Marvel: Starting with the Glint-Glint Fruit

But what worried him was that Terra was too powerful and too forceful.

The conquest of hell demonstrates that everything has two sides.

Being tough can be a good thing, but it can also be a bad thing.

A warmongering tyrant is often the beginning of the downfall of a dynasty.

Nick Fury couldn't stop the unification of the Earth, but he wanted to leave a way out for human civilization.

It would be best if it weren't needed, but if something bad really happened, it could still leave behind a spark for human civilization.

"Understood, I am willing to carry out the order."

Coulson looked thoughtful, took a deep breath after a long while, and finally accepted the task with a heavy heart.

This made Melinda the Iron Rider and Clint the Hawkeye stare wide-eyed at Coulson.

You big-eyed, thick-browed guy, are you serious?

"Okay, Clint, you still have time to think about it."

Having dealt with Coulson, Nick Fury breathed a sigh of relief, then said something to Clint and adjourned the meeting.

Hill turned and left; she had a lot of work to do and didn't have time to linger here.

Coulson left the conference room, followed by Clint and Melinda.

I waited until nightfall.

Coulson arrived at the parking lot, got into his car, and was about to leave when Hawkeye Clint and Melinda opened the car door, one sitting in the passenger seat and the other in the back seat.

Coulson glanced at the two men, saw their expressionless faces, couldn't help but laugh, then shook his head, started the car, and drove away.

We drove to Rock Creek Park, a 1700-acre native forest park where the stream that runs through the city is hidden in the dense forest.

Apart from the main trail, many of the side stream banks and shallows are completely deserted.

Coulson deliberately drove to a shallow beach on a side of the river and stopped the car.

He pressed a button in his car.

After seeing the light on the button turn red, I turned off the engine and leaned back in my seat without turning on the interior lights. The only light I could see was a sliver of light coming from the gaps in the distant jungle.

And there's the bright moonlight in the sky.

The sounds of unknown birds and insects chirping drifted through the tranquility, creating a pleasant atmosphere.

"OK, what do you want to say?"

Coulson took the initiative to ask.

"What are you thinking about? Why did you take on this mission?" Clint asked impatiently before Melinda could even finish speaking.

"Because we had no choice, Clint."

Chapter 297 Space Marine Production Line (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

"No choice?"

Clint was stunned.

What do you mean by having no choice? If Clint wasn't willing to take on this task, he believed Nick Fury wouldn't force him to do so.

After all, everyone knows that this mission is extremely dangerous and carries a very high risk of death.

"Clint, May, you are warriors, not politicians. There are things beyond your comprehension; you cannot see them."

Coulson smiled gently, deciding to teach these two a good lesson.

It's really only Clint and Melinda who are close to him; it's impossible to get him to confide in anyone else.

"What do you mean?"

As expected, Clint and Melinda looked completely bewildered, unable to understand at all.

Do you think the director's concerns were valid?

Colson countered with a question.

Clint and Melinda frowned, and after a moment's thought, replied somewhat uncertainly, "The director might have some merit."

"That's why I said you're not politicians. The bureau chief might have this concern, but his purpose isn't what he says."

"The escape route you understand is not the same as the escape route the bureau chief needs."

"Do you understand?"

Coulson shook his head.

"You mean, the bureau chief is trying to mislead us?"

Melinda seemed thoughtful.

"The director says he wants to leave a way out for human civilization, but what is that way out?"

"Why would he want us to obtain the secret that Terra was able to quickly revive the three major chapters: Astartes, Ravens, and Grey Knights?"

"Essentially, he hopes to gain access to this secret and raise what he believes to be a force that can counterbalance Terra, thereby possessing the means to keep the Terra Empire in check."

Coulson succinctly revealed Nick Fury's ultimate goal.

These words struck Hawkeye and Melinda like a thunderbolt, causing them to tremble.

"what?"

The two of them cried out in disbelief.

The two never expected that the bureau chief would think that way.

However, after thinking about Nick Fury's past behavior for a moment, it seems that this is indeed the case.

“But he…” Clint was somewhat at a loss for words.

what is this?

"Can't figure it out?" Coulson shook his head slightly. "The director has always been like this. He doesn't trust anyone, no matter who they are."

"He only ever trusted himself. He believed he was the most rational one, and he hoped to have the power to influence the world's格局 (geju, a term referring to the overall situation or pattern of the world) so as to achieve a balance of power."

