But at this moment, no police officer wanted to search the mountain, so even if he gave the order, no one would listen.
Opportunity and risk coexist.
Now the risk is extremely high, overshadowing the merit – if you lose your life, merit is useless.
Opportunity is no longer opportunity, but represents danger.
Moreover, with the unanimous opposition of his subordinates, the sheriff could only choose to heed everyone's opinion.
The sheriff nodded helplessly, indicating that they would immediately withdraw with the monster's corpse and report it.
The police officers present were all happy. Even if the sheriff insisted on giving the order, they would not obey. The sheriff could only be furious. Any order from superiors would be useless in the face of the risk of losing one's life. They could resign from this job and would not be bound by anything – but reaching a consensus had its benefits.
At least they wouldn't be held grudges by the sheriff in the future.
Nor would they risk losing their jobs.
...
In the United States, the highest governing body, the White House.
The President was about to go back to his room to sleep when he suddenly heard the Director of Intelligence reporting to him.
The President frowned, feeling that his sleep was disturbed. Although the Director of Intelligence also knew that this was the President's rest time, and under normal circumstances, the Director of Intelligence would not disturb him at this time.
Therefore, the President knew one thing – something very important must have happened for the Director of Intelligence to be so anxious to find him during his rest time.
"What is he here to see me about?"
The President pondered. A major event made him immediately think if something had happened in Russia, or if something had happened in China...
Some small countries were naturally not within the President's scope of concern, but these two major powers, although inferior to the United States in economic and military strength, were still powers that the United States had to treat seriously and cautiously as equals.
Could it be that in China, they had found a breakthrough clue in the last investigation?
At this moment.
A water-blue bead appeared in the President's mind.
It was that bead that shattered his worldview, making him realize that there was not only science in this world, but also the mystical.
If the Director of Intelligence had an urgent matter to see him about, in the President's opinion, it was probably related to the water-repelling bead.
After all, this matter had been a hot topic in international relations recently. Many major powers on Earth were already aware of this information, and many intelligence personnel worldwide were in China, gathering a large amount of intelligence on its activities.
If the recent events had yielded results, the President believed it.
He believed that the intelligence personnel of the United States were superior to those of other countries and could obtain relevant intelligence in advance.
"Director of Intelligence, is there new intelligence regarding the water-repelling bead, or new intelligence regarding the young sword immortal?"
While pondering this question, the President let the Director of Intelligence in.
He did not expect that what the Director of Intelligence said was something else entirely.
"You're saying that a monster appeared in Nevada... a creature never before discovered on Earth?"
"A bead with water-repelling abilities appeared, and now monsters are appearing too? Will SHIELD appear next?"
The President received the intelligence just delivered by the Director of Intelligence and felt very troubled. Why were all sorts of demons and monsters appearing?
Monsters?
Demonic creatures?
Demonic creatures like slimes in games?
Shouldn't such things be imaginary creatures from games? Why are they appearing in reality?
If monsters invade, will SHIELD appear to resist them?
The Director of Intelligence coughed at the President's wild imagination and said, "Mr. President, the United States only has intelligence agencies and the FBI. There will be no SHIELD, nor will any superheroes appear to fight any monsters... Stop! Mr. President, don't fantasize anymore!"
The President, who was always ready to fantasize, stopped himself from announcing the appearance of "imaginary creatures" and "SHIELD" to the outside world, and then sighed, "Monsters have appeared, why doesn't the United States have SHIELD to protect it?"
The Director of Intelligence said speechlessly, "Mr. President, SHIELD is a department in movies. There is no such department in the real world."
Upon hearing this, the President pointed to the documents handed over by the Director of Intelligence and said, "SHIELD is a movie, and aren't these slimes also imaginary creatures from games?"
"Even slimes have appeared in reality. Why wouldn't superheroes appear in reality? How do you know that SHIELD doesn't exist?"
The Director of Intelligence took a deep breath. This logic was very sound, and he seemed unable to refute it.
Since slimes have appeared, theoretically, there is indeed a possibility of superheroes and SHIELD appearing.
But putting aside whether they would appear or not – if superheroes and SHIELD really appeared, the Director of Intelligence felt that they would not obey the President's orders.
The superheroes in movies had their characters beautified through their experiences.
In reality, if a few people possessed superpowers, and their superpowers were enough to destroy cities, don't expect them to protect civilians – power struggles and territorial annexation would be more conceivable.
The Director of Intelligence had seen too much intelligence and too many people. He knew too well how complex human hearts could be. It was impossible to maintain one's original intentions after gaining power.
Even crossing class boundaries and entering high society could turn an honest person into someone else, let alone possessing superpowers, which essentially made them independent of normal humans.
Of course, this was assuming the superpowers reached a certain level.
If the level was not deep, falling into the control of the White House and being placed in a laboratory would be their fate.
The Director of Intelligence did not want to argue too much with the President, so he said, "Perhaps there really is SHIELD, and there are superheroes."
"But they are not superheroes we cultivated, nor is it SHIELD that we created."
"Mr. President, we should cultivate our own superheroes – starting with this matter."
When he said the last sentence, the Director of Intelligence's expression was very serious.