New York's streets had long since ceased to be as bustling as usual tonight.
Gunfire, explosions, gangs taking advantage of the chaos to seize territory, agents battling agents, the military rushing in anxiously, and the NYPD running around like ants on a hot pan.
Countless forces had turned what was once an economic center into Call of Duty.
And on those empty yet perilous streets, a battered Grand Cherokee riddled with bullet holes was speeding along desperately.
Inside the car, Jessica cursed as she wrenched the steering wheel.
As the car took a turn, her curses finally burst out.
"Fuck S.H.I.E.L.D., fuck Nick Fury, fuck New York, I fucking hate this city!!!"
With that, she drove through the hail of bullets and charged straight toward the Three-Winged Building.
When she came within forty meters of the main entrance, six turrets suddenly rose up outside the Three-Winged Building.
The moment Jessica saw those turrets spitting blue muzzle flashes, she wanted to curse again!
"Watch your own fucking safety. We're ditching the car!"
After saying that to the alien Arida, she smashed her left fist into the car door, sending it flying off at once.
At the same time, she grabbed Arida with her right hand and leaped out of the car while carrying the poor alien.
She did not need to roll to disperse the impact. Jessica's powerful body let her land steadily with ease.
At that moment, the S.H.I.E.L.D. turrets opened fire.
The Grand Cherokee exploded instantly, and even more autocannon fire swept toward Jessica.
Jessica hurriedly threw Arida into the distance while taking the incoming shells head-on with her own body.
Looking at the clothes that had been torn to rags by the gunfire, she pursed her lips unhappily.
"I fucking need something that can cover these two lumps of meat without getting blown to pieces!"
The moment she finished speaking, she rushed over to Arida, stripped off her jacket, and put it on herself.
"I'm going in. Stay behind me and show me the way!"
As she spoke, Jessica zipped up the jacket, turned around, and sprinted forward. In two steps, she leaped beside one of the turrets.
Grabbing the turret's body with her bare hands, Jessica twisted it violently twice, tore it free, and hurled it into another turret.
After repeating that several times, the turrets at the entrance were finished. Jessica immediately led Arida on a frenzied killing spree all the way to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s command center.
When they reached the command center entrance, more than forty agents were gathered outside, continuously attacking the room.
But that attack proved that the fake Nick Fury inside had not died yet.
A hint of joy appeared on Arida's face.
"You sure your clansman is in there?"
Jessica asked Arida, and Arida nodded eagerly.
Her answer made Jessica purse her lips in displeasure.
There were too many people outside. What a pain. Did she have to start a massacre?
A massacre...
She had already started one!
Whoosh!
She took a step forward, naturally lacking Heisenberg's imposing presence.
But as a severely weakened female version of Superman capable of bench-pressing over eighty tons, Jessica naturally had her own kind of presence.
With a single charge, she slammed more than four agents