I'm the Demon King in Marvel

Chapter 31: S.H.I.E. Agents in Hell's Kitchen
On the west coast of Manhattan Island, there is a rectangular area bounded by 59th Street and 34th Street from north to south, Eighth Avenue to the east, and the Hudson River to the west. This is the legendary "Hell's Kitchen."

Hell's Kitchen was a famous slum on Manhattan Island in its early years, mainly inhabited by working-class Irish immigrants. It was famous for its messy and backward living quality, serious ethnic conflicts and high crime rate.

If American comics only made this area famous for the stories of Spider-Man, Daredevil, Kingpin, Bullseye and others, then Chinese novels used this area to create many bigwigs who transcended the other side.

Walking into this area, Lin Hao did not feel the gaze from the big guys, but saw Hong Guoguo's greedy eyes.

In almost every alley, there were groups of blacks, whites, and drug addicts eyeing the Asian faces that walked in alone, making no secret of their intention to "buy for free."

Lin Hao has now changed his alias and is named Kurosaki Ichigo.

He is a regular businessman with legal status in Tokyo.

In the real world, Hell's Kitchen was created because of the soaring housing prices in Manhattan. Real estate developers intervened in this area and vigorously developed the real estate industry, thereby expelling low-income groups living in this area by raising rents and living costs.

This completely solved the public security problems that the New York government and police had been unable to solve for many years.

The master is kind-hearted and cannot bear to see the poor, so there are no poor people here.

The continuous "gentrification" has resulted in more and more "gentlemen" in this area, and public security has improved accordingly.

But in the Marvel world, editors needed an area in New York that was often turbulent so that superheroes could have a stage to perform. So in this world, no real estate developer dared to get involved in Hell's Kitchen until more than a decade later.

At this point in time, the blind lawyer should still be in school, Spider-Man is still an eight-year-old kid, and Kingpin has already taken control of the gangs in this area...

None of this has anything to do with Lin Hao's trip. He came here to find someone.

A person named "Lan Kenian" in the files of the S.H.I.E. is a level seven agent and was once one of the agents of the American branch. The life card in the ring fortress shows that this person is still alive, and the safe house in the file happens to be in Hell's Kitchen.

Lin Hao's trip to New York this time was just an excuse to attend Tony Stark's party, so that he could have a logical reason to come to New York.

Who would have thought that Tony happened to be going to Afghanistan, so he took the opportunity to go to Wall Street, which led to the Adam Smith incident.

The main purpose of his trip was to find the surviving agents from the former American branch.

Currently, there are only 63 surviving agents in the American branch, distributed throughout the American continent, including 11 in South America, where the loss is relatively small. The remaining 52 are distributed in two countries in North America, with more in the United States.

Due to the importance of the American branch, in the S.H.I.E. system, the person in charge is a level eight agent with four level seven agents under him, two in America and the other two in Greater Canada and West Brazil respectively.

Now that the person in charge, Cheng Yi, has died and another level seven American agent has also died, only Lan Kenian, the highest level seven agent, is left. If you want to know the details of the incident that happened a few months ago, asking him is the most direct way.

Currently, the Americas branch has suffered a heavy blow, and all the surviving agents have begun to remain silent according to the rules. Except for Director Zheng Xian and the new person in charge, no one knows their specific location.

The safe house registered by Lan Kenian is located in the center of Hell's Kitchen. Lin Hao walked across nearly half of the street with an Asian face, followed by many guys who tried to "buy for free".

When they arrived at Lan Kenian's apartment, the group of followers behind him suddenly stopped. They first looked at Lin Hao with surprise, and after a moment they showed sarcastic and cruel smiles. Some of them even made a throat-cutting gesture, without concealing their malice.

Lin Hao walked into the apartment. This old apartment actually had a white manager. The manager was bald, had a fat body and was covered with tattoos.

"Hey, kid!"

The dormitory manager sneered: "This is not the place for you to come."

Although the words were harsh, strangely, this person did not show any sarcasm or malice towards Lin Hao because of his appearance or skin color.

Lin Hao looked at the big man who was in charge of the dormitory and said calmly, "Tell Lan Kenian that someone from his hometown is looking for him."

"Are you looking for Mr. Lan?"

