Eliminating the Hydra Branch

"Creator, we can't find this person. The last satellite image showed him leaving the port on a cargo ship carrying drugs."

Sharon stared at the location where he was last seen, cold sweat trickling down her forehead.

Recently, she had failed to assist Lin Feng twice in a row, which made her fear the thing inside her that controlled her, afraid that Lin Feng would devour her mind if he became unhappy.

"Forget it if you can't find him. I'll go after the Hydra here. They seem to have found his location."

Lin Feng looked at the memories in his head. The Hydra agents who were in contact with these mutants vaguely revealed in their conversations that they had also discovered Li Fei's whereabouts.

After hanging up the phone, Lin Feng immediately set off to find the location of these Hydra agents.

Not long after he left, the Malaysian police arrived. They looked at the road that seemed to have been hit by a bomb and couldn't figure out what kind of force had turned it into this. Could it be that Iron Man had flown over from America?

In a dimly lit port, the air thick with the salty smell of the sea, several white-skinned Westerners were silently tidying up a fishing boat.

Two of them carried a still-warm corpse and threw it into the pitch-black water.

As the two turned around, they saw Lin Feng standing there, having appeared out of nowhere.

He gave them a wicked smile, looking at them strangely.

"Who are you?!"

Lin Feng's appearance was like a ghost, and even though these two had undergone special training, it startled them.

They frantically pulled out the pistols hidden in their waists and raised them to aim at Lin Feng.

But in the blink of an eye, the ghostly figure disappeared as if it were a dream.

"Did you see that? Was there someone here just now?"

One of them felt his heart pounding, and he asked his companion with a trembling voice.

"I saw it. You saw it too, right?"

Just as the two were confirming whether what they had just seen was real, a scream suddenly came from the fishing boat they had seized.

They quickly turned around and returned to the fishing boat, looking at the empty vessel.

One of their companions who had been waiting for them there had disappeared.

A small patch of blood remaining on the boat seemed to tell what had just happened.

This extremely terrifying scene was just like the horror movies they watched in their spare time.

In those movies, the monsters hunted humans in such a silent and stealthy way.

The two agents felt an increasing sense of dread in their hearts. They unconsciously tightened their grip on their guns, their fingers turning pale.

"We... should we... leave here..."

One of them looked around nervously like a thief, and he said with a trembling voice.

"I agree."

His companion blurted out without thinking. The two of them wished they had the ability to teleport so they could leave the port immediately.

The gentle sea breeze, along with the surging waves, lapped against the port. The cold, damp air, like a cold-blooded animal without body temperature, crept into the two men's necks, giving them goosebumps all over.

The two moved their feet, observing their surroundings back-to-back.

After seeing nothing, they immediately and tacitly separated and ran in two different directions.

But just as one of them ran a few steps, an Asian man wearing a black and gold dragon-patterned robe suddenly walked out of the shadows ahead.

The dim yellow lights of the port shone on the Asian man's slightly pale skin, giving him an eerie and strange aura.

At the first sight of this Asian man, the agent's mind, combined with the pool of blood left on the boat, somehow thought of a Vampire.

"No!!! Don't suck my blood!!"

He immediately stopped, slipped, and fell to the ground.

The agent burst into tears, crying and retreating backward.

A stream of heat even flowed from the middle of his crotch.

The Hydra agent who ran in the other direction heard the cries behind him, and his heart tightened, and he quickened his pace.

That agent had not experienced supernatural events and did not understand the truth of the matter.

That's why he became so undignified, scared like a child.

But he had experienced it, so he knew that his strength was not enough to be hostile to this kind of superhuman.

He understood that the only thing he could do now was to escape from this port and report the information about this superhuman to the organization.

"Ah!!!!"

After a shrill scream, there was no sound behind him.

This agent understood that his companion was gone, and he was probably next.

He quickly took out a small smoke bomb from his waist, pulled the pin, and threw it on the ground.

Chh!

Grayish-white, choking mist hissed out continuously, quickly enveloping the agent and the surrounding few meters.

Lin Feng stood on the arm of a crane, looking down at the Hydra agent below while processing the memories of the two agents he had just devoured.

Hydra truly lived up to its reputation: cut off one head, and two more shall grow.

These people had only been in Malaysia for two or three days, yet they had already recruited dozens of new members, using a rudimentary but effective brainwashing technique to turn them into loyal, fresh blood for Hydra.

