Nick Fury rose to his feet, intending to say more, when the fabric over his chest suddenly twitched.
Then three gunshots rang out in the distance.
Fury collapsed in response, letting out a pained groan.
Steve reacted quickly. He grabbed his shield at once and dragged the wounded Nick Fury behind the wall.
Gasping for breath, Fury held out a highly advanced USB drive to Steve.
"Don't... trust anyone."
It was a simple sentence, yet it seemed to take every ounce of Fury's strength to say it.
It was also the last thing he said.
Pain instantly covered his face in sweat, while blood continued to pour from his mouth. The moment he finished speaking, he lost consciousness.
Bang! Bang! Crash—
"Captain Rogers?!"
The sound of the door being forced open suddenly rang out. His beautiful nurse neighbor entered slowly, gun raised and ready.
Steve stared at his beautiful neighbor in disbelief as she moved with textbook tactical precision, alert and focused.
Wasn't she a nurse?...
"Captain..."
When she approached, the beautiful neighbor explained,
"I'm Agent 13 of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s special operations unit. I'm here to protect you..."
Having just forced the door open, she was still breathing unevenly.
"Kate? Who sent you?"
Captain America immediately became dissatisfied with S.H.I.E.L.D.'s arrangements.
He was a super-soldier. Did he really need a girl to protect him?
They were always making decisions on their own. When he had first awakened, they had even staged an entire period drama for him.
And they had called it helping him adjust gradually.
What a tough guy like me needed was the truth, not lies. Did they think I couldn't even face reality?
They had underestimated him too much!
What troubled Captain Rogers even more was that after meeting Carter, the knot in his heart had finally been