"Yukio, protect Mariko here. I'm going upstairs to take a look."
Seeing Wolverine and Deathstrike temporarily suppressing Shingen Yashida together, Hawking gave Yukio an order, then flew upward toward the top floor of the research building.
He sensed Viper's ki moving away, as if she were trying to escape.
In his view, the mutant Viper still had some value.
For one thing, the poison she concocted was truly something else. Combined with that Spider Metal, it could actually suppress Wolverine's regenerative abilities.
For another, helping Shingen Yashida create such a suit of Adamantium armor made her a top-tier scientist by any measure.
The equipment keeping Shingen Yashida alive had also come from her hands.
He happened to be short on this sort of top scientist. Capturing her alive and having her work with Reed on breakthroughs in Gravity Technology would be good too.
"I didn't expect this guy to be the one who came. Looks like I need to withdraw immediately."
At that moment, on the top floor of the research building, Viper put on a specially made flight suit and, without hesitation, leaped from the rooftop.
She had witnessed through binoculars the scene of Hawking raising a hand, wiping out all of Shingen Yashida's Subordinates, and turning the entire village into a massive stone sphere.
Her original mission had been to help Shingen Yashida obtain Wolverine's abilities, so that he could bring his entire family into Hydra.
Yet she had not expected such an accident. She had not imagined that the Hero Alliance valued Wolverine so highly that they would send someone to help so quickly.
If anyone else had come, she felt that Shingen Yashida's swordsmanship, combined with his Adamantium armor, would have given him more than enough strength to fight. Besides, he had her assistance.
But after