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Behind the Scenes in Naruto World Chapter 772 Let Our Former Director See How Miserable He Is, and Let Him See How Well We Are Doing!

New York City.

Brooklyn.

A taxi stopped by the roadside.

A woman wearing black skintight clothes walked down. The monotonous skintight clothes looked unique on her body and set off her proud figure.

“The weather is not bad.”

A well-dressed man got out of the car next to him. He was holding a long box in his hands and looking at the surrounding environment with vigilance.

“You can’t let your guard down.”

The man and woman were Eagle Eye Clint Borton and Black Widow Natasha Romanoff. They had come to New York, Brooklyn to investigate Steve Rogers.

There was a reason why the two of them were so careful.

It was because they found that people were investigating their whereabouts recently.

There was a hint of worry in Natasha’s eyes, so she asked gently, “It has only been a few days since we refused to go back to report. Now, there are already people secretly tracking us down… They can seek help, it should be colleagues from S.H.I.E.L.D..”

“Well, this is very ironic.”

A smile flashed across the corners of Clint Borton’s mouth. He looked at Natasha and said, “We carried out the mission according to the S.H.I.E.L.D. Director’s order, but other S.H.I.E.L.D.’s agents were following us and wanted to arrest us…”

“Sigh…”

Natasha could not help but sigh and said softly, “At least we are pretty good, we don’t have to be locked in a cage like our director…”

“Yes, let’s go!”

Clint Borton nodded with a smile and ended the topic.

The two of them avoided the cameras along the street while observing if there were any abnormalities around them. There were no problems along the road, so they arrived at the door of Captain America, Steve Rogers’ house.

Clint took out a piece of wire from his pocket and started tinkering with it, “Let’s see what he left at home first…”

However.

The sound of footsteps suddenly came from inside the room.

This Captain America had just removed the bandage on his wound when he heard the rustling sound outside the door. He walked to the peephole and saw the two people outside his door.

“Clint? Natasha?”

Steve Rogers opened the door and glanced at the wire in Clint’s hand, then at Natasha and Clint, whose faces were full of shock.

The three people present were all a little surprised.

What was going on?

“Clint…”

The corners of Steve Rogers’ mouth twitched, and he said strangely, “You can knock on my door directly when you come to my house…”

“He is just used to it.”

Natasha took the opportunity to ridicule Clint, raised her eyebrows at her teammates, and used her eyes to signal her teammates to calm down.

“…”

Clint’s expression suddenly became a little awkward.

Who could tell him why Steve Rogers was still at home? Did this guy not know that he was in trouble?

That’s not right either…

Perhaps this guy had no idea that he had been exposed?

What should they do now?

“I happen to have something to talk to you about…”

Steve Rogers frowned and invited them into the house, “Come in and have a cup of coffee first… things might be a little troublesome.”

Steve Rogers indeed needed someone to help him.

Or rather, Steve Rogers needed someone to help him find his old friend, Bucky. Even if this fellow, Bucky, tried to assassinate him and almost killed him, Steve Rogers still wanted to find out what exactly happened to Bucky.

With Bucky’s appearance…

Only then did Steve Rogers truly realize that he was not alone in this era.

Natasha and Clint looked at each other. The two of them nodded tacitly and followed Steve Rogers into the house.

Steve Rogers handed the two of them a can of coffee and sat opposite them. He talked about himself and Bucky, “A few days ago, I met a person… Bucky Barnes… He has become very different from the past… He wants to kill me.”

“But…”

“Seventy years ago, we were comrades who could rely on each other in life and death. In other words, we were brothers who could sacrifice their lives for each other.”

“It’s just that he disappeared after assassinating me. I suspect that he might have been controlled by Hydra or some other organization…”

Steve Rogers rambled on about his own guess. He actually shared his thoughts with these two Avengers. He had no idea what kind of image he had in Natasha and Clint’s eyes.

This Captain America…

Still as simple as ever.

Natasha and Clint were not simple at all. Their faces gradually became strange. Could it be that Steve Rogers had not colluded with Bucky Barnes?

What was going on?

While they were talking about Bucky Barnes, a convoy of Hummers drove into Brooklyn in a mighty manner.

In the lead car.

Uehara Naraku sat in the passenger seat with his eyes closed.

