"Who are you?" Jill stared warily at the young man in a suit with a gentle smile, as well as the armed personnel behind him. She did not relax in the slightest.
"We're from the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division. I'm Coulson. We're here to help you." After hearing his introduction, Shen Fei could not help but look at him a few more times.
If he had not introduced himself, Shen Fei truly would not have recognized him as Coulson, the S.H.I.E.L.D. agent.
"Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division." Hearing Coulson's introduction, Jill frowned. The name sounded impressive, covering intervention, enforcement, and logistics, but this was the first time she had heard of such an organization.
It was not because Jill was ignorant. Before superheroes publicly appeared, S.H.I.E.L.D. had truly kept an extremely low profile. Aside from a very small number of people, most had no idea what this agency did.
Of course, S.H.I.E.L.D. was still called the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division right now. To be honest, Shen Fei had never really remembered the name.
"Can we leave here first and talk afterward?" Coulson noticed Jill's doubts, but he did not explain. After all, some things simply could not be explained.
"There are still some children in the basement." Considering Raccoon City's current situation, Jill nodded in agreement.
As for the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division, Jill treated it as an organization similar to the Federal Bureau of Investigation or the CIA.
Unless someone specifically studied such things, no one could possibly know how many agencies a country had, not even people within the system—especially organizations that clearly looked like intelligence agencies.
"Children? Understood." Coulson immediately ordered his subordinates behind him to help.
"Little guy, these aren't toys you should be playing with." Before boarding the aircraft, Coulson confiscated all of Shen Fei's firearms, including the military knives on him.
After confiscating them, Coulson's gaze at Shen Fei became somewhat strange. He had never expected such a young kid to be carrying so many bullets.
Aside from two pistols and two military knives, every leg pouch, waist pouch, and even the pockets on Shen Fei's chest were filled with magazines.
Seeing Coulson's astonished expression, Shen Fei silently turned his head away. He could not exactly say it was a side effect of watching Resident Evil, could he? What was Resident Evil most afraid of? Naturally, running out of bullets at the critical moment.
"There are quite a few children here. Make preparations." After everyone boarded the aircraft, Coulson immediately contacted the base through the radio.
Only through the window on one side of the aircraft did Shen Fei finally see Raccoon City's current state in full. It was a sea of flames, with smoke and war everywhere.
A large number of helicopters and a small number of Quinjets patrolled above Raccoon City, while S.H.I.E.L.D.'s special Strike Teams advanced across the ground layer by layer.
Compared to Umbrella Corporation's Strike Teams and the military special forces struggling bitterly in battle, S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Strike Teams were unstoppable.
All of this came from the fact that S.H.I.E.L.D.'s weapons and equipment were far superior to those of the other two.
The Zombie Dinosaurs that had previously caused heavy casualties among Umbrella Corporation's Strike Teams and U.S. Military special forces were directly vaporized by a beam of light.
Energy weapons. Quite a few members of the S.H.I.E.L.D. Strike Teams walking through Raccoon City were carrying precisely such weapons.
This was not some movie or television show, where S.H.I.E.L.D. possessed so much powerful equipment yet never used it. What kind of person was Nick Fury? He was someone who valued practicality above all else.
During this world's World War II, under the leadership of Captain America, God's righteous man, the evil Hydra was defeated. Most of the weapons Hydra had developed were seized by S.H.I.E.L.D.'s predecessor, the Strategic Scientific Reserve.
Hydra had possessed energy weapons as early as World War II. How could things be any worse now?
The Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division had been established largely because of those energy weapons. After the war ended, those spoils of war became the key point of contention among various nations.
Those weapons were so dangerous that they naturally could not be distributed freely. So what could be done? After discussion, the five major powers decided to establish an organization together and have it guard those dangerous weapons.
But what kind of person was Nick Fury? Although the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division stipulated that those weapons could not be deployed lightly, given Raccoon City's current situation, there was no problem with Nick Fury using a small number of energy weapons.
"Die, monster." Inside Umbrella Corporation's underground laboratory beneath the Raccoon City Police Station, Barton watched the mutated William fall into the massive furnace below after being blasted down by an exploding arrow and spoke coldly.
"Natasha, how are things on your end?" Barton immediately spoke through the earpiece at his ear.
