My last name is Stark after I changed my job to become a female musketeer?
Chapter 552 History is written by the victors
There was such a big chaos in Washington, D.C., and the confused US government almost immediately approached Leni and others to ask what happened.
You must know that this is in Washington, and the White House is not far from the incident. If Leni hadn't conveyed the news to the White House in advance, those politicians would have thought that World War III was about to happen.
But even so, Leni and others still cannot escape accountability from all walks of life and Congress.
After all, the incident this time was really too big. To a certain extent, it can be said that it had a greater impact than the previous New York war.
"...Please answer my next question directly, Miss Leni Stark."
After banging the gavel twice, he signaled everyone in the venue to keep quiet. The congressman sitting at the top stared solemnly at Leni and others sitting below.
"What is your relationship with Hydra leader Alexander Pierce? Have you directly or indirectly participated in various actions that Hydra has planned in the past that endanger world peace? Have you obtained information including but not limited to through Hydra or Pierce? National secrets and other important information..."
Listening to the congressman's endless questions, Leni couldn't help but raise her eyebrows.
What stood out about this guy's question was that he was digging a hole. No matter how he answered, Leni would fall into this guy's next language trap.
Natasha on the side obviously noticed this, so she deliberately glanced at Leni to signal Leni not to mess up her position.
However, as one of the shareholders of Stark Technology, Leni learned a lot of experience from Tony and Pepper when facing this kind of weird and tricky problem.
Therefore, except for a slight hint of impatience, Leni's face did not show much panic or confusion at this moment.
After the verbose congressman finished his prepared "slam", Leni slowly spoke:
"I'm sorry, Congressman, I'm a little unsure of the point. What you're asking about is explained in all the confidential information about this incident released this morning.
If you haven't read it yet, Mr. Congressman, I suggest you pause for a while to give you some time to preview. "
Tony, who was sitting in the jury box, couldn't help but chuckle to himself at the understatement and non-response, thinking that this girl Leni should pay her tuition to him.
The congressman sitting in the first place could no longer laugh at this moment. Of course he could hear the sarcasm in Leni's words, but before that he really didn't expect that Leni, who looked only twenty-four or five years old, would also There will be such a sharp-tongued appearance.
As for the confidential information that Leni just mentioned, he had naturally read it carefully before attending the meeting. This question was just to give Leni a blow.
As a result, I didn't expect that the show of force failed, but was manipulated by the other party.
Fortunately, another military leader who could not bear to watch spoke up to help resolve the situation.
"Please answer our questions head-on, Miss Stark. Of course we have read the information, but now we need a formal response from you and your team!"
"Okay, please ask this congressman again. I didn't listen carefully just now."
Leni deliberately pretended to be listening, but in fact it was clear that she was playing rogue.
Anyway, the initiative is now in her hands. Whether your Congress wants to hear it or not is up to you.
The congressman sitting in the first place suddenly twitched his eyes when he heard this. However, due to the large number of media present, he really couldn't get angry openly, so he had to grit his teeth and ask again in a low voice.
"What is your relationship with Alexander Pierce? Please explain why so many people accuse you of being a Hydra!"
Now that it's time, he doesn't make any more twists and turns, and asks the key points directly.
But Leni wasn't fooled at all.
"That's a slander, Mr. Congressman, but I have never admitted that I am Hydra. I think the two council members can vouch for this."
Leni smiled at the two directors in the jury box, but the latter twitched their lips in embarrassment after noticing Leni's gaze.
"Huh, slander? I don't think so..."
As if he had already guessed what Leni would say, the first councilman smiled coldly.
"Based on the testimony provided by the two directors, we have the right to suspect that you and Pierce conspired to kill four Security Council members and directly caused the death of Director Pierre!"
Hearing this, Leni narrowed her eyes slightly, with a sharp look in her eyes.
"You are mistaken, Mr. Congressman. The person who killed Director Pierre was Pierce. And if I hadn't warned him in time, I'm afraid even Director Ivanov would have been killed by Pierce."
With that said, Leni turned her head and looked at the somewhat guilty Russian director Ivanov.
"Am I right, Director Ivanov?"
"Ah, yes, yes, Miss Leni is right. Thanks to Miss Leni's warning, I escaped."
How could Ivanov dare to say no? At the same time, he was about to scold the stupid congressman above him to death.
Had it not been for the fact that he had actually witnessed the death of French director Pierre, he would not have continued to stay in this hellish place.
Unexpectedly, the Russian council was so cowardly, and the members could not help but frown deeply.
"Then how do you explain why so many people think of you as a Hydra?"
“I think I’ve made it very clear before, I am an undercover agent placed within Hydra by Director Nick Fury.
The reason why I am lurking inside Hydra is to try every means to collect the list of all the Hydra members lurking in all walks of life that you have seen before, and to cooperate with Director Fury at the last critical moment to destroy Alexander Pierce in one fell swoop. conspiracy.
I never thought that Fury would end up being one step behind Pierce..."
Leni's answer was so high-sounding that it was a distortion of the facts.
But among the people present, except for a few insiders who were personally involved in the incident, outsiders did not understand the complete story of the incident.
They didn't even know that Nick Fury was not dead at all, they just thought that it was all planned by Leni and Natasha.
You know, when the insight crisis occurred yesterday, that old fox Pierce simply blocked the monitoring system of the conference hall in advance in order not to leave any evidence against himself.
No video footage of the entire incident was left. Outsiders had no idea who was in the conference hall and what happened.
Now it's just whatever Leni says at the moment, that's all.
"You mean that Nick Fury already knew about the existence of Hydra within S.H.I.E.L.D.?"
The military leader seemed to have caught a loophole in Leni's words, and narrowed his eyes to examine Leni.
