Naturally, S.H.I.E.L.D. had brought Old Man in.
After all, something resembling a legendary demon was well beyond even S.H.I.E.L.D.'s extensive experience!
Beside the street.
"Not enough. I need to find all the talismans!"
By then, Shendu had obtained his second talisman-the Monkey Talisman.
Shendu had taken the form of an ordinary person and hidden among the distant crowd of onlookers.
His eyes glowed red.
He watched Chiu Lan being taken away.
"S.H.I.E.L.D. will have plenty of excitement sooner or later..."
Muttering almost inaudibly to himself, Shendu silently vanished into the crowd.
The military and police finally managed to clean up the mess.
Every tactic they had used against S.H.I.E.L.D., every bit of pressure they had applied, S.H.I.E.L.D. paid back in full this time.
But after this demon crisis, Nick Fury frequently sent people to visit Old Man. He did not ask Old Man to join the Avengers, but hoped to recruit Frank instead, even if only as a consultant.
To that end, the stingy Nick Fury went so far as to offer a hefty payment.
Of course, those were his public moves. Behind the scenes, Nick Fury's activities had not slowed down at all.
For instance-the Tesseract!
At an underground research base.
"Warning! Warning! All personnel within the base, evacuate immediately! All personnel within the base, evacuate immediately!"
Loud evacuation announcements rang through the base Nick Fury had dedicated to researching the Tesseract.
At the Triskelion, S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarters, the duty officer heard Barton's orders and immediately reported the situation to Nick Fury.
Barton should have been handling the incident in Oak City alongside Captain America, Steve.
But when Steve arrived in Oak City with the Avengers Squad,
the anomalies had all but disappeared!
Steve led the team in a search for two days and two nights, with virtually nothing