Great time travel

Chapter 578: New stronghold in Montana

Chapter 11, a new stronghold in Montana

Two months after the end of the Great War in New York, the District of Columbia, Washington, D.C.

Whether it is a world war or an alien invasion, as long as the human society is not destroyed, then after the restlessness, life still has to go on.

The Potomac River, which flows through Washington, D.C., is one of the most famous rivers along the Atlantic coast of the eastern United States.Originating at the western foot of the Appalachian Mountains, it is formed by the confluence of the North Branch River and the South Branch River, and finally flows into the Chesapeake Bay of the Atlantic Ocean.During the Civil War, the Potomac River once became the boundary between the two armies of the Civil War. From the front of the White House in Washington, you can see the flames and smoke of guns lined up on the cruel battlefield.

The iconic building of the SHIELD headquarters, the Tricurved Wing Building, is like a trident piercing into the clouds, standing on a small island in the middle of the Potomac River, across the river from the Washington Monument, not far away It is the famous Lincoln Memorial and Watergate Building.

After hiding on the floating aircraft carrier for several weeks, Nick, the SHIELD director in black leather.Fury finally returned to the director's office in the Tricurved Wing Building. He was sitting in front of the glass desk, staring at the LCD screen of the computer on the desk with one eye, reading the confidential documents inside.

After more than a month of long-term struggle, the issue of accountability for the Manhattan nuclear explosion finally came to a so-so result: the World Security Council held its nose and shouldered the charges, and several permanent directors held a press conference in Washington D.C. Yes, we regret the death of 40 New Yorkers and the nuclear pollution suffered by tens of millions of Americans.But at the same time, the directors have repeatedly emphasized that when the disaster of alien invasion occurs and the entire earth is facing the crisis of life and death, all means of war are necessary, and all sacrifices are also necessary, even nuclear explosions are no exception. !

Therefore, there is nothing wrong with the World Security Council ordering the nuclear bombing of New York, and it is irreproachable. Anyone who dares to make trouble is an anti-earth "ball traitor"!

In short, it is to push all the losses and guilt to fate, no one is wrong, and naturally no one needs to bear the responsibility!As for the 40 unjust souls in Manhattan, New York, they are necessary sacrifices to save mankind. Live greatly and die gloriously!All human beings will remember your selfless contributions, so the bereaved families should not care too much.Anyway, you are full of all kinds of super killers over there, and you have gotten used to dying after decades

Such a reckless attitude is comparable to those stubborn students who were caught cheating and still plausible. Naturally, the White House, Pentagon, Capitol Hill, and S.H.I.E.L.D. were quite angry.However, since the World Security Council has smashed this black pot by itself, there is no way to use it to entrap others.So, seeing that things are basically revealed, Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. Nick.Fury also returned to the headquarters to resume normal work.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Air Force has repeatedly tried in vain to capture or destroy the Rubik's Cube, a giant bouncy ball bouncing across the American continent.However, any attack method known to mankind cannot break the pure energy shield excited around the Rubik's Cube, or even consume the durability of the shield—because the Rubik's Cube itself is an endless super energy source!

Instead, every strike of a weapon, be it a missile, a laser, or a cannonball, makes this giant bouncy ball bounce faster, higher, and farther.

After discovering that the Rubik's Cube could not be shot down, the military racked their brains to formulate a "catcher" plan to use airships, helicopters and other aircraft to mount a giant net bag to catch the Rubik's Cube like a baseball.To this end, the Pentagon urgently mobilized two airships, more than twenty helicopters, and a team of "war machines" led by "Iron Patriot" Colonel Rhodes himself.

(Iron Man Tony. Stark, when he had a premonition that he was going to die of palladium poisoning, gave the Mark II Iron Man suit to his friend "Iron Patriot" James. Colonel Rhodes, the military used it to develop "Gears of War," that is, a mass-produced stripped-down version of Iron Man.)

However, this operation did not go smoothly. After all, the volume of the Rubik's Cube plus the excitation equipment is far from comparable to that of a baseball or football. Its size is at least equivalent to a telephone booth!Not only is the jumping speed fast, but the trajectory is irregular at all.The pilots paid the heavy price of four helicopters, an airship and two "war machines" crashing, seven people were killed and eight were injured, but they still failed to catch this oversized bouncy ball.

After experiencing these setbacks again, the elm-headed staff of the Pentagon finally came up with a relatively feasible idea, which is to use the method of bombardment boost to try to push the Rubik's Cube into a certain swamp, so as to slow down its ability to move.Unfortunately, it was too late - just last week, the Rubik's Cube jumped from New York on the east coast to the west coast, and finally jumped into the Pacific Ocean, becoming a floating object.Then, before the elated naval warships went to salvage it, Thor, the god of thunder, arrived suddenly with a group of Asgard warriors, and a confrontation began for the object...

"...The Cosmic Rubik's Cube, the evil god Loki, foreign spies, alien weapons, the Nordic gods of Asgard..."

