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Chapter 357: You Were Actually Controlled Too
🕑 Added 2025-09-03 02:20:04 +0000 UTCTony and Fury's return essentially marked the completion of preparations for this event. Honestly, the smoothness of this operation was somewhat beyond Noah's expectations. After all, how could a metropolis as large as New York truly manage to evacuate everyone? New York's resident population alone was over eight million!
This was just the resident population, not counting the floating population. Who knew when this place would be flooded with tourists? New York is a super tourist metropolis in the United States.
Furthermore, this damned place is also a super financial center, with its financial district spearheaded by Lower Manhattan and Wall Street, even known as the world's financial hub. Seventeen of the world's top five hundred companies have their headquarters in New York, including Tony's Stark Industries.
Moreover, the New York Stock Exchange is the second-largest stock exchange in the world; it was once the largest until its trading volume was surpassed by NASDAQ in 1996. Times Square in New York, located at the heart of the Broadway Theater District, is known as the "Crossroads of the World" and is one of the world's entertainment industry centers. At the same time, New York also boasts various prestigious universities, such as Columbia University, New York University, Rockefeller University, and others. Charles even studied here once! It could be said that emptying such a place all at once was simply an impossible task, especially when faced with talk of "aliens."
In reality, Tony and his team indeed encountered enormous trouble. Their negotiation process was far from as simple as Tony made it sound.
"To be honest, at the time, I thought this was going to fail." Fury recounted the entire process: "But then, for some unknown reason, the official who was receiving us suddenly got a call from someone with higher authority, and then this official agreed to our evacuation operation."
"A call from someone with higher authority made it happen?" Noah stroked his chin. This matter was surprisingly strange.
"Yes." Fury nodded, then looked at Noah with an even stranger gaze: "And that very powerful person said a few words to me."
"Huh? What did he say?" Noah looked at Fury curiously, clearly implying, 'spit it out already.
He said, "My respects to you, Lord Finiel."
Noah looked at Fury with a puzzled expression for a long time before confirming that this guy wasn't joking, which left Noah somewhat annoyed.
His respects to me? Respect my foot.
Noah knew that among ordinary people, the most
powerful person he knew was Fury. And this guy's power organization would probably declare bankruptcy in a short time.
In other words, Noah actually didn't know any particularly powerful figures in the ordinary world.
Of course, Noah not knowing didn't mean others didn't know. Since he could say that to Fury, Noah could basically deduce that this guy probably came from the magical world, or perhaps he knew people from the magical world. Although the magical world and the ordinary world were separated, this didn't mean they were completely cut off.
Especially with Noah's series of actions over the years, more and more mages born into ordinary families had appeared and received adequate education. Ordinary people naturally came into contact with some aspects of mages, plus Noah never believed that the high-level officials of the local magical world had no contact with ordinary power institutions. So, Noah judged that this powerful person Fury mentioned was probably called to help by some mage. At the very least, he was controlled"
"Alright, that being the case, how's the evacuation going?" Noah shook his head, too lazy to think about these things, and asked directly.
"Please, it's just started." Tony replied uninterestedly, while also glaring at Fury unhappily, as if saying, "Why did you open your mouth?" Finally, he turned his head to Noah: "You should know, New York is so big, the evacuation will take at least a month or more."
A month? Noah frowned. Not only him, but even Loki, who had unknowingly walked up to Noah, also frowned.
A month was too long. If they waited that long, those Chitauri would probably realize something was wrong.
Not to mention Thanos, who assembled these Chitauri; this guy was no pushover. Once he discovered Loki hadn't responded for so long, he would probably choose to retreat immediately to avoid being tracked by Ancient One and Odin. Wouldn't Noah's plan then fall through?
"A month is too long." Loki thought the same as Noah. He looked directly at Tony with disdain: "Others aren't idiots. If you take a month to prepare, anyone would know there's probably something wrong. Ultimately, your technology is too weak. Why is your technology so much worse than your magic?"
"Shut up, idiot!" Tony wasn't one to hold back. He immediately stood up and retorted: "You give us humans such long lifespans; do you think an idiot like you could jump around in front of us? Also, I"m a mage too, and besides, wouldn't these aliens come if it weren't for you, you idiot?"
