For the future Quake, finding her biological parents had always been the driving force that carried her through her miserable childhood.
Having been adopted three times and sent back three times, she longed more than anyone to find her biological parents and ask why they had abandoned her back then.
Had they been hiding some unspeakable hardship, or had they simply not wanted to fulfill their responsibilities as parents?
As the saying went, everyone had a compensatory mindset.
The more someone lacked something, the more they often craved it.
What Skye had lacked most during her childhood was a family and parental love, so investigating information about her biological parents had always been the top priority of her life.
Even when she learned hacking and joined the Tidal Organization, it had been to achieve that goal.
Coulson had keenly noticed this and used it as leverage to successfully recruit her into his small team.
On one hand, he valued her outstanding computer networking and hacking skills. On the other, he wanted to keep constant watch over this young woman who had already been classified as "extremely dangerous."
After spending several boring hours on the plane, the group finally landed safely in an open patch of countryside near the border between Romania and Hungary.
Thanks to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s modifications, the massive transport plane could even take off and land vertically, so it had no need for an airport or runway.
The instant the rear cabin door opened, several agents waiting outside quickly approached.
"You finally made it, Agent Phil."
"How's the situation?"
Coulson glanced at the huge area several kilometers away, completely shrouded beneath a black hemispherical barrier.
The middle-aged man in charge first muttered a curse in Romanian, then replied with a bitter smile, "Terrible! Over the past twelve hours, the