In the back of the car sat a man and a woman. They were Coulson and Hill, who had betrayed S.H.I.E.L.D. half a year ago. They were wearing reinforced handcuffs.

“Uehara, what are you going to do?”

Coulson did not try to open the handcuffs because he knew that he and Hill were no match for Uehara Naraku. He was just curious about why Uehara Naraku would let him and Hill come out.

Because ever since the ‘defection incident’ that Uehara Naraku had arranged for him and Hill, Uehara Naraku had imprisoned them.

Originally, Coulson thought that Uehara Naraku would imprison them to death, but in less than half a year, Uehara Naraku had dragged them out again.

Uehara Naraku still had his eyes closed and his fingers were slowly tapping. He opened his mouth to explain, “I want you to accompany me to watch a big show…”

“…”

What a lunatic!

Coulson and Hill wanted to curse.

What was this guy trying to do?

“If a human has done something extraordinary, he needs others to help him remember it. It just so happens that I am just such an ordinary human being…”

Uehara Naraku spoke slowly and opened his eyes. His gaze fell on a house through the black bulletproof glass, “Of course, the most important thing is that I want you to see your idol again because this might be the last time you see him…”

“Captain Rogers?”

Coulson turned his head to look outside. His expression suddenly changed, “Uehara, what do you want to do to Captain again!”

That house!

It was Steve Rogers’ home!

Because the ownership of this house was handled by Coulson himself for Steve Rogers, he remembered his idol’s residence very well.

“I came to test Captain Steve Rogers’ skills…”

Uehara Naraku reached out to grab the walkie-talkie in the car and softly issued his order, “Agents, start moving immediately. There is no need to worry about any casualties!”

“Team One understands!”

“Team Two understands!”

“Team Three understands!”

Seventy or eighty agents jumped out from more than twenty jet-black Hummers, each holding a submachine gun in their hands, and some even took out grenade guns and rocket launchers from the carriage.

Coulson and Hill watched as this group of agents ran toward Steve Rogers’ house.

This kind of armed force…

Even if Steve Rogers was a super soldier, it was hard to say if he could survive.

“Uehara, you will definitely be punished…”

“I look forward to that day.”

Uehara Naraku shook his mobile phone, wrote an email to Natasha, and deliberately showed it to Coulson and Hill, “This was all done by the World Security Council. What does it have to do with me?”

In Steve Rogers’ home.

They were still discussing Bucky Barnes. However, Natasha and Clint had a subtle expression on their faces. They could not understand why Steve Rogers told them everything about him and Bucky…

Perhaps…

Was Steve Rogers innocent?

Natasha believed in Steve Rogers’ character. She even guessed that the German secret letter might have been Hydra’s plot.

This soldier from WWII 70 years ago…

He was actually a very simple man.

Just as Natasha was thinking about how to secretly test whether Steve Rogers knew about the German secret letter, her cell phone received an email from Uehara Naraku.

[I just received news that there is no one training at the field training ground because the World Security Council has sent three agent teams to Brooklyn.]

Natasha looked down at the cell phone and her face changed instantly. She suddenly raised his head and looked at Steve and Clint!

“Gentlemen… we seem to be in big trouble!”

“What?”

Steve Rogers still had some doubts on his face.

This WWII veteran doesn’t quite understand that there were some problems with the United States higher-ups, and he doesn’t even know that S.H.I.E.L.D. has been targeting him!

The next second!

There was the sound of footsteps outside the door!

“FIRE!”

Countless bullets were fired at the house!

Rockets instantly penetrated the wall and glass. The three people in the room quickly fell to the ground, avoiding the impact of bullets and artillery fire!

“There are three agent teams outside!”

Natasha looked at them with a face full of uneasiness. She looked at Steve Rogers carefully and said, “Uehara just sent the news that… the World Security Council wants to arrest you!”

“Why?”

“…”

Natasha remained silent and did not reply.

Clint opened his box and pulled out an arrow. He raised his hand and shot it out of the window. He spoke to ease the topic, “Anyway, let’s get out of here first!”

“Yes…”

Natasha nodded slowly and whispered, “Steve, we are like you, we have been wanted by S.H.I.E.L.D…. S.H.I.E.L.D. has completely become World Security Council’s puppet, or maybe Hydra.”

