Chapter 1,298: Dropping the Ball (Please Give Me a Monthly Ticket!! Please Recommend!!! Please Subscribe!!!)
"I really don't know whether to say you are lucky or unlucky. Tony looked at the people who survived the disaster, and then teased Benjamin.
Benjamin's originally excited mood also subsided after hearing this: "I don't know either."
Damn, he himself felt as if he was cursed by something, and always encountered these crappy things. The White House has never been breached since the British, and that time it was because the entire United States could not fight, and was directly attacked in the hometown, but when he was president, the United States was still the world's number one!
The result?
Even the hometown was breached like this... I don't know what to say.
"But I know that my approval rating will rise again. "Benjamin quickly calmed down.
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It's true that he has bad luck. But he can always turn danger into safety! Although it's embarrassing this time, it's definitely not him as the president who is embarrassed. After all, if someone breaks into the White House, what can a capable president do?
Is he going to turn into Rambo?
Nonsense?
"I'm not sure." Tony said with a smirk at this time.
"Why?"
"There's a guy out there who is more popular than you now." Benjamin was a little surprised. He was even overshadowed by someone else? Isn't that right?
"That guy named Exxon...what does he do?" Tony suddenly forgot what that guy did.
I've said that Exxon has always been a nobody before.
"Exxon...Speaker of the House of Representatives." Benjamin said, "What did he do?"
"He was pushed to the presidency by a group of people, and they said that they would never compromise. As a result, in less than an hour, his only son was blown up into the sky. "Tony said gloatingly.
"Ahem..." Kai coughed twice: "Watch your words, don't be so mean."
"Okay... my bad." Although Tony hated it, he didn't know that he really didn't understand anything. "He is really miserable, making me want to vote for him."
"Exxon." Benjamin's eyes flickered.
As a politician, Benjamin doesn't care whether Exxon's son dies or not. Other people's children die all the time. He doesn't have to help Exxon feel sad. He is evaluating the consequences of this matter. Americans like a strong leader, even if it's fake.
This is very strange. Obviously, Americans advocate small government, but they want a strong leader... Don't talk about dictatorship or anything like that. Roosevelt was elected president for four terms, and Hoover was the director of the FBI for decades, almost turning the FBI into a country within a country.
Following the strong has always been a human The nature of the species, in fact, most mammals are like this.
Benjamin felt like he had shot himself in the foot.
He chose Exxon as the Speaker of the House of Representatives, just to give in, and the other party was just a good guy, a little transparent. There would be no threat to him.
But now it is different. Exxon has a strong political reputation and is also an opposition party, which makes it difficult to deal with.
At this time, the outside began to make a commotion.
"President, outside..."
Benjamin waved his hand: "Let them in, and don't let the reporters in yet. We need to unify our opinions before we announce it to the public."
There are so many things here now, and many things need to be discussed with all parties before they can face the public.
So he urgently needs to meet with people outside.
"Kai... Although it's a bit too much, I hope you can stay with me for a while."
Benjamin was still a little scared, so he wanted Kai to be his bodyguard temporarily.
"I'm afraid... there is a problem. There is a mess in the Arctic, and I still need to go there." Kai refused directly: "In fact, you should thank the mess in the Arctic, otherwise I really didn't know what happened for a while. Really, I was away for only one day, and the Earth became like this."
"North Pole..." Benjamin just remembered that there was a mess in the Arctic. "Is it so serious there? Even Asgard knows about it?"
"Yeah."
Benjamin actually wanted to ask what they were doing in Asgard, but the people outside had already come in.
"Can you wait a little bit? After all, SHIELD has sent elites to deal with it. It shouldn't be urgent, right?"
Kai thought for a while: "Okay, but you know I don't like those things, so I will leave as soon as possible."
"That's no problem! ”
Anyway, he just needs Kai to show up, so that the public will think that Kai will show up because of him.
At this time, Kai's relationship is very important.
A president who is not liked by superheroes will have a hard time getting by in this era.
This is reality.
Kai actually knows that Benjamin is using him.
But so what?
At least he is familiar with Benjamin. Although this guy may not be able to give Kai much support, he will definitely not be a drag.
