Chapter 891: Starry Splendor (33)

"Asgard?? You just said, Asgard's fleet... how could they appear in the solar system?? How could... are they trying to..."

General Ross stuttered at the end, feeling a cold sweat on his back. But soon, a major walked in, saluted the generals, and then said:

"Sir, we just received a call from the Sanctum Sanctorum. They said that Asgard is conducting patrols of the Nine Realms, and Midgard Earth, as a member of the Nine Realms, needs to cooperate..."

"Asgard's warships discovered that the sanitary conditions in the solar system are not optimistic, and urged us to rectify them as soon as possible. There cannot be too many space devices in space, and transport devices and spaceships must be parked neatly..."

"In addition, to prevent too many cosmic traffic accidents in the solar system, their frigates are helping us clean up space junk."

"Also, this kind of cleaning service is paid. The United Nations has announced the bill for the cleaning service. Other countries have accepted it, and our President is planning to sign it..."

"Cannot sign it!!!" The old general roared immediately: "Why should they... they... we cannot... they cannot! The President cannot sign!!"

Seeing that he was already a bit incoherent, Ross immediately walked up and said: "Where is the President? Stop him immediately. We cannot acknowledge this bill..."

The major was a bit embarrassed and said: "This bill is actually quite cheap. Congress didn't even conduct a second round of approval before passing it."

"Moreover, the Sanctum Sanctorum said that the new God King of Asgard, Thor, intends to forge a new crown, hoping to collect special metals in the Nine Realms, symbolizing that the Nine Realms are working together."

"The President believes that this might stimulate the price of Vibranium. After all, Vibranium is our specialty metal."

"And the United States is the country with the highest Vibranium reserves in the world besides Wakanda. Vibranium falling too severely is a huge loss for us. If it can rise back a bit, it counts as recovering losses. For this reason, Congress wants to build a good relationship with Asgard..."

"And, the United Nations said that space junk is a problem that needs to be solved for a long time during the period of human technology explosion. Using our own technology to solve it, although possible, the cost is too high. They are planning to sign a long-term cleaning service agreement with Asgard..."

"General!!! General!! Wake up!!! Doctor!!! Doctor!!!" Ross immediately rushed over to support the old general who was rolling his eyes and fainting. All the generals were in a mess, supporting the fainting old general, at a loss.

That afternoon, the sky over New York was still so blue. Sitting in the car returning to the city from the hospital, Ross felt the impermanence of life for the first time, and this was just the beginning.

Although the first two launches failed, they were both simplified versions of the mother-mold core, so the loss wasn't that great. Everyone could only pin their hopes on the third launch.

The third launch was delayed by two weeks. Everyone performed calculations again, excluding all accidents as much as possible, striving for a one-time success. It also had to be a one-time success.

On the day of the launch, almost all the military officers of the Tartus faction came to the launch center. At the moment the rocket lifted off, everyone's heart was in their throat.

During the flight, it didn't hit space junk, and after successfully reaching the target position, there was no sudden laser weapon. The base unfolded very smoothly, and cheers resounded through the entire launch center.

Then, they saw a small dot, approaching from far to near. Compared with the huge Red Gate Orchid base, that figure appeared incomparably small, but it was still captured.

"There's an intruder?!! Quick quick quick! Start the defensive equipment!! Isn't it equipped with weapons?!!"

"Start the weapons! Start the weapons! Don't let him approach the base!!!"

The generals and researchers all shouted. But the researcher in charge of operation wiped the sweat on his head and said: "No! The base has just unfolded, the energy hasn't been fully connected to the defensive equipment, the energy is being transmitted, currently 13%, it will be transmitted in three minutes..."

That figure stood very far away, only a small black dot in the lens, completely unable to see who it was, and it didn't look big either.

He didn't directly crush the base like Magneto upon appearing, which made everyone feel that he definitely couldn't attack the base so quickly.

