From Titan Corporation to the Empire of Man

evening.

The 99th floor conference room of the Water Tower;

"...Three days ago, on September 9, 1995, the United States was attacked by unknown forces. The superhero Stormfront who went to deal with the unknown enemy died unfortunately. According to a joint statement from Vought International and the US military, it was stated that this time The attack was at the hands of Stormfront's archenemy, the TechnoGeek..."

"Why don't you let me go! If it were me, I would definitely be able to prevent the tragedy! Didn't you create me just to deal with things like this! To win public favor?!"

The news host's sad report and the loud questioning of an adult male were heard.

In this very spacious conference room with a good view, Stan Edgar, who always has the same expression, is sitting, as well as Yona Wagbaum in a medical gown, and Maa, who is dressed as a female elite. Delin Stillwell.

The emotional man was a native of the motherland wearing a dark blue tights, using the stars and stripes as a cape, and standing in front of the "V" table.

This "superhero" who grew up in a laboratory and could fly at the speed of sound at the age of eight was puzzled as to why "he" was not sent to handle national-level tasks.

However, the root cause of the motherland's anger is not the death of Stormfront or the destruction of the research center...

Even though "he" once had sincerity and had the idea of ​​saving the world, at this moment, the people of the motherland are struggling with the fact that if "he" is allowed to carry out the task, he will definitely be able to solve all threats. At that time, he will receive unprecedented attention from the media and the public, and will be affected by Thousands of compliments and support.

"Are you going to execute it?" Madeleine has been tortured these days. People from the motherland rushed into the conference room regardless of the occasion. She couldn't help but raise her right hand to pinch her swollen temples, and asked back: "Have you forgotten? How many people died in the chemical plant explosion not long ago?”

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When Madeleine said this, the people of the motherland were immediately speechless.

"Your thoughts and actions are too childish." Edgar, who was sitting in the main seat, said bluntly: "Impulsive, irritable, and unable to control your strength well when you are excited. If there had not been the chemical plant explosion, maybe this time The task is yours, so it is your own choices and actions that have led to your current situation."

"But...but I..." Facing Edgar, the people of the motherland could not conceal their fear and resistance, but immediately retorted: "But as a result, my public support rate has been significantly improved, which will help us to fully integrate into the military defense system. of."

"People? The people will not send a special team to enter the ruins after the explosion to conduct a detailed investigation." Edgar changed his sitting posture, rested his elbows on the table with his hands, crossed his fingers, and then spoke faster as if suppressing anger. :

"Your mistake requires us to spend more money and energy to settle the subsequent storm. Secondly, people of the motherland, I need you to understand that the attack on the Sage Grove is not only our economic loss, or the leakage of research data , it also means that we are being targeted, so please don’t vent your childish emotions at this critical juncture!”

At the end of the sentence, Edgar almost shouted.

Seeing that Edgar was really angry, the motherland's eyes dodge, the corners of his mouth twitched, and even his eyes began to get wet.

Seeing the aggrieved look of the people of her motherland, Madeleine, perhaps because her conscience was still there, or perhaps she was acting, took over the conversation and said:

"John, please go out and rest for a while to calm down. Now Walter is being targeted by an unknown enemy. You are our strongest support. If there is any follow-up action, you will be given priority."

"yes…"

The people of the motherland nodded as if they had been saved, turned around and left the conference room, causing the place to fall into silence, and no one took the initiative to speak again.

And after deliberately waiting for a few seconds, after confirming that the people from the motherland had really left, Vogelbaum, who never said anything, advised Madeleine:

"Experimental subjects who lack love are usually moody and emotionally unstable. Stillwell, you must not act too deeply. Once the needs of such experimental subjects are met or betrayal is discovered, the backlash will be die."

"Hey." Madeleine sighed, "I know, but sometimes he looks really pitiful, and he also listens to me very much, which always arouses the protective desire in my heart... Maybe it has nothing to do with me. It has something to do with the child.”

Seeing this, Wogelbaum nodded, then looked at Edgar and expressed his opinion: "According to the survivors' oral accounts, there is a high probability that the two giants who attacked our research facility were cultivated using compound No. 5. controllable products.

And then judge by using extremely low-yield hydrogen bombs to kill Stormfront... The opponent can only be a national-level existence. After all, being able to develop tactical hydrogen bombs that even the US military does not have requires sufficient space and stable power supply, as well as perfect It has an industrial system to support research and experiments, and it even has an intercontinental troop transport method that cannot be detected before entering the atmosphere. "

"The only country that meets these conditions seems to be Russia. Maybe they directed and acted on their own and caused the disappearance of the soldier boy more than a year ago." Madeleine agreed.

"Even you can see it, so can't the Pentagon see it?" Edgar actually had no clue. He paused for a while and continued: "And they are indeed negotiating with the Russian authorities, but there is no substantial progress.

We can fool the audience with non-existent tech geeks, but they need us to give a reasonable explanation why the Sage Grove Research Center is targeted.

So we asked the clowns to cancel all sabotage operations. We have no time to focus on the competition of arms products. The board of directors stated that the first task is to maintain the stock price, and the second task is to stabilize Washington.

However, the Pentagon also gave a hint, asking us to arrange clowns who are good at hiding their whereabouts to assist the CIA in infiltration. ”

Speaking of this, Ed said in a slightly heavier tone: "Ms. Stillwell, Dr. Vogelbaum, please carefully select superheroes with stealth capabilities. If the cooperation is pleasant, or even helps the CIA obtain more secrets, then this crisis may be a turning point that allows us to have legal military operations abroad in advance. Understand?"

"No problem."

"Understood, Mr. Edgar. ”

——

…

In the Comoe primeval forest far away in the southern hemisphere.

In the underground ruins belonging to Atlas’ core assets;

Sui Yang was not aware of the results of the discussion between Water’s top management and the board of directors, because at this moment he was standing on the altar, scratching his palm with his own nails, letting blood drip on the skull mark, and opening the third space door.