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Old Earl opened his eyes in the darkness.
Wake up.
The curtains were not closed, it was dawn, and the mist was slightly filling.
It's still early.
He sat up with support, feeling chest tightness and palpitations, as if a stone was pressing on him.
Also dry mouth.
He lifted the quilt and poured himself a glass of water. After drinking it, he felt much better.
"I'm old."
Old Earl It comes down to age.
Since working in Mike's supermarket, his life has been stable and regular, and he has always slept well. Especially after adopting Chloe, he has almost given up his drinking habit.
Chloe's dead father was a drug addict and an alcoholic. When he took drugs, he would be in a daze and immersed in hallucinations. When he was drunk, he would make a lot of noise and throw things around. So Old Earl told himself never to get drunk. Even if he was happy, he would only drink a glass of red wine or half a glass of whiskey.
Old Earl got dressed, walked out of the room, and came to Chloe's room.
Chloe Before she woke up, the little girl, who always slept peacefully, kicked off the quilt and wrinkled her little face.
Are you having a nightmare...Old Earl covered her with the quilt distressedly.
At this time, Chloe opened his eyes in a daze.
"Grandpa Earl..."
She rubbed her eyes and asked, "What time is it?"
"It's still early, please sleep a little longer." Old Earl touched Chloe's forehead. The temperature was normal. He put his heart down and said, "I'll go down and cook milk and oatmeal for you."
"Yeah." Chloe nodded cutely.
The child of seven or eight years old turned over and fell asleep again just when he was snoozing.
Old Earl Go downstairs.
See Skye.
He smiled and said, "Oh, what a rare visitor."
In the past, Skye was often responsible for breakfast, and would also make sandwiches and put them on the Fridge. Since the renovation of the Hudson River's warehouse was completed, Skye's training time has become longer and longer, and he has come back later and later. Especially in the past two months, Skye has begun to play the role of a vigilante from time to time.
Skye style breakfast is naturally gone.
That's why Old Earl was born to tease.
Which Skye was startled. The knife used to cut lettuce was tilted and almost cut its finger.
"Sorry, sorry..." Now it was Old Earl's turn to be scared.
"It's okay."
Skye put down the knife and raised his hand to show that he was not injured.
Old Earl breathed a sigh of relief.
Skye said, "I don't know why, but I feel so depressed and have a bad premonition."
Old Earl was stunned and said, "Me too."
The two looked at each other and Skye frowned.
Suddenly, Skye heard a scream and the sound of a sudden braking tire rubbing against the ground.
She reacted very quickly and rushed out of the door.
I saw rats climbing over sewers and crawling out in groups, paralyzing traffic.
If New York has a population of eight million, then there are at least 80 million rats living in the sewers.
Not only rats, but also cockroaches, ants, mosquitoes... and even Bat, which lives day and night.
"A precursor to an earthquake?"
Skye immediately thought of it.
She returned to the supermarket and asked Old Earl to take Chloe to the first floor first. Then she turned on the TV to watch the morning news.
Abnormal animal behavior covers the world, not just Hell's Kitchen.
"A global earthquake?"
Skye felt that the matter must be more than just an earthquake. In the news, experts explained that it was a global warming problem. The mayor called on everyone not to panic and stay at home as much as possible.
Then the regular magic sticks come out to make their presence felt.
As soon as there is a disaster, these people will seriously preach about the end of the world. After the disaster, they will take the credit or attribute it to God's kindness.
Feeling that the legs of her pants were pulled twice, Skye lowered her head and saw Fat Tom looking at her dissatisfied.
How dare you touch my remote control!
Skye couldn't laugh or cry. A good girl doesn't fight with cats, she puts the remote control back.
Skye took out his mobile phone and called Mike.
Not in the service area.
At this time, the phone vibrated.
The sender is JARVIS, informing her to bring Old Earl and Chloe to Stark Tower. Some preparations have been made here in the building. Just come, and there is no need to prepare pots and pans.
Skye asked Old Earl, and Old Earl was right. As for Chloe... When I heard that I didn't have to go to school, I laughed so much that my eyebrows almost flew away.
Old Earl called the school to ask for leave. The teacher who answered the phone said that after discussion, the school decided to take a holiday and the specific resumption time would be notified later.
Skye asked, "Fat Tom, are you leaving?"
The orange cat turned over and shook its tail from side to side, indicating that it would not go away.
Skye knew that the orange cat was special and was not worried about its safety at all, so he drove to Stark Tower.
The journey that originally took less than 20 minutes was jammed for more than an hour. Never mind the city. No matter how the adults assured you that nothing would happen, we were not fools. We chose to go out of the city if we could, and there were long queues of vehicles. If we didn't, we tried our best to go to empty parks and other places.
The same scene is replicated in almost all major cities around the world.
The social systems and structures that humans are proud of are really fragile in the face of disasters.
Arriving at Stark Tower, I met Marcus helping his pregnant wife out of the car, while Mindy was kicking his little leather shoes out of boredom.
Fury stood on the high floor of Stark Tower, looking down at the ground through the floor-to-ceiling windows.
Next to him were Jian who looked haggard and Thor who had distress written in his eyes.
"Is this a sign that Galactus appears?"
Fury asked.
What's more, if it's just a sign and it's so scary, what will it be like when the real person appears?
Is it like what is said in the novel that gods cannot be looked at directly or described?
Jane, who had been working all night, shook her head and said, "According to the detected cosmic radiation... it's not like that, it's more like the aftermath of two energies colliding with each other."
"The aftermath?" Fury asked with a frown, "The aftermath will cause such negative effects."
"Yes." Jane explained, "You can understand that the aftermath of the impact contains fluctuations that humans cannot directly perceive but can affect humans, like ultrasonic waves."
"Has the center position of the energy collision been determined?" Fury asked again.
"According to calculations, it is roughly around Saturn." Jane said, "But the space station reported that there is no abnormality in the operation of Saturn and the planetary belt."
Fury nodded and asked Jane to take a rest. The latter took the tablet, left silently, and returned to work.
Fury asked Thor: "What did the God King say?"
Thor said, "Father left Asgard yesterday evening, taking Sleipnir and Gungnir with him."
"Where is Mike, still can't be contacted?"
"Heimdall can see and hear movement anywhere in Nine Realms, but he cannot find Mike. This means that either Mike has blocked its own existence, or is not on the earth."
"Got it."
Fury raised his head and looked at the sky, seeming to feel the battle that happened without knowing where and what the situation was.
A convertible Mercedes-Benz was on the road, and Strange answered the phone. The hospital asked him to go to work quickly, as there was an urgent surgery waiting for him.
Normally, Strange wouldn't think anything of it. But for some reason, I was upset today and was completely out of state, so I subconsciously refused.
However, the hospital told him that the other party was a very influential congressman who would have a great influence on his future development. In short, it was a carrot and a stick, forcing Strange to agree.
As a genius in the field of surgery, Strand was so arrogant and unruly.
After agreeing, his originally suppressed mood became even more unhappy, and he stepped on the accelerator unconsciously. He didn't notice that there was a fallen rock as big as a basketball on the shoulder of the road.
A moment later, the speeding sports car turned 720 degrees in the air, landed on the ground, flipped two and a half times, and then did a Thomas pirouette.
An hour later, Strange, who was originally going to undergo surgery, was lying on the operating table and was being operated on.