Chapter 006: It's an Absurd World
While receiving Zatana and Bruce Banner's charge, nay, charge, Rhaegar also takes control of Malik's corpse and asks him the question he wants to know most about besides his own - what the world is like. He didn't find it strange that the Punisher was a member of Hydra; Zatanna's teaming up with the Black Canary is also a natural matter of opinion. But Hydra, the Punisher, Nick Fury, Bruce Banner, Zatanna and the Black Canary are in the same world, and it's worth pondering.
Conversely, neither Zatana, nor Black Canary, nor Bruce Banner would be surprised that Rhaegar would ask this question. In their minds, Rhaegar must have just been born with a conscious being.
Well, the idea can be there. In fact, no matter what Rhaegar was asked, most of them answered with 'I don't know'. There was a deliberate concealment in this, but more often than not, he really didn't know the answer to the question. Therefore, even if he is not from a preconceived point of view, he is very much like a life that has just learned to think.
With Zatanna's almost omniscient attitude, Rhaegar quickly learned something about this world. But that's not enough. There are some questions that he can't ask directly, but they often don't achieve the effect he wants. So, after the energy he inhaled reached an ambiguous level — or threshold — and he unconsciously gained vision, he spent less than 30 seconds celebrating and feeling it, and then borrowed the phone she had mentioned from Zatana.
In this regard, this sci-fi-themed world is even more backward than the year 2047 before Rhaegar traveled. At least in 2047, mobile phones will no longer be visible on the market.
But it's too hard to understand. Rhaegar checked it with Zatana's phone, only to find out that the new world he had crossed over was only 2007.
From the 'truth' on the Internet that I don't know how much it has been rewritten and concealed, plus some information provided by Zatanna and Banner, Rhaegar has slightly restored it and summed up such a set of 'history'. Until World War II in the last century, the appearance of Captain America and the fall of Hydra, the history of this world is similar to the setting of the Marvel Cinematic Universe that Rhaegar knows. Later, under the organization of Howard Stark, a righteous businessman, and several meritorious generals of World War II, the Strategic Science Department was successfully reorganized as the "Homeland Strategic Defense Attack and Logistics Support Agency" - that is, "S.H.I.E.L.D.") and became the world's largest intelligence agency under the United Nations, which was basically synchronized in the two worlds. The key turning point came in 1978, well, this is not talking about the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee in China, reform and opening up or anything; On Christmas Day of that year, a meteorite fell on another city in the eastern United States, known as the Eastern Twin Star of New York.
At that time, the citizens of the metropolis were celebrating, enjoying the wonderful Christmas holidays. As a result, more than 100,000 people were injured, more than 5,000 people were killed, and direct economic losses were more than $1 billion. It was a surprise surprise. However, this was only the beginning, and what followed was even more of a catastrophe within a catastrophe - in the aftermath, an illegal experimental base of S.H.I.E.L.D. was exposed. In order to control public opinion and conceal the truth, S.H.I.E.L.D. killed those who knew about it one by one. As things got bigger and bigger, in the end, S.H.I.E.L.D. killed even more people than in meteorite falls!
If nothing else, this is the hydra hiding inside S.H.I.E.L.D. playing tricks. Zatanna confirmed Rhaeggar's idea. The truth is that it was not a meteorite that fell, but an alien spaceship.
The first to see the specific appearance of the alien spaceship were naturally the survivors at the scene. They reported the situation to the police, alarming contacts within the police system for the FBI, CIA, military, and more. These parties immediately sent personnel to try to take over the scene, and the military was the most capable and promising. Unfortunately, before the military, and even before the survivors on the scene, there were two other agencies that knew about the existence of the alien spacecraft. One of them, naturally, is S.H.I.E.L.D., the world's largest intelligence agency, and the other, naturally, is ...... No, not the Hydra, but the NSA, which has several satellites at its disposal.
Hydra is not involved in the above discussion. Because of all the institutions mentioned above, there are Hydra people lurking inside.
After being defeated and destroyed in the latter stages of World War II, Hydra adopted a new strategy. They took advantage of the situation to turn light into darkness, and gradually infiltrated all walks of life in every country without the knowledge of all enemies. In this way, they can secretly manipulate all kinds of worlds, even the direction of world trends. If there is no accident, they will remain in hiding until one day they suddenly burst out and destroy all their enemies and forcibly spread their faith throughout the world. However, the fall of the alien spaceship gave them the opportunity to return to the light in advance, spread their faith, and grasp the situation.
And the leader of Hydra at that time also seized this opportunity decisively.
At the instigation of Hydra, several agencies that had wanted to get their hands on the alien spaceship and everything on it began to fight openly and secretly. In addition to the superficial efforts to deal with journalists' media, several institutions have hurt each other almost openly. A few hours later, not only S.H.I.E.L.D. and those institutions in the United States were involved in the 'competition', but also some other multinational joint military organizations such as NATO and the Warsaw Pact, and even the United Nations itself, were putting pressure on the United States outside the eyes of the media. Under the covert operation of Hydra, for the sake of that alien spaceship, how bold are those organizations, and they poke out all the stains and sore feet of other institutions in their hands. Then, without waiting for the public to laugh at the news, they began to suppress each other openly in the name of their respective functions. For example, the FBI suddenly appeared downstairs at the headquarters of the NSA and accused the main person in charge of the NSA of collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country; For example, the NSA raided a U.S.-military facility and seized the latter's assets under the pretext of hiding high-risk materials...... In the end, it was S.H.I.E.L.D. that sent a special force, the Superpowers, to destroy many bases of other organizations and kill the staff in those bases, causing public outrage. The 'crowd' here is not just the other organizations that want to compete for the alien spacecraft, but also other countries and even the United Nations itself. They believe that S.H.I.E.L.D. is out of control and are ready to dismantle it once and for all.
As a result, S.H.I.E.L.D. resisted.
In fact, at that time, S.H.I.E.L.D. didn't have superpowers, it was Hydra's. And the high-level of S.H.I.E.L.D. at that time did not intend to resist, but were ready to win support, but the Hydra in the shadows still fired the first shot in the name of S.H.I.E.L.D. As a result, the situation was irreparable, and the unwitting S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, instigated, confused and misled by the Hydra in the shadows, fought several major battles, annihilating the troops of the FBI, NSA, the United States-military and other agencies, completely confirming the notoriety of S.H.I.E.L.D. At this time, Hydra finally officially appeared.
The leadership of Hydra at that time was very smart. They didn't take out S.H.I.E.L.D. as soon as they came out, although they had the strength. They first suffered a few small defeats, appropriately revealed their identities, and cleared themselves of the crimes of the Nazi remnants on a small scale. They presented a series of evidence that Hydra was actually an organization that had existed for a long, long time, even dating back to the ancient Egyptian dynasty in the fifth millennium BC. During World War II, it was the Red Skull who used the name of Hydra to recruit talent for the Nazis, and the Science and Strategy Division, the predecessor of S.H.I.E.L.D., forcibly slandered and used this as an excuse to seize property that really belonged to Hydra. Under the multiple means of 'evidence' and covert manipulation of public opinion, Hydra quickly completed the whitewashing and made a name for itself in the subsequent war against S.H.I.E.L.D., which had gone out of control. Then, those who were already members of Hydra left their posts one after another, and 'joined' Hydra with great fanfare, creating the illusion that Hydra is what everyone wants.
As a result, after defeating S.H.I.E.L.D., Hydra quickly took the place of S.H.I.E.L.D. as the largest intelligence agency in the world.
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