Chapter 52: The 911 Incident
On September 12, 2001, Director Nick was sitting alone in his office with a headache. Since Agent Coulson brought back bad news on June 6, 2001, S.H.I.E.L.D. has been able to say that things have gone badly. In order to prevent Magneto from doing things, S.H.I.E.L.D. used a lot of manpower and material resources, but Magneto changed his temperament, and even the entire mutant brotherhood kept his mouth shut, which is honest!
After analysis, S.H.I.E.L.D. thought that this was the calm before the storm, and now the more silent it is, the bigger the fire will be, and when Magneto breaks out, it is definitely not a small movement! So instead of stopping, S.H.I.E.L.D. has increased its investment, and as a result, this judgment has made a strategic error, and Magneto is stunned and pretends to be a turtle with a shrunken head, and refuses to come out no matter how provocative he is.
It wasn't until August that the police contacted S.H.I.E.L.D. to ask for help, and it dawned on S.H.I.E.L.D. what exactly Magneto was doing? Magneto didn't go to any terrorist attacks, he went to make fakes! According to the results of the police's economic crime investigation, Magneto traveled all over the United States during this time, maliciously counterfeiting more than 30 brands of drinks, including Coca-Cola and other big brand products, in fact, it was these large companies that found that their products were maliciously counterfeited, reported to the police station, put pressure on the high-level, and the police departments around the country tried their best to jointly handle the case, and finally dug out the black sheep of Magneto! Because Magneto has adopted a very crazy strategy, the fake he made has been identified by the police as harmless functional drinks, often drinking can effectively supplement people's physical exertion, and in appearance and the genuine product is almost exactly the same, if it is not because the genuine product has a factory number, I am afraid that even the manufacturer can not distinguish the authenticity from the appearance, coupled with the wholesale price set by Magneto, it is simply low and frustrating, businessmen around the world know that Magneto sells fakes, but also pretend not to see, into the store to sell! Because legally speaking, all the liability for violations is Magneto's, and the merchants just didn't find out that Magneto was selling fakes, and at most they could remove these fakes from the shelves after they were discovered, and there was no legal liability other than that. But what if you sell it? Buy wholesale from Magneto, you only need to pay a 15% deposit to get the goods, and the payment is settled quarterly, which is not counted, Magneto's goods are only 1/5 of the manufacturer's price. The huge profits brought by this inside and outside have made all the merchants blind, deaf, and dumb! If it weren't for the uproar of the genuine companies that produce beverages, I'm afraid this pot would never have been revealed!
Although the culprit was found, the police had nothing to do with Magneto. No matter what Magneto says, he is also the boss of the international terrorist organization Mutant Brotherhood, and he belongs to a big man with a name and surname, and the police have no choice but to go to S.H.I.E.L.D., and Magneto's fake is finally known by S.H.I.E.L.D.
After the identification of S.H.I.E.L.D. experts, all the counterfeit drinks, although disguised in appearance, are essentially small blue bottles! The experts spent a lot of effort to conduct in-depth research, and finally came to a positive conclusion that this thing is completely harmless to the human body! Because the little blue bottle is essentially a functional drink, but its directivity is very good for mutants, there is nothing special about it, the materials used to make the little blue bottle are very easy to buy, and it takes a little effort to synthesize, but in the large industrial production of modern technology, there is no problem! If there is anything special about the whole thing, it is that Magneto's fraudulent operation is completely at a loss, and the experts have calculated the consumption required for Magneto's counterfeiting activities, unless he can recover the money as planned every quarter, the more he sells, the more he loses, and it is initially estimated that Magneto's crazy counterfeiting activities during this period have brought tens of millions of dollars in losses to Magneto and Magneto's mutant brotherhood!
Knowing what Magneto was doing, S.H.I.E.L.D. finally breathed a sigh of relief, a while ago, I was so worried about Magneto every day to make a big move, it really tired everyone, and now I know that Magneto is busy making fakes, no matter what the reason, everyone can finally breathe a sigh of relief. Originally, I thought that this kind of cost-losing action would not be possible for Magneto to persevere. Contrary to everyone's expectations, Magneto did not stop, but became more and more crazy, and by September, almost all the common beverage manufacturers came to the door. Rich people always have a way, not to mention so many rich people whose interests have been harmed, and who are anxious to turn red-eyed! The pressure they put together could not even bear the pressure exerted by Director Nick, so they had no choice but to dispatch elite agents, intending to clean up the bold Magneto! Unfortunately, this time Magneto got the hang of it, and he was playing a trick case, unlike in the past, there was always a target, which made it more difficult to arrest him, and the elite agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. chased him like mad dogs for several days, and he didn't even see the shadow of Magneto!
