Chapter 19 [Gaia Hypothesis]
Half an hour passed.
Melinda took Chris to a S.H.E.L.D. near Times Square in New York. After brushing her face in front of a monitor next to the gate, the gate automatically opened.
Melinda led a few people in and said as she walked, "Simmons, take Skye to the infirmary and bandage the wound."
"It's the sir." Jamma Simmons nodded.
Skye suddenly asked, "Where is Chris? He's going there!"
"Chris has something else to do." Melinda glanced at Skye and replied coldly.
"No..."
Before Skye could finish her sentence, Chris walked over and patted Skye on the shoulder and said, "Sky, you go to the infirmary to bandage the wound first, I'll go."
Skye glanced at Chris, and looked at the cold Melinda. He knew that Chris came here and was probably going to talk to the chief of the department where Agent May was. Thinking that Chris had recovered his abilities, he should not have to worry about being caught and disassembled, so he curled his lips and nodded slightly: "Then I'll wait for you in the infirmary."
"Yeah, go."
Chris watched Jenma Simmons walk away with Skye, then turned to Melinda and said, "May, let's go."
Melinda nodded, turned around and walked towards the elevator not far away with Chris.
Riophitz, who was behind him, followed him, and left, so he had to ask, "Sir Mei, where am I going?"
"Either stay here or go to the infirmary."
Melinda did not look back, but said something from afar.
Seeing Melinda and Chris gradually disappearing at the elevator entrance, Riophitz raised his arms and slowly lowered them. Finally, he stomped his feet and turned toward the infirmary.
...
The elevator was very fast, and in more than ten seconds, we arrived at the highest floor of the building.
The elevator door was opened, and Melinda took the lead and walked out. Seeing it disappear from sight, Chris hesitated for a few seconds before following.
The two of them turned a corner and came to an outside door. Melinda did not knock on the door, but pushed it straight in, obviously she had already received the order from the director.
Melinda said: "Sir."
"Mei, you go out first."
"yes."
Melinda turned around and took the door up and went out.
Looking at Nick Fury sitting on a chair in front of the window with his back facing him, Chris couldn't help but complain. It seemed that Nick Fury was like in the movie, and she liked to pretend in front of people.
Nick Fury sat there quietly for a few seconds, finally stood up, turned around and looked at Chris, and said in a questioning tone: "Would I call you Chris Co, or call you a guest from another world?"
"It's up to you, as long as you like."
Chris spread his hands and said that he didn't care much about what the other party called him.
Nick Fury walked back to his desk and waved his hand and said, "Sit."
Chris didn't be polite to him, and sat directly on the chair opposite the desk.
The two of them just looked at each other.
A few minutes later, Nick Fury lost his patience. He was not here to play 123 Wooden Man with Chris. He had not solved the incident caused by Tony Stark. He opened his mouth and said without waiting for me. "I have checked all the known archives and citizen information in the world. I can't find your mission information at all. The earliest videos and pictures about you appeared were in Chinatown in Manhattan."
Chris curled his lips: "Didn't you just say it? I'm a guest from another world."
Nick Fury's only remaining eye stared at Chris: "Okay, let's say you're from another universe, what do you want to do when you come to our world?"
Chris spread his hands again: "I think... that agent named Colson must have reported to you. I have told him all about how to come to this universe and this world."
"Do you think I will believe your nonsense? I believe you are from another universe? I believe you have had a fight with the will of the earth? I sealed the will of the earth that wants to destroy the world?"
Chris smiled, spread his hands and said, "This is the truth!"
Nick Fury looked at Chris' tender face. From his face, he could not see any sign of Chris lying, but this did not mean that the other party did not understand the micro-expression.
Thinking of this, Nick said: "You told Colson before that the enemy who wants to destroy your world is the will of the earth, and you call it the Great Snake...'Man'?"
Chris thought about it and sorted out the language and said: "To be precise, the big snake is not a 'human', it is the self-consciousness born from the earth. Simply put, the big snake is the earth. As long as the earth is not destroyed, the big snake will live and die forever. This is why we can only seal it, not kill it. If we kill the big snake, then the earth will have no consciousness and will be very likely to fall into chaos, and the subsequent volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, movement of continental plates, and the final planet explosion, these are all possible things."
“The self-awareness of the birth of the earth!”
Nick Fury heard this and pondered for a long time. At the end, he raised his head and stared at Chris with his eyes slanted and said seriously: "I don't care where you are from, an alien from outer space, or as you said, from another universe, since you have come to Earth, you'd better be honest, because we'll keep staring at you."
"Hmm...I'm done?" Chris blinked.
"I have other things to deal with. The task of monitoring you will be left to Mei. I think you get along well with her." Nick Fury didn't continue to say anything, but stood up and muttered a few words to the invisible headphones hidden in his ears, then saw Melinda pushing the door and walking in.
Chris saw Nick Fury's intention to see him off, turned around and walked out the door. Although he was not sure what the other party was trying to do, no matter what, it would be much better to leave this agent first than to stay here.
"Chris."
Suddenly, Nick Fury shouted behind her.
Chris looked back.
"Remember, I'll keep staring at you."
Nick Fury stared at Chris' tender face as if he wanted to see him through.
You only have one eye left, and you are still staring at people, aren’t you afraid of squinting your eyes?