Before Steve Rogers could say anything, the wall of the living room was completely destroyed. More than a dozen agents picked up their submachine guns and fired bullets at them densely!

“Let’s go first!”

The three of them crazily shuttled back and forth in the house!

Clint raised his hand and shot an arrow through the shoulder of an agent who was carrying a rocket launcher!

But this arrow was a little too forced. Clint’s movement was a little slower, and he was hit by a few stray bullets in the shoulder and thigh, instantly losing his combat effectiveness.

Steve Rogers pulled Clint’s body and fled into the house basement with him on his back. He called to Natasha, “Quick, come with me to the basement first!”

As a veteran…

Or rather, as a veteran who didn’t want to see the light, Steve Rogers built himself a spacious basement for training.

There was also an external passage there.

At the very least, they could safely leave this place.

After the field team responsible for sniping and surrounding the house rushed into the house with guns drawn, they carefully checked and found no trace of Steve Rogers.

They could only report this bad news to Uehara Naraku.

“It doesn’t matter.”

Uehara Naraku did not care about their questions at all. He calmly continued to instruct them to go back to the car with their weapon, “Everyone, get in the car. I will go back first. You guys go to the next place.”

“…”

Coulson, who was just glad that Steve Rogers had escaped death, heard Uehara Naraku’s order and could not help but be a little curious.

“You… what else do you want to do?”

“To make trouble for our former director!”

Uehara Naraku tilted his head and smiled, “Director Fury thought that no one would be able to find him if he was hiding in a safe house… But as long as we want to find someone, there is nothing we can’t find.”

“Right now, the Helicarrier is patrolling in the sky. The entire United States is under S.H.I.E.L.D.’s surveillance. How long do you think our former director can hide?”

“…Director Fury was also forced out of S.H.I.E.L.D. by you? “

“No, he left on his own.”

Uehara Naraku shook his head and sighed, “In order to make us Hydra lurking in S.H.I.E.L.D. relax our vigilance, he secretly faked his death and escaped… This is the biggest mistake he made, probably… second only to approving me to join S.H.I.E.L.D.?”

“…”

Coulson could not help but want to curse again.

Damn…

This guy still had the nerve to say that?

“Let’s go, Agent Coulson.”

Uehara Naraku smiled at Coulson and continued, “I am now the S.H.I.E.L.D. Director. Once a person becomes prosperous, he must not forget his old friends…”

“What are you trying to do!”

“I just want our former director to see how miserable he is, and how well his former subordinates are living…”

Uehara Naraku’s car left first. The other agents all got into their car. This time, the convoy of Hummers drove in the direction of the safe house on the outskirts of New York in an orderly manner.

There…

It was the place where Nick Fury stayed and hid temporarily.

However, Nick Fury was experienced and much calmer than Natasha and Clint. When he saw the convoy of Hummers on the news, he became alert and left his safe house.

Uehara Naraku did not do much.

He just ordered the agents to destroy Nick Fury’s safe house.

Moreover, Uehara Naraku found someone to call up all the locations where Nick Fury had used funds to possibly build safe houses by thoroughly investigating Nick Fury’s course of action and the agents under his command in the S.H.I.E.L.D. database.

Most importantly…

The construction of these safe houses was largely attributed to Coulson and Hill, so their actions became the focus of the investigation.

As long as there was no one living in the house, it would be investigated thoroughly by the agents. Once they found a problem, they would immediately use bombs to dismantle it.

They would rather kill the wrong person…

…than let him go.

All of the safe houses in New York were destroyed.

After this operation, Nick Fury, the former S.H.I.E.L.D. Director became completely homeless, and he himself had to face a hunt.

After one day and one night.

Nick Fury slept in the parking lot of a small town.

This man was a little suspicious about what was wrong.

It was not until Nick Fury secretly checked the latest news that he saw the latest news published by the World Security Council, which announced the new Secretary of the World Security Council.

And then…

Nick Fury saw the picture of the secretary.

A rather familiar person.

A person who made Nick Fury miss him so much.

The picture of the secretary was an indifferent Coulson.

From the picture, it seemed that Coulson had an official look.

Apart from Coulson…

There was also a man standing in the corner.

It was Uehara Naraku who was trying to force a smile even though he was obviously unhappy.

