Marvel's Great Old Ones

Midnight, Hell's Kitchen.

The cold street lights shone on the deserted road. The gangsters who usually bombed the streets had disappeared long ago, leaving only old and dirty newspapers whistling by in the cold wind.

The entire city was surprisingly peaceful, and the residents and creatures living in this area all fell into a deep sleep under the inexplicable influence.

The darkness from nowhere flooded these houses like a tsunami, confining the creatures swimming in the darkness to this area.

The power of faith and spiritual power of millions of people converge in the spiritual world into a white mist that can flood the entire Hell's Kitchen.

Two different colors of mist exist simultaneously in two worlds at different latitudes, influencing and opposing each other, and are connected to reality by a tiny point.

The restaurant is located in the center of the invisible fog. Under the influence of Li Xiu's power, the fog continues to surge and condense along the belief network, and eventually turns into dots of silver light floating in the fog.

Like an ocean, a sea of ​​stars where stars gather, these spiritual substances that emit blinding light become the Milky Way swirling over Hell's Kitchen.

Everyone in the restaurant has retreated to the corner, far away from the purple-black flesh and blood in the center. No, that is not purple-black, it is a weird thing that is close to purple-black and cannot be described by rational existence.

Countless ferocious human faces flickered and struggled on the flesh, and the immense coercion slowly overflowed, making everyone watching slowly become weak, as if they had lost the strength to breathe.

The chaotic ravings are like winding vines that turn people's minds into smelly mud. The so-called wisdom is trampled in front of this majesty, and the frantic sharp dance music pierces the eardrums and penetrates the reason.

The space was shattered, and a huge body that could not be fully seen flashed past, with crazy gazes and shadowy shadows...

Those hard masonry turned into smooth and soft flesh, the fluttering and swaying curtains clashed with the clang of swords, and the heart was clenched and crushed by the cold arms called fear, mixed with flesh and blood and smeared on the emotional wall.

Colors that shouldn't exist are entangled and colliding, nauseating and indistinguishable chaotic light curls in the air, and everyone's past and future are churned into a disgusting milky white thick soup.

A majestic chant came from Li Xiu's multiplied purple flesh, and the thick tentacles flapped wildly, crushing everything they could touch, those blurred pupils blinking in disorder, and the weird mouthparts with twisted teeth. Combined into an ugly and grotesque face.

That disgusting, disgusting, disgusting face was like random splashes of color splashed with mud, soaked in boiling oil, and reflected by broken lenses, refracting thousands of times into the most horrific and evil paintings.

The will was violently torn apart here, combined randomly, and the dreams of millions of people were stirred and kneaded.

The god was born in this crazy dance. He will break through the fate of mortal things. Time, destiny, and material will not be his limitations, and the size of his power cannot describe his majesty...

In an apartment in Manhattan, Nick Fury, who had just fallen asleep, was awakened by the rapid ringing of his phone.

"Uh-ah."

After rubbing his sore eyes and calming down for a moment, Nick Fury dragged his dry frame and sat up from the sofa with bloodshot eyes.

Li Xiu, Church of Fools, Cthulhu Mythos, Hydra, Pierce...

All kinds of things are weighing on this silent agent. He alone guards the secrets of the darkest corners of the world and watches the most ridiculous and innocent light.

It has nothing to do with ideals or desires. All his motivations stem from the greater macro will - human beings.

The so-called law and humanity were abandoned by him the day he accepted the accusation. SHIELD's obligations were the bottom line he needed to abide by.

He is the defender of human truth, the watchman of the safety of the earth, and the sword bearer facing the darkness.

After being in a daze for a while, the black man stood up from the bed, picked up his cell phone, and checked the time, which was twelve o'clock midnight.

The exhaustion from staying up late for three consecutive days and the buzzing and tingling in his mind left him in a trance for a long time.

He frowned. If there was no emergency, the people from SHIELD would not contact him in such a hurry at this time.

"what's up?"

"Director, there is a change in Brooklyn, suspected to be caused by the observation target!"

"What? Falk!"

