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Chapter 221 AIM Doomsday
Chapter 221 AIM Doomsday
Regarding the matter of taking the blame, Jack has his own understanding...
In the political field, it is always unavoidable to hang around, take the blame and throw the blame away.
If the relationship between superheroes and the American authorities is likened to that of an oriental knight and the imperial court, then the Tianhammer Bureau is the six doors in the world of martial arts.
As the master of the six doors, although Jack lives in the rivers and lakes, he is actually a member of the court.
This is doomed that Jack can't be as happy as Captain America, Iron Man and others.
In fact, Iron Man in the later period of the Avengers also embarked on the same path as Jack, becoming the "six doors" between the authorities and superheroes.
This is the inevitable development of the superhero world...
Even if there is no Sky Hammer Bureau in this world, there is no Iron Man, there will inevitably be other organizations with the same attributes.
In the previous life, the occurrence of the "civil war" proved that Iron Man's manipulation failed...
However, the failure of Iron Man does not mean that there is no need for "six doors" between the authorities and superheroes.
In fact, on the contrary, if superheroes and authorities want to live peacefully together on this planet, then the "six doors" are indispensable.
Therefore, Jack does not think that accepting Benjamin's "entrustment" is taking the blame for the White House, the authorities, and the president. He thinks that he is actually practicing his own ideas.
Maybe many people don't understand that Jack could have made better choices in life. He could be the head of the family step by step, or he could be a playboy, or he could even be a parking boy...
Anyway, as long as he wants, he can live very easily.
That being the case, why can't Jack be a politician, even if the road is very difficult...
Perhaps, the same question was also placed in front of Tony...
In addition to Iron Man, Tony also has many choices, but his final ending is to pay his life for the "justice" in his heart.
A billionaire, to become a superhero, this is an even more outrageous choice than Jack's choice of politics.
The moment he hung up on Benjamin's phone, Jack made peace with himself.
As long as the goal can be achieved, it's no big deal to take the blame.
But before Jack made any further deployment and arrangements, an encrypted text message appeared on his mobile phone...
"Donos has close ties to ten people including Rodriguez and Sessions."
The signer is Kano.
Obviously this time Kano learned the lesson. He knew that Captain America didn't like his mission, so he simply used text messages to pass the information to Jack.
But Jack didn't have time to pay attention to Kano's growth at all, and all his attention was focused on this text message.
Donos is linked to Ten!
This was far beyond Jack's expectations, and certainly beyond Benjamin's expectations.
Before receiving Kano's information, Jack believed that Donos and the "Ten" were two different forces.
For their own purposes, they happened to attack Jack and the Skyhammer at the same time.
Jack even boldly hypothesized that there may be some kind of connection between Many North and Killian, and they tried to rescue Mrs. Poison and other party members, and this incident happened to be used by the "Ten"!
But it now appears that this is not the case at all.
From beginning to end, they were a team!
"Ten people" should probably be "11 people"!
Their goal is self-evident... Sky Hammer Bureau.
This is also easy to understand. After SHIELD was disbanded, the Skyhammer Bureau was a hurdle that no villain could get around!
Although he couldn't figure out who was controlling them to attack the Sky Hammer Bureau, Jack understood that the matter had reached the most urgent moment!
So Jack didn't hesitate anymore, he wrote down a long list of names on a piece of white paper,
"Surveillance on everyone on this list for 24 hours, I don't care what method you use, I want to know what secrets are hidden behind these people!"
Misty took the white paper, and after glancing at it, her hands were already trembling slightly. She understood the weight of this list in her heart...
If this list is leaked, it will be a political disturbance no less than the "Watergate" incident.
The so-called Watergate Incident refers to the fact that in the 1972 presidential election, in order to obtain intelligence on the Democratic Party's internal campaign strategy, five people, led by James McCord, the chief security adviser of the Republican Nixon campaign team, sneaked into the Democratic Party's Watergate Building in Washington. The Office of the National Committee was arrested on the spot while installing bugs and secretly photographing relevant documents.
Because of this incident, Nixon announced on August 1974, 8, that he would resign the next day, thus becoming the first and only president in American history to resign due to a scandal.
Since Watergate, the suffix "Gate" in the name "Watergate" has become synonymous with political and non-political scandals in the United States and elsewhere in the world.
From this we can see the influence of the Watergate incident!
Previously, it was an extremely dangerous action for Jack to order Kano to monitor Donos, but it was nothing compared to monitoring the people on this list.
Vice President Rodriguez, Secretary of State Les Hill, Attorney General Sessions, National Security Adviser Mike Master, Treasury Secretary Shamir, White House Public Relations Director Ramsey...plus the previous FBI Director Donos.
These 11 people basically represent one-third of the current high-level power of the government!
Once the secret is leaked, Jack will not have any chance to explain.
And unlike President Nixon, Jack has no judicial immunity, he must spend the rest of his life in prison!
So Misty didn't leave for a long time, and she looked at the silent Raymond as if asking for help.