Their business acumen was even more impressive than the pyramid schemes he had seen before.

"So, Hong Kong."

Suddenly, Lin Feng's eyes lit up. In the memory of the person he had just devoured, there was information about Li Fei's whereabouts.

On the night of the gas leak, Li Fei had boarded the smuggling ship and, due to his physical transformation, was thrown into the sea, eventually drifting to Hong Kong.

These Hydra agents had searched all the recent ships in the port and found the people on that smuggling ship, extracting the information through brutal interrogation.

Now that he knew Li Fei's location, Lin Feng couldn't stay in Malaysia any longer. He needed to rush to Hong Kong.

Meanwhile, the agent who had thought he had escaped under the cover of the smoke grenade didn't even have time to rejoice before feeling a poof sound in his chest.

A bloody hand pierced through his chest, clutching a still-beating heart.

Then, the agent felt a great force tearing at his body, along with a gnawing at his flesh.

His consciousness faded into darkness within a few breaths.

Lin Feng devoured the heart in his hand with a tentacle, shook off the sticky residue from his palm, and jumped away from the scene.

Several hours later, Lin Feng, carrying two canisters, sailed into the dark sea on the small boat stolen from the Hydra agents, starting the engine.

"Sharon, can you locate my position? Hello? Sharon?!"

Lin Feng realized he had been too careless, rushing off to chase after Li Fei.

He had overlooked the fact that he would get lost at sea at night without satellite navigation.

He didn't know what was wrong with the phone Tony had given him. Perhaps Lin Feng was in an extremely remote area, but the phone had no signal at all.

"Flying would probably be even more disorienting here."

Lin Feng looked at Pulse Vision and thermal vision. Even when he expanded his field of vision to over ten kilometers, he couldn't find an island.

All he could see was the churning, bottomless black seawater.

For a moment, Lin Feng was at a loss. He looked at the phone with no signal and sighed deeply.

"Might as well think about what to do next. Technology, subordinates, knowledge... the more I devour, the more these people seem to learn the same things. I should shift my focus."

Lin Feng lay on the cold wooden boat, looking at the starry sky that was usually obscured by city lights. He felt a rare sense of peace.

And so, Lin Feng spent the entire night on the boat, watching the stars until daybreak.

As a beautiful glow rose in the east, Lin Feng finally found his bearings.

Following the map in his memory, he steered the boat north.

After about an hour, Lin Feng finally saw the familiar sight of land.

"Finally,"

Lin Feng looked at the coastline and stood up excitedly.

He had spent the night feeling like an eternity, extremely uncomfortable.

"Right, now that I can see land, there should be a signal in this area."

Lin Feng took out his phone, only to find, to his dismay, that it was dead.

"Great."

Stuffing the phone back into his pocket, Lin Feng looked at the nearby land, hoisted the two canisters onto his shoulders, and stomped his foot.

The small fishing boat was suddenly forced almost completely underwater by the force, and a huge wave erupted.

Lin Feng burst out of the rising seawater, stepping on cloud-like mist, and flew towards the land through the air.

When the blue seawater below turned into high-rise buildings, Lin Feng found a rooftop and quietly landed.

"This building... feels strange."

After Lin Feng landed, his Pulse Vision suddenly gave him strange feedback.

In this square apartment building, one of the rooms appeared gray-black in Pulse Vision, unlike the white color of human bodies.

This color was very obvious in the blood-red Pulse Vision, like a black dot on white paper.

"Let's go see what's going on, and maybe find something to charge my phone."

Lin Feng carried the canisters and took the elevator down from the top floor, following the floor indicated by his Pulse Vision, until he reached the fourteenth floor.

Ding!

As the elevator doors slowly opened, he saw that there were many people gathered in the hallway.

They weren't waiting for the elevator, nor were they curious about Lin Feng.

Even Lin Feng's appearance went unnoticed; everyone was crowded around the entrance of an apartment, craning their necks like geese to peer inside.

Seeing this, Lin Feng curiously joined the crowd, stretching his neck to see what was happening.

The residents of the apartments were all intently watching the apartment in question, and no one noticed Lin Feng, a stranger who had appeared from nowhere.

Inside the apartment, everything was covered in white cloths, and a middle-aged man in casual gray clothes was lying face down on one of them, looking pained.

