Tunnel Chase

Chapter 46: Chase in the Tunnel

"Here comes Kyle—"

This phrase was often quoted by the German people to terrify children, serving as a form of admonishment.

In the lobby on the second floor of the base, the Hydra armed guards watched Kyle burst in through the window, their scalps tingling and their breaths catching in their throats.

They weren't afraid of dying in battle, but they were afraid of being slaughtered like pigs or cabbages.

If the enemy had only been Steve, the guards would have been confident in subduing him with their numbers. But with the addition of the 'demon' Kyle, the situation was entirely different.

Red Skull, who understood Kyle's personal strength more clearly from the base's main hall, didn't hesitate for a moment when he saw Kyle's figure appear. He turned and decisively dashed towards the base's underground passage.

"Trying to run again?" Kyle entered the hall, his gaze first falling on Steve, confirming his safety, before locking onto Red Skull's location.

Seeing Red Skull trying to escape, Kyle snorted coldly, drawing his sword and accelerating rapidly towards him.

At this moment, Steve no longer bothered with pretense. He burst into action, knocking out the two guards restraining him and raising his shield with his right hand, also looking coldly at Red Skull.

Red Skull clearly felt a chill down his neck. While desperately accelerating his escape, he roared menacingly, "All personnel, stop them!"

"Yes!" The armed guards within the base responded in unison, frantically forming a human barricade and opening fire.

"Stop me?" Kyle sneered. With a swift movement of his sword, he severed the arms of the two guards blocking his path, their energy guns falling as crimson blood splattered on the polished floor.

As Kyle attempted to continue his pursuit without slowing down, the remaining armed guards fearlessly surged forward again, forcing him to divide his attention to deal with the human obstacles in his way.

It had to be said that these Hydra personnel were thoroughly brainwashed. Knowing it was a dead end, the armed guards still held their ground as cannon fodder, firing to intercept Kyle and Steve's pursuit of Red Skull.

Ching—

Kyle swiftly raised his right hand, blocking and deflecting a laser beam. The sodium-carbon steel sword in his left hand was stained with blood from the hilt down, dripping continuously.

He indifferently looked towards the corner at the end of the second-floor hall. Red Skull's figure had already disappeared around the corner, about to vanish completely.

"Don't even think about running!" Kyle gritted his teeth, stomped on the chest of the guard in front of him, and leaped forward. While in mid-air, he hurled his sword with his left hand!

Whoosh!

The sodium-carbon steel sword, like a projectile, tore through the air with a sharp, piercing sound, charging towards Red Skull's back.

"Come here!" Just as he was about to be hit by the sodium-carbon steel sword, Red Skull, as if sensing it, grabbed a passing guard and used him as a shield behind him.

Squelch—

The guard's body was as fragile as paper. His protective suit and chest were easily pierced by the sword tip, which protruded from his back, splattering warm blood all over Red Skull.

"Hmph, Major Kyle, I'll remember..." Red Skull coldly tossed the guard's corpse to the ground, about to utter a taunting remark. However, he noticed something unusual about his arm and quickly looked down.

The sword had indeed pierced the guard's body and grazed his left arm, leaving a thin, bleeding wound.

"It's just a superficial wound. How could this happen with my extraordinary physique?" Red Skull muttered in disbelief, casting a suspicious glance at the single-handed sword embedded in the guard's corpse. He clutched his wound with his other hand, not daring to linger, and disappeared into the corner passage.

"So close, did he get away again?" Kyle raised an eyebrow. Just then, the deafening sound of charging soldiers echoed from outside the base.

It was thousands of American soldiers led by Fury, launching a massive encirclement of the Hydra organization's base!

Clang!

Through the glass windows on the second floor of the base, several agile American soldiers rappelled in, engaging the armed guards in the hall and significantly easing the pressure on Kyle.

"Well done. Steve, you and the soldiers clean up the Hydra guards here. I'm going after Red Skull!"

As soon as Kyle finished speaking, he swiftly moved past the chaotic battle in the hall, pulled his sword from the corpse at the corner, and accelerated into the underground passage.

"Kyle!" Steve called out, smashing a guard away with his shield, and resolutely followed Kyle's retreating figure.

In the dimly lit tunnels beneath the base.

Red Skull in front, Kyle in the middle, and Steve at the rear. None of them could see each other, but they all tacitly increased their speed in pursuit.

"With the Venom suit's enhancement, not only my strength but also my speed is slightly faster than a perfect Super Soldier," Kyle thought to himself, confident he could catch the injured Red Skull.

And he had another way to accelerate.

Following the faint bloodstains on the ground, Kyle transformed into a wisp of black mist within the dimly lit tunnel, his speed increasing by another level!

[Stealth] Ability Card: In Nightcrawler mode, movement speed is further increased!

"Let's see how you run this time!" Kyle, like a bloodthirsty leopard, chased forward at full speed, his body creating a whistling wind pressure.

In a short time, at the slightly curved section of the tunnel ahead, Red Skull's back appeared in Kyle's indifferent crimson eyes. The distance between them was less than ten meters.

Within ten meters of another person, combined with the lighting conditions, Kyle's stealth mode was forced to deactivate, his figure fully exposed in the tunnel.

"How is his speed so fast?!" At the same time, Red Skull also discovered Kyle chasing behind him, feeling a prickle of fear for the first time in his life.

He was also a Super Soldier, so why was there such a huge difference? What was the reason?

Red Skull's face contorted with grief and indignation. Forced into the position of prey, he could only continue to flee, but the distance between him and Kyle behind him was constantly decreasing.

"Schmidt, why don't we stop for a drink and chat about life?" Kyle taunted with malicious humor, gradually destroying Red Skull's psychological defenses.

Red Skull remained silent, wishing his parents hadn't given him an extra leg, and desperately continued his life-saving escape.

"If you don't stop, then I'll have to come over," Kyle said, pushing himself to accelerate again regardless of stamina consumption, sword in hand, charging towards Red Skull's back.

With only five meters left, an armed guard suddenly emerged from a side intersection of the tunnel, blocking Red Skull. The weapon he carried was aimed at the approaching Kyle.

Unlike the other energy weapons with their blue glow, this was a massive gun nozzle, connected to a gasoline tank on the guard's back.

A flamethrower?

As soon as Kyle identified the guard's weapon, he immediately jammed his single-handed sword into the tunnel wall to stabilize himself and rolled backward.

The next moment, the flamethrower spewed a five-meter-long pillar of flame, almost sealing off the narrow tunnel and causing the air temperature to soar.