Daniel Whitehall, originally named Reinhardt, was a scientist under Red Skull back then, responsible for specifically researching the obelisk that might contain the "Death Code".
His research process involved constantly using humans for contact experiments, replacing them with new ones when they died.
It was during that time that he met Jiaying, a woman who wouldn't be petrified by the obelisk.
After Red Skull was defeated by Captain America, he and his subordinates, as well as the obelisk, were captured and imprisoned by the Howling Commandos led by Carter.
All experimental subjects, including Jiaying, were also released home.
Later, because S.H.I.E.L.D. was infiltrated by Zola's faction of HYDRA, Reinhardt was also secretly released by Alexander Pierce, renamed Daniel Whitehall, and continued to serve HYDRA.
At this time, already an old man, he discovered that Jiaying, the only woman who wouldn't be petrified by the obelisk back then, was actually still alive, and her appearance hadn't changed at all.
So he cruelly dismembered Jiaying, transplanted all of her internal organs into himself, thus regaining youth and obtaining Jiaying's ability of eternal youth.
However, Jiaying did not die; after being found by her husband and pieced back together, she came back to life.
However, the Jiaying who came back to life had a complete change in personality from then on.
She returned to the inhuman Base "Afterlife" and began her revenge plan.
She wanted to destroy S.H.I.E.L.D., destroy humans, and create a World where only Inhumans existed.
Uh, this idea feels quite familiar for some reason.
When dismembering Jiaying, Whitehall's surface identity was S.H.I.E.L.D., so in Jiaying's eyes, HYDRA was S.H.I.E.L.D., and S.H.I.E.L.D. was HYDRA.
After returning to the interrogation room with Skye via Apparition, Li Chuan introduced:
"This is your supervisor, Li San.
All your future work will be arranged by him."
"Hello, sorry about earlier."
Li San proactively extended his hand.
Skye shrugged and shook it.
"I understand, and I know you just wanted to scare me."
"Oh right, regarding the Rising Tide, I hope you can withdraw from it.
Although it's considered a charity organization, it's not as good as you think.
Many hackers within it are actually just information peddlers, including your boyfriend Miles."
Seeing that Skye and Li Chuan had gotten acquainted, Li Chuan suddenly remembered something and spoke up to remind her.
He didn't want Skye to work for him in the future and secretly send his information to the Rising Tide, making everything public knowledge.
Moreover, he wasn't wrong.
While the Rising Tide is a charity organization and has its own ideals, only a small portion of naive people like Skye are truly motivated by the ideals.
Many hackers are just in it for the money.
They obtain information through the organization and then sell it at high prices to those who need it, earning large sums.
Skye's boyfriend is one of them; he even sold a lot of information to HYDRA.
"Impossible, Miles isn't that kind of person.
Everything he does is because of our organization's noble ideals.
He's a good person, and I won't allow you to insult him like this."
Hearing Li Chuan's words, Skye seemed to have her reverse scale touched and instantly became enraged.
Miles taught her hacking skills, and the noble ideals of the Rising Tide were also taught to her by Miles.
In her heart, Miles was an absolutely upright good person.
Now Li Chuan was saying that Miles was an information criminal who sold information for money, so how could she accept that?
Li Chuan seemed to have anticipated Skye's reaction, and turned his head to look at Li San:
"Did you find him?"
"He's already on the way, estimated to arrive in twenty minutes."
Li San glanced at his phone and replied respectfully.
Li Chuan nodded and poured Skye a drink:
"Don't be so agitated, calm down, sit down and have something to drink.
Your boyfriend Miles will be here in twenty minutes.
You'll know then if it's as I said."
It turned out that while tracking Skye, Li Chuan had already instructed the Ten Rings to lock onto Miles's location and had Li San send people to forcibly bring him over.
Twenty minutes later, Miles appeared in the interrogation room.
However, Li Chuan did not let Miles and Skye meet, but instead put him in a room with one-way mirror glass, letting Li San question him inside, while he and Skye stood outside listening.
"Don't worry, I won't hurt him, it's just a simple test."
Looking at the nervous Skye, Li Chuan offered a word of comfort.
Skye replied, her knuckles turning a bit white from clenching her hands:
"If you're going to hurt him, I will absolutely not agree to work for you, even if you kill me."
Hearing this, Li Chuan smiled and wasn't angry.
He quite liked Skye's personality.
At least in the future, after she became his subordinate, he wouldn't have to worry about her easily betraying him.
Just like Cao Cao appreciated Guan Yu, it was precisely because of Guan Yu's loyalty to Liu Bei that Cao Cao so desired to bring Guan Yu under his command.
"Who are you people, and what do you want?"
Miles, whose black cloth bag had been removed, looked at the surroundings and the burly Li San in front of him, his face showing a look of panic.
He was in his rental apartment, currently breaching the defenses of a certain government agency, when suddenly a group of big men rushed into the room, put a black cloth bag over his head, and forcibly dragged him here.
How could he not be scared?
Could it be that he was careless and his location was tracked by the government agency he was just hacking, and they came looking for him?
It shouldn't be.
The agency he was hacking wasn't important, so how could they have that kind of talent?
"Who we are isn't important.
What's important is that I heard a lot of valuable information can be bought from you.
I wonder if that's true?"
Li San expressionlessly placed four suitcases on the table, opened them, and they were neatly filled with stacks of green U.S. dollars, creating a strong visual impact.
When Miles heard they wanted to buy information, the expression on his face instantly changed from panic to pleasant surprise.
He reached out and touched the brand new U.S. dollars, laughing:
"You should have said so earlier.
Why make it so scary?
As long as your money is in place, I have whatever kind of information you need."
"Okay, our Boss has a grudge against the Dark Warlock.
If you have information about the Dark Warlock's true identity, then everything on the table will be yours!"
Li San pushed all four suitcases towards Miles.
Seeing this, Miles's eyes immediately lit up:
"If you ask others about this, they really won't have it, but you've asked the right person by asking me.
My apprentice just got information about the Dark Warlock from S.H.I.E.L.D."
Outside the room's glass window, Skye listened to Miles's words inside, watching him take out a stack of money from the suitcase with a greedy expression and sniff it in front of his nose.
She was completely stunned.
Was this still the upright and kind Miles in her heart?
Subsequently, a surge of anger from being deceived and betrayed rose in her heart.
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