Chinese Martial Arts School in Brooklyn

During this time, Chen Mo used the base's equipment to test his various abilities. After the burst of potential during the previous crash, his physical capabilities had improved again, nearing the limits of human potential.

He could lift 500 kilograms, run 100 meters in 9.1 seconds, and maintain that speed for a long time. His short-burst top speed could reach 19 meters per second. From a standing start, he could jump three meters high and six meters far. His bone strength and recovery speed were four times that of an ordinary person.

In terms of reaction speed, Chen Mo could even see the trajectory of bullets. Although his body still could not completely dodge bullets, he could avoid vital areas.

Although Chen Mo's abilities had not exceeded human limits, having every attribute reach the human limit resulted in astonishing overall strength. With both immense power and explosive speed, Chen Mo's burst force far exceeded imagination. His extraordinarily strong bones and body also ensured that he could go all out without worrying that his body would fail to withstand it.

With Chen Mo's current strength, he was only slightly weaker than Captain America after Serum Enhancement. Logically speaking, that should have been enough to handle an ordinary plane crash. In the movie, Captain America had survived after crashing his plane into the Arctic glacier.

But Chen Mo was still far from satisfied. That crash in the movie had been a sliding emergency landing on snow, and the plane's body had remained largely intact. The situation Chen Mo had to face was far more dangerous. The plane would be torn apart by seawater, completely disintegrating while still smashing and rolling at high speed across the ocean. Chen Mo needed greater strength to ensure that he could survive under even harsher conditions.

That was why the Super Soldier Serum was what Chen Mo needed most right now.

According to the original plot, HYDRA's agent planted among the upper ranks of the United States had been intercepted by Captain America, who had just completed his enhancement, while fleeing with the serum. The operation failed, and the serum could not be brought back. After the inventor of the serum, Dr. Abraham Erskine, was killed, it could no longer be manufactured. Captain America became the only Super Soldier.

After this period of organizational restructuring and personnel transfers, HYDRA had basically come under Chen Mo's control. Its various construction projects and research efforts had also gotten on track.

In order to obtain the crucial Super Soldier Serum, and for the sake of his longer-term plans, Chen Mo decided to act personally.

However, he would not be gone for only a short time this trip. To prevent anything unexpected from happening within HYDRA, Chen Mo spent several more months tightening his control over it. Many restless people were quietly dealt with, while those with wavering loyalties were sent to bases across Europe that were being prepared for abandonment. Of course, no one but Chen Mo knew that these bases scattered throughout Europe would be abandoned.

Those who remained in Norway were all fanatically loyal followers of Red Skull. When Chen Mo tested his own abilities, the guarding soldiers had personally witnessed his superhuman abilities. Chen Mo could feel that afterward, the looks in the HYDRA soldiers' eyes had become even more fervent. Sometimes, Chen Mo even had the absurd feeling that he was a god.

At this point, after Chen Mo's purge and reorganization, HYDRA was completely in his grasp. HYDRA's entire power was truly at Chen Mo's disposal.

Chen Mo had not been idle during this time either. There were many weapons and firearms in the HYDRA base, and Chen Mo used his spare time to practice his shooting properly. He trained with pistols, assault rifles, and sniper rifles. With Chen Mo's learning ability, perception, and control, his marksmanship improved at an astonishing pace.

After practicing for a while, he quickly mastered them all, and his shooting skills were no weaker than those of the military's sharpshooters.

Chen Mo focused on practicing with pistols. In close-range combat and complicated situations, as well as in the infiltration attacks Chen Mo favored most, pistols were more flexible and practical. With his storage space, changing magazines took only an instant, giving him nearly unlimited sustained firepower.

The M1911 pistol Chen Mo had obtained from the New York gangs fit his hand perfectly. It was powerful and reliable. With Chen Mo's marksmanship, he could accurately hit the vital points of moving targets within its effective range of 50 meters.

Thus, Chen Mo's storage space gained a pile of firearms and military supplies in addition to Throwing Knives.