If a guy who doesn't make sense comes up, it will be a headache.
But the accident still happened.
Just when Exxon and a group of federal high-level officials were planning to have a victory meeting with Benjamin, Kai suddenly blocked Benjamin.
"Tony!"
Tony was still a little confused about the situation.
"There's something wrong with this guy!"
Tony then thought of the Skrulls! Could this guy also be a shapeshifter?
A group of people were confused. What's going on?
Especially the few people who supported Exxon, they thought this was Benjamin's conspiracy!
But just as he was about to make a noise, the next second, Tony's mecha projected a beam of light on Exxon.
"Huh? This guy is human... but..." Tony hadn't finished speaking yet, Exxon suddenly held Admiral Craig hostage with a skill that was absolutely impossible for a 60-70 year old man: "Stop it!"
Now even the dumbest person knew that Exxon had a problem.
Tony and Craig knew each other. In fact, the military has always been the place where Stark Group has the most connections.
So Tony didn't dare to act rashly. He just asked curiously: "Kai, how do you know that this guy has a problem?"
"Metaphysics!" Kai said deliberately.
"Tsk!" Tony still didn't believe in those metaphysics, and only thought that it was technology that human technology could not explain!
In fact, Kai really did it because of metaphysics. After all, the vitality of a 70-year-old man was even stronger than Tony. This must be a problem.
Just when Kai was about to ask who this guy was and what he was up to, Heimdall's voice came to his ears.
Tony was about to say something, but Kai raised his arm to shut him up.
"What's going on?"
It seemed to others that Kai suddenly started talking to himself.
"What?!!!" Suddenly Kai's face changed drastically, and he was even a little angry: "What are they doing? ! ! So many people went there, but they couldn't deal with a small cobra?? What do they do for a living?"
"Okay! I'll go there right away."
Tony hurriedly said at this time: "What's going on?"
"According to Heimdall's news, SHIELD seems to have failed again."
"Fuck!!!" Tony knew how difficult the situation over there was. Once it broke out... "If we had known earlier, we would have gone there first!"
Benjamin was confused... Damn, I'm still here!
Even if what you said is right... you still have to hide something from someone!
"What should we do here now?" Benjamin asked.
He pointed to Admiral Craig who was held hostage. He was his old friend. By the way, he and Kai also had a good relationship.
"Tsk..." Kai said unhappily: "Edward, you... you should exercise more. Twenty years ago, not even ten years ago, you wouldn't be so easily controlled."
General Craig was not panicked at all. As he said just now, he and Kai were old friends. What's the matter, Kai couldn't just watch him die, right?
"No way, I'm old. And these bastards kept me busy all day, and I didn't even have time to eat!"
"Shut up! I..." Zatan was so angry when he saw a group of people ignoring him like this. He was a performative personality and liked to be the focus. Being ignored was the biggest humiliation. But the next second, he found that Kai appeared beside him, holding a silver revolver and pointing at his temple.
He just wanted to make a move, and heard a gunshot.
Bang!
Snap!
The body fell to the ground.
"Look, it's solved."
As Zatan fell to the ground, the nanorobots on his face also lost their energy and peeled off his face.
"You guys take care of the rest. We don't have time. That's it."
After saying that, he turned around and walked towards the lawn outside the White House gate.
Tony hurried to catch up.
The rest of the group looked at each other in bewilderment.
"Heimdall! Send us there!!!"
Boom!
A rainbow of seven colors descended, and in full view of everyone, Tony and Kai were teleported away!
"Heimdall... is it the one I imagined?" Benjamin turned his head and asked Banning.
Banning also looked out the window: "Probably."
"Okay..." Benjamin was very calm, and even had a little bit of joy in his heart: "Everyone, tell me, how to solve it?"
Craig touched his neck: "It seems that all this is related to Exxon. Sorry, Mr. President. We seem to have fallen into the trap of these bastards!"
"Don't be sorry, Craig, everything you do is strictly in accordance with the Constitution, you have done enough." Benjamin naturally couldn't get angry about this matter, even if he was really uncomfortable, but as a mature politician, figuring out the main contradiction is the most important thing to do, as for this discomfort, it has no effect at all. So he not only showed generosity, but also praised them loudly for doing well and doing the right thing!
