Chapter 126: Quake Joins
Looking at Daisy's panicked expression, Gene couldn't help but find it amusing.
He hadn't expected a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent to actually believe what she saw in movies.
"No, no, Mr. Black Devil, I swear—I'll never reveal your identity to anyone!" Daisy was on the verge of tears now.
Her original plan had been simple: tell the Black Devil everything she knew about the Inhumans' conspiracy and then rely on his overwhelming strength to crush their schemes. That was the plan. But who could've predicted that the Black Devil would pull off his mask without a care in the world—and that behind it, wasn't even a mask at all?
Unlike Stark's flamboyant suits of armor, the Black Devil appeared to be something else entirely. Tony Stark wrapped flesh in steel. But this man—no, this being—was wrapping steel around… something else entirely. Something more alien. Something more inhuman.
That's when Daisy's mind made a connection. A faint flicker of memory—one of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s most classified files suddenly floated into her thoughts. It described a massive global cyberattack from four years ago. An attack that had peeled away the layers of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s secrets like tissue paper.
"You… You're..." Daisy pointed at Gene with her eyes closed tight, her voice trembling, "...you're the one from four years ago. That Gene Mason is this Gene Mason!"
Most people wouldn't understand the weight of what she just said.
But Gene did.
"That's right. I'm that Gene Mason," he said, tilting his head slightly, eyeing her calmly. "So… are you ready?"
"No, no, no, I'm not ready at all. Look—look, I can forget! I swear, I can pretend none of this ever happened!" Daisy babbled desperately. "You've got crazy advanced tech, right? You can erase my memory or something!"
Suddenly, an unseen force compelled Daisy to open her eyes.