amaotonovel Chapter 2673 Hollywood Rhapsody (31)
Chapter 2673 Hollywood Rhapsody (31)
Chapter 2673 Hollywood Rhapsody ()
Natasha was sitting in the office of the SHIELD base, browsing on her phone. Coulson was leaning against the wall outside the office door, browsing on his phone. Simmons was walking by, browsing on his phone. Nick turned a corner and stood at the end of the corridor with his hands on his hips.
"I really don't understand what you guys are watching every day?" Nick shook his head helplessly, staring at everyone with his only remaining eye and said, "Please look at me, I'm your boss, and you guys are so confident that you can slack off in front of your boss?!"
"Hey, Natasha, what are you looking at?!" Nick quickly walked up to Coulson who was closest to him, glared at him, then walked into the office and rushed to look at Natasha's cell phone.
With a swish, the page was closed. Natasha looked at him innocently and said, "I didn't watch anything. I was just watching some short videos."
"What's so good about that noisy stuff?" Nick said, "I've never felt so old as I do today. I even understand Captain America a little bit."
Natasha raised her hand slightly, walked around the desk with graceful steps, walked to the chair and sat down and said, "Don't get me wrong, I'm not the kind of person who watches videos during work hours."
"So were you attending an online classical music concert just now?" Nick sneered.
"Obviously I'm completing the task you assigned to me." Natasha rested her elbows on the armrests and tilted her head. "Didn't you tell me to check the doctor's background?"
"Your method of investigation is to watch short videos?"
"Don't be so honest." Natasha snapped her fingers and pointed out a finger, saying, "What those whistleblowers on the Internet said was very convincing. We couldn't even find out many details, but they said it very convincingly."
"Are you going to put these groundless rumors into the file as evidence?" Nick knocked on the table.
"I didn't say I was only going to do this. Don't I still have to verify it?" Natasha crossed her legs, but she straightened up, put her hands on her knees, looked at Nick and said, "I know what you care about most. You don't care about Schiller's birth and upbringing, his beliefs and personal feelings. You only care about why he cooperated with the FBI."
"This is indeed a cause for concern. I'm not saying that Schiller can only work for SHIELD, but he can't be omniscient and omnipotent from birth, and the FBI is particularly cunning."
"Are you worried that young Schiller might be deceived?"
"It's not a good thing to be associated with the FBI." Nick shook his head with a little concern and said, "Even if he does have some compelling reasons, this will be a black mark on his file, and it is inevitable that it will be used by someone with ulterior motives."
"That's right." Natasha nodded and said, "It will significantly lower his taste, and can even be used to prove that he is a fool. So what do you think? Cover it up for him?"
"That's not necessary. He didn't try to hide it, so he must have his reasons." Nick said, touching his chin.
"Maybe it's just so you can find out someday." Natasha smiled and said, "I know you spy chiefs feel uncomfortable if you don't catch someone's trick."
"I'm not going to threaten him with this, I just want to find out what's going on. Okay, stop talking nonsense, the video has almost been watched, go and verify it, ma'am."
Natasha stood up with her hands on the handrail and said, "I think this is more evidence that the FBI is stupid."
"What do you mean?"
"Have you forgotten that medal?"
Of course Nick didn't forget it, and Natasha was even more impressed.
She remembered very clearly that Nick had set up a trap, but before he had time to put the medals of the Patriotic Order that she had collected into Schiller's bag, Natasha found a medal of the Red Banner there.
She was sure that it was a real medal and must represent some amazing past honor. The moment her hand touched the medal, the past scene appeared before her eyes.
"One day in the future, there will be a man who convinces the whole world that he can revive the Soviet Union and even turn the whole world into communists. What do you think the world will be like on that day?"
"It is true that this thing can be forged, but if you have never seen the real thing or do not understand the manufacturing process at all, it is impossible to make it so similar..."
"There's nothing going on between you two, at least not right now, and if you want something to happen between you two, you have to do what I say."
"He's a natural kidnapper, so you just have to be a hostage."
In the silent and deserted corridor, a figure nimbly flipped onto the balcony and appeared at the end of the corridor, lowering his body and walking quickly but silently.
Natasha pressed the headset, and Skye's voice came from the headset, "All cameras and alarm devices have been eliminated. Go with peace of mind, ma'am."
Natasha nodded and smiled. No matter what, the FBI always took things so lightly.
Natasha held the pistol in her hand and continued to move forward quickly. When she arrived at the target location, she looked up and saw a faint light flashing on the doorplate.
She gently pushed the door open. Of course there was no one inside, only countless boring folders. But to Natasha, these things were all treasures, because they recorded the people in society hired by the FBI over the years.