These two, for some reason, just disliked each other. To have restrained themselves from fighting was already a great effort. In fact, Noah felt that if they did fight, they would be about evenly matched, with Tony perhaps having a slight advantage. Shaking his head, Noah spoke directly: "Alright, both of you shut up. Loki, get ready.
When will the SHIELD agents you said you controlled arrive?"
"About, a few minutes later." Loki spread his hands, looking innocent: "If my plan went perfectly, you would have been driven crazy by me by this time, if I weren't tired of playing now."
Noah nodded. Although Fury glared at Loki with a grim face, and even Steve and Banner, who had been playing background characters, looked displeased, what this guy said was actually true. If he hadn't been subjected to Noah's mental shock, plus some unknown reasons that made him so well-behaved now, the Helicarrier would probably have been just as Loki described'the entire Avengers driven crazy by him, and even Coulson would have died. But now, such a thing was impossible.
"Let them come in directly, don't mess with anything else." Ignoring Loki, Noah simply instructed, then looked at Tony: "And Tony, did you misunderstand something?"
"What is it?" Tony blinked, but soon he felt he couldn't keep up the act: "Alright, although I remember you said only the entire Manhattan area needed to be evacuated, are you really sure the war won't spread?"
"Of course, I"m sure." Noah said testily: "The technology Earth has to open a space portal using the Tesseract cannot expand all at once."
"Uh," Tony was stunned, then subconsciously continued Noah's words: "So, that thing needs time to expand?"
"Exactly." Noah nodded: "So my plan was to let the mages directly enter this area and then let those idiots come down. But you, on the other hand, evacuate the entire New York? Are you an idiot?" Noah remembered very clearly that in the original story, the space portal Loki opened using the Tesseract was indeed not large, and there even occurred situations where Thor and Tony took turns blocking the entrance. Noah felt that if the wormhole (portal) had been opened wider at that time, they might even have forced Ancient One out.
"This"" Tony was suddenly too embarrassed to speak.
After a long while, he finally blurted out: "I was also worried about the safety of ordinary New Yorkers."
"So what should you do now?" Noah ignored him, tilted his head, looked at Tony, and then at Fury. These two immediately knew what they needed to do and turned around and left without a word. They had just returned less than ten minutes ago, and now they rushed out again.
Of course, they wouldn't leave the Helicarrier this time; they just needed to issue some commands from here. It could be said that the general direction of the battle was now basically set. If nothing unexpected happened, Loki, who had defected, would actively lead the Chitauri over, and then it would be the mages turn to show their power.
As for whether the Hydra members in the Security Council would once again go crazy and launch a nuclear missile at them, that was not something Noah considered. If that guy really dared to do that, Noah wouldn't care so much. Mages cannot casually attack ordinary people, but it doesn't mean that if ordinary people attack you first, you can't retaliate. The regulations of the magical world are essentially there to protect mages; if they don't even protect their own, what kind of regulations are they?
After Tony and the others left, Noah also planned to get some good rest. Just think, Noah first traveled from London to New York, then from New York to Stuttgart, easily catching Loki, and then Noah made another trip to Kamar-Taj and London. If Noah didn't have teleportation magic, he would probably be exhausted already"in fact, not everyone with teleportation magic could run around like Noah.
Although Noah felt fine now, constantly teleporting back and forth, feeling day turn into night in a blink of an eye, was indeed not that comfortable, so he planned to get some good rest to prepare for the upcoming battle. However, Noah didn't expect Loki to stop him, which left Noah somewhat puzzled. Looking up at Loki, Noah asked curiously, "What's wrong? Do you have a question?"
"Yes." Loki nodded, but he didn't dare to appear too arrogant in front of Noah: "I'd like to ask, you said earlier that I was controlled by my own magic, what was that about?"
"Oh, you"re asking about that?" Noah nodded. Since Loki wanted to know, Noah didn't mind telling him: "Your scepter isn't truly yours, is it?"
"Yes," Loki didn't hide it.
"This scepter is very strange; it contains some special power. Although it's sealed, it can easily control others.
However, the sealed power of this scepter is something you cannot resist. This means that the power emanating from this scepter has unknowingly controlled you."
"What? How could that be?"
"Is it that strange? If I hadn't dispelled that power from your mind, do you think you'd be so clear-headed?"
"So that's how it is."
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