Want to Target Me?

Once Garrett had completely regarded Jack as an enemy, the influence he wielded quickly made Jack suffer for it.

His computer suddenly broke for no reason?

"Sorry, the maintenance department is busy today. We have drones to repair. Your computer probably won't be fixed until next week."

His office chair suddenly started giving off a foul stench?

"Sorry, the cleaning department is busy today. We also have to prepare for Captain America's awakening. If you want a new chair, you'll have to wait until next month's shipment arrives."

The Intelligence Department somehow lost crucial information about Hell's Kitchen?

"Sorry, our Intelligence Department serves agents around the world. Since your important information was lost, we have to handle it according to procedure. We can't make an exception just for you."

The entire S.H.I.E.L.D. organization had suddenly begun targeting him. Jack did not need to think hard to know Garrett was behind it.

After all, Garrett was the only one in S.H.I.E.L.D. who both had a bad relationship with him and possessed the ability to pull this off.

Faced with such deliberate targeting, Jack was not angry. He only felt delighted.

Because of him, Garrett had already begun disrupting S.H.I.E.L.D.'s normal internal operations.

The increase in Evil Points also gave Jack positive feedback.

"Garrett suspects the host is attempting to seize Hydra's leadership. He is currently deliberately targeting the host and disrupting S.H.I.E.L.D.'s normal internal operations. Evil Points +3000."

Although three thousand was still a far cry from one million nine hundred fifty thousand.

Jack felt that he had at least made a good start. He only needed to add more fuel to the fire, and S.H.I.E.L.D. would surely be thrown into considerable turmoil.

Sitting in his stinking chair, Jack heard a knock at the door. His expression immediately turned furious, and when Marian entered, he slammed a hand down on his desk, pretending to be utterly enraged.

"Unbelievable! I simply cannot believe my colleagues would do something like this!!!"

"I don't understand why I'm being targeted like this!"

"But I know he's definitely retaliating against me!!!"

Marian said, "So who exactly are you talking about, big brother...?"

Before Marian could react, Jack charged out of the office and ran up eight full flights of stairs. Under the astonished gazes of the staff on that floor, he kicked open Garrett's office door.

Everyone immediately dropped what they were holding and rushed inside to break up the fight.

But before they could pull Jack and Garrett apart, Jack had successfully grabbed Garrett's hair and turned his hairstyle into a bald ring...

Looking at the fistful of hair in his hand, Jack flicked it away in disgust. Then, under Garrett's furious glare, he roared even more furiously, "Wake up, Garrett! Jenny Pierce didn't leave you because of me! It was because you were too old and still wanted to rob the cradle!"

"You're only eight years younger than Director Pierce! How could an old man like you make a move on a thirty-five-year-old girl?"

Garrett: "..."

Ward, watching the drama unfold: "..."

The agents trying to stop the fight: "..."

As everyone sucked in a sharp breath, Jack angrily shook off their hands and removed his suit jacket, revealing the scars left behind by three years of battle.

"Do you see these?!"

"These are a man's medals!"

"If you want to win Jenny Pierce's heart again, you should show yourself before her openly and honestly, like I did!"

"Instead of acting like a disgusting, pathetic piece of trash and playing dirty behind the scenes!"

"My computer! My chair! My intelligence! If you don't want to give them to me, fine!"

"I'll see this through with you to the very end!"

After being shouted at by Jack, Garrett was utterly stunned. He blinked his confused eyes, unable to understand how such nonsensical words had come out of Jack's mouth.

Kid, is this really the best you can do at smearing someone's name?

It doesn't even make sense logically!

I'm pursuing Jenny Pierce again?

When the hell was I ever involved with Jenny?

If you want to frame me, at least use a more sophisticated scheme. I'm over fifty, and I'm supposed to be flirting with Jenny Pierce?

Who the fuck would believe that?

But when Garrett saw the suggestive looks in everyone's eyes, he understood...

These sharp, capable agents, normally the cream of the crop, had lost all judgment and powers of observation before this juicy but fabricated gossip about a superior fighting over a woman.

Just like ordinary people, they had been completely drawn in by this explosive story, whether it was true or not...

Level Seven Agent Garrett had once been involved with Jenny. After the two separated, Jenny got together with Jack, only for Garrett, upon learning of it, to deliberately target him.

Behind this convoluted S.H.I.E.L.D. soap opera.

Was it old feelings between an old man and a young woman that had never faded?

Or was it simply, I'll find someone younger than you and lower-ranked than you just to piss you off?

Garrett slapped the desk and roared with a twisted expression, "You believe that bullshit? Me? Jenny Pierce? You think I, Garrett, would do something like that?"

"How could I possibly compete with that bastard Jack Wilson over a thirty-five-year-old old woman who can't even get married?!!!!"

The moment Garrett finished that last sentence, the entire room fell silent.

If this had only been a juicy show of two men fighting over a woman before.

Then after publicly humiliating his superior's daughter as an old woman who could not get married, the matter became much more serious...

Jack did not hesitate in the slightest. Seizing the opportunity, he continued throwing mud at Garrett. "Isn't the reason she can't get married at thirty-five because of you?!!!"

"When you were in your thirties, you met her when she was only in her teens!"

"Yes! Jenny told me everything!"

"You! Garrett! You old bastard preying on a young girl! You animal!!!"

The moment those words came out, the room shifted from silence to utter stillness, as though everything had fallen into eternity at that instant.

But it was soon broken by Garrett's heavy breathing.

Garrett had to admit that this was the most humiliating humiliation he had suffered in decades. He could not believe that Jack, that mad dog, had branded him such scum without a shred of actual evidence.

If he did not explain this clearly today, he would no longer be able to keep his footing in S.H.I.E.L.D. from this day onward!

So Garrett drew the pistol from his holster and slammed it heavily onto the desk. He roared at Jack, "You're trying to slander me, are you?"

"Fine!"

"Today, we'll bring Jenny Pierce here!"

"If what you said is true, I'll kill myself on the spot!"

"But if your words are false, then... I guarantee I'll give you a quick death!!!"

"Do you dare?!!!"

"Jack Wilson!"