Chapter 46: Aftermath
After the Battle of Liberty Island, Gu Chongyan thought that New York would soon be lively.
And in fact, let alone New York, even Hell's Kitchen seems to be calm.
Perhaps because the traces of the battle on Liberty Island were erased by Gu Chongyan, they found an excuse for the officials to publicize that the battle of Liberty Island that day was just a spoof video shot by someone using special effects technology.
Especially after the beast appeared, the special electromagnetic reaction destroyed all the surrounding electronic equipment, and there was no evidence and I saw the Liberty Island exactly like the original, it seemed that the battle of the day was really just a show.
Although there are still many media and people who doubt the official statement, they cannot find evidence in the end, and in the end, the matter is closed.
However, this kind of calm is obviously only superficial, and under the calm waters, major underground organizations and governments have listed this matter as a first-class secret, and they have made frequent moves.
Of course, Hell's Kitchen isn't completely without a little reaction.
At least two companies have had violent shocks, and both companies have a relationship with him.
The first is the Zhongcheng Circle Financial Company, as the base camp of the Hand Club, after the collapse of the Hand Club, the Middle City Circle Financial Company was naturally dug up, and was quickly snagged a large number of crimes, and directly declared bankruptcy.
The company went bankrupt, and Gu Chongyan, an intern who participated in social practice, naturally had to end his practice and go home obediently.
The other is the Rand-Meacham Industrial Group, the family business of Ironfist Danny Rand, as the heir of the Rand family, Danny owns 51% of the shares of the Rand Group and enjoys absolute control.
However, due to his disappearance, the current RAND Group has long since fallen into the hands of Harold Meacham, another owner of the RAND Group, a business partner of RAND's father.
In the original plot, the RAND Group was infiltrated by the Hand Group, and Harold was even more reluctant to hand over the RAND Group controlled by himself, so he joined forces with the Hand and tried to kill Danny, but in the end Danny thwarted the conspiracy and regained the power of the RAND Group.
'Silly White Sweet' Danny himself can single-handedly take back the power of the RAND Group from Harold, not to mention that now with the help of the Defenders Alliance, it is even easier to regain the power.
Yes, under Gu Chongyan's soft grinding and hard bubbles, Matt and the others finally agreed to form a defender alliance.
The division of labor among the people was clear, and in addition to secretly cracking down on crime, a preliminary organizational system was formed.
Matt's status as a lawyer provides the Defenders Coalition with a clear view of legal issues and avoids unnecessary conflicts with government agencies.
Jessica is the Alliance's first scout, responsible for gathering the necessary evidence for the Defenders' goals.
Luke's Bar, a secret stronghold and intelligence exchange center for the Defenders.
Danny's RAND Group is undoubtedly the largest financier of the entire alliance, although it is not as good as Stark Industries and Hammer Industries, which are international large enterprises, but they are also the number one enterprise group in New York, and it is very simple to support a defender alliance.
If the above four people are the part of the defender alliance on the surface, then stick suo and Gu Chongyan are the back of the defender alliance.
Stick, who has experience in forming and managing the True Pure Society, has become the chief steward of the Defender Alliance, secretly responsible for the operation of the Defender Alliance, and has gathered the forces of the True Pure Society and some of the Hand Order, and secretly taken over the underground forces of Hell's Kitchen.
Gu Chongyan, who proposed the formation of the Defenders Alliance, but didn't care too much about the Defenders Alliance, was in charge of the logistics of the Defenders Alliance, mainly including making equipment and potions with magic.
At first, the four Matts expressed strong opposition to the underground forces that Stickser had taken over Hell's Kitchen.
They thought that this was no different from the Hand and Fisk, and even more so that all of these underground forces should be sent to prison.
But Gu Chongyan said that there is light and darkness in this world, and the underground forces in the chaotic land of Hell's Kitchen cannot be cleaned up.
But as long as there is a choice, not many people will be willing to join the underground forces, and even if they send this group of people to prison, there will be new forces, wildfires will not be exhausted, and the spring breeze will blow and regenerate.
Instead of fighting this today and that tomorrow like whack-a-mole, it is better to use powerful power to integrate these chaotic organizations, although it is impossible to avoid their persecution in Hell's Kitchen, but it can use underground rules to minimize losses.
This approach is undoubtedly not welcomed by this group of superheroes, but it is very much in line with the anti-hero stick.
In the end, at the strong request of Sticksu and Gu Chongyandi, they still acquiesced to this approach.
However, the four also openly stated that although they agreed with the integration of the underground forces by the sticks, they did not agree that these forces belonged to the Defenders Alliance, and if they encountered them, they would not show mercy to them because they were the people of the sticks.
So, in a sense, at the beginning of the formation of the Defenders Alliance, there were signs of division.
The two sides of darkness and light seem irreconcilable.
However, in this regard, Gu Chongyan is happy to see it.
Don't look at him proposing and lobbying for a coalition of defenders, but in fact, he doesn't care how far this alliance will go.
Without him, Gu Chongyan knows very well how high the ceiling of this world is, the Defender Alliance is just a novice village-like existence, and it can still make a difference before the era of superheroes comes.
With the emergence of those that affect the whole world, galaxies, and even the entire universe, the Defenders are insignificant.
He actively formed a coalition of defenders, and there was really only one purpose, that is, money.
As the saying goes, money is not everything, but no money is absolutely impossible, especially for wizards and mages who burn money.
Although the upper limit of magic in the Marvel universe is much higher than that of the Harry Potter world, because the era of magic has passed, the current universe belongs to science and technology, and there are few magic materials in nature.
Fortunately, in addition to these, gold, silver, precious metals, and gemstones are also magical materials, but it takes a lot of money to get enough of them.
As a high school student, Gu Chongyan naturally had no way to make money, and he couldn't make a few dollars, and he was unwilling to use magic to do those things that cheated and cheated the price.
Then it is only natural to form a coalition of defenders, and then work hard in exchange for some payment.
In the same way, he secretly supported the integration of the underground forces because of the rapid accumulation of wealth.
In a sense, Stick's behavior was actually Gu Chongyan's instruction from the beginning, and he was the real controller behind it.