Chapter 2223: Battle of Two Cities! (Sixty-Five)

Nick was as angry as a bull, pacing in front of the table. Coulson, Hill, and even Grant Ward stood opposite him. The last one became their own because he had just experienced an extremely bad battle.

It’s not that Hydra has no ideals. Although most of them are looking for a class, who would not want the opportunity to get rich by their own efforts?

But the cruel reality gave them a blow. Beating owls is eating meat, but fighting the demon-like army of Apocalypse must shed blood.

Before they could react, the more ambitious Hydra leaders from Europe sent them to the battlefield. They suddenly found that they were still cannon fodder, but it was too late.

But at this time, they could at least convince themselves that the city was blocked and they couldn’t run away anyway. Fighting was also for themselves. After all, these monsters would not give them the opportunity to surrender.

But as the saying goes, one incompetent general will tire out thousands of troops. If these Germans could fight, how could the mustache die so miserably?

The German Hydras, including Red Skull, are the personal soldiers of the mustache. They are more like the Gestapo than the army. They have no quality to fight a direct war.

Just because they have a bunch of German equipment, the official name of SHIELD, and the preemptive strike, they can still fight back and forth with the private armed Owl Court of a city, which is enough to show how low their war literacy is.

A person can be bad or stupid, but not bad and stupid. After the arrival of the alien army, they knew that they could not win, so it would be a good choice to announce that they would retreat or return to the identity of SHIELD.

But they are greedy for the equipment and weapons of the aliens, thinking that there may be a wider world where they come, so they began to send Hydra to die - in the name of loyalty to Hydra.

Grant Ward is one of them, because he is a very typical Hydra. After being brainwashed, he is loyal to the doctrine and will spontaneously supervise others to maintain their loyalty.

They were sent to the battlefield without even knowing who their enemies were. Unfortunately, loyalty and fanaticism were useless in this war. Unlike human soldiers, the demons were ugly, terrifying and endless, which made people feel that all the sacrifices they made were meaningless.

The fighting spirit of Ward's combat team did not last for more than three minutes. They were slaughtered mercilessly and tragically. Those who gave them orders had the opportunity to evacuate them, but they did not do so because they did not care about these cannon fodders used to explore the way.

After facing such a tragic reality, it is impossible for anyone to remain loyal. The first thing Ward did after surviving was to find Nick Fury.

Things have developed to this point, and it is impossible without the connivance of the director of SHIELD. Ward has no hope that Nick is not Hydra. He just thinks that Nick should not be the same as those Germans, and the director of SHIELD should be much better than those bad and stupid NAZI remnants.

Nick was really angry now. He did acquiesce to the arrival of the snakeheads, because in his opinion, it was a wiser choice to grab the whole cake first and then talk about dividing the cake. But he didn't expect that a bigger cake would fall from the sky, which directly knocked everyone dizzy.

Despite this, the poor performance of this group of stupid Germans still exceeded his expectations. It would be fine if they fought back and forth with the Court of Owls, because they had enough time to bite off every piece of meat from this group of fat chickens, but it would not be the case if they joined the alien army.

The snakeheads who came from afar have already ruined most of the strategic opportunities because of their stupidity and selfishness, and now Nick is left with a lot of messes.

Queens has been completely turned into a mess, but fortunately they have not yet completely controlled the area across the river. Nick put his hands on the table, pointed to a point on the map and said: "Deploy defense in the Bronx first, don't worry about the stupid owls, we must do our best to stop the aliens on the other side of the river, otherwise we will lose all strategic space."

Hill frowned and looked at the dense red dots on the map. She shook her head and said: "I think this alien invasion is different from the past. They have a purpose."

"What are they looking for? What could it be?" Nick thought.

Behind the few people, outside the huge French windows of the conference hall, a thick black smoke column suddenly rose on the skyline, and then turned into a huge black whirlwind, until the nearby sky was dyed black.

Nick turned around suddenly, and several people rushed to the French windows together. Nick stared at the rapidly spreading darkness with wide eyes in shock.

"What the hell is that?!!!"

"Nick! Nick!" Natasha's loud roar came from the communicator: "Did you see that?! What the hell is that?!"

Nick squeezed the communicator hard, staring at the distance without blinking and said: "I don't know, but we have to find a way to figure it out. I hope it's not another group of aliens."

