[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-super-detective-in-the-fictional-world":3,"chapter-super-detective-in-the-fictional-world-super-detective-in-the-fictional-world-chapter-1646":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Super Detective in the Fictional World",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1483714,1930,"Chapter 1646 - Trump Card VS Trump Card","super-detective-in-the-fictional-world-chapter-1646",1646,"\u003Cp>But the aging Director Pierce couldn’t compare with an athletic female agent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had barely bent down, when the gun was kicked away by a high heel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A white calf was right in front of him. The director had a helpless expression on his face as he slowly straightened. “Agent Romanov, you’re really good.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Natasha picked up the gun on the floor and walked back to the table. “Thanks, but do you have anything else to say?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even as she moved, she paid attention to Pierce’s expression, eyes and body language out of the corner of her eye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What she saw wasn’t comforting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a top secret agent who specialized in spying and gathering intelligence, she knew much more about bigshots than regular agents.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right now, Pierce certainly wasn’t acting like he was at the end of his rope.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He might be faking calm, but that was unlikely. The most reasonable answer was that he still had a card up his sleeve.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She didn’t think that a wily old fox like Pierce would only have a Strike force team and the pin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a common tactic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, she hadn’t underestimated Pierce, but had overestimated him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pierce didn’t expect his subordinates to fail to take control of the command center, while the super soldier couldn’t break away from his fight with Steve.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Natasha’s assumption didn’t affect her judgment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More than 20 Strike force members were rushing over. This was the simplest and most straightforward trump card.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But right now, Pierce had to reveal another trump card to prevent Natasha from shooting him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He sneered. “Oh? It seems the pin was useless on you. However…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Glancing at the three council members on the floor, he said unhurriedly, “It’s not hard to kill them.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no doubt about that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The three council members had probably been knocked out by the intense electric current from the brooches.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Given Hydra’s style, the effect definitely wouldn’t be so small.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Apart from this subduing function, it had to have an instant kill function.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Natasha didn’t think much of it. “Go ahead. It has nothing to do with me.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Given the current situation, she wouldn’t kill Pierce, but it wasn’t a problem for her to shoot him in the legs a couple of times.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the three council members survived and saw that Pierce was unharmed, they might hate her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If they died, she wouldn’t have to worry about them complaining.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the very least, she had saved council member Holly, which could be considered leaving the World Security Council one last hope.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking quickly, she went to the table and put her gun down. She then opened the virtual screen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pierce couldn’t help but focus on the screen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing what she was doing, he had a strange expression on his face. “Putting SHIELD’s internal files online – are you sure you want to do that?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at him out of the corner of her eye, she said calmly, “Can’t I?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pierce said, “If you do that, the whole world will know about the suspect things SHIELD has done. It’ll be completely destroyed.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Natasha sneered. “If SHIELD is left standing, it’ll just be a tool for Hydra. Now, let Hydra be buried with it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pierce’s expression was awful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, he didn’t really care about the information going public.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Project Insight was successful, it wasn’t important whether or not it was revealed that Hydra was in SHIELD.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the project failed, the heart of things wouldn’t change even if he escaped, and whether SHIELD collapsed or not wouldn’t affect him much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What made him uneasy was her attitude.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just like how Natasha was a veteran agent who was good at reading people, Pierce was an old fox who had seen much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Natash was calm, as if everything was under her control — just like how she had sensed that Pierce still had a trump card.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Pierce was one of Hydra’s top leaders, a member of the World Security Council, and a former director of SHIELD.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter how good Natasha was, she was just a field agent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She hadn’t killed him and cut off the head right away – what gave her the confidence to compete with him?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nick Fury! The thought flashed through Pierce’s mind, and his expression turned ugly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nobody knew better than he did how difficult it was to deal with Nick Fury.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pierce regretted handing over the position of director to that monster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A moment later, Pierce’s expression turned even more unsightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Strike team that had been on their way didn’t show up, and there was no response to his orders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had lost this first round.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The three council members were a life-saving deterrent, and couldn’t be casually thrown away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pierce had to play another card.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He cursed inwardly. If it wasn’t for the fact that Hydra had lost a lot of manpower in SHIELD recently, the people on his side wouldn’t be stretched so thin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In terms of combat ability in particular, not only had the elite Strike force lost more than 50 people, even the captain, Rumlow, had died last night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thankfully, Pierce had more than one trump card.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he activated the emergency rescue order, he noticed that Natasha was actually thinking of opening a classified document. He couldn’t help but say, “You can’t open that. It requires two A-level clearances.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only two people at HQ had this so-called A-level clearance: The SHIELD director and the American member of the World Security Council.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few days ago, that had been Nick Fury and Pierce.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now that Nick Fury was dead, his clearance had naturally been canceled, and there was just Pierce.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unless the council acknowledged a new director, these files would just be sealed in the database.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Natasha just gave him a glance. “You don’t have much time left.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She then said, “Didn’t you say that you could help? Come over now.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pierce subconsciously looked around. Clearly, she was talking to someone else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, a guy wearing a combat uniform and a black hood over his head walked in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the Level 2 clone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Level 1 clone was in the command center, so the Level 2 clone naturally had to come and take a look at Pierce.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was basic respect for this Hydra boss, and had nothing to do with experience and credit points.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why was Natasha so calm?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because this “John Doe” guy was a bigshot middle man, whom Tony had guaranteed was the strongest trump card.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All she needed to do was make an equal exchange.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They could talk about the price later, but for now, she had confidence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had only started decrypting the files after asking John Doe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luke wasn’t in a hurry to take a look at Pierce. Instead, he gave a small box to Natasha. “You can use this.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stood two meters to the side so that the two of them just so happened to be facing the decryption windows on the virtual screen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Natasha opened the box and found a cold, preserved eyeball. She held it up to the decryption window.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A-level clearance detected. Nicholas J. Fury.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both Natasha and Pierce looked at Luke in shock. Had Luke turned the one-eyed creature into an eyeless creature?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luke, however, calmly had the decryption window scan his right eye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A-level clearance detected. Alexander G. Pierce. A-level clearance confirmed. Encryption unlocked, safety protocol canceled.”\u003C\u002Fp>",1239,"2026-06-06T03:36:34.766Z",1,"novelbin.me","948e61ceb711eb4d8e60ea73ba57334ca02b01493735c8c5bbff531761f2131a","super-detective-in-the-fictional-world-chapter-1647","super-detective-in-the-fictional-world-chapter-1645",2233,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsuper-detective-in-the-fictional-world-cover.jpg"]