American comics: Starting with Luke the Maker

Inside a certain villa.

In the hall.

Screen after screen was installed and lit up, along with several computers lined up on the table.

A humanoid monster with an octopus head was sitting on the sofa, his eyes taking in every image flashing across all the screens within his sight. His fingers, once clumsy and fast, were now skilled as he switched between computers, searching for information and intelligence that interested him.

The images on the surrounding screens were fast-forwarding at least six times their normal speed. Both the sound and the visuals switched and transformed rapidly. The sound coming from the speakers was like thousands of ducks creating unsystematic noise.

It would be difficult for any ordinary person to extract useful information from these screens with their high-frequency switching images and the sound blasting out at an accelerated rate. However, the octopus-like being at the center gave the impression of being in complete control.

It was as if he could receive and understand all the accelerated images and sound information without missing a single detail.

This situation had been ongoing for three days. During these three days, the octopus person, in conjunction with his own searches and explanations from Malik and others, had gained a general understanding of the progress of this planet.

In fact, he was not completely ignorant of the planet's development over the past millennium. Every so often, the Malik family and others would carefully select some talents and use a magical teleportation device that could travel between the two planets to send these talents to the desolate planet where he was exiled.

Most of the people who were teleported over would be parasitized by him and become part of his hive. Their memories would naturally be read and controlled by him.

Finally, the octopus person's gaze landed on the latest news report.

【Inhumans' Attilan Relocation Plan Reaches Initial Consensus】

...

Although Black Bolt, with the help of his Inhuman companions, successfully met his brother, he did not regain the throne of Attilan.

Maximus had already prepared for the worst after his brother and others were taken away by Lockjaw. He had completely bound his life to Attilan's defense system.

If his vital signs disappeared, then Attilan's shield defense system, environmental circulation system, and other devices that maintained Attilan's operation and the survival of the Inhumans inside would completely fail. Even if a rescue was timely and his restrictions were re-cracked for a restart, Attilan, directly exposed to space, would bring unbearable casualties to the entire Inhuman race in the short restart time.

Other invaders might scoff at this kind of defense measure, or even adopt a targeted decapitation tactic against Maximus. But for Black Bolt and the other Inhumans, Maximus's actions undoubtedly hit their weak spot, making them hesitant to act against Maximus.

Of course, this method could only embarrass Black Bolt and the others for a moment, and it wasn't impossible to find a solution quickly. For example, they could first capture and control Maximus, without harming his life, and without giving him a chance to destroy Attilan's defense system.

Black Bolt and the others thought it would be very simple to do this. Because they all knew that Maximus did not have any powerful abilities. However, after only a short time apart, Maximus slapped their original impressions hard!

Not only had he mastered powerful and strange mental abilities, but he had also armed himself with technological equipment. This made it so that they couldn't take him down for a while.

Of course, Black Bolt could open his mouth and use his abilities to attack, but he couldn't control his power. Once he opened his mouth and killed his brother Maximus, all the Inhumans of Attilan would be exposed to space without protection.

After Maximus's subordinates arrived, they became even more helpless against Maximus.

Correspondingly, Maximus's side was also very wary of Black Bolt's abilities. If the other party avoided Maximus and attacked them directly, the resulting casualties would also be unacceptable to them.

Finally, in a tense situation, Medusa, representing Black Bolt in negotiations, reached an agreement with Maximus. They could lead a portion of the Inhumans who were willing to leave Attilan with them, but they would not be allowed to set foot on Attilan's territory in the future.

The number of Inhumans in Attilan had long exceeded the limit, and the resources for maintaining operation and survival were therefore stretched. That was why Maximus had always wanted to occupy the land of his close neighbor, where there were more resources, more land, and greater potential!

He didn't care if Black Bolt took away some Inhumans; he just considered it a burden reduction for Attilan. His future plans were all resource-intensive, and he didn't have the extra capacity to support too many redundant and useless Inhumans.

The Inhumans had their own teleportation method, which was a black, living Inhuman teleportation wall. Inhumans only needed to step into the belly of the wall to appear in a designated area in Midgard.

Although Maximus was good at bewitching the hearts of the lower classes, Black Bolt, as the original king, was not without followers. A group of Inhumans and Inhuman nobles decided to leave Attilan with Black Bolt. When leaving, Black Bolt also took away a certain amount of Terrigen Crystals.

This was a special mineral that was only stored and mined underground in Attilan, and it was also a key tool for the awakening of the new generation of Inhumans.

Maximus did not stop Black Bolt and the others from leaving. In front of the black door, the two brothers silently stared at each other. Both sides knew very well that this collision was not the end, but the beginning of a long-term confrontation!

Black Bolt and the others would definitely not give up on returning to Attilan easily.

And Maximus was also eyeing Midgard covetously.

After Black Bolt packed everything up and returned to Midgard with his followers, he immediately called Agent Phil Coulson. He learned that the other party was on a business trip somewhere in Africa, but he thoughtfully transferred them to his superior, Nick Fury.

Black Bolt hoped that Nick could persuade the government to temporarily allocate a piece of land in Midgard for them to live in, to settle his tens of thousands of Inhumans.

After Nick discussed it with the Captain, he agreed to Black Bolt's request, but correspondingly, he also gave his own conditions. Nick hoped that Black Bolt could share Attilan's technology with S.H.I.E.L.D. and the government, and even conduct more and deeper cooperation between the two parties.

For example, joining S.H.I.E.L.D. or some alliance?

The two sides communicated for a period of time on this, and ultimately Black Bolt, who was living under someone else's roof, fully accepted the requirements put forward by Nick and the others first.