The big man in charge of the dormitory stood up, looked Lin Hao up and down, and finally showed a cruel smile: "Boy, I don't care where you heard Mr. Lan's real name from. If Mr. Lan doesn't see you after you call, I guarantee that you will die an ugly death!"

Lin Hao turned his eyes away and ignored him.

The dormitory manager didn't dare not report, so he picked up the microphone.

After a moment, he walked out of the duty room, forced a flattering smile, bent down to lead Lin Hao to the elevator, and pressed the button first.

"Sir, please. Mr. Lan is waiting for you on the seventh floor."

Lin Hao walked into the elevator and arrived at the seventh floor a moment later.

An entire floor is Lan Kenian's office. As a level seven agent of the S.H.I.E., it is normal for him to make a career in New York. This is also his disguised identity.

As soon as the elevator door opened, Lin Hao saw a man in green casual clothes sitting behind the desk. He had strong muscles and looked to be in his early thirties. He had short hair and a mustache on his upper lip. "Where are you from?" Lan Kenian looked at Lin Hao carefully, but he had no impression of this man.

"From my hometown." Lin Hao switched to Chinese.

"Where is your hometown?" Lan Kenian continued to ask in Chinese.

"A place where I feel at peace." Lin Hao answered calmly.

Lan Kenian's pupils shrank slightly, but he remained calm and continued, "It's raining so hard outside, why don't you bring an umbrella?"

At this time, the sky outside was clear without a single cloud.

Lin Hao then said the last sentence: "An orchid has eight leaves."

After all the codes matched, Lan Kenian finally stood up excitedly, quickly ran to the wall, opened an embedded iron box, and pressed the red button inside.

"I turned on the jammer."

Lan Kenian then walked forward excitedly and stretched out his hands towards Lin Hao, his hands even trembling a little.

"Comrade, you are finally here!"

Lin Hao stretched out a hand towards him and continued to observe the other person's micro-expressions.

Starting from downstairs just now, Lin Hao used his Observation Haki to find out the number of people and threats in the apartment. After entering the seventh floor, he focused on observing Lan Kenian. If the other party made any abnormal behavior, he would kill him quickly.

Up to now, Lin Hao has not found any abnormality in the other party, his micro-expressions are normal, his observation Haki does not sense any threat, and he has not even foreseen the future footage of the other party taking action.

Although Whitebeard's Observation Haki did not show the ability to foresee the future in the original work, it is likely that Oda had not yet thought of the setting in the early stage. In any case, the Observation Haki copied by Lin Hao can foresee a small part of the future.

This is the reason why Lin Hao has the courage to come here alone with his real body.

"What happened a few months ago?" Lin Hao went straight to the point.

"I don't understand!"

When talking about this incident, Lan Kenian's expression became complicated, with anger, sadness, and a hint of fear.

"At the end of last year, on Christmas Eve, Minister Cheng suddenly issued an emergency order to everyone, asking us to enter silent mode."

"Then my comrades were hunted down by SHIELD. In the team I led personally, only one person survived, and the other two teams that I was responsible for contacting lost contact."

"In this situation, I had no choice but to return here according to the plan and cut off all contact with other groups."

"When was the last time you saw Minister Cheng before the accident?" Lin Hao asked.

"September 9th last year." Lan Kenian answered immediately.

"Okay, I'll come see you again later." Lin Hao turned and left.

"You..." Lan Kenian hesitated, his eyes full of expectation: "When will you reorganize..."

Then, realizing that he shouldn't have asked too much, he quickly apologized: "I'm sorry, I'm just a little anxious."

Lin Hao turned around and looked at him deeply, but still found no flaws.

"Don't worry, I won't keep you waiting too long."

When the man walked to the elevator door, a voice came from the distance: "There's a traitor in our team!"

After entering the elevator, Lin Hao turned around and saw the shock on Lan Kenian's face and the anger that naturally emerged after a moment.

The elevator door closed, blocking the view, but the anger on Lan Kenian's face remained.

The elevator went down. Lan Kenian walked to the window and quietly watched Lin Hao go away on the street.

Until this moment, he suddenly stroked his chest, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised: "The new guy is quite interesting!"

(End of this chapter)