Chapter 23: First Contact (Addendum 1/15)
"Don't always think that our organization is closed, people are closed, and you still have a signal on your mobile phone in the temple!"
Drumm listened to the sirens that were approaching and spoke to Andre, who had just finished the call.
"Then why didn't the master say it just now? I gave the phone professor, and he said to contact the president's office to help solve it. ”
"Our temple activities in Manhattan are recorded, otherwise why do you think I would have used the portal just now? Someone will come to deal with the scene in a while, you wait and see. Drum shook his head, this young man seems to have persecution paranoia, is this the after-effect of being arrested by Stryker's gang in the military department last time?
The sirens kept sounding, and the streets outside the bank were closed, prohibiting the passage of pedestrians, but the left and right did not see any police officers coming up for questioning, and Andre was so upset that he waited.
"Why are you here, Master Drum? Isn't Professor Charles at Xavier College having a problem that needs to be solved? While Andre was chatting with Master Drum, a man in a suit came from the street side, and when he walked up to Andre and Drum, he raised his hand and said hello and asked strangely.
"Hello, Mr. Coulson, why are you on duty today?" Master Drumm nodded in response to the visitor's greeting, and then began to speak very familiarly.
"You know, it's a public event, it's a special event, the average action team doesn't have the authority to deal with this, Melinda has to look at Brooklyn and Queens across the river, so I'm the only one to come." Dressed in a formal suit, with a smiling face and a clear voice, it immediately makes people feel that this person is a very kind person.
After greeting Drum, he chatted a few more words, then turned to look at Andre, who had been standing next to him.
"Phil Coulson, agent of the Territorial Strategic Defense Attack and Logistics Support Agency, you can call me Phil or Coulson." Coulson smiled at Andre and stretched out his hand to introduce himself very formally.
"Hello, Mr. Coulson, Andre Shipling, you can call me Andre, that ...... What's the game? Andre really didn't remember the long list of words Coulson just said, and reached out to hold Coulson's hand and asked again.
"Territorial Strategic Defense Attack and Logistics Support Bureau, you can call us by our abbreviation, S.H.I.E.L.D." Coulson still had a smile on his face, but Andre found it to be a little formalized and a little stiff.
"God, seven words, sixty letters, who came up with the name, I really didn't have time to remember." Andre was a little surprised, although he knew about S.H.I.E.L.D. before, it was the first time he heard others say the full name, and he really didn't hear it clearly.
"You're not the first to say that, and I don't think you will be the last." Coulson shook his head self-deprecatingly, shaking his hand vigorously again.
"shield, shield, protection, that's a good abbreviation, or can it be called the shield bureau?" Andrei also smiled, put down Coulson's hand, and teased the name of S.H.I.E.L.D. by the way.
"Andrey, this relevant department has long had a fairly well-known name, called S.H.I.E.L.D." Drum, who was next to him, also laughed and gave Andrea a look.
"S.H.I.E.L.D., yes, the name has a meaning." Andre nodded, then looked at Coulson.
"Mr. Shiplin...... Lad, are you German? This surname is scarce, I am here today to solve the special incident that happened here, and then there are some relevant regulations that need to be explained to you, I hope you can take a time, about half an hour or so. Coulson restrained his smile and made his intentions known to Andre very formally.
Andre listened and turned his head to look at Dramm next to him, Drumm nodded with a smile and said, "This is relatively close to the temple, let's go to the temple to sit?" Anyway, Mr. Coulson has wanted to visit our temple for a long time. ”
"Really? That mysterious magical temple of yours? Coulson didn't know that such a big surprise was waiting for him, and when he learned that it was true, the smile on his face returned.
"Wait a minute, I'll arrange for my colleagues to count how many people have seen Andre use his special abilities today, and then go with you to visit the Magic Temple." Although there was such a big surprise waiting for Coulson, he arranged his work very steadily, and then walked back to the temple with Andre and Drum down the streets of Manhattan.
"Andre is a magic apprentice in our temple, and he was attacked by bandits when he came out of the bank just now, and he used the power of magic in a hurry, and then I found out that someone was using magic here, and he also opened the portal, and it was as simple as that." As he walked, Drum explained what had happened to Coulson.
"Hey, what is the relationship between Andre and Professor Charles?" Coulson was a little confused when he heard this, a magical temple apprentice, and then through Professor Charles of Xavier College to summon S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, the relationship seemed a little confused.
"I'm also a student at Xavier Academy." Of course, Andre knew that this was Coulson investigating the account, but in New York, in addition to the underground social organization, there were those people who could escape the eyes of S.H.I.E.L.D., and some relatively simple and ordinary information would explode.
"His parents were from our temple when they were alive, and when Andre left, he was still relatively young, and the Supreme Master arranged him to Charles, and there were more friends in the school, if he was in the temple, he would only be his own child, and his personality would become very withdrawn." Drumm knew that Andre no longer cared about the death of his parents, so he didn't have too many scruples, and just said it.
It's been several years since the car accident, and if the original owner of this body still has some concerns, but Andre is crossing, of course, he will have no heart and lungs.
"Normally, the entrance of your building is not like this, and sure enough, some supernatural abilities are used to cover it." Coulson stood in the doorway of the New York Magic Temple, shaking his head and sighing at Drum.
"It's inevitable, if you can walk through this door casually, then you need to worry about something." Drumm smiled and pointed with his hand, and the door of the temple opened.
"I know, I know." Coulson replied with a smile, and followed Drum into the temple.
Kama Taj, as an organization that guards the magic side of the earth, will often produce some incidents of using supernatural abilities in front of the public, and as the supreme mage of the earth's top combat power, he is also registered in the supernatural affairs departments of various countries, and S.H.I.E.L.D. is of course no exception, there is a lot of information about the temple and about magicians.