Who knew, that figure seemed to turn around on the spot, and then threw out something. Everyone at the launch center saw a halo approaching from far to near, at an extremely fast speed, with irresistible power, "Swish" sliding across the lens, and then, accurately hitting the base's energy core.

When the gorgeous fireworks appeared on the screen again, the generals still didn't know the name of the halo they saw that day, but the light of the fireworks shone on their faces, even more brilliant than the sunset in New York.

The light lit up again. They had never seen the starry splendor of this universe so clearly.

It was still a calm day on Earth. Almost no one knew the story that happened in space, but almost the entire New York heard the sound of a few people's hearts breaking.

The next day, the conference room of the military base could be said to be dead silent. Besides everyone being silent, there were more than half fewer people. Most of the people who left were going to explain this matter to their superiors, and the rest were in the hospital.

This incident didn't make any contribution to the military's grand blueprint, but it made a huge contribution to the promotion path of other young officers waiting to be promoted.

In the silent atmosphere, Ross spoke first: "The plan cannot end like this, otherwise we will lose even more..."

Another officer gritted his teeth and hammered the table, saying: "There must be a conspiracy in this, someone is hindering us!!"

"What about the halo from yesterday? Didn't send anyone to recover it?" Another general asked. And the general beside him shook his head and said: "We went, and we also found Stark to retrieve the monitoring of the Mercury base. That halo disappeared out of thin air..."

"What do you mean?"

"It means exactly what it says. In the monitoring, the halo that detonated the Red Gate Orchid base disappeared instantly. 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 halo does not conform to the optical properties of our dimension. It is very likely left by visitors from higher dimensions."

"But who can collude with the United Nations, Asgard, and the so-called higher-dimensional visitors? If he has this ability, why doesn't he directly eliminate our transport vehicle, but create so many accidents??" A young officer asked very puzzled.

"The problem lies right here." Another officer tapped the table with his finger and said: "If there really is someone targeting us in the dark, then since he has the ability to mobilize other countries to launch space junk, and can connect with Asgard, and can even contact so-called higher-dimensional visitors, then why doesn't he directly let Asgard use warship weapons to smash all our rockets?"

Ross shook his head. He also couldn't understand this problem. Logically speaking, if someone didn't want them to complete this plan, such as mutants, then they would directly send Magneto up to crush the base. Why play so many tricks? Besides wasting time and energy, what is the point?

Ross knew himself that the military's launch rockets and transport vehicles and equipment were actually basically in an undefended state, because the development time had been too long. Even if they were defended, they couldn't block current weapons, let alone powerful mutants of Magneto's specification.

Moreover, if mutants knew about this plan, they would definitely not be in such a quiet state now.

Several times before, when they were hunted down by Sentinel robots, it caused a huge uproar, wishing the whole world knew they were victims.

This time, the military threatened their fundamental interests. If they knew, it would definitely be a huge uproar. Besides the members of the X-Men firing, the Brotherhood of Mutants would definitely set fires all over the world. Magneto wouldn't be idle either. Threatening the President was something he hadn't not done before.

But now, nothing. All students of Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters were attending classes normally, the Brotherhood of Mutants was quiet, Magneto hadn't returned from the Andromeda Galaxy, and even his daughter Polaris was nowhere to be found. It didn't look like their survival was threatened at all.

Besides this, Ross really couldn't think of anyone else who would be their enemy.

To talk about Stark, he hadn't seen him get along well with mutants. And judging by his personality, if he wanted to oppose something, he would definitely make a fuss and find the Congress, perhaps hold a few press conferences, and wouldn't be like now, diving into the laboratory and not even answering the phone.

Asgard and the Sanctum Sanctorum were even less related. These two were transcendent organizations. Other countries on Earth simply didn't have needs in this regard.

Eastern countries only cared about the mutants within their own country, and they handled this problem very cleverly, not worrying about it at all. Therefore, they never expressed their position on this internationally, nor would they jump out to do this kind of thing when they were busy with technical competition.