This is Nick Fury.

Perhaps one could say that his starting point was good, but whether the means and process he used to achieve his initial goal are acceptable to others is another matter.

Coulson knows Nick Fury very well.

Because the two had worked together since the 1990s, when Nick Fury had just joined S.H.I.E.L.D. as a junior agent.

He knew Nick Fury's personality.

"Okay, but why did you agree?"

After processing this, Clint was too exhausted to criticize Nick Fury, and instead asked in confusion.

“I told you, we had no choice. Even if we didn’t agree, he would find other ways to get us to take on the mission. I could tell he was serious.”

“We are just tools; he doesn’t care about sacrifices.”

"And I think he might have other ideas as well."

A deep look flashed in Coulson's eyes.

......

Borderlands.

The intensity of the war is gradually escalating.

A relentless horde of demons is crashing down on the three major battle groups with frenzied fury.

Compared to Limbo, the number of warriors in the three chapters is far too small.

Six thousand eight hundred people is pitifully few compared to a normal human regular army, let alone the tens or hundreds of billions of demons on the border of hell.

Especially since this area is so large, it's easy for the soldiers to take it down, but it won't be so easy to hold it.

No matter how powerful the warriors of the three battle groups are, their individual strength far exceeds that of the demons. However, the demons can still keep the warriors of the three battle groups pinned to the spot by constantly wearing them down.

Just as Velasco had thought, he was determined to wear down these human warriors, even if it meant exhausting them.

However, both Reicher and Natasha, the two supreme commanders of the empire, had already considered this possibility.

Their ultimate goal is to make the border of hell a battlefield for fighting.

This was done to allow the warriors of the three warbands to adapt to the war, and the result was an advance to the dark fortress where Velasco was located.

However, no time was specified.

He wouldn't care if it were a few days, or even a few years.

In fact, after arriving at the border of hell, aside from the initial probing advance, Reicher and Natasha actually carried out a targeted reduction in personnel.

The captured area was held as a unified front, with a hundred Astartes, a dozen raven warriors, and a hundred grey knight combat monks occupying the area.

It was divided into more than one hundred pieces, each with an area larger than the land area of ​​the largest country on Earth.

Reicher and Natasha were stationed at the central camp as supreme commanders.

After holding the line, they began to redeploy troops.

That's right, the third batch of 10,000 reserve soldiers, after receiving serum injections and completing initial training, donned power armor and combat suits and headed to hell.

This was Lei Che's true objective: to sustain war through war.

Rachel turned Terra and even the frontier of Hell into a production line, using Terra as a base for Earth's logistics, and recruiting large numbers of soldiers after observing and verifying their backgrounds long ago.

Serum injection, one month of basic training, one month of learning the Six Styles of Magic, and planting the seeds of the three colors of Haki.

Within two months, a new batch of warriors will be spawned and then deployed to the frontier for actual combat.

At this time, soldiers from the three major battle groups served as on-site instructors.

By this time, the soldiers of the three major battle groups had already adapted to the battlefield, and they would act as on-site instructors to provide practical training, allowing the reserve soldiers to grow as much as possible.

The battlefield is the best source of growth; daily training is merely accumulation.

The borderlands of Hell are filled with magical elements, making training here far more effective than on Earth.

In terms of logistics, Terra's logistics department is already operating at full capacity, with the medical department's healing serum and Nydy having collected a large amount of blood dandelion as a treatment reserve.

In terms of food, the mass production line for nutritional supplements that has been established is sufficient to support the normal consumption of these 16,800 soldiers.

As the saying goes, "When the cannons roar, gold pours in."

But this statement has no effect on Terra, because their underlying operating logic is different, since this is simply a normal expense.

Even without war, these expenditures would still occur during routine training.

As for the merits earned in battle, they are there for all to see. The treatment and expenses may cost a lot of money, but money is just the basics for those who have joined the three major battle groups.

Compared to the harvest, these costs are too small, pitifully small.

Chapter 298 The Intensity of the War Escalates (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

What will Terra have to give up in this war?

It's just money and the meritorious status that one should receive within the system.

However, the latter costs virtually nothing in Terra, and it is only natural that any warrior who has earned merit should be appointed to a higher position.

This is what the soldiers truly value.

As for the money on Earth, it's merely the basic necessities that must be guaranteed in terms of treatment.

Terra is never short of money.

Although the Terra Empire is small in size and has a relatively small population, it is quite wealthy.