This is the FBI's forte. The rigid-minded agents they train cannot maintain such a large organization or accomplish any real work.
In other words, these agents are like shepherds holding a whip. They are the ones who actually do the work. They are professionals recruited through various means, most of which are not very good.
Although breaking into someone's house, showing their credentials, and saying "we need your cooperation" is already dishonorable enough, this is not the FBI's bottom line. What they are best at is using the attributes of their special agent organization to cause big trouble for ordinary people, and then pretending to be saviors, standing up to save them from the water and fire, and then making them work for them willingly.
The vast majority of ordinary people do not have the ability to compete with such a large organization. Smart people understand this and do not want to cause trouble for themselves, so most of the time the FBI ends up with an unlucky guy who works for nothing.
Will Schiller be one of these unlucky ones?
Natasha doesn't think so. She believes that there must be a big conspiracy behind the cooperation between Schiller and the FBI. Now she has to look for clues in these materials to see if things are as netizens speculated. Schiller only provided professional consulting guidance to the FBI as a psychologist.
There is a lot of information here. Natasha spent most of the night browsing here before she finally found some keywords related to doctors, mainly concentrated in the part about Columbia University.
This university has produced many talents and provided a lot of professional assistance to the FBI. However, most of those who provided assistance were well-known professors. When Schiller was found to have cooperated with the FBI, he was still just a student.
Natasha calculated the timeline and found something wrong. Schiller was not famous in that era. Even Strange, the Hand of God, did not become a world-renowned genius doctor until five or six years later.
After discovering this, he realized that his previous guess was correct. The FBI did not approach Schiller because of his amazing talent in psychology, but for other reasons.
Following this clue, Natasha began to stop focusing on the key words of the psychiatrist and began to focus on investigating some young people recruited by the FBI.
Not surprisingly, the vast majority of young people discovered and recruited by the FBI are not well-known experts or scholars in their own industries. On the contrary, they are better at field work.
Simply put, the FBI prefers to recruit young people who can do dirty work, and the method of recruitment is unknown to outsiders. Most of the time, they cover up the crimes these people have committed, and then provide them with a chance to restore their social identity, which can drive them to do some shady things.
Due to its nature, SHIELD rarely recruits such agents, but Natasha knows that both the FBI and the CIA need a large number of such people to complete street investigations, transmit intelligence, infiltration and lurking.
Because they are locals on the streets, although they have not received professional agent training, they are familiar with the environment and can provide a lot of useful intelligence to these agent organizations.
Schiller is actually this kind of person?
Natasha felt a little confused at first, but after thinking about it, she felt that it was not strange. Judging from her fight with Schiller in the ice fishing cabin, this guy was one of the top fighters even among the field agents.
Thinking of Schiller's enormous power that came from nowhere, Natasha still felt a dull pain in her abdomen, but she didn't have time to care about it and continued to follow this clue.
One of the records from 20 years ago caught Natasha's attention. It roughly said that one day 20 years ago, a Hydra leader in Manhattan was found dead in his home, or to be more precise, in his own bed.
Natasha looked at the case carefully because she remembered that Strange had asked her 14 years ago if she knew about a case 6 years ago.
Of course Natasha didn't know at that time, because she was not trusted at that time and was a marginal figure in various spy organizations. There were even many people who wanted to kill her. It was difficult for her to even gain a foothold at that time, let alone pay attention to any murder case.
But isn't the six-year-old case filed 14 years ago a case from 6 years ago? Could it be that Schiller would cooperate with the FBI just because of this case?
Natasha continued to investigate and discovered more details.
First, the woman was not wearing any clothes, but there were no signs of sexual assault on her body. Second, there were no signs of a struggle in the house, and even the woman did not have any extra scars on her body.
Then, traces of drugs were found in her body, but they were very common injectable drugs such as morphine. Because it was discovered too long ago, it was impossible to determine the time and dosage of the drug injection, but there was a possibility of drug overdose.
In the end, both of the female leader's eyes disappeared. The technique used to remove her eyeballs was so professional that even her eyelids were not affected. To this day, the eyes have not been found.
Natasha wasn't a stereotype either, but all he could say was that this case looked really Schiller.
Natasha felt that only the people under the tower could do such a crazy thing, but why would they do this?
The investigation reached a deadlock here, and Schiller's motives remained a mystery. After almost 20 years, it was obvious that there were no specific clues to speculate on Schiller's motives.
Natasha brought the information back to SHIELD, and combined with all SHIELD's previous records about Schiller, Natasha came to a conclusion - Schiller had a grudge against Hydra.