Kai and Tony were no longer involved in the subsequent events in Tahiti. Tony, in particular, felt extremely uncomfortable and didn't want to stay in Tahiti at all. In addition to feeling that his contribution was insufficient and his strength was stretched due to this operation, Carter's presence was also an important factor.
On the plane, Tony pretended to be casual and asked Steve what he had said to Kai.
"He wants me to advise you." Kai said casually while sitting in Tony's luxury passenger plane, holding a cigar and lying on a high-end massage chair.
"Persuade me... Huh!" Tony felt that his father was simply blind to be friends with Steve. This kind of person is simply, to put it harshly, self-centered. He feels that Steve has been exaggerated, and he really feels that he is fair and righteous. So now Tony is really annoyed with Steve.
"Actually, it's understandable." Kai didn't think it was anything. We are all human beings. Who can really have no selfish intentions at all? From Steve's point of view, if he doesn't protect his friends, is he destroying his relatives for justice?
"Understand?" Tony squinted at Kai. Tony really doesn't have many friends in his life. He only thinks of three, one is Rhodes, one is Happy, and the other one is Kai. If Kai agreed with Steve, he would feel like such a failure.
"After all, Barnes is his friend! The reason why he said that was just to find a suitable reason for his behavior. There is nothing wrong with it." Kai pretended not to notice Tony's little arrogance.
"Hmph!" Tony might understand, but understanding doesn't mean he will accept it, and he will even become even more angry. "My father and he are friends too!"
Kai shrugged.
"So, it's useless to reason about this kind of thing. It's better for everyone to talk about their position." Kaizhen feels this way. In the final analysis, it's about whose relationship is better. For Steve, Barnes is more important than Tony's dad. For Tony, Barnes is a scumbag who can't even compare to his dad's leg hair. It's that simple, anything else is nonsense. No need to wrap things up so much.
Tony did not continue the topic, but turned the topic to today's harvest.
Tony is eyeing the metal structure summoned by the witch.
He had a brief exchange with Hannibal before, and he came to the conclusion that once the witch completes the energy reaction of the mechanical mage tower, its energy supply will accelerate like a nuclear fission reaction until the witch as the raw material It will stop only when all the "mana" is consumed.
It may be impossible to resist the earth's nuclear weapons, but the problem is that the thing is not a dead thing that cannot move. The witch can hide dozens of kilometers underground at will, and she can come and go without a trace, and Not afraid of being chased. At that time, the initiative will completely fall into her hands, and no one can do anything to her.
But it has to be said that the witch is a genius in a sense, and she actually created a combination of machinery and magic by herself. This gives Tony a very good example. Although he has obtained a lot of Asgardian technology, so far, he has not done a good job of integrating Earth and Asgardian technology.
After all, Asgard's technology is naturally metaphysical, which conflicts with Tony's scientific brain, and Tony has never been able to change his thinking. Let Tony integrate science and magic by himself. Many things have to be started from scratch and tried little by little. The Mechanical Mage Tower is a "product" that has been put into actual combat. Although its functions are very crude and most of them still belong to the category of spells, it does have some scientific elements. In the progress of science, what is often needed is exactly this "direction".
The Witch's Mechanical Mage Tower has this meaning.
Tony has reached a deal with Hannibal. Hannibal will give some parts of the Mage Tower to Tony for research, and Tony needs to give part of his research results to Hannibal. With the 'finished product' contributed by the witch, he can fully expect to use technology to realize spells one day.
This is also in line with Tony's understanding. In Tony's view, magic is a science that cannot be explained by scientific methods. He couldn't cast the spell by himself, so letting other instruments do it for him was an alternative. Tony is ambitious in this regard, especially after seeing the power of Asgard, Tony has a particularly strong desire in this area.
Perhaps because he became an orphan early, Tony is actually a particularly insecure guy. He feels very uneasy about the current situation of the earth, so he hopes to enhance the earth's foundation. Even if he learned from Tony that the earth still had guardians like Karma Taj, it would not make Tony feel at ease.
After all, he still believes in himself more.