Black Bolt and his wife Medusa represented the Inhuman group in joining the Avengers.

The Attilan technology they brought out this time could be shared and cooperated with S.H.I.E.L.D. and S.H.I.E.L.D.'s official partners.

The Inhumans under Black Bolt could freely choose to join S.H.I.E.L.D., or official organizations or giant enterprises that cooperated with S.H.I.E.L.D., in order to obtain corresponding salaries and rewards.

S.H.I.E.L.D. and the government set aside a residential area for the Inhumans under Black Bolt, and provided certain material assistance in the early stage to help them temporarily stabilize their lives.

From a cooperative perspective, S.H.I.E.L.D. and the government definitely gained relatively more benefits. After all, although Black Bolt did not pack up the entire Attilan technology library, the technology he brought out could be regarded as cutting-edge in the eyes of major giants. Especially in taking a different approach to technology. What they paid was nothing more than some food, living materials, and construction workers, etc.

The media and the public did not have too many waves about the Inhuman race that had emerged from nowhere again. After following the media reports and being surprised for a while, under the official deliberate cooling, there was no extra attention.

A few years ago, whether it was the public media in big cities or other regions, they really couldn't wait to eat melons until they broke the sky when they encountered this kind of thing. But since the appearance of the Vampire race, one thing after another that happened later had long opened the eyes of the public.

They had even experienced alien invasions, and hundreds of thousands of mutated infected people had occurred, so the emergence of a mere Inhuman race with a scale of twenty or thirty thousand people was just that.

Anyway, I don’t know about other places, but the people living in big cities have already developed big hearts that are not surprised by anything.

...

“I want to see him.” The octopus person pointed to a group photo searched on the computer screen. One side was the current administrator of this country, Captain Steve, and the other was Black Bolt and his wife Medusa. The octopus person's finger was pointing at Black Bolt.

“This is not difficult.” Malik behind him said without hesitation. Although the Inhuman residential area is not open to the public now, and there are even troops stationed there, this is not difficult for the Malik family.

The only thing to worry about is that most of the previous partners who cooperated happily had turned against the Hive Hydra families such as Malik. During this period, Malik and their families had suffered pressure and blows from all aspects.

Especially Pierce, the director of S.H.I.E.L.D., had even sent their ultimate killer organization, the Winter Soldier, to retaliate against Malik and them. During this period, the elite people who served the Malik family mysteriously had accidents, either disappeared unexpectedly or died unexpectedly.

Even important family members of the Malik family had sacrificed a lot because of this. Other families had also suffered more or less losses.

But in a short period of time, the influence of the Malik family and other families will still remain in a strong and powerful situation. Especially in the face of retaliation from Pierce and others, Malik and they are not without the power to resist.

The goal that Hive Hydra had been looking forward to for thousands of years was finally successfully achieved in his hands, and Malik already felt a certain stage of completion! He successfully welcomed the god back to this planet from a distant star! And he believed that under the leadership of this god, they would still become the controllers of this world as they had been thousands of years ago.

...

Hebrewen Building.

Nick led an old man off the transport ship and waved to Ina and Luke.

“This is our first time meeting, right, Mr. Luke Field?” Pierce stretched out his hand. “Alexander Pierce, one of the current permanent directors of S.H.I.E.L.D..”

“I heard Director Fury mention you, the previous director of S.H.I.E.L.D..” Luke shook hands with Pierce and noticed the psychic ring he was wearing on his finger.

“Psychic rings, I have to say that this is really an incredible piece of technology equipment! Including the beast series and other equipment produced by Hebrewen, this has increased the combat effectiveness of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents while reducing casualties. Although it cost a lot of money.” Pierce also keenly noticed Luke's gaze, smiled and raised his hand wearing the ring, gently turning and stroking the ring body with the other hand, and said with admiration. “You need to know that Nick’s external equipment procurement costs are almost at least half given to Hebrewen. Your products and technology are impeccable.”

“Thank you.” Luke was a little unsure what this Hydra snake head was doing here this time. In the past, even if the other party had any needs, they would mostly use the mouths of S.H.I.E.L.D., the official and Nick to place orders with Hebrewen. The other party had always been hiding behind the scenes, controlling everything through various means. Could it be that the changes in the basement of the Malik family had caused this snake head to feel a strong sense of crisis?

“Recently, I think Luke, you should know about the Attilan Inhumans.” Pierce affectionately called Luke’s name. Seeing Luke nod, Pierce showed a satisfied smile on his face: “If we need a weapon against the Inhumans, can Hebrewen satisfy us?”

“Black Bolt told us that Maximus, the usurper of Attilan, is preparing for war and eyeing us covetously, preparing to fight us for the ownership of Midgard. Alexander believes that we cannot take this lightly.” Nick shrugged his shoulders in the face of Luke’s gaze and added.

“Of course there’s no problem.” Luke nodded gently under Pierce’s surprised gaze. “In fact, Hebrewen’s laboratory has made some preparations when the Inhumans caused the riot not long ago.”

“Oh? Are there any results?” Pierce and Nick came here this time just to discuss cooperation, thinking about trying to get technical support from Hebrewen. They thought they would need time to wait at the earliest, but they didn't expect to have an unexpected surprise. From what Luke meant, Hebrewen had already had technical reserves?

“It depends on what kind of results you need. We have formulated multiple plans, but several of them had to be temporarily abandoned because of excessive expenditure and possible imbalance in income and expenditure in the short term, and only a certain amount of preliminary research was carried out.” Luke said as he led the people to the area where the laboratory was located, and after entering the laboratory, Luke presented a gorgeous crystal contained in a metal box in front of everyone.

“Reversal Crystal.”