Chapter 3441: Midnight Sons (End)

In the S. H. I. E. L. D. office, Seeing Natasha sat on the sofa with her arms crossed, watching the TV program playing on the screen. The signal came from the capital of a certain big country in the far east.

Others were watching English subtitles, only Seeing Natasha could understand Chinese. After listening for a long time, she scratched her head and said: "What's going on? Why does China feel that the disappearance of the moon was done by Roxxon?"

"That's not right." Hill narrowed her eyes and said, "Didn't their lunar rover already capture Moon Knight? At this time, they should either find S. H. I. E. L. D. or find the Avengers. What does Moon Knight have to do with Roxxon?"

"Wait a minute." Seeing Natasha suddenly said, "Before, didn't you say Dario reported to the police, accusing Schiller of mutant ability losing control, bombing him and his building?"

"Yes, didn't we already discuss this matter before?" Coulson said, "This guy actually wanted to detain Schiller, it's simply a daydream."

"But the police didn't catch Schiller." Seeing Natasha said, "Then the moon disappeared."

Coulson didn't react for a while, not knowing what connection these two things had. Hill, however, revealed a sudden realization expression: "Schiller is Moon Knight. Ordinary people don't know, but Congress knows, so that side definitely knows too."

"Roxxon sent police to catch Moon Knight, Moon Knight accidentally made the moon disappear in the process of resisting, then wouldn't that be Roxxon's fault?"

"This also works?" Coulson said with some disbelief, "This is too far-fetched, right? Even if it's because Moon Knight resisted that the moon disappeared, you can't say Roxxon reporting to the police is wrong."

"You forgot, Roxxon doesn't just make trouble in the United States." Seeing Natasha said the key point, "They won't swallow their anger. Just worrying about not finding a huge black pot to buckle on Roxxon, Moon Knight gave them such an opportunity."

"But this can't convince the public either, right?" Coulson thought for a while and said, "There is no direct evidence to indicate that Roxxon caused the moon to disappear. How is this public opinion war going to be fought?"

"Perhaps we will know in a while." Seeing Natasha seemed to have thought of something, revealing a strange smile.

Coulson's phone suddenly rang. He took it out of his pocket, looked at it, and said: "Boss wants us to watch TikTok."

Seeing Natasha, Hill, and Carter also took out their phones. They didn't need to search at all; the first video brushed out was the mysterious person in a silver-white cloak holding a long staff standing on the desolate lunar surface, taking a selfie with his phone. 【3441-1

"Hello everyone, I am Moon Knight. I am very sorry for all the impact I have caused and the panic I have brought to everyone. But please let me explain; there is a reason for all of this."

"I believe some people may have heard my name, but haven't seen me appear for a long time. This is actually because, a few years ago, I discovered a shocking secret..."

"... Just like that, I uncovered the conspiracy of the Roxxon Corporation to collect user privacy data on a massive scale and sell it to aliens. In order to protect the privacy and safety of the public, I had to risk blowing up Roxxon's information storage center in Oregon..."

"This action completely angered Dario Agger. He sent people to chase me like crazy, and in order to protect myself, I fought with them several times and accidentally destroyed the Roxxon Energy Industrial Building..."

"That very night, they almost pushed me into a desperate situation. I had to use the power of the moon, which caused the moonlight to disappear. I am very sorry for all of this, but if you knew about Roxxon Corporation's conspiracy, you would also make the same choice as I did..."

Immediately after, a large pile of photos appeared in the video. Seeing Natasha quickly took screenshots and zoomed in, discovering that it should be the backend server data of Roxxon Corporation.

Roxxon Energy Co., Ltd. is an energy company whose main business is crude oil processing and sales; it also has some chemical industry operations, but it mainly sells gasoline.

In the United States, you can pay for gas with cash, but you can also use a credit card. Most gas stations encourage the use of credit cards; if you use a card, you can get some discounts and small gifts, so many ordinary people choose to swipe their cards for gas.

Credit cards carry a lot of personal information, including where a person lives, where they are often active, their economic status, their consumption credit, etc.

In recent years, credit card security incidents have become increasingly rampant; you can hardly find any European or American who hasn't had their credit card stolen. In addition to causing financial losses, personal information is also frequently leaked.

Previously, many bloggers posted articles claiming that they were approached by some fans because of credit card information leaks, and some even had various dangerous goods sent to them following their credit card addresses.

The issue of credit card security has always been a hot topic of discussion among the public. Many people have posted videos saying they have encountered credit card fraud and theft, and others have posted videos wondering how their information became known to some scam companies. At the time, some people explained in the comments that it might be a credit card information leak, but they didn't know when their credit card information was leaked.

Now the truth is finally out—it turns out it was leaked when swiping the card for gas at the gas station.

The backend data released by Moon Knight shows that all credit card swiping machines at more than 20,000 gas stations under Roxxon Energy Co., Ltd. are using backdoor programs to intercept users' credit card information, send it to the Oregon information storage center, and then sell it all over the world.

The United States is a severely affected area because the per capita mileage of Americans is several times that of other countries, and the oil used is also several times more, so the total number and frequency of going to get gas are naturally several times higher.

Although most cards have their information stolen after being swiped once, the credit card culture in the United States is also quite popular; one person has more than one card, perhaps using this card at the beginning of the month and that card at the end of the month, and they don't necessarily use the same card when getting gas. After going many times, all credit card information is stolen.

In the universe, you can locate your position by the positions of a few stars; on Earth, you can also almost perfectly infer someone's life trajectory and private information through the information displayed on a few credit cards; this is the cross-positioning method.

The more you swipe, the more is leaked, and the more precise the positioning is; so how could you not be subjected to theft and fraud?

