Marvel Magic Event Book

Chapter 1722 Special Inhumans

The strategic plan formulated by the expeditionary force was very detailed. Many Eridu special agents who joined the Holy Shield Brotherhood kept detailed records of Egypt's humanities, geographical location, climate conditions, etc. At this time, Egypt was still in the "pre-dynastic period". Upper Egypt was the upper reaches of the Nile River, located in southern Egypt. It was the agricultural, population and cultural center of the Nile River Basin at this time, while Lower Egypt occupied the fertile Nile Delta in northern Egypt.

At this time, the Neolithic Badari civilization in Upper Egypt was still in its early stages, and people here still made a living by simple agriculture, fishing and animal husbandry. Eridu's merchants often rowed small boats along the Mediterranean coast, transporting turquoise from the Sinai Peninsula to the Nile Delta, and then went back to the Badari civilization in Lower Egypt to exchange the unpolished turquoise for barley, wheat and lentils. After returning by the same route, they would transport the grain to a series of Eridu strongholds in the Sinai Peninsula through a series of logistics channels arranged by the emperor.

Compared with transporting food from the Mesopotamian Plain to the Sinai Peninsula and Egypt, this method is obviously more economical. This is also the emperor's helpless move. In this new era, the emperor can only trust that the heads of the various strongholds who have received temple education have enough loyalty and will not affect the expeditionary plan.

At this time, Egypt had no concept of a country, nor the name "Egypt", and there was no distinction between Upper and Lower Egypt. The largest administrative unit was just the primitive nome of the village community. The main research base of the Cree people is located in a primitive "nome" in Lower Egypt. In the pre-dynastic period, only the farming area had enough population as experimental materials. The administrative unit and territorial division of "nome" was a loose community composed of multiple villages that were close to each other. These population gathering areas began to unify in the pre-dynastic period of Egypt, and eventually formed two different kingdoms of Upper and Lower Egypt.

The Eridu special agents sent some of the samples to the local human skeleton sample temple for research. By comparing the dental features and limb proportions, the biological research department of the Holy Shield believed that the race of this "Gnom" was closely related to the East African race, rather than the Saharan African race as generally believed - in fact, only no more than 20 people in the biological department of the Holy Shield. The biological research department also found that some special human skeleton samples did not have the tropical body shape of the Badari race, and did not conform to the space-time model of the biological distance model. In other words, these humans were not native to the local area, but populations plundered by the Kree from other regions of the earth.

During the hundreds of years of experiments by the Cree, these humans from other regions reproduced and merged with the locals, forming a North African race unique to the Badari culture of Lower Egypt. Perhaps it was these genes from southern Europe, North Africa, western Europe, and South Asia that led to the confusing conclusions drawn by 21st century humans when conducting genetic tests on Egyptian mummies. This is a very important piece of information, which means that Badari's "Gnom" as a Cree experimental site is significantly different from several surrounding "Gnomes". Under the mindset of small peasant economy surviving in groups, a little racial difference means that the organizational structure built by the Cree using slave soldiers and force to suppress the locals has loopholes, and several villages around Badari's "Gnom" can stand on the side of the Eridu expeditionary force.

Before the expeditionary force set out, the temple's wandering traders came to these villages with the emperor's gift, namely, larger reserves of turquoise trade, to purchase more food. They sent armed personnel to support the ruling class of these "Gnomes" and quietly completed the siege of the Kree under their noses.

The expeditionary force set its destination as one of the "Gnomes" belonging to Eridu. It was close to the Kree's experimental site, but not too close, and the scouts and diplomats who arrived in advance also ensured that the news of the expeditionary force's arrival would not be leaked. Captain Miller did not think that the main force of his expeditionary force would encounter obstacles from the locals before reaching the destination. The Brotherhood of the Holy Shield believed that the Kree did not care about the resistance launched by humans.

In the eyes of the Kree, only the slave soldiers, that is, the transformed Inhumans, are threatening. The Kree simply ignores the role that the locals without weapons and equipment can play. Even the Kree headhunters who are scouting nearby completely ignore the local natives who pass information between different villages. The Kree headhunters are the superiors of the slave soldiers and are also responsible for watching over the Inhumans until the Inhumans complete the biochemical and psychological adjustments. According to the investigation of the special agents, all biochemical and psychological adjustments are to accept the parasitism of a special slave soldier and manipulate the brain neural circuits to make it obey the command of the Kree.

In the future, that special slave soldier is called Hive, and is the origin of the Hydra organization's religious cult.

