As if he had seen Hawking's confusion, Nick Fury explained:
"This time, I'm luring them into a trap to wipe out some of the parasites within S.H.I.E.L.D., so I've sent everyone else away on the surface.
Your professors and teachers are all at the school, under the enemy's surveillance. If even one of them leaves, it could alert the enemy.
Only you. I've never entered your information into S.H.I.E.L.D.'s system. And now that the students are on break, it's perfectly normal for you to leave the school."
Ever since Stryker had been poisoned to death, Nick Fury had secretly been investigating the S.H.I.E.L.D. he commanded.
No matter how flawless an infiltration was, it was impossible for it to leave no traces. Especially since the captured spy had come from S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy, which had given him a breakthrough and revealed some truths he found hard to believe.
But without sufficient evidence, he could not be completely certain.
Still, he had hidden some information that could be concealed instead of entering it into S.H.I.E.L.D.'s system.
Hawking's information was one of them.
The information on Hawking in S.H.I.E.L.D.'s system still stopped at what had been gathered during that battle. After that, it only showed him attending school and taking breaks like an ordinary mutant student.
His leaving school over half a year ago to fight criminals and establish Hero Alliance International Company was not in S.H.I.E.L.D.'s system either.
Of course, he had no way to conceal something as significant as researching mutant-suppressing drugs and weapons. If he hid it, it would only arouse suspicion.
That was also why, even though he already possessed drugs and weapons capable of dealing with mutants, he had shown no intention of taking the initiative and causing trouble.
There were already serious problems within S.H.I.E.L.D., let alone elsewhere.