Chapter 3707: Doomsday (Part 11)

"I'm back!" Polaris shouted after pushing the door open, but found that only Charles was sitting in the office, looking at her with a somewhat complicated expression.

"What's wrong? Professor? Where is Erik?"

"He went out for a meeting." Charles said without blinking, "You know, two unfriendly countries recently scheduled a routine visit, he must go to handle it."

Polaris's face sank, but it was obviously not towards Erik. She snorted coldly and said: "Now they remember to come and visit us? When they were smearing Magneto and mutants on various websites before, they didn't remember that one day they would establish diplomatic relations with us, huh?"

"Your father said that it can't be counted as smearing." Charles looked a bit helpless, saying, "After all, he did make some big movements at the beginning."

"The movement is big enough to change his birthplace? Can it change his race? Or can it reverse history, so that he didn't enter the concentration camp, didn't fight those damn fascists?!!"

"Calm down, Lorna." Charles sighed, "We are not children anymore, going to extremes has no benefit. Let them come if they want, we will just treat them as normal foreign guests."

Polaris was obviously still a bit unhappy, sitting there with her arms crossed, the corners of her mouth drooping, as if two lead balls were hanging.

"There is one more thing, I want to discuss with you." Charles looked a bit embarrassed, saying, "I know this sounds a bit shocking, but... after Captain America's 100th birthday, we will prepare to help Earth move..."

In Polaris's shocked expression, Charles briefly recounted the "Earth Setting Sail" plan that China had been preparing for many years.

This plan is actually simple to say. When the Iron Demon God appeared, it really shocked the entire Earth, and the most shocked was naturally the Eastern power.

It's not that China hasn't dealt with demon gods, but the painting style of most demon gods is not like this. Anyone who has received modern scientific education wouldn't think it was a magical product at first glance when seeing the Iron Demon God. Whose magician engages in a bunch of robots?

Their first reaction was that this should be a super weapon created by the United States, so the vigilance was full, and they tried every means to investigate the Iron Demon God at the fastest speed.

The Divine Spear Bureau is not a vegetarian, and it took a few days to figure out what was going on. But this didn't make them relax, but made them even more nervous.

If it was created by the United States, it would actually be fine. No matter how strong it is on the surface, but this thing falls into whose hands, other parties will not be willing. In the hands of the military, Congress is not willing, in the hands of Congress, the military is not willing, and by then, just pulling each other's hind legs can weaken the combat power of this thing by half, and it might even set off fireworks directly.

This is not an exaggeration, history has played out not just once or twice. Whether it is aerospace technology or industrialization, the United States is mainly about dragging each other's hind legs and reversing the car. As long as their side is stable, the other side can punch themselves one after another.

But it turned out not to be the case. This thing was not only not created by the United States, but not even created by a group of scientists, but created by one person, and only one person can control this thing. This can be said to be the worst result.

How do you bet on human nature?

Yes, Stark looks normal now, but it doesn't mean he will be normal forever. Now he looks like the kind of scientist who wants to lead human progress, but it doesn't mean his thinking can always be so advanced. How many people in history have worked hard when they were young, but started to become muddled when they were old? This can be considered the biggest weakness of humanity besides the fragile body.

There is another point, Stark can never be called a kind-hearted businessman. His identity as a big capitalist determines that he is an exploiter, no matter whether he wants to do this in his heart, but he will be kidnapped by too many interests. As long as he wavers for a moment, has a little selfishness, and wants to use this power to rule ordinary people, it is a disaster for everyone.

Maybe some people will feel that Magneto is also very strong, and Professor X is also very strong, why not worry about them using force to rule Earth?

But the problem is, the Iron Demon God is different, it is a brand new existence that is completely different from the past and has overwhelming power, which gave them great crisis.

But since the problem already exists, anxiety and panic are useless, and we must find a way to solve it. After long discussions and research, they finally found that frontal combat is not very feasible, even if they can win, Earth will not have a good end.

Then following this line of thinking, since the worst result is mutual destruction, it is better to use the idea of mages and demon gods for mutual destruction, and directly kidnap Earth.

But to target the Iron Demon God, you can't use the magical defense network, because this guy is on Earth, he is inside the magical defense network, then the role the magical defense network can play is relatively limited, and it may even be destroyed from the inside by him.

And the magical defense network is in the hands of mages, and mages don't think they have a nationality, and also claim not to participate in the disputes of countries on Earth. Other people's things are good, but not as good as their own. They decided to build a deterrent means of their own, which can, when necessary, pull everyone in the world onto their own chariot.

Following this line of thinking, actually the best is to make a bomb, if you dare to do anything, I will blow up Earth.

This is different from nuclear weapons. Humanity'

However, building such a massive bomb would certainly cost countless times more than a nuclear weapon, and it required immense effort; once created, it had to be maintained if it wasn't used, which was another astronomical expense.