Nick Fury's mind suddenly cleared up and he jumped up from the bed. Who else in Brooklyn deserved to be notified besides Li Xiu? It must have been Li Xiu, that wanton and rampant guy who caused something again!

According to common sense, if someone obtains extraordinary power, he must hide it and seek benefits to satisfy his desires. However, although that weirdo does not advertise his power everywhere, he has never thought of hiding it.

Could it be that he has now begun to vent his power to ordinary people indiscriminately?

"What's going on?!"

"From ten o'clock in the evening, all the people on the streets of Brooklyn disappeared. At eleven o'clock, the satellite cruise search discovered the situation. Chief Hill led people to track the situation personally."

"Just now, the satellite has lost its target, and all surveillance methods deployed in Brooklyn have become ineffective, including the New York City Council's Central Surveillance Data Processing Center, which also lost data connectivity there."

Nick Fury hurriedly stood up and went to the computer, turned it on, and logged into SHIELD's internal data control account.

"Have Agent Hill connect with me and send people to block all arterial roads into Brooklyn."

The phone hung up, and the screen in front of Nick Fury flashed several times, revealing Hill's cold face.

"Sir."

"Hill, how is the situation now?"

Nick Fury picked up the clothes and weapons from the bed and turned around to ask.

"All surveillance methods in Brooklyn have now been lost. A black substance has enveloped the entire Brooklyn area. Emergency field personnel have fifteen minutes to arrive at the scene."

"I need to go to the scene, send a helicopter to pick me up, and find out where are the missing Brooklyn residents?"

"Through the thermal sensing observation of the drone, we found that all those people returned to their residences or resting places, and everyone had fallen into a deep sleep."

"Just sleeping?"

"Yes."

Nick Fury's expression became even more serious. Since those people were all colleagues who fell asleep, then this time was probably caused by extraordinary power, but... extraordinary power that can directly affect millions of people...

After touching the BB machine in his trouser pocket, Nick's tight body relaxed a little. At least they still have hope, they should——

SHIELD's emergency helicopter landed directly on the apartment building where Nick Fury lived, and after picking up the man, it flew towards Brooklyn at high speed.

Taking over the headset, Nick Fury suddenly noticed that there were several formations of lights passing by at a faster speed not far away.

"That was that just now? A military helicopter gunship! Has someone discovered that something is wrong?"

If there is any force in New York and even the United States that can mobilize greater power at a faster speed than S.H.I.E.L.D., it is only the military.

By the time Nick Fury landed on the scene in a helicopter, the main passages between Brooklyn and other areas had been blocked by the military and S.H.I.E.L.D., and even those reporters who smelled the fishy smell like hyenas were blocked. Block outside.

"Sir!"

A SHIELD agent lowered his body and braved the strong wind, holding a document and ran to the side of the SHIELD director.

"This is a document sent from headquarters. Chief Hill said it is up to you to accept it personally."

Nick took the sealed file and opened it. It was a summary of SHIELD's monitoring records of Li Xiu during this period.

You won’t know it if you don’t look at it, but you will be shocked when you look at it. Since the Chinese New Year last year, those records have slowly begun to decrease, becoming the same and even weird. If you look at it one by one, it is fine and it is a normal report, but if you look at it in summary, The monitoring personnel's reports have gradually become "concise".

There was still some negligence. I'm afraid those surveillance personnel sent out...

Arriving at the bridge connecting Manhattan to Brooklyn, he met the person in charge of the military at the scene, a serious general with gray hair.

"Why is he here!"

Nick Fury felt a toothache, and it turned out to be Lieutenant General Thaddeus E. Ross, a notoriously tough hawk in the military. This guy was not easy to fool.

This tough old guy has always harbored great malice towards forces like SHIELD that are outside the United States, and has even wanted to incorporate them into the military system.

If the other party puts the problem on SHIELD this time, they will be in big trouble.

Wearing a stiff military uniform and standing straight at the waist, the serious-looking general looked at the director of S.H.I.E.L.D. coming off the helicopter in the distance, frowning as well.

"Nick Fury!"

"Lieutenant General Ross!"

The fox and the eagle shook hands, looked at each other, and finally smiled.