"No, at first he just suspected that there was a mole in SHIELD, so he ordered me to investigate secretly, but later I didn't expect that the existence of Hydra would be involved..."
Leni, who had already made plans in her mind, was naturally not afraid of the aggressive gaze of the military leader, and continued to answer kindly:
"As recorded in the report I just submitted, as early as a few months ago, Director Nick Fury had noticed that this unusual force entrenched within SHIELD, and after working together with me and my team, After some investigation, we found that the scope of their infiltration is terrifying. In desperation, we can only stop and look for the right time to destroy them in one fell swoop!”
As the saying goes, history is written by the victors. As the real vested interest in this crisis, Leni will naturally not disclose to the public what she has really done.
Some things will be recognized by people after they are made public, while some things will only be criticized by people when they are made public.
Therefore, last night, Leni had already spoken to Nick Fury and the others.
Including the two directors, because of some promises made by Leni, they agreed to help conceal the fact that Nick Fury and Peggy Carter were not dead.
As the saying goes, big things are reduced to small things, and small things are reduced to small things.
Leni's operation was also to reduce the panic of all walks of life and minimize the impact of this incident on ordinary people.
Although there is some suspicion of taking all the credit on oneself, this is indeed the decision that is most suitable for the current situation.
After all, Pierce and Hydra are indeed gone, the biggest nail threatening the U.S. government has been removed, and they no longer have to worry about Hydra resurrecting.
As for why these politicians are still pestering Leni and others now, they just want to find someone to take the blame to make up for the trillions of dollars in losses.
But does Leni look like she's been taken advantage of?
Of course not!
…
The meeting continued. After asking several questions about Hydra and Nick Fury, another congressman turned his fire on the other two S.H.I.E.L.D. agents present with a pair of bull's eyes.
"Then how do you explain Agent Sitwell and the quick reaction force Team C? You know, their names are in the Hydra list you submitted!"
"They are my informants and internal agents. If it weren't for them, I wouldn't have mastered the list of Hydra personnel so quickly. And if it wasn't for Sitwell, I wouldn't have learned that the largest smuggler actually It’s Alexander Pierce.”
Leni looked at Sitwell and Price who were looking sideways at their noses, mouths and hearts.
"The contribution they made in this incident is obvious to all. It is not easy to bring down the entire Hydra. I am very fortunate to have their help."
A member of the House of Representatives was immediately troubled when he heard this.
What does Leni mean by this? Do you still want Congress to reward them?
Seemingly feeling that he could not find a breakthrough from Leni, the senator sitting at the top decided to point the finger at Natasha.
"Agent Romanov, as far as I know, you have participated in actions that endanger the national security of the United States in the past, and you have even stolen state secrets..."
Hearing this, Natasha frowned.
Although she had expected that these people would talk about her past, she did not expect that they would be so straightforward.
What's more, there is a Russian Security Council member sitting next to him.
Natasha glanced at Director Ivanov aside. As expected, the latter also had a dark look on his face at this moment.
"Please note! Mr. Congressman, the reason why we are still sitting here discussing the truth of this incident is precisely thanks to this Romanov agent. If you still insist on continuing the discussion with this attitude, please forgive me. Fang refused to accompany him."
Contrary to everyone's expectations, Director Hua suddenly stood up and interrupted the congressman who wanted to continue to be aggressive with a cold face.
"this……"
Unexpectedly, the usually easy-going Hua Guo director would act so tough at this moment, and the congressman couldn't help but froze there for a moment.
The pale-faced Director Ivanov on the side immediately slapped the table and stood up when he saw this.
"That's right, if the US Congress only has this kind of magnanimity, then I don't think this meeting will be held!"
After saying this, Director Ivanov, who really didn't want to continue to be treated like this, simply shook his butt, turned around and walked away.
Just kidding, he is not a vassal of these people. The reason why he appears here is more or less to give an explanation to the French side. After all, the member of the Security Council died and he was a witness.
But now, even if these damn Americans are unwilling to take responsibility, they still want to throw the blame away. How can they show any courage as a big country?
It’s no wonder that these guys were eaten by hydra from top to bottom. They were just like a nest of snakes and rats, and they looked like an embarrassment.
For a moment, all the news media in the venue were like hungry wolves after seeing the meat, and they all raised their cameras to take pictures.
Of course they had no intention of letting go of such valuable news material.
Boom, boom, boom!
As if he felt that his face was really uneasy, the member sitting at the top picked up the gavel again and knocked it several times.
"Quiet! Quiet!"
However, the media who smelled the fishy smell ignored him at all. It was not until Director Ivanov's back completely disappeared from the door of the conference hall that the noisy voices calmed down.
Seeing this scene, Natasha smiled and nodded towards the director of China to express her gratitude, and then she opened her red lips and said lightly:
"Mr. Congressman, I don't deny what I did before, just like you can't deny that the previous Senator Stern was also a Hydra.
We cannot change what has happened, but fortunately, we still have the opportunity to make up for the mistakes we made in the past.
And it was SHIELD that gave me the opportunity to make up for the mistakes I made in the past..."
Natasha met the gaze of a congressman and slowly stood up from her seat with a smile on her face.
"Now, this opportunity is also in front of you."
After saying that, Natasha turned around and left the venue without looking back, just like Director Ivanov who had just left the meeting.
Click, click, click!
Looking at Natasha's back surrounded by the media, Leni couldn't help laughing and simply stood up from her seat.
"Members and gentlemen, the matter is now at this point. I think everyone has a certain understanding of what happened. If you have any further questions, you can contact us at any time..."
Leni raised her hand and reached into the void beside her. Under the surprised gazes of the first congressman and the media, she took out a pair of sunglasses and placed them on her face.
"You know where to find us."
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