Chapter 385: Grant, Who Exits as Soon as He Enters (First Update!)

"Hawk is back."

"..."

Beneath Times Square, at the S. H. I. E. L. D. New York Operations Command Center, John Garrett—who was leading the second Hydra uprising to successfully occupy the place and was currently sitting in Victoria Hand's office—took a deep breath as he listened to the electronic voice coming from his earpiece.

A bad premonition, one that only elite agents possess, welled up in his heart.

"Sir..."

"You know what to do."

After saying this, Dr. Zola's electronic voice went offline, simultaneously erasing any trace of the connection between himself and the New York S. H. I. E. L. D. system in an instant.

Although records showed that Hawk was not very proficient in computer technology—his phone was a second-hand one replaced by his fiancée, and the only laptop he owned was bought on a second-hand forum.

But...

It is always right to be cautious.

John Garrett listened to the dead silence that remained after Dr. Zola went offline, and the heart that had been hanging in his chest finally died completely.

Just then.

The office door opened.

Coming into view.

Grant Ward, who looked upright and wore a suit and tie, walked in, bringing with him Skye, a black-haired Asian woman whose hands were cuffed behind her back and whose expression was written full of defiance.

John Garrett snapped back to reality, looked up at his adopted son Grant who had walked in, revealed a trace of a smile on his face, and then his gaze fell upon Skye, who had been brought back.

"You must be Skye. Are you willing to join us?"

"Pah!"

Skye, who had been restrained and dragged back by Grant, spat a mouthful of saliva at John Garrett sitting behind the desk upon hearing this, expressing her attitude with an angry expression.

John was not annoyed; he chuckled and pressed a button on the desktop.

Soon.

A Hydra agent walked in.

"Take her down."

"Yes."

The Hydra agent who entered nodded in response and took Skye from Grant's hands.

Skye tried to twist her body to resist.

The next second.

"Boom!"

"Hiss!"

Without any courtesy, without any chivalry, the Hydra agent who punched Skye directly in the stomach coldly scolded: "Behave yourself."

John Garrett looked at Skye, who was hunched over, with a smile: "If nothing goes wrong, you will be liberated soon."

Skye thought John was going to kill her and looked at him with angry eyes.

"S. H. I. E. L. D. will definitely stop your evil plan."

"And you..."

"Grant, I must have been blind back then."

Thinking about how she had been with this Grant Ward—who was named S. H. I. E. L. D. but written as Hydra—when she first joined S. H. I. E. L. D., Skye suddenly felt that she herself was no longer clean.

Grant was expressionless and did not even look at Skye.

John waved his hand directly.

Seeing this, the Hydra agent holding Skye dragged her away, turned around expressionlessly, and walked toward the outside of the room.

Skye's angry voice gradually faded away, finally becoming too weak to be heard.

John looked at the hidden expression that flashed across his adopted son Grant's face and smiled.

"What, heart-broken?"

"No."

Grant shook his head: "Any stumbling block that stops our great cause will be eliminated by us."

Hearing this, John smiled.

The next second.

He changed the subject.

"You should go."

"... Target?"

Although Grant Ward was a bit confused as to why he was being sent out again just after returning, he did not speak out, but quickly entered his state, asking about his next mission target.

John did not immediately reveal the name of the next target.

"Leave Niuyuecheng, go to the island nation first. You will get your next mission target on the plane."

"Understood."

Grant Ward did not hesitate; after nodding, he turned and left the office.

At the office door, he subconsciously glanced in the direction where Skye had been taken, not knowing what he was thinking, but he quickly regained his composure and walked toward the exit again.

John Garrett, through the monitoring on his desktop computer, watched his adopted son walking toward the exit, his gaze flickering as well.

Next target?

Perhaps there would be a next target.

But there were no more targets here for him, after Dr. Zola cut off the communication.

So...

Even a tiger does not eat its cubs.

Although he had adopted Grant back then, cultivated him carefully, and trained him into an excellent, cold, and professional Hydra agent.

But Grant was his adopted son after all.

So he chose to deliberately send Grant away.

Because the feeling of unease in his heart was becoming stronger and stronger.

An agent's intuition is very sharp, especially when being a Hydra agent within S. H. I. E. L. D., one must believe in intuition even more.

So this was likely not an illusion.

Hawk was coming.

No! ===== CHAPTER 387 =====