That's exactly what I wanted to ask you."
"There are so many Skrulls hidden on Earth, and you really didn't know anything?"
Tony Stark's voice rang out, his eyes fixed on Nick Fury as he sternly questioned him.
Even the Playboy was utterly stunned when he found out this truth.
The number was truly terrifying.
"Stark, what exactly is going on? Tell me."
Nick Fury was in no mood to play word games with Tony now.
Instead, he urged the Playboy with a solemn expression.
Tony knew the matter was serious, so he didn't say much more, and instead began to talk business with Nick Fury.
"Just ten days ago, I also thought the Skrulls hidden on Earth were the few hundred I found."
"Of course, that wasn't all, but I only found a few hundred after searching for half a year. Even if there were some I didn't find, how many could there be?"
"However, just ten days ago, I unintentionally discovered a Skrull going to a strange place."
"Jarvis!"
Swish!
At Tony's command, Jarvis projected a corresponding image in front of Nick Fury.
"Does this place look familiar?"
Tony Stark stood with his arms crossed, confidently glancing at Nick Fury.
He believed that with Nick Fury's vision and experience, he would definitely recognize the place in the video.
"This is…"
Sure enough, after a quick glance, Nick Fury quickly realized something.
And precisely because of this, an incredible look appeared on his face.
"That's right, this is the abandoned nuclear power plant from that nuclear leak accident!"
Tony gave a very affirmative answer.
"After the accident that year, this place was designated as a restricted area. Of course, even if it wasn't, no one would dare to approach it."
"That's why I found it strange. What was this guy doing in a nuclear radiation zone?"
"So I focused my attention on this guy. Guess what I found?"
"Nuclear radiation should have no effect on this guy!"
As Tony explained, Nick Fury's face grew increasingly grim.
And with Tony having explained this much, how could Nick Fury, with his mind, not figure out what was going on?
Those Skrulls were all hidden in nuclear radiation zones!
They hadn't all integrated into society!
"How many Skrulls are hidden in here?"
After a moment of contemplation, Nick Fury finally spoke with difficulty, asking Tony.
"This place hides about five thousand people, but…"
Swish, swish, swish, swish!
As Tony Stark spoke, Jarvis promptly projected all the other locations as well.
Without exception.
All those places were abandoned nuclear power plants or nuclear facilities that had experienced nuclear leaks.
In short, they were all places with nuclear radiation, restricted areas for humans.
The truth was revealed!
At this moment, the truth was finally revealed.
Nick Fury finally understood why hundreds of thousands of people could appear on Earth without anyone noticing.
It turned out these Skrulls had found such perfect hiding places.
Indeed, who would pay attention to a place like a nuclear radiation zone?
How could anyone think that someone would be hiding in such a place?
However, the Skrulls were actually not afraid of nuclear radiation at all!
It must be said that Nick Fury had completely not expected such a thing.
Wait a moment!
And then, Nick Fury suddenly remembered something, and his face instantly changed.
It was as if he had been slapped hundreds of times, looking incredibly awful.
If these Skrulls weren't afraid of nuclear radiation, then it would be too easy for them to conquer Earth.
Couldn't they just launch nuclear bombs?
At that time, nuclear radiation would kill everyone on Earth, turning the entire Earth into a paradise for them, the Skrulls!
And for the Skrulls, was it difficult to do such a thing?
Not at all!
The Skrulls only needed to replace the relevant key figures, replacing everyone in the process chain of launching nuclear bombs, which would be no problem at all.
They could even act as masterminds behind the scenes, instigating a nuclear war on a World scale.
In short.
Given the Skrulls' unique abilities, the room for manipulation was immense.
Gulp!
Thinking of this, Nick Fury couldn't help but swallow hard.
"You thought of it too, didn't you?"
Seeing Nick Fury's expression, Tony knew that Nick Fury had also immediately grasped the key point.
That was also what Tony was extremely worried about.
Initially, after learning about the Skrulls' abilities from the diary, the Playboy believed that the worst outcome of the Secret Invasion was merely that all the leadership would be replaced by Skrulls.
Humans would unknowingly be ruled by Skrulls.
But now, Tony realized how naive he had been.
The threat of the Skrulls was much greater than he had imagined!
These were a group of guys truly capable of eliminating all of humanity.
"When? When exactly!"
Nick Fury's brows were furrowed into an old chrysanthemum blooming in late autumn, and even now he simply couldn't accept such a thing.
When did these hundreds of thousands of Skrulls infiltrate Earth?
And how did they infiltrate Earth?
Such a massive number of Skrulls, and he had no idea.
Nick Fury wouldn't believe that no one had meticulously planned and coordinated this.
"Are any of the people in the information I gave you involved in this?"
