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Chapter 224: Emergency Landing in Las Vegas

The co-pilot reminded: "Las Vegas is below. Commanders, please put on your parachute packs in advance. Once the flight altitude drops to 1000 feet, you can make an emergency landing."

Hearing this, Bucky took a parachute bag from under the cabin seat and made preparations.

Seeing that Steve didn't have a parachute, he asked, "Are you going to make an emergency landing without a parachute again?"

Steve confidently replied, "I never use a parachute. Are you familiar with the terrain of Las Vegas?"

Bucky shook his head. “I’ve never been to this city.”

Steve reminded him, "Then follow me closely. After landing, we must leave the casino as soon as possible to prevent the enemy from using weapons of mass destruction."

Hearing this, Buggy's face turned serious: "You reminded me. I don't want to be confused and encounter a nuclear explosion."

At this time, the Quinjet dropped to an altitude of 1000 feet, and the lead pilot reminded: "It's time to make an emergency landing."

The cabin door opened and a gust of wind rushed into the cabin.

The two pilots, the main pilot and the co-pilot, turned on the automatic flight mode, left the driving seat, and quickly took the parachute packs to prepare for the emergency landing.

"It is now 3:14 a.m. Eastern Time. After the forced landing is successful, everyone will gather in the northern suburbs of Las Vegas at o'clock!"

After finishing speaking on the communication channel, Steve jumped directly out of the hatch, followed closely by Bucky.

More than 15 F- fighter jets were chasing them and found that Steve and others had parachuted and made an emergency landing.

There was a big city below with too many tall buildings. They quickly lost sight of Steve and the others and had to report to the rear immediately.

After hearing the intelligence sent back from the front, Talos decisively ordered his men to launch an intercontinental nuclear missile at Las Vegas.

Steve and Bucky made an emergency landing on a long-abandoned street in the North Town of Las Vegas.

They found two bicycles from an off-road bicycle shop on the side of the road.

The two of them pedaled their bicycles as fast as they could, riding at lightning speed on the dark streets, heading for the meeting point in the suburbs.

After a while, Bucky felt that the bicycle was a bit slow and asked, "I just saw a motorcycle shop. How about we change the means of transportation?"

Steve retorted as he pedaled his bike: "A place like a motorcycle shop must have been plundered by scavengers a long time ago. Just ride your bike honestly."

Bucky said helplessly: "Okay, where do we go after we arrive at the meeting point?"

Steve replied: "Let's go to New Jersey. The Avengers' base has an air defense system. As long as we can rebuild the Avengers, we still have hope."

Bucky thought his good brother was really crazy and kept missing returning to New Jersey.

"Fury asked us to return to Europe and strategically abandon North America, perhaps"

Steve interrupted him before he could finish, "Bucky, go back to Europe. If the situation gets too bad to be salvaged, I'll come find you."

Buggy said with disbelief: "When the real battle starts, I guess you will be so stupid that you won't even know you are surrounded by the enemy."

"Just like this time, if I hadn't come to support you, you would have been defeated long ago."

Steve said in a serious tone: "I will be more careful next time. You don't have to take risks with me."

Bucky shook his head and smiled, "With my reminder, at least you won't be surrounded by the enemy. I'd better stay with you."

Seeing that he insisted, Steve wanted to persuade him a few more times, but suddenly he found that a dazzling white light illuminated the sky.

A huge fireball appeared in the sky above the city of Las Vegas behind the two people.

"boom--"

After a loud bang that shook the earth.

A high-temperature air wave hit, blowing Steve and the other man more than 20 meters away and crashing them into a bungalow on the side of the road.

"Cough cough."

Steve climbed out from the collapsed bricks, covered in dust and reached out to pull Bucky.

"Are you okay?"

"Huh, it's not bad. The enemy actually wanted to kill us with nuclear weapons? If we had run slower, we would have died there." Buggy said with lingering fear.

At this time, the two were 130 kilometers away from the center of the nuclear explosion, so they were not vaporized immediately.

But the subsequent high temperature air flow really caught the two off guard.

Steve saw that Bucky was not injured. He looked at the bicycle that was badly deformed and half buried by a pile of building bricks. He shook his head and said:
"The bicycles are useless and we are still more than 20 kilometers away from the meeting point. It looks like we will have to run at night next."

Bucky dusted off his combat uniform and said with a relaxed look, "During the recruit training, I got first place in the 20km weighted run."

Seeing that he was still in the mood to brag, Steve shook his head and laughed as he walked out of the collapsed bungalow, "Stop bragging and save some energy to run."

Then, the two began to run at night on the road leading to the suburbs.

In Las Vegas behind, many buildings on the edge of the nuclear explosion were ignited by the high temperature air waves.

Tall buildings were engulfed in flames, turning the entire night sky orange.

