Chapter 120: The Man Behind the Scenes (Three Watches)
Sky Sword, Extraterrestrial Mothership.
It would take a while before the headquarters of the Heavenly Sword was relocated to this alien ship, but the Celestial Sword's paranormal operation team was the first to move and pull it up within a week.
Michael designated the area next to the command room as their base of operations, and separated it from the rest of the ship. With the exception of Michael himself and members of the team, only those temporarily authorized by him to enter and exit the base temporarily under his own surveillance. The members of the team have the highest level of clearance other than Michael himself, and they can freely enter and exit the entire area of the ship, and can go to any corner of the ship.
Several of the team's super agents were very pleased with their unique base of operations. There's a simulation training room for Kerrytech, a recreation area with all kinds of entertainment facilities, an intelligence center where you can find almost any information stored by any institution in any country on the planet, and then there's a single dormitory that's as big as you can imagine.
In addition, Doom got his wish and was assigned to his first space laboratory. His eyes shone between the various unknown alien instruments and equipment, and his eyes sparkled as if he couldn't resist dismantling them all to study the inner workings.
"I've arranged for someone to transfer the equipment from your research institute on Earth." Michael said to Doom, "It should be delivered in a day." Your main task is to figure out how these alien technologies work and what principles we haven't yet been exposed to. Of course, that's what I do. I'll check in once a week so we can talk to each other about what we've found. ”
Doom simply agreed. Without Michael's assignment, he couldn't help but want to take these alien things apart, and he was passionate about the work.
Pietro came to his spacious dormitory, opened the metal baffle on the window and exclaimed again to face the deep universe, and finally the standard "salted fish lay" fell on the soft and comfortable bed, flattened, and said: "This place is so ~ amazing!" I'm a sapling, I've taken root in bed, don't even try to pull me up. ”
Wanda followed him into the room and rolled her eyes at him.
On the black alien alloy wall hangs a sixty-inch-old Kerry monitor. Shirley is now testing the various signal streams from Earth into the screens of the mothership's devices, so the screen is playing local news in New York at this time.
And for a whole week, the news on all channels was broadcasting news about "aliens" and "Avengers".
"It's been a week since the disaster, but no one has been seen in public on the team that has been announced as the 'Avengers,' including the well-known billionaire and Iron Man Tony Stark...... "The speaker was a blonde hostess with an explosive head."
"I like Hulk the most." A guy with a round belly said, slamming himself in the chest in an ape-like stance, while muttering the beast's strange cry, "You don't see how good he is." He's like, smash, smash, smash...... And then the aliens were terrified. ”
"I don't care what people say, I'm Spider-Man anyway." A bespectacled girl said to the camera, "We happened to be in the neighborhood at the time, and a group of aliens blocked our way." I thought we were going to die, until Spider-Man came down from the sky and yelled at them, 'Hey! Ugly! Do you dare to pick an opponent of your level' or something else...... If it weren't for him, I think I'd be dead by now. ”
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There are many more similar statements. Of course, there were opposition voices, and conspiracy theorists believed that the reason why the aliens came was simply the fault of the Avengers, but those were a minority, and they were quickly drowned out by the mainstream voices of praise and praise. Coupled with the promotion of the public relations department, the Avengers was quickly pushed to an unprecedented height and steadily occupied the top of the hot search list.
Petro lay on his stomach on the bed and looked at the screen. He couldn't help but frown when he saw the name "Stark" being mentioned for the third time in a minute.
"It's not fair." "They weren't the ones who saved the world," he said. ”
Wanda shrugged: "But it must be admitted that they contributed. If they hadn't stepped up, more people would have died and the losses would have been greater. ”
She hadn't noticed it herself, but after Heavenly Sword had stayed for so long, she didn't seem to resent Stark as much as she had before.
"Besides, to be precise, it's not that 'we' saved the world, we just obeyed orders and did a little favor." She paused, "He saved the world, just like so many times before." ”
Pietro sat up: "You say, Mr. Paso? ”
"You may not have heard of it, but something like this happens every day." Wanda whispered, "The Heavenly Sword has prevented one war after another and saved hundreds of millions of lives. And it has interfered in the economic situation in various regions in places that we don't even know about, defusing one financial crisis after another, and preventing economic collapse. Not to mention that Heavenly Sword is almost every day to stop terrorist attacks and deal with terrorists. ”
She paused, "But no one knows." He saved hundreds of millions of people, but those he saved didn't know anything about it...... This time too. The whole planet owes him a favor, but no one knows. ”
"Well, I haven't even heard of it." "That sounds true...... It's a pity. ”
"Not really, at least he doesn't think so." Wanda chuckled, "I can even imagine how he would answer this question." ”
"Instead of dwelling on the facts of the past or the achievements of the past, we should look to what should be done in the future."
That's what he said at the time. Wanda can still vividly remember the scene, the tone and demeanor of Michael's voice, and the sharp and determined eyes like a knife through thorns.
yes, he doesn't care at all. He does this only because someone has to do it.
After this long period of observation and study, Wanda began to feel that the so-called heroes do not necessarily have to be widely praised or called heroes. There is the kind of hero who does what he needs to do in silence and then turns away before anyone notices.
Well, she knows that her boss hates when people use words like "hero" to describe him. But......
...... What could be more apt?