"Jade Balance," Lucian said.
Above the spacious laboratory, a soft, cool female electronic voice immediately rang out.
"I'm here, sir."
"Send an order across all channels." Lucian kept both hands in his coat pockets, his gaze icy. "Continue arresting the politicians, military officers, and senior media executives on the list extracted from Gravik's memories just now, whose replacement by Skrulls has been confirmed. All other Vought security forces searching outside for anomalous red dots are to withdraw immediately."
"Order issued. Field units have begun returning in an orderly withdrawal, taking turns providing cover," Jade Balance promptly replied.
Holding a cup of coffee, Wanda walked over to Lucian, confusion in her beautiful eyes. "Boss, why pull everyone back? Those aliens hiding in the shadows... are we really just going to let them stay undercover?"
Wanda pressed her lips together. Images from Gravik's memories of those victims being suffocated alive still lingered in her mind.
Those alien lizards had taken over human identities, slept in the dead people's beds, and controlled the organs of power in human society. Letting those things roam in the shadows left all of human society sitting on a powder keg that could explode at any moment.
"Let them? When did I ever say I would let them?"
Lucian turned, picked up the list recording dozens of replaced political figures from the table beside him, and casually flipped through two pages.
"Gravik wanted to start a nuclear war. Nick Fury let the wolves in and covered it up for over a decade."
An icy smile curled Lucian's lips, and an intimidating pressure shone deep in his eyes. "Since they dared to do it, they can't blame me for overturning the table. Since we're putting Fury on public trial before all humanity, let's make the biggest spectacle possible."
Lucian