Captain Marvel's Admonition
"That was a misunderstanding. My men saw the Werewolf attack and thought it was an enemy. We didn't know anything about Jocelyn's relationship with Werewolf!" However, Nick Fury quickly recovered and hurriedly continued to explain that whether Jocelyn's partner was reliable or not was definitely not as important as his own safety.
"You really mean no harm?" Carol asked Nick Fury seriously, her brows furrowed slightly.
"Really, no, I admit it. I had ulterior motives. I just wanted to get in touch with Jocelyn and see if I could find a group of superhumans who could serve the country..." Nick Fury said earnestly to Carol. "After all, as you've seen, I don't have any truly capable fighters under my command. If a real crisis were to occur, we wouldn't be able to handle it. We can't rely on Superman or Saiyan who might appear at any time, can we?"
"Besides, Jocelyn is my sister. Even if I haven't had much contact with her family over the years, I wouldn't do anything to persecute them, right?"
"So, what are you planning to do now?" Carol's expression softened slightly. Seeing that Robet didn't interrupt him, she continued to look at Nick Fury and asked.
"I will help heal that Werewolf ..." Nick Fury knew that Carol didn't want an explanation from him, but from Clary, who was standing beside her. So he looked at Clary sincerely and stated his conditions.
"No need! I hope you can continue to be the same as before and not have any contact with our family!" Clary showed no intention of listening to Nick Fury's conditions, coldly interrupting Nick Fury and saying in a deep voice.
"Okay!" Nick Fury paused for a moment, then took a deep breath and looked at Clary solemnly, promising, "Don't worry, I won't bother you again, just like in all those years before..."
"Saiyan, shall we go?" Upon hearing Nick Fury's words, Clary looked at Robet and asked softly.
"No rush, I want to ask, what exactly is that dark blue Cosmic Cube? I'm quite interested in it..." Robet waved his hand, looked at Nick Fury, and said with a smile.
"Absolutely impossible!" Nick Fury's face darkened. Even with Carol right next to him, Nick Fury showed no intention of changing his attitude.
"A dark blue Cosmic Cube?" Carol raised an eyebrow, as if realizing something, and looked at Robet, saying softly, "When we meet again, I will tell you about that item and what happened here?"
"Don't worry, I'll still give you face!" Robet smiled and shook his head, then looked at Clary and Constantine, who had been slacking off since arriving, and said, "Let's go back..."
"Phew!" Nick Fury finally breathed a sigh of relief after watching Robet lead Constantine and Clary away carrying Jocelyn. He quickly turned to his men and ordered, "Send the wounded to receive treatment, bury the dead, pay the highest possible compensation, and while you're at it, go check on Barton..."
"Director!" Just as Nick Fury finished speaking, Hawkeye Barton finally regained his freedom and ran out of the Central Control Core room. After seeing Robet had left, Hawkeye Barton breathed a sigh of relief and then looked at Nick Fury, saying, "I don't know why, but my body just lost its ability to move. I'm sorry, Director, I've disappointed you..."
"That's Saiyan, didn't you fight him last time? You're lucky you survived!" Nick Fury shook his head and said with some emotion.
"So it was him! Last time, he knocked me unconscious with a casual blow. I finally managed to get the Super Soldier Serum injected, but it turned out to be even worse than last time..." Hawkeye Barton paused for a moment, then said with a wry smile, "Director, how did you end up bringing him here? Could it be that this is your real purpose in bringing Jocelyn back?"
"Alright, go and rest now. The Jocelyn affair is over, don't bring it up again!" Nick Fury's face darkened. If he had known earlier that Jocelyn's daughter, Clary, could contact Saiyan, he would have personally gone to her door to build a relationship. Why would he have forced Jocelyn to come over like this?
"Have you really not contacted your family all these years? So you haven't been secretly looking after my family either?" After Hawkeye Barton left, Carol looked at Nick Fury with a slight flicker in her eyes. Before, when Nick Fury said that he rarely contacted his family, Carol didn't quite believe it, but now, after seeing Nick Fury's relationship with the Jocelyn family, Carol was somewhat convinced.
"When you first left, I was still looking after your family, including my own. But as I rose through the ranks, I gradually lost contact with them. Not to mention you, who is now in my position, even my subordinate Coulson can hardly contact his family anymore..." Nick Fury shook his head and said in a low voice with some emotion.
"As the head of intelligence for an official organization, I cannot afford to be so vulnerable as to be threatened by spies. I can conceal my connection with them, but if I make too many contacts with them, they will inevitably be discovered by those with ulterior motives!"
"It was I who misunderstood you before..." Carol said with a soft sigh.
"Where did you go before? I couldn't get in touch with you at all. And how did you meet the Saiyan? Why is he different from before?" Nick Fury snapped out of his reverie and shifted the topic back to Carol and Robet, asking them questions.
Originally, Nick Fury was forced to lower his standards and contact Jocelyn to see if he could find a group of weaker superhumans to use for him because of Carol's disappearance. However, he did not expect that this contact would attract Robet and Carol.
Nick Fury believed that in the supernatural world, regardless of strength, there were always intricate connections between them; otherwise, Carol had just returned to Earth, wouldn't have been able to meet Robet...
"You mentioned Saiyan and Superman before. After I met my family, I happened to meet both of them. Of the two, Superman is stronger than me. He is definitely a top-tier powerhouse in the entire universe. You need to change your mindset..." Carol didn't mention her relationship with Clark and Robet, but looked at Nick Fury seriously and said.
