Outside S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters in Washington.
Ziyuan, who came here by car, looked at the building not far away and his eyes twitched.
"Hey, Lupin. Are you planning to sneak in here to find someone?"
"Of course!" Lupin put his hands in his pockets and said casually, "According to the intelligence, the guy who used the alias Andrew Fell and stole the Vesbania ore is in here. If not here, where else can we look for him?"
"You bastard!" Jiyuan lowered his voice, grabbed Lupin's collar and roared: "This is the headquarters of S.H.I.E.L.D., the base camp of the agents! Do you want to die by coming here to arrest people!!!"
"Damn it, I shouldn't have believed your lies and followed you!"
Letting go of Lupin's collar, Jigen put his hand to his forehead, looking quite devastated.
Lupin looked at it, half-stretched his hands, and said with a smile on his face: "Don't think so, Dimension, the elite of SHIELD are now in Manhattan, and the headquarters here is just an empty shell. Besides, I will come here, so I am naturally well prepared."
Lupin puffed out his chest, looking very confident. Jigen glanced at him and turned away.
"I won't believe your lies anymore, Lupin. Just do whatever you want to do!"
Empty shell
What a joke!
Even if most of the people here went to Manhattan, the remaining people would be enough to crush them completely.
No danger? Just investigating
His only response now is to get lost!!
"Dimension!"
Seeing Jigen turning around, Lupin rushed forward, grabbed Jigen's thigh and said pitifully: "You have the heart to leave me and let me face those fierce agents alone?"
"Without your help, they would have shot me to death, and I would have become a ghost, haunting..."
"enough!"
Jiyuan's eyebrows jumped. After trying a few times to get rid of Lupin, he took a deep breath, calmed down and said, "Tell me, what are you planning?"
Lupin stood up with a smile, dusted himself off, and said, "The plan is to sneak in and find that guy, and force him to tell us the truth... Hey, don't look at me like that, Jigen. I know this will be risky, but we don't have much time left. This is the fastest way to get the ore back before it's used."
"Of course, it's not a direct shot, it still requires some skills."
Lupin turned his head and looked at the SHIELD headquarters building. Ziyuan took a deep breath and gritted his teeth and said, "I will trust you one last time!"
"Haha! Don't worry, Jigen, nothing will be a problem."
Lupin smiled as he listened, and threw a hood over and said, "Put this on, otherwise we will be discovered in no time with our original faces."
"damn it!"
Looking at Lupin walking forward, Zigen cursed angrily, put on a mask and followed him.
Inside the S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters.
It was not difficult to enter the gate, and Lupin and Jigen got in easily.
But afterwards, finding the target was not an easy task.
"What should we do, Lupin? If we ask directly, it won't take long for people to find out about the problem, right?"
Looking at the people coming and going, Ziyuan tensed his body and asked in a low voice.
"Of course we won't ask directly. That guy stole the ore, which is considered a great achievement. Since he was allowed to return to the headquarters, he will definitely be given a position. We just need to find the person in charge of logistics and ask him."
After walking around the hall and gathering some information, Lupin headed towards the elevator.
Jiyuan followed and whispered in disbelief: "You mean the people from SHIELD will give him a position? He's a wanted criminal!"
"So what if he's a wanted criminal?" Lupin glanced at Jigen and said, "The Kingdom of Vespania itself didn't do much publicity. Who would recognize him if he just changed his hairstyle?"
"Besides, there are so many people who look like him in the world. Without evidence, who dares to say that someone from SHIELD is a wanted criminal?"
"And you have to understand that Vesbania is just a small country, and small countries don't have enough say in an organization like SHIELD."
"That guy stole the ore back, which is a great achievement. Now that his undercover work is done, it would be unreasonable not to give him a position."
The elevator stopped at this moment and Lupin stepped out.
Ci Yuan followed closely behind, puzzled: "But that guy is from Hydra, right? Even if they can hide it from outsiders, can they hide it from their own people? Aren't they afraid that the director will find out?"
