as possible. He is Gatler's adopted son, and if you get some bad news from him, then it's a pity that I'll have to talk to John."

A few seconds later, Icarus sent the information requested by Merlin to the email address of Agent Phil Colson, Director of S.d.o.l.d.,. After receiving Colson's reply, Miss Artificial Intelligence said to Merlin:

"I am sorry, Mr. Merlin, it doesn't make sense to worry too much about this."

"Even if Agent John Gatler was a member of Hydra before, he had defected to that organization and had drawn a line with them several years ago Maybe he was your enemy, but he is not now. Your deliberate pursuit of the truth that should be forgotten will only cause a series of unnecessary trouble."

"I know, Icarus, I can understand."

Meilin took a deep breath of smoke and said softly:

"But I don't have many friends, so each one is very important. I have to ask why, why John was hiding these things."

"Maybe, he has his own difficulties."

Icarus said:

"At least, based on my analysis of the behavior of Agent John Gatler in recent years, he is very loyal to S.H.E.L.D.."

"Well, are you worried?"

Merlin shook her head:

"Then maybe John must be ready and tell me everything he has hidden."

—

"Ba,ba,ba"
To be continued...