Marvel's Chronicle of Multiverse Warfare

"I heard that you have been staying at the police headquarters recently. If I hadn't asked you to come out today, I'm afraid you wouldn't have even shown your face."

Maria Hill looked at Li Heng, who was sitting opposite, with a half-smile. Li Heng raised his eyes, with a trace of self-mockery on his lips: "If I wasn't worried about being watched, who would stay in one place motionless all the time?" of."

Hill shook his head and said directly: "Don't worry, our Divine Sword Bureau will never attack you no matter what."

"No, Mari, you are wrong. You will not attack me, but it is hard to say for other people in the Divine Sword Bureau." A slight sneer appeared in the corner of Li Heng's mouth: "Besides, it's you, it's nothing We all know everything, don’t wait until I’m captured by your people and you’re still in the dark.”

Hill put down the knife in his hand, his expression darkened, and he looked out the window at the Hudson River flowing through Manhattan. The red candlelight reflected on the window seemed cold and awe-inspiring at this time.

"Sorry, I didn't mean it." Li Heng reached for the red wine on the table, poured a glass for Hill, and then sighed: "I don't mean to blame you, I know there is nothing wrong with this matter. Without your responsibility, it's all Stark's fault."

"Actually, it can't be all Director Stark." Hill finally turned around and said mockingly: "The root of the problem is still in the White House. It is the appointment directly issued by the White House. Even Director Stark can only be forced to accept."

"So that's it." Li Heng came to his senses. It turned out that Stark couldn't withstand the pressure from the White House and had to accept Norman Osborn as the deputy director of the Excalibur Bureau. Li Heng then laughed at himself. A voice: "But I'm afraid even Stark didn't expect that Osborn would keep an eye on his position. But then again, what happened to Tony that he could be caught by someone like Osborn?"

Everything Osborne is doing now is undoubtedly for the position of director of the Excalibur Bureau, but where can ordinary people sit in that position?

In addition to being a famous billionaire, Stark is also a top superhero and one of the founders of the Avengers. He has saved the world from danger several times and has great prestige in the entire extraordinary world. No one can compare to Osborne.

He is now sitting in the position of director of the Divine Sword Bureau, so under normal circumstances, no one else can easily squeeze him down from above.

But now everyone knows that everything Osborne is doing now is for the position of director of the Excalibur Bureau. Otherwise, just being the deputy director of the Excalibur Bureau is not worth the huge manpower, material and financial resources he spends to clear him out. All the past,.

Only the director's position is the most worthy of him, which means he is confident enough to oust Stark from that position.

As for Maria Hill standing in front of him, at least in Norman Osborne's eyes, Maria Hill could not pose a threat to him at all.

Even Li Heng can understand this idea, because Maria Hill is just an ordinary human being after all, not a superhero with super powers.

Times have changed, and there is a huge difference between these years and earlier years.

Perhaps at that time, the government trusted more in using ordinary people to control super heroes to control the entire extraordinary world. But now, as alien threats become more and more serious, ordinary people are simply unable to respond to the endless threats in a timely manner.

In this case, superpowers like Osborn are the most popular, and Hill has essentially fallen behind.

At best, she can only be regarded as a pawn placed by the White House in the Excalibur Bureau, watching every step taken by the Excalibur Bureau, and then reporting to the White House.

At the same time, when the White House needs it, assist them in purging the person sitting in the position of Director of the Excalibur Bureau.Just like Tony Stark.

In other words, in the future, Hill is likely to join forces with Norman Osborn to directly kill Stark.

Stark should know this kind of thing best, but the question is why would Stark give others such an opportunity?

"Tony, he... there is something wrong with his body. Do you remember the incident in Paris? After being stone sealed, although the stone seal was finally unlocked, his body would fall into a weak state from time to time and he could not grow up. He has been serving as director for a long time, and he is no longer suitable for that position."

Hill shook his head with some emotion. Stark's problems have reached a point where they are hard to recover from. I'm afraid it will be difficult for him to hold on to the important task of director of the Excalibur Bureau.

So that's it. Li Heng nodded. Although Stark has the Extremis virus, the Extremis virus is not completely invincible.

Back then, just from the fact that Stark was completely sealed in stone, we could see the weakness of the Extremis virus in this regard.

He just didn't expect that after so long, Stark still hadn't found a way to deal with it. He didn't even let his friends know about it, but he let Norman Osborn, who had countless ambitions, know about it. Yeah, that's a big problem.

As for how Osborne connected with the White House, that is beyond Li Heng's control.

In addition to the financial relationship, I'm afraid there are also reasons for the change in the White House's policy on superheroes.

This is not surprising at all. Whenever an alien threat comes rapidly, the American government will loosen its control over the super world. But when the alien threat quickly disappears, they will turn around and target the super world. No. Man Osborn, Sokovia Super Hero Protocol, nothing less.

When the next global super crisis comes again, Norman Osborn will also be abandoned by the White House.

But before that, they must survive the White House's blow to the entire super world and Norman Osborn's revenge on them.

In fact, the most difficult thing is Carol. Although Carol is the deputy director of the Excalibur Bureau and has a lot of cronies under her, she is the person least likely to be independent.

Because she has no independent source of funds, if she wants to maintain the power of her subordinates and even maintain the operation of the Excalibur Bureau, she can only rely on funding from the White House. It can be said that the White House firmly controls her lifeline.

It's not that Li Heng didn't try to financially support Maria Hill in the early years, but with the establishment of the Excalibur Bureau, this relationship was gradually severed, and even the contacts between them became much less frequent.

But when crisis strikes again, they have to get back together.

Hill told a lot of Sword Bureau secrets that no one else could hear, and mostly vented her complaints.

It was not good for the White House to choose who to be the new director of the Excalibur Bureau. It had to choose Norman Osborn. Now, everyone knew that the super world was about to undergo a disruptive change, and everyone began to cautiously stop. Many people used various reasons and excuses to reject many of the actions that the Divine Sword Bureau required cooperation in the past.

Even Li Heng has been staying at the Superpower Affairs Center of the New York Police Headquarters recently and doesn't come out at all.

Unknowingly, Hill still drank too much, so Li Heng carefully helped her into the elevator and pressed the down button.

After a long time, Li Heng stood in the room of the penthouse apartment, looking at the confused Sword Bureau agent downstairs, with a sneer on his lips.

When Hill came out to meet Li Heng, how could there be no one watching behind him?

I am even afraid that all the conversation between the two of them just now has fallen into the ears of some people.

It's just that although the conversation between the two of them was somewhat secretive, it was actually a fact known to quite a few people.

Hill walked out of the bathroom wearing a bath towel. After taking a bath, she finally woke up from her dazed state.

Although she drank a lot of wine tonight, it was nothing to Maria Hill. Her body was just a little sluggish, and she is much better now.

Walking to Li Heng's side, Hill crossed his arms and looked at the Sword Bureau agents retreating below. He laughed at himself: "These are our newly trained elite agents. They are incomparable to Grant Ward's batch." .”

Grant Ward, Li Heng rolled his eyes at Hill angrily. He was the top terrorist who almost became the leader of Hydra. At that time and now, these little guys who had not experienced many terrorist incidents could compare. Colson's The underground SHIELD is the organization that truly inherits the mantle of SHIELD.

"Okay, now let's get down to business. What exactly is the Ascension Plan?" Avoiding so many eyes, what Li Heng really wanted to know was the Ascension Plan.