"What did you say? A Batman has shown up in Hell's Kitchen recently?!"
Nick Fury's hand was still in a cast, looking just like Doraemon's hand,
but he was in a bad mood now. As he listened to Coulson's report,
he felt that it wasn't just his hand hurting anymore-even his heart had started to ache!
"Yes, all the eyewitnesses said the man wore black gear from head to toe and a wide cloak,
along with a black hooded mask on his face, the kind with two little pointed ears!"
"Do you think this is a comic book? Or was this some Batman fanatic's doing?!"
"No, sir. I think that man is Su Zhou..."
Coulson stood at the cordoned-off crime scene, looking at the corpses strewn across the alley,
and felt a headache coming on himself. Every one of them had been killed by a single headshot, with red and white splattered all over the walls.
The bags on the ground were full of packets of laundry detergent, while the briefcases held bundles of dollars.
When the police arrived, they immediately determined that it had been the site of a gang deal.
In Hell's Kitchen, neither laundry detergent deals nor criminals robbing other criminals were uncommon,
but a case like this, without a single survivor, was still very rare!
And all the dead had criminal records with the police.
Several had even been wanted fugitives, yet nobody had taken the laundry detergent or the dollars at the scene.
There were clear signs of a third party's involvement, but the only trace that third party had left
was a bat symbol sprayed onto the wall in black paint. A symbol like this
had already appeared for the fifth time this month. The NYPD felt it couldn't handle the situation,
so it reported it up the chain until it finally reached S.H.I.E.L.D.
Seeing the bat symbol on the wall, Coulson felt his blood pressure rising too.
The box Su Zhou had kept in S.H.I.E.L.D.'s locker room had been filled with Superman and Batman comics,
which showed that he was a Batman fan. And judging by the one-shot kills at this crime scene,
he clearly hadn't learned Batman's no-kill rule. Decisive action was his whole approach!
"So Su Zhou hasn't been sitting idle. After leaving S.H.I.E.L.D.,
he chose to carry out his own sense of justice. As for where he got the equipment, that doesn't matter.
With his marksmanship, even a gun he picked up off the street would let him kill with a single shot."
Coulson ran a hand over the black bat symbol on the wall and sighed helplessly.
Nick Fury sighed along with him on the other end of the phone. Su Zhou should have been the first member of his Avengers Initiative,
but after all that earlier trouble, he had also begun an internal investigation into the Skrulls,
and discovered that Su Zhou had been right. Some Skrulls really were making moves behind the scenes,
trying to take complete control of this country. Several had even become members of Congress!
That included the Skrull Su Zhou had shot dead. He discovered that the fellow had been using his name behind his back
to issue numerous orders that benefited the Skrulls, and some of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s research results had also been taken,
including the serum of Dr. Bruce Banner, the Hulk!!!
Only then did Nick Fury realize that he had been the one in the wrong. Everything Su Zhou had said had turned out to be true.
And now, Su Zhou was like a tiger freed from its restraints.
Although he wouldn't hurt ordinary people, his approach was still to kill the wrong person rather than let anyone escape.
If they really left him unchecked, sooner or later he would wipe Hell's Kitchen off the map!
"Understood. Come back from the scene for now."
Nick Fury hung up on Coulson, then called someone else.
"Got time to come out for coffee?"
"I never have coffee with men."
"Then how about a bar?"
"..."
"You have to at least give me a chance to apologize!"
"No. Goodbye!"
Beep, beep, beep...
Listening to the busy tone on his phone, Nick Fury felt his heart and head start aching at the same time.
Ever since leaving S.H.I.E.L.D., Su Zhou hadn't hidden his whereabouts.
First he had visited Tony Stark's mansion, then returned to his own apartment.
After that, he left home every night without alerting anyone,
then showed up at home again the next day, came out to buy food, turned on the TV, and went to sleep.
Sometimes he even knocked on the door of the apartment opposite his to tell the agents watching him inside that he was back.
He had even explicitly told those agents that unless they caught him in the act,
he would keep doing it!
Helpless, Nick Fury had no choice but to call Su Zhou again.
"Su Zhou, if you keep this up, I'll have no choice but to bring agents to your door and arrest you!"
"Then come arrest me. I'll be waiting! Remember to tell your people to buy insurance,
and put your name down as the beneficiary. That way, you can make a little extra!
Remember what I said: I'll kill every last one who comes!"
Su Zhou didn't care about Nick Fury's threats at all. Ever since he had teamed up with Tony last time,
both he and Tony had been sitting on piles of dirt on S.H.I.E.L.D., all the rotten things it had done.
Exposing any one of them would be enough to get the whole of S.H.I.E.L.D. disbanded,
and Nick Fury, the director left holding the bag, would face at least twenty years in prison!
After all, Hydra were the ones doing those bad things, and they had secured a chain of evidence for every one of them,
making sure that when S.H.I.E.L.D. was exposed, Nick Fury would be stuck with blame he couldn't shake off!
More importantly for Su Zhou, through a month of hard work,
he had finally gathered the 100 Justice Points needed for a draw and obtained his fourth skill!
[Bullet Time: There was still a little blood in your adrenaline, after all!]
The skill came from the old movie Wanted, whose protagonist was the younger version of Professor X.
It allowed him to secrete a large amount of adrenaline in a short time, accelerating his heartbeat,
slowing down the world in his eyes and increasing his body's reaction speed.
He could even see bullets in flight with the naked eye and dodge them!
Since obtaining this skill, Su Zhou had used it once,
firing two M9 pistols simultaneously and killing five criminals within one second.
But after using it, his heart had suddenly stopped, his vision had gone black, and he had collapsed on the ground.
If he hadn't killed all the criminals at the time, Su Zhou might have ended up lying in the morgue!
His body was still too fragile, and even with exercise... there was no way to train his heart like that!
Still, the skill was good enough as a last-resort lifesaving ability!
Even with someone holding a gun to his head, Su Zhou was confident that he could dodge the bullet
and shoot the other person dead at the same time!
Brrrrring~~~~
The phone rang yet again, and Su Zhou felt that Nick Fury was getting annoying.
Just as he was about to hang up, he glanced at the number in front of him and promptly answered.
Pepper Potts's somewhat anxious voice came through from the other end.
"Hello, is this Su Zhou? It looks like Tony has been kidnapped by a robot!"
Su Zhou: (✧◡✧)
A job came in!