On the screen.
"Hill!"
Nick Fury murmured, looking at Hill, calling her name. He watched Agent Hill completely vanish into thin air right before his eyes.
There was nothing he could do to stop it.
It wasn't just Agent Hill; during this process, some other bystanders also met the same fate as Agent Hill, turning into ashes.
"Get out of the way!"
After a moment of shock, Nick Fury suddenly remembered something. He pushed a pedestrian aside, quickly got into the back seat, and pulled out a device similar to an old-fashioned pager.
But before he could do anything, one of Nick Fury's hands also turned into ashes.
"Oh, no!" Nick Fury shook his head repeatedly, unable to stop himself from cursing, "Motherf—"
But he had only just started cursing when his head also turned into ashes, and the latter half of the word, "—cker," naturally vanished with it, never to be uttered.
The explanation for this question ended with Nick Fury's heartfelt call to his mother before his death, and the image froze there.
However, everyone's emotions were in turmoil. Although this footage wasn't very long, the information it conveyed was extremely important.
The amount of information was explosive.
And all of it was crucial information.
"Motherf—, he didn't get to say 'fucker.' So that's what happened! So this is the truth behind Nick Fury calling out to his mother before he died!"
Thor glanced at Nick Fury with a somewhat speechless expression, finding it utterly absurd.
Everyone had been so seriously analyzing before, concluding that the answer must be someone who deeply loved his mother, a very filial person, and so on... But the truth turned out to be this!
It felt like Coulson had been duped by Nick Fury!
"Alright, let's get back to the question." Feeling everyone looking at him with strange gazes, Nick Fury cleared his throat, bringing everyone back to the main topic.
"This question has conveyed some very important intelligence to us, which is worth analyzing carefully," Nick Fury said to everyone with a serious expression.
"Nick Fury, you've already died once before, but now, you've died again," Captain America was the first to speak, immediately pointing out this important anomaly.
"A person can't die twice!" Iron Man interjected, stating it as a matter of course, "So there's only one answer: Nick Fury didn't actually die last time."
In this footage, Nick Fury turned into ashes, which means he was 100% dead, as dead as can be.
However, in the previous question where Captain America was captured, news of Nick Fury's death was only conveyed through conversations between Captain America, Pierce, and others.
The footage did not show the process of Nick Fury's death.
So, comparing the two, it must be that Nick Fury didn't die that time at all.
Nick Fury's expression improved slightly. That's more like it. How could he, the great Eggman, be taken out by a mere assassination attempt?
That would be an insult to him, the great Eggman!
Was he, Nick Fury, that easy to kill?
Only a power that clearly seemed supernatural, like this one, would be fitting for his rank as the great Eggman.
"That's right, I must have used some stratagem to fake my death at that time," Nick Fury also nodded, stating it with certainty.
This was obvious.
At the time, not just Captain America, but everyone, including Alexander Pierce, believed he was dead.
As the head of S.H.I.E.L.D., if Pierce had concluded that Nick Fury was dead, it must have been after confirmation.
They confirmed it, yet concluded that Nick Fury, who wasn't dead, was dead.
There was only one possibility: Nick Fury was faking his death.
"Nick Fury, you are the director of S.H.I.E.L.D., and even you had to resort to faking your death. Whoever the mastermind behind this is, their power is astonishing," Captain America said to Nick Fury with a serious expression.
Nick Fury wholeheartedly agreed.
"Sir, so you 'died' once in the future? Is this the future that was foretold when you, Captain, and Stark answered the questions last time?"
Black Widow spoke up from the side, asking slowly.
"Nick Fury, didn't you tell Natasha and the other question-answerers about this?" Captain America glanced at Nick Fury with some dissatisfaction.
In Captain America's view, the future foretold by the question-answering system was too important, so much so that it concerned the survival of the world, and even the rise and fall of the universe.
Such crucial intelligence should naturally be shared among the question-answerers, and Captain America himself did so.
But now it seemed that Nick Fury was rather secretive and hadn't shared the intelligence they gained from answering the questions.
"Sir, the Captain is right. Regarding the intelligence from the question-answering system, I hope you can be as honest with me as I am with you."
Black Widow also spoke to Nick Fury with a serious expression.
When Nick Fury assigned her tasks, such as investigating a certain secret base, Black Widow suspected that Nick Fury must have obtained some information from the question-answering system.
And so, he took corresponding actions.
She had been waiting for Nick Fury to tell her, but it turned out that the great Eggman had no such intention, only instructing her to do things without ever sharing information with her.
"Fine!" Nick Fury didn't insist, but nodded, "Romanoff, Coulson, I will share all the intelligence obtained from the last round of questions with you later."
"Agent, how about we find a place to have a good drink? I can tell you everything slowly. What do you think?"
Even at this moment, Iron Man couldn't resist flirting with Black Widow, truly living up to his reputation as a playboy who had slept with every magazine cover girl.
Captain America couldn't help but frown slightly. Stark was being so frivolous at such a critical moment, which he disliked greatly.
"Alright, let's get back to the question!" Captain America said to everyone with a serious expression, though primarily to Iron Man.
Immediately after, Captain America began to share some of his conclusions.
"At the very least, we can determine the approximate time of this question: it happened after Nick Fury was assassinated by mysterious forces and had to fake his death."
This was also obvious. If Nick Fury turned into ashes, how could he fake his death?
Undoubtedly, turning into ashes happened after faking his death.
"The mastermind used a supernatural method to turn many people into ashes out of thin air. Coupled with the 'unidentified object appearing in Wakanda,' what can you all connect this to?"
Iron Man then looked at everyone present with a serious expression and asked.