Chapter 366 New and Good (Part 1)

New York is a city that never sleeps, especially the buildings near Manhattan's financial street, which are brightly lit all night long. Even though it is already 11 o'clock in the evening, the lights here are still as bright as day, and people are coming and going on the streets.

In the Arkham Sanatorium not far from Wall Street, Schiller was working at his desk. At this moment, a special-style security phone rang beside him. He picked up the phone and said, "Hello, hello, yes, I am 'Doctor'..."

"Yes, yes, I also feel sorry for what happened to Director Pierce... Four bases in eastern New York? Sorry, but I have too much work on my hands now. You know, I am the only senior member in New York who can maintain communication and has not entered the silent state..."

"...Okay, but I can only accept two bases at most. The remaining two... I suggest you give up strategically and withdraw the personnel from them..."

"What? Safe bases?... I'm sorry, Director Pierce didn't leave me enough safe bases before he went silent, and now they are all full."

Schiller sighed and said, "It's not that I want to ask for too much, but there are too many people coming to me... Yes, thank you for understanding me, the security plan The additional personnel on the list will be charged per person, and the security fee for senior managers and important researchers is $300,000 per person..."

Listening to the reply from the other end, Schiller covered his forehead, his tone turned cold, and he said: "Do you think it's time to bargain now? The West Coast is their main target. Do you know how much risk I have to take in your people?"

"Don't tell me this. Everyone knows that the emergency transfer operation now is all for you to preserve your own power, and only my safe base is reliable. If you are willing to be cheated by those scammers, then I won't stop you..."

"50? No, I've said that the number of places is limited. I can only give you 15 places at most, and each person will be charged $300,000...Okay, a 10% discount, seeing that we have all worked under Director Pierce..."

Schiller sighed and put the phone down. He leaned back in his chair and stretched, then looked at Nick Fury sitting opposite him.

Nick Fury looked up from the table and said, "Another $5 million, huh?"

"Again, we split the money 55-50, but I don't think this little money can make up for the psychological trauma caused by overtime."

Just as Schiller was about to stand up and make a cup of coffee, his cell phone rang again. Schiller picked up the phone and said, "Hello, this is 'Doctor', what? Your base was attacked? I'm sorry, I don't have any extra people to rescue you."

"The person who attacked you is Captain America? Even if the person who attacked you is God, I can't save you..."

"Okay, I can only point out a retreat route for you. Please go to New York Harbor immediately. There will be special agents to pick you up, but if you want to move to a safe base, Please send a message to your boss and ask him to pay your security fee..."

"I say again, this is not extortion. The security base is already full. If you want to come in without paying the bill, what will others think? You'd better call your boss quickly. If he is willing to pay, then you will be saved. If he is not willing, then God bless you..."

After that, Schiller hung up the phone, and Nick joked again: "Cold-blooded, doctor."

"Same here."

After Schiller made a substitution, making Pierce silent in all channels and killing Garrett, his backup, he completely controlled the Hydra agents of SHIELD and fabricated a security plan to turn Arkham Sanatorium into a "safe" base of Hydra.

From the beginning, Schiller did not want to fleece these agents. To put it bluntly, how much money can these workers make? Even if they rely on selling immortality factors, it is slow and troublesome.

Schiller chose to take a different approach and opened up another industrial line.

The competition between Stark and Steve gradually became fierce, and the two of them became more and more involuntarily. Therefore, the scale of this cleansing became larger and larger, and all the Hydras on the east and west coasts were involved. Because this competition started too suddenly, most of them were not prepared.

This is different from the "investigation" of SHIELD, which says one thing and does another. Captain America and Iron Man are serious about dealing with Hydra, so in just a few days, the snakeheads on the east and west coasts lost a lot of strength.

As one after another of the so-called safe strongholds were breached, more and more snakeheads turned silent in order to protect themselves, and the more they turned silent, the less they could organize a decent defensive offensive, so the losses increased.

These snakeheads themselves were silent, but they were unwilling to let the direct forces they had worked so hard to build be wiped out. If so, wouldn't they be alone after they came out?

As I said, Hydra’s infighting is professional, and they must consider how to face their colleagues who are as ferocious as wolves and tigers after their silence ends. If they are really left alone, they will be eaten alive.

At this time, a rumor spread among the top leaders that Alexander Pierce, the former director of SHIELD and the most famous head of Hydra, left behind an equally experienced silent agent and an absolutely secret safe base before entering Silence.

This silent agent, codenamed "Doctor", is most likely an agent in SHIELD, but his identity is temporarily unknown, but there is no doubt that his security plan is quite effective.

And why the effect of this security plan is so immediate, we have to start with SHIELD.