Looking at the text, pictures and videos displayed on the LCD screen, Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. Nick.Fury lowered his head, whispering about various sources of recent troubles in his mouth, but his face was still completely expressionless, making it impossible to see what the one-eyed black bald man was thinking.

"...Knock! Knock! Knock!" Suddenly, a sudden knock on the door interrupted Nick.Fury's musings.

"...Come in." He turned off the computer casually, Nick.Fury raised his head, looked towards the office door and said.

"...Yes, sir." With the sound of leather boots hitting the floor, a fair-skinned black girl in a tight black uniform walked in with a serious face. "...This is the latest report just received today, please reply as soon as possible, sir!" As she spoke, she handed the folder in her hand to Nick, then stepped back and stood there with a serious face.It looks clean and neat, without any superfluous movements.Sky blue eyes looked at his officer calmly, like a well-trained soldier, waiting for the next instruction.

"...Thank you, Ms. Hill." Nick was already used to Agent Hill's serious, almost harsh, and inhuman work attitude, and didn't care.He just reached out to take the file, put it on the table, and squinted his eyes to read it.

"...the scientific research department still has no progress in the research and development of alien weapons. All the alien weapons confiscated in the New York battlefield are unusable, and all the alien soldiers are dead, and no information can be obtained through torture. According to the autopsy of the corpse, the captured Zita Rising people seem to be a mixture of half machine and half creature, and any individual has a remote control safety device, which can only be regarded as a war tool similar to a drone, not a real intelligent life...Damn! I saw these things last month You know it all! Could it be that these bastards haven’t researched anything new yet?”

"...Agent Sitwell has completed the recovery of an alien weapon, captured two gangsters who used alien weapons to rob a bank, and recovered an alien individual weapon suspected to be an energy gun or a laser gun. The two The identities of the robbers are husband and wife, and the male robber seems to have the ability to crack the safety device of the alien weapon. It is suggested that SHIELD recruit him to join the scientific research department... Approved! It is necessary to put some pressure on those useless scientists!"

"...a congressman delivered a speech against the Avengers in the House of Representatives, claiming that it was because the superheroes of the Avengers rashly took hostile actions against the aliens and caused huge damage to the aliens, which led to intensified conflicts and the New York nuclear war. The explosion caused huge losses to the United States. Therefore, the Avengers Alliance should be responsible for the disaster of the alien invasion, and the S.H.I.E.L.D.

Hehe, which rabid patient released from the madhouse is barking?Even if he talks about things with the Rubik's Cube, he is a little more decent than this! "

"...The confrontation in the Pacific Ocean is over, the naval fleet returned without success, and the alien who claimed to be Thor and his subordinates took away the Rubik's Cube...Well, this matter is finally over, and the case is closed like this File it!"

"...Reporting sir, regarding this matter, the World Security Council has just sent a video communication, questioning why we did not take decisive action and just watched the precious Cosmic Rubik's Cube be taken away by the Asgardians!" Agent Hill suddenly added Said.

"...Don't pay attention to such stupid talk!" Nick waved his hand boldly, "...Anyway, these old slickers are just looking for faults, no matter what we do, we will be wrong! If we really want to bring back the Rubik's Cube, the trouble will only happen. It will be even bigger! Well, let’s get here first today!”

Watching Agent Hill put away the approved documents and turn to leave the office, Nick couldn't help but rubbed his temples and sighed.

Although S.H.I.E.L.D. has had no shortage of enemies and challenges since its inception, and is no stranger to aliens, but such a recent large-scale invasion by an alien army is still unprecedented.And the various subsequent influences and fluctuations have not yet completely subsided. For example, in order to suppress the mobs wreaking havoc everywhere in the New York area, the primary task of the National Guard after the nuclear explosion was not disaster relief, but peace. Rebellion, tens of thousands of thugs were killed, and armored vehicles and planes were dispatched to blow up the remaining ruins. Only then did social order be restored.

Compared with the retreating aliens and ineffective thugs, what worries Nick more is a certain shadow lurking inside S.H.I.E.L.D.—an old opponent who has been fighting since World War II. The terrifying organization of Hydra.It was not until recently that he was vaguely aware of the existence of Hydra, and this was an extremely unusual thing for the leader of a secret service organization.

As the protector of the earth and all mankind, S.H.I.E.L.D. is not afraid of any foreign enemies, whether aliens or cults.However, when the enemy is parasitic in your body, the feeling is indescribably terrible: you have eyes but you can't see the direction, you have ears but you can't rest assured, you can only walk carefully on the tightrope step by step, and deal with it one time. If you are not careful, everything may be taken over by it.I don't know who is trustworthy, I don't know where the opponent is, I have strength but can't use it, if I accidentally fall into its grasp, I can only suffocate in despair.

In fact, there are only a few people that Nick can fully trust in S.H.I.E.L.D., including Hill, Black Widow Natasha, and Captain America Steve, but the shadow of Hydra seems to be everywhere, as if It has completely swallowed the entire S.H.I.E.L.D., and it seems to be just his personal imagination.

