China had a very old song called "Unity Is Strength." It had once only inspired a generation within China, but after that extraordinary meeting in the desert, people all over the world seemed to have felt that strength.
Hydra's new leader, Indra, seemed to be a madman. Without regard for anything else, he purged the dissenters within Hydra with methods that could only be called ruthless. With Ward's help, most of Hydra's older generation had been eliminated, while younger members began to be promoted on a large scale.
Afterward, as though he had made up his mind, he sent many of Hydra's most heinous criminals to S.H.I.E.L.D. and handed them over to Nick Fury. Combined with the spectacle he had caused at the meeting, S.H.I.E.L.D.'s special prison was packed to capacity in no time.
With Indra's personal threat level added to the equation, Nick Fury could only convince himself that this was Indra making amends for his crimes and refrain from pursuing the mass kidnapping at the meeting.
Of course, that explanation was extremely forced. It made as little sense to Nick Fury as Luo Xia talking Indra down with just a few words at the meeting.
"How could such a childish, genuine lunatic be persuaded so easily?" Nick Fury could not figure it out no matter how hard he thought.
As for the possibility that this had all been a play scripted, directed, and performed by Luo Xia himself, Nick Fury would never consider it.
That was because when Luo Xia had first appeared out of nowhere, Nick Fury had believed he was keeping him under constant surveillance. It had only been a few years. The young man who had seemed utterly unremarkable back then had already founded AllSpark Company, which was beyond Nick Fury's imagination.
If he had