"Who was that Skrull who went to the nuclear radiation zone?"
"Is Talos involved in this?"
After a period of contemplation, Nick Fury asked Tony a series of crucial questions.
"Based on my observations, Talos should not be involved in this, but… that's only based on observations up to now."
"But there's one guy I'm sure of; all of this must be related to him."
As Tony said this, he pointed to a Skrull in the data.
Nick Fury glanced at him with his single eye, feeling a bit surprised.
Graway?
How could it be him!
Honestly, this answer was truly a bit beyond Nick Fury's expectations.
He had just suspected Talos and all the others.
Graway was almost at the bottom of his suspect list, even lower than Talos.
No other reason.
Graway had been working with Nick Fury since he was a child, and should have been most influenced by Earth's subtle influence.
Plus, the impression Graway gave Nick Fury was that of someone very loyal, someone who had been successfully brainwashed by Nick Fury.
Yet, who would have thought it would be Graway.
Here, it's worth mentioning.
In "Secret Invasion," Talos confronted Nick Fury on the train.
He told Nick Fury that after Nick Fury left Earth, he sent out a summoning signal to all the Skrulls in the Universe.
He gathered those Skrulls on Earth.
This is what led to the fact that millions of Skrulls were hidden on Earth.
But what Talos didn't know was that, in fact, Graway had already done this before that.
Otherwise, Nick Fury had only left Earth for a few years; could the Skrulls have completed that scale of infiltration?
The show clearly demonstrated that even the Prime Minister and other core NATO leaders had been replaced.
It showed how alarming the infiltration had become.
That was simply not something that could have been completed after Nick Fury left Earth.
Of course.
Talos didn't lie to Nick Fury either.
After Nick Fury left Earth, there was no news of him, and he couldn't even be contacted. Talos once thought that Nick Fury would not return to Earth.
To save the Skrull race, he sent out a signal to the Universe again.
He once again gathered a group of Skrulls to infiltrate Earth.
But that was actually the second batch!
However, the inside story of this was not for outsiders to know.
"This person should be the leader of those Skrulls."
"And the other people, besides him, don't seem to know this."
Tony's voice sounded again, giving Nick Fury a more detailed explanation.
"Graway, I really didn't expect that."
Nick Fury stared at Graway with his single eye for a long time, sighing softly.
"Is that it? I was still waiting for your next part!"
After Tony saw Nick Fury sigh and then fall silent, he couldn't help but take the initiative to ask, "How do you plan to resolve this matter?"
Yeah.
How to solve it?
Nick Fury also felt a deep headache.
Even with his level, he couldn't come up with an effective solution for a while.
No matter what, that's hundreds of thousands of Skrulls!
Or, to put it another way.
It's hundreds of thousands of potential threats that can freely change their appearance, whose physical qualities far exceed humans, and who pose a huge danger!
Such a huge number made Nick Fury at a loss for what to do for a while.
He can't just kill all hundreds of thousands of Skrulls, can he?
Nick Fury would like to, but such a thing is simply unrealistic and unfeasible from all angles.
Stepping back, if Nick Fury were to do that, he would completely lose Captain Marvel's trust.
No, it would even make him turn against Captain Marvel, which would be even more counterproductive.
"What are your thoughts?"
After a moment of silence, Nick Fury turned his one eye towards Tony.
"I actually do have some thoughts."
Tony spoke as if it were a matter of course, "Didn't the diary say that the reason for the Secret Invasion was because you treated the Skrulls like fools?"
"You only gave them empty promises, but no actual benefits."
"So my suggestion is to change this approach, stop giving them empty promises."
Nick Fury: "..."
He was truly speechless!
"Stark, do you know what they want? They want a home!"
"Tell me, how can I find them a home!"
Nick Fury was full of righteous indignation.
"Since you can't do it, why make empty promises?"
Tony retorted ungraciously, "The Secret Invasion is the evil fruit you sowed!"
The Playboy was truly impressed.
Because deceiving the Skrulls led to the Secret Invasion, and researching the Tesseract triggered the New York Battle.
Nick Fury is the biggest threat to Earth, isn't he?
Hmm?
What kind of look is that?
Nick Fury also glared back without ceremony.
Didn't you also create an Ultron Age?
Pot calling the kettle black!
"Nick, I have a question."
Withdrawing his ungracious gaze, Tony seriously asked Nick Fury again, "Although I don't know much about the Skrulls, according to the information in the diary, their civilization is clearly much more advanced than Earth's."
"Now we also know that although they were wiped out by the Kree, at least hundreds of thousands of them still exist."
"They can also secretly come to Earth from other Planets without being detected by anyone, which means they already possess the ability for interstellar travel."
"Then why don't they search for new homes themselves?"
"And place all their hope on an Agent head of a low-level civilization?"