At five in the morning, Steve and Baskey arrived at the meeting point on the northern outskirts of Las Vegas.

I counted the number of people.

There were 20 Quinjet fighters, carrying a total of 300 elite agents, but only 47 of them successfully made the emergency landing and arrived at the assembly point.

"Rest for two hours, leave at 7 a.m. and find transportation to New Jersey."

"Understood, sir!"

After Steve and his companions rested for two hours in the wild, they were ready to go, found five pickup trucks, and drove along the highway to New Jersey, 3500 kilometers away.

This journey is not any easier than the journey to the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures.

Captain America and his companions not only had to hide their whereabouts to avoid being discovered by the Skrulls, but they also had to rush to New Jersey as quickly as possible.

The intelligence conveyed by Nick Fury showed that the Skrull coalition of 100 nations had invaded the United States from the US-Mexico border and had occupied several southern states.

Therefore, Captain America and his team have to race against time.

Otherwise, their speed would be too slow, and by the time they arrived in New Jersey, the coalition forces of 100 nations would probably have caught up with them.

We took turns driving almost day and night.

After one day and one night.

Captain America and others finally arrived in New Jersey and returned to the Avengers' recruit training base.

Five pickup trucks, covered in dust and looking gray, were driving slowly through the deserted training base.

This training base is built on the vast plains of southern New Jersey, surrounded by livestock farms and sparsely populated.

Five pickup trucks circled the training base, but no one was seen for a long time.

Steve sighed and said, "It seems that the news of the defeat at the front has spread, and everyone in the rear training base has fled."

Bucky said without surprise: "This is normal. No one wants to wait for death on a damaged ship."

At this time, a white-haired old man in dark green military uniform appeared in front of the pickup truck convoy.

"parking!"

Steve quickly stopped the car, got out quickly and walked to the white-haired old man, and asked with a puzzled look on his face: "Mr. Anderson, didn't you leave?"

The white-haired old man is named Anderson Howard, and he is the gate guard on duty at this training base.

His two sons and a daughter died in the alien invasion.

It’s okay for the elderly to send off the young.

Without the support of his children, a man in his 70s simply cannot survive in today's chaotic world.

Therefore, Steve specially asked Mr. Anderson to work as a security guard at the recruit training base.

Give this poor old man who lost his children a simple job so that he can make a living.

Now, the moment Anderson saw Captain America, he was so excited that he almost had a heart attack.

"Leader! You're finally back!"

Steve was quick to support the other person and comfort him, "Yes, I'm back, don't get excited."

Tears of excitement flowed from the corners of Anderson's wrinkled eyes.

"When they heard the news of the defeat at the front, everyone ran away. Many people said that you also died in the war at the front. Only I firmly believed that the leader could not die so easily."

Captain America said solemnly: "Thank you for your trust. I come back this time to rebuild the Avengers to fight against the invading enemy."

Anderson shook his head and said, "From what I know, many people not only left the training base, but even left New Jersey."

"Every day the radio broadcasts that the entire southern United States is in flames, and everyone is afraid that the enemy will come here."

"So, they all fled to the Umbrella Company's territory in New York."

"Nowadays, except for the elderly, the weak and the disabled like me, most people in New Jersey have started to migrate to New York State."

"So, leader, if you want to form an Avengers army, I'm afraid there won't be many people who will respond in New Jersey. Maybe you should go to New York."

After listening to Anderson's words, Bucky asked curiously, "It seems that the Umbrella Company rarely cares about its own territory. How do they know that it will be safe to run to New York?"

Anderson explained: "In the two world-class crises, only New York State in the entire United States suffered the least casualties."

"Although the Umbrella Company does not intervene, its existence itself is a deterrent."

"So everyone feels that New York is the only safe place."

Steve said thoughtfully: "New York is indeed a safe place. Although the Umbrella Corporation is not a good thing, the Skrulls should not dare to provoke Umbrella."

Bucky asked, "So next, we go to New York State?"

Steve thought for a moment and said, "It looks like we have to go to New York State. Mr. Anderson, please come with us."

Anderson shook his head and said, "Thank you for your concern, leader. But I have lived for more than 70 years. I have lived enough. There is no need for me to be a burden to you anymore."

Steve advised: "It's okay, bringing one more person is nothing."

Anderson shook his head firmly: "Ever since I lost all my relatives, I have despaired of this damn world!"

"Now, I'm tired, it's time to go to heaven to find them!"

Hearing the other party's persistence, Steve sighed, gave the other party three days of food supplies, and then turned around and returned to the pickup truck silently.

The pickup truck convoy started moving again.

Steve kept staring at the white-haired old man in the rearview mirror until he disappeared, then he sighed:

"People have endured too much sadness and joy after these two world-class disasters. I really don't know when world peace will be restored."

(End of this chapter)