Chris complained in his heart, but he ignored Nick Fury, turned around and walked out the door. After watching Chris go out, Melinda nodded to the director, closed the door and followed.
...
After the two left,
Agent Hill walked in with a tablet computer in his arms and said to Nick Fury: "Sir, Agent May just sent me the video of the expo site."
"Yeah, call it out and take a look." Nick Fury said.
"yes."
Hill operated on the tablet for a few times, and the TV in the room turned on instantly. A picture taken by Melinda's pinhole camera hanging on her chest appeared on the TV.
"Black and purple flame..."
Nick Fury watched as Chris summoned an egg-sized flame in the video, and quickly expanded and fermented in the air, instantly swallowing and melting the steel soldiers. He became secretly afraid of it. In this instant, the steel soldiers melted completely, which was completely beyond his previous imagination.
Agent Hill looked at the black purple flame of Chris in the video, frowned tightly. She was also worried about Chris's ability, lowered her head and operated it on the tablet computer for a few times and said, "Sir, I have checked the information. The current known flame emitted purple color is above 7,000 degrees, and this black purple flame is obviously far exceeding this temperature."
When he heard the flame power released by Chris exceeding 7,000 degrees, Nick Fury's eyebrows were even more furious. You should know that except for vibrator, as long as the temperature reaches more than 6,000 degrees, it can melt any substance known to humans.
Chris, who is not sure whether he is an alien or someone from another universe, was deeply amazed by Nick Fury.
You should know that this is just part of the ability shown by Chris. According to the story he told Colson before, he also has a so-called artifact. Since it can be named as a artifact, it must be of extraordinary significance.
Thinking of this, Nick Fury fell into deep worries. Since Captain Marvel left the earth and headed for outer space, the earth has no extraordinary power that can match.
The appearance of the Hulk a few years ago gave Nick Fury a glimmer of hope. The Iron Man not long ago gave the Super Boys Group Plan he conceived more than a decade ago a possibility of implementation.
This time, facing the mysterious Chris who was ignorant of the details, Nick Fury had another idea in his mind, besides building a super boy group.
Thinking of this, Nick Fury quickly stood up, took out a key from a drawer beside his desk, turned around and walked out, saying as he walked, "Hill and I will go to Washington, and you can notify Agent May and let her stare at him in an endless manner."
"yes."
Hillmai followed with two long legs.
...
The next day at noon.
Washington, SHIELD Headquarters.
"Sir, I have summoned professors from many higher universities such as New York University, Harvard University, and experts who specialize in these disciplines or myths as you told me.
After discussion, those historians, mythologists from various systems, and scientists who study celestial bodies and earth's matter, they jointly put forward a hypothesis that the earth, like us humans, is a truly alive living body, has a complete and complex breathing and digestive system, rivers, lakes and seas are its blood, atmospheric circulation is its breathing circulation, wind, rain, thunder and lightning, earthquakes and volcanoes are its joy, anger, sorrow and happiness."
Nick Fury looked at the agent under his command and asked, "So does the earth have self-awareness?"
The agent replied: "I asked them about this too. What they said was quite complicated, and I have recorded all the specific conversations."
Nick Fury glanced at the files that the agent had just submitted, opened the files and glanced at them for a few seconds, and said, "Tell me a brief story."
"In layman's terms, they believe that the earth is very likely to have independent self-consciousness. Many years ago, scientists proposed the hypothesis and theory of earth consciousness, which was called Gaia consciousness at that time. This hypothesis and theory were proposed by a British ecologist James Lovelock more than 30 years ago, in 1972. At that time, the ecologist named Lovelock published a theory called "Gaia Hypothesis", which caused a great sensation at that time. To this day, many experts are still studying the theory "Gaia Hypothesis".
But so many years have passed, people have never found or found any existence or evidence about Gaia's consciousness.
According to this Gaia Hypothesis and the experts I contacted, they agreed that the so-called Gaia consciousness should be a super complex consciousness composed of all things on the earth, and the only purpose of this consciousness is to evolve. As for how and to what extent, no one has proposed corresponding theories or hypotheses for this."
Speaking of this, the agent suddenly remembered that he heard someone make an interesting statement: "By the way, a ancient Greek mythologist proposed a very interesting hypothesis."
“What is it?”
"He said that if the earth really has an independent self-awareness, then when the earth encounters external threats, it will combine with all things on the earth through its own power to resist the threat. At the same time, when the earth faces an inner threat, it will eliminate the inner threats by affecting nature and develop and grow again."
“Eliminate the inner threat?!”
When Nick Fury heard this word, he suddenly thought of the story of their world he said.
The agent thought the director was asking him what he meant. After thinking for a moment, he found a myth and explained: "The meaning of this sentence should be similar to the great flood recorded in the "Genesis" of the first volume of the Bible. God saw that the world was full of corruption, violence and illegal evil, so he planned to use the flood to eliminate those evil people and make the world beautiful again."
"Dingling..."
Nick Fury, who was thinking, suddenly heard his cell phone ringing. He took it out and saw that it was the phone brought by Colson.
The agent who was standing in front of him to report his work turned around and left with great tactfulness.
After someone closed the door and went out, Nick Fury pressed the switch button and heard Colson on the other end of the phone say, "Sir, I think I found the thing that fell from the sky."
Chapter completed!