White House.
Benjamin looked at the cabinet staff arguing and shirk among themselves, his face was extremely calm, he even made himself a cup of coffee, and then turned to look out the window.
Ah...life...is really fucked!
Want to resign.
What will you do after retirement? To publish a book? Well, good idea.
Benjamin Scheer is already very Buddhist, and his tenure has been so troubled that there is nothing to excite him about now. There are myths and stories, there are aliens, what else will appear, is it not a matter of course?
Soon Nick Fury walked in and everyone looked at him. Except for the president.
The president was still looking out the window.
Others also took note of the president's performance.
"Mr. President." The staff called softly.
"Oh? Are you done arguing?" Benjamin turned around and looked at everyone. As for Nick Fury, he didn't even take a second look. This president is very dissatisfied with SHIELD, very dissatisfied! Once again, S.H.I.E.L.D. did nothing. No warning, no report, no explanation.
Benjamin doesn't even know what position SHIELD is in the American system.
Just tell me, what is the purpose of SHIELD?
Nick Fury's face is not good-looking. The reason why he appears here is naturally not to make the president look bad on him. His original plan was to appear in the White House as a savior and convince the president.
Yes, that's what Nick really thinks. At a time like this, SHIELD should use its power.
But alas, the President seems to be even more dissatisfied with S.H.I.E.L.D.
Everyone is really confused about the president's statement.
"You have been arguing for a long time. What are you arguing about?"
"We are...discussing whether to launch a diplomatic assault or declare war." The female defense minister said a little awkwardly.
The current White House cabinet is divided into two factions. One faction prefers diplomatic means, and this faction is headed by the Secretary of State. By the way, the Secretary of State is a left-wing politician who has always been interested in topics such as environmental protection. He is also the main promoter of issues such as new energy, energy conservation and emission reduction in the United States. In addition, the Secretary of State is in charge of diplomacy, so he The anger towards the Atlanteans is understandable, and I think they can achieve their goals through diplomatic means such as negotiations with Atlantis.
Atlantis is angry at them for polluting the ocean, so they can give in.
This in itself is a topic of concern to many people.
A group of people headed by the Minister of Defense believed that the war had already begun, and they were still talking about it! Start fighting directly!
If the navy is gone, will they admit defeat?
They also have nuclear warheads!
It’s impossible to admit defeat!
"Oh, did you get the result of your quarrel?" President Benjamin suddenly felt a sense of detachment at this time.
How can you, a bunch of idiots, do good politics with you, a bunch of insects!
Then, without waiting for them to speak, he said: "You said you want diplomacy, okay, tell me first, how to do it? Which of you will go diving in the deep sea?"
Just kidding, if the Atlanteans were in the shallow sea, they wouldn't have been discovered just now.
Deep sea... Haha, the diving depth of mankind's most advanced submarines is only that deep.
in addition……
"Also, do any of you know where Atlantis is?"
A group of people looked at each other.
Then President Benjamin looked at the female Minister of Defense: "You too, in a war, you have to know where the enemy is, right? Or are you planning to catch them with fishing nets?"
The group of people looked at each other again.
The female Minister of Defense immediately said: "We can wait for them to come to land and then use..."
Benjamin looked at her helplessly.
That look was like looking at an idiot.
"Do others need to come to land? Others only need to prevent us from even a single ship entering the sea, and our economy will completely collapse!"
The United States has been screwed by its capitalists. Deindustrialization may seem wonderful, but in fact it is a self-defeating act. Except for a few heavy industries in the United States, all other industries have relocated. Do you know why the military-industrial complex is so awesome?
Do you think it’s just because the military-industrial complex has money?
Of course this is one aspect, but the real reason is that military industrial enterprises are not allowed to relocate abroad! This means that military-industrial enterprises represent a large number of jobs! All industries in the United States are deteriorating. The once proud automobile industry has declined, various light industries have disappeared, and many low-end industrial products also need to be imported. Only the military industry is booming. Politicians may be able to ignore the monetary lobbying of those military industry companies, but they cannot refuse votes.
