This mission wasn't supposed to be a big deal."
"Oh, right, right, right."
"But the area involved is too special, so I have to go personally."
"People, you know."
"Don't feel pressured, and you don't need to specially protect me. Although I'm getting old, I'm still one of the best Agents in the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation)."
"Life, you know."
"Are you even listening to what I'm saying?"
Nick Fury squinted at the incredibly perfunctory Li Chengfeng, knowing that the kid had an opinion.
"Is it that obvious?" Li Chengfeng sighed, then turned off the crosstalk in his headphones. "It's not me criticizing you, Director, but you are the head of our American General Bureau. Haven't you heard an old saying from our Republic? A wise man does not stand under a crumbling wall! The entire American General Bureau still needs you to preside and direct! Listen to me, we haven't flown out of the special zone yet. I'll find a place to drop you off, and you can quickly catch a taxi back to the office, how about that?"
"You really don't want to go on a mission with me?" Nick Fury was very confused. "You don't need to treat me as the Director. I'm just a temporary member transferred to the Star Squad, and all commands will be yours."
"Do you even believe what you just said?"
Li Chengfeng stood up, went to the bar, poured a glass of evil and decadent carbonated drink, and drank it in one gulp.
That's right, there was a bar in the lounge area on this airbus.
These Agents really knew how to enjoy themselves back then!
"Alright, Director, I'm not teasing you anymore, but you have to tell me what's so special about this place."
The dagger was revealed at the end of the scroll.
After so much build-up, Li Chengfeng finally asked the question he most wanted the answer to.
What kind of matter could make Nick Fury, the Director of the American General Bureau, risk himself to come to the front line personally?
Li Chengfeng was very curious.
"...But the problem is, I don't know." Nick Fury hesitated for a moment, then finally said, "I have absolutely no impression of this area, my memory is blank, but there's always a strange sense of familiarity surrounding me, as if my memory was forcibly erased by someone."
"There's such a thing... Wait, we're going to Westchester County?" Li Chengfeng was startled; he seemed to have thought of something and picked up his terminal to call Ada Wong. "Ada, come to the lounge area immediately."
After hearing Li Chengfeng's call, Ada Wong and Harley Quinn quickly rushed over from the armory.
"Ada, you organized the data for Westchester. Tell me, is there a Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters in that place?"
"...Yes, there is a Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters." Ada Wong didn't even need to consult the files; she just thought for a moment and nodded in confirmation.
"Damn, it really is them." Li Chengfeng tapped his forehead, then said to Nick Fury, "I can confirm, Fury, your feeling is correct. You were indeed brainwashed."
"What?!"
Nick Fury, Harley Quinn, and Ada Wong all exclaimed at the same time.
What a shocking revelation!
The Director of the American General Bureau was brainwashed?
This was as absurd as Dai Li and Mao Renfeng's homes being infiltrated like a sieve!
"Brainwash Nick Fury?" Harley Quinn, after her initial exclamation, was surprisingly the first to react, even showing her expertise as a psychologist. "Impossible. First, setting aside whether someone could capture Nick Fury without anyone knowing, his willpower alone would make ordinary hypnotic brainwashing ineffective. It would require some machinery and take a considerable amount of time to succeed."
"But the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) remotely checks my physical indicators and confirms my location through my exclusive terminal every eight hours, and there has never been an incident." Nick Fury interjected, explaining, "So, the timing doesn't add up."
"Your analysis isn't wrong at all, but there's an evolutionary branch of humanity in the World called Mutants, and you were brainwashed by a Mutant with psychic abilities."
"What? Mutants?!"
"Don't tell me you have absolutely no information about Mutants in your memory!"
Li Chengfeng was somewhat shocked. The Director of the Republic General Bureau in this World was Wan Zhongxia, also known as the five Tao brothers!
As the Director of the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) General Bureau, also one of the five major powers, Nick Fury didn't know?!
"The Director of our Republic General Bureau is a set of five identical Mutant quintuplets who share all states completely synchronously! Don't tell me you haven't seen him at the World FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) summit!"
"...Damn it, it seems you're right. I was indeed brainwashed by a Mutant, and it was brainwashing specifically targeting 'Mutants'."
"I seriously suspect that you might have done something against a certain family or group, so they erased the concept of Mutants from your memory to protect their kind."
"I..." Nick Fury thought carefully for a moment. "Could it be when we were developing the airbus carrier, we once collected information on all Americans in the database for monitoring and intelligence gathering?"
"Holy crap, you've got some nerve. Monitoring every single American? Aren't you afraid that those unexposed Superheroes or Supervillains would come looking for trouble to protect themselves? Oh, right, you've already been brainwashed." Li Chengfeng mercilessly mocked Nick Fury, "Hahahahaha! You tried to fish for small fry and caught a great White shark, didn't you!"
"Motherfucker, I wasn't going to do anything to them."
"If it were you, would you be willing to have a Sword of Damocles hanging over your neck?"
...The airbus quickly arrived at Westchester County.
Li Chengfeng directly chose to moor the airbus near the area where B.O.W.s were found in the report. Regardless of whether Professor X or other psychics from Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters brainwashed Nick Fury, their lair was there and wouldn't run away.
However, the inexplicably appearing zombies and B.O.W.s in this area were a real threat. They were currently placed here by the person manipulating them from behind, but that didn't mean they would stay here indefinitely.
Once control was lifted, the entire Westchester County would be in danger.
So, when the Star Squad and Nick Fury, temporarily acting as a team member, disembarked from the airbus, they were already fully armed.
Li Chengfeng stated that he had indeed underestimated the airbus's weapon reserves.
Individual thermal ray rifles, pulse blast guns, sonic grenades... "Have your American weapons reached such a sci-fi level?"
"What are you talking about? These are either prototypes or experimental models from the Sandbox Institute, or they're assembled from fresh technology acquired from Tony Stark. They can't be mass-produced at all."
"Alright, stop explaining. Next time you have good stuff, don't forget your favorite Star Squad."
Li Chengfeng disengaged the safety on his pulse blast gun and charged towards the zombie horde in the distance.
"Star Squad, attack!"