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Chapter 21 Guess
(PS: The Tricurved Wing Building is in Washington)

S.H.I.E.L.D., in the New York branch, Natasha is forging her identity.

She received a mission from Nick Fury to approach Tony Stark and conduct a risk assessment on him.

Her first plan was to get in touch with Pepper Potts who was next to Tony.

After forging her identity, she was about to report to the archives room on the first floor and apply for mission funds at the same time.

While walking on the road, she happened to meet Barton who came back.

"Mission failed? Are you okay?" Natasha was a little curious when she saw the slightly strange expression on Barton's face and the new bandage on his thigh.

"It's okay." Barton nodded without saying anything.

Hearing this, Natasha was taken aback. She knew Barton's strength, but it was strange that he failed in the mission and was injured when he went out in person.

And she also knows a little about this mission, the mission level is very high, only agents above level [-] are qualified to know, it is very covert, and even for safety, only Barton went alone.

But now this is. Mission exposed and then besieged?

But it shouldn't be, how could the sixth-level mission be exposed?And if she is besieged by a large force, she will definitely receive the news.

It seems that there should be some other reason.

As for this reason, Natasha was very curious about knowledge, so she wanted to see what kind of person could mess up Barton's mission.

"Floor 23." After walking into the elevator and telling the floor to the voice assistant, Barton put his hands on the guardrail, looked at the surrounding scene in a daze, and turned a blind eye to Natasha who followed.

But when the elevator went up, he didn't hear Natasha say the floor, so Barton turned his head and asked, "Are you also looking for Nick Fury?"

"Of course, I haven't applied for the mission funds yet, and I have to wait a day to go through the process. It will be faster to find him."

"Oh." Barton nodded, but he always felt that something was wrong.

But with the sound of the elevator'ding', the elevator came to the 23rd floor, and he didn't have time to think about it.

This floor is Nick's office area in New York, and also stores some important materials.

The two soon came to the door of Nick's office, knocked on the door, and walked in after getting permission.

Glancing from a distance, Barton saw that what Nick was holding was the information on his mission, and on the left side of the office, a small projection screen was playing the surveillance video near the place where he was fighting.

"The monitoring only captured one picture of him, and it was very blurry. The restored picture is still not satisfactory, but I have already left it to the people below for big data comparison."

"However, I have no hope of finding this point. The chances of finding it are too low. So, Agent Button, what more specific information can you bring me here?"

When he said the previous paragraph, Nick was still looking at the information in his hand. When he said the last sentence, he raised his head and stared at the two of them with one eye.

"He looks very young. He should be only in his twenties. He has strong physical fitness, a little stronger than me, and his speed is also extremely fast. The most important thing is that his reaction is even faster than mine!"

"He seems to have received special training, but the actual combat is not enough. Fighting and tracking are very blunt."

After a pause, Barton continued: "By the way, I feel that this person may have some high-tech items in his hand. The bullets fired by his pistol can turn corners!"

"The bullet turns a corner, which is interesting." Nick frowned.

Natasha also touched her chin with an interested look on her face.

Regardless of these, Patton continued: "The bullet he fired was found. After analysis, the bullet is the standard bullet of the US military. According to the model, it was brought out on the Iraqi battlefield."

"The other party is very cautious. There are no fingerprints on it. This clue is broken."

After finishing speaking, Barton looked at Natasha with a strange expression, as if to say, "Aren't you going to apply for funds? Stand here for a long time without saying a word, and deliberately look at me as a joke!"
Natasha responded with a smile: Yes!

Barton wanted to make a few more expressions, but Nick said, "You are stronger than you, acting alone, and did not kill you. It seems that you have high technology in your hands, and the purpose is to seize your mission items."

Reading these clues, Nick concluded: "From the point of view of timing, if he knows our mission, he should make a move before the two of you make a deal."

"After all, it is definitely easier to grab something from someone else than from you. So, this person should have seen your transaction by accident."

"In terms of identity, there should be only two possibilities. The first possibility is that he is an agent of another country, but the probability of this is relatively low. The second possibility is that he is a local genius in New York!"

"Genius? You mean he made some kind of high-tech device himself, and strengthened himself?" Natasha asked.

Not getting an answer, Nick asked back: "Barton, when did you find out that he was following?"

"Actually, I didn't find out. It was Cormier, the one who traded with me. When he left, he found someone coming. Because of his status, he didn't look much. He reminded me and left."

"I thought it was a coincidence, but I still paid attention. When I crossed the road for the second time, I took a look and found that I was being followed."

"In the beginning, my idea was to deal with him alone, and then I lured him to a place with few people. I didn't expect that the opponent's strength exceeded my expectations, stole things, and injured me."

Nodding his head, Nick thought about it for a while, and said, "The place where you trade has a wide view. Apart from the surrounding corridors and nearby high altitudes, the only thing you can see is the bridge linking Queens and Manhattan."

"It shouldn't be seen in the surrounding corridors, otherwise the man wouldn't be rash enough to be discovered by Cormier. He should have seen this side from the bridge or a tall building nearby, and then rushed over!"

"Search the high-rise buildings by the river, then adjust the monitoring, and eliminate all the vehicles on the bridge during the suspicious time period, and find him!"

As he said that, Nick looked at Barton, "This is your next mission. After you find it, don't fight him, and don't meet him face to face. Tell me first, and I'll send someone to contact him."

"Yes." Nodding, Barton left.

And Natasha, of course, also left. She didn't come here for any task funds at all, she was just curious.

Now that her curiosity is satisfied, she has to go on a mission.

(End of this chapter)