"Of course I'm not afraid, because the dead can't talk." Lupin walked forward and said, "You have to understand, Dimension, because of us and the wizard brother, Hydra has been forced into a corner. If they don't deal with us, they will be exposed sooner or later."
"It has come to this point that some things that we couldn't do before can now be done without restraint."
"It's done. As the victor, these troubles will not exist."
"If I fail, there's nothing to say, and I won't care about it."
“…Oh, it looks like this is it.”
Lupin paused and looked up at the label on the door.
Jiyuan followed behind him, and when he heard the words, he stopped thinking and began to cooperate with Lupin's performance.
Dongdong…
After knocking twice on the door of the logistics department, Lupin pushed the door open and walked in.
Inside the house, a slightly plump white woman in her forties looked up.
Lupin glanced at the name on the other person's badge, then stepped forward with a familiar face and said, "Betty, I'm here to see you again. Two Glock pistols, 100 rounds of ammunition, and this is the approval document."
A piece of paper appeared in Lupin's hand. The lady called Betty took a look at it, put it away, and looked at Lupin with some doubts, but still nodded and said, "Okay, I'll get it for you."
"Are you field agents? Recently, most of the field agents have gone to Manhattan. I heard that the plague there is the same as the zombie virus in the movie. Oh, God, it's really scary!"
While she was speaking, she did not forget to turn around and get the things on the approval document.
When Lupin heard this, he was delighted, but he didn't expect that the other party would take the initiative to speak before he could even start a conversation.
This really saves a lot of effort.
At the moment, he said with a lamenting look, "Yes, and we will have to go there soon. If I had known this would happen, I would have taken the civil service exam. At least there would be no danger."
"But speaking of it, it's still best to have a backer to be an official. A guy I've never heard of suddenly parachuted in. Tsk tsk."
Lupin looked unhappy and envious. Betty took a look and smiled:
"You are talking about Director Lawrence, right? But I heard that he became the director of the Confidential Affairs Office because he made great contributions outside, and he is not someone with someone behind him."
Lupin listened and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly, but soon, he suppressed it again and said disdainfully: "Whether he really made a great contribution or just said it is another matter. Anyway, I have never heard of that guy before."
Betty smiled after hearing this, and didn't say anything more. After sorting out the pistol and bullets, she walked over and handed them to Lupin, saying, "Here, this is what you want. I hope you can complete the task successfully."
"Oh, thank you." Lupin took it and looked at Betty and said, "There are still tasks to be done. I won't talk much more, Betty."
Then he picked up the pistol and shook it, saying, "Thank you very much!"
After saying that, the two walked out.
Soon after he walked out of the door, Jiyuan, who was full of doubts, immediately grabbed Lupin who was walking forward and asked, "What happened just now?"
"What... Oh, you mean why Betty was so easily tricked by me?" Lupin asked after realizing what was going on.
Jiyuan stared at Lupin with a sullen face and said, "Not only that, what you just took out was clearly a blank piece of paper! Why did that woman think that was the permission to take things?"
His heart almost stopped when he saw Lupin take out a piece of white paper to fool around, and when he saw that the woman actually took it seriously, he even wondered if there was something wrong with his eyes.
"Does it look like a blank sheet of paper to you, Jigen?" Lupin asked, suddenly becoming interested.
"Of course, you just got here, so where would you get the approval to forge it?" Ciyuan said as a matter of course.
Lupin looked at it and said thoughtfully: "I see..."
"Don't keep me in suspense. Tell me what's going on!"
Seeing Lupin's mysterious look, Zigen angrily scolded Lupin.
Lupin cried out in pain, rubbed the area where he was hit, and explained, "This happened because Colin made a perfume that can affect people's senses."
"Perfume?" Ziyuan sniffed and asked suspiciously, "Why don't I smell any fragrance?"
"Well, calling it perfume is just my own name. According to the official name in Colin's booklet, it is called external sympathetic hallucination potion type 1. Its function is to make people who smell it experience specific hallucinations if they believe in it."