The latter "snatched" the list from Misty's hands in doubt, and with just one glance, he looked at Jack in shock.
"why?"
Jack smiled wryly and replied, "Donos is with them..."
Now Raymond and the US team also knew the seriousness of the matter.
After being silent for a while, Raymond suggested:
"Isn't it too risky to do this? Maybe we can monitor one or two people first."
Jack smiled bitterly again. There is no essential difference between monitoring one or two people and monitoring everyone. If things are revealed, the latter may alleviate some of Jack's guilt.
But now that he has decided to go to the poker table, Jack doesn't want to leave a way for himself.
If a more serious crisis is caused because of one's own "cowardice", it will only make the situation more difficult.
Judging from the current situation, the "ten people" teamed up to "force the palace" is a political event that is a hundred times more serious than the square massacre.
After the FBI has captured the Mandarin, to some extent, the influence of the Square Massacre will fade quickly... After all, the public does not know the existence of Killian.
So on the bright side, more than half of the massacre in the square has been understood.
The "ten people forced the palace" incident has become a new point of contradiction.
How did they come together?What is their purpose?What conspiracy is hidden behind them?
In contrast, forcing the Skyhammer Bureau to hand over the evidence and suspects of the massacre in the square has become a trivial matter!
No matter how powerful Killian is, he is at most a large terrorist, but the "11" can shake the political foundation of the United States...
To put it bluntly, in the Marvel world, once the American government has a problem, world chaos will not be far away!
Therefore, at this time, Jack has absolutely no possibility of backing down!
He looked at Misty and said in a deep voice:
"Follow my orders."
Seeing that Jack was so determined, Misty had no choice but to turn and leave.
After the intelligence officer Misty left, the US team who had been silent all the time suddenly said:
"What should we do with Mrs. Poison and other suspects?"
Jack didn't answer Captain America's question right away, but instead asked:
"Captain, what do you want to do?"
At first, the US team refused to hand over people, but under the current situation, the competition between the Sky Hammer Bureau and the FBI will only attract too much attention, and the Sky Hammer Bureau does not need any attention at this time!
"I'm here to take charge of Mrs. Poison's interrogation. Once three hours are up, I will immediately hand over to the FBI."
Although he doesn't show it normally, Captain America is actually a person with political wisdom.
Under the current circumstances, Mrs. Poison and other suspects are in a hurry, and the eleven high-level authorities are in a hurry. The US team can clearly distinguish the priorities.
Jack was very pleased that Captain America could change his position. He looked at Captain America and nodded heavily.
Captain America then left the office.
Subsequently, Raymond also left after a sigh.
In the office, Jack walked to the French windows again.
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An hour later, Tony returned to the hive base with a special steel suit...
At the same time, more than a dozen members of the FBI Square Massacre Task Force came to the Hive base, and Raymond welcomed them into the conference room.
Another hour and 35 minutes later, members of the special task force escorted more than a dozen freezers to leave.
Cap handed Jack the interrogation report against Mrs. Poison...a blank sheet of paper.
Then the hive base fell into silence.
Another three hours passed, and FBI Director Donovan handed over the closing report of the Plaza massacre to the White House.
Not long after, the White House press secretary held a press conference, announcing that the Ten Commandments Gang, including the leader Mandarin, had been dismantled by the FBI task force. At this time, it was less than 96 hours before the massacre in the square.
All of a sudden, public opinion's positive evaluation of the authorities skyrocketed.
On ABC's talk show, special commentator Mike Beamon called Donos Holmes of the new century. Afterwards, ABC conducted a street survey, and 70.00% of the respondents said that living in the United States is very safe.
Jack watched everything with cold eyes.
Until the next afternoon, Misty and Kano came to Jack's office together.
"Sir, we have detected that within two hours after the White House press conference, Donos, Rodriguez and others have used satellite phones to communicate with the outside world."
This is what it should have meant.
There must be a master messenger behind the "11 people". No matter what means this person controls the "11 people", it is obvious that he is still unable to control the "11 people" like his arms and fingers.
So every action needs to be coordinated through a satellite phone.
After thinking about this, Jack asked in a deep voice:
"Did you overhear the conversation?"
Misty shook her head and replied:
"They are very vigilant. We can't get close to their homes and offices, but Mr. Stark is working on a new satellite signal receiving program. He plans to use Stark Industrial Satellite to receive the other party's call signal."
Jack knew in his heart that the incident happened too suddenly and the time was not in his favor, so he didn't blame anyone.
"Is there any other useful information?"
This time it was Kano who answered the report calmly:
“We found out that in November, the Secret Service had a massive White House change of guards with new faces around Rodriguez, Mike, Ramsey, et cetera, and soon after, Donos and Sessions The guards have also been replaced one after another..."
"What do you want to clarify?"
Kano replied in a deep voice: "I think someone has mingled with them."
"Do you have any details?" Jack asked.
Misty had been prepared for a long time and put the collected information on Jack's desk.