Captain Miller is the only one in the expedition who knows the truth, but he can't tell anyone. He has heard the story of Captain America fighting Hydra during World War II, the news that SHIELD was overthrown by Hydra, and the US government's secret operation to eliminate Hydra. But until the Emperor told him that the origin of Hydra came from the land in front of him, he thought Hydra was just a terrorist organization originated from the Third Reich, not a secret religious association with pagan beliefs that lasted for thousands of years.

"I promise you that the Inhumans that Hydra worships will meet destruction."

When the Emperor rushed from the Black Desert to the Nome where the main force of the expeditionary force was located, the offensive led by Captain Miller had already begun. The Guards led another thousand expeditionary forces to defeat the experimental material collection bases set up by the Kree in several nearby Nomes. The captured Kree headhunters were also interrogated and detained after being injected with large doses of tranquilizers in an effort to obtain more intelligence from them.

The Kree Headhunters are the lowest level of nobles in the Kree Empire's military tradition. Originated from the ancient hunting culture of the Kree, this title is often given to soldiers with strong reconnaissance and individual combat capabilities. The Kree Empire will grant the Kree Headhunters light bulletproof armor and monomolecular long knives, allowing them to move freely on the front line, helping soldiers break through the defense line or behead enemy commanders. This is a consistent tactic of the Kree. Almost all Kree Headhunters belong to the ancient military nobility, rather than the official military command system of the Kree Empire.

Although the Kree Headhunters only wore light bulletproof armor, the weapons in the hands of the expeditionary army were limited by the production technology of the era and it was difficult to cause damage to the Kree Headhunters. For this reason, every team responsible for attacking the Kree base must be led by the Guards. No matter how many Kree Headhunters responsible for capturing experimental materials there are in that base, one Guard can annihilate them all. The main task of the expeditionary army is not to kill the Kree Headhunters, but to kill the mutant slave soldiers with various special abilities.

In just one week, Captain Miller was forced to take over as commander of the main force of the expeditionary force.

The Kree have found a way to stimulate some of the psychic potential of humans. They have used physical mutations to create a large number of slave soldiers, and they plan to let the slave soldiers fight a low-intensity actual battle on Earth first. The strange abilities of these slave soldiers have caused considerable casualties to the expeditionary force. Compared with the Kree headhunters, the slave soldiers are more threatening to the expeditionary force. If it weren't for the four guards in the main force, the expeditionary force would most likely fail here - as for recording the abilities of the Inhumans, it is a complete waste of time. No Inhuman has exactly the same abilities, and the soldiers can only roughly judge their abilities through the physical mutations of the Inhumans.

This situation is exactly the same as when the Emperor's genetically modified warriors attacked Attilan.

"I've been worried about that particular Inhuman for a long time!"

Captain Miller felt his blood pressure soaring. He had never been so irritated before. The expeditionary army's doctors had no way to treat some of the injuries caused by the Inhumans. They did not have artificial skin for treating large-area burns and other drugs that only appeared in the 20th century. Those things could not be produced in this era. The surgical level of the military doctors could only stay in the First World War and could not minimize casualties. These were the best doctors trained by the emperor. In the era without refrigerators, these doctors could only practice anatomy on corpses. Nowadays, there are no effective enough drugs, and the military doctors can only apply psychic means for treatment. As for the side effects of psychic healing, there is no need to consider it for the time being.

Fortunately, this era has not yet experienced the baptism of monotheism. All magic is linked to gods, and the soldiers are not so resistant to the magic of the temple priests. The emperor has inspected the medical camp. At least the military doctors still have enough L-norepinephrine, and the small-scale production of the temple laboratory can still cope with it.

"Our casualties here are far greater than those in other strongholds!" Captain Miller said impatiently, "Your tactics worked, and the Kree began to shrink their defense. But all the Inhumans ran to our side!"

"I believe that the Inhuman will not be an obstacle to us." The Emperor gently comforted Captain Miller's emotions, "This is my fault. I killed him in the future, so I failed to value him in this era."

Captain Miller was still furious, "How did you destroy him?"

"With a hydrogen bomb, on another planet."

"That guy deserved it. The hydrogen bomb, would it kill him too quickly?" Captain Miller sighed, seeming very satisfied with the fate of the Inhuman commander. "You said that Hydra worshipped that Inhuman. So what about Hydra?" "Don't ask too much about the future. There are some secrets you shouldn't know. You just need to know not to completely believe the propaganda of the entertainment industry. Not all Hydras are our enemies, but not all Hydras are our allies either."

“It’s very confusing to me.”

"It doesn't matter. Hydra is just a tool." The emperor waved his hand, indicating that it was not appropriate to talk about Hydra now.

"Are you sure there is no way to help those Inhumans escape control?" Captain Miller asked. "If we encounter so many terrible enemies in the next battle, I doubt whether the soldiers still have the confidence to persevere. For them, this is a holy war. They believe that they are fighting for the gods and the world. You can't waste their lives and enthusiasm."

