Return to Harlow's Haven Chapter 3

Beep beep beep, beep beep beep, beep beep beep...'

Griffin thought his sobriety was an annoying alarm. It's not like this. He fell asleep in the workshop, and the thing making the annoying noise was his half-finished test product.

Looks like I didn't drink enough coffee. Walking towards the coffee machine, Griffin took a look.

The first party he attended alone was not included in his autobiography or any media records.

Or to whom had he mentioned it?

At noon the next day, Pepper arrived at Griffin's beach house to clean up the trash for his boss. No, she didn't mean real garbage. Even if it was used by Griffin, it was disposable, disposable, and required to sign a confidentiality clause. I'm afraid that except for the user himself, neither she nor Griffin wanted to see each other even once again. Where did it come from? The unknown bed partner is a living person. Large living people cannot be thrown into the trash can. Almost regrettably, no.

Griffin lay in bed pretending to be dead. Until Pepper comes into his room and screams at the empty wine bottle on the floor.

"I'm going to smash your wine cabinet!" This is the anger from Pepper.

"No you can't." Griffin continued to slump in the middle of the bed. Face down.

"Really? Then let's see if I can."

The sound of high heels changed direction. Pepper's anger is enough to make even dangerous things serious. This is the most terrifying threat, this is level one alert. Griffin jumped up immediately, scared.

"I'm going to fire you!" Griffin yelled.

"Come on, if you ask for it, I will let the finance department calculate how much salary I will be worth in the next few years. The amount will probably be enough for me to buy a house in central London, and then I will be far away from you and this mess." Far away." Pepper snorted, staring at Griffin on the bed and narrowing his eyes.

In all aspects, Pepper is even better.

Griffin withered immediately. "Okay, let me lose. Don't leave me. What would I do without you in my life?"

Little Pepper twitched the corners of her mouth coldly, showing a false smile. "All I know is that my life is better off without you. Honey, if you don't get out of that d@mn bed and put on a d@mn suit and show up to the company meeting, I guarantee you're going to see my resignation letter."

Then Griffin would have to do as he was told. There is no choice.

When Griffin came out after changing his clothes, he saw Pepper standing in the middle of the living room, having just finished the call with SHIELD. Griffin knew he shouldn't do this and he didn't want to but, d@mn, he couldn't resist the intellectual curiosity inside him.

So he asked.

"bad news?"

Pepper turned back and glanced at Griffin with a suspicious look on his face. "Since when have you ever cared about SHIELD's life and death?"

"Don't say that. After all, my father is its founder. So? Or you just think that I have malicious concern."

Little Pepper pursed her lips and raised her eyebrows, showing that this was indeed the case. "Nothing, they just asked about your wishes for the task the day before yesterday...I'm not sure, but he said please reply before seven o'clock tomorrow night."

Griffin didn't react for a moment. "What?

"Oh, and Coulson also said that if you refuse, they will probably choose one between Dr. Strange and Falcon. There may be others. Anyway, you can refuse."

Originally, Griffin grabbed a can of sparkling water, unscrewed it, and was about to drink it. When Little Pepper added, he almost sprayed it all over the floor.

"What the hell!"

"...Griffin? Are you okay? Is this some serious mission?"

Griffin choked on the sparkling water and kept coughing. Pepper looked concerned.

Finally Griffin recovered.

"I'm going to S.H.I.E.L.D.," he said.

If Little Pepper hadn't been stunned. Griffin would be hit in the back of the head with a high heel shoe.

Well there is a problem here.

The current dilemma faced by SHIELD is that due to various political factors, Fury accepted the proposal of the X-Men representatives to engage in a grand marriage.

It won't matter if he doesn't accept it, but he is as bold as Fury, and has already foreseen many public troubles that may occur in the future...

Therefore, it is better to seize the opportunity and accept it. Nick Fury, a man with vision.

On how much benefit this marriage can bring to S.H.I.E.L.D.

First of all, having more people in charge of Stark means more power. Stark's number one problem child specializes in creating public relations crises. Having a family helps Stark and Stark Enterprises build a positive image.

