"Agent Hill, have a seat."
Ye Li invited Maria Hill to sit down.
Hill nodded, lifted her firm hips slightly, and sat beside Natasha.
She smoothed the slight frown on Natasha's face, then couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong with her…?"
"Just… personal feelings."
Ye Li pulled Natasha into his arms, caressing her delicate body as he said, "Isn't America all about freedom of personal choices?"
"Mmnh…" The sleeping beauty let out a soft moan in her sleep.
"Hehe… President Ye, you really are… uninhibited…"
Hill slightly raised her eyebrows — inexperienced as she was, this atmosphere was a bit too much for her…
"Already overwhelmed?"
Ye Li chuckled lightly, "If you saw my room, you'd probably be scared stiff."
This deputy director always appeared swift and decisive.
But her composure was worse than his little sister's.
At least Matilda had witnessed real war…
Though now, she was just sprawled across the couch in the next room, fast asleep.
"Nick Fury was brutally murdered."
Inside the S.H.I.E.L.D. video conference room for senators.
Alexander Pierce was still putting on an act defending Nick Fury, "Anyone with a sense of justice would call him a martyr, not a traitor!"
"But why was he considered a traitor?———"
A Mediterranean white-haired elderly senator on the video feed countered, saying, "———Because he had mercenaries hijack his own ship!"
Another senator, appearing of Mexican descent, followed up.
"Nick Fury used his friendship with you to force the council to delay Project Insight. He knew it would expose his illegal activities. To put it nicely — he lied to you. To put it harshly…"
Pierce cut him off and shrugged, "Do you want me to resign? I can write my resignation right now."
"We can discuss that later."
A female senator said, "We've talked about it, Mr. Secretary. The council has decided to immediately restart Project Insight!"
"Remember during the New York War? That unresolved case where all the senators who ordered the nuclear strike died mysteriously from nuclear radiation?"
"I suspected Fury back then, but I had no evidence!"
"Activating Project Insight can prevent such tragedies from happening again!"
The senators all spoke over each other.
They clearly didn't realize Pierce was just putting on a show, using reverse psychology to push Insight forward.
Because whenever they thought of the previous senators casually slaughtered by Ye Li, they shivered in fear.
They wanted Project Insight up and running as soon as possible — for their own safety…
That major case — the killer was never identified.
Only some terrorists were framed and scapegoated by the authorities to calm the public.
Which meant the current senators felt no sense of safety at all...
If it weren't for their grip on power, none of them would want to remain in office.
"That's right! Dangerous individuals like the Hulk and Black Spider — it's time we use Project Insight to monitor and eliminate the—uh…"
One senator was getting into it when he suddenly paused.
Because he noticed everyone else had gone silent, staring at him strangely…
As if saying———
"If you want to die, don't drag us down with you…"
The green brute who just smashes things — whatever.
But the Black Spider…
He was not someone they could afford to provoke…
No one knew what had triggered him———
He had disappeared from public view a long time ago and rarely fought crime openly anymore.
Instead, he hunted in the shadows — targeting those powerful individuals who dared smear his name.
No one knew how he got his intel.
But whenever there was negative press about Black Spider, it was as if he could instantly track the source — and silence it!
By now, no one knew how many high-ranking officials Black Spider had purged…
That shocking case where many senators died from nuclear radiation — some secretly suspected it was Black Spider's doing.
After all, only he would dare act so recklessly.
But—
No one dared say it out loud (even with bribes)...
You could say—
In the public eye, Black Spider was just an eccentric, unconventional superhero.
But in the circle of real power players—
He was already a name that inspired terror…
'A bunch of fools… completely in the dark and totally unaware…'
Seeing all the senators so eager to start Project Insight, Pierce kept a straight face, but inwardly, he was thrilled—
Looks like the real purpose of Insight — eliminating threats to Hydra — was about to succeed…