The emperor glanced at him. No one knew when Captain Miller changed his attitude and agreed to the emperor's use of the temple to arouse the soldiers' fighting spirit. Before that, he had always insisted on telling the soldiers the truth that it was not the demons but the aliens who hurt humans. Perhaps Captain Miller realized that for humans of this era, there was not much difference between aliens and demons. In any case, the soldiers believed that they were saving the world and overthrowing the terrifying enemy for future generations.

Relying solely on the emperor's appeal would not have made these men who worked the land leave their families and join the army.

"Only a few Inhumans have combat capabilities, Captain Miller. The Kree do not have the technology to induce psychic genes. That special Inhuman commander is just an accidental product of an experiment. I believe they have not yet summed up the relevant experience, otherwise there would not be only headhunters in other bases."

"Can we conduct a decapitation operation?" Captain Miller said, "Both the Kree and the Inhumans have ignored the role of the local residents. They even forced the local villagers to deliver food to them. Our agents have already figured out the situation of that stronghold and the location of the Inhuman commander. I know you will kill it in the future, but now, I only ask that special Inhuman to lose its command ability. This will not change history."

"You can't change history. This is history, but we know the truth now."

"Okay, novel perspective."

When the new tactics were proposed, the expeditionary staff and the Imperial Guards immediately began calculations.

This stronghold is 120 kilometers away from the "Gnom" where the Kree people are located. It takes this 1,000-man main cavalry unit and 600-man logistics and reconnaissance units a whole day to reach the designated combat position and build a stronghold with wooden sentry towers and low walls. If after a day's march, a team led by the Royal Guards is sent to capture that special Inhuman and remove the Kree's mental control over the Inhumans, this tactic is worth trying anyway, provided that the elite expeditionary team still has sufficient physical strength after the march that day.

The staff had to adjust the entire marching procedure. The marching plan of the Eridu expeditionary army was very similar to that of the Roman Empire, which ensured that the next camp had sufficient defense measures and food at the end of the day and that it could respond quickly to enemy situations on the road. Therefore, the departure time and departure order of the day were strictly arranged. The commander would get a timetable to ensure that the chain of command would not be too far away from the scene of the incident in case of an emergency.

"Don't expect too much." The Emperor warned Captain Miller, "Those Inhumans are slaves through and through. Even without biochemical control, they will still obey the orders of their masters. They are not human and will never stand with us against the Kree."

"I know," Captain Miller replied.

"You know what? When the Battle of New York ended, I didn't go back to my residence directly, but went to the hospital because I wanted to investigate the real death toll. You know the habit of the US government. Insurance companies and private hospitals will try their best to get rid of their responsibilities." The emperor suddenly talked about another thing, and Captain Miller looked up curiously. "At that time, the power in New York had not been restored. The emergency room was in chaos, with injured people everywhere, and the morgue was full of corpses that could not be stored in the cold storage. They treated me as a doctor from another hospital, so I put on protective clothing and started to treat seriously injured patients. Before that, I had only received theoretical studies, never attended medical school, had no professors in medical school, and had no internship experience as a resident doctor. But I did a good job and saved many lives, not with swords and guns, but with scalpels, hemostatic forceps and syringes."

"You have never said anything to comfort me in the past thirty years, Your Majesty." Captain Miller crossed his arms and asked meaningfully, "Is there anything different today?"

"Call me Salomon, at least for now. I faced new challenges that day, as you do today." He paused. "No one knows that I cried for the people who died that day. But there was more to that day. I couldn't save everyone, even though I knew I could have cast a spell to save the lives of the dying, but I didn't. I watched them die in front of me."

Captain Miller wanted to say something else, but he found that he couldn't say anything.

"We have a responsibility for the expeditionary force, but I hope you know why we have a responsibility for it and why I hope you can officially take over the command of this army - we want to drive out the invaders, this is why we have assembled the army - I have been preparing for this for thirty years, collecting all the steel and food, and establishing several logistics channels and a functioning administrative system. The expeditionary force spent ten years training, patrolling and fighting around Eridu, and people died almost every year. This is the first time you have commanded such a large team, even though you have no relevant experience... Don't waste their lives, but as long as you think your decision is correct enough, don't worry that their sacrifice is worthless."

Salomon laughed at himself. "This example is not so appropriate, right? My mentor wanted me to experience the pain of kindness and death, so he asked me to conduct that investigation. I did it. You can say that I am a cold-blooded person, I won't object."

"I have learned more about your madness than I have in the past thirty years." Captain Miller shrugged. "But the name Salomon sounds like a human, which puts me at ease. What happened to bring your humanity back to this world?"

It's too long, the battle can only be put in the next chapter