The Death Knell

Earth 1610, New York's Triangle Building, deep underground at SHIELD headquarters, eight o'clock in the morning.

The corridor leading to the command room was all made of alloy. When people walked hurriedly through it, the movement was like machine gun fire.

Nick Fury doesn't want everyone to be so busy, because every time SHIELD gets busier, it means the earth is becoming less and less peaceful.

The previous power struggle with Carol Danvers ended with Fury's victory. He returned to the position of director of S.H.I.E.L.D. and was promoted to the rank of general.

Gregory Stark was a traitor who betrayed American interests to the country across the ocean. Carol misjudged him. Therefore, after 'Rat' was exposed and killed, Captain Marvel also lost the trust of the top management.

She left and took her Ultimate Team into space. Although it is still nominally affiliated with the SHIELD system, Fury actually has no control over the Ultimate Team.

However, Lu Dan still has the Avengers in his hands, so he can still continue to deal with the mutant problem and protect the peace of the earth.

Since Magneto flipped the earth's magnetic poles and killed tens of millions of people, all mutants have become synonymous with terrorists. Once discovered, they need to be captured immediately or killed on the spot.

This is also the focus of SHIELD's work at this stage, to screen potential mutants from the crowd and then nip the danger in the bud.

Fury personally has no discrimination against mutants. He has even used them many times and thinks they are very useful.

But work is work, and at this stage he needs mutants' scalps in exchange for what he wants.

Walking in the corridor, surrounded by operators who were walking quickly, Fury came to a door with familiarity.

"Good morning, sir." Coulson stood at the door with his face hanging as usual, raising his hands in salute like a dead man.

"Director, where's the action list?" Fury took off his black leather jacket, pulled the neck of his turtleneck sweater, walked into the busy hall, and took the coffee from his secretary.

He's ready to work, and he's feeling in good shape after repelling the Vampires' attack on New York the other day.

"There are forty-two targets on today's list with a threat level of 'yellow,' which requires continuous monitoring to understand capabilities, as well as three 'orange,' and one 'red,' which requires you to sign an action order."

"Wait for me to take a sip of coffee first."

Fury raised the cup in his hand and walked towards the chair in the center of the hemispherical hall. All the walls of this hall were covered with display screens, showing surveillance footage or map updates from around the world.

Luodan took a deep breath, put the paper cup on his knees, and announced to all the agents around him that the day shift had begun:

"Okay, everyone, I hope your work will go well today and the world will be peaceful. Now let me see what's going on."

Coulson, who was about to hand over his shift, picked up the tablet in his hand expressionlessly, enlarged the to-do items on it to the main screen for the director to review, and explained at the same time:

"First of all, there were some more robberies last night, those... uh."

"Gods, you can say they are gods." Fury answered without looking back. He just crossed his hands on his chest and looked at the information on the screen: "Although I also hate those guys who fall from the sky, they all He is a genuine Asgardian god.”

"Well, sir, these Asgardian gods ransacked the Champs Elysées in France last night and set fire to them. Although they didn't kill anyone, it was the first time since they arrived on earth that they were so gentle. But in just one week they launched Three plunders have been carried out, and now our European allies are confused and paying increased attention."

Fury sneered, and under the dim red light, his black face seemed like a shadow.

"A bunch of idiots, what's there to be confused about? It's like asking why scorpions sting frogs. It's their biological instinct." Lu Dan took another sip of coffee and narrowed his eyes in comfort: " After they looted humans for the first time, I talked to Thor about this matter. He said that he would persuade his people, but no matter what, the Avengers still need his fighting power. After all, they didn't loot American citizens, right? ?”

"But that's the problem." Coulson's expressionless face twitched a few times, and he lowered his head and flipped through his tablet: "The British EUSS command has sent super soldiers of the Holy Sword Force across the North Sea to the coast of Norway. "

EUSS is the abbreviation of the 'European Defense Scheme' jointly established by the 28 member states of the European Union. The UK has developed a piece of equipment called EXO uniforms, which can mass-produce various 'captains'. In addition to the strongest British captain, there are also There are characters such as the Spanish captain and the French captain who jointly formed the Holy Sword Force.

Every time this team is dispatched, it is like a lot of flags flying across the sky. But in terms of combat effectiveness, it is far inferior to the Avengers. The main reason is that their mobility is too poor. In any emergency, these 28 people We need to have a meeting first.

"Oh? Have they chosen a new Captain Britain?"

Fury asked with great interest. Regarding this matter, the old spy's face inevitably showed a look of curiosity.

Because the original British captain Brian Braddock died a few years ago.

At that time, he was meeting with a group of captains to study how to deal with Magneto's crazy plan and how to eliminate the X-Men who had rebelled against the Brotherhood, but the clone broke into the meeting and detonated a miniature nuclear bomb.

Brian withstood the explosion of the nuclear bomb, but was unable to withstand the invisible radiation. Cancer cells spread throughout his body and caused serious complications.

In order to confirm his death, Fury secretly went to see him in person.

The lifeless body was twisted and deformed. It was isolated in a lead room. Yellow pus flowed all over the floor. It was most likely dead.

"Yes, after six years of meetings and see-saws, the EUSS under the leadership of the British finally selected the former captain's brother, Jamie Braddock, to inherit the uniform." Even though Colson is a wooden person, his face They all showed a bit of mockery: "I thought that meeting would never come to an end."

The relationship between EUSS and SHIELD is relatively subtle. When fighting against the East and Russia, we are allies.

But once they are free, the conflicts between the United States and the United Kingdom will surface. Although they cannot be said to be at odds, there are definitely a lot of secret stumbling blocks or schadenfreude.

Just like America mocks them for having Captain Britain dead, and the other side mocks America for being divided.

"Great, a group of muscular men with brains as big as walnuts rushed into the palace of the gods." Fury put down the empty cup, put his hands on his chin with his fingers intertwined, and leaned back toward the back of the chair to launch a strategy: " Adjust the crisis level of this matter to orange and pay close attention."