The Death List Novel - Chapter 502
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Looking at the four beauties with different temperaments, the Avengers opposite them also looked at Captain America with solemn expressions.
“Hey, guys, I already said that this won’t work!” Iron Man, who was hovering in midair, rolled over and landed, separating the Green Huntress from her companions.
Tony Stark removed the steel mask from his face, curled his lips and said to Captain America, “Steve, I don’t care what Nick tells you. It’s not my style to stop these beauties from killing vampires.” “Even those who have already died, do you really hope that they will not be able to calm down after they die and become dead spirits enslaved by vampires?”
Captain America stretched out his hand and pulled off the blue shield on his face. His resolute face tightly frowned as he turned to look at the other two giants beside him.
“Hulk doesn’t like this either. Hulk doesn’t want to fight with his friends!” The hulk of the two giants, one white and one green, bent down and shouted in a low voice. However, the other giant, whose skin was pale, did not show any signs of doing so. Instead, he turned to look at HELLSING headquarters, his gaze becoming colder and colder.
Captain America sighed in his heart when he saw this. His tense expression suddenly relaxed. He spread out his hands and smiled, “Go to hell with the White House bureaucrats! Brothers, do what you want. Whether the enemy is a vampire, a crusader, or a bunch of damned Nazis, I only have one request. Kick their butts!”
“This is the Captain America we know!” The two groups of experts looked at each other and smiled.
“Let’s do this. Before the army of the dead spreads out, we’ll split up and seal off the nearby streets.” Captain America removed the superalloy shield from his back and said solemnly.
“Steve, what about the vampire? There are countless casualties in London now. If we let it go, the army of the dead will increase.” Iron Man asked worriedly as he flew back into the sky.
“Professor Liv, I’ll leave Alcatel of the HELLSING mechanism to you professional Evil Spirit Hunters.” Captain America sighed helplessly as he watched Alcatel leave.
In fact, the main target of the Avengers, led by him, in London was Qin Lun and the three Nazi organizations behind him.
However, after the war began tonight, this goal seemed to be getting more and more unattainable. First, MI7, which had suffered a single attack, was once again the primary target of the enemy, followed by a missile saturation attack.
Although only one tenth of the hundreds of air-to-surface missiles ended up in urban areas, the damage was incalculable. Most of the aircraft carrier fleet at the mouth of the Thames was damaged, half of the air defence forces in the city lost their combat strength, and the communications network in the City of London was severely damaged.
Of course, Greater London, with a population of tens of millions and an area of more than 1,500 square kilometers, would not be completely paralyzed by the attacks of dozens of tactical missiles. In contrast to the damage to the navy and air defence networks, missile-induced civilian casualties and dozens of fires pose the greatest threat to the British capital.
After a short period of chaos, London’s military and political system began to work. London’s fire-fighting system and police force were well-prepared for all expectations of the attack, and they came in handy.
The Avengers Alliance and Hunter Greene, who were ready to attack, also found out the exact location of the enemy in the information they received. All of them set out to encircle the Y2K bug commandos led by Qin Lun and Captain Hans.
However, none of them expected that the millennium bug commandos and missile strikes would only be the beginning of this nightmare. Subsequently, a large number of air mobile units, painted with black and white crosses and red cross on white ground, arrived by helicopter, covering the sky and earth.
These Crusader Knights, who were obviously affiliated with the Vatican, instantly sent the British, who had suffered great losses, to hell, and left the Avengers and Hunters at a loss.
The Vatican’s attack on London, England, has a deeper meaning to it. Indeed, after World War II, the course of the world’s history changed dramatically as a result of the existence of spatial and temporal rifts and the fall of mysterious buildings from the Egyptian pyramids in 1983.
With the dividends of the two world wars and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States remained the most powerful nation in the world at the end of the twentieth century. And because of the immigration of a large number of top scientists during World War II, its research on human evolution and biotechnology far exceeded that of other countries, and the domestic superhuman is the most powerful.
This American advantage reached its peak at the end of World War II, but over time it declined and grew faster.
Unlike Qin Lun’s Earth Federation, the main reason for the decline of American hegemony in this world had nothing to do with economics, politics, or military science and technology. It was only because of the effects of the spatial rift.
The spacetime rift that traverses the stratosphere above Earth is the intersection of two different spacetime worlds. The laws of the world on both sides are affecting each other.
Not to mention the Earth’s influence on another world, as another world gradually approached this space-time, all the Earth’s scientific laws were undergoing corresponding changes. Some magical laws had already sprouted, and the increasing number of superhumans around the globe was proof of this change.
The problem is that although it has its own physique and the impact of scientific and technological development, the spatial rift on human evolution is universal, and the population base is the biggest factor in the birth of super-human.
The population of the United States is not small, but it is certainly not equal to its global hegemony. America’s current superhuman strength is indeed superior to the rest of the world, but that does not mean that it will continue to be so in the future.
