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The suffering brought by the U.S. seems to never end.
And internationally, more and more people questioning the existence of Superheroes, or rather, the Avengers, gradually overshadowed the praise the Avengers once received.
The tide seemed to have turned 180 degrees in just half a year!
The Avengers began to face a serious wave of boycotts.
Mass demonstrations and protests appeared in many countries, protesting the various damages caused by the Avengers' actions in their respective nations.
Some injured individuals, sitting in wheelchairs, poured out their grievances in front of the cameras, cursing the harm caused by the Avengers' actions.
For a time, the Avengers seemed to feel like rats scurrying across the street.
However, in the U.S.
The Avengers were still revered.
It was just that these external voices allowed some interested parties to start making an issue of it.
Especially in several operations, the Avengers had caused considerable losses to the local areas.
In Congress, some members even proposed that the Avengers should be disbanded, or their law enforcement powers should be restricted worldwide!
An unofficial organization should not have such great power!
And their weapons, which exceeded civilian scope, should also be confiscated.
They should not be allowed to continue using them indiscriminately!
This discussion in Congress also drew the attention of some within the Avengers.
For example, James Rhodes, War Machine, who joined later, suggested that they should take official recommendations seriously and adjust some of their future operational plans.
However, Rhodes's proposal was not accepted.
Steve believed that the official suggestions were not worth adopting, and as for those members of Congress, Steve considered them a bunch of insatiable Vampires.
The Avengers should have their own independence.
This cannot be taken away!
For this;
The two even had an argument at the Base, and it was only when Tony stepped in and pulled Rhodes away that the quarrel did not escalate.
However;
After that, a subtle crack had already appeared within the Avengers.
It was just that this crack was not yet obvious.
But once the crack continued to widen, the trust between the Avengers would also be challenged again!
...
This day.
Luo Di was reading at home.
The book was borrowed from Kamar-Taj, not a magic book from the restricted section, but a book from the public area that expounded on the nature of magic.
Luo Di was quite interested in the content of this book.
He had been reading it for two days.
He was almost finished now.
Just then, Daisy ran over with her phone.
"Luo Di, look quickly, something happened to the Avengers!"
She ran and sat next to Luo Di, opening the news report video on her phone for him to watch.
Luo Di put the book aside and looked at the news report on the phone.
It turned out that a few hours ago, several Avengers led by Captain America Steve were on a mission abroad, and an accident occurred during the mission, resulting in dozens of innocent civilians being caught in an explosion, some of whom died on the spot, and a small portion were still being rescued.
The report also mentioned the person involved in the incident, Scarlet Witch Wanda Maksimov, who had not accepted any interviews, and the outside World once again lodged a strong protest against the Avengers' excessive law enforcement powers!
"I feel like something is really going to happen to the Avengers this time, the spokespersons of many countries' foreign ministries have already announced that they will no longer accept the Avengers to carry out any operations in their countries in the future."
Daisy put down her phone; although she was not a member of the Avengers, as a Superhero herself, Daisy couldn't help but feel a sense of shared sorrow.
One must know;
The Avengers is the largest Superhero team globally!
It is also the first Superhero team to hold a crucial international position!
The existence of the Avengers, to a certain extent, inspired other Superheroes, making them, even when facing various difficulties, still not give up their identity as Superheroes.
And now.
The Avengers faced unprecedented resistance.
Whether the entire alliance could continue was even hard to say.
And once the Avengers were forced to disband.
This would be a heavy blow to Superheroes all over the World!
"Don't worry, the Avengers won't disband."
Luo Di glanced at Daisy, then said.
"Really?" Daisy knew that Luo Di was not the kind of person who liked to make baseless statements, so since he said the Avengers would not disband, then the Avengers definitely would not disband.
"Although they won't disband, the official authorities will definitely intervene, and the Avengers will no longer enjoy their current level of freedom."
Luo Di said.
He still remembered the plot of the Civil War.
Although the true cause of the Civil War was the Winter Soldier, not the upcoming official regulation of the Avengers.
After all, if it were only the latter, the Avengers' internal opinions would at most be inconsistent.
But they certainly wouldn't fight among themselves!
The reason it escalated to a Civil War was purely because the Winter Soldier killed Tony's parents, and Steve refused to let Tony avenge his parents, unwilling to hand over the Winter Soldier.
That was the true cause!
The former could only be considered a fuse.
But if the fuse wasn't lit, it was just a fuse.
But the existence of the Winter Soldier was the match that lit the fuse!
"I knew it, the official authorities couldn't possibly allow the Avengers to remain uncontrolled, I know their way of doing things too well!"
Daisy had no doubt about what Luo Di said; the Avengers had been too free in the past few years.
And the Avengers themselves were too powerful.
Equivalent to nuclear weapons running rampant all over the World!
Facing such powerful entities with unlimited freedom, how could the major countries of the World rest assured about them?
These people probably wanted to restrict the Avengers long ago.
They just never had a good opportunity.
But now...
Their opportunity had come!
Not only because of the external boycotts against the Avengers, but also because some people already knew about the two opposing voices within the Avengers.
This was their chance!
The collapse of a powerful empire is often due to internal reasons.
External pressure, in many cases, only makes the empire more united.
For example, the Chitauri invasion.
And for example, the future End Game.
Are all good proofs.
But if there are internal problems, and members can no longer trust each other, or even become hostile to each other.
Then no outsider needs to do anything, the powerful empire itself will crumble!
Luo Di did not intend to get involved in the Avengers' Civil War.
That was the Avengers' own business.
He would rather read a few more books in that time.
Although he had searched all the books in the restricted section, he couldn't find any records about the Multiverse.
However, in one of the books, he saw a passage about the Darkhold.
It mentioned that the Darkhold contained some spells related to the Multiverse.
But Luo Di didn't have the Darkhold!
Besides;
That thing was left on Blue Star by the great demon Chthon, and he used it to select his followers.
Luo Di honestly didn't really dare to touch that thing.
He was afraid of being targeted by Chthon.
That would be a lot of trouble!
And failing to find a way to travel the Multiverse in Kamar-Taj's collection, Luo Di could only settle for the next best thing.
He planned to see if he could draw a related variant ability through the system's sign-in in the next few years.
Or;
He could actively seek out the TVA people.
Didn't he see TVA people in the past footage that Sorcerer Ancient One showed him before!
There was also a female Loki among them.
Wherever there is a Loki, regardless of gender or whether they are human-shaped, it always causes a lot of trouble.
He believed that the TVA would be very busy and chaotic for a long time in the future.
Perhaps Luo Di could take advantage of the chaos to get a TVA time-traveling device.
Although a timeline does not represent the Multiverse.
After all, every timeline is a branch of the current Universe, but the source remains unchanged.
And what Luo Di wanted was other Multiverses that were fundamentally different from the current Universe from their very origin.
There was a fundamental difference in essence.
But if he could travel through timelines, perhaps he could use it to find a way to travel the Multiverse on other timelines?
It was a possibility, wasn't it!
Luo Di felt that if he still couldn't draw this kind of ability in two more years, he could try this method.
But not now.
It was too early, there was still a long time until the Great Destruction more than ten years later.
Luo Di didn't want to confront the TVA and Kang the Conqueror so early.
...
Around 7 PM.
Luo Di had just dropped Gwen off at home and was about to drive back.
As he passed the Brooklyn Bridge, he suddenly saw a person sitting on top of an arch structure on the bridge.
His vision zoomed in.