msmithbooks Chapter 89 The White Whale 28
Chapter 89 The White Whale 28
Tony felt like he was suffocating.
Two hours, just two hours!
His adopted daughter in name, a student who took math classes, a singer whom he really liked, and a pretty girl whom he always thought was weak and pitiful but could eat - turned out to be members of the legendary Star Nest!
Is this the mental journey that passers-by around her will inevitably go through when the superhero identity is revealed?
Tony: It's broken, I'm a passerby!
Strange looked at Alice and said, "So tonight's concert is your plan?"
Alice glanced at Strange, her tone was a little absent-minded: "That's not quite accurate... After all, plans always fail to keep up with changes."
"Wait a minute!" Little Spider, who barely understood the whole process, raised his hand, "Can you please explain a little bit? What concert, what plan?"
Alice has always had a good impression of Little Spider, she glanced at him with a smile, successfully made Little Spider blush, and then said: "Well, since you asked sincerely..."
In fact, the plan is not complicated. Alice described all the ins and outs in just 2 minutes.
But the little girl's thinking was a little off. After she finished speaking, the entire conference room fell into a long silence, and everyone was trying to understand her thoughts.
"So..." Steve spoke first, "You want to hold a concert because your voice can cause damage to the Crimson Earth Core, and you want to draw it out in this way?"
"This is indeed one of the reasons." Alice put her chin on her hand and looked at Steve with a smile on her mouth. "However, I am also very happy to sing. I like singing to others the most."
Especially when it is sung to so many people.
Alice would be very happy to hear those people calling her name, seeing their fanatical expressions, and knowing that they really liked her singing.
"Haven't you considered that this kind of behavior may cause casualties to the people?" Steve said with a slightly disapproving tone.
"..." Alice was silent for a moment.
Civilian casualties?
Why didn't you think about it?
In order to reduce the possible pollution, she tried her best to extract the anti-frequency from the charred corpse, and almost overturned the car.At the concert, she also tried her best to delay the time for the crimson core to break through the surface, so that every audience could leave early.
In order to bear the loss, the Secret Star Church also bought a large number of shares in the brokerage company, record company and various affairs departments behind her early on. If it wasn't for Tony Stark's sudden move, they could even own all the shares.
Yes, the concert did not cause any civilian casualties.
But that doesn't excuse her from actually putting innocent people at risk.
But now that the crimson core has already used the entire New York City as a bargaining chip, the church has no reason not to choose to take risks.This is the only way, and it will only get worse if it is delayed.
"...Oh." She didn't argue, but said frankly, "I originally wanted to solve it tonight, but..."
There was a little unpleasant look on her face: "I didn't expect things to go wrong."
"If my understanding is correct, your original plan was for you to lead out the crimson earth core, use your singing voice to damage its resonance frequency as much as possible, thereby exposing the heart, and let the warriors kill it." Strand said. Qi said, "This kind of practice itself has an element of gambling."
"Right!" Alice showed an expression of "you still understand me", "I said the same at the beginning, but guess what the Pope said-oh, it's another member of Star Nest, an old antique-he Said that even if it fails, it can be used as the cost of trial and error. What a hell, I have worked so hard to open a concert and let him use it as the cost of trial and error, how can I swallow this breath!"
Besides, for such an adventurous thing, one time is enough.
"So..." Strange's eyes fell on her left shoulder, which was covered by clothes, "You didn't follow the plan, did you? Your pollution level..."
As a supreme mage who has penetrated into the mysterious field, he can certainly see the degree to which a person is affected by high dimensions.
"Oh, it's all right..." said Alice, her voice seemed to grow softer. "Sooner or later."
"In order to gain stronger power and increase the success rate of this plan, you took the initiative to accept the pollution?" Strange frowned. "This is very, very dangerous."
Only those who have been completely corrupted by the dark forces will rush to those dangerous forces.
As followers of Outer Gods, or even agents, they should be very aware of the terrible consequences of pollution, and they should also know that once a mutation occurs, it is irreversible.
Taking the initiative to mutate himself in order to defeat the crimson earth core, this is simply treating his body as a one-time consumable!
"Wait a minute," Tony said. "Pollution?"
Alice paused for a moment, a look of hesitation appeared on her face, and then she blinked at Strange, as if implying him to keep silent.
However, Strange didn't notice the look in her eyes. He looked at Tony and said calmly: "Anyone who seeks power from the supreme god will pay a price. The power of a god is something that mortals cannot easily bear. We call this price It's pollution. Mages alleviate pollution through years of practice, cultivation of the state of mind, and complex spellcasting, but even so, people often lose control for various reasons. Star nest... I don't think you have complex magic system?"
Pray, sacrifice, descend.The most primitive and most effective method of lowering power will also bring the most serious pollution.
Alice glared at him, and said unhappily: "Oh, that's really not as good as your Weishandi, it's amazing."
Strange: "..."
No, let's discuss academic issues seriously, can you not use the yin and yang tricks? ?
After this conversation, the meeting room fell into silence again.
Although a few people on the technology side still couldn't fully understand, they also vaguely noticed a certain disturbing quality in Alice.
Just like the first sentence that the samurai said at the concert scene is "you are crazy".
...This seemingly harmless, young, ignorant, and even spoiled and self-willed little girl is perhaps crazier than anyone else.
A crazy believer who actively seeks mutations for greater power - no matter from which angle you look at it, this doesn't seem like a sensible move.
