Chapter 868: Bright Stars (Thirteen)
"Asgard? You just said that Asgard's fleet... How could they appear in the solar system? How could... Did they want to..."
General Ross stuttered at the end and felt a cold sweat on his back, but soon, a major came in, saluted the generals, and then said:
"Sir, we just received a call from the Sanctuary. They said that Asgard is patrolling the nine kingdoms, and Midgard Earth, as a member of the nine kingdoms, needs to cooperate..."
"Asgard's warships found that the sanitation situation in the solar system is not optimistic, and urged us to rectify it as soon as possible, There can't be too many space equipment in space, and the transport equipment and spacecraft must be parked neatly..."
"In addition, in order to prevent too many space traffic accidents in the solar system, their frigates are helping us clean up space debris."
"Also, this cleaning service is charged. The United Nations has published the bill for the cleaning service, and other countries have accepted it. Our president is about to sign..."
"Can't sign!!!" The old general immediately shouted: "Why do they...they...we can't...they can't! The president can't sign!!!"
Seeing that he was already a little incoherent, Ross immediately walked up and said: "President Where is Mr. President? Stop him immediately, we can't accept this bill..."
The major was a little embarrassed, he said: "This bill is actually quite cheap, Congress even passed it without a second round of approval."
"Moreover, the Holy Saint said that Asgard's new God King Thor intends to build a new crown, hoping to collect special metals from the nine kingdoms, symbolizing the unity of the nine kingdoms."
"Mr. President believes that this may stimulate the price of vibranium. After all, vibranium is our specialty metal."
"And the United States is the country with the highest stock of vibranium in the world except Wakanda. The price of vibranium has fallen too much, which will cause losses to us. If you can get back a little bit, you can also recover the loss. To this end, Congress wants to fight with Asgard ... "" Moreover, the United Nations said that space garbage is a long -term need to be resolved during the outbreak of human technology. Born! Immortrative, and this is just the beginning. Although the launch failed in the previous two times, the lattering of the simple version of the mother model was not so large. Therefore, everyone could only send it to the third launch for two weeks. On the day of the launch, almost all officers of the Tartu faction came to the launch center. When the rocket took off, everyone's heart was in their throat.
During the flight, there was no collision with space debris. After successfully reaching the target position, there was no sudden appearance of laser weapons. The base was deployed very smoothly, and cheers resounded throughout the launch center.
Then, they saw a small dot, approaching the base from far to near. Compared with the huge Hongmenlan base, the figure seemed extremely small, but it was still captured.
"Is there an intruder? ! ! Quick! Quick! Quickly start the defense equipment! Isn't it equipped with weapons? ! !!"
"Quickly start the weapons! Quickly start the weapons! Don't let him get close to the base!!!"
The general and the researchers shouted, but the researcher in charge of the operation wiped the sweat from his head and said: "No! The base has just been deployed, and the energy has not yet been fully connected to the defense equipment. The energy is being transmitted. It is currently 13%, and it will be transmitted in three minutes..."
The figure stood far away, just a small black dot in the camera, and it was completely unclear who it was, and it didn't look big.
He didn't crush the base as soon as he showed up like Magneto did, which made everyone think that he would definitely not attack the base so quickly.
Who knows, the figure seemed to turn around in place, and then threw out something, and everyone in the launch center saw that a circle of light came from far to near, at an extremely fast speed, with unmatched power, "whoosh" across the camera, and then accurately hit the energy core of the base,
When the gorgeous fireworks appeared on the screen again, the generals still didn't know the name of the circle of light they saw that day, but the light of the fireworks shone on their faces, much brighter than the sunset in New York.
The light lit up again, and they had never seen the stars in this universe so clearly.
It was still a peaceful day on Earth, and almost no one knew the story that happened in space, but almost all of New York heard the heartbreaking voices of some people.
The next day, the meeting room at the military base was dead silent. Not only was everyone silent, but more than half of the people were gone. Most of the people who left went to explain the incident to their superiors, and the rest went to the hospital.
This incident did not contribute to the military's grand plan, but it made a huge contribution to the promotion of other young officers waiting for promotion.
In the silent atmosphere, Ross was the first to speak: "The plan cannot end like this, otherwise we will lose more..."
Another officer gritted his teeth and hammered the table, saying "There must be a conspiracy, someone is hindering us!!"
"Where is the aperture from yesterday? Didn't anyone send someone to recover it?" asked another general, and the general next to him shook his head and said: "We went there, and we also found Stark to retrieve the surveillance of the Mercury base, and the aperture disappeared out of thin air..."
"What do you mean?"
"It means literally. In the surveillance, the aperture that detonated the Red Gate Lan base disappeared in an instant. No trajectory was captured, and no one knows where it went."
"Moreover, according to the analysis report given by Stark, the light scattered by the aperture does not conform to the optical properties of our dimension. It is very likely left by a high-dimensional visitor."
"But who can collude with the United Nations, Asgard and the so-called high-dimensional visitors? If he has this ability, why doesn't he just destroy our transporter and cause so many accidents?" A young officer asked in confusion.
"That's the problem." Another officer tapped the table with his fingers and said, "If there is really someone targeting us in secret, then since he has the ability to mobilize other countries to launch space junk, can connect with Asgard, and even contact some so-called high-dimensional visitors, why doesn't he just let Asgard use warship weapons to smash all our rockets?"