It was indeed not another group of aliens, because the spreading black whirlwind soon revealed its true face. It was one after another pitch-black owls, spreading their huge wings and flying over the sky above the stars, stretching out their sharp claws to tear apart every living thing they saw.

More claws came out with the dark owls, they were almost endless, as if all the killers created by the Court of Owls in the previous three centuries were alive and rushed into the city with a fearless attitude. The sky and the earth were surging with darkness, and the momentum was even comparable to the demon-like army of Apocalypse.

The army of Apocalypse also noticed this soon, but it was not good news for the torturer who was still dealing with the Joker, because this madman began to become even crazier.

"It's them, it's them..." The Joker muttered in his mouth, his eyes widened, as if he wanted to spit his eyeballs out of his eye sockets, and he kept struggling on the interrogation chair, stomping his feet and leaning forward, trying to hit the table in front of him with his head.

Immediately, a mechanical soldier came over and tried to hold him down, but no one knew where he got so much strength, and he even knocked over a chair under the grip of two mechanical soldiers.

"This doesn't make sense." The Apocalypse doctor standing in another compartment said: "In the preparatory stage of brain wave access, we have adjusted his brain waves to the calmest level. He shouldn't have such a strong excited reaction."

"You just need to tell me the solution." The torturer was almost losing patience.

"I'm afraid he needs some sedation."

The doctor immediately went out and started to operate. They took a syringe, poured a unique medicine into it and injected it into the clown's body, but it took three injections before the madman finally calmed down a little.

The torturer was finally ready to go to his brain to find out. When the brain wave access device was connected, he only saw a void of darkness.

His consciousness was not in his body. The torturer immediately realized this, and then he sank into the clown's subconscious and found a hole there.

The torturer had no choice. He wondered if the Joker had gone to find Batman. Darkseid had revealed that there was an inexplicable connection between them, and they would always get together.

Their great king seemed to believe this very much, and even cared more about the Joker's torture than the search in the new city. This also put the torturer under great pressure, and made him connect all the Joker's actions with Batman.

If he could find Batman by following the Joker's trail, it would be great. Even if he couldn't, he could always withdraw and think of other ways.

The torturer chose to jump.

He had never had such an experience. After a long period of unconsciousness, he found himself in a new world. Of course, at this time he didn't know that this was called the dream world, but he could see that the madman ran very fast and had no time to clean up the traces left behind.

The torturer used special equipment to track the Joker all the way, running in this illusory and mysterious world, until he found an exit above where the trace disappeared, and the Joker seemed to have run out from there.

Could it be Batman above? The torturer didn't know, but he decided to go up and take a look.

So where did the Joker go?

The answer is still the owl. Above the cave is the spiritual world of the Pelican Priest, and the Joker found the owl.

But in fact, what he found was not the owl, but the dark energy summoned by the owl and descended on them.

The Joker came to the new city to investigate one thing, that is, his own confusion.

For a long time before, the Joker always felt that some of his memories were unreliable, as if someone was manipulating everything and constantly turning the pointer back to the same position.

And from his own problems, the Joker realized that Batman might also face the same problem. They are always like this, like looking in the mirror.

Compared with what happened to himself, the Joker is more concerned about what happened to Batman. After previous investigations, he guessed that there was a mysterious dark force that was tempting Batman to fall. If he was so closely connected with Batman, then this force might also be changing himself at the same time.

Owls, yes, owls. The Joker has long known about the existence of the Court of Owls. This wave of war only shoveled them out of the ground, but the Joker's genius inspiration made him know that the owls were not enough to control Batman. They were just holding the string of the puppet.

So where did the hand that really held the string come from? Who was holding the salt shaker and turned Gotham Batman and the Joker into what they are now?

After the dark power in the city broke out, the Joker immediately realized that the person behind the manipulation had revealed his feet, so he immediately became excited and crazy, and entered the dream world with the help of the tranquilizer injected by the torturer, and found the owl through the dream world.

The moment he came to the spiritual world of the owl, he felt that something had descended. In the spiritual world of the Pelican Priest, a channel was opened, and something huge paid attention to it.

The huge darkness only glanced over here, but the clown jumped into the door without thinking.

Then, in the endless darkness, he saw the giant dragon lurking in the darkness.