Even if her purpose is to remove threats more efficiently.
"Actually, I can kill the crimson earth core tonight!" Alice said unwillingly, as if trying to justify something, "One mutation won't work, then two times, I will always find a way to severely damage it, but--"
She glanced at the little spider with some annoyance, then at Tony, flattened her mouth, and a little imperceptible frustration flashed in the light blue eyes of flawless blue emeralds.
But she only had time to mutate once before being stopped!
It stands to reason that she was able to break free from their obstruction to her, who had fallen into a weak state at that time, but...
Alice looked away in aggrieved manner, her face full of unhappiness.
"In short..." she continued, "I didn't grasp this opportunity, and it will not be so easy to draw out the crimson core again."
As a public figure, Alice Melia had such a big problem at this concert, and the personal impact on her would be immeasurable.
Whether she can continue to hold concerts is really hard to say.
For her, the mutation or something is secondary.Not being able to hold any more concerts made her even more uncomfortable.
"Okay, let me sort out the information." Tony, who has been unusually silent all the time, said, "Our current enemy is the Crimson Earth Core, and its boss is the Old One, and they are all casually It's hard for us alone to deal with a super monster that can bulldoze New York - that's what you mean, right?"
"It's really difficult for us alone." Strange looked at Alice, hesitant to speak.
...But there is a star nest that can easily kill the fear of the moon, so that is not necessarily the case.
The weight of Star Nest is too heavy, and it can even completely tilt the balance.With Star Nest as their allies, they will have a great chance of winning.
"What happened to the sudden appearance of the sniper?" he asked.
"Those are controlled humans." Strange said, "there is a high probability that they are its believers."
"Hmph, believers of giant monsters... so what should we do now?" Tony leaned back on the chair and asked, spreading his hands, "Establish the Emperor Organization (Note) overnight?"
Everyone present didn't respond, only Alice burst out laughing, and was glared hard by Tony.
Alice grinned back aggrievedly.
"You just said that you found some remnants in the stadium. What are they?" Natasha looked at Strange.
"This." Strange put a scrap of fabric in his hand on the table, "This thing was already charred, and I used some small means to restore it to its original shape."
Everyone turned their attention to the fragments.
On the shard is a red marker.
On the mark, a red, heart-like and skull-shaped prototype mark grew countless tentacles, stretching out in all directions.
Steve's pupils shrank slightly: "Hydra?"
"No..." Natasha frowned and said in thought, "Not exactly."
The little spider touched his head and said, "This mark looks like a combination of an octopus and a sea anemone. It looks weird..."
"The combination of the Hydra and the crimson earth core..." Tony touched his chin, he has gradually recovered the ability to think normally and analyze intelligence, "Obviously they have fused their marks with the mutated tentacle sea anemone, and become It has become this four-faced look. So the sea anemone you mentioned just now is developing believers, probably because it fooled Hydra and the guys who have never been very good at their brains."
"That's right!" Little Spider immediately agreed, "And their logos are really similar!"
Strange felt that this kind of statement made Hydra feel a bit like landing on the moon, but he held back and said to Alice: "Now that we know the exact existence of their believers, things will be much easier. Yes. The main force of Hydra must be in New York now, as long as we can find them, we will be able to find their connection with the crimson core, and thus find the exact location of the heart of the crimson core."
Alice raised her eyes, and there was a look of disdain and disgust on that pretty face: "I really don't understand that there are people in this world who believe in such things..."
"In order to gain more powerful power, many people in this world will do whatever it takes." Natasha looked at Alice deeply, "The only difference is what they want to use the power for."
As if she didn't understand what Natasha said, Alice yawned, with two small tears popping out of the corners of her eyes, and said with a soft ending, "See, you guys are so familiar with that octopus. They look like you, so you go find them, and if you find them, remember to tell me... I'm so sleepy, we're going to end the meeting today, okay?"
She is like a little girl who has no sense of responsibility and no mobility, she asks others to run errands as soon as she opens her mouth.
After all... everything that happened today was too much for her. Now that things have turned around, she has no point in staying here any longer. She just wants to find a place to sleep at this moment.
... But it's really hard to say whether she can sleep, her shoulder really hurts! !
Everyone was a little dazed.
Most of them had never been in contact with Alice before tonight, and of course they didn't know the terrifying charm that was almost magical in her.
When she was speaking, her ending sound was a little dragged, like a kitten dragging its fluffy tail slowly walking past their auditory nerves, the tingling feeling was directly transmitted to the cerebral cortex, making their scalp tingle Ma, comfortable to the extreme.
Under this comfort to the soul, they even instinctively wanted to follow her wishes.
Sound is a weapon.
Once again, they deeply understood the meaning of this sentence.
Tony, who was almost desensitized to the voice, glanced at Alice.
Regardless of the voice, he was too familiar with the little girl's expression, so he almost immediately caught the tiredness hidden under Alice's seemingly relaxed expression.
He had never seen such an expression on Alice's face.
Even when she was crying about math problems, he had never seen her look tired, at most she was rebellious and impatient.
Recalling everything that had happened in the past month, he felt a little angry again for some reason.But after his eyes fell on Alice's left shoulder, the sudden fire in his heart was extinguished again.
He sighed softly.
"Then let's get here first tonight." Tony said lazily, "Do you need me to arrange a vehicle to take you home?"