Having dealt with those representatives who spent all day watching for a chance to pick fault with him, Nick Fury quickly ended the remote call and walked out of the Helicarrier's most classified room.
Clearly, in the face of overwhelming external pressure, no matter how dissatisfied these people were with him, they could only endure it for the time being.
After all, a war with an alien civilization was filled with too many unknowns and uncertainties for present-day Earth and human society, so internal conflicts would temporarily be pushed aside.
But once this war was over, the International Security Council would definitely settle accounts with S.H.I.E.L.D.
And Nick Fury, the director who liked acting unilaterally and deceiving those above and below him, would inevitably become the first target of attack and impeachment.
He had clearly prepared himself for that.
In particular, there was no escaping accountability afterward for concealing the dangers of researching the Tesseract.
Thinking of this, Director Egghead could not help sighing softly as he began reflecting on whether the decisions he had made were truly wrong.
Otherwise, why did similar crises only keep multiplying, with their danger levels rising exponentially?
Just as he lowered his head in thought and pushed open the door to enter the command center, a piercing alarm instantly rang in his ears.
"Damn it! Someone's hacking our network!" Maria Hill sprang to her feet.
You must know, S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Helicarrier used the highest military-grade communication device, so theoretically, it could not be breached from outside. Otherwise, the moment the first firewall encountered a problem, they would immediately detect signs of intrusion and launch a counterattack.
For them to discover it only after the intruder had already entered the database, there was definitely an insider.
"It's Tony Stark!"
Without even thinking, Nick Fury instantly identified