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Chapter 736: Chapter 736: S.H.I.E.L.D. Is a Step Too Late

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In the Thirteenth District of the Pine Barrens in New Jersey stood a secret base that had been decommissioned and sealed off.

Today, however, it once again welcomed the people who had once been stationed there.

Barbara Morse, who had risen to the rank of Level Five S.H.I.E.L.D. agent in just a few years, was the last to arrive.

Before her, several... bizarre monsters were already sitting in the conference room, along with a silver-haired old woman who, despite her advanced age, still looked remarkably spry.

Among those whose features could be clearly identified were a mummy wrapped from head to toe in bandages, a hairy werewolf, an amphibious humanoid with obvious fins, a monkey wearing a suit, and an octopus-headed monster that was barely humanoid, its body covered in flowers and vines.

There was also a relatively normal-looking man and woman, though both had faces as pale as people who had gotten completely wasted on drugs, with extremely prominent dark circles under their eyes.

Most of them were playing around with the ultraviolet rounds on the table.

Some loaded them into the specialized magazines for the firearms they were accustomed to using. Others simply examined the visible radiation glow emanating from the bullets.

Only the young woman looked at the weapons with disgust.

She was a particularly unusual individual. She carried a bloodline cursed by werewolves and had also been attacked by a vampire, becoming a unique hybrid who was both werewolf and vampire.

She could walk normally under sunlight.

But once night fell, the dual curses altered her physiology, giving her both vampiric and werewolf traits. She became incredibly strong and bloodthirsty while also gaining immunity to most of their respective weaknesses.

During a full moon, she would instead transform into a white wolf in animal form rather than a humanoid werewolf, with her behavior controlled by her primal instincts.

Her name was Nina Price, codenamed Vampire by Night.

Unlike the Reapers they had gathered to deal with this time, Reapers were almost completely immune to things such as garlic extract and silver. They only feared sunlight and intense ultraviolet radiation.

Vampire by Night, on the other hand, only feared silver and was unaffected by sunlight.

Even if ultraviolet light was shone on her at night, it would merely weaken her abilities rather than cause fatal injuries.

So, theoretically, ultraviolet rounds weren’t lethal to her either.

That didn’t mean she had any interest in taking a bullet just to see whether she would actually survive.

That was why she looked so disgusted.

When Barbara Morse entered the room, Vampire by Night could finally put aside her disgust and shift her attention elsewhere.

What she heard, however, was an apology.

”Sorry for notifying everyone so late. The mission has been canceled. I only received the message just now, and I came over immediately.”

The silver-haired old woman, former S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Peggy Carter, looked puzzled.

Sitting upright in her chair, she asked, ”What happened? Why was the mission canceled? It took me a great deal of effort to gather the surviving members of the disbanded Howling Commandos. Did those new vampires cause such a major incident that the government is preparing to deploy the military?”

”No, Director Carter. The new vampires in New York have already been eliminated.”

Although she had retired, the former director still retained access to some intelligence. She frowned as she recalled the situation.

”If I remember correctly, yesterday was the day the Continental Hotel planned to raid the sewers, with the NYPD secretly providing support.

”But according to our assessment, we believed the Continental’s attack would fail, even if they had prepared sufficient ultraviolet ammunition.

”Are you saying they won?”

Barbara Morse handed the old woman the first-hand report, which hadn’t even been copied yet, and explained:

”According to intelligence from our assets, a third party intervened and joined forces against the new vampires in the New York sewers.

”The Continental Hotel also requested assistance from the High Table. They sent secret members of the Assassin Brotherhood, including an Elder.

”This force, which we have no control over, was the key to eliminating the vampires in the New York sewers.”