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Behind the Scenes in Naruto World Chapter 772 Let Our Former Director See How Miserable He Is, and Let Him See How Well We Are Doing!

New York City.

Brooklyn.

A taxi stopped by the roadside.

A woman wearing black skintight clothes walked down. The monotonous skintight clothes looked unique on her body and set off her proud figure.

“The weather is not bad.”

A well-dressed man got out of the car next to him. He was holding a long box in his hands and looking at the surrounding environment with vigilance.

“You can’t let your guard down.”

The man and woman were Eagle Eye Clint Borton and Black Widow Natasha Romanoff. They had come to New York, Brooklyn to investigate Steve Rogers.

There was a reason why the two of them were so careful.

It was because they found that people were investigating their whereabouts recently.

There was a hint of worry in Natasha’s eyes, so she asked gently, “It has only been a few days since we refused to go back to report. Now, there are already people secretly tracking us down… They can seek help, it should be colleagues from S.H.I.E.L.D..”

“Well, this is very ironic.”

A smile flashed across the corners of Clint Borton’s mouth. He looked at Natasha and said, “We carried out the mission according to the S.H.I.E.L.D. Director’s order, but other S.H.I.E.L.D.’s agents were following us and wanted to arrest us…”

“Sigh…”

Natasha could not help but sigh and said softly, “At least we are pretty good, we don’t have to be locked in a cage like our director…”

“Yes, let’s go!”

Clint Borton nodded with a smile and ended the topic.

The two of them avoided the cameras along the street while observing if there were any abnormalities around them. There were no problems along the road, so they arrived at the door of Captain America, Steve Rogers’ house.

Clint took out a piece of wire from his pocket and started tinkering with it, “Let’s see what he left at home first…”

However.

The sound of footsteps suddenly came from inside the room.

This Captain America had just removed the bandage on his wound when he heard the rustling sound outside the door. He walked to the peephole and saw the two people outside his door.

“Clint? Natasha?”

Steve Rogers opened the door and glanced at the wire in Clint’s hand, then at Natasha and Clint, whose faces were full of shock.

The three people present were all a little surprised.

What was going on?

“Clint…”

The corners of Steve Rogers’ mouth twitched, and he said strangely, “You can knock on my door directly when you come to my house…”

“He is just used to it.”

Natasha took the opportunity to ridicule Clint, raised her eyebrows at her teammates, and used her eyes to signal her teammates to calm down.

“…”

Clint’s expression suddenly became a little awkward.

Who could tell him why Steve Rogers was still at home? Did this guy not know that he was in trouble?

That’s not right either…

Perhaps this guy had no idea that he had been exposed?

What should they do now?

“I happen to have something to talk to you about…”

Steve Rogers frowned and invited them into the house, “Come in and have a cup of coffee first… things might be a little troublesome.”

Steve Rogers indeed needed someone to help him.

Or rather, Steve Rogers needed someone to help him find his old friend, Bucky. Even if this fellow, Bucky, tried to assassinate him and almost killed him, Steve Rogers still wanted to find out what exactly happened to Bucky.

With Bucky’s appearance…

Only then did Steve Rogers truly realize that he was not alone in this era.

Natasha and Clint looked at each other. The two of them nodded tacitly and followed Steve Rogers into the house.

Steve Rogers handed the two of them a can of coffee and sat opposite them. He talked about himself and Bucky, “A few days ago, I met a person… Bucky Barnes… He has become very different from the past… He wants to kill me.”

“But…”

“Seventy years ago, we were comrades who could rely on each other in life and death. In other words, we were brothers who could sacrifice their lives for each other.”

“It’s just that he disappeared after assassinating me. I suspect that he might have been controlled by Hydra or some other organization…”

Steve Rogers rambled on about his own guess. He actually shared his thoughts with these two Avengers. He had no idea what kind of image he had in Natasha and Clint’s eyes.

This Captain America…

Still as simple as ever.

Natasha and Clint were not simple at all. Their faces gradually became strange. Could it be that Steve Rogers had not colluded with Bucky Barnes?

What was going on?

While they were talking about Bucky Barnes, a convoy of Hummers drove into Brooklyn in a mighty manner.

In the lead car.

Uehara Naraku sat in the passenger seat with his eyes closed.