When Nick Fury heard that Carol had lost to Clark, he was startled. That sense of crisis once again gripped Nick Fury, triggering his paranoia. But soon, upon hearing Carol's follow-up words, Nick Fury instinctively retorted, "My opinion? What's wrong with my opinion? You can know a person's face but not their heart. Who can guarantee that they possess such terrifying destructive power? What if they have malicious intentions? Who can stop them?"
"You're protecting the Earth in your own way, and they're protecting the Earth in their own way. From your perspective, there's nothing wrong with your point of view, but from their perspective, isn't there the same problem?" Carol shook her head, looking at the somewhat agitated Nick Fury, and tried to persuade him.
"Since everyone is protecting the Earth in their own way, why can't we cooperate?" Nick Fury retorted again. "If they really have no ulterior motives, why don't they dare to stand up directly? Why don't they dare to contact us?"
"Why do you think that is? Because they don't want to break ties with you, they don't want their normal lives to be disrupted..." Carol gave Nick Fury a deep look and said, "You think they need to obey your orders, that they need to do whatever you tell them to do, in order to feel safe? Then why can't you be the one doing their logistical work and following their commands?"
"Nick Fury, I know you want to protect this planet, mainly because you've seen some powerful beings in the universe and know they might pose a threat to Earth. But let me tell you this: with Superman's power, he can withstand 99% of those threats..."
"Furthermore, if Superman and the Saiyan really have any ulterior motives as you claim, you simply cannot resist them, because their power is such that they could destroy the entire Earth without expending much effort..."
Instead of scheming against them and trying to control them to obey your orders, think about how to improve your relationship with them and help them with the cleanup. At least that way, you'll both be working to protect the Earth, instead of wasting time on meaningless infighting!
"I've seen too many civilizations in the universe, all Devastation by internal strife. I don't want Earth to suffer the same fate as other cosmic civilizations. I hope you'll think about this carefully..."
After speaking, Carol vanished in a flash without waiting for Nick Fury's reaction. Carol didn't know how much of what she said Nick Fury would accept, but as a former comrade-in-arms, Carol still hoped that Nick Fury would listen to some of it, even though she knew it would be difficult...
"To entrust the safety of the Earth to their whims... to be honest, I can't do it. If it were you, I might be able to believe it, but them... I don't even know who they are, so how can I trust them?" Nick Fury sighed, looking at the spot where Carol had left.
As a severely paranoid person, even if Nick Fury knew that what Carol said made a lot of sense, it wouldn't be easy for him to change his mind. Moreover, his position made it difficult for Nick Fury to truly change his attitude.
Superman and Saiyan, whose identities are unknown, can never truly earn Nick Fury's trust because they cannot reveal their true identities and are unwilling to obey official orders...
Inside the Magic Base, Robet, Clary, and Constantine returned together. The Portal, even though it was far from Nick Fury's secret base, remained unaffected, which made Robet even more interested in the eerie blue energy, especially the Cosmic Cube from which the energy had been extracted.
Even within Hawkeye Barton's memories, Robet could clearly sense that the azure Cosmic Cube was far more powerful than the Twelve Talismans. The original Twelve Talismans already contained seemingly limitless power; just how powerful would this azure Cosmic Cube be?
However, although Robet was curious, he was not in a hurry. After all, Carol had promised to tell him about the blue Cosmic Cube, and Robet could simply go to the Savage Island or his home to find Carol.
"Jocelyn!" Luke saw Clary carrying Jocelyn back and, disregarding his own unhealed injuries, rushed over, looking at Jocelyn with concern and asking, "What happened to her?"
"Is my mother really alright? Why hasn't she woken up yet?" Clary asked Robet softly, looking at him beside her.
"Don't worry, everything's fine." Robet waved his hand, and Healing Spell was cast on the spot. Not only was Jocelyn enveloped in the range of the Healing Spell, but Luke, whose injuries had not yet healed, was also restored by the power of the Healing Spell.
"Huh?" Jocelyn quickly woke up, somewhat dazed. Upon regaining consciousness, Jocelyn cried out in alarm, "Where am I? Clary?"
"Mom, it's okay, you're safe!" Clary hugged Jocelyn excitedly to comfort her.
"Luke ... Luke ..." Jocelyn was stunned for a moment after being hugged by Clary, then said anxiously.
"I'm here, I'm fine!" Luke, who was standing beside Jocelyn, held Jocelyn's hand and looked at Jocelyn, gently comforting him.
"Even though this isn't the first time I've seen you use it, I still think your ability is too overpowered. If Hell or some gods knew about it, they'd probably keep a close eye on you!" Constantine said to Robet with some emotion. "I really don't know where you got this ability. Being a prodigy isn't something you can just call a prodigy, is it? I'm so envious..."
"You don't actually think that just because it's an ability, there's no price to pay, do you? Just look at the Shadow Hunter like Clary; you'll see that acquiring and using certain abilities also comes at a price..." Robet exclaimed, watching Constantine deliberately exaggerate. If he didn't make it sound more serious, Robet worried that Constantine would be begging Robet for help in a couple of days, pretending to be on his deathbed. "However, the Shadow Hunter don't realize that their power comes with a price, while I've known for a long time what the price of this ability is!"
"I knew it! There's no such thing as a free lunch. Those ruthless big shots aren't so easy to talk to. How could they do a losing business?" Constantine nodded knowingly. He meant that it was impossible to use such a bug-level ability without paying a price. Robet's strength wasn't so great that it could destroy the world or even ignore the Hell Dimension and death.