The State of the Union address, the annual report of the President of the United States delivered in the House Hall of the U.S. Capitol during a joint session of Congress. While there is no statutory fixed date, the State of the Union address is usually chosen to be released on the last Tuesday of January. However, this year, for some reason, it was set on the second day after the New Year's holiday.

When the president walked into the hall of the House of Representatives, he was greeted with unprecedented applause and cheers. Both the Democrats and Republicans, and even the members of the Supreme Court and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who have always remained neutral, welcomed the young president with the highest enthusiasm to show the world the firmness and confidence of the United States.

Belle stood in the corner of the hall, not very far from the president, and was able to observe the vast majority of the audience at the same time. However, when the House Guard introduced the President to the entrance, and the audience cheered enthusiastically, her vision was seriously disturbed, and it was at this moment that her instincts, which had always been accurate, came into effect again.

"Aren't these guys a little overzealous? Tonight's C-SPAN ratings are sure to be the best in the world. She reported it through the walkie-talkie, passing on the anomaly she had noticed in a joke way. Her walkie-talkie is connected to the entire security system, and she can't take intuition as evidence, only hoping that someone will agree with this anomaly and be vigilant at the same time.

Secret Service Chief Nathan Green apparently noticed as well.

"It's really strange that the Speaker of the House of Representatives is a Democrat, and according to tradition, he shouldn't have welcomed a Republican president so warmly."

Mark Usher, the president's chief of staff, was standing with the Secret Service chief, and Mark heard Belle over the intercom.

He explained: "During the special period, we have negotiated with the Democratic Party, and now the United States needs some partisan cooperation. ”

"Are you sure? This sincerity doesn't look like it's acted, right? Belle watched carefully, and at this point her vision was blocked, and she could only see the front row, "Look at that Democratic Justice Mrs. Heather Dunbar, she's much colder." ”

"The Supreme Court needs to remain neutral." "Focus your attention where it's needed, kid." ”

Belle shook her head and took out Stark's specially developed phone, which could still be used even during the period of signal blocking. She sent Peter a message rebuking the Washington bureaucracy for how difficult it was.

Peter never replied. For the first time in his life, he is in the highest level of readiness.

Spider-Man crouches at the top of the Cape Henry Lighthouse on Virginia Beach, staring at the distant sea, using his spider senses to act as a makeshift radar. Even in the bitter cold wind, he remained motionless, and rarely remained absolutely silent.

Because before he came, there was already a ship in the vicinity that was completely lost.

It was a S.H.I.E.L.D. survey ship, less than thirty nautical miles from the Seventh Fleet's defenses, and was receiving an order to return to the ship when it suddenly sent out a distress call and then disappeared silently. Captain America made a quick decision, and with the help of Doctor Strange, everyone rushed to Virginia at once. War Machines, Iron Man, Falcon, and Vision are searching in full force in the air, Captain America has contacted the commander of the Seventh Fleet, and the reconnaissance planes on board the aircraft carrier have also been dispatched. Hawkeye, Black Widow, and Scarlet Witch are stationed at the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay, a necessary route for an invasion of Washington by sea on the Atlantic Ocean.

"Are we being attacked?" Wanda looked unusually worried.

She may be the only person living in the United States who has personally experienced the destruction of her homeland. Although she doesn't even have a U.S. passport, no one feels it more strongly than she feels at this moment.

"We're trying to prevent that from happening, now ......"

Clint Barton comforted her. However, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, although the combat power is not top-notch, but it stands up well, and before he finished speaking, Spider-Man, who was squatting at the top of the lighthouse, felt that his hairs were about to stand up (the trend was just that, limited by the tight-fitting spider suit) and sent a contact.

"Something's coming!"

War machines flying in the air were the first to witness the anomaly.

A large frigate is shaking, slowly sinking!

"We were attacked, we were attacked!"

The captain's distress signal quickly spread, and the war machine immediately swooped down to support, but before he could get closer, he crashed into a defensive field, and the outer armor was slightly damaged.

"We are in trouble, inform all pilots, do not rush closer, repeat, do not rush close!"

The planes that were about to rush to support heard the message from the war machine and had to adjust their direction, but there were still a few planes that did not adjust enough, and they crashed headlong into the protective force field and were shattered.

Iron Man, Vision, and Falcon also hurried to the scene, seeing that the crashed fighter was still at least a kilometer away from the frigate, all three of them also changed their strategies and prepared to estimate the range of the defense force field first.

"Falcon go back first, you can't hover in the air, it's too dangerous to act rashly here."

Iron Man gave the order, and Sam Wilson could only accept it, even though he was not convinced. He increased his flight altitude quite a bit before returning to the shore and standing by with Hawkeye and the others.

"FRIDAY, HOW'S THE SCAN GOING?"

"The range of the defensive force field is constantly changing, and no pattern has been found yet, and the current limit radius of deployment is two kilometers, measured by the frigate as the central point."