Honestly, this was the Playboy's biggest confusion!
Are you kidding me?
Earth hasn't even reached the interstellar age, can't even go to the moon freely, and its exploration of outer space is almost Zero.
You expect such a Planet to find you a new home?
This is simply a joke.
Nick Fury, that guy, whether his brain was fried or something, actually dared to use such an unreliable lie to deceive people.
As a result, the Skrulls actually dared to believe it!
What kind of talents are these?
Is there something I don't understand in all this?
Tony was genuinely a bit bewildered.
Not only was Tony bewildered, but even Nick Fury was speechless for a while, stumped by Tony's question.
He simply couldn't answer the Playboy's question.
"Now is not the time to discuss these things. What we need to discuss now is how to resolve the Secret Invasion."
Shaking his head, Nick Fury spoke to Tony again with a serious expression.
"No, it's not about how to resolve the Secret Invasion, it's about how to resolve the Skrulls' problem."
"Those guys can't stay on Earth!"
Tony, however, solemnly corrected Nick Fury's statement.
Regardless of whether there's a Secret Invasion or whether the Skrulls plan to change Earth's Master, Earth is not where they should be.
Completely driving them away is the only way to end it all.
But such a thing is easy to say, the key question is, how can it be done?
Tony and Nick Fury both fell into deep thought.
And a moment later, Tony actually thought of an entry point.
"Nick, don't you have a pager?"
Tony emphasized to Nick Fury, "Isn't Captain Marvel involved in interstellar affairs, and she's an Agent of that Universe S.H.I.E.L.D. S.W.O.R.D., she should certainly have more solutions than us, right?"
Nick Fury's eyes suddenly lit up.
The method Tony mentioned was indeed a solution.
Or rather, it was currently the only method that could be attempted.
Looking at all of Nick Fury's resources, the only one who could truly find a suitable Planet and ask those Skrulls to leave was Danvers.
Although Nick Fury couldn't guarantee that Danvers could do such a thing, besides Danvers, no one else could be relied upon even more.
Not only that.
These hundreds of thousands of Skrulls are indeed a huge threat to Earth.
Especially the future Secret Invasion, which is a global disaster.
So, it could be considered an emergency, right?
After much deliberation, Nick Fury finally made a decision.
After returning to his office in the Triskelion, Nick Fury took out the pager he had always carried with him.
After staring at it steadily for a few seconds, he no longer hesitated and pressed it directly.
On the old-fashioned, extremely low-quality screen, nostalgic pixel patterns immediately appeared.
Showing that the signal was being sent.
This process lasted for a while, and then the screen suddenly dimmed.
Out of power.
Nick Fury then casually put the pager away.
He had indeed sent the signal, but whether Danvers received it and when she received it were not things Nick Fury could decide.
Nick Fury quickly put away his related thoughts and continued to immerse himself in his daily work.
"Fury!"
Until seven days later.
Nick Fury, who had finished a day's work, was on his way home, passing an intersection.
A voice suddenly sounded behind him.
It was a voice that was both familiar and unfamiliar.
Familiar, because the voice indeed felt very familiar to Nick Fury.
Unfamiliar, because when Nick Fury carefully distinguished it, he wasn't sure if the voice he heard was the one he thought it was.
Nothing else.
Nick Fury hadn't heard that voice for too long, and had long since lost any impression of it.
But that didn't matter, just that brief sense of familiarity was enough for Nick Fury to make a judgment.
Indeed.
When Nick Fury turned his head the next moment.
He saw a heroic woman with long golden hair, standing behind him with a slight smile on her face.
Who else could it be but Danvers?
"It's been a long time, hasn't it, Danvers?"
Nick Fury looked Captain Marvel up and down, with an expression of emotion and surprise.
How much time had passed, and Danvers hadn't changed at all!
She was exactly the same as when she left.
And him?
He had changed from a spirited young man to a weathered uncle with a slightly bulging belly.
"Actually, before I saw you, I hadn't even realized that."
Captain Marvel smiled and walked forward.
This wasn't Captain Marvel showing off; she was involved in interstellar affairs and didn't even use Earth's calendar.
"What happened to your eye?"
Then Captain Marvel glanced at Nick Fury's one eye and asked with great curiosity.
Her relationship with Nick Fury was unusual, and they had fought side by side, so she spoke much more casually.
Nick Fury's mouth twitched slightly.
"That's not a good memory, let's not talk about it."
Nick Fury waved his hand, lightly dismissing the topic, and then invited Captain Marvel, "It's getting late. I imagine you've probably forgotten what Earth's delicacies taste like, haven't you?"
"I really have!"
Captain Marvel smiled.
The two then began to chat and reminisce while heading to a nearby restaurant.