"Come with us?" That was a rather strange thing to say. Pierce's offhand remark did indeed leave the other committee members silent for a moment, because his attitude was simply too suspicious.
The World Security Council currently had only four official members. Ever since Malik resigned, Alexander Pierce had been temporarily acting as the United States representative. The four of them often wanted to kick Pierce off this ride. After all, they had finally gotten a personnel change; they felt the United States representative would be better off being some fool who only knew how to post on Twitter, rather than an old fox like Pierce.
But with Project Insight officially going online under his leadership, as long as he produced a few more results, it was practically certain that his acting position would become permanent. So when it came to dividing up Umbrella Corporation, he should at least have shown some attitude and fought for benefits for the US government and S.H.I.E.L.D. Yet now, he seemed somewhat distracted.
Why exactly was that? Anyone capable of sitting in this position was an old monster who had seen it all. Countless possibilities flashed through their minds in an instant. Had the US government already made major breakthroughs in this field and simply disdained Umbrella Corporation's existing technology? Or perhaps...
Petrov and Brissac exchanged a glance. Pierce had long since reached a secret agreement with Umbrella Corporation on behalf of the US government and S.H.I.E.L.D. He appeared to want nothing, when in fact he wanted everything. There was nothing surprising about that; Americans had done plenty of such shameless things. Just like back then, when we risked life and limb to besiege Berlin while the Americans were thinking about making peace with Himmler.
This was hardly a baseless guess. Just think about