"I'm busy right now. I'll contact you later." Hearing the sounds of fighting through the earpiece, Barton could not help but freeze. He knew this teammate well. Her strength ranked among the best of all agents, yet she had actually encountered a worthy opponent here.
"Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division. I thought you were dead. I never expected you to join them. That name... sigh." After forcing Natasha back with a kick, Ada Wong smiled and shook her head.
"Ada Wong, I didn't expect to meet you here either. Hand over the item. You should know what consequences that thing will bring." As top figures in the same circle, the two had never met before, but they had both heard of each other.
"You mean this? Sorry, you don't get to decide." Ada Wong prepared to leave with the G-Virus, but Black Widow naturally would not give her that chance. As Ada retreated, Black Widow immediately launched an attack.
This time, Ada did not meet Black Widow's attack head-on. Instead, she accelerated her retreat, then immediately pulled out the Grappling Gun at her waist and fired it into the stairs above before using the momentum to fly upward.
"Barton, it's Ada Wong. She escaped with the virus. She's in Sector C3." Looking up at Ada, Black Widow immediately contacted Barton.
"Understood."
"Don't shoot. I'm a police officer reporting for duty." Leon and Claire had barely entered Raccoon City when they were surrounded by a S.H.I.E.L.D. Strike Team. Seeing the weapons in their hands, Leon decisively put down his small pistol.
It had to be said that this world's Leon and Claire were quite lucky. They had only arrived in Raccoon City after S.H.I.E.L.D. intervened.
At a seemingly newly established base outside Raccoon City, Shen Fei finally emerged after undergoing a series of inspections and being confirmed safe.
The moment Shen Fei walked out, he saw Sherry being led away by a cold-faced female agent. He immediately approached, but did not even get the chance to come close before two Strike Team members blocked his path.
"Sherry! Sherry!" Shen Fei immediately shouted.
Shen Fei's shout immediately caught Sherry's attention. When she turned and saw Shen Fei, she looked up at the cold agent. Only after seeing her nod did she run toward Shen Fei.
"Are you okay?"
"I'm fine, but Dad and Mom..." Mentioning her parents, Sherry suddenly threw her arms around Shen Fei and burst into tears. What she had experienced in the laboratory had been nothing less than a nightmare. She had been forcing herself to endure it all along, but after seeing Shen Fei, someone she knew, she finally stopped suppressing herself.
"It's time to go." Not long afterward, the cold-faced female agent walked over and spoke icily.
"May, let them stay a little longer." Before Shen Fei could speak, Coulson walked over from the side.
"The director is waiting." The female agent remained as indifferent as ever toward Coulson.
"Melinda? So this was what she was like now." Shen Fei looked up at the cold female agent, then immediately asked, "Where are you taking her?"
"That isn't something you need to know."
No wonder she was called Iron Cavalry. Shen Fei grumbled inwardly after being shut down.
"Don't worry. We're only taking her for a physical examination. It's for her own good. You'll have plenty of chances to meet in the future." Coulson said with a gentle smile.
"Hmph." Melinda snorted coldly from the side, seemingly extremely disdainful of Coulson's attitude.
This looks like she's about to join S.H.I.E.L.D. That's actually a pretty good outcome for her. Watching Sherry disappear with Melinda, Shen Fei muttered inwardly.
Joining S.H.I.E.L.D. was better than joining the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the original story. Especially with Melinda guiding her, the experiments conducted on Sherry would probably be far fewer than in the original.
Although Melinda seemed cold, she was actually warmhearted beneath the surface. The reason she differed so greatly from her future self was that she had not yet experienced the events that would later change her.
"Little guy, are you interested in joining us? That way, you can see her often." Just as Shen Fei was preparing to leave, Coulson suddenly called out to him.
"Huh?" Coulson's words left Shen Fei stunned.
"I asked around about you. We have a place where you can go to school." Coulson continued. Perhaps because he had been so shocked by the number of bullets Shen Fei carried, Coulson had later gone to ask Jill, Rebecca, and the people at the orphanage about him.
"S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy?" The moment Coulson mentioned a place where he could study, Shen Fei immediately thought of it. Fitz and Simmons from Coulson's team in S.H.I.E.L.D. had both graduated from that academy.
Of course, it definitely was not called S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy yet.
"Think it over carefully. Perhaps you can talk to Rebecca. She has already agreed to join." Coulson continued.
"Rebecca joined S.H.I.E.L.D.?" Well, now everything was completely messed up.
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