Kingpin's office in midtown Manhattan.
The high-end and luxurious chandelier illuminated the entire room as if it were daytime. Kingpin stood in front of the tall floor-to-ceiling windows, overlooking the brightly lit New York below.
Behind him, Pete hunched slightly, reporting the intelligence he had received tonight.
"… Here's the thing, Chairman. Apparently our target did something when he was out at noon today, which led to him being noticed by SHIELD."
After finishing his report, Peter looked at Kingpin who didn't react for a moment, gritted his teeth and asked, "Do you need me to negotiate with them?"
They have fought with SHIELD more than once, and most of them were because of super-powered people.
Kingpin, who is in charge of half of the underground business in the United States, is often the first to know about superpowers or other supernatural events, and then he lets the news reach the ears of S.H.I.E.L.D.
And how to deal with these people and events.
For some of them, Jin Bing took the lead and brought them under his control, or took them to the laboratory for research.
But there are also some situations where SHIELD has the upper hand.
Of course, having said that, in fact, this kind of thing has only happened less than twenty times in total since the establishment of Kingpin's underworld empire until now.
And at least half of them are extraordinary events that have nothing to do with super-powered people.
For those troubles that cannot bring him any benefit, Kingpin usually takes the initiative to inform SHIELD.
Although SHIELD is extremely reluctant to have a troublemaker appear within its sphere of authority, it is limited by the huge impact that once Kingpin's underworld empire is formed, the entire United States will be in turmoil if he is touched.
In some unimportant events, you can only accept it with a pinch of your nose.
"Negotiation? Haha, they will come to me on their own initiative."
Kingpin turned and looked at Pete.
Although Pete is the intelligence minister of his entire empire, only he and Lester have seen the video.
Pete wasn't sure what his attitude was towards Colin Black.
Perhaps in his heart, he was still thinking about taming that guy.
"You go down, Pete."
Jin Bing looked at him for a while and then gave the order calmly.
If nothing unexpected happens, the difficult director of SHIELD will call his cell phone soon.
But he didn't want more people to know about this.
After receiving the order, Pete responded respectfully and turned to leave.
Jin Bing sat back in his specially made chair and couldn't help but think of the little guy who had made him suffer twice in a row.
"Black Wizard... It seems that the resources I gave you have given you a lot of confidence..." Jin Bing whispered.
He is a person who is good at thinking and can extract useful clues from his thinking, and what Colin showed him has already given him some guesses.
Jingle Bell…
The phone rang at this moment.
Jin Bing looked down at the caller ID and a hearty smile broke out on his slightly ferocious face.
He was very happy to be able to blackmail SHIELD, which often caused trouble for him, and he was even happier when he thought that he could use SHIELD's power to make that guy suffer a setback.
…
With the cooperation of Josel, the work of inquiring for intelligence did not take too long. After basically confirming the authenticity of Josel's words, Coulson and Barton returned to Tony's villa from the SHIELD branch in Manhattan.
studio.
In addition to Tony and Nick, Potts, who had finished his examination at the hospital, also returned here with Natasha.
After Coulson told the intelligence he had learned so far, he paused and said, "Our intelligence personnel have confirmed that on the evening of October 24, five of Kingpin's factories were destroyed, and hundreds of people inside were killed. If nothing unexpected happened, it was Colin Blake who did it."
"But we have no clues yet as to what made Kingpin give up his revenge."
"God!" Potts exclaimed after hearing that the masked man had killed hundreds of people.
Even though those who died were villains, he was still frightened for the second time when he thought about the fact that he had come into contact with them today and was cursed by this ruthless guy.
Tony's face didn't look good either.
If he had these unrealistic expectations before, now they are completely shattered.
"Kingpin..."
Nick's brows furrowed when he heard Coulson mention the name that annoyed him.
After thinking for a moment, he said to everyone: "I'll make a phone call."
After saying that, Nick left everyone's sight.
Tony watched Nick go away, and asked Coulson: "Is this all the guy you captured said? Is there anything about the curse? Um, I mean, did he solve it..."
"I'm sorry, Mr. Stark. I mentioned the curse during the questioning, but the other party said he didn't know anything about it."
Coulson apologized for this. Tony was stunned for a moment and said in a low voice: "Maybe he lied..."
"He's just an ordinary man." Coulson reminded.
As a professional agent, when facing someone who has not received relevant training, he has a hundred ways to judge whether that person is telling the truth.
Tony paused and clenched his fists tightly.
The more he realized that Colin was not lying, and the more he realized how cruel Colin was, the more he felt guilty, and the more he thought about whether he would not have let Pepper suffer the curse if he had followed what Jarvis said when he received the notice.
Although he never said this thought out loud, it was gnawing at his heart.
"You're not wrong, Tony, and you'll fix it, right."
Potts noticed that Tony was in a bad mood and came forward to comfort him.
"Yes, I am Iron Man, I will never let anything happen to you."
Forcing a smile on his face, Tony patted Potts' shoulder vigorously.
Things haven't reached the worst yet, and he still has a chance to solve the problem.
Just when the atmosphere in the room was getting a little awkward, Nick came back after finishing his phone call.
Judging from his dark face and the way he kept muttering "fat fool", he must have suffered some loss.
Of course, Tony didn't care what this guy had gone through, he just wanted to know how much information he had gotten out of Kingpin.
"It seems that the news you got was not very good." Tony said.
"Yes, and it might be worse than expected." Nick responded, and then paused and said, "Let's not talk about anything else. Kingpin will send a video and we will discuss it after we have watched it."
"Video?" Tony was a little confused.
"Yes, a video," Nick confirmed.
Just thinking about how confident he was when he was talking to that fat guy Jin Bing, and how he had absolutely no doubt about him, made him feel disappointed.
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I also changed the combat power of the skeleton warriors. I didn't realize it before, but I actually wrote ten centimeters at that time, but now it has been corrected to ten millimeters.
(End of this chapter)