Canada, military base.

A large amount of dense fog surrounded the base, giving this otherwise ordinary base a touch of mystery.

These dense fogs have been present since yesterday and have continued for the whole day without any signs of dissipating, which is clearly not explained by ordinary weather phenomena.

"How's it going?"

A kilometer away from the base, in a camp that could clearly be seen to be a makeshift formation, the general appeared with a straight face.

The vote at the Capitol would have lasted all night, but it was clear that the General could not have spent his time there staring at the indifferent politicians.

Unlike these speculators, who do not know the actual situation, the general is well aware that the situation at the base is not optimistic.

The SCP Foundation occupying the military base is certainly a problem, but the bigger problem is the petrified monsters in the base or the [Holy Lord] in the mouth of the mage.

The General knew that if the Foundation's so-called containment operation failed, what would happen next would be a catastrophe that Canada would not be able to face. And at this critical juncture of the country's survival, the damned group of politicians in the Capitol are still in the mood for the so-called vote.

The thought that Canada's future would be in the hands of that group of insatiable politicians made the general's already uneasy mood a little heavier.

"Sir, we have used drones to reconnoiter the base, but the results are not satisfactory."

Faced with the general's inquiry, a soldier who looked like a non-commissioned officer immediately got up and reported.

"The dense fog that appeared outside the base obscured the drone's camera view, and as long as the drone lowered the shot, it was destroyed by the current shock, and after sacrificing dozens of drones, we only captured some blurry images."

The drone in the mouth of the non-commissioned officer is not a simple drone used by ordinary people.

As a drone used by the military, both in terms of the tightness of the machine and the shooting pixels are far superior to civilian machines, and it can also be modified with an appropriate amount of weapons to fight, of course, such a drone device, the same is true in terms of price.

Therefore, the loss of dozens of drones is, in fact, a small loss for the Canadian military.

"Bring up the picture and take a look."

Although he was heartbroken by the loss of the drone, the general knew that now was not the time to worry about this.

Compared with the loss of the machine, he is more concerned about what kind of footage the drone captured from the military base before it was damaged.

"Obey the order, sir!"

In the face of the general's order, the non-commissioned officer did not hesitate to turn his head to look at the soldiers on the side, and the latter immediately nodded and typed on the computer keyboard in the camp for a while. Soon, several images of the shooting were visibly blurry and shaky on the computer screens in the camp.

Although most of these captured pictures are blurry or even unrecognizable due to the shaking of the camera, through a few of them that are quite clear, the general still has a glimpse of the situation in the base at this moment.

Compared to the situation when they withdrew from the base before, the appearance of the military base at this time has obviously changed greatly, the most obvious of which is naturally the tall building built around the [Holy Lord], and you can see a large number of personnel in white research uniforms surrounding the building, and those strange devices in their hands are doing something to the [Holy Lord].

At the same time, a large group of men in black suits with serious expressions were patrolling the base in an orderly manner.

The sudden appearance of many mysterious people in the military base made the general's brow furrow, but what surprised him even more was the huge building in the picture.

After all, it was less than a day or so since they withdrew from the base, and a day before the location of the [Holy Lord] was still a ruin of the original military building, which means that the SCP Foundation has successfully built a huge structure in less than a day.

"Is this the energy that the SCP Foundation has?"

In the makeshift barracks, the general looked at the blurred images on the computer, but the expression on his face was a little complicated.

It was only at this moment that he clearly realized the power of the SCP Foundation as a mysterious organization.

……

New York, Avengers Tower.

Because of the news delivered by [Uncle Long], the original tense atmosphere within the Avengers has been relieved a lot.

Although deep down, they are still a little uneasy about the containment of the SCP Foundation, but the Avengers still decided to hand over the [Holy Lord] to the Foundation to deal with, after all, if the Foundation is professional in the containment of anomalous creatures, it can also be seen from the description of the Foundation containment expert [Uncle Long] that they have found the slightest way to contain the [Holy Lord].

Bang, bang-

Bang bang!

Avengers Mansion, underground base.

Tony was wearing boxing gloves on both hands and was constantly boxing at the sandbag in front of him.

Although as Iron Man, most of his combat power comes from the Iron Suit, Tony has not slackened his physical training because of this.

After all, no matter how powerful the steel suit is, there will always be occasions when it cannot be used or damaged, and what he did was to maintain his combat power as much as possible under such circumstances, at least until the second steel suit arrived at the battle scene.

"You seem, you seem to be a little upset, Mr. Stark?"

And at this moment, a calm voice suddenly sounded behind Tony, who was dedicated to boxing.

Immediately afterward, Vision was seen floating in the boxing ring.

"Whew, whew~"

Stopping his boxing, Tony gasped and glanced at the vision that appeared behind him, and took off the boxing gloves in his hand with some effort, Tony took a sip of the water next to him to replenish the missing water in his body, and swept his eyes over the yellow gem on Vision's forehead and said, "Is this also what the power of the mind gem tells you?" It's really a convenient ability. ”

"Nope."

However, in the face of Tony's exclamation, Vision shook his head unexpectedly.

"Even without the power of the gem, I can clearly feel that Mr. Stark, your emotions at the moment are unusual."

As he spoke, Vision's gaze swept over the boxing gloves that Tony had casually thrown on the ground, and the gem on his forehead flickered before he saw the gloves float up and fall where they should have been.