Here, whoever can bring more jobs and reduce unemployment will get votes.
Without these, there are no votes.
In this case, who would not give dignity to the military-industrial complex?
After all, someone else got the point. This is also the reason why the military-industrial complex has an increasing influence on American politics after World War II.
Deindustrialization has led to the need to import light industry and low-end industrial products in the United States!
Without these cheap goods, the cost of living for Americans will increase rapidly. Coupled with problems in shipping, this will inevitably lead to large-scale business closures or layoffs, and an increase in unemployment.
The cost of living is rising and unemployment is rising.
Naturally leads to various social problems!
The key is that the American political system has no good solution, because the government cannot interfere with the market!
This is fatal.
If the economy is ruined, social unrest will follow.
And then... nothing more.
There is no perfect society in this world, and the U.S. government is also full of all kinds of contradictions, racial contradictions, and contradictions between rich and poor. When the economy is good, these can naturally cover up the past, but once the economy has problems, then no contradictions will become big contradictions, not to mention that the United States definitely cannot be said to have no contradictions, on the contrary, the contradictions will be huge!
Seeing that his staff were silent, Benjamin shook his head.
Do these people really not understand this?
No!
They understand very well!
But they didn't know what to do at all, so they were arguing. They couldn't let themselves appear helpless.
It's a bad idea, but it's an idea.
"Okay, let's hear what our rare visitor has to say. Nick Fury."
Benjamin was too lazy to say anything, but said directly to Nick Fury: "Look what our SHIELD is hiding from us."
Nick Fury's heart skipped a beat, and he realized that he had made a very stupid mistake.
He still handled the matter the SHIELD way.
What is the form and style of SHIELD?
Mysticism, of course!
In other words, he did not notify the White House or Congress at all.
It was nothing before, now...
"us……"
"I'm not going to listen to sophistry, tell me the things I care about!" Benjamin was impatient.
Nick opened his mouth, and finally told everyone present what he knew.
You can't hide this thing.
"Ha!" The president laughed when he heard this: "I, the President of the United States. There was an invasion of Atlantis in my land. I didn't even know! The news I got was that it was a tsunami. ! I just issued a statement of silence yesterday... Now you tell me that SHIELD knew that the Atlanteans were going to invade, but you didn't say anything! And then you just sat back and watched those attacks happen... Falk! "
President, you're swearing.
Nick Fury immediately added: "The reason why we chose to deal with it secretly is to prevent the situation from expanding and causing unnecessary panic.
"See, this is our SHIELD!" The president looked at the two whips and the officials who had lobbied the president not to severely punish SHIELD.
But he didn't say anything, and instead looked at Nick Fury.
"So, I should thank you SHIELD for doing me such a big favor?"
Nick shut up.
"I don't want to be held responsible now, tell me what you are going to do!"
Nick Fury hesitated for a while before he revealed the plan of Mela and others.
The president didn't want to talk.
He instinctively resisted this plan... and pinned the safety of billions of people on a brutal duel?
Farke!
"Tell me, where is Kai?" The president was too lazy to say anything. He decided to lie down. Anyway, the previous major events were solved by superheroes. This time he was too lazy to act like a monster, so he might as well do it again.
Nick Fury immediately understood what the president meant: "Mr. President, please trust our SHIELD, we can..."
"You can be so stupid! Tell me, Director Fury! What on earth did your SHIELD do?! My country spent so much money! But what did your SHIELD do?!! In the battle of Los Angeles, you did nothing. As! In the Battle of New York, you dropped a nuclear bomb on the mainland! Now...you tell you that you can solve it? Maybe those superheroes can't solve it, but what the heck, they don't have to spend money! Others work voluntarily!!!"
Those present finally understood what the president meant.
He's going to take the blame!
Although this time it is really a natural disaster and has nothing to do with the president and the government. But the problem is that people don't care about this. They need to vent.
If the president doesn't want to step down in despair, then he must set a target!