How the Soviet Union was dragged down by the arms race was still fresh in everyone's memory. Spending so much money to develop a superweapon that had a high probability of never being used was simply a path to self-destruction.

This was a situation where you couldn't build it, and you couldn't not build it; it was practically a dead end with no solution. But in reality, the way to break the deadlock was quite simple: build a bomb that had other functions besides exploding.

It sounds a bit absurd, but humans have actually had this thing for a long time. Isn't a car engine just a big bomb that constantly cycles through detonations but never actually explodes? You can drive the car normally as a means of transportation, and at a necessary moment, you can use professional technical means to detonate the car as a weapon; isn't this the best solution?

Although it sounds absurd, it is also very reasonable—they decided to install an engine on Earth. They could drive Earth around in normal times, and if something happened inside Earth, they would treat it as a strategic weapon to unite the vast majority.

This was not something that could be achieved overnight. While the superheroes in the country across the ocean were experiencing all kinds of adventures, the ordinary human scientists, mutants, and superpowered individuals here united as one; those in scientific research did research, those making materials made materials, and it took a full ten years to finally complete the first step of this plan—building the engine.

That's right, in the entire Earth Departure Plan, building the engine was only the first step.

The second step was to point the sword at Xiangong. Don't look at how Thor and Loki basically only dealt with Americans; the Spear Bureau had basically already figured out this alien civilization closest to Earth. A mule or a horse has to be taken out for a walk to be seen, and this first walk, of course, had to be near this alien civilization that was both close and had a good relationship.

Announcing their scientific achievements to the other party was secondary; the most important thing was that if any accident occurred, for the sake of reason and sentiment, the other party would have to lend a hand.

Although they were fully prepared, no one dared to say that problems definitely wouldn't arise, so they had to find a final layer of insurance, which was Xiangong. If something happened and Earth was about to explode, whether out of consideration for the Avengers or because they couldn't blow up Xiangong, Thor would have to take action.

And after the three major empires went to war, China keenly realized that they could completely upgrade this event from a test flight to extract more benefits.

It sounds a bit risky, but for a civilization or a race, being conservative forever has no future. Daring to make key decisions at key moments is the only way to obtain the most critical benefits at key turning points; hesitation leads to defeat.

Thus, a seemingly crazy plan gradually took shape, but it went exceptionally smoothly when it was executed. The reason was simple: humans are inherently a crazy race, forever hungry, forever unsatisfied. Although their development of the solar system was far from thorough, they had long since started coveting a more prosperous universe.

The resources of Saturn and Jupiter were indeed rich, but were they as rich as the warehouses of the three major empires? The Milky Way was indeed beautiful, but was its geographical location as good as the Ring Sector? Xiangong was a decent lord, but if one could be an emperor oneself, who would want to live under someone else?

Schiller had just heard the beginning from the director of the Spear Bureau, which was about the faster-than-light engine, when he stopped Zheng Xian from continuing, expressing that he was willing to help.

Schiller didn't need to know where they were going to drive Earth at all; the mere fact that they could get Earth moving was completely worth his help. Come on, this wasn't forced wandering; it was taking the initiative. The moment he thought about Earth being able to bounce around the universe like a billiard ball, Schiller knew he had to bring out his real skills to hoodwink Kamar-Taj and the Avengers.

Since it was a subtle hoodwinking, he couldn't just go and tell them directly. Moreover, Schiller knew the nature of Strange and the others well; if he went over and said it directly, they would instead feel like he was trying to pull a fast one, and they would have a rebellious psychological reaction and might not cooperate.

But by bringing up the topic in conversation, slowly guiding Strange and Steve to think in that direction, and then letting Strange investigate it himself—what he found out himself would be much more credible than what Schiller said, and also more shocking.

From the fact that Strange could go into the Himalayas to take a look, one could see that the other party had actually been prepared for a long time. They could even build such a massive thing right under the nose of Kamar-Taj; if they really didn't want Strange to know, they could have hidden it for a lifetime. Letting the other party see it meant they never intended to keep it a secret.

And Strange and Steve did not disappoint, successfully inciting Kamar-Taj and the Avengers to agree to this plan. And Schiller also thought the same way as the Chinese side, feeling that since they were going to drive anyway, they might as well drive straight to Xiangong; this was the option that maximized benefits.

As for the mutants, in order to fight for more benefits for mutants in this event, they took the initiative to use Mystique to pressure Xiangong, finding the most perfect excuse for this departure.

Just like that, with the combined efforts of many parties, Earth successfully departed from the solar system and arrived above Xiangong. But even so, the entire plan had only reached the second step. Next, it would be pointing the sword at the three major empires.

(End of chapter)