In the back of the car sat a man and a woman. They were Coulson and Hill, who had betrayed S.H.I.E.L.D. half a year ago. They were wearing reinforced handcuffs.

“Uehara, what are you going to do?”

Coulson did not try to open the handcuffs because he knew that he and Hill were no match for Uehara Naraku. He was just curious about why Uehara Naraku would let him and Hill come out.

Because ever since the ‘defection incident’ that Uehara Naraku had arranged for him and Hill, Uehara Naraku had imprisoned them.

Originally, Coulson thought that Uehara Naraku would imprison them to death, but in less than half a year, Uehara Naraku had dragged them out again.

Uehara Naraku still had his eyes closed and his fingers were slowly tapping. He opened his mouth to explain, “I want you to accompany me to watch a big show…”

“…”

What a lunatic!

Coulson and Hill wanted to curse.

What was this guy trying to do?

“If a human has done something extraordinary, he needs others to help him remember it. It just so happens that I am just such an ordinary human being…”

Uehara Naraku spoke slowly and opened his eyes. His gaze fell on a house through the black bulletproof glass, “Of course, the most important thing is that I want you to see your idol again because this might be the last time you see him…”

“Captain Rogers?”

Coulson turned his head to look outside. His expression suddenly changed, “Uehara, what do you want to do to Captain again!”

That house!

It was Steve Rogers’ home!

Because the ownership of this house was handled by Coulson himself for Steve Rogers, he remembered his idol’s residence very well.

“I came to test Captain Steve Rogers’ skills…”

Uehara Naraku reached out to grab the walkie-talkie in the car and softly issued his order, “Agents, start moving immediately. There is no need to worry about any casualties!”

“Team One understands!”

“Team Two understands!”

“Team Three understands!”

Seventy or eighty agents jumped out from more than twenty jet-black Hummers, each holding a submachine gun in their hands, and some even took out grenade guns and rocket launchers from the carriage.

Coulson and Hill watched as this group of agents ran toward Steve Rogers’ house.

This kind of armed force…

Even if Steve Rogers was a super soldier, it was hard to say if he could survive.

“Uehara, you will definitely be punished…”

“I look forward to that day.”

Uehara Naraku shook his mobile phone, wrote an email to Natasha, and deliberately showed it to Coulson and Hill, “This was all done by the World Security Council. What does it have to do with me?”

In Steve Rogers’ home.

They were still discussing Bucky Barnes. However, Natasha and Clint had a subtle expression on their faces. They could not understand why Steve Rogers told them everything about him and Bucky…

Perhaps…

Was Steve Rogers innocent?

Natasha believed in Steve Rogers’ character. She even guessed that the German secret letter might have been Hydra’s plot.

This soldier from WWII 70 years ago…

He was actually a very simple man.

Just as Natasha was thinking about how to secretly test whether Steve Rogers knew about the German secret letter, her cell phone received an email from Uehara Naraku.

[I just received news that there is no one training at the field training ground because the World Security Council has sent three agent teams to Brooklyn.]

Natasha looked down at the cell phone and her face changed instantly. She suddenly raised his head and looked at Steve and Clint!

“Gentlemen… we seem to be in big trouble!”

“What?”

Steve Rogers still had some doubts on his face.

This WWII veteran doesn’t quite understand that there were some problems with the United States higher-ups, and he doesn’t even know that S.H.I.E.L.D. has been targeting him!

The next second!

There was the sound of footsteps outside the door!

“FIRE!”

Countless bullets were fired at the house!

Rockets instantly penetrated the wall and glass. The three people in the room quickly fell to the ground, avoiding the impact of bullets and artillery fire!

“There are three agent teams outside!”

Natasha looked at them with a face full of uneasiness. She looked at Steve Rogers carefully and said, “Uehara just sent the news that… the World Security Council wants to arrest you!”

“Why?”

“…”

Natasha remained silent and did not reply.

Clint opened his box and pulled out an arrow. He raised his hand and shot it out of the window. He spoke to ease the topic, “Anyway, let’s get out of here first!”

“Yes…”

Natasha nodded slowly and whispered, “Steve, we are like you, we have been wanted by S.H.I.E.L.D…. S.H.I.E.L.D. has completely become World Security Council’s puppet, or maybe Hydra.”