This damn bastard! x2

Arriving at the emergency command camp, Nick Fury finally truly saw the current situation in Brooklyn.

"Hiss--this is it!"

I saw that a wave of fog had submerged and covered the entire Brooklyn area, making it impossible to confirm the situation inside.

"When the fog was still thin, we could confirm some situations through infrared sensing. Now even electromagnetic waves can't propagate normally through those ghosts."

The monitoring personnel reported the analysis results and the situation at the scene, which made both of them feel numb.

These things are just useless observation data, and there is no real internal information at all. This makes the military and SHIELD, who are accustomed to information-based operations, somewhat uncomfortable.

"Prepare to send out an exploration team."

Ross commanded the soldiers sent by the military to go directly into the fog to investigate the situation. At the very least, they wanted to know what was going on inside the fog.

Nick Fury sat aside and did not speak. SHIELD's power was mobilized a little slower, and it had not yet completely reached the location. However, he had no intention of leaving at all, and it was clear that he wanted to have sex for nothing.

"Nick Fury, what follows is a confidential discussion and operational deployment within our military. I hope to ask you to leave. Please understand."

A young staff officer came to the old god Nick Fury who was sitting in the chair, with a polite but tough look on his face.

"OK, no problem at all, it's..."

After arriving outside the camp, he cursed in a low voice. Those blind and arrogant guys will suffer from them in the future. Anyway, it was Li Xiu who was contacted by the Holy S.H.I.E.L.D. first. The ability and situation of the target must be controlled by S.H.I.E.L.D. of more.

On the other side, SHIELD's smart camp has been set up, and personnel and equipment are on the way to be mobilized.

The Brooklyn battlefield is very large. After all, it is a large urban area with more than two million people living in it, which makes monitoring much more difficult.

Those military personnel did not find the target of surveillance and could only search in vain throughout the city.

S.H.I.E.L.D. was different. Nick Fury asked someone to call up the surveillance video of Hell's Kitchen before today's incident and found Li Xiu's location, which was in the middle of Brooklyn, in a restaurant next to Jishitang's headquarters.

"What the hell does he want to do?"

Looking at Li Xiu who came to the restaurant wearing a strange costume, Nick Fury squinted his eyes.

Weird costumes? This reminded him of the extraterrestrial visitors from the past, the group of visitors who called themselves the Kree Empire, a cosmic force.

Could this be your identity, could this be your origin...

Li Xiu feels very good now. A warm feeling surrounds him, as if he has returned to his mother's womb. This is an unprecedented feeling of relaxation and comfort.

Countless light spots with strange colors were constantly rotating around him.

Human color cognition is based on the ability of the eyes to receive and interpret electromagnetic signals, and these colors are beyond human cognition. A great and vast power allows humans to receive and interpret these unknowns, and along with this unknown comes The pollution of knowledge distortion.

Countless knowledge is constantly rising and falling with the fluctuations of Li Xiu's soul. This other kind of infinity that is vaster than the sea has occupied all the cracks in Li Xiu's soul even if it only shows the tip of the iceberg, and even crowds out his thinking ability.

In the outside world, the huge mass of purple-black flesh and blood was breathing like carbon-based life. This was the remnant of Li Xiu's humanity, fixing his memory and cognition, even the cognition that was distorted by the power of the old rulers.

Along with the breathing of the giant thing, huge ripple-like fluctuations swept out. They carried taboo and dark information, sweeping into the outside world like a wave. This was the influence based on the knowledge in Li Xiu's memory.

"Bru, Cthulhu!"

The moment the ripples swept out, Cthulhu, who had been staying aside, suddenly jumped up, his body expanded crazily, and by the way, people standing at both ends of the restaurant were gathered together.

Cthulhu's body expanded, but his mass and the like did not change. It was just that his body spread and expanded like plastic, and eventually turned into a green cover to cover everyone.

The fluctuations of knowledge and thoughts slowly swept across and spread to the world with a wider space.

Soon, these fluctuations had come into contact with the residents of Hell's Kitchen who had been infiltrated by him and had their souls removed. However, they who simply left their bodies behind did not have any problems because of this forbidden knowledge.

However, the military special service team that followed was not so lucky...