"So you really were the one who destroyed that Hydra base back then."
When he heard Xia Zuo's words, Nick Fury narrowed his eyes and stared at him. Few people knew where this helmet had come from, except those who had seen it before. That meant the explosion at Hydra Base back then had been Xia Zuo's handiwork!
Nick Fury had actually suspected before that Xia Zuo was the one who had destroyed Hydra Base, but he had never witnessed it himself, so it had only been a guess-until Xia Zuo said this.
"Yes, it was me. Whitehall wanted to kill me, so naturally, I wasn't going to leave him alive."
Xia Zuo spoke indifferently, making no attempt to hide anything and admitting it outright as though discussing something trivial. But Nick Fury's expression tightened when he heard it.
Xia Zuo could speak so casually about wiping out an entire base, and he was saying it right in front of them, the people of S.H.I.E.L.D. Clearly, he did not care about them at all, or simply had no fear of them.
Nick Fury gave a helpless, wry smile. This really was someone without any scruples!
But when he thought back to a few years ago, when Xia Zuo had dared to control so many Hydra soldiers while still a child, even making those soldiers commit suicide en masse in front of them, Nick Fury understood that Xia Zuo was indeed someone without any scruples.
"All right, back to business. You disappeared for so many years. Why did you suddenly come back? What's your purpose in returning this time? Do you have any goals?"
Nick Fury stared intently at Xia Zuo, trying to read his intentions from his expression, but Xia Zuo remained utterly unruffled from start to finish.
"To live