"Okay......"

Withdrawing his gaze from the floating boxing gloves, Tony shrugged his shoulders when he heard Vision's reply: "Looks, it's me who is too obvious." ”

Putting down the water in his hand, the expression on Tony's face was rare and confused: "I'm just a little ...... Some...... The Avengers have worked hard to protect everything we hold dear, but the challenge never seems to end, and I thought that when artificial intelligence appeared, everything would change, but I succeeded in creating Ultron, and the result was no different. ”

Seeing Tony's confused appearance in front of him, a glint flashed in Vision's eyes, and then he spoke silently: "In fact, during this period of time, I have been observing the development of everything and have come to a calculated conclusion, since Mr. Stark, you announced your identity as Iron Man to the public, the number of superheroes who have made their identities public has begun to increase dramatically, whether it is the Defenders League or the Fantastic Four, they have appeared in front of everyone because of this, but at the same time, The number of events that have the potential to destroy the world has also increased proportionately......"

"You mean, it's all because of us?"

In the face of Vision's analysis, Tony immediately reacted to the meaning of his words.

"I mean there's some kind of causality there, the presence of superheroes that attracts challenges and crime, and crime inspires further conflict, which ultimately breeds into terrible disasters."

"The appearance of the SCP Foundation also confirms this from the side, according to all the information, it can be known that the Foundation was originally hidden in the public, has always maintained a low-key style of acting, and even the information cannot be detected, but the frequent abnormal events have made them have to appear in front of the public, such a situation, or also represents more and more abnormal events in the world, has made it impossible for the SCP Foundation to maintain a secretive style of acting as in the past."

"It's like a cycle, a vicious circle."

Faced with the analysis of the vision, Tony answered with a simpler conclusion.

Superheroes surround the earth, but it is precisely because of their existence that those who are ambitious must use more powerful means to achieve their ambitions and even crimes.

As a simple example, if the weapon in the hands of the orderlies is a knife and gun, then the most attacks that the offender can use are also knives and guns, but if those who fight criminals become superheroes with extraordinary powers, then the means of these criminals will also become various supernatural powers.

"That's a wonderful irony."

It's not that Tony hasn't thought about the possibility proposed by Vision, but he knows very well that once this possibility is established, it will be a big blow to all superheroes.

They worked hard to fight criminals, but they themselves became the source of everything.

"Tony, there's a situation!"

In the underground base, Tony and Vision's conversation was not over, when he suddenly saw Steve frowning and coming to the boxing training ground where he was with a serious face.

……

"Tell me, Captain, what happened?"

A few minutes later, all the Avengers who remained in the Avengers Mansion gathered in the room.

Tony asked Steve, wiping the sweat from his forehead, to a stern-looking Steve.

In response to Tony's questioning, Steve's gaze met that of Agent Hill, who was also in the room.

"I'll tell you."

Immediately afterwards, Nick Fury, who also had a solemn expression, spoke slowly.

"Not long ago, I got information from the White House, and after evaluating everything, the Pentagon doesn't seem to agree with our proposal, they think that the threat of the [Holy Lord] is too great, and Canada is too close to the United States, and if the [Holy Lord] threatens the United States, it will be an unbearable blow to the United States, so they decided to strike first."

"Preemptive strike?!"

Hearing Nick Fury's news, Tony's brows immediately furrowed.

"What do you mean?"

At the same time, Nick Fury also nodded and said: "In fact, from the intelligence side, the White House has ordered to dispatch an aircraft carrier battleship group to Canada, and at the same time, it has also mobilized a force to rush to the direction of the military base, preparing to use powerful firepower to directly launch a fire strike on the [Holy Lord]." ”

"Fire strike, didn't they think about the possible consequences of the failure of the means of attack in case this is the attack?"

"Obviously, the American military does not think that they will fail."

"What about Canada, don't they have any reaction?"

"All actions are based on military exercises, and Canada has raised objections, but the United States, which has obviously made a decision, does not care about some protests, and there are many Canadian parliamentarians who have relations with the United States, and they have contributed to it, even if the Canadian government has opinions, it cannot form an effective means of opposition."

The White House's reaction was obviously somewhat unexpected for the Avengers, but it was also reasonable in some ways.

After all, it can be seen from the history of the development of wars in the United States that the last thing that the United States wants to see in all wars is war or destruction on American soil.

Whether it was World War II or Pearl Harbor.

As soon as the danger reaches its homeland, whether it wants to or not, the United States will naturally participate in the war.

At the same time, war is also a good reason to divert the people's catharsis within the United States, and the frequent super-crimes in the United States have caused a great crisis of confidence in the government of the people during this period of time, and the White House clearly feels that its own polls are going straight down.

Although he has entered the second half of his second term, he does not want his exit performance to be too miserable, and what happened in Canada has undoubtedly become a means of consolidating the hearts and minds of the people.

Canada is too close to the United States, and although Canada has tried hard to block the intelligence of the [Holy Lord], it still has not escaped the espionage methods of the United States.

Coupled with the fact that such a threat created the best conditions for the hawks within the American military to wage war, and the same well-informed arms dealers wanted the battle to take place, it was a matter of course to send troops in a few combinations.

What's more, this time it is not a certain country that is going to be attacked, but a huge monster that threatens the world, so the United States does not even need to make a pretend.