Opening the folder, what came into view was a photo of Secretary of State Rice participating in an activity of the Disabled Persons Association. The photo was taken a week ago, and a Secret Service agent was marked with a red pen behind him.
Obviously this is one of Misty and Kano's suspicions...
However, Jack did not pay attention to the Secret Service agents, but instead focused on Secretary of State Rice.
Jack and Les have met many times, and they are not familiar with Les, but they are by no means unfamiliar, but Les in this photo makes Jack feel a little strange.
After watching for a long time, suddenly the face of "Fury" appeared in Jack's mind!
Human clones!
Jack finally caught the inspiration...
"Misty, compare all the video materials of "Eleven" people such as Rice and Rodriguez in the past half a year, and I want to know if there is any change in them!
Kano, go and invite Tony, the captain, and Raymond..."
Knowing that the chief had made an astonishing discovery, the two acted quickly.
About 5 minutes later, Tony, Captain America, Raymond and others came to Jack's office.
"What happened, I'm upgrading the Stark satellite, this is a critical moment!"
Jack ignored Tony's whining, and in the past 5 minutes he had cleared his mind:
"According to what Tarleton reported earlier, Killian is Dr. Zola's disciple, and Dr. Zola has actually mastered human cloning technology.
Is there such a possibility that the "11 people" are collectively replaced by Killian!
It's not them who are showing up now, but the clones made by Dr. Zola! "
When the three of them heard this, they looked at Jack in shock and remained silent for a long time.
About a minute later, Tony woke up from the shock, and he said:
"Do you know what your hypothesis means?"
Jack nodded.
"In fact, Killian left a lot of holes, but we all ignored them!"
Not to mention the three of Tony, even Jack looked down on Killian very much.
In the original plot, Killian was an admirer of Tony, and he was slapped hard by Tony on New Year's Eve.
He intends to take revenge on Tony, but he has no capital.
At that time, Killian was a second-rate scientist, and he could not pose any threat to Tony, whether it was funds or technology.
Until Killian reached an alliance with Maya Hansen, and relied on the basic equation given by Tony, after nearly 10 years of research, he finally came up with a "extreme virus" that could explode at any time.
Just looking at this experience, shouldn't Jack despise him?
But now it seems that Killian is not so "weak chicken".
The more Jack thought about it, the more he felt that his speculation was correct. He couldn't help walking up and down in front of the desk, muttering to himself:
"We used to think that behind the "11 people" there was a huge force manipulating them. They were a more dangerous and powerful organization than the "Hydra". Some of the "11 people" were controlled by some kind of superpower. Trying to do something very dangerous.
So the Sky Hammer Bureau became an obstacle to their plan, so they used the massacre in the square to attack the Sky Hammer Bureau.
Logically, this also seems to make sense...
The reason why we didn't think Killian was the manipulator behind the scenes is because only a very small number of people in the United States can control such a huge political force, and Killian obviously can't reach this level.
But in fact, as long as there is human cloning technology and enough time to prepare, Killian can replace these high-ranking officials! "
Jack finished a long list of conjectures in one breath, stopped to take a breath,
At this time, Raymond followed Jack's thinking and actively added:
"So the square massacre was not a terrorist attack at all. The reason why Extremis launched consecutive attacks on Snader was to replace Snader.
The preparation and implementation of this plan may have been half a year!
Due to the intervention of the Broken Arrow team, Killian's deployment was disrupted, so he had to launch the Mandarin as a scapegoat, and took advantage of the situation to speed up the steps of the replacement operation.
For Killian, the biggest surprise should be the arrest of Mrs. Poison. Obviously, Mrs. Poison knew his plan well. In order to cover up this loophole, he created a "ten people forcing the palace", leaving an even bigger loophole ! "
Raymond's addition revealed Killian's motives and plans in front of everyone.
After such a series of connections with him, everything can make sense!
Tony was obviously convinced too, he frowned and said:
"If all this is true, what exactly is Killian trying to do next?"
Jack's eyes lit up, and he blurted out:
"Benjamin, his ultimate goal is Benjamin!"
Just like the original plot of the previous life, no matter how many tricks Killian has come up with, his goal is still the President of the United States.
This is inevitable. After all, Killian's foundation is too weak. If he wants to rule the world, the most convenient way is to control the president, and then expand his own power foundation!
At this time, the US team, who had been silent for a long time and finally kept up with everyone's thinking, asked anxiously:
"Where is Mr. President now?"
Tony and Raymond then turned their attention to Jack...
The latter quickly picked up the phone, but instead of calling Benjamin, he called Natasha the Black Widow!
Because he remembered a little bit of the original plot development, Jack worried that Killian would be bad for the president.
Moreover, in Jack's view at the time, although the black widow of the second and fifth boy surrendered, she was still not trustworthy. She was a ticking time bomb by his side.
So Jack sent Natasha to Benjamin's side early in the morning. Now it seems that this is simply a stroke of magic!
(End of this chapter)