From this point of view, being a politician is sometimes quite frustrating.
"Also, this is not Exxon, but a villain pretending to be Exxon. I think so many of you should be able to give me a reasonable explanation of his identity and purpose, so this can be put aside for later. The question now is how should we explain it to the public!" Benjamin looked at others: "Should we let others know that our American high-level officials have been infiltrated by the enemy? The public will not be able to distinguish these, they will only think we are incompetent!"
This is very important!
No one wants to be evaluated as incompetent.
"Or, just say that Exxon is in poor health? Then arrange for him to die of illness?"
This is what McMillan said.
"It is indeed feasible!" Lynn Jobs said: "Before, when he gave a TV speech, his mood and body were not very good."
In order to pretend to be more like it, Zatan spent a lot of effort.
He wants to create a tragic hero.
"That's good." Benjamin looked at the intelligence personnel present: "You can do it, right? A perfect lie, I don't like to hear any negative news about this matter! Even unreliable speculation is not allowed!"
The people of the Elephant Party nodded vigorously. This matter has a greater impact on them. At this time, the president is willing to give them a chance to clean up the mess, and they are eager to do so.
"Okay, I need a speech. Who can help me now?" Few presidents write their own speeches.
The members of the White House staff immediately stood up: "Please give us some time, very soon!"
"Okay... By the way, is there any wine in the White House wine cellar? I hope those bastards didn't destroy those things. We urgently need a glass to relieve the fatigue of the next day. Today is bad enough, we have to let us breathe a sigh of relief."
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Adjust the time a little further.
The North Pole, Cobra Base.
The crowd cleaned up the Cobra Base at a speed of less than five minutes per floor!
What made Steve feel helpless was that he felt that he was the **. Those SHIELD Avengers are more brutal than each other. To vent their anger, they killed crazily. They killed everyone, whether they surrendered or not!
They didn't intend to leave anyone alive!
This is even more cruel than **!
Steve tried to stop it, but the superiors kept urging him not to care about those trivial matters and complete the task as soon as possible.
Compared with billions of people and Cobra's terrorists, Steve naturally knew what to choose.
He is not a saint, and a saint would not have created such a big name on the battlefield of World War II. Half of his reputation was indeed promoted by the US government, but even if it was promoted, it needed real evidence! The other half of his reputation was indeed earned on the battlefield!
So even if he was not feeling well, he quickly adjusted himself.
Soon they killed their way to the core of the base.
Through the door of the stairwell, he heard fierce gunfire outside and explosions every few seconds.
After opening the door of the stairwell and looking out, Steve was surprised to see Hawkeye and an Avenger member being suppressed in a corner by a large number of armed personnel using strange pulse weapons not far from him.
Looking at the enemies gathered in an open space 50 meters to his right, Steve pressed the communicator and said with a smile: "Man, your performance is not good!"
Hawkeye's bow and arrows were running out, and he said unhappily, "The pulse weapons in these guys' hands are very powerful, and those people are not afraid of death at all. Captain, if you want to help, hurry up..."
Steve was stunned for a moment, and looked at the Cobra armed personnel who gathered together with grim expressions. These people looked very elite, because even if Hawkeye and his men shot off some parts of their bodies, they could not stop the attacks of these lunatics. Steve saw with his own eyes that Hawkeye shot an unlucky guy in the shoulder with an arrow, and the violent explosion tore the guy's entire shoulder and a small part of his chest. But this guy seemed to feel no pain, and he was completely indifferent to his exposed pink lungs, which made Steve, who was used to seeing killing, feel a chill on his back.
This was definitely not something that an elite could explain, no one could remain indifferent to such injuries!
"Well, it seems that we have touched their sore spot! Guys! We need support here!!! Hulk!!! Come here!"
Hawkeye heard it and immediately ran to the side with his companions.
"Hulk!!!"
A loud roar shook the floor of the base, and then a huge green muscle fell directly from the ceiling!
The strong momentum "exploded" the door of the stairwell. The sudden attack made those people stunned for half a second, and when they wanted to turn the muzzle, it was too late.