Why is the positive image of Stark Enterprises associated with Fury?

Fury admitted that he had a lot of shares in Stark Enterprises.

Shareholders will thank him. So does society at large.

Another point is that he, Nick Fury, as the leader of the Avengers, in this era of information explosion, developed network, transparent information and promotion of brand concepts, his responsibility is not only to lead a group of superheroes, watch the heroes charge into battle, He is strategizing behind the scenes. He is simply the manager of this super band!

To be honest, every public relations problem this group of people caused was not handled by him. Regardless of whether he is dealing with superiors or subordinates, internally or externally, the advisory group or the media, or people on earth or aliens, he still has to help this group of people portray their image. Otherwise, think about it, if the people or the United Nations or the Interstellar Alliance or something knew what their superheroes looked like...

So that's another reason. Fury had a headache.

With the evil social network and the evil Google Map, it is becoming increasingly difficult to hide the secret identity of superheroes and preserve their private space.

Illegitimate meals are ubiquitous, and fanatics and anti-fans often hear about them. Last time, there was a lunatic who recognized Thor from the crowd and chased him for two blocks to express his love. He almost forced Thor to summon the Meow Hammer - yes, that was a man. Saul has a girlfriend.

After this incident, everyone in the league paid attention to this big issue. Previous cases include Dr. Banner going to buy groceries and being pestered by a middle-aged woman asking for free tutoring for her children. Barnes was accosted and asked for a ki33 while escaping (and the consequences of causing the Black Widow to go crazy are too terrible to mention). Hawkeye and Falcon have also encountered several incidents where they asked for signatures without looking at the opportunity.

Sooner or later, their identities will all be dug out. Fury, Hill and Natasha were worried.

In comparison, the X men next door are quite calm. It can also be attributed to the fact that they have spokespersons who are good at running social networks. Updates are uploaded from time to time, and the entire group of mutants from top to bottom never forget to send a tweet before the battle.

With a place where they can be tracked regularly, and the address of the academy is open to visitors, X-Men fans are much calmer. Under Professor To put it another way, if you really want to see an idol, just call and go to X Academy to queue up and make an appointment. Mutants even make money from this. Too commercial.

Fury also wants to move closer in this direction. See if you can add or subtract some to make up for the battle losses.

Well, they have to have an official account first.

There are many Avengers who have just become soldiers, but among them all, only one Spider-Man is serious about running social networking sites. Yes one. The eldest Spider-Man is currently very busy as the president, and the second Spider-Man is getting ready to get married. Only the third Spider-Man is underage and has plenty of free time. He spends all day taking cute photos of his cat, beautiful photos, silly photos and crashing photos, and posting them on IG. He is not studying at all, so he becomes an Internet celebrity and broadcasts live broadcasts every day.

Then this task will be handed over to the third spider. If you say this is a task, then the kid will definitely do his best. This is better than putting this kid on the battlefield and going through life and death.

Once you have an account, you also need to have headlines.

The marriage will be a headline.

Just like Prince Harry marrying Meghan. Like Prince William married Kate. Just like the British royal family. Who knows the reality of these royal marriages, but people like them, and the world is peaceful and beautiful.

This is what they want. an effect.

Then Fury didn't quite understand.

Have a meeting.

The people on the Avengers side said: "If the other side is sure to send Harlow, Griffin will agree."

The people from the X-Men said: "If you are sure it is Stark, Miss Xavier will agree."

...? ? ?

Fury was very suspicious of what was going on. Have these two agreed? Wait, they know each other?

Griffin burst into Fury's office that afternoon. The two people seemed to have reached some agreement, but the process was unknown. Griffin looked very bad after it was over.

The teammates were particularly concerned and came to express their condolences.

"What's going on Griffin, you and Fury were arguing?"

Almost miraculously, Griffin didn't do anything to fight back. Neither jumped up to scratch the other person's face, nor talked the other person off the floor with eloquent words. He just lay there listlessly, as if he no longer had any nostalgia for the world.

Everyone was curious.