"What?"
Upon hearing that, Nick Fury hurried over, opened the news report, and quickly read through it.
Sure enough.
In the video, John Jameson wore an extremely grave expression as he urged San Francisco residents who saw the news to evacuate the city immediately.
Because conventional weapons could not inflict any effective damage on the monster at all.
Moreover, the monster's blue blood released a deadly toxin capable of polluting the atmosphere and rapidly causing pulmonary edema and various other respiratory illnesses in humans.
On top of that, the monster's body continuously emitted radiation into its surroundings... In short, getting out of there with their families was the correct choice!
"That clown again?"
Not only was Nick Fury not happy to have obtained new intelligence, but a suspicious look appeared on his face instead.
Because even S.H.I.E.L.D. knew nothing about the monster that had just appeared.
How could a third-rate newspaper like The Daily Bugle possibly produce such precise intelligence?
Besides, this was San Francisco, not New York!!!
That was fucking ridiculous.
Nick Fury even began to suspect that John Jameson might be one of Hydra's people.
It seemed that once this crisis was over, it would be necessary to send someone to deal with... no, properly investigate that guy!
"Sigh, if only Thor and Hulk were here..."
Nick Fury shook his head helplessly.
Just as he was wavering, Maria Hill leaned over and said:
"Sir, the Department of Defense just sent word. The person in charge of Monarch wants to speak with you."
"What the hell is Monarch?"
Nick Fury was about to say he had never heard of it when a memory suddenly surfaced in his mind.
It seemed that there really was such an organization with an extremely low profile in S.H.I.E.L.D.'s classified files.
The reason it had such a low profile—
Was because every member of this organization had dedicated themselves to searching for ancient beasts from mythology.
Other than that, they had no interest in anything else.
Rumor had it that the more than twenty nuclear tests conducted near Bikini Atoll in the 1950s were related to one of this organization's experiments.
And since an organization like this posed no threat to S.H.I.E.L.D., Nick Fury naturally had never paid much attention to it.
However, perhaps he could get some valuable information from them this time!
At the very least, he needed to verify whether The Daily Bugle's claim about toxic blood was true.
So Nick Fury took the call and got straight to the point. "What do you know about this monster?!"
In an island nation, Janjira City, inside the Monarch Base Station built within the abandoned Janjira Nuclear Power Plant.
A bespectacled, scruffy middle-aged man spoke into the phone in a respectful tone:
"Hello, Director. My name is Ishiro Serizawa... Although we have yet to find any records related to this monster, this mysterious creature likely occupied Earth long before humanity existed."
"And Monarch was founded to locate these Titans, provide humanity with warnings and assistance, and thereby preserve peace in the world."
"So, Director, please allow us to take charge of this operation. We may have a way to lure it into uninhabited waters."
Clearly.
When faced with such a mysterious giant creature, Monarch had reacted faster and more professionally than S.H.I.E.L.D.
"Can you kill it?"
Nick Fury asked in an unfriendly tone.
Ishiro Serizawa shook his head apologetically. "These Titans are extraordinarily important to maintaining ecological balance, and every one of them has unparalleled research value.
So unless it is absolutely necessary, we will not harm them."
"Hmph!!!"
Nick Fury let out a mocking snort and continued asking:
"Then does the blood of these monsters contain toxins lethal to humans?"
Ishiro Serizawa thought for a moment before answering honestly, "While we cannot rule out that possibility, according to the information Monarch currently possesses,
we have not discovered toxins in Titan blood. They generally only carry a certain amount of radiation... Beep beep beep beep beep?!!"
???
After getting the information he wanted, Nick Fury hung up directly.
Seriously, these days any random nobody dared to jump out and claim they wanted to protect humanity!
Who the hell did they think they were?
With S.H.I.E.L.D. protecting Earth, there was no need for irrelevant outsiders to interfere.
If Thor and Hulk were here, I could settle this in minutes, alright?
Nick Fury immediately made his decision. "Continue the artillery suppression. If one barrage doesn't work, then fire another!"
"If that still doesn't work, then fucking empty every last round of ammunition!"
"I refuse to believe that any carbon-based life-form can truly be immune to modern weaponry."
"That's right... Not even if God himself came down!!!"
[San Francisco].
On a street near the coastline.
A huge number of civilians screamed as they fled into the distance, but a team of nearly a hundred people chose to move against the flow at that moment.
Most of them were heavily armed soldiers, while the remaining few were dressed like researchers.
However, every one of them had a special bowtie-shaped emblem printed on their chests, with a line of letters beneath it—[MONARCH].
That's right, Monarch!
A white woman with short blonde hair slowly opened a special device about the size of a laptop, aimed it at the roaring Trespasser, and began collecting its acoustic frequency data.
At that moment, Ishiro Serizawa's apologetic voice came through the communicator.
"Dr. Emma, I'm truly sorry. S.H.I.E.L.D. rejected our request, and they will resume the bombardment shortly. Please take everyone to a safe area as soon as possible."
"They can't do that. This monster is innocent..." Emma Russell shouted furiously.
But before she could finish speaking, a new round of artillery fire descended from the sky.
The thunderous explosions instantly interrupted the ORCA Device's collection of the monster's acoustic frequencies.
The surging shockwave even threw her directly to the ground.
"No, stop! It's innocent."
Emma Russell scrambled to her feet and cried out hoarsely toward the area where artillery shells kept raining down from the sky:
"This world originally belonged to them. We humans are the murderers who occupied the Titans' home!!"
Faced with the increasingly close monster and bombardment, a security sergeant stepped forward and reminded her, "Dr. Emma, according to procedure, we must evacuate this area immediately!"
"You go ahead. I'm staying to try once more." Emma Russell shook her head with exceptional resolve.
"As long as we can find a way to communicate with these creatures, they can coexist peacefully with humanity..."
With that, she ignored everyone else and began readjusting the ORCA Device's parameters on her own.
The others immediately looked at one another.
Yeah, you're amazing, you're noble, you're not afraid of dying. We're afraid of dying, alright?
When life and death were at stake, no one but lunatics wanted to gamble with their own lives.
The other Monarch members quickly evacuated completely.
Leaving Emma Russell alone, busy where she stood.
However.
Just then.
An unfamiliar man's voice suddenly sounded behind her.
"You just said... this device can control that monster?!!"
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