Incoming Missile
"Of course it's serious. If you hadn't come to me, you might not have made it through the night. Were you being abused by your wife, Nick? Well, I have to say, your wife is really something else." Xia Yu joked as he treated Nick's injuries.
"JARVIS, defense mode, activate my Armor and be ready to go." Tony got out and activated the base's defense mode before coming to Xia Yu's side.
"Oh my God, it's Nick Fury! Someone dares to lay a hand on you? You must have had a mistress and your wife found out. Tell me where she is, and I'll help you kill her to cover it up, so you don't end up on the front page with the reporters!" Tony said exaggeratedly to Nick Fury.
"Stark, you and Shar are two damn bastards." Nick Fury weakly raised a middle finger.
"Save your energy, Nick. Instead of giving us the middle Kung Fu, tell us what happened? Who did this to the director of S.H.I.E.L.D..?" Xia Yu said, pressing down on Nick Fury's middle finger.
"This is serious. I'm not trying to scare you. You'd better find a safer place and wake everyone up. It's not safe here right now. If it's just to deal with me, they might send a few more elite assassins at most, but this is the Avengers' base. I don't know what will come next," Nick Fury said.
"Nick, you're a complete bastard, JARVIS. Call everyone down and activate the underground emergency shelter. Damn it, Nick, you knew all along, didn't you?" Tony said irritably.
"What kind of underground emergency shelter?" Xia Yu asked in surprise.
Nick Fury was given emergency treatment by Xia Yu and his life was saved. He said weakly, "Let me explain to you. Tony, go help everyone. Grab your gear." Seeing this, Tony quickly ran off to help.
Nick Fury then told Xia Yu, "It turns out that Obadiah Stane built a small warehouse deep beneath this main warehouse. After Obadiah Stane died, we followed his illegal arms dealing trail and found this place. On the surface, this is a Stark Industries warehouse, but in reality, it's Obadiah Stane's largest underground arms depot on the East Coast."
When choosing the Avengers Compound, Natasha was guided to choose this place, and then Tony was given some basic construction work. This led Tony to discover the location, and given Tony's personality, he would definitely make some modifications to the underground area, turning it into a secret base or shelter, while Nick Fury pretended not to know.
This was one of Nick Fury's other methods of surveillance over the Avengers besides Coulson. Xia Yu, instantly understanding all this, grinned at Nick, giving him an incredibly ugly smile, and said, "You're destined to have no friends or family in this life, you bastard."
Nick Fury gave a nonchalant look. "I'm not a Hero. I do the greatest things in the world, but I do them the dirtiest. I'm used to nobody talking to me anymore."
The two exchanged only a few words before everyone came down. The situation was urgent, so there was no time for idle chatter. Tony led everyone toward the door.
Xia Yu tucked Nick under his armpit, and with his other hand, he continuously channeled his Internal Energy into Nick's body to heal his injuries.
The group followed Tony across the lawn to the edge of the woods, where Tony gestured for them to stop.
Tony bent down and pressed his right hand under a stone bench. A green light appeared, and a green numeric keypad appeared where Tony's hand had been. Without hesitation, Tony entered the password.
The entire bench swayed slightly. Tony gestured for everyone to take a few steps back. A few seconds later, the stone bench, along with the stone bricks underneath, rose up, revealing a staircase.
Tony took the lead and went in first, with the others following silently behind. They went down to who knows how deep, until they reached the end of the stairs, where they were faced with an elevator that was more than twice the size of a regular freight elevator.
"This was originally an emergency exit. There used to be a hidden entrance inside the base, which I sealed off. I was planning to keep this one for emergencies, but I didn't expect that bastard Nick already knew about it," Tony explained to the group.
Nick Fury said without the slightest embarrassment, "I didn't want to come here either, but you're the only ones I can trust who have the ability to save me."
"Nick, is it Hydra?" Peggy Carter suddenly asked.
Nick Fury held this senior colleague in high regard. "Ms. Carter, it is indeed Hydra, but it's more serious than I imagined. Not only do they have people in S.H.I.E.L.D.., but they also have people in the World Security Council and high-ranking government officials."
Peggy Carter didn't ask anything more, saying she'd wait until everyone was seated before continuing.
The underground shelter seemed to be dug very deep. Xia Yu could feel that the elevator was moving very fast, but it still took more than twenty seconds to get there.
The elevator doors opened to reveal a large conference table and chairs, a row of computer workstations in front, and further inside were some fitness equipment, tea room facilities, and dozens of closed rooms on both sides. It was clear that Tony had transformed this place into a fully equipped underground base.
Everyone took their seats, and Xia Yu sat down next to Nick, still holding onto Nick's hand.
"Alright, dear Director Fury, please tell us the situation quickly. We are perfectly safe now. We're over 100 meters below the surface. Even if they launched a high-yield Missile, it would only cause a slight tremor here," Tony said, patting the table.
"Boom!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the entire underground base shook violently. Betty Ross's chair was knocked to the ground, and a large amount of dust fell from the gaps in the ceiling material.
Xia Yu finally managed to steady himself. He was fine, but it was so sudden that he almost threw Nick Fury off balance.
"Tony, you call this a fucking slight wobble?" Xia Yu loudly questioned Tony.
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