Seeing Natasha started to get a headache for Roxxon Corporation just by looking at this data; if this is confirmed, the company is completely finished.

Not to mention, Moon Knight also said that Roxxon Corporation sold this data to aliens.

The United States has always believed in various conspiracy theories about aliens, and there are plenty of people who claim to have been kidnapped by aliens for experiments, and many people just love to believe these people.

Now it's even better; there will be more people kidnapped by aliens in the future, and if you ask, it's "My credit card data was leaked to aliens by Roxxon Corporation, which led to me being caught."

"That's not right, Dario should have woken up by now, right?" Seeing Natasha turned to ask Coulson, then pointed to her phone and said, "How could he allow this video to spread?"

"Did you forget which country TikTok belongs to?"

Seeing Natasha suddenly realized.

No wonder the video was pushed to her face as soon as she opened the software; it turns out someone was helping in the background.

And obviously, this video wasn't just pushed to Seeing Natasha's face alone. In the brightly lit company buildings, on the shuttle platforms, and on the park walkways, everyone holding a phone and opening the short video software saw this video.

Schiller stood in front of the window of the S. H. I. E. L. D. office and said to Charles, who appeared in the reflection of the glass window, "Sorry to trouble you."

Charles smiled at him and said, "Using the spread of short videos for counter-brainwashing is fast and covert; it's me who should be learning from you."

In Eddie's studio, he stretched, looked at the figure of Moon Knight in the editing software on the screen, rubbed his sore neck, and looked at a hidden audio track inserted under the original audio track.

Clicking on the video and listening carefully, there is some strange noise in the background of Moon Knight's speech, but the shooting background is on the moon, and logically speaking, it is impossible to have other sounds.

These sounds are actually the communication frequency bands mixed into the Andromeda Galaxy communication center.

Simply put, after an ordinary person's brainwaves receive the frequency band, they can partially connect to Professor X's mental world, and then the automatic program set by Professor X will search within their brainwaves to restore any detected brainwave abnormalities to normal.

This saves Professor X the effort of checking and repairing one by one, and more importantly, it makes ordinary people unaware; they get fixed while just swiping through short videos.

Let alone ordinary people, even Miles didn't notice it; he only found out about it a long time later when Peter mentioned it.

And this will bring a major impact—the referendum regarding the construction plan of the aerial factory over the Bronx. Very unsurprisingly, it did not pass.

Because the counter-brainwashing was done silently, Dario didn't expect this at all. He thought that at least the people in the Bronx would firmly support him, so he didn't delay the referendum or change to another method, but instead continued the referendum plan with great confidence.

And the result was that the people, having shaken off the brainwashing, were furious in the face of the nearly 40% increase in oil prices and the credit card information leak incident—not only did the referendum not pass, but the angry Bronx residents also rushed into the Roxxon Energy Industrial Building. Now it wasn't just the top floor that was on fire.

The anomaly in the Bronx was basically resolved, and as for the situation of Danny and Mephisto that Schiller wanted to investigate, he had already reached a conclusion—Mephisto had no abnormalities, and Danny was simply stupid.

Danny's personality has big problems. Ever since he followed the Spirit of Vengeance and became Ghost Rider, he has been living in his own hero dream. But his paranoia and recklessness have made the Spirit of Vengeance within him drift further and further away from him.

The power of Ghost Rider is getting weaker and weaker, making Danny more and more panicked. In order to keep his power, he blamed everything on Mephisto, and also implicated Johnny.

In his view, he is working so hard to be a hero, yet the Spirit of Vengeance won't help him; Johnny is Mephisto's lackey, yet he has always been powerful, which is simply unfair.

That's why he wanted to contact superheroes to deal with Mephisto; he felt that as long as he succeeded in becoming a hero who saved the Earth, the Spirit of Vengeance would definitely recognize him again.

But the more he did this, the less Noble Kale, who was favored by angels because of his compassionate heart, wanted to pay attention to him, and in the end, he simply didn't appear at all, which made Danny feel even more unfair and jealous.

Schiller's words made him understand something, but unfortunately, it will take some time to accept reality. The only fortunate thing is that at least he didn't get tetanus.

Schiller's test of his "skill sharing" also ended, and the result was just one: a little useful, but not much.

Although he did use the skills of other personalities to carry out some superhero actions, he still used the same old method of borrowing strength to strike back to solve problems.

But this actually didn't exceed Schiller's expectations—this world has become what it is now due to the influence of greed, and certain greedy codes of conduct have become universal standards, so naturally, greed will be more at home here.

As for the other personalities? They have their own rivers, lakes, and seas.

On the day the referendum results came out, Schiller visited Stark Tower as usual, but found that the office was very lively today—a group of people were discussing something around a city model in a virtual projection.

"You're here." Stark looked at Schiller and said, "We are discussing the follow-up planning for the Bronx. The city government has agreed to let Stark Industries take over, and next we are going to launch more than 20 projects simultaneously to carry out a comprehensive renovation and cleanup of the Bronx."

Schiller's movements paused: "Comprehensive renovation? Are you serious?"

Stark nodded: "Is there a problem? Isn't it just about handling public security, reorganizing the community, and fixing up those broken and old buildings?"

"Hehe, you should ask Wayne about this problem." Schiller gave a dry laugh and said, "I don't understand municipal construction issues, so I'll be leaving first. By the way, can you advance me this quarter's consultation fee?"

"Why? Are you very short of money?"

"My nursing home needs renovation." Schiller nodded with a smile on the surface, but actually said in his heart: "I'm not very short of money, it's just that I'm afraid you'll be very short of money soon."

?? Stark's Bankruptcy Countdown

? Returning to DC next

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