All the members of the team were in hiding, but the situation in New York was turbulent.
The most obvious situation was that public security had deteriorated significantly again, because NYPD had suffered another heavy blow.
A new wave of police officers resigned again, and it was even more serious than the last time.
Luke didn't care much about it.
If they wanted to make a living, someone had to be a police officer.
Besides, New York was the financial center of America. Its public security actually had nothing to do with NYPD, but depended on how good the financial bigwigs wanted it to be.
The good news was that nothing had happened to Luke's hilltop in the attack.
After the Experimentals' attack, Luke had specifically talked to them about how to deal with similar situations.
It was very important to stay in hiding.
Dustin, Elsa and Elizabeth had been working at HQ to begin with, and didn't need to go out into the field.
After receiving Luke's warning, they had all been busy in the office building, and hadn't been stupid enough to run out and die.
This time, nobody blamed NYPD.
The Experimentals could still be considered unarmed monsters, but the Chitauris had invaded with an organized army.
It was too much to ask NYPD, which was responsible for maintaining law and order, to fight an alien army. A salary of tens of thousands of dollars a year couldn't buy human lives.
Also, because Luke and Selina had been too efficient, the National Guard troops had only reached Manhattan by the time the spatial gate closed, and barely made it to the edge.
The four armies were in an even worse state.
The higher-ups bickered over whether or not to mobilize, and how much to mobilize, and some of the soldiers were ready to set off at any time.
But in the end, the battle in New York ended before most of the soldiers even got on their vehicles.
The United States spent so much money on the military every year to maintain what was known as the best army in the world. In the end, when Earth encountered its first alien invasion, it didn't even get to see the other party before a bunch of superheroes took over.
That was f * cking awkward.
Anyone who wasn't blind could tell that the main force of the battle in New York were superheroes who were bats.
These were all "vigilantes" who hadn't taken a single cent from the American government. News of certain officials framing these vigilantes could still be seen on the Internet.
Now, they were the ones saving New York, not the US military, which spent hundreds of billions a year.
What was even worse was that a technical bigshot had compared a lot of pictures and analyzed it logically, and claimed that what Batman had brought into the spatial gate in the end was a peaceful weapon.
On American soil, the only person who dared to launch a peaceful weapon was the one in the white house.
If there were "accomplices" on this launch list, the Department of Defense and the Air Force would definitely be "guaranteed" and would not be able to escape responsibility.
This matter was the "weapon of peace" that exploded in the media and the melon spectators.
The magnitude of the tremors, the scope, and the severity of the consequences were far greater than the invasion of the alien army itself.
In fact, if that peaceful weapon really exploded, it might not be a bad thing for many people in the upper echelons.
As long as peaceful weapons could really destroy the dimensional door above Manhattan, this decision could be said to be correct.
Afterwards, he would find someone with sufficient status to take the blame, and this matter would be settled.
Compared to solving the alien invasion in one fell swoop and getting rid of the superheroes that shouldn't even exist, a few civilians dying with them was nothing.
It was nothing for the commoners to make a ruckus. They could only make a ruckus for now.
But now … the weapon of peace did not explode.
This was both a blessing and a curse.
Fortunately, it didn't cause any civilian deaths or injuries. Legally speaking, it could only be considered an "attempt."
Unfortunately, this is further evidence of official incompetence.
Even a peaceful weapon was used, but it didn't do anything.
Now, not only did the officials have to bear the name of incompetence, but they also didn't have any achievements to cover the shame of launching a peaceful weapon.
It was one thing for the officials to be incompetent, but an incompetent and cruel official was something that most people couldn't accept.
This was the case for all of New York, from the financial elites to the criminals.
Both of them belonged to the trash of society, but if the officials really treated them like trash and threw a peaceful weapon directly over their heads, they couldn't help it!
In front of the White House, a large number of New York victims and their families, as well as human rights associations, had already raised signs to protest, and the scale was growing.
The owner of the White House, Michelle Gable, had no choice but to give a nationally televised speech that afternoon and make it clear that the missile was only a conventional weapon, not a peaceful weapon. Moreover, the launch of the missile had nothing to do with her. It was purely a private action of a military department.
She also said that the pilot involved in the case had been controlled and protected, and all related personnel who allowed the launch would be investigated.
As soon as this was said, the world was in an uproar.
Countless media and public figures ridiculed this kind of blatant act of whitewashing.
There was a large pile of evidence that showed that only this US military fighter plane flew to the south of New York at the time, and only fired this missile before turning around and leaving.
If it wasn't a peaceful weapon, then what was the point of the US military's action? Did they want to rely on a fighter plane and an ordinary missile to change the critical situation in New York at that time?
Even if this attack was the pilot's selfish act of righteous indignation, he should have at least fired all the missiles on the fighter plane, right? At least he shouldn't have fired only one.
More people began to question Michelle Gable: You're the one holding the peace button. Now you say that a peaceful weapon was launched in the United States, and the target was Manhattan, the number one financial center of the United States, but you don't know who launched it. Is this a dereliction of duty? No, this is complete incompetence.
This also meant that the owner of the White House had completely lost control of the peaceful weapon, and had no ability to sit in that position at all.
No one knew that Michelle Gable, the first female president of the United States, who released this news, was also in despair.
The person who did this really had nothing to do with her.
Before the situation was clear, she wouldn't be stupid enough to launch a peaceful weapon at Manhattan.
But now, no matter how many excuses she had, she couldn't dispel the growing suspicion of the people.
This seed of distrust had been deeply planted in the hearts of many people after the officials were proven to be framing Batman a few months ago.
The death toll in this battle in New York had exceeded 20,000, and the missing people had yet to be counted, but there were already 30,000.
As expected, most of the missing people would be added to the list of dead.
At least 50,000 dead, and hundreds of thousands of injured to varying degrees. The consequences weren't comparable to the thousand or so people who died in the attack by the Experimentals.
Last time, the officials took advantage of the situation and threw the blame for the attack by the Experimentals onto Batman.
Although some people's goal was only to deal with Batman, and although the matter failed in the end, they succeeded in diverting the attention of most people.
This time, Batman couldn't take the blame for the alien attack.
First of all, the people had just been toyed with once. This time, no matter how stupid they were, they wouldn't think that Batman, who usually beat up some hooligans at most, could hit the aliens.
To make matters worse, Batman was missing.
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