PFC Chapter 2949 Leisure Time (9)
Chapter 2949 Leisure Time (9)
Chapter 2949 Leisure Time (XIX)
With a click, the lights in the interrogation room came on, and Tim was grabbed by the neck and thrown in by Steve. He walked slowly towards the chair behind the table.
Steve took Tim's phone from the agent, turned it on and found that there was a lock screen password, so he put it on the table in front of Tim and motioned him to turn on the phone.
"I never thought you were this kind of person." Tim looked up at Steve and said, "They all say Captain America is the brightest and most righteous hero on earth."
"It depends on how you define light and justice." Steve sat down and smiled at him.
Tim cursed in his heart, "Damn blue eyes."
Captain America's blue eyes are almost the lightest of all blue eyes, so they appear particularly clear, making people feel as if they can see through them at a glance.
Tim couldn't say that he had any prejudice against people with blue eyes, but the fact was that he didn't dare to look Steve in the eye.
"You're acting like a secret service agent," Tim complained.
"Because I am the head of the secret service, not just now." Steve shook his head slightly and looked at Tim and said, "In the stories you have heard about me, do you describe me as a general fighting bravely on the front line?"
Tim shook his head. He had not heard many legends about Captain America. He only knew that he destroyed Hydra.
But Tim was smart. He thought about it and realized that Hydra was not a country, so they did not have a regular army. They were originally a spy organization under the command of Mustache, and those members who did evil things all over the world were actually agents.
Although it is not impossible for regular armies to eliminate spies, in most wars, it is a frontal battlefield against a frontal battlefield. Working behind enemy lines is another matter, and no one will dispatch a large army of hundreds of thousands of people to fight spies.
Captain America has always been engaged in work behind enemy lines, that is, sneaking into Hydra bases, destroying Hydra's manpower, or fighting intelligence warfare and mobile warfare with Hydra. In the largest-scale head-on confrontation, there are no artillery and trenches on the front battlefield. At most, it is a street fight involving a hundred people.
So Captain America has actually been doing the job of a secret agent from the beginning to the end, and Tim's question is indeed a bit stupid.
As for those rumors about Captain America, Tim could tell just by listening to the style of these rumors that this was actually government propaganda. They needed a spiritual leader, and Captain America happened to be in line with everyone's aesthetic, so the government made him a god.
But if he was really a god, he wouldn't have fought Hydra so hard, and in the end they almost died together. He is not as strong as the military and the government say.
Since he can still inflict heavy damage on Hydra even though he doesn't have overwhelming power, it means that in other aspects besides strength, he is on par with the leader of Hydra, and he also has the professional abilities that an agent should have.
Now Tim understood the real reason why Steve took classes at the FBI. He didn't change his career, he just returned to his old job.
"Tim, Jason told me that you are very smart, so there is no need for us to waste time on such trivial issues. The sooner you tell us what you know, the sooner we can leave here. I know you have thousands of plans in your mind waiting to be implemented."
"What do you want to know?" Tim asked with a frown.
"First of all, why did the plants riot in the mountain area where you and Schiller are?"
"I really want to tell you the truth, but the truth is that I don't know either." Tim shook his head and said, "Like you, I only know that this is Pamela's ability. As for what kind of deal she made with Schiller, I have no idea at all."
Steve dropped his eyes and thought for a moment, then said, "Are you telling me you have no idea what Schiller is doing? That doesn't quite square with Jason's assessment of you."
Tim gritted his teeth and cursed in his heart, but finally said, "Well, I once saw him meeting with a blind man. I eavesdropped on the conversation and know what they said."
"Blind? What did he call him?"
"Matt, the lawyer."
Tim told Steve the content of the conversation between Schiller and Matt, because he knew that since he was caught here, it would be impossible for him to get out without giving something away. There is gain only when there is loss.
In the dim interrogation room, Steve looked up at Tim while writing down his notes. When he finished writing down the conversation between Schiller and Matt, he looked at Tim and said, "Like I said, you could have sailed to Mexico to avoid being caught, but you still came here."
"Because I want to talk to you." Tim finally sat up straight, put his hands on the table and said, "How much do you know about the battle between S.H.I.E.L.D., the FBI and Hydra?"
Steve paused for a moment as he pressed his hand on the notebook. He said, "It's not a secret. Anyone can infer the relationship between them because it happens all the time."
"Yes, so which side are you on?" Tim said sarcastically, "Don't talk about the side of justice. You know there is no good pizza on the plate. Without the indulgence of the FBI and SHIELD, there would be no evil spread by Hydra. Whether you represent the FBI or SHIELD, their collective interests require you not to kill your old enemy."