Thinking about it, the military only thought of one possibility, and that was S. H. I. E. L. D.

S. H. I. E. L. D. Director Nick Fury cursed in a secret meeting before, expressing an extremely strong opposition attitude very rarely, and was righteous and strict, and no one could persuade him.

Just when everyone looked at each other and understood that the other party thought of the same person, the conference phone in the center of the table rang. Ross reached out and pressed the button, and Nick's voice came from inside:

"Oh, oh, oh... look at what I saw, it seems like someone's spaceship exploded?"

"Why, did you really launch your own mother into the sun? That's a pity, she doesn't even have a grave. Has Aunt Susan next door finally been unable to hide the fact that you are her illegitimate child?"

"I told you long ago, you damn well wouldn't succeed!!! Just like this!! Sooner or later!! You will explode with your mother after being launched into the sun!! No corpse left!!"

"This is the consequence of your damn stupid decision!! Don't even think about letting S. H. I. E. L. D. wipe your ass!!"

Accompanied by various words that needed to be censored spraying out of Nick's mouth, the faces of all the generals became darker and darker.

Not only that, the next day Nick also poked this matter to Congress.

Although Congress had tacitly approved of this before, the premise was that you had to succeed. If you succeeded, nothing happened. If you failed, you embezzled military funds.

Coupled with the fact that the military had promised many anti-mutant organizations before that they would definitely succeed, the pressure from those forces and organizations was also very great.

Nick's uncharacteristic firmness and high profile made the military firmly set the suspicion target on him.

After all, S. H. I. E. L. D. and the military had always been in a competitive relationship. Last time the military pitted S. H. I. E. L. D., S. H. I. E. L. D. had always wanted to find a way back. Nick indeed had sufficient motive to commit the crime.

At the same time, he also had the means to commit the crime. After all, S. H. I. E. L. D. also belonged to a transcendent organization. It was easy to bribe a certain country to launch space junk.

Nick even personally contacted God King Odin and had received foster care from Thor and Loki. It wasn't strange to be able to invite Asgard to help. As for the so-called higher-dimensional visitors, only S. H. I. E. L. D. could have such strange people.

Both the motive and the method were determined. S. H. I. E. L. D.'s suspicion had become infinitely great. In the eyes of the military, this was completely a trap set by S. H. I. E. L. D., and it was very likely a trap spanning five years, just to completely drag down the Tartus faction.

The military's vigilance against Nick Fury was raised to the highest level, and at the same time, they officially tore their faces with S. H. I. E. L. D.

In order to shift the blame and reduce the pressure, the lawsuit went to Congress, and even to the newspapers. Although the specific reasons weren't explained, almost everyone knew that the two sides had almost become deadly enemies.

The military making such a big fuss was originally holding the mentality of "I have already lost my pants, you don't want to have a good time either", putting pressure on S. H. I. E. L. D. and wanting them to help wipe their ass.

The military spokesperson stood on the media, bombarded the S. H. I. E. L. D. Director for inaction, the Tartus faction united with several other factions and congressmen to put pressure on S. H. I. E. L. D., and many countries in the United Nations voiced their condemnation of Nick Fury for being in a high position and not doing anything...

One newspaper after another flew out from all over the country and landed on Schiller's desk.

And on the front page headline of the last newspaper, Nick's face was clearly printed, and the title was written in bold black letters—

"Yesterday, a gunshot rang out in Congress, S. H. I. E. L. D. Director Nick Fury was assassinated and died on the spot." ===== CHAPTER 892 =====

Newspaper after newspaper flew out from all over the country and landed on Schiller's desk.

And on the front-page headline of the very last newspaper, Nick's face was clearly printed, with the title written in bold black type—

"Yesterday, shots rang out at the Capitol; S. H. I. E. L. D. Director Nick Fury was assassinated and died on the spot."