Inside the fortress factory.
"Warning! Warning! The prisoners held beneath the factory have escaped! All soldiers, proceed immediately to suppress them!"
Warning lights flashed red across the walls, while the communications broadcast repeatedly blared its shrill, urgent report. Guards both inside and outside the factory reacted swiftly.
"It looks like Steve has already released the captured soldiers." Kyle was still sneaking through the factory corridors. The moment he heard the warning broadcast, he knew Steve's rescue had succeeded.
It was even faster than expected! There was no time to worry about anything else!
Kyle spotted a squad of German Soldiers ahead in the corridor. He immediately abandoned stealth and pushed off with all his strength, accelerating forward.
He gripped the kukri in his left hand and clenched his right into a fist as he charged ahead at soaring speed.
"Enemy attack!" The german soldier at the front of the squad shouted in panic, pulling the trigger. A dazzling blue-white laser burst from the muzzle.
The corridor was a narrow, straight passage, so it was easy to hit a target without even aiming. Moreover, lasers were several times faster than bullets. Even someone with a Super Soldier's physique could not evade them.
Kyle's pupils contracted as the laser beam rapidly enlarged in his vision. Every hair on his body stood on end in warning.
He did not try to dodge or defend. Instead, he accelerated in what looked like a suicidal charge. Just as the laser was about to strike his chest, his right hand lashed out ahead of him—
'Sizzle!'
The energy laser, capable of vaporizing a human body outright, was forcibly reflected by Kyle's right arm!
Before the german soldier at the front could react, the laser fired from his own weapon had bounced back onto him. In the blink of an eye, his entire body, helmet, and Combat Uniform had been vaporized into mist.
"He reflected a laser with one hand..."
"Is he a monster?"
The German Soldiers looked as though they had seen a ghost. Since their production, New Energy Weapons had been high-risk firearms that meant instant death on impact. This was the first time they had seen one fail—and get reflected by someone's hand.
"Anyone blocking my way, die!"
Kyle did not care whether the enemy had already lost their will to fight. To him now, it made no real difference whether the enemy squad fought back, fled for their lives, or stood frozen in place as they were now...
Like a cheetah plunging into a pack of rabbits, Kyle charged into the enemy formation and began harvesting lives. The small Nepalese kukri was like the scythe of the Goddess of Death, every slash and thrust taking another soldier's life.
Strength far beyond that of an ordinary person, combined with the sharp kukri, made the enemy's Combat Uniforms and bodies as fragile as paper. Crimson blood splattered across the corridor, dyeing it red.
"Get out of my way!" Kyle muttered coldly, smashing the last soldier away with an elbow strike. The bandages and sleeve on his right arm had been completely vaporized by the laser, revealing the Vibranium Bracer beneath with its cold metallic sheen.
Vibranium, also known as sound-absorbing steel. Not only was it one of the hardest materials in the Marvel universe, it could also absorb heat, energy, and kinetic force!
With the Vibranium Bracer, the laser that struck Kyle's right hand lost its destructive power, then rebounded when he swung his arm.
After forcefully wiping out the squad of German Soldiers, Kyle did not waste another second and sprinted toward the factory's central control room.
He did not notice that the scene of him slaughtering the enemy squad had been clearly transmitted through a camera in the corner near the ceiling.
At that moment, inside the factory's central control room.
Red Skull, disguised as a middle-aged officer, stared at the dozen or so surveillance screens before him. A trace of fear appeared on his false face.
"Two Super Soldiers have infiltrated the factory?"
He said that because, on one surveillance screen showing the factory's underground area, Steve, dressed in a blue-and-white striped bodysuit, was quickly taking down two soldiers.
On another screen, Kyle had just charged into a German squad, leaving behind seven mangled corpses as he continued approaching this place.
"The first one is manageable, but why is the second one so strong..." Red Skull could hardly believe it. He knew he could not treat a German squad armed with New Energy Weapons as if they were nothing, the way Kyle had.
A Super Soldier physique pushed to its limits, superb close-combat skill, and decisive killing intent—he was practically a war machine.
They were both Super Soldiers, so how could the gap in strength be this enormous?
Although the Super Soldier serum he had injected was only the original unfinished version, and it had left him with the horrifying drawback of a red skull-like face, the difference in strength should not have been this great.
Red Skull did not dwell on it. After calming down, he activated every self-destruct switch in the factory. The old doctor behind him turned pale and asked in shock, "What are you doing?!"
Red Skull indifferently pointed at one of the surveillance screens, where Kyle could be seen swiftly passing through the camera's view. "He can't be stopped. Forget the soldiers here—even I may not be able to stop him."
"Retreat immediately!" Red Skull said as he hurried to the wall of the control room. After opening a hidden compartment, a perfectly square cube radiating blue light was revealed.
The Tesseract! Forget this factory—even ten factories would not be worth one ten-thousandth of the object before him.
"It should be up ahead!" Kyle accelerated around the corner. Before him was a straight corridor, with the central control room in the middle.
Just then, a German officer emerged from the central control room carrying a bag, followed by an old doctor. The two were about to leave.
"Trying to run? Leave the Tesseract behind!" Kyle snorted coldly and charged toward them.
"Stop him!" Red Skull had no intention of fighting. He shot the doctor a fierce glare, then retreated toward the end of the corridor with the bag.
"Damn it."
The old doctor's face turned deathly pale. Knowing he had been abandoned, his legs gave out, and he collapsed in front of the doorway.
"I told you, don't even think about running!" Kyle pursued him coldly. He was certain that the bag in the officer's hand most likely contained the Tesseract.
"Useless trash." Red Skull glanced back at the old doctor, but he had never intended to rely on an old man to hold back a decisive, bloodthirsty Super Soldier.
"Try this."
At some point, Red Skull had produced a New Energy cube in his hand and hurled it forcefully at Kyle.
"Gem Energy?" Kyle stared in surprise at the Energy cube flying toward him. This was the raw material used to make Energy Magazines, the blue-quality item he had obtained from the large base before.
The thing's energy state was stable. Could it actually be used directly as a weapon?
Kyle got his answer in the next instant. Red Skull pulled out a pistol, aimed at the Energy cube still in midair, and pulled the trigger.
"This bastard is fucking insane!" Kyle roared. He stepped forward at full speed, grabbed the old doctor from the corridor floor, and held him in front of himself like a human shield.
At the same time, the bullet struck the Energy cube.
The next instant, even the air seemed to freeze—
'Boom!!!'
The explosion of the Energy cube surged outward like a tidal wave, sweeping through everything inch by inch and annihilating all it touched!
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