Chapter 214: A Call from Midgard
In various countries, adults like to ask children what their dreams are for the future.
No matter what country you are in, there is one answer that is very similar, and that is - to be a hero and defend world peace!
In this world, the proportion of this answer is also very high, because superheroes are no longer just fairy tale characters, there are all kinds of superheroes all over the world, fighting against evil forces.
The job of 'S.H.I.E.L.D.'s is to wipe the butts of these superheroes a lot of the time.
When there are no major incidents, the work of 'S.H.I.E.L.D.) is relatively easy, and almost all of them are logistics-oriented.
No, I just received a request for help from the 'Arthur Group', hoping that S.H.I.E.L.D. can provide spiritual counseling and even hypnosis to a small number of passengers on the Queen Anne, so that they will not make a big deal about what they have seen.
In Fury's director's office, Agent Coulson, who had just returned to report and change his equipment, was called.
"Isn't it, it's this kind of aftermath work again?" After listening to Fury's mission description, Agent Coulson said with a bitter face, "Director, the purpose of our squad is to fight super criminals, can't this kind of aftermath work be handed over to others?" β
"The purpose of cracking down on supercriminals is to maintain social stability, and the aftermath is no less important than fighting supercriminals...... Coulson, you're not like that, it seems that the formation of the team has brought you a lot of changes......" Fury put down the papers in his hand and smiled.
Agent Coulson is Fury's number one confidant, and he never says a word about his orders, even if he knows that there is no life in the mission.
Fury also admires Agent Coulson's abilities and character, and has always groomed him as a successor.
Recently, however, it became apparent that Agent Coulson had changed somewhat.
"There are a bunch of little ones under my hands who need to take care of their emotions, and if they don't change, they will be annoyed to death." Agent Coulson shook his head and smiled bitterly, "You also know that even Fitz and Simmons, who graduated from the Secret Service Academy, have the goal of becoming superheroes, not to mention Skye, especially when there is such a 'role model......' in the team recently."
"How does it feel to have such a famous superhero under your hands, is it stressful?" Fury asked with his hands resting on the table, his hands crossed in front of him, and with interest.
"The pressure is okay, Matt's personality is very calm, especially in dealing with criminals, his experience is better than mine, plus his combat effectiveness is still above Mei, which makes us a lot easier." Agent Coulson said matter-of-factly, "But with Matt, a living superhero, it also makes Skye even more non-stop." β
"It's not a bad thing to be motivated, these little guys under your hands can be your best helpers in the future, and it's worth using more snacks." Fury smiled and said, "You should treat this mission as a half-vacation, you have collapsed too tightly after returning from Tahiti, which is not good for your condition, you still have to take a break when you should rest, and combine work and rest." β
"Director, I'm really completely well......"
"Okay, okay, don't argue with me, just when you're already well, but even if you're well, can't you take a vacation? You don't need to take a vacation, so do the little ones under your hands, and newcomers can't be too strict, it's counterproductive. β
"Yes."
"There are still nine days left on the [Queen Anne]'s journey, and you have directly parachuted over, so there should be plenty of time left for you, and you are confident that you can complete the mission?" Fury asked.
"Guaranteed to complete the mission!" Agent Coulson stands on the right track.
"It's all about you not to collapse so tightly, there are no outsiders here, you are so ......"
As soon as Fury was halfway through his words, he saw a rotating circle of flame suddenly appear behind Coulson!
Immediately afterwards, a young Chinese man dressed as an otaku and white and chubby walked out of the flame aperture, still holding an open Coke in his hand.
"Who?!"
Agent Coulson suddenly pulled out his gun and turned around, his body exploded, and pointed the gun at the white fat Chinese youth!
"Director Fury, after so long no see, do you welcome old friends like this?" The white fat young man bit the straw as he spoke, and drank Coke as if no one was around, making a snorting sound.
"Coulson, stop!" After a brief moment of surprise, Fury quickly called out to Agent Coulson, who was on guard.
Agent Coulson heard what was coming, and Fury stopped him, realizing that the fat white young man might not be an enemy, so he put away his gun.