Just after the important Hydra agents in SHIELD were transferred, SHIELD immediately began a major purge, and those agents who did not participate in the security plan were directly purged.

Of course, this was a wave of cooperation between Nick and Schiller. After Schiller transferred those important Hydra agents away, the rest were small fish and shrimps. Nick could find any reason to purge them. The core Hydra members had left, and they could not organize any decent defense and counterattack.

Although the agents who were protected were arrested and locked up in the sanatorium, those who were not protected even lost their lives. This further illustrates the importance of the protection plan and also shows that the silent agent codenamed Doctor is experienced and decisive.

After the rumor of the safe base spread, many Hydra snakeheads began to consider transferring their own direct personnel into it.

And Schiller's request for money was not unexpected at all. Hydra is like this. If they don't get it now, when will they?

On the contrary, Schiller's behavior has increased the confidence of these snakeheads. If he is not a pure Hydra, how can he be so skilled in taking advantage of others' misfortunes and asking for a lot?

Just for his proficiency, Pierce has a good eye for talent!

It's worthy of me, Hydra.

The snakeheads felt an extremely friendly atmosphere from Schiller's behavior. They didn't care about his high asking price. Hydra has been operating for so many years, and it still has this capital. It is a good deal for them to spend a little money to protect their direct personnel.

On the way to the Arkham Sanatorium, 80% of the people were caught by the "foresighted" SHIELD, and the remaining 20% ​​successfully arrived at the sanatorium, but they didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

Now, the situation has become so serious, and they are lucky to have 20% of the people alive.

But what they don't know is that in the director's office of the Arkham Sanatorium, their savior is selling them to the director of SHIELD by weight.

"To be honest, I think you should find a way to get out of it. In a few days, those two crazy people who are in a hot match will find you." Nick advised Schiller: "We all know that we are for a just cause, but those two people have been a little bit crazy recently. It would be bad if they accidentally hurt their own people...

Schiller was not in a hurry at all. He smiled and said, "Don't worry, I have a way."

"What way? "Nick looked up at him.

Just then, a portal appeared in the office, and Strange walked out. He first looked up at the sky outside, then yawned and sat next to Schiller. Schiller asked, "Are you done?"

"Yes, the Supreme Sorcerer has handed over all the affairs of Kamar-Taj to me. Now I am the real Supreme Sorcerer. I just need a handover ceremony."

"Congratulations, but I heard you say that you have a lot of troubles recently. What's wrong?"

When mentioning this, Strange frowned. He said, "The wizards think that Stark is too stingy. He only gave them one of the dozen spaceships for research..."

"You also know that those great wizards are research madmen, and one spaceship can't satisfy their appetite at all. ”

“There are many schools of magicians. Some use white magic, and some study summoning magic. The ideas of transformation are also different. Some want to completely energize the spacecraft, while others want to use enchantment technology. I have prevented at least a dozen quarrels recently…”

“In any case, at least three spacecraft are needed.” Strange concluded: “With less than this number, it is difficult for me to balance the experimental needs of the magicians.”

“As I told you on the phone before, you magicians have portals anyway, so you can secretly go up and do some research without being discovered.”

“That’s exactly what I hesitated about…” Strange showed an embarrassed expression and said: “I don’t want to intensify the confrontation between ordinary humans and magicians. We are the guardians of the earth, but not managers, let alone rulers. If we are discovered, Stark will be very angry.”

“Won’t it be okay if you don’t let him find out? Are those great magicians also used to not cleaning up the garbage after research? "Of course not. We are not like rich guys like Stark. Kamar-Taj has maintained the virtue of frugality for many years. Our magic is environmentally friendly and pollution-free, without even any waste." "Moreover, the Sorcerer Supreme left me a special item that can also reset time..."

Strange's eyes lit up as he spoke. He said, "I can let the great wizards go up to experiment, and then use the gems to restore the spaceship, so that Stark will not be able to find us..."

He stood up and said to Schiller, "Yes, I have an idea."

Then he opened the portal and stepped in. Before leaving, he turned back and said, "Thank you, thank you for your flexible thinking and...morality."

When Strange's figure completely disappeared, Nick looked at the place where he left and asked thoughtfully, "Who did you find as a scapegoat?"

"Don't say that. There are many doctors in this world. How could you suspect Stephen?"

"Yes, no one would suspect him, but you instigated him to illegally occupy the spacecraft under Stark's nose. So who would Stark suspect? Needless to say..."

Schiller came over with coffee, handed Nick a cup, then raised the coffee cup and said, "If you don't say it and I don't say it, who would know that he was inspired by me?"

Nick smiled and picked up the cup. The two of them gently touched the cups and then smiled knowingly.