After receiving Wendy Lawson's secret message, the Strategic Corps immediately convened a discussion.
In the end, they decided to send several agents to escort one of their key figures, Howard Stark, to the Project Pegasus base.
There were two reasons.
First, the Project Pegasus prototype crash report mentioned that the engine had been stolen and that extraterrestrial life had invaded.
Second, after Dr. Wendy Lawson sent the classified document, she had not replied again, suggesting that she might have been abducted.
That was what led to this operation.
However, when they arrived at the Project Pegasus base, everything was different from what Howard had imagined.
Everyone was still at their posts—those testing aircraft were testing aircraft, those developing engines were developing engines. Even the security and confidentiality personnel seemed to be in order. Everything was orderly.
It looked nothing like the Project Pegasus base being hijacked, as they had suspected.
"Doesn't seem like there's any problem?" A Black agent beside him observed carefully for a long while but could not spot anything wrong.
They even found several people and asked about the base's recent routine.
But the answers they received were that there was nothing wrong with the base.
"No, it's not that simple, Fury." Howard shook his head, sweeping his gaze around the hangar before asking, "We're from the Strategic Corps, here to investigate the Project Pegasus prototype crash. Where is Dr. Lawson?"
"Dr. Lawson?"
The man was visibly stunned for a few seconds before saying, "I don't know. I haven't seen Dr. Lawson these past few days."
Now, not only Howard, but even the accompanying agents sensed that something was wrong.
"How long has it been since you last saw Dr. Lawson?" Fury asked.
"Uh, about three days?" The man scratched his head. "I heard that after Dr.