Marvel Magic Case Files

Chapter 1364, the 1360th chapter of the battle plan.

"Don't answer, it's a trap!"

Maria Hill immediately stood up from the sofa, her expression icy. Before the agent could react, Melinda May jumped up almost reflexively. She gave the agent instructions; although she didn't understand what was happening, her intuition told her that Maria Hill hadn't revealed some crucial information. "Don't answer. Don't let Wind One return. Don't reveal any information about the location of the Lighthouse base," Melinda May said. "Tell Wind One to continue their patrol."

"But the lighthouse has already started guiding the flight path; that's standard procedure." The agent was startled. Although he didn't understand what was happening, he knew that Melinda May and the unfamiliar agent didn't want the Wind One to return to base. "Even without guidance, the flight logs can guide the Wind One to land. We've detected the Wind One approaching us, and based on its current flight path, it'll reach the airspace above the lighthouse base in about twenty minutes."

"Close the lighthouse, do not open the helipad," Maria Hill said. A massive aircraft like the Wind One, if docked on the surface, would inevitably be detected by satellites or patrol aircraft. Therefore, the lighthouse base has a helipad built at the bottom of the lake. Whenever the Wind One needs to take off or land, a large enough passageway opens at the top of the helipad for vertical takeoff and landing. "Disconnect all external communication, close all blast doors. We need a plan. Agent May, I need you to activate the lighthouse base's central control computer and select the alien invasion response plan."

Melinda May was puzzled; she had never seen any documents related to contingency plans on the old computers at Lighthouse Base, dating back to the 1980s. However, Maria Hill was so certain that she could only conclude that Maria Hill's control over Lighthouse Base far exceeded her expectations, and it was highly likely that Nick Fury had revealed intelligence unknown to other agents.

Who is our enemy?

Maria Hill did not hesitate and said a name.

Where is Phil Coulson?

“In Washington,” Melinda May replied. “He’s with Jeffrey Mays, discussing the SHIELD agent pardon with Secretary of Defense Tabot. The current president has promised to grant pardons to all former SHIELD agents who pass the vetting process before the election, and even if he fails to do so, his Democratic successor will keep his promise, provided we hand over the Hydra list we’ve uncovered to the Democrats and hand over the database that Nick Fury has hidden to the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, the CIA, and sixteen other intelligence agencies.”

Maria Hill only heard that Agent Phil Coulson was not at Lighthouse Base. Her expression grave, she said, "You are now in full command of Lighthouse Base, Melinda May. We must protect this place. We absolutely cannot let the Emperor touch anything in the Lighthouse Base's underground vault."

The Lighthouse base is a complex structure that continues to expand underground, containing numerous rooms and a wealth of secrets yet to be uncovered by Agent Coulson's team. Even now, Melinda May still doesn't know what's stored in the underground rooms, capable of withstanding a nuclear attack, and there's no readily available inventory list.

"I will arrange defensive forces," Melinda May said. "But if our enemy is him, then our armed personnel are simply no match for the genetically modified warriors."

Maria Hill looked at Daisy Jensen, who was asking the agents about the situation outside the laminated bulletproof glass.

"We still have her, Quake. Apart from her, we have a symmetrical fighting force."

"Even at this point, you're still unwilling to share the weapons in the underground warehouse with us?"

“I can’t do it, Agent May,” Maria Hill sighed. “All I know is what’s stored on the fifth, sixth, and seventh floors, and that stuff is of no help to our current situation. Expired documents won’t help us defend against an intrusion. Now, we need the cybersecurity department to attack the information equipment on Wind One. They must delay Wind One’s arrival at the Lighthouse base as much as possible so we can prepare.”

Once the order was given, the alarm was immediately raised. Everyone at the Lighthouse base, except for the cybersecurity agents, sprang into action under Alfonso McKenzie's leadership. Although he hadn't been at the Lighthouse base for very long, Agent Coulson hadn't forgotten his professional skills, organizing and arranging numerous drills with the limited personnel at his disposal. When Agent Alfonso McKenzie, formerly the damage control chief and senior mechanic on a S.H.I.E.L.D. aircraft carrier, began deploying armed personnel, almost all the agents—even the internal affairs agents—understood their positions and responsibilities. They all picked up pistols and submachine guns, donned body armor, and stood at the rear defensive line, waiting for the armed personnel at the front to evacuate in an orderly manner. Even with many unanswered questions, Alfonso McKenzie picked up his homemade axe-shotgun and waited behind the first reinforced concrete blast door, ready to face any intruders.

"Are we going to be facing a huge group of Captain Americas?"

Daisy Jensen was also a member of the first line of defense. Alfonso McKenzie, a rugged but sensitive giant, thoughtfully provided her with shock-absorbing arm armor made by Leopold Fitz, to prevent her from shattering her hand bones in the intense combat later on. She had suffered from this more than once during the time the Terrigen Mist triggered Kree genetic engineering, yet she still carelessly forgot her vibranium-damped arm armor in the lounge, never remembering to bring it unless on a field mission.

"The people we're facing are far more formidable than Captain America," Alfonso McKenzie whispered, trying to keep their conversation from being overheard by the other agents. Under no circumstances could they afford to demoralize the enemy, even if they were facing an incredibly powerful foe. "Remember when Robbie Reyes was arrested? If I'm not mistaken, we'll see that genetically modified soldier again. He'll definitely send his Imperial Guard on an important mission."

"Compared to S.H.I.E.L.D., Dr. Horton Radcliffe is actually your mission, isn't he?" Epsilon-Rodney-Ray 223's voice carried the faint whirring of a chip in operation, a sound easily masked by the noise of the heavy truck engine outside the carriage, but clearly audible to Constantine. "You want the Life-Model Decoy project, right?" Seeing that Constantine didn't intend to answer, Epsilon-Rodney-Ray 223 continued, "In the stories of the Olympus Forge, there's one about the friendship between the Emperor and the Great Sage. That story has been exaggerated, embellished, and obscured, leaving only the tale of the Great Sage and the Emperor signing a pact. It's said that a city forged from steel descended from the sky, and that was the original Olympus Forge. But all of us born on Mars know the truth: Mars' planetary cycles are wrong, the Olympus Forge was built on Mars, and our time has been accelerated by 253.425 years."

"so what?"

“There was no city falling from the sky; that’s just a myth used to obscure the origins of the Forge,” Epsilon-Rodney-Radium 223 said. “I will not be superstitious about the Emperor, nor will I be superstitious about you. Mechanics, science, and reason cannot be deceived, and I will not turn a blind eye to your purpose. I will give you the disks and data of the Life-Model Decoy project, including Aida’s data and the original data of the Mind Framework, as well as my analysis reports on both sets of data. But that’s all I can do, Constantine.”

You've said one thing wrong.

"Oh?" Epsilon-Rodney-Ray223 looked up. "My conclusion is based on logical analysis."

"Yes," Constantine nodded, "but on the day the Great Sage signed the pact with the Emperor, a steel city really did fall from the sky."

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