He slowly pushed himself up, violently vomiting mouthful after mouthful of blood, the blood a dark, dull black.

The middle-aged man vomited enough blood to fill a large soda bottle. The black blood even emitted a foul odor, causing the residents gathered at the door to cover their mouths and noses and quickly back away.

After vomiting, the middle-aged man reached out a trembling hand to pick up the thin-rimmed glasses that had fallen in front of him and struggled to put them on.

Lin Feng frowned. In his Pulse Vision, the white light emanating from the middle-aged man vomiting black blood was pitifully weak, as if it were about to go out at any moment.

Across from the man vomiting black blood, a man in a bathrobe and shorts, wearing round glasses, was observing the situation with a frown.

At this moment, an old woman in a red dress walked in. She covered her nose and looked at the man vomiting blood.

"It's alright, it's alright."

The old woman comforted the man vomiting blood in a gentle voice, while the man in the bathrobe and glasses glanced at the blood on the white cloth with some disgust and walked to the door as if taking a stroll.

The man in the bathrobe with round glasses first looked curiously at Lin Feng in the crowd, his eyes lingering on the jars on his shoulder for a moment, then turned his gaze to a man in a dark blue suit.

The man gave a slightly stiff smile. The bathrobe-clad man withdrew his gaze and left with a lazy gait.

"Alright, alright, everyone go back and cook."

The old woman in the house came out at this time, using her gentle tone to shoo everyone away, more like reminding children to go home for dinner than actually shooing them.

Lin Feng stood at the door. In his Pulse Vision, a strange black-gray aura emanated from the center of the room, under the fan, as if it were some unknown entity.

Just a glance at this aura gave Lin Feng an unspeakable sense of terror, making him feel a chill down his spine.

After everyone had dispersed, Lin Feng curiously peeked into the house and saw the clothes hanging on the wall in the room where the man had vomited blood.

"Is that... a Qing Dynasty official's robe? Or a zombie outfit?"

Lin Feng muttered to himself, looking at the two pieces of clothing hanging on the wall with some curiosity.

"What are you looking at?"

The middle-aged man who had vomited blood looked at Lin Feng with a hoarse voice, his bloodshot eyes full of despair.

Lin Feng glanced at him and turned to leave.

This house was strange, and even the apartment building had an indescribable atmosphere.

If Lin Feng had to describe it, it would be eerie.

An apartment building that was clearly inhabited by many people gave Lin Feng the feeling of lying in a coffin.

Lin Feng wandered around the apartment building for a day, exploring every corridor.

He found that not only was the building strange in Pulse Vision, but even in thermal vision, it was filled with a cold, blue hue.

Only the residents of the apartments were fiery red human figures.

In the evening, Lin Feng took the elevator to the first floor and went to a fried rice shop.

"Boss, do you have a charging cable?"

"Yeah, wait a moment."

The owner of the fried rice shop spoke Cantonese. He looked up at Lin Feng and a flash of surprise crossed his eyes when he saw him carrying two heavy jars.

Then he put down the frying pan, wiped his hands on his apron, and took out a charging cable from behind.

"Thanks, boss."

Lin Feng took the charging cable and plugged it into his phone to test it. It was the right model.

"Boss, I'll have a fried rice."

He went to a small table and put the jars beside him.

The heavy jars made two duangduang sounds. Lin Feng plugged in his phone and, watching the screen turn back on, quickly contacted Sharon.

"Sharon, Li Fei should be in the dressing room of an Acrobatic Troupe in Hong Kong right now. Check it out."

Sharon didn't seem to be at S.H.I.E.L.D.. Lin Feng looked at the scenery behind her, the somewhat cloying city night scene looking a little familiar.

"Creator, I've arrived in Hong Kong. I'll go find this Li Fei for you right away."

Sharon's reply surprised Lin Feng. He didn't expect the woman to be so attentive, actually running to Hong Kong. He didn't know what kind of plane she took to get here overnight.

Generally speaking, it would take at least a day and a night.

"That's good. Use your government status to find this Li Fei. Don't kill him. I have a use for him. I need to deal with a new situation here."

After Lin Feng arranged things, he hung up the phone.

Now that Sharon had come to Hong Kong, he could stay here for the time being.

The situation here made him somewhat curious. He had never seen that strange black-gray aura before, and Lin Feng wanted to see what was going on.