Chapter 1884: The Madman's Journey (Sixty-Two)

Chapter 1858 The Journey of a Madman (Sixty-two)

"I hope this is a secret interrogation, Nick. You know these cunning terrorists always think they have the capital to negotiate, so I will talk to them." Pierce walked quickly through the corridor of the underground detention room and turned to Nick behind him.

Nick nodded, and at the next intersection he did not follow Pierce, but walked alone in another direction.

Soon Pierce came to the front of an interrogation room. He nodded to the agent guarding the door. When he pushed the door open, he saw two interrogators recording something with serious faces.

Pierce stood behind them and took a look. He did not find any valuable information. He looked up behind the railing. Schiller sat there with a normal look, and did not look like a person who had been interrogated for seven days.

The interrogation method adopted by SHIELD is no different from modern interrogation. It mainly relies on fatigue torture. This trick has a very significant effect on 99% of brutal criminals, because anyone will get tired.

Some people always think that ancient torture is more sophisticated than modern interrogation. As long as the physical pain is adequate, there is nothing that cannot be asked. But in fact, human beings are very fragile. The upper limit of torture is too low. Basically, if the other party does not give up after one torture, there is nothing to do. However, modern interrogation methods can almost ask any secret.

Some people may have a higher physical resistance, but after fatigue is superimposed, the mind will always relax. At that time, the secrets that pain and intimidation cannot make them say will be naturally revealed in the gaps of their words. There will be professionals who analyze and summarize the information in every sentence they have said.

And this does not harm physical health. After a period of rest, you can start all over again. The longer the detention, the more information fragments you get. One day, you can piece together a complete puzzle. In this case, being caught basically means exposure.

But now Schiller is not a question of whether to be exposed or not. Everyone knows that he is a Hydra. They want to get more information about Hydra from him, but from the current point of view, Schiller is the most difficult person to deal with.

He wanted to pull the topic back to take the initiative all the time, which would increase his energy consumption, but would also make the interrogators feel tired faster, so they had to speed up the shift change.

But the more frequent the shifts, the lower the continuity of the interrogation. The next interrogator had to start from the beginning. After repeated questions, the information density obtained was as low as the crisis public relations apology video.

After standing in the interrogation room and watching for a while, Pierce knew that Schiller was an extremely experienced opponent. Most of the agents in the SHIELD prison could not do anything to him. If someone had to pry information from him, Pierce believed it would be Nick Fury, but before that he had to be safe.

Soon Nick came in and led a team of agents to push Schiller out of the interrogation room and take him to the secret interrogation room.

There were no surveillance cameras in this room, and there would be nothing else except the interrogator and the interrogated, so some extraordinary measures could often be taken here, and it could also be used as a place to reach a deal with some tainted witnesses.

Schiller stood behind the railing of this small room, without handcuffs or a chair, but in fact there was not much space left for him behind the railing. He could only stand still or take half a step forward, and there was not enough space on the left and right for him to raise his arms.

Pierce's side was much more spacious, and he could even pace around the room, which was equivalent to Schiller being locked in a cage, with Pierce watching him from the side.

When the door was completely locked and the soundproofing device was activated, Pierce was about to take the initiative when he heard Schiller say, "Long live Hydra, Sir Pierce, there is no doubt that this is the trap set by Baron Strucker for you. The clues Nick Fury found were deliberately left by the baron in order to make him suspect you."

Pierce was instantly shocked and suspicious. He stood behind the railing and stared straight at Schiller's face, trying to find a trace of lying on his face, but Schiller was as calm as ever, without any emotion.

"The Baron said you betrayed him and betrayed the trust of him and his men. I don't know what happened between you. I just made a deal with him."

Pierce had a bad feeling in his heart. He stared at Schiller and asked, "What deal?"

"I will testify against you as a tainted witness. Before you go to work at the United Nations, let Nick Fury take you down."

Pierce's face sank to the bottom.

Schiller gently spread his hands and said in a relaxed tone, "Look at the current situation. Either I make a deal with him and let you go to jail, or you make a deal with me and let him go to jail."

"Or I let you die here." Pierce said in a cold tone, "Then no one will go to jail."

"You know this won't work. Nick is watching you." Schiller grabbed the railing with both hands, put his face close to the railing, and showed a slightly childish and bad smile. He said, "Either I stab myself now, and then you go and gamble on the possibility that Nick will think you are going to kill people to silence them after seeing this scene."

"You..."

"Pierce, you are just a waste who took advantage of the times, a complete cowardly American. You don't care about anything to keep your wealth and glory. This is the price you should pay!"

Pierce's eyes widened, he looked at Schiller and said: "Schiller... Schiller... You are a German? You, you are a subordinate of the Red Skull?!"

Schiller raised his head slightly, without commenting, but Pierce gritted his teeth and cursed: "Damn NAZI German!"

He took a deep breath, looked at Schiller with gloomy eyes and said: "You know we don't talk about ideology here, name a price."

Schiller let go of his hand, lowered his eyes and smiled, he tilted his head and said: "You two are like buyers bidding at an auction house, whoever bids the highest price, I Whoever you stand on, I can say that all these actions were ordered by the Baron, or you. One of you will inevitably lose your freedom or even your life. So what price do you plan to offer for your freedom and life? "

"Don't think too highly of yourself. They can't kill me."

"But I can." Schiller's eyes became cold. He looked at Pierce and said, "You know that losing freedom is equivalent to losing life. Once you are no longer the director of SHIELD, killing you will become easy. You owe a lot of debts to many people, and I am willing to recover them for them and collect my own interest by the way."

Pierce's lips were pursed pale. He knew that the key point was Nick. If it was in the early years, SHIELD was full of his people. He had countless ways to make a defendant die quietly.

But he relaxed his control over SHIELD after he was ready for promotion. Nick has now formed his own team, and Pierce knows the weight of the legendary agent.

Pierce was gambling. As long as he could be promoted with a perfect image, the alliance between him and Nick would become unbreakable, because Nick had the same strong confidence in himself. He was sure that he did not see any flaws in Pierce, so he was trustworthy, which was a favorable backing for Pierce to continue to climb up.

But at the same time, once he made a mistake, Nick would not hesitate to shatter his previous trust in him, and instead catch his handle faster than anyone else and let him suffer jail time.

Before this incident happened, the whole plan was coming to an end. In order to show his friendliness and trust, Pierce further delegated power to Nick in exchange for further help in the future, but it happened that the last step went wrong.

Pierce could not take any more risks. Once Schiller's testimony against him left a shadow of doubt in Nick's heart, he would not have a peaceful life in the future.

But should he allow this cunning NAZI to ask for a lot from him? Pierce was not willing to do so.

After the secret conversation, Pierce had been thinking about how to solve the current dilemma.

If it drags on, Schiller will identify him sooner or later. Even if there is no evidence, Nick may find something if he follows this line of thought. But if he tries to kill Schiller, Nick will still be suspicious.

Suddenly, Pierce thought of a way. He still has a card that he hasn't used, that is Tony Stark.

It is difficult for Pierce to send people to Eastern Europe to eliminate Hydra now. On the one hand, SHIELD is full of agents and is not good at large-scale operations. On the other hand, if Nick's people go first, it will be difficult to make small moves if he is stared at.

But as long as Stark is driven to Eastern Europe to kill the Baron, not only will Nick be unable to stop Stark's revenge, but Schiller will also lose the other side of the transaction object, then he can only trade with himself, so as to prevent him from wavering and offering a high price.

But it is not so easy to let Stark go to Eastern Europe. Pierce feels that the current hatred is not enough to make Stark take risks again. If he wants him to go there to kill the Eastern European Hydra, he has to add another bargaining chip.

In a high-end apartment in Manhattan, Eric hung up the phone with a cold face. He had just learned from a mercenary broker that someone was investigating his past resume.

"Obadiah..." Eric whispered a name. He could only think of this possibility. When he went to Obadiah to take over the position of security director, the other party was very suspicious.

Eric knew very well that he could fool Stark because the other party was a scientist and had not experienced much in the world, but Obadiah was the kind of old fox who could be seen from his face that he had been in the business world for many years. This kind of person could not be fooled at all and was definitely his biggest threat.

Obadiah investigated him, so once he told Tony Stark the results of the investigation, all the trust and goodwill he had gained from him would be in vain.

This must not be the case, Eric thought, Stark Group was his best springboard, and he must not let this opportunity slip away from his hands.

For now, he had to find a way to bring down Obadiah. Only by exposing the fact that he planned to kidnap Tony Stark would no one believe everything he said.

Time was urgent, and Eric did not make much preparation. He took his thermal dagger and a pulley bow and drove to the road that Obadiah had to take to leave Stark Tower.

Why did he go to Obadiah instead of going directly to the TV station? The main reason was that he had no substantial evidence. Obadiah had already investigated him anyway, so he might as well tear his face off and trick him. When necessary, he would take action directly and pretend it was an accident.

The car stopped at the exit of the underground parking lot of Stark Building. After Eric rolled down the window and waited for a while, he saw a familiar car driving out of the underground parking lot. Obadiah was sitting in the car.

Eric immediately closed the window, turned the steering wheel, stepped on the accelerator and caught up with Obadiah's car. Not long after, he saw Obadiah's car driving into a wealthy residential area.

Eric parked the car outside and sneaked into the residential area alone. The security guards in the wealthy area couldn't stop him at all. When he chased to the door of the residence, the driver was backing the car into the garage.

Eric saw Obadiah's figure in the bedroom upstairs. He clenched the miniature thermal dagger in his hand, climbed over the courtyard wall, and entered the house quietly.