"I've been thinking about this, too." Steve said, "People are always taught to eradicate all evil, but the truth is not that simple. For now, I think SHIELD, which gives the Avengers the greatest support, has sufficient funds and can better maintain world peace."
"Yes, because you represent the interests of the Avengers, and the interests of the Avengers are tied to the interests of SHIELD." Tim said, "And you taught in the FBI at Nick's instruction, showing the weakness of SHIELD and paralyzing the FBI."
"If not for this, how could they dare to stage the assassination of the congressman? It's nothing more than thinking that with you around, even if something really goes wrong, for the sake of Captain America's reputation, you can't just sit there and watch. If you make them think that you will clean up their mess, they will let go and do it, thus making mistakes."
"Being aggressive is always more likely to go wrong than being conservative. Nick fed you to the FBI as a reassurance pill, just to make them take risks and make mistakes, so that he can catch them by the braids and punch them."
"You're smart, Tim," Steve said sincerely.
"But I don't understand." Tim looked up at him and said, "Judging from the situation on your Earth, the three parties shouldn't be in such a mess. There must be some external force that I don't know about that is controlling all this."
"When it comes to party struggles, people tend to think that politicians are scheming against each other and wasting their time, but this is not actually the case. Factional struggles are sometimes a rising force, just as the multi-party system did achieve mutual supervision and checks and balances in the beginning."
"But this is premised on the fact that party disputes cannot expand indefinitely, otherwise it will lead to disasters. And judging from the situation on this planet, your party disputes have been controlled within a reasonable range, and indeed the benefits outweigh the harm."
"What do you mean?" Steve leaned forward as if interested.
Tim's fingertips gently circled the table and said, "Law enforcement agencies and terrorist organizations are different from the factional struggles in Congress. You are a fighting organization. To be more precise, you are a tool to maintain the basic stability of human society."
"Tools will rust if they are not sharpened, especially on the eve of the era of interstellar exploration. You need more and better agents to maintain law and order and open up the way forward during interstellar colonization."
"So, the party struggles among these three are essentially training. The mutual harm between the FBI, SHIELD, and Hydra itself has no meaning, but the process of your fighting each other is actually selecting the most elite agents in the United States."
"It doesn't matter if they are from the FBI, SHIELD, or even Hydra. Aren't they human? Could they develop feelings for any planet other than Earth out of thin air?"
"They won't. Their race is their stance. Although there are endless fights between the three parties on Earth, once they need to carry out missions outside the Earth, their overall interests are still unified. Even Hydra only wants to conquer the Earth. If the Earth is destroyed, it will not benefit any of them."
"In this case, their fighting and chasing each other, the coming and going of each other, is actually improving the strength of human agents, which is beneficial to humanity as a whole."
Steve nodded and looked at Tim with approval. The fact that he could deduce this far proved that he had cultivated a good sense of the overall situation.
This is actually a kind of talent. A good strategist needs to have the experience of being in the shoes of someone in power, and also needs to have a detached perspective to stand out and look down on everything.
Steve knew that the universe where Tim lived had not yet developed to the age of interstellar exploration. If it were not for his extraordinary talent, his mind would always revolve around the details of the struggle on Earth or even within a country, and he would not be able to jump out and see the different meanings of this struggle for all mankind.
But since he can do it, it proves that what Jason said is true. Tim is the Robin who is most like Batman and he is naturally gifted in reasoning.
"But it's not that simple." Tim continued, "Once a party struggle begins, it will not be determined by the will of one or two people. It will inevitably expand and become more and more extreme."
"At first, it may just be a small fight over funding, but the losing party will always want to get back their money, even with the money they put in. The snowball will naturally get bigger and bigger, and then they will deviate from the original intention. In the end, no one can help themselves and there is no way back."
"Based on the situation in your universe, the FBI, SHIELD, and Hydra have coexisted for such a long time that the struggle should have expanded to an uncontrollable situation and the disaster should have come long ago."
"At that time, normal methods can no longer stop this train with broken brakes. The only option is to dismantle the most important parts, and one of the parties will inevitably be completely destroyed."
"But what I find strange is that nothing like this seems to have happened. The fight between the three parties has been magically contained within a range that allows them to train their troops but does not go too far."
"This means that there is a force above three or even four parties, including your Avengers, that can completely crush you, because only in this way can such a perfect balance be achieved."
Tim sighed softly and said, "I used to have this idea, but later I felt it was impossible. People are selfish, and so are organizations. Moreover, even if this organization above everything else is completely rational, it has no way of seeing through the thoughts of everyone under it, and cannot accurately control their actions, so there will always be chaos."
"Once one link gets out of control, it will be like a domino effect, destroying everything into a mess. Even this high-ranking organization will be dragged down and the mess will be out of control."
(End of this chapter)