"..."
The atmosphere turned awkward for a single second.
Maria Hill just tried to get up when the ground rolled once more, actually carrying her right up in front of Su Quan like a wave.
Raising her head, Su Quan swung his palm down.
"Bang—" Maria Hill felt herself float up.
No, it wasn't a feeling; she really had floated up, and she even saw 'herself' collapse at Su Quan's feet.
"I—I'm dead? Do people really have souls after they die?"
Aside from her shock, Maria Hill's very first reaction was actually: didn't you say you'd spare me if I knelt down?
Even though it was passive, I did kneel, so why are you going back on your word?
Maria Hill wasn't afraid of death, but to die in such a 'spineless' way, she was unreconciled!
"I shouldn't have done anything worthy of an investigation by you people at S.H.I.E.L.D., why investigate me?"
Su Quan raised a hand, and the ground rapidly bulged, forming a stone chair. He slowly sat down, watching the soul-like floating Maria Hill.
"Jessica Jones!"
The reason Maria Hill knew about Su Quan and investigated Su Quan all started with Jessica Jones.
"S.H.I.E.L.D. Danger Assessment Report?"
"You know about this too?"
The S.H.I.E.L.D. Danger Assessment Report was S.H.I.E.L.D.'s evaluation list of individuals with special abilities and dangerous items.
Whenever superpowered individuals appeared, S.H.I.E.L.D. would dispatch a team to investigate and submit an asset evaluation and cataloging report.
This was followed by a comprehensive threat assessment and psychological evaluation.
S.H.I.E.L.D. would prioritize recruiting superpowered individuals into S.H.I.E.L.D. or the Avengers initiative.
For those who failed to enter S.H.I.E.L.D., the agency would conduct long-term surveillance.
As for those with very high index scores and psychological problems, S.H.I.E.L.D. would eliminate the threat.
"During our investigation into Jessica Jones, we found her emotional and psychological state to be very unstable. If she continues to stay in contact with Trish Walker, the presence of family will make her social relations, emotions, and psychological state more stable."
"However, you appeared."
"You took her in and gave her a job, so we investigated you and found—you're very suspicious!"
"All your money came from selling gold, silver, jewelry, and accessories without proper paperwork or sources. We recovered a portion to investigate and discovered an unbelievable situation."
"There was a wedding ring, and we found its owner, but the owner of that wedding ring was wearing another identical wedding ring on their hand."
"The owner of the wedding ring had never lost a ring, nor had they ever custom-made an identical one!"
Perhaps feeling that she was already dead anyway, and that she wouldn't be able to rest in peace without figuring out Su Quan's identity, Maria Hill gradually assumed the demeanor of the S.H.I.E.L.D. Commander-in-Chief once again.
"Of course, this isn't important. What's important is that we conducted an in-depth investigation into you and found that we couldn't uncover any traces of your past life, not a single trace relating to you."
"It was as if you appeared out of thin air and had never lived in this world before."
"Can you tell me, just who on earth are you?"
Su Quan calmly said, "I'm someone you can't afford to provoke."
Maria Hill was unwilling to give up, continuing to appeal to his emotions and reason.
"S.H.I.E.L.D.'s duty is to protect people from harm by extraordinary events and superpowered individuals. I didn't want to provoke you; I just wanted to know your identity, your purpose in taking in Jessica Jones, and to confirm that you won't cause any harm."
"You should know better than anyone how much harm a superpowered individual like you poses to ordinary people!"
"I hope you can understand, this isn't personal, this is my duty."
"No, from the moment you fired that shot, this became personal!"
"Also, don't talk reason to me when I lose my temper, I'm deaf!"
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Maria Hill didn't know how long a person would exist as a soul after dying, she just wanted to figure out Su Quan's identity before vanishing.
Right now, it seemed that would be difficult!
"Not going to try a little harder?"
Looking at the deflated Maria Hill, Su Quan felt somewhat disappointed.
"Will you talk?" Maria Hill held some expectations.
"No!"
"Then what's the point of me trying or not." Maria Hill said angrily.
Su Quan shook his head, "That's not how you put it. Sometimes, if you don't try, you'll never know what despair is."
"..."
"So things that can't be resolved today, don't rush, because they might not be resolved tomorrow either!"
"..."
You are so vicious!
Ruthless, and with such a nasty personality, simply—
Wait, it might not be resolved tomorrow either?
Whether it can be resolved or not aside, tomorrow—I still have a tomorrow?!
Maria Hill's intelligence and experience suddenly came back online.
She glanced at her own 'corpse'. Although there was no rising and falling, no heartbeat, there were also no external injuries whatsoever, no bleeding, and therefore—
Since Su Quan knew I was the S.H.I.E.L.D. Commander-in-Chief, he definitely knew how much trouble killing me would cause.
The girl he just saved—the agency would discover through her that my death was linked to him.
No matter who he was, no matter what he wanted to do, right now he certainly wouldn't want S.H.I.E.L.D. to target him, so—
Maria • There is Only One Truth • Hill revealed a confident smile.
"An illusion? Magic? Or some other method? Although I don't know how you managed it, you didn't actually kill me, did you?"
The more she thought about it, the more she felt her guess was correct, so Maria Hill simply drifted right back into her own 'body'.
Yet the result was different from what she had imagined!
Once, twice, three times—
No matter how she tried, no matter how she made her soul fit against her body, the result was that bridge stayed bridge and road stayed road—she simply couldn't truly fuse into one!
Su Quan looked at her like she was an idiot, "No way, no way, you don't actually think I wouldn't dare kill you, do you?"
"If I use a living Captain America to trade for you, do you think Nick Fury would agree?"
"A Super Soldier Serum with a one-hundred-percent success rate—would Nick Fury agree?"
"A Sky Carrier completely identical to the one developed by you S.H.I.E.L.D., yet not belonging to your S.H.I.E.L.D.—would Nick Fury agree?"
"One isn't enough, then two; two aren't enough, then three. If all else fails, Ronan the Accuser's spaceship will do as well. Nick Fury has dealt with him before and knows very well how much a spaceship is worth."
"So, dear S.H.I.E.L.D. Commander-in-Chief, yes, you are important, but not that important!"
Maria Hill was dumbfounded. A living Captain America, a Super Soldier Serum with a one-hundred-percent success rate, a S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier, even an alien spaceship—
These, you can actually pull all of these off?!
Impossible, absolutely impossible!
Maria Hill didn't believe Su Quan could really offer these conditions, but she had to admit that any single one of them had the value to trade for her alone.
Would Nick Fury make the trade?
Maria Hill didn't want to test human nature, because human nature was the thing that stood up to testing the least.
Faced with such conditions, if she were alive, Nick Fury might not agree, but if she were already dead—even he would be tempted!
"You—you really do have some tricks up your sleeve?" Maria Hill couldn't help wanting to verify it.
Su Quan directly produced the last remaining dose of the Super Soldier Serum from his system, originally prepared for Dotty Underwood. As for now—
"You can try it out for yourself, on the premise that you help me with a few small favors from now on."
"I agree."
Maria Hill wasn't stupid.
If it failed, at worst she would die, which wasn't much different from her current plight.
If it succeeded, she could become a super soldier, becoming the new Captain America.
A Super Soldier Serum with a one-hundred-percent success rate! He could produce one dose, so he could produce more. At the same time, those other things might actually be real too!
For this alone, let alone helping with a few small favors, as long as what he did wasn't too excessive, Maria Hill could represent S.H.I.E.L.D. in wiping his bu—uh, helping him clean up the mess.
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