In response to the counterattack of the Eastern civilization, the United States had to lower its profile with the European Union. Europe’s population was close to 800 million, and with advanced science and technology, its physical fitness had generally surpassed that of Oriental people, and its chances of becoming a superhuman was several times higher than that of the Orient. Therefore, it would be the largest birthplace of superhumans in the future.
However, although Europe has become the largest birthplace of the new human race in the future, the Vatican Holy See, which is based in Rome, is the biggest beneficiary in terms of a single organization.
Magical creatures and transcendent technological buildings appeared all over the world, once again stirring up fanatical religious beliefs all over the world. The Vatican also seized this opportunity to expand its influence dramatically, with nearly a third of Europe’s new enhanced humans joining the Vatican.
Of course, these superhumans weren’t comparable to the Avenger Alliance and the Greenhunters. They were essentially enhanced humans, not highly evolved, and had very little combat experience.
However, the eight thousand plus strong human crusades still left the world’s major powers and superhuman organizations stunned, and they didn’t dare to provoke them easily. For a time, the Vatican Holy See once again had the aura of ruling all European countries in the Middle Ages, with the power of the church overwhelming the regime.
Indeed, at this stage of human civilization, no attempt by the Vatican to replace secular regimes with religion will succeed, not even for the most fervent Catholics.
However, the secular regime did not mind the limited jihad waged by replacing other religious doctrines with Catholic doctrines. In exchange for the support of the Vatican, that would be the cheapest deal.
In fact, even without the millennium bug’s attack on London, the Vatican’s first target for the Ninth Crusade would have been Britain. The reason is very simple. Britain, France, Germany and France, the three great powers in Europe, practise religious freedom, but they are mainly Catholic. Only Germany and England are Protestants.
But Germany does not have a royal family, and secular regimes do not care what religion they practise. Britain, on the other hand, has a constitutional monarchy. The royal family has historically been a staunch supporter of Protestantism, with great influence on Parliament and the Cabinet. Catholicism has no market in the British Isles.
So the British do not know that, despite the apparent unity of the world’s superhuman organisations, the secular regime behind them has tacitly sold the British out.
The British royal family, the HELLSING organization, and MI7, which mainly relied on Protestant bitter cultivators, were the main targets of the Vatican’s holy war.
After the sentry battles in Washington, London and Moscow, only the old fairy-tale girls who had obvious personal grudges with Qin Lun came from Green College. The other scattered hunters in Europe did not rush to London at the first possible moment …
Why was there only a handful of people in the Avenger Alliance who supported Britain in the end? If it weren’t for the Iron Man trio acting on their own, only Captain America, Hawkeye, and Black Widow would have supported London. Among them, Hawkeye and Black Widow weren’t considered superhumans.
In fact, even the timing of the Y2K Bug’s holy war with the Vatican was so coincidental that there was also an ulterior motive behind it.
The aspirations of the three Nazi organizations for restoration did not contradict the aims of the Vatican. If the Allied Powers were to be trapped in London, the three organizations would probably be able to sell their powers to the Vatican.
After eliminating England, buying Germany and converting the religions of the two great powers of Europe, excluding Russia in the north, Catholicism would achieve a general unity of faith in Europe, which was the Vatican’s unfulfilled goal at the height of the Middle Ages. For this reason, I’m afraid they’re all willing to do anything.
However, the Holy See’s cooperation with the remnants of the Nazis was shocking, and such a dirty political deal could not be explicitly stated. Major Montana would not tell Qin Lun, nor would the Vatican tell their bitter cultivators. Even if there was some speculation, the two sides were still enemies on the battlefield.
The Vatican’s French Royal Hall had a total of more than 6,000 crusaders landing in London. Their main targets were the British royal family, Westminster Abbey, Downing Street, MI7, and HELLSING. Among them, the British royal family and Westminster Abbey were the main targets, while the latter three were incidental, so it didn’t matter if they weren’t completed.
During the Battle, the three Knights of the Crusaders consciously avoided residential areas, causing civilian casualties to some extent inferior to the casualties caused by Alcatel’s liberation of the River of Death. This was also the main reason why the Avenger Alliance and the Green Hunters had moved from unity to opposition, and vice versa.
Before the satellite communications were interrupted, Captain America had actually received instructions from the White House. Demanding that the Avengers remain neutral in the war while trying to bring British superhumans back to the United States is clearly the same fisherman style as during the two World Wars.
However, the Green Hunters were different. They were largely unaffected by political factors. At the beginning of the war, the Crusaders invaded and chose to fight with them. After Alcatel liberated the River of Death, he decisively decided to kill the vampires and protect the British people before starting an internal battle with the Avengers.
Only when Alcatel sensed the death of Intergula and was greatly stimulated to cause a riot of dead souls did the two sides reach a compromise again.