Feeling Fear

Not all personnel operating the Helicarrier are special agents; there are also technicians, such as Klein, the marginal character in Captain America 2 who dared to defy Crossbones. Their mental fortitude is not as resolute as that of professional special agents.

Upon hearing Wei Xiuming's suggestion, some of the female staff members began to sob quietly. They shouldn't have ended up like this; they should have been living a better life. They regretted taking salaries from both Hydra and S.H.I.E.L.D.., as they were about to die and still had money to spend.

If I had known this would happen, I would have emptied my wallet, bought scar-removing lotion from Conglomerate B, filled the entire bathtub, and then soaked in it for a full-body beauty treatment. That lotion is said to remove scars, but it is also very effective in removing scars, reducing wrinkles, and shrinking skin. However, it is quite expensive, and even with two incomes, they can only afford to buy one bottle and use it sparingly.

Some male staff members tried their best not to show their fear, but their trembling legs and arms betrayed them; their courage was not enough to support their composure like Nick Fury.

Nick Fury stated that he had confidence in Wei Xiuming and ordered the Helicarrier to proceed at top speed.

Even without air resistance, the speed of the Helicarrier is not fast. After all, it is only a mobile command and control base, not a combat unit, and relative mobility is sufficient.

The commander on the Chitauri mothership was surprised to see that the Helicarrier was not using space jump to escape, but instead charging towards them.

There's a ship-to-ship particle cannon charging up here; is this some kind of suicide attempt?

"How much power has the naval gun reached?"

"Seventy-five percent," the crew member in charge of operating the anti-ship particle cannon responded.

"That's enough, fire!"

With the commander's order, an unparalleled beam of energy shot from the muzzle of the mothership's main cannon, heading straight for the Helicarrier and striking it instantly.

But the next second, everyone's jaws dropped in astonishment. The warship's main cannons blasted at the Black Mist surrounding the Helicarrier and vanished instantly, as if the enormous energy capable of destroying a city was just a projection.

Standing at the bow of the Helicarrier, Wei Xiuming could clearly see that the moment the massive particle cannon energy beam came into contact with the Black Mist, it was like water crashing against a giant rock, instantly shattering into pieces and spreading out in streams, separated by all the Black Mist.

The overwhelming torrent of energy not only failed to achieve its purpose, but actually made the Black Mist even more dangerous.

These Black Mist are essentially independent spaces segmented and refined by the energy of the Space Stone. The energy of the ship's cannons was evenly filled into this independent space, instantly causing its entropy to surge to a dangerous level.

Once this independent space is connected to the outside world, transforming from an isolated system into an open system, the internal energy will be transferred to the outside world in the form of heat, and all of this is in Wei Xiuming's hands.

Upon seeing this, the Chitauri commander on the mothership immediately ordered, "Cease fire! Order the entire force to retreat!"

The intelligence from the other side is wrong. This is not an Earth spaceship at all, but a warship from a higher-level civilization. Even the energy shield of our own mothership cannot so easily block the main gun's bombardment, let alone a civilization that cannot even leave its own planet.

As for the source of the intelligence, the Chitauri commander didn't even dare to curse Thanos in his heart.

But it was too late. The Helicarrier had already approached the danger zone. The commander hurriedly ordered the Leviathan and the scattered Chitauri soldiers to block it, creating an opportunity for the carrier to escape.

Humagears... cyborg soldiers and Leviathan were created to be used as tools, essentially cannon fodder; without thought, that's their only value.

However, the Leviathan couldn't stop the Helicarrier for even a second. Energy weapons had already achieved considerable success, so how could Wei Xiuming not apply them to the Helicarrier? Apart from close-in defense missiles and necessary physical ammunition weapons, all of the Helicarrier's close-in defense guns were energy weapons.

Using the bullets fired from these energy weapons as a trigger, Wei Xiuming released the energy stored in the Black Mist. In an instant, the Helicarrier seemed to transform into a hedgehog covered in high-energy spikes, shooting down all the Leviathan and stragglers within a certain spatial range. Their corpses drifted in unknown directions due to inertia, either turning into cosmic dust or being captured by the gravity of planets.

Then, with no longer any barrier between the Helicarrier and the Chitauri Mothership, they collided.

The first challenge is the competition between the Black Mist and the energy shield.

However, it was clear that Wei Xiuming's spatial technology, which he had deciphered from the Tesseract, was superior. The energy shield was breached instantly, and the spatial Black Mist "bite" off a piece of the energy shield, disrupting its energy flow and causing the entire energy shield system to malfunction.

Then, the Helicarrier shrouded in Black Mist crashed directly into the Chitauri Mothership. The energy accumulated in the Black Mist was its drill bit. The spaceship alloy, which was many times stronger than the best alloy on Earth (except Vibranium), was like rotten wood. In just a few breaths, the Helicarrier emerged from the other side of the Chitauri Mothership.

In the pitch-black space of space, the Chitauri Mothership suddenly exploded, bursting into bloom like fireworks.

Having lost the mothership's signal, the Leviathan and the semi-mechanized Chitauri soldiers malfunctioned, lost power, and floated aimlessly before being swallowed up by the shockwave from the mothership's explosion or pushed into the depths of space.

However, under the cover of the explosion's flames, several small escape ships fled in the direction away from the portal and the Helicarrier. Those who were clearly high-ranking Chitauri abandoned the mothership and other crew members when they saw that things were not going well and escaped.

"Aren't we going to nip it in the bud?"

Although he only has one eye, Nick Fury's eyesight is much sharper than others, and he spotted the "little bugs" while everyone else was cheering.

"No, we need them to publicize Earth's military might and convey the fear they feel to more alien forces... Although we took a shortcut in this battle, advanced space technology does not represent Earth's overall level."

Wei Xiuming teleported back into the mothership's cabin, deactivated his Space Armor, and was greeted by cheering and embracing crowds. All he could hear were the relief of surviving a catastrophe and the triumphs over an impossible enemy.

"Now, it's time to go back and solve the Tesseract problem." Wei Xiuming looked at Nick Fury, who had a smile on his face, and then pointed to the portal on the monitor; the other side was Earth.

Composing himself, Nick Fury gave the order, "Turn around and head back!"