"...For the time being, we can only take it step by step. Let's solve the trouble of the aliens first!" He patted his bald head and muttered.

However, just in his ignorance, another small force from outside this world also quietly infiltrated into this country...

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During this period, Wang Qiu, Political Commissar Guo, Tang Marie and Chen Ping, the two trapped traversers, also experienced a long journey across the continental United States from south to north, from the hot and dry Texas , all the way to the forested Montana, and settled down here.

——Montana, located in the northwestern United States, near the Pacific coast and the Canadian border.Quanzhou has a vast land of 38 square kilometers, which is larger than the total territory of Japan. Among the states in the United States, Montana's area ranks third in the country, but its population is the sixth from the bottom. Therefore, the population density is the highest in the country. The second lowest, the resident population is only 90, which can definitely be called a vast land and sparsely populated.

However, despite being so sparsely populated, Montana is not a snow-covered plateau like Tibet, nor a Gobi desert like Xinjiang, but a paradise full of vitality.The four of Wang Qiu and his party just drove here, and they were fascinated by the scenery here: the flat and wide valley is covered with green grass, the farmland full of crops stretches as far as the eye can see, the clear stream meanders, surrounded by towering The mountains are dotted with snow from time to time.

This kind of magnificent landscape, which is very rare in China, made Wang Qiu and others admire it very much, as if they were in the plot world of "Lord of the Rings".

Generally speaking, in the eyes of Chinese like Wang Qiu, Montana is a wonderful land full of paradoxes.Although the land here is flat, the water is abundant, and the climate is not particularly cold, at least not colder than Boston and Vancouver, the population is surprisingly small.Although the majestic scenery of Montana's ten national forests and thirteen nature preserves attract tourists from all over the world, local young people are moving out in large numbers, and more than [-]% of high school graduates dream of leaving Here, go to those bustling metropolises that are feasting and feasting to find a new life.Despite the fact that many of America's hipster billionaires are spending huge sums of money to build luxury vacation homes in Montana, Montana is still almost the poorest state in the United States.Many local residents even have to work two or three jobs to earn enough to meet the federal poverty line.

The reason for this situation lies in the natural environment.While the land in Montana appears to be lush, the high latitude and altitude make the growing season short and produce crops only once a year, rather than twice a year, as in areas with longer summers.And the traffic is not convenient, far away from the densely populated consumer market.These flaws meant that any crop grown in Montana could be cheaper, more productive, and shipped faster and cheaper to other densely populated parts of North America if it was grown elsewhere in the United States.

In this way, Montana has become a piece of land with beautiful scenery and fairyland, but it is not competitive in agriculture.

But in the final analysis, it is because the American territory is so good, and the more fertile high-class land is everywhere, so they look down on such a second-class place and let it sleep in the wild.If the Japanese or Chinese could get such a treasure land, I'm afraid they would have woken up from their dreams a long time ago.

But for visitors from other worlds like Wang Qiu, it is precisely because Montana is sparsely populated and relatively poor that they can easily live in a remote place far away from human habitation at a very low price. place, and bought a large farm that was on the verge of desertion—the old couple who owned the farm died of illness not long ago, and their son preferred to dawdle in the bustling Los Angeles and refused to come back to inherit the farm. , sold the farm to Don Marie for nothing but a very pitiful fifteen thousand dollars!

——For Wang Qiu and the others, the available funds are still quite tight.Although taking advantage of the chaos of the Battle of New York, they got a lot of banknotes from some shops and supermarkets, and the Chinese government in the modern world can provide sacks of US dollar bills as funds at any time.

But first, the dollar is not exactly the same in both worlds.Secondly, in the United States where credit cards are widely used, it is very eye-catching and suspicious to take out large sums of cash rashly. Even ordinary people pay by credit cards and checks when buying valuables.If anyone can pull out a stack of dollar bills to buy something, everyone will immediately connect you to a criminal organization... So, the cost of buying this farm in Montana is completely spent With the savings in the bank account, Tang Marie can only choose the cheapest one to buy.

However, after taking a look at the land, they understood why the price of the farm was so low: because the place was so remote.There is neither running water nor gas supply. Cooking depends on firewood and electricity depends on its own generator.From the nearest town to the farm, it takes at least half a day to drive more than 150 kilometers in one go along the original road completely rolled out by vehicles.Once the mountain is blocked by heavy snow or the road is washed away by heavy rain, the farm will be completely isolated from the world!Also due to the inconvenient transportation, it is also a very difficult task to transport agricultural products from the farm, and the shipping cost is also so high that it is hardly competitive.

In short, in such a place, you can almost only live the life of a reclusive monk in the legend, relying on eating the things you grow yourself to be self-sufficient, it is extremely difficult to save some spare money, and you have to pay taxes and fees Not wrong.No wonder the aborigines are so yearning for the colorful world outside.

However, for Wang Qiu and others who do not depend on this world for their livelihood at all, such a remote place is ideal.

So, after hastily tidying up the only dilapidated wooden house in the farm, they happily went out to investigate the environment.