The Eastern Power Grid Company has a history of more than 1oo years of construction and exhibition, initially by the private and public power companies according to their respective load and power distribution to form an isolated power grid, and then on the basis of the principle of mutual benefit through guò agreement, joint operation and other ways to gradually form the current power grid, among the three major joint power grids in the United States, the Eastern Power Grid is the strongest, selling the highest electricity in the United States as high as 73%. \.\

It's a behemoth, and the two inverted frieze guys who were slapped by Pietro were at the behest of one of the company's shareholders, and it doesn't matter if there was any special hint or a personal covert purpose. In fact, Eric didn't care about the inside story, since there are always people who will suffer in a zero-sum game, and there is no other industry other than the energy market that can provide such a stable and lucrative business, then it has to choose it.

The other party rashly chooses to deal with it in this way, and of course he will reciprocate it in the same way.

He was standing in the night sky over the Lake District near Scranton.

Scranton is a place where there is nothing to do but a highly religious college, and it was originally based on coal mining, but since the introduction of heavy oil, natural gas, and electric heating, anthracite has been pushed out of the mainstream of the electricity market, and the population has continued to decline, and today there is nothing worth mentioning except for the more important ring network distribution field of the East Power Grid here.

It was for this power distribution that Eric had come from New York, one hundred and twenty miles away.

Below him, several oil-stained maintenance workers are passing listlessly, the weather in the field in late autumn is extremely cold, their salaries are not high, the enthusiasm for service is certainly not positive, after the inspection of this round, they will not come out until the second half of the night.

In the process, Eric had plenty of time to deal a fatal blow to the already dilapidated power grid.

"Look at these big guys. Soon they will have to bear the blame for their master's irrationality. Standing alone at a height of 200 feet, he admired the towers of the high-voltage transmission lines not far below his feet, through which the endless high-voltage lines passed through these towering steel towers, and the 230,000-volt high-voltage current was transmitted from west to east to New York and Philadelphia, providing light and warmth to the nearly 10 million people of these two large cities.

And today they are going to lose this convenience of modern technology for a few hours, maybe a whole day, and who knows, depending on how well the grid responds, and whether the security measures they claim are really that smart.

A gust of wind blew. One line unexpectedly swung and joined another parallel line, and a burst of sparks burst out, and the world went into darkness.

Two hours away, the metropolis is a bustling scene, and under the cover of night, the city's neighborhoods are neatly divided into light and dark blocks, and the Atlantic Ocean is nestled in the east, surprisingly prosperous and crowded under the gentle night. Unlike during the day, there is no distraction from other sights. All the skyscrapers are shinier at this point, the plaza below Rockefeller Center is like a chameleon, attracting people from all over the world, various activities are going on, and a DJ is shouting for someone to appear. Suddenly, the whole world lost its light.

"There's a power outage?" It has long been known that the power of the great powers does not match the power grids of the Third World, and the government and the private sector have been calling for it for too long, but the operators of the sluggish power grid never seem to have changed substantially. It's just that they don't know how long they'll be in the dark this time.

The impatient began to curse, and words starting with F and S kept bursting out, with the glow of the faint electronic device. The pavement and plants shimmer in the starlight and moonlight, as if the world has just entered the road to hell, and more people can only see the shadows of human heads shaking, but they can't see what they look like.

"Look, there's light there." Across the wide Hudson River, a girl shouted as she pointed to the opposite bank, where the office with the new solar system had been installed, and which had collected sunlight during the day, and which was now proudly radiating its brilliance in the darkness.

After a while, the self-powered building66 continued to glow, but the people nearby would not forget the moment, when it seemed that the whole world was plunged into darkness, and the mutant building was still radiating light.

"What's going on?" A senior executive of the power grid hurried into the control room, where there was electricity, but looking out the window, it was already pitch black, and he could imagine that tomorrow there would be an overwhelming amount of criticism in the newspapers, and those nasty hostile politicians who always wanted to show how much they cared for the people by condemning the grid.

The thought of being surrounded by reporters again tomorrow made his brain ache with annoyance.