Ross shook his head. He couldn't figure this out. Logically, if someone didn't want them to complete this plan, such as mutants, then they could just send Magneto up and crush the base. Why do they have so many routines? What's the point of this except wasting time and energy?
Ross himself knew that the military's launch vehicle transporters and equipment were basically unguarded, because they had been developed for too long. Even if they were guarded, they couldn't stop the current weapons, let alone Magneto, a powerful mutant who was out of specification.
Moreover, if the mutants knew about this plan, they would definitely not be as quiet as they are now.
Several times before, when they were chased by the Sentinel robots, they made a big fuss, and they wanted to let the whole world know that they were victims.
This time, the military threatened their fundamental interests. If they knew, not to mention others, Wolverine alone would definitely rush around and ask for an explanation.
Ross himself knew that although the mutants seemed to be divided, they actually had their own division of labor. Magneto and Professor X, one played the good cop and the other played the bad cop. Wolverine seemed reckless, but in fact, he was also a bargaining chip for the mutants to negotiate.
Among the female mutants, relatively mild mutants like Phantom will play the role of a victim and cry on TV, while more radical ones like Storm will give speeches everywhere, run their own media accounts, and express their own views.
If they knew the military's plan, it would definitely be a big fuss. In addition to the members of the X-Men who would fire, the Brotherhood of Mutants would definitely set fire all over the world, and Magneto would not be idle. He has threatened the president before.
But now, there is nothing. All students of Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters attend classes normally, the Brotherhood of Mutants is quiet, Magneto is still in the Andromeda Galaxy, and even his daughter Polaris is missing. It doesn't look like their survival is threatened at all.
Apart from this, Ross really can't think of anyone else who would be their enemy.
As for Stark, he has never been seen making friends with mutants, and judging from his personality, if he wants to oppose something, he will definitely go to Congress and make a lot of noise, and maybe even hold a few press conferences. He won't go into the laboratory like he is now and not even answer the phone.
Asgard and the Sanctum Sanctorum are even more irrelevant. These two are transcendental organizations. Other countries on Earth have no need for this at all.
Eastern countries only care about their own mutants, and they handle this issue very cleverly. They don't worry about it at all, so they never express their views on this internationally, and they won't jump out to do such things when they are busy competing in technology.
After thinking about it, the military only thought of one possibility, that is S.H.I.E.L.D.
Nick Fury, the director of SHIELD, cursed loudly in the previous secret meeting, expressing a very strong opposition attitude, which was very rare, and he spoke righteously, and no one could persuade him.
Just when everyone looked at each other and realized that the other party was thinking of the same person, the conference phone in the middle of the table rang. Ross reached out and pressed the button, and Nick's voice came from it:
"Oh, oh, oh... Look at what I see, it seems that someone's spaceship exploded?"
"What, did you really launch your own mother into the sun? That's a pity, she doesn't even have a grave. Aunt Susan next door can't hide the fact that you are her illegitimate children?"
"I told you a long time ago that you will not succeed!!! Just like this!! Sooner or later!! You and your own mother will be launched into the sun and exploded!! No bones left!! "
"This is the consequence of your stupid decision!! Don't even think about letting SHIELD clean up your ass!! "
With all kinds of words that need to be silenced gushing out of Nick's mouth, all the generals' faces became darker and darker.
Not only that, Nick also reported this to Congress the next day.
Although Congress had acquiesced to this before, the premise is that you have to succeed. If you succeed, nothing will happen, and if you fail, military funds will be embezzled.
In addition, the military had promised many anti-mutant organizations before that they would succeed, and those forces and organizations also put a lot of pressure on them.
Nick was so firm and high-profile that the military unwaveringly placed the suspect on him.
After all, SHIELD and the military have always been in a competitive relationship. The military cheated SHIELD last time, and SHIELD has been trying to get back at them. Nick does have sufficient motives to commit the crime.
At the same time, he also has the means to commit the crime. After all, SHIELD is also a transcendent organization, and it is easy to bribe a country to launch space junk.
Nick even contacted the God King Odin personally, and received the foster care of Thor and Loki. It is not surprising that he can ask Asgard for help. As for the so-called high-dimensional visitors, only SHIELD can have such a strange person.
The motives and methods are confirmed, and SHIELD's suspicion has become infinite. In the eyes of the military, this is completely a trap set by SHIELD, and it is very likely a trap that spans five years, just to completely drag down the Tartu faction.
The military's vigilance against Nick Fury has reached the highest level, and at the same time, it has officially torn its face with SHIELD.
In order to pass the buck and relieve the pressure, the lawsuit was brought to Congress and even to the newspapers. Although the specific reason was not stated, almost everyone knew that the two parties had almost become mortal enemies.
The military made such a big fuss because they were holding the mentality of "I have lost all my pants, so don't think you can feel good either", putting pressure on SHIELD and wanting them to help clean up their mess.
The military spokesman stood in the media and blasted the director of SHIELD for inaction, the Tartu faction joined several other factions and congressmen to put pressure on SHIELD, and many countries in the United Nations denounced Nick Fury for being idle...
Newspapers flew out from all over the country and landed on Schiller's desk.
And on the front page of the last newspaper, Nick's face was clearly printed, and the title was written in bold black font-
"Yesterday, gunshots were heard in Congress, and SHIELD Director Nick Fury was assassinated and died on the spot."
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