Chapter 802

Hannah Hawkins had been living in a daze these past days.

She had once had a stable, respectable job, but ever since that damned laboratory accident, she had not only lost her colleagues and friends, but had also become a pariah in the town. Everyone around her, whether connected to the accident or not, condemned her and wished she would kill herself to atone.

Such a drastic change in her life made everything feel dreamlike, as if she had fallen into an endless nightmare.

But that was not the end of it. Ever since the accident, strange things had kept happening around her. Whenever she became emotional or was pressured by others, the bottles and jars around her would fly about wildly, sometimes causing terrible accidents.

These strange incidents did not last long before mysterious S.H.I.E.L.D. agents came looking for her. Yet they did not help resolve her predicament; things only got worse. Just as those agents found her, a driverless car came speeding toward the crowd right in front of them.

Before she could figure out what was happening, pain struck her back, and she collapsed. When she woke again, she found herself in a cramped room made entirely of some unknown metal, dimly lit, cold, and utterly lifeless. For a moment, she thought she might have gone to Hell.

But what happened next made her realize that she was still in the human world, though her suffering had not ended. The S.H.I.E.L.D. agents who had found her appeared before her, and only then did she understand that S.H.I.E.L.D. had imprisoned her.

Of the two agents before her, one was Phil Coulson, who had introduced himself before. The other was an unfamiliar Chinese woman with an exceptionally cold expression.

They said they were there to learn about the situation,