A Great Work

Nick Fury had held back temporarily in order to flush out every hidden Hydra agent and wipe them out in one stroke.

While investigating, he had not forgotten to use his authority as director to slowly eliminate the Hydra agents he already knew about.

For example, he had Rumlow's strike team carry out dangerous missions and gradually reduced their numbers.

With Nick Fury's methods, no one had suspected him until that group was completely wiped out.

After all, on the surface, Nick Fury had not intended to send Hydra's strike team on many of those near-certain-death missions.

But behind the scenes, he had spread ambiguous information on the black market, making Hydra believe there was something to gain from those missions.

Then Rumlow, captain of Hydra's strike team, had pleaded and pestered for permission to deploy.

Director, if you won't let us deploy, you're looking down on our strike team and hindering our earnest desire to serve the country...

If Apocalypse had not exposed their true colors beforehand, Nick Fury might have believed them.

In the end, Nick Fury had pretended to be unable to refuse them, repeatedly stressing that the mission was extremely dangerous and that they had to be careful, before allowing them to deploy.

Rumlow and his Hydra team members probably had not known how they died, even at the moment of death.

That was the terrifying thing about conspiracies.

A gun in hand was no match for the slight flick of a politician's fingers.

As for the bald official Jasper, he had taken advantage of a Hydra agent going out drinking and picking up women to expose information from him to a rival faction. In the end, Jasper died in an assassination.

Within Hydra, they would only blame that Hydra member and would never suspect Nick