Director Nick is furious and reformulates his plan, intending to unite and coordinate the forces of all parties to jointly capture the reckless Magneto. I didn't think about Magneto's old opponents, and the X-Men represented by Professor X refused to contribute this time, and they also said that Magneto did not engage in any terrorist activities this time, but just some commercial activities, and the X-Men did not have a position to dispatch! Director Nick asked people to check the recent capital flow of the Genius Academy, and as expected, they found that there were many large-scale purchases of beverages.
Professor X was looking in the mirror and there were many small black dots on the top of his head, which was a really encouraging trend, and it was only a matter of time before his hair was restored like this. A tall middle-aged man walked up behind Professor X, and the glasses he wore could not change his strong temperament, which was finally capable of turning into a human form - a beast.
Professor X: "How's the reverse research on the little blue bottle?"
The Beast has succeeded. Our old friend Magneto has given us too much material this time, and it is easy to find out the effective structure of the little blue bottle by comparing them with each other. However, if we make our own small blue bottles, the cost will be about 1/3 lower than the purchase. ”
Professor X: "You can't count it that way. You can see the effect of the little blue bottle now, it is a great help for us and for the children! For mutants, the little blue bottle is a panacea, and for ordinary people, the little blue bottle is a harmless functional drink. It's just that you and I both understand that this kind of thing can't pass the food and beverage censorship, and those politicians can't agree to it, and it's doomed that the little blue bottle can't become a legitimate product! Magneto is doing good things for us mutants this time, but judging from the current situation, the pressure and resistance he faces is too great. I don't know how long he'll be able to hold out, so even for the sake of the kids, we have to master our own skills in making little blue bottles!"
Unlike leaders like Professor X, many mutants living in the folk have also been affected. For example, the little naughty who is crying, as a mutant who has long awakened his mutant ability, the little naughty wraps himself tightly all day long, and deliberately does not contact others. Of course, you won't make any friends by doing this, and you will only be regarded as a freak by your peers. As soon as Magneto's fake product was released, it was luckily discovered by Naughty who used all his savings to buy a large number of small blue bottles, and after taking it, Naughty found that he could control his ability and would not suck others dry just because he had intimate contact with them. Happy little naughty, that night got his new boyfriend to bed, the same night, the little naughty new boyfriend because of physical exhaustion caused by a lumbar muscle injury, was sent to the hospital, the next day mercilessly kicked the little naughty, the little naughty love just started to end. What's worse is that good things don't go out, bad things spread thousands of miles, I don't know who spread this thing, poor little naughty not only lost his new boyfriend, but also gained a new nickname - savage girl! The more I think about it, the more I feel wronged little naughty, hiding at home and crying, this is really a sad story!
Mutants like Little Naughty who live among the people are actually the ones who are most affected by the fakes made by Magneto, and the vast majority of them have very weak mutant abilities, and according to the division of abilities, the vast majority of them can only be divided into first-level abilities, which are estranged from ordinary people, and there is no powerful mutant organization to unify them, and they belong to an absolutely vulnerable group in the political ecology. The little blue bottle does not change this in essence, but the effect of taking the little blue bottle can bring them hope, and it is this hope that people sometimes live poorly! A small change may bring completely different results in the future. The result of a person's future being changed does not matter to the general trend, but what about thousands of people? What about tens of thousands of people? Not to mention that there are still carriers of the X gene who do not know how many X genes, after taking the little blue bottle, gradually have new possibilities! All this is like countless tiny water droplets, which are converging into the river of fate, and there is a new trend in the future!
Magneto and the Mutant Brotherhood have been living very well lately. The earth chariot is really a magical magic prop, the inside of the chariot comes with a space of 100 cubic meters, the demon girl as the driver of the chariot, can bring other people to this space, although other people will be suppressed by the power of the space after entering this space, completely incapacitated, but in exchange for super high mobility. The Mutant Brotherhood is also an international organization, and even in a high-end industry such as aviation, there is a talent pool, and with the guidance of professionals, the Demonic Girl can avoid many minefields when she flies in a land chariot. And with the flight speed of the Earth Chariot, as long as you don't step on the thunder, neither the old US military nor S.H.I.E.L.D. has any way to take the Earth Chariot.
Add to that the huge benefits of Magneto's counterfeiting operations, and you read that right, Magneto doesn't sell fakes at a loss, as S.H.I.E.L.D. experts calculate. It's easy to lose money by selling fakes, but as long as the scale increases, it's a huge force. If you want to engage in which brand of products, you can produce which brand of products, under the large number of distribution, the price difference will determine whether the manufacturer's genuine products can not be sold, and then release some true and false gossip in a timely manner, causing the manufacturer's stock to plummet! Through this completely illegal financial manipulation method, Magneto has made great gains in the stock market, which is equivalent to being both a player and a referee, unless a little bit of back to home, how can it be lost? If you buy more shares, you can join the board of directors, and then you will have more means to play. In comparison, the loss of a large number of low-priced dumping fakes is not the same thing at all!
On September 11, 2001, there was a thunderclap on the ground! A passenger plane hijacked by terrorists crashed into the Petronas Twin Towers!