"Boy, for the sake of you not knowing me, I won't care about you, next time I want to point a gun at me, I will scrap your hands, you know?" The white fat young man squinted his eyes at Agent Coulson, and his tone was slightly cold.
Even though Fury, the head of S.H.I.E.L.D., was nearby, the fat white man still didn't care about threatening his men.
The degree of arrogance made Agent Coulson secretly angry.
But because he couldn't figure out the details of the white fat young man for a while, he didn't say anything, just stood there expressionlessly.
"Oh, your subordinate is quite bold, you dare not bird me?" The fat white man looked at Fury casually.
"Agent Coulson is this character, not against you, please don't be surprised." Fury hurriedly played a round game.
The white fat young man is naturally too empty, and he and Fury are also old acquaintances.
Don't forget, he also has level 8 clearance for 'S.H.I.E.L.D.' and is the 'special assistant' to Fury's deputy's agent Hill.
"Agent Coulson? This name is so familiar, I seem to have heard it somewhere......" Taixu touched his chin and thought about it, but after thinking about it for a long time, he didn't come up with a reason, and he was suddenly a little embarrassed.
It was Fury who reminded him, "Coulson is a friend of Mr. Zhang Taibai. β
"Brother's friend? I remember, isn't it the boss of the little girl named Skye? Taixu slapped his head and said suddenly, "My own person, say it earlier, fortunately I didn't kill you on impulse, otherwise I wouldn't have been scolded to death by my brother......"
"Your Excellency knows Mr. Zhang?" Agent Coulson's expression softened.
"I'm his brother, dear." He said with a smile.
For Zhang Taibai, a long-lost brother, Taixu values it from the bottom of his heart and often talks about it.
"Your Excellency is Mr. Zhang's younger brother? But I remember that Mr. Zhang seems to be an orphan......" Agent Coulson was a little puzzled.
Before learning that Zhang Taibai was also an extraordinary person, he had investigated Zhang Taibai's information because of Skye, and knew that Zhang Taibai had grown up in an orphanage and had no relatives at all.
A person who claimed to be Zhang Taibai's younger brother appeared coldly, and he was obviously also extraordinary, which surprised him.
"This is the Void Mage, Hill's 'special assistant', Coulson, you should have heard of it." Fury helped explain at this time, "Master Taixu and Mr. Zhang are brothers who were separated a long time ago, and they only met not long ago......
There are not too many people who know the relationship between Taixu and Zhang Taibai, and Natasha happens to be one.
What Natasha knew, Fury certainly knew.
"Master Taixu!" Agent Coulson's pupils shrank suddenly, and his gaze changed abruptly.
Of course he had heard the name.
The first transcendent in Mexico's known range, a powerful fourth-level transcendent that Mexico's black and white realms dare not provoke!
It is said that when Fury originally planned to form the 'Avengers', he also listed this Taixu mage as one of the candidates, but unfortunately no matter what conditions were used, he couldn't impress the other party, and in the end he had to give up.
Agent Coulson could never have imagined that this Mexican No. 1 transcendent, who was both good and evil, could be related to Skye's brother, and he was also a long-lost brother.
He couldn't help but sigh at how small the world was.
"Since you are my brother's friend, you are my friend, and you will come to Mexico to play with me when you have time in the future, and you will have enough to eat and drink!" He said to Agent Coulson with a smirk, not at all that he was threatening him with the removal of Coulson's hands half a minute ago.
Agent Coulson smiled and nodded, replacing the response.
The chance of him going to play with Taixu is almost zero, but this is the kindness released by a fourth-level person, and he can't be neglected.
"Mage, why did you suddenly come to me, is there anything urgent?" Fury asked suddenly.
He knew Taixu's character, and he couldn't impress Taixu to join the 'Avengers', just because Taixu was completely a guy with no ambitions, let alone big ambitions, and Xiaozhi didn't have them.
In Taixu's eyes, any honor and justice are all bullshit.
He just wants to enjoy life to the fullest, and nothing else has anything to do with him.
Therefore, after Taixu reached some bottom-line consensus with 'S.H.I.E.L.D.', there was no more contact.