"For example, what I had in my hand was just a piece of white paper, but because I told her what it was in advance, Ms. Betty believed it, and what she saw was the permission to take the item."
"And since you don't believe in the dimension, it's just a blank slate."
"I have tried this perfume several times without your knowledge. It is very useful. I don't know why Colin classified it as useless."
Lupin was mumbling there, and when Jigen heard it, his eyes twitched, and he looked at Lupin in a bad tone and said, "Those few times before... were you the one who did it?"
Jigen's eyes were dangerous. Lupin realized that he had let something slip and laughed dryly: "Ha, let's not worry about such trivial matters for now, let's continue talking about business."
"Because we walked into the logistics department's room openly, we were naturally trustworthy in Ms. Betty's mind. The approval document I mentioned became real in her eyes because she had no doubts about it."
"Because the approval document was real to Ms. Betty, and I showed my familiarity, plus the face I made looked similar to everyone else, for a moment, even if she couldn't think of my name, Ms. Betty would just think that she suddenly forgot how to call this acquaintance, and would not doubt our identities."
"In this case, when I take the initiative to bring up a topic, the possibility that the other party will pick up the conversation and leak information will definitely increase greatly."
Ci Yuan listened, nodded in understanding and said, "But why do we have to find someone from the logistics department?"
"Of course, it's because the risk is the lowest and the possibility of obtaining intelligence is the greatest." Lupin answered without hesitation: "The logistics department is basically just idling around, it's hard to meet elites, and because of the nature of the work, they know the news of various departments."
"Go find someone else. If we run into someone smart and alert, we might need to think about how to escape from this building full of agents!"
The two men did not stop moving forward while talking, and they could see a sign with the words "Confidential Office" not far ahead.
Lupin didn't go up to ask immediately, but walked around the area first.
“This should be a good place.”
In front of a room filled with sundries near the confidential room, Lupin stood there muttering.
Ciyuan asked in confusion, "What's good?"
"Of course it's the place where we interrogate him." Lupin replied, and continued, "As a hidden agent, that guy must be very smart, decisive, and strong, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to steal the ore so easily."
"It's not that easy to deceive this kind of person, and we are very short of time now, so we can only use a rough method."
“…Okay, you have the final say.” Having not come up with a better solution, Ziyuan spread his hands.
Having made their decision, the two men walked around to the door of the confidential room again.
After knocking on the door, a young man wearing glasses and looking to be in his twenties or thirties came out and looked at the two of them with a little confusion.
"Who are you?" he inquired.
Lupin coughed lightly and smiled, "We are here to see Director Lawrence. Please inform him."
"No problem, it's a small matter." The man with glasses nodded and walked towards the confidential room.
"What are those two people doing here?" someone asked in a low voice on the way.
The man with glasses turned his head and took a look. "He said he was here to see Director Lawrence. Let's not talk about it for now. I'll go tell the director."
As he spoke, the man with glasses walked towards an office.
Dongdong…
There was a knock on the office door. With the sound of someone coming in, the man with glasses opened the door and said to Lawrence who was sitting on the chair, "Manager, someone is looking for you outside."
"Oh, who is it?" Lawrence raised his head.
The man with glasses shook his head and said, "Two people I don't know."
"Okay, I understand. Thank you."
After a moment's thought, Lawrence thanked him and walked out.
…
"You're right, Lupin! But with a new hairstyle and glasses, you're unrecognizable!"
Outside the confidential room, looking through the window at Lawrence, who had a neat short hair, a suit, and a completely changed temperament, Ciyuan felt quite emotional.
If he hadn't known it in advance, he would have easily missed it even if he had seen the photo.
"It's easy for agents like them to disguise themselves. If they don't have more than a dozen identities, it would be hard for them to say they are elite when they go out."
He made a slight complaint, then looked serious as he saw Lawrence getting closer.
(End of this chapter)