World War II had a great impact on many of the countries involved, but the most significant changes were in Germany and the United States.

Needless to say, Germany, which was strong enough to challenge the whole world, fell sharply after surrendering, while the United States has risen from a debtor country to the world's largest creditor country.

The United States has greatly improved its finance, science and technology, sphere of influence, and international status, but the most profitable thing is still selling weapons and military funds to the Axis and Allies.

Although the US president and the government are behind the arms sales to other countries, Stark Industries, as the country's largest arms supplier, still makes a lot of profits.

Jones, who had been suppressed by Howard, promised to support him as the Black King who controlled the Hellfire Club after getting this tempting promise from Shaw, which also made sense.

If you want Jones's Roxon Industries Group to become the No. 1 arms dealer in the United States and even the world, you must first solve the Stark Group, so Li Nan asked with some concern: "What is Shaw's plan, and how does he plan to help you?" ”

Seeing that Li Nan's mood calmed down, Jones also secretly breathed a sigh of relief and replied: "This Xiao didn't elaborate, but you have also seen the strength of him and those two mutants, and I don't want to die so early, so I can only promise him." ”

Jones also has a point, there are few people in the world who will ignore the threat of death, and he can be regarded as half-voluntarily and half-forced to go along with Shaw.

The death penalty can be avoided, the living crime is inescapable, and today Li Nan also completely exposed a few of his hole cards, so he didn't want to continue to hide, so he just took this opportunity to solve some things.

Li Nan took the recovered Emma to one end of the conference table, and the two sat on the luxurious wooden chairs representing the White King and the White Queen.

Glancing around at the others, Li Nan asked lightly: "In the future, I will be the White King, and Emma will be the White Queen, do you have any opinions?" ”

These words made everyone a little stunned, they never expected that Xiao, who was going to become the black king, had just escaped, and now Li Nan was about to ascend to the throne of the white king.

Jones is a wealthy businessman, although he is ruthless in business, but he also cherishes his life very much, so after noticing Li Nan's cold gaze towards him, he first voted in favor.

Tom, the deputy director of the FBI, hooked up with Li Nan a long time ago, and he also contributed to the fact that the war group was able to grow to this point, so after a little hesitation, he also expressed his approval.

The remaining U.S. Admiral, who was good friends with Jones, and Colonel Hendry, saw the general trend and did not disagree.

At this point, the first White King and White Queen of the Hellfire Club in the United States were officially produced, that is, Li Nan and Emma.

Although it was Li Nan's power that she had earned a place in the Hellfire Club, Emma was still very excited, and she seemed to like the title of the White Queen very much.

After this unexpected meeting, Li Nan returned home, and after thinking about it for a while, he quickly called his old friend Howard in New York, informing him to be on high alert to prevent him from being assassinated by mutants.

More than a decade later, Howard, who is now middle-aged, has matured a lot and got married a few years ago, but he still speaks with a sense of nonchalance.

"Xiao is not an ordinary person, and I don't think the technology you have can deal with him and his men." Li Nan said in a rare serious tone: "Howard, I advise you to be careful, I still want to see my godson born." ”

"Okay, okay."

Li Nan called so seriously to warn, Howard is not an ignorant person, he replied seriously: "I'll call Carter and ask her to find more people from S.H.I.E.L.D. to protect me, it's all right." ”

"Find more top masters, ordinary people are definitely not Xiao's opponents, I will pass on the ability information of those three mutants to you in a while."

Putting down the phone, Li Nan went to the study and passed the details of Shaw, the Red Devil, and Tempest to Howard in New York and Carter in S.H.I.E.L.D.

After all this was done, Li Nan poured himself a glass of Macallan whiskey, sat in a chair and tasted the mellow wine, Li Nan began to think about Shaw's next step.

Everyone is different, and the ideas between people are even more different, so until the sky is dark, Li Nan didn't understand the other party's thinking, so he could only give up.

The days that followed were a bit uneventful, but fortunately, there was no bad news from New York, which suggests that Shaw didn't do anything to Howard.

Now that Xiao has appeared, Li Nan has also sent people to find Eric's traces, although this child's ability is also very powerful, but he is probably not Xiao's opponent yet.

Just when people all over the world were living in peace, a videotape that had not yet appeared on TV was sent to Li Nan.

As the leading media tycoon in the United States, Li Nan has many reporters and various hidden news channels, and this tape is the record of a meeting of the US military.

The content of this military meeting was simple, the US military decided to deploy medium-range ballistic missiles "Thor" and "Jubit" missiles in Italy and Turkey.

After watching this videotape, Li Nan was a little shocked, he did not expect that the US military would make such a decision.

After World War II, Germany, Italy, and Japan were defeated, while China, which had been recuperating after several years of war, was still recuperating, Britain and France were unknown, and only the United States in the West and the Soviet Union in the East became stronger.

Since the beginning of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, although there have been some minor frictions between the two sides from time to time, the governments and leaders of both countries have avoided the advent of a full-scale nuclear war.

Now that the United States has deployed missiles in Italy and Turkey, it will be able to directly attack the Soviet mainland, which will inevitably cause a fierce reaction from the Soviet Union.

And Howard, who is a military arms supplier, has long revealed to Li Nan that in fact, many reasonable people in the US military are opposing this crazy plan.

It is this plan to deploy missiles, which almost everyone opposes, and now it has passed the meeting of the US military, which is rather strange.

The Hellfire Club has always had military personnel on board, so Li Nan hurriedly called General George and Colonel Hendry, who supported the deployment of missiles in the two countries at the meeting.

"George was in the army and he never came home."

"Colonel Hendry isn't here, I'm sorry, I don't know where he went."

Li Nan made several phone calls in a row, but judging from the responses received by their families and the army, both men were missing.