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As the sky grows brighter, the Grand Rapids incident is already making noise in the media and on the Internet. The official certainly didn't want this. After all, this incident was caused by a mistake in the Shadow Bureau, which allowed the witch to escape. Moreover, the blame has not yet been solved and all the blame has been thrown to the Shadow Bureau. Amanda's suicide squad, the Shadow Bureau has no idea that it was a project that Amanda lobbied the government to launch a long time ago. Strictly speaking, the Shadow Bureau is also a victim. After all, Amanda was also dumped by the government to the Shadow Bureau.
The reason is to add sand to the Shadow Bureau, and prevent the Shadow Bureau from becoming like SHIELD, which is out of control.
Unexpectedly, regardless of whether the Shadow Bureau was under control or not, Amanda's Suicide Squad would stab Lou Zi first.
And the basket is quite big!
The only good thing is that there are very few people who know the inside story. Otherwise, public opinion would have overwhelmed the government, and more than 50,000 people died in Tahiti! And that doesn’t include the missing ones! The entire Tahiti became a ghost town. Even if the incident was over, the original people of Tahiti would not dare to return to that city. It was the biggest tragedy in American history!
Just to resettle the refugees fleeing from Tahiti has given the U.S. government a huge headache.
Moreover, the government still has a huge hidden danger.
Batman and Hannibal!
Other superheroes, such as The Flash and the Three Girls of Chicago, have always been under Carter's nose. They have always focused on rescuing refugees and have not directly participated in the encirclement and suppression of witches, but Batman and Hannibal are the main force.
The key is that the government has absolutely no control over the actions of these two men.
For example, The Flash only operates in Los Angeles, and the Three Heroines often stay in Chicago. Their behavior patterns have been thoroughly understood by government analysts. Although they cannot be controlled, they can still deal with them. But Batman and Han Nibal is different. These two don't have a fixed territory at all. They can be seen everywhere.
Such two people would not be good children, let alone cooperate with the authorities.
The reason why the two of them didn't cause trouble for Amanda was probably because they knew Amanda was in doom. Of course, this is one of the reasons why no one in the government will protect Amanda. If Amanda escapes punishment, the two of them will be unhappy and have a big explosion...
The officials would never dare to let the two of them find Amanda in person, otherwise this matter would kill a large number of relevant people.
Of course, Batman and Hannibal have been quiet so far and haven't caused any trouble.
But for now, officials are already having a huge headache. According to informal statistics circulating on the Internet, not many of the victims in Tahiti were actually killed by monsters that night. After all, most people were captured and transformed into monsters.
The bulk of the dead man's head was killed by the military police and the Shadow Bureau because he was transformed into a monster...
There are videos on the Internet proving that when the witch is defeated, the surface of the monsters turns into a puddle of black rotten matter, and the people inside are fine but a little weak.
Apparently, those humanoid monsters returned to normal humans because the witch controlling them disappeared.
Batman and others had previously used non-lethal attacks against monsters, which had been witnessed by many people. Naturally, they could not be described as "massacring citizens."
So the government was in trouble.
After all, the military and police are not as strict as Batman.
Now the fun is great.
Those people who lost their families, friends, and homes would not calmly consider the difficulties of the military and police at that time. They only saw their relatives and friends being killed by the military and police! They are obviously saved, they just need to wait until Batman and the others defeat the witch, and then they can return to their original state...
In an instant, the heroes who were officially introduced just a second ago were immediately turned into murderers.
Of course, the public opinion was not one-sided. The official could not allow himself to become a murderer, so naturally some people came out to accuse and make reasonable comments. It was an emergency at that time. Who could notice this?
But there is no doubt that the official role in this incident has been very bad.
In addition, Hannibal and Batman hold part of the official truth behind the Grand Rapids incident. This really lays this super mine, and it is more likely that it will eventually blow up on the official’s head. At first, the television media remained silent about the Grand Rapids incident. Even though TV station helicopters arrived shortly after the incident, none of the footage captured was released.
But this kind of thing cannot be delayed. The longer it is delayed, the greater the chance that the official will take the blame. The people of the American Empire are not innocent people. The United States has not been a country for many years, but there are many conspiracy theories. It is really delayed. Don't know what will happen yet.
So the official side quickly reached a consensus.
Of course, the bigger reason is the Internet. Information has long been overflowing on online media. Various videos and pictures, including pictures and truth, have no room for manipulation.