A scapegoat!
then……
Nick Fury gets it too.
Damn it, they originally planned to be the savior, but in the blink of an eye they turned into the scapegoat!
"Mr. President, please give me some time, we can solve this matter!" To save yourself, you must save yourself!
"How to solve it?" Benjamin said coldly.
"We have channels to contact Atlantis!"
The president raised an eyebrow.
The anger is rising again, Nima, there is indeed something you are hiding from me!
But thinking of the urgency of the matter, he held back his anger: "How long?"
"Three days!"
Nick Fury wants to delay it for a little longer, but is there any way?
He is just fooling around!
Where did he get the channel?
He just hoped that Arthur would succeed. Then just fool around with it.
Of course, he still has a trump card, but he doesn't know if it's too late.
Just now, he pressed an old-fashioned pager.
At the same time, on the other side of the universe, a woman flying in the universe suddenly received the message, and then turned around and flew towards the earth.
"I'll give you three days!"
…
"The sea is hidden in the center of the earth..." Kai finally learned the name of this inner earth world from Atlanna. Looking at the naming rules, he knew that this was a name given by the people of Atlantis. At the same time, Kai also knew how Atlanna came in in the first place. She was sacrificed to the Trench Clan, but the Trench Clan did not kill her, but threw her into a bottomless underwater cavity. , followed by a burst of uncontrollable twisting, and she came here.
"What's going on here?"
Atlanna was a little embarrassed: "I don't know either. I only move around the sea. It's too dangerous here. There are all kinds of monsters on the land. And in the sea... there are Karasen."
Otherwise, Atlanna would be unlucky.
Let alone land, it is indeed very dangerous. A creature as big as a flying snake was in danger of being hunted, not to mention that Atlanna was alone. What's even more unfortunate is that she can't move around freely in the sea.
Because this sea area is Karasen’s territory! Because of the existence of this giant beast, this sea area is relatively safe. Outside of here, there are activities of various monsters. Atlanna tried to break out several times, but the result... was left unexplained several times. Lose.
So she was trapped here.
"Karasen?" Kai tilted his head, as if he had heard this name somewhere.
Kai soon remembered: "Ken Kraken?"
Sea monster legends basically exist in every civilization, and they are all different, but Kai knows that some of them are true. Like Karason.
Legend has it that a long time ago, a giant ocean beast that was said to be 10,000 meters long harmed humans everywhere and attacked cities near the sea.
In the Age of Mythology, Poseidon, the god of the sea, conquered the beast and killed it. and built a continent from its corpse.
It was Atlantis.
Afterwards, countless sea monsters were born from the flesh and blood of this giant beast.
Later, the king of Atlantis used the artifact trident given by Poseidon to subdue the largest sea monster, Karason. And bound it in the deep sea, imprisoning it forever. It was not allowed to destroy Poseidon's kingdom.
And Karason's other title is the North Sea Kraken.
In fact, Kai has never seen this monster before.
"This thing actually exists?"
"Yes. Not only does it exist, it also occupies the most precious treasure of Atlantis - Neptune's Trident!"
It turns out that there is an Atlantis ruins under this sea area. It is impossible to determine the era when the ruins were built. But according to the information Atlanna has collected from the ruins over the years, the last Atlantis emperor is sleeping in the ruins with the Neptune Trident.
Atlanna naturally thought about getting the artifact Trident, because she also learned from the ruins that if she wanted to leave the center of the earth and hide in the sea, she must get the Neptune Trident!
Unfortunately, Karason stopped her.
"You say...can I get that trident?"
Kai thought something was wrong. He was very familiar with Poseidon.
But Atlanna shook her head with a wry smile: "The Neptune Trident will only recognize the bloodline of the King of Atlantis. This is an artifact given to us by Poseidon."
"This is not simple. After I get it, can't I give it to you?"
"It's not that simple." With that, Atlanna took Kai into the cave and came to the deepest pool in the cave. "This is the entrance to the resting place of the late king. If you don't believe it, you can try it."