Even if he had the eighth-level authority of 'S.H.I.E.L.D.', he had never used it.
This time, for the first time, he took the initiative to contact the 'S.H.I.E.L.D.', or came directly to the director's office uninvited, and it is obviously impossible to say that it is okay.
"Yes, yes, if you don't say it, I almost forgot about it." Taixu suddenly turned up, and at the same time glanced at Agent Coulson, and continued, "The stakes are very high, this matter can only come out of my mouth and into your ears......"
"Coulson." Fury was not pretentious, and immediately threw a look at Agent Coulson, and ordered, "Help keep an eye on it outside, no one is allowed to come in without my orders!" β
"Yes!"
Agent Coulson didn't show any dissatisfaction, and immediately walked to the door.
Smack!
After the door closed, Fury said to Taixu, "Now you can talk about it......
"Wait a minute." He thought about it for a moment, and suddenly waved his hand.
I saw a light shield enveloping the entire room, and it was tightly wrapped.
"Now you can." Seeing his masterpiece, Taixu nodded with satisfaction.
Under his spells, no snooping method can be effective, and this is foolproof.
Seeing that Taixu was so solemn, Fury's expression also became solemn, realizing the seriousness of the situation!
"That's the ......," Taixu began to say.
β¦β¦
Five minutes later, the mask had dissipated, and Fury's face had become quite ugly.
"Is it really that serious?" He asked, somewhat incredulous.
"I'm sure Natasha gave you a warning about this, didn't she?" Too shrugged, "Although I don't think it's useful to tell you, but my brother insists on doing this, and I can't help it-"
"By the way, can you contact Thor?"
Fury shook his head, "Unless he's on Earth, our technology can't contact Asgard yet." β
"Okay, then I can only use the stupid method taught by my brother, it's really troublesome." Too shrugged and didn't care too much, "Then I'm leaving, I have to continue to finish the things my brother explained, otherwise the earth will be really dangerous-"
"Then please!" Fury nodded solemnly.
Taixu waved his hand again, and the rotating flame aperture behind him reappeared.
Fury could see that on the other side of the flame aperture, there was a world full of wind and snow.
"Snow Mountain?" Fury secretly guessed the location on the other side.
"Don't send itβ"
Tai Xuan beckoned, said hello with his back to Fury, and stepped into the flame aperture.
The next moment, the flame aura disappeared into the office.
After Taixu left, Fury's expression struggled a little.
Looking at the phone on the desk, he struggled fiercely in his heart, his hand reached for a while, retracted for a while, and went back and forth four or five times before he finally made up his mind to pick up the phone.
A number he dialed out.
In the middle of the night, someone on the other end of the phone answered.
"I need to see youβ" Fury said.
"Figured it out?" A smiling man's voice came from the other end of the line.
"Let's talk about it when we meet." Fury Road.
"Okay, come on."
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Asgard, the end of the Rainbow Bridge.
A black man in golden-horned armor was standing like a sculpture on the steps with his eyes closed, holding a two-handed sword in his hand, standing straight in front of him, motionless.
"Heimdall ......"
"Heim...... Dahl ......"
"Heimdall heard the reply, and came to you in a hurry......
In the midst of a cacophony of voices, Heimdall suddenly heard a voice calling out his name.
His eyes suddenly opened!
There seems to be a galaxy flowing in his eyes!
"Who is calling me!"
"Actually...... Midgard (the ancient name for the Earth in the 'Nine Kingdoms' system)? β
"The highest peak in Midgard, Mount Everest...... It turned out to be him, the human mage from last time? β
Heimdall, who recognized that the person calling his name was one of the few humans he had ever seen, and immediately decided to find out what was going on.
Thor had asked him to tell him if something drastic had happened on Earth.
The human mage called him out like this, maybe he was looking for Thor, but it would be better for him to figure out what was going on.
Thinking of this, Heimdall closed his eyes again-
When he opened his eyes again, he was already in a field of ice and snow!
Here, is the highest peak on earth, Mount Everest!
Across from him was one of the two humans he had seen last time who had accidentally broken into Warerheim, the same human mage who had just called his name!