The End of the World: Chaos

The situation is critical, but you are still so willful and even want to have an affair with your future girlfriend?

You've delayed my work, do you really think I won't do anything to you?

Although he thought so in his heart, Lu Yu had no intention of stopping and left the cave where he had been for some time.

He once again appeared in the Stark Industries building.

This time he did not go to Tony Stark's so-called "good uncle", but found Tony Stark's future girlfriend, Pepper Potts.

When Lu Yu arrived, Pepper Potts had already received a message and was interpreting it carefully.

At this moment, a string of numbers suddenly appeared on her mobile phone. Pepper Potts did not foolishly think that it was just a harassing text message. Instead, she interpreted it with a glimmer of expectation.

Then, a line of words appeared on her desk: "I am Tony!"

Because the reading speed was not fast, Pepper Potts only read the first sentence at this time. However, just this sentence made her cry.

After a while, she stopped crying and continued to interpret, eventually revealing most of the content and confirming that the evidence of Tony Stark's identity had been interpreted.

This information is a secret known only to the two of them.

After confirming it, Pepper Potts immediately became energetic and read everything. Then, she was shocked - the last sentence read: "The other party is suspected of using the Jericho missile I made to bomb the White House!"

"No, Mr. Stark must be notified!"

Lu Yu: "..."

Girl, can you be more mature?

Lu Yu anticipated that there might be problems, but he didn't expect them to actually happen.

Contact Obadiah? Are you sure this isn't going to drive Tony Stark into a dead end? He may appear to be a good guy, but is he really a good guy? Are we being naive?

In desperation, Lu Yu once again used his spiritual power to guide Pepper Potts' thoughts.

Just as Pepper Potts was about to walk out of the room and her hand was on the doorknob, she suddenly stopped and did not open the door.

"Something is wrong. We shouldn't look for him now. Something is wrong this time. Tony's action plan can be easily known by the terrorists, and his shares have also been abnormally rising recently. Even if these are just coincidences, we can't just look for him casually!"

After a pause, she added, "We should find someone in the military and leak the news as soon as possible. That way, no matter what happens, or if someone wants to do something, it won't be that easy to succeed. Otherwise, it will be very dangerous!"

After Pepper Potts realized this, she felt like a grass growing in her heart and could no longer sit still. She returned to her seat and called Tony Stark's friend James Rhodes to tell him what she had decoded.

After hearing this, James Rhodes was also shocked! Although Tony Stark was a little unreliable on weekdays, this matter was not a joke, right? Especially when the other party was a terrorist who claimed to be a freedom fighter, it would not be surprising for such people to do anything.

Never underestimate terrorists. This is a lesson learned with blood and tears. Moreover, the other party does have such a motive. After all, Tony Stark has put a lot of pressure on them. They caught him but didn't kill him, and even didn't negotiate with the US government to maximize their interests. This move is indeed a bit unusual.

"Calm down first and don't worry. I will go talk to the military now."

"Tony must be saved!"

"rest assured!"

James Rhodes simply said these two words, hung up the phone, and took immediate action.

Therefore, what happened next had little to do with Pepper Potts, and basically nothing to do with Lu Yu. If the witness was an ordinary person, the military or any other organization might ignore it; but since the witness was Tony Stark, it was a different matter, and no one dared to act rashly.

In fact, there was no need for Lu Yu to take action himself, just a push would be enough.

……

In a conference room in the Pentagon, the seats were packed with a group of generals with very high military ranks.

One of the men in military uniform seemed to have the highest status. He opened the meeting: "Everyone has heard the news. Let's talk about our opinions."

Almost at the same time as he finished speaking, another man in military uniform stood up and said to everyone: "This matter must not be taken lightly. If the same mistake is repeated, then all of us will be blamed!"

Everyone present agreed with this. This was no small matter. If the White House was bombed due to their negligence, no one would be able to escape responsibility.

Of course, if it is done well, it will be a great achievement. They still have five days and have already mastered some of the situation in that area. They can try to dispatch an army to test it, which will at most waste some time.