"Just kidding, no rules, right?" It's hard for War Machine to believe the conclusion of the artificial intelligence, "Is there anything else in this world that Tony Stark can't find a pattern?" ”

Vision provided his opinion in a timely manner, he may be more intelligent than Stark's AI, "If you only scan the part above the sea surface, or if the overall scanning speed is less than the target moving speed, it is really difficult to find patterns, and we may need to go below the sea surface to see." ”

"Alright," Iron Man quickly turned around and plunged headlong into the sea, "see if you have the guts, wait for me, or follow me." ”

"Who said we were following you, I was just following my own heart." The war machine followed.

Vision hesitated for a moment and said, "My gallbladder is man-made, I don't know if it fits the characteristics of a human gallbladder described by Mr. Stark." ”

"Oh my God, for God's sake," said Iron Man, "come here!" ”

The Iron Man trio pounced underwater, and they didn't catch anything. It was already dark, and it was underwater, so there was basically no light to speak of. The currents were strong, the water was full of bubbles, and the results of infrared detection were not satisfactory. If they had dispersed their search, all three of them might have been defeated by their own, so it didn't take long for them to have to return to the surface of the sea.

Within a few minutes of their entry into the water, seven more ships were attacked, and they had no idea what was attacking them, only that the cabin was ruptured and the hull was dragged and sank rapidly. The entire attack was accurate, efficient, and silent.

Spider-Man standing on a high place shivered a little, I don't know if it was because of the cold wind or because of this strange scene.

"Have any of you seen Clash of the Gods, I think someone seems to have released a sea monster!" Peter said that looking at the whirlpools that suddenly appeared on the surface of the sea, the rushing water, and listening to the loud roar, he felt that this scene seemed familiar.

The three people flying in the sky saw the culprit of today's attack more intuitively from a high altitude, a huge metal snake head suddenly drilled out from under the sea, just like a real snake hunting, fast, smart, the war machine didn't have time to react, fortunately, the vision shot in time, and hit the snake's body hard, the giant snake was bent to the ground, and the snake's head failed to close in the position of the war machine, allowing him to escape.

The moment it collided with the giant serpent, the Mind Gem on Vision's forehead sensed something different.

"It's not a mechanical creation, it's a living being!"

"Hey, hey, guys, don't stop where you are, there's something else!" Iron Man shouted as he quickly retreated, dodging the second attack.

Immediately afterward, the third, fourth, and fifth snake heads also surfaced and began to attack everything they could get their hands on with impunity. The warships of the Seventh Fleet did not have such high maneuverability, and several frigates that were too close could not dodge and were directly smashed in two.

"Were the sunken warships just now directly bitten by snakes and dragged into the water?" For the rest of his life after the war machine, watching these snakes attack everywhere, his heart palpitated, "How many snakes do they have!" ”

"I think there's probably just one, but there's just a lot of it." While dodging the attack of the snake head, the illusion also calmly analyzed the situation, "Each snake head has a limited attack range, and all of them are equal, it is likely that it comes from the same subject, but it is not ruled out that the other party deliberately arranged this attack method in order to confuse us." ”

"Don't you need to ask, these guys just made a hydra!" Iron Man said as he aimed a pulse cannon at the location of the snake body that had just been hit by the illusion, and found that it had no effect at all, "The snake body material is very strong, I can't tell what this thing is, where did they get the technology to make this thing?" ”

Their conversation was also heard by a few people on the shore in the distance.

Hawkeye asked, "Is the robot that attacked Belle before similar to this technology?" ”

"Chances are," Iron Man said, "this thing looks like the big guys at Kitari's invasion, and their main purpose in stealing alien weapons was to build this basilisk." ”

"Black Widow and Hawkeye, immediately contact the local police station and evacuate all residents, Wanda guards the coast to prevent the battle from spreading to the city, Peter contacts Washington to prevent anyone from taking advantage of the chaos to raid, and then contact Doctor Strange and ask him to return from Los Angeles as soon as possible, there is no time to study that broken book now, we need him to join the war."

After Captain America finished the mission, he also jumped on a Quint fighter, "For the rest of you, let's try to limit the battle to the sea." ”

"I've just returned." Sam Wilson grumbled, but the expression on his face was excited, he was particularly sorry that he was not able to participate in the last operation in Sokovia, he had always been proud of being an Avenger.

Peter also quickly recorded a video and sent it to Belle and Doctor Strange respectively, conveying the captain's arrangement.

Doctor Strange quickly sent a reply: "There's a new discovery in Los Angeles, and he needs to continue working on that 'broken book', which may find a way to defeat this monster." ”

Belle sent a strange reply: "Count how many heads the snake has, and tell me." ”

Peter didn't understand what this meant, but he was sure that Belle wouldn't ask for no reason, so he passed the news to Iron Man and the others, asking them to help count the heads.

Vision was the first to conclude: "Eight have been found so far. ”

Peter informed Belle of the number, and the latter quickly replied, "There won't be a ninth, the ninth head was cut off by both of us in New York!" ”