The rising sun pierces the last darkness before dawn, and golden light covers the earth.
DC is welcoming another nice day in early May.
Regardless of yesterday’s street gunfight or the sneaky conspiracy at night, the office workers who are supposed to go to work still have to go to work today.
Inside the Triskelion Building, employees of S.H.I.E.L.D. arrived one after another.
In the entrance hall covered by a glass ceiling, waves of people poured in, passed through the security check passage, and entered the building.
Unlike ordinary office workers, many of these people are not in a good mental state.
Some people have gloomy faces, some have dark circles under their eyes, some are absent-minded, and some look around.
Nick Fury is dead, Captain America is wanted, and the bodies of Rumlow's team were sent back to the SHIELD morgue last night.
These people don't know all the news, but they know some of it, and they had frequent private communications with each other last night.
No one knows what will happen next, including the person who started it all.
Pierce stood next to a dedicated passage in the hall, which was separated from the rest of the hall by a screen and had few people coming in and out.
Occasionally one or two people came in and greeted him politely.
Pierce just nodded casually and got by with it.
As for the complex expressions in these people's eyes, he was too lazy to think about it.
The success or failure of the Insight Project has nothing to do with these small fry.
The remaining four members of the World Security Council who are about to arrive are the focus.
If they were allowed to notice the abnormality, it might have unpredictable impact on the Insight Project.
Pierce had to come himself and control these guys.
In that case, even if the five directors had a temporary vote to urgently take over all SHIELD affairs, it would be useless.
With Pierce being the only one giving orders, he will be able to control everything in SHIELD in a short period of time.
Anyway, apart from these four directors, if anyone else wants to interfere with S.H.I.E.L.D.'s actions, it requires complicated procedures.
That would take at least a few hours, or even more than ten hours.
Thinking silently, he finally waited until a group of people walked into the passage and walked forward to greet them with a smile.
The three men and one woman who came were the other four members of the World Security Council.
The two sides came together and exchanged a few simple greetings.
Pierce asked the security guard next to him to bring four silver brooches: "We use biometric identification here. You four must wear these to move around freely."
The four directors didn't care too much and each took one and held it against their chest.
These four pins are the highest level temporary passes, which normally allow entry and exit to all areas of the headquarters.
With tens of thousands of people entering and exiting headquarters in various countries every day, it is impossible to test them one by one, so the only way is to use biological testing to monitor all areas 24 hours a day.
However, it is too troublesome for people who come to do business temporarily to register for biometrics, so various temporary passes are available.
If a person who does not have permission and a temporary pass is discovered by any surveillance camera, an alarm will be triggered.
This was also the reason why Luke was reluctant to come in before.
If he's not careful, the biological monitoring system throughout the SHIELD headquarters may record his genetic characteristics.
Before he had the super disguise technique, whether it was the original body or the clone, the genes were his own and there was no way to hide them.
A top-secret meeting ensued, and the four directors' entourage remained in the lounge area of the hall.
Pierce and his four companions took the elevator and headed straight to the dedicated floor of the World Security Council, which was also Pierce's personal office area.
Entering Pierce's office, there is a spacious living room with a desk and four virtual projection seats opposite.
Normally, the four directors communicate with Pierce through the projection seats.
Today is also a rare time for them to come in person.
Because just yesterday, they agreed to the launch of the Insight Project and came specially to make a final inspection before the launch.
While Pierce was talking to the four directors, Steve watched Maria Hill use a mechanical glove to open an extremely hidden secret door.
Then the two of them took turns stepping forward and verifying their identities before the secret door opened.
Steve asked quietly, "How come I didn't know this existed?"
Hill: "I don't know either. The commander just told me last night."
When Steve heard this, he immediately understood: this was just the basic operation of that guy Lu Dan, not worth mentioning.
He was just worried that Hill often went in and out of this secret door, so this passage might not be safe.
It turns out that this was the backup plan left by that suspicious Lu Dan, so there's no problem with that.
After all, as a man who has "died" several times, it is not so easy for Nick Fury's backup plan to be discovered.
What's more surprising is that Pierce had already listed the two as key suspects, and their permissions within SHIELD were revoked yesterday.
But after verifying their identities at this secret door just now, they regained their biometric access.
And this permission is just like this secret door, no one knows about it, it is the highest level, and can enter any area without triggering the alarm.
Steve and Hill stared at the faces of passers-by attached to the nano armor and swaggered into the headquarters communications room.
At this moment, Pierce was smiling and raising his glass to celebrate with the four directors.
Later, the five of them will go to the underground construction base to personally inspect the trial operation of the aerospace mothership.
According to Pierce's explanation, the mothership was only started this time, mainly to check whether the operating data was normal, and it would not take off directly.
At this moment, a sentimental male voice sounded in the emergency channel of SHIELD headquarters: "Attention all SHIELD agents, I am Steve Rogers."
Pierce also heard this familiar male voice, and the smile on his face froze.
The emergency channel is dedicated to broadcasting messages and can basically cover more than 90% of the headquarters area.
Unless they happen to be in certain special places, everyone in the headquarters can hear it.
Steve explained the events of the past two days in a concise and clear manner without any nonsense.
It emphasizes that Pierce is Hydra, he killed Nick Fury and framed Steve, and Hydra has infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D., so everyone should be careful of suspicious people around them.
Luke listened to Steve and shook his head and sighed in his heart: This guy's mouth cannon is really powerful.
The key is his position in SHIELD and his achievements, which give his words great prestige and appeal.
If Luke were to do it, it probably wouldn't work.
Someone knows that he is best at complaining and telling jokes. He is very professional in using them to attack others, but don't even think about making a comeback with his words.
Therefore, it is still necessary to make use of your own advantages of strong hands-on ability, which is the "right way" to go.
Just as Steve was revealing shocking information, shocking countless people in S.H.I.E.L.D., Luke, wearing a black combat uniform of an action team, walked into the headquarters command room openly.
In the biometric system, he is now a genuine member of the action team and a member of Hydra.
Of course, the body of this action team member was thrown into Space No. 1 last night, so there would definitely be no collision between their faces.
Along the way, Luke also activated the primary stealth from Night Devil John, making everyone around him subconsciously ignore him as the only person who was moving.
Then, he chose an inconspicuous corner and scanned the control room, comparing it with Elena's half of the painting.