Chen Mo had not neglected his Throwing Knives either. For silent assassinations, Throwing Knives were far more useful than pistols. And it was not limited to Throwing Knives. Knives, forks, chopsticks, fountain pens, coins, and even branches could become deadly weapons in Chen Mo's hands.

As his strength increased, his original Throwing Knives had become somewhat too light for him. After his storage space expanded, he no longer needed to consider size constraints. Chen Mo had people make a batch of new Throwing Knives from special alloy, each 25 centimeters long, 3 centimeters wide, and 5 millimeters thick, weighing 200 grams. Whether thrown or used as daggers, they felt better in his hand than the old Throwing Knives and were far more powerful. Satisfied with the new Throwing Knives, Chen Mo had them make another hundred or so and stored them in his space along with the firearms.

Chen Mo also had people investigate the longsword from the stone coffin. After consulting a large amount of historical material and conducting comparative research, the Intelligence Department concluded that this sword was very likely the legendary sword of King Arthur, the King's Sword. Its blade could cut through iron as if it were mud, so it was also known as the Steel-Cutting Sword. It was a symbol of heroic power, representing dominion and destruction.

Legend had it that King Arthur's Sword in the Stone broke in battle. Later, with the help of the mage Merlin, he obtained this treasured sword from the Lady of the Lake.

Before King Arthur died, he ordered Bedivere, one of the Knights of the Round Table, to throw the sword into the lake. Unwilling to part with it, Bedivere lied and claimed that he had thrown it away. Only after King Arthur gave the order a third time did he report that he had thrown it into the lake. King Arthur then closed his eyes and died.

In terms of style, patterns, and characteristics, this sword closely matched the descriptions in historical records. It was very possible that Bedivere had not thrown it into the lake after all, or that someone had later retrieved it from the lake. In the end, it had passed into the hands of the Norwegian Royal Family.

Now, this legendary King's Sword had fallen into Chen Mo's hands. It had to be said that the sword truly deserved its reputation as a legendary holy sword. Calling it capable of cutting through iron as if it were mud was no exaggeration. A steel pillar as thick as a thigh was easily cut in two with a single swing from Chen Mo, while the blade remained completely undamaged. It was fully worthy of the name Steel-Cutting Sword.

Dr. Zola had studied its material. It was not composed of any element currently found on Earth. It was very likely formed from a meteorite that had fallen into the lake and was retrieved and forged by Merlin.

This meteorite material possessed extremely powerful properties. The sword's hardness, toughness, and sharpness were all exceptionally high, far surpassing every modern alloy. Chen Mo guessed that it was likely a special metal similar to Vibranium and Adamantium, perhaps even stronger.

In short, Chen Mo greatly liked this unexpected King's Sword. It could cut through iron as if it were mud and felt very natural in his hand. Besides his Throwing Knives, his arsenal now had another cold weapon.

September 1942

Brooklyn, New York

Early that morning, pedestrians on the street suddenly noticed that a Chinese martial arts school had appeared in one of the roadside buildings at some point.

New York's Chinatown was in Manhattan, and nearly all Chinese martial arts schools were located there. This newly opened martial arts school in Brooklyn drew plenty of attention—some curious, some puzzled, and some malicious and greedy.

It was a large, detached three-story building near the street, worth a considerable sum. Now, the entire building had been converted into a martial arts school, showing just how wealthy its owner was. And in Brooklyn, a Chinese man with substantial wealth was undoubtedly seen as easy prey by many people.

Why did Chinese people all prefer to stay in Chinatown? Was it not because Americans discriminated against and suppressed Chinese people? In Brooklyn, the worst neighborhood in New York in terms of public safety, the situation would naturally be even more severe. Many people had already set their sights on this place in secret.

At that moment, inside the martial arts school, Chen Mo was sparring in the Training Room with several burly men dressed in worn cloth jackets.

Their techniques were clearly much stronger than Chen Mo's, yet Chen Mo had been pressing them the entire time. The disparity in strength made it impossible for them to fully display their skills.

After Chen Mo blocked a punch aimed at his abdomen, he knocked the man to the ground with a punch before he could retreat.

At that moment, no one in the room besides Chen Mo could still stand.