Faced with the well-equipped regular elite troops, the terrorists will eventually surrender. Everyone knows that a grand battle is about to take place.

“But what if something goes wrong along the way?”

When everyone was immersed in their own ideas, an extremely harsh sound rang out.

Everyone frowned and looked towards the source of the voice, and found that the person who spoke was not someone else, but Ross, the current focus of attention.

The words they were about to scold were swallowed back and could no longer be uttered. Instead, they all turned their eyes to Ross, waiting to see what he would say next.

The reality is right in front of us.

"Although we have learned about the general environment in which Tony Stark is imprisoned, we must not forget that Afghanistan is a vast area. It is hard to say whether they have discovered the message sent by Tony and moved his hiding place. How can you ensure that there will be no problems in the process?" Ross did not seem to notice the changes in everyone's emotions and continued speaking.

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone couldn't help but frown and completely woke up from their previous reverie.

It is good to have more credit, but sometimes, credit is not everything. In fact, the best situation is to have no fault. In their current position, the amount of credit does not make much difference. The key is whether they can avoid taking the blame.

So someone asked, “So how do you think we should act?”

Ross suggested: "Why not drag all the intelligence organizations in? They are like military dogs, and are best at searching for all kinds of information. Although their participation may reduce the final credit, it can greatly reduce the risk of accidents. If something goes wrong, they can also be dragged in as scapegoats, after all, it is their responsibility if the intelligence is inaccurate."

Ross's words hit the nail on the head for those who only wanted to take the credit and avoid the blame. After hearing Ross's words, everyone's eyes brightened instantly.

In fact, not only they have such an idea, but even the person who presided over the meeting is also tempted. They also don't want to take responsibility. If there are merits, everyone will share them, and if there are mistakes, others will share them. Why not take such a good job?

If everyone was merely moved before, then Ross's next words aroused an even stronger resonance among them.

"Now that we have a plan, we must act immediately. Tony Stark is a playboy, and you can't guarantee how long he can last under the pressure of the opponent. It would be terrible if he made the Jericho missile in advance! You have all seen the destructive power of that kind of missile."

With Ross's promotion, everything has basically been decided. Those intelligence organizations seem to be quite unlucky. Although they have little to do with this matter, they have been involved and it is difficult for them to even pretend to be deaf and dumb.

After the military got the news, it was no longer a secret to the intelligence community. You would never imagine how many people they had secretly deployed and who they were monitoring. If they really wanted to know, they could even find out what kind of underwear the president was wearing.

However, they do not want to know all this, especially for this incident, and they deliberately avoid it. If they do not know, they can stay out of it, and they can use this opportunity to ask for resources and power afterwards, just like after the 911/ incident, everyone got a lot of money.

Now, this matter was related to them, which made the intelligence organization hate Ross. However, despite the resentment, they still had to take action.

If this can be done well, even if the military takes away most of the benefits, we can still dig out the value of utilization. By then, we can still get a certain amount of benefits, which is at least better than getting nothing.

For the US intelligence organizations, the loss was not heavy, but for SHIELD, it was a bit of a disadvantage.

Although SHIELD is a global organization whose main task is to deal with factors and supernatural phenomena that may cause instability in the world, it also assists various countries in handling some affairs. But why is SHIELD involved this time?

Can't the US intelligence agencies handle their own affairs? Why do they have to drag SHIELD into this and ask them to find terrorists? On weekdays, SHIELD is not allowed to interfere in domestic affairs and all its assistance is rejected. Now that they are in trouble, they think of SHIELD again?

SHIELD was extremely frustrated. Fortunately, Lu Dan said that they also needed to find Tony Stark, who was called the Crown Prince, so they did not pursue the matter too much.

After some bargaining, SHIELD took action together with other intelligence organizations in the United States.

"Director, they only let us search in Afghanistan..." Coulson and Lu Dan asked in confusion as they boarded the plane to Afghanistan. Since they had decided to participate, in order to maximize their benefits, they could not just limit themselves to a small-scale search, but had to make things bigger. Even if the Ten Rings had no such intention, they had to make them think so. Otherwise, wouldn't this joint operation be wasted?