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Therefore, facing a huge claim for compensation, Serizawa Ichiro decisively hired a highly competent auditing team at a high price.
They directly cut off a large number of false projects, untrue expenditures, malicious amortizations, sky-high repair fees fabricated out of thin air, and personnel travel expenses, research fees, training fees unrelated to the battle, and even nearly five months of unpaid wages for nearly a thousand external personnel, and other unreasonable items that Nick Fury had privately added to the compensation list!
When all was said and done, it turned out there were only a few items left, such as the medical expenses for two injured Agents and the fuel consumption of the Quinjet during their rescue… totaling less than one million U.S. dollars.
What?
Do the Sky Carrier's shells not cost money?
Sorry, that falls under S.H.I.E.L.D.'s internal expenses.
Without the Monarch Organization, would your Sky Carrier not attack when encountering an enemy?
To be honest, even Serizawa Ichiro himself hadn't expected this result.
I say, Nick Fury, you were given a chance, but you were useless!
How arrogant and disdainful of the Monarch Organization must you be to present such a flawed and messy account?
If you had only claimed 100 million U.S. dollars at the time, we wouldn't have hired auditors, and presumably, there wouldn't have been so much trouble.
Blame yourself for being so greedy, claiming 1 billion U.S. dollars right off the bat.
Now, how about that? Feeling good?
Upon learning that the compensation had shrunk by a thousandfold, Nick Fury was first bewildered, then furious.
Originally, he thought this time would be like dealing with others before.
Just casually make an account, go through the motions, and then directly transfer the money.
What?
What if someone reviews the project content?
That's easy!
Just find an excuse to arrest him and lock him up for a few months, then directly transfer the money from his account, wouldn't that be fine?
What? Will doing this cause trouble?
Please, S.H.I.E.L.D. represents the Security Council.
If I, Nick Fury, say someone is guilty, then no matter whether he is guilty or not… he must be guilty!!!
But who would have thought?
Nick Fury, who was accustomed to acting tyrannically, actually stumbled in his most proficient area this time?
The Monarch Organization hired fifteen or sixteen auditors and actuaries alone…
Bastard, I've never encountered such a strict audit.
Do you think S.H.I.E.L.D.'s prison can't hold you all?
So Nick Fury directly invoked the name of the Security Council, wanting to assert his dominance.
But the result was still useless.
The Monarch Organization is not to be underestimated either!
If one were to truly rank them based on their importance within the Security Council.
Then their rankings are almost neck and neck!
Finally, whether out of politeness or intentionally to anger Nick Fury.
Serizawa Ichiro generously rounded up, directly paying 1 million U.S. dollars…
1 billion instantly became 1 million?!
Who could accept that?
Nick Fury was half-dead with rage, but he was utterly helpless.
He could only silently add the Monarch Organization to the blank space below Karl's name on his mental revenge list.
Very good, you all just wait for me…
And this time, due to Nick Fury's carelessness, S.H.I.E.L.D. can be said to have suffered losses in both reputation and profit.
Not only did they miss the best opportunity to make up for the huge deficit.
But other organizations also learned about their dirty dealings of making false accounts behind the scenes… and the key is that they didn't even make the false accounts properly!
From then on, S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Monarch Organization, these two massive agencies, formed a deep grudge.
"Cough cough!"
At this moment, a white-haired black elder with glasses, sitting at the head of the table, slowly spoke:
"I believe I don't need to introduce it; most of you should already be aware of the emergency that just occurred on Skull Island, right?"
"…Possessing the ability to fly, heat vision, and control Titans, to be able to do all of these simultaneously, perhaps only the super-powered individuals of the Vought Group can achieve it?"
Mark Russell, a bio-acoustician and Emma Russell's husband, said distractedly:
"Are they also coveting the secrets of the Titans?"
Compared to other Titans.
The seemingly unremarkable Kong had almost no presence in the minds of most Monarch Organization members.
Many even believed that Kong was not worthy of being included in the ranks of the Titans at all!
Because they had not found any related records in any mythological works.
This also directly led to no core members willing to voluntarily go to Skull Island Outpost 236 to be stationed.
No way.
Who would want to do something that is destined to yield no "results"?
Isn't studying Godzilla more appealing?
So Mark Russell and the others naturally didn't pay much attention to this matter.
As for the report's mention of the super-powered individual teaching Kong MMA fighting techniques.
Almost everyone dismissed it as nonsense… the kind that only an idiot would believe!
If mere primates could learn human fighting techniques, then Mutants would have already ruled Earth.
Instead, it was the black elder sitting at the head of the table, Houston Brooks.
He had once followed Bill Randa, one of the founders of the Monarch Organization, to Skull Island in 1973.
Thereby successfully salvaging the "Monarch Project" which was on the verge of being terminated at the time.
And transformed the Monarch Organization from an "unofficial official group" without stable special appropriations into a regular army with everything it needed.
Therefore, he always paid special attention to Kong on Skull Island.
Later, coupled with the news his son, Aaron Brooks, sent back from Skull Island, he decided to build an Outpost there, despite all objections.
"It shouldn't be the Vought Group…"
Houston Brooks saw that everyone was uninterested, and a hint of helplessness flashed in his eyes, but he continued:
"Outpost 236 just sent another portrait, and after big data scanning and comparison,"
"It was found to be extremely similar to Karl Merks, the super-powered individual who previously caused a stir online for liberating Sokovia."
"Although there is no detailed information about him yet, it can be confirmed that he is not a member of the Vought Group's super-powered legion."
"However, his true purpose for taking Kong cannot yet be determined…"
At this moment, Coleman, who had attended the UN General Assembly with Serizawa Ichiro, interrupted nonchalantly:
"Mr. Brooks, instead of continuing to discuss the whereabouts of that big gorilla, why don't we talk about how to deal with Skull Island Outpost 236, which was just built at a huge cost?"
"Now, it has clearly lost its original value, and I'm afraid we will face double pressure from Congress and the UN General Assembly."
"So I suggest immediately Revocation of that Outpost, and make amends by distributing the personnel and data elsewhere!!"
"No… that Outpost must not be Revocation."
Houston Brooks said with an extremely firm tone: "Because that is an important location for studying Inner Earth."
Alas, with morale low, it's hard to lead the team!
Seeing that no one was willing to discuss topics related to Kong and that super-powered individual.
Houston Brooks had no choice but to skip this part and directly move to the main focus of today's meeting.
He then placed a prepared, tablet-sized holographic projection device on the table.
After activating it, he pointed to the two images related to the surface and Inner Earth projected on it and said, "Now, I'll get straight to the point!"
"Perhaps some of you are still unaware, but my initial intention in establishing an Outpost on Skull Island, besides daily observation of Kong's habits,"
"And inducing him to cooperate with humans, there was also a task previously considered impossible to complete…"
"Exploring the Hollow Earth!!!"