Before Steve Rogers could say anything, the wall of the living room was completely destroyed. More than a dozen agents picked up their submachine guns and fired bullets at them densely!

“Let’s go first!”

The three of them crazily shuttled back and forth in the house!

Clint raised his hand and shot an arrow through the shoulder of an agent who was carrying a rocket launcher!

But this arrow was a little too forced. Clint’s movement was a little slower, and he was hit by a few stray bullets in the shoulder and thigh, instantly losing his combat effectiveness.

Steve Rogers pulled Clint’s body and fled into the house basement with him on his back. He called to Natasha, “Quick, come with me to the basement first!”

As a veteran…

Or rather, as a veteran who didn’t want to see the light, Steve Rogers built himself a spacious basement for training.

There was also an external passage there.

At the very least, they could safely leave this place.

After the field team responsible for sniping and surrounding the house rushed into the house with guns drawn, they carefully checked and found no trace of Steve Rogers.

They could only report this bad news to Uehara Naraku.

“It doesn’t matter.”

Uehara Naraku did not care about their questions at all. He calmly continued to instruct them to go back to the car with their weapon, “Everyone, get in the car. I will go back first. You guys go to the next place.”

“…”

Coulson, who was just glad that Steve Rogers had escaped death, heard Uehara Naraku’s order and could not help but be a little curious.

“You… what else do you want to do?”

“To make trouble for our former director!”

Uehara Naraku tilted his head and smiled, “Director Fury thought that no one would be able to find him if he was hiding in a safe house… But as long as we want to find someone, there is nothing we can’t find.”

“Right now, the Helicarrier is patrolling in the sky. The entire United States is under S.H.I.E.L.D.’s surveillance. How long do you think our former director can hide?”

“…Director Fury was also forced out of S.H.I.E.L.D. by you? “

“No, he left on his own.”

Uehara Naraku shook his head and sighed, “In order to make us Hydra lurking in S.H.I.E.L.D. relax our vigilance, he secretly faked his death and escaped… This is the biggest mistake he made, probably… second only to approving me to join S.H.I.E.L.D.?”

“…”

Coulson could not help but want to curse again.

Damn…

This guy still had the nerve to say that?

“Let’s go, Agent Coulson.”

Uehara Naraku smiled at Coulson and continued, “I am now the S.H.I.E.L.D. Director. Once a person becomes prosperous, he must not forget his old friends…”

“What are you trying to do!”

“I just want our former director to see how miserable he is, and how well his former subordinates are living…”

Uehara Naraku’s car left first. The other agents all got into their car. This time, the convoy of Hummers drove in the direction of the safe house on the outskirts of New York in an orderly manner.

There…

It was the place where Nick Fury stayed and hid temporarily.

However, Nick Fury was experienced and much calmer than Natasha and Clint. When he saw the convoy of Hummers on the news, he became alert and left his safe house.

Uehara Naraku did not do much.

He just ordered the agents to destroy Nick Fury’s safe house.

Moreover, Uehara Naraku found someone to call up all the locations where Nick Fury had used funds to possibly build safe houses by thoroughly investigating Nick Fury’s course of action and the agents under his command in the S.H.I.E.L.D. database.

Most importantly…

The construction of these safe houses was largely attributed to Coulson and Hill, so their actions became the focus of the investigation.

As long as there was no one living in the house, it would be investigated thoroughly by the agents. Once they found a problem, they would immediately use bombs to dismantle it.

They would rather kill the wrong person…

…than let him go.

All of the safe houses in New York were destroyed.

After this operation, Nick Fury, the former S.H.I.E.L.D. Director became completely homeless, and he himself had to face a hunt.

After one day and one night.

Nick Fury slept in the parking lot of a small town.

This man was a little suspicious about what was wrong.

It was not until Nick Fury secretly checked the latest news that he saw the latest news published by the World Security Council, which announced the new Secretary of the World Security Council.

And then…

Nick Fury saw the picture of the secretary.

A rather familiar person.

A person who made Nick Fury miss him so much.

The picture of the secretary was an indifferent Coulson.

From the picture, it seemed that Coulson had an official look.

Apart from Coulson…

There was also a man standing in the corner.

It was Uehara Naraku who was trying to force a smile even though he was obviously unhappy.

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