On the morning news, major news media also began to report on it.
Not because of any media conscience. As the largest and most professional news producer in the world, my conscience has long been eaten by dogs. The media’s ability to produce news is absolutely top-notch. If you don’t believe it, just look online and you will know. There are all kinds of filters and renderings. , a professional one. Even standing on the ruins of the war and saying, "Although they have nothing, they have freedom," they can say such shameless words. What else do they dare not do?
If we go back more than ten or twenty years, believe it or not, these media would dare to put the blame on Batman.
Otherwise, the Internet is a great invention.
At least it makes the cost of media fraud higher.
Although the permanent population of Daxi City is only over 300,000, after excluding the tens of thousands of casualties, there are still more than 200,000 left. This group of people who are too old and too young are unlikely to be active online, which can be reduced by tens of thousands more. It is not easy for more than 100,000 people to express their opinions, videos and pictures online. These people alone can break out a lot of fierce news. The situation in Daxi City cannot be concealed at all. The casualties are closely related to almost everyone in Grand Rapids. Not relatives and neighbors, but also friends and colleagues. Even homeless people can tell that there are few familiar faces missing from their territory. This kind of news cannot be suppressed, and even the direction of the trend is difficult to guide.
President Benjamin flew to Tahiti on a special plane the morning after the incident. Firstly, he expressed condolences, and secondly, he wanted to reduce pressure on the government. He had no choice but to stand up. Thinking about Benjamin makes me want to cry. How much has happened in less than two years since he took office.
Fortunately, Congress also knew that it would be too ugly to attack Benjamin with these things. Benjamin's crisis public relations was very good. At least after several incidents, Benjamin's support did not decrease, which is amazing. The government has been criticized miserably, but President Benjamin remains unmoved. This makes many people confused. But everyone who knows knows that it is because Benjamin has a good wife.
Benjamin's wife Margaret has always been a career-oriented woman. Because her husband was elected president, she had to interrupt her career. However, she became depressed for a while and even wanted to divorce Benjamin. Later, because of the invasion of the White House, she The couple is grateful for the rapid progress and reconciliation. So she changed her mind and began to intervene in her husband's career, intending to use her abilities.
Many people in the political arena are now saying that the president's wife is actually the first secretary of the White House, not the secretary of state. Margaret was originally a media person. She had many connections in the media industry, and with her own abilities, she could always help her husband avoid danger.
I'm going too far. In short, because the president has a good image, and the situation on the earth is changing with each passing day. After experiencing several major events, everyone knows that in today's earth, danger is not far away from everyone. Therefore, President Benjamin’s support rate among the two parties in Congress is quite good, and everyone is still willing to see a popular president stabilize the situation.
The president's condolences did not improve the sad atmosphere in Tahiti. After all, no one knows what the future will hold.
The only thing the official can do in this situation is to let the matter pass as soon as possible.
The information explosion brought by the Internet has advantages, but it also has disadvantages. That's because people's forgetfulness has become bigger. A few decades ago, such a disaster would be remembered by people across the country for a long time, but now, this time has been greatly shortened.
Life is not easy, and most people don’t want to think about the sad things. This is also the reason why many people don't like to watch literary films, but only like to watch football games and soap operas - simple, joyful, and easy to participate in without using their brains.
The officials are obviously very good at this, and soon an entertainment activity appeared on the Internet: surfing the Internet on mobile phones to cheer for your favorite superheroes.
Whether it's nicknames, appearance, armor and equipment, or combat power and performance, they can be brought out every time and debated with fans of other heroes.
I have to say that this is really easy for people to get involved in. After all, compared to those tragedies, such arguments are more attractive.
So for a while, the Internet was full of wars of words. Fan groups of various superheroes cheered for their idols, but this thing always has to be contrasted to be interesting. Naturally, a situation was formed where one was praised and the other was criticized, and the debate ensued. As soon as a debate occurs, there will be onlookers, and the onlookers represent attention.
With attention, some media will naturally get involved and fan the flames. Their ability to make a living is to make a living by being weird.
So the debate became more intense.
On the contrary, Tahiti's attention continues to decline...
I have to say, this thing is more magical than magic.
