Su Ming skillfully flipped the headless corpse on the ground, inserted a kitchen knife into the opponent's heart, and quickly searched the pockets. He found a dried rose flattened like a bookmark in the pocket on the opponent's chest, which was somewhat fragmented due to the fall.
Meanwhile, Coulson didn't hesitate. He picked up the head on the ground and opened the mouth as if inspecting livestock teeth.
Four sharp, snow-white canine teeth came into view. He sighed and shook his head.
"What's that?" Curious Daisy immediately asked. "Why did he say the head is evidence?"
Iron Rider and Coulson had a good rapport. Seeing Coulson looking troubled, she immediately pulled Daisy's hand: "Maybe it's because your secrecy level isn't high enough, so don't ask."
"No, that's not it." Coulson waved his hand. He wouldn't hide information from his team on the battlefield due to any secrecy level. Fury might, but he wouldn't. "I have a headache only because it's a Vampire, and we seem to be caught up in a global underground war."
"Can we talk about this kind of thing?" Melinda looked at Coulson with some concern, their relationship was quite subtle. In simple terms, they had worked together for decades, one was single, the other widowed, and there was somewhat a bit of meaning between them.
Coulson did not hesitate, only gave her a reassuring look: "The secrecy level may be level 8, but this is a battlefield."
"...So I'll just listen too." Melinda straightforwardly threw all the remaining magazines from her body to Fitz and the others, sat on the ground, and waited to hear the story.
Coulson cleared his throat and spoke in a grandfatherly story-telling tone: "Once upon a time..."
"Hold on a sec, today is only January 9, 1956, and the underground war has just begun, not a long time ago." Su Ming interrupted, then raised his palm to signal the Newbie Village chief to continue.
Coulson's mood, prepared for the story, was interrupted. His expression became helpless, so he simply summarized: "Alright, the underground war is a major conflict between Vampires and Underground Races, with fires spreading throughout the underworld globally, lasting 50 years. The final result was that the Blood Race gained a great victory, and over 90% of the underground races were annihilated."
Daisy stood on tiptoe, extended her head a bit past the cover, and saw several three-meter tall Minotaur creatures being blasted off the suspension bridge by Mike's shotgun. She pulled her head back and squatted down again.
She also nudged the watermelon on the ground closer to herself to avoid getting it stained with Vampire blood: "But I see things like Minotaurs, those are Mythical Creatures, right? How could they lose to Vampires?"
Daisy had only heard of Vampires before, but had never seen them herself, because Blood Race, Werewolves, Giants, Dragon Race, these supernatural beings causing trouble were mostly managed by Kama Taiji.
Seeing one now, she became very interested. Her curiosity was extremely strong, and whenever there was a mystery, she felt like a cat with the itch of curiosity.
This made her an excellent hacker, but wouldn't make her the top Special Agent.
"Vampires' culture is most similar to humans, and they can basically use all human weapons. Even the strongest Minotaur can't take a few shots, and the Blood Race produces all sorts of biologists, whose inventions of various biological weapons further propelled human development in this field in the future."
Coulson answered Daisy while moving his left hand. It was a prosthetic, but the communicator on it had no signal; he still couldn't contact the Harmony.
"So, there must still be an entrance to the underground space, because the Blood Race didn't come in with us." Mimic Bird threw away the empty soda bottle and wiped the blood stains off her body with her hand.
"The Underworld is as vast and grand as the surface world. Where leads to where is still unknown even in our own era." Coulson extracted the magazine from his handgun and looked inside; there were not many bullets left.
"Have you read Verne's novel 'Journey to the Center of the Earth'? The protagonist, Professor Lidenbrock, took his nephew Axel and sufficient food, instruments, and weapons, and descended into the underground from Iceland's Sneffels Crater on May 27, 1863. After three months of journey, overcoming various difficulties and obstacles, they eventually returned to the surface from a crater on Stromboli Island in the Northern Mediterranean."
Su Ming saw Barbie staring at the watermelon, then handed her a Powerful Beverage. This time, she had no defense and took it to drink.
It seemed now Daisy and Bobbi were more convinced by him, Coulson was superficially polite, not even smoking, while May was obviously guarded, the science duo feared him now, and all those with voice within the Shield Squad were here, grasping their psychology was crucial for the next step.
While Su Ming brought up examples from the novel, he was secretly considering other matters, why leave it unattended when he found manpower on his way?
"But isn't that a novel?" Daisy tilted her head, now sporting some streaks of dyed gold hair, giving off a slightly rebellious aura.
"Verne didn't personally tell you it was just a novel, right?"
Su Ming answered lightly, pulling out the Godslayer from the corpse's chest, and that corpse immediately twisted again.
He took out a lighter and some strong liquor, set it on fire, kicked it flying several hundred meters, watching the corpse plummet into the Abyss like a firework stick.
Daisy quickly rubbed her face with her hands, showing a smile of disbelief: "Wait, are you saying what's in the novel is real?"
"Some parts are, some aren't. Before the brawny men with shoulder-length hair fell from the sky, you guys didn't believe in Nordic mythology either, right, Agent Coulson?" Su Ming squatted down, slowly wiping his kitchen knife, and looked at Coulson.
Coulson closed his eyes and spread his hands. When he first saw Thor, he thought it was someone who escaped from a mental hospital, but after seeing the Destructive Armor, he thought differently.
To be honest, knowing myths were real at the time had shaken his worldview.
"So, our Earth is actually like Russian nesting dolls, a layer stacked on a layer of spheres, and between each layer there is enough space to accommodate life?" Daisy extended her hand, drawing concentric circles with a shock wave on the wall that looked like a target.
Su Ming walked over and tapped a few vertical lines on the circles: "That's about it, but each layer isn't completely isolated. We can enter the crust from the surface, and from the crust, we can find a path to the mantle, and within the mantle, there's a way to reach the Earth's core..."
"Wait, the temperature at the Earth's core is thousands of degrees, not to mention the pressure, what kind of life could survive there?" Daisy raised another question.
Su Ming shook his head, squatted down, and began slicing the watermelon: "Anyway, not humans. The underground world of Earth has everything, Undead, Demons, Aliens, Insects, Ancient Gods, Celestial Gods Group, only things you wouldn't think of, nothing you wouldn't see."
Listening to Deathstroke's words, Daisy's eyes became more cat-like, and her fingers even started mimicking keyboard typing. Faced with these unknown secrets, her hacker spirit awakened; she wanted to know Earth's secrets.
Coulson coughed twice, interrupting him: "Alright, although I also want to hear these things, intuition tells me it's best not to. Can we focus on the current mission?"
"Aren't we still short on intelligence from one more house? Wait until Xiaowang catches someone, then we'll talk; no harm idling now, come eat watermelon."
Su Ming placed a blood-stained watermelon slice in Coulson's mechanical hand. Don't mention it, Fitz's made mechanical arm was indeed good, waterproof. This piece of information could be noted.