"The power is back." The engineer did not dare to slack off, and replied in as concise language as possible. "There is a reverse flow of power on the line from West New York to Pittsburgh, although the transmission power of this line is only 3oo to 5oo megawatts, but the power will increase to 1ooo megawatts in an instant, which is equivalent to the transmission of a large power station, according to our estimates, the rotation current may be as large as 3ooo megawatts, which is normal in power accidents, and we are doing our best to investigate."

"you normal! Then check it out quickly, and let the engineers go by helicopter, and I want them to follow the line through Pennsylvania before they are allowed to come back. "The executives roared, of course, taking a helicopter to repair is fast, but it is also very dangerous, they need to hover above the power line all the time, so that the staff sitting at the door of the aircraft can be repaired steadily, if the plane touches the wire in the process, then the plane and the people on it may be electrified, and even the plane will be destroyed.

This kind of emergency maintenance is expensive, and often only when it is under great political pressure, the power grid will be reluctant to offer a huge reward to recruit daredevils, but the recent shape is different, the new plan of manufacturing giant Stark Industries is directly aimed at the power market, as the eastern power grid with the highest market share. At this time, no accident is the greatest success, otherwise it will only give Stark's supporters a mouthful. You know, change always starts small, and a dam that has been stable for hundreds of years often collapses from an inconspicuous anthole, and as an executive and shareholder, he must not see his company go wrong at this time.

No one thought of Osborne at this time, after all, the rooftop solar system seemed to be aimed at the civilian market in small and medium-sized cities rather than the larger eastern cities, which were in greater demand, and who knew that the new owner of the company, which had just converted from an arms business, caused the outage.

The maintenance team has been dispatched, but bad news has followed.

Due to the extremely large load of the entire power grid, dragged down by the accident of the important power supply system, the load of the entire network of the East Power Grid of the United States suddenly increased sharply, so the real accident finally showed its hideous head. Starting from New York, Detroit and Cleveland, and continuing to Toronto, Ottawa, Canada, and more than 1oo power plants in the United States and Canada, including 22 nuclear power plants with automatic protective shutdown, the most severe blackout in North American history has arrived.

At the same time, at latitude 38n53'", longitude 77s3', a one-eyed black man wearing an eye patch is silently standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window looking at the dim night scene outside, which has just lost its power supply, but fortunately, the headquarters building of S.H.I.E.L.D. always has no need to worry, the lights, elevators and defense systems are running steadily, as long as there is no foreign invasion, the indifferent face of the one-eyed black man always remains firm and resolute.

"It's clear." Agent Coulson knocked on the door, got permission and walked in, handing the Black Director some faxed information to the director.

"Initially, it was caused by a short circuit in the transmission line, perhaps because the branches of the trees were blown by the wind and hung on the high-voltage lines to cause the power to flow backwards, but the power grid system in the whole region began to take automatic protection measures to cut off the connection with the load system, and more than 1oo power plants, including 22 nuclear reactors, stopped operating, which is why this widespread power outage was caused. Experts concluded that it was an accident caused by careless response and not an external attack. ”

"So it's not human?" The one-eyed black man flipped through the text and asked.

"Revenge can be ruled out, but you know, the mutant's whereabouts are not easy to monitor, and he usually stays in Manhattan at this time. His entire office building has been reconstructed, and we suspect that the load-bearing pillars have been replaced, which means that we have no way to listen or see through, and email and telephone lines are the only way to do it at the moment, but he doesn't seem to be the kind of person who uses electronic tools very often. "Coulson has done his best, but his goals are not very human.

"It's terrible. During the day, he clashed with the periphery of the power grid, and at night there was a big blackout, do you think it was an accident? The black man shook his head and did not ask Coulson to answer. The last time I trusted someone else, an eye was gone, and since then I've learned to be vigilant. Hopefully it was an accident, because we don't have the means to restrain him, and if this phenomenon regenerates, we will have to face a terrible enemy, which is what I don't want to live, but I have to face, who made us S.H.I.E.L.D. ”

The black man rubbed against the smooth glass window and muttered.

"We are the last line of defense, and we will burn ourselves to defend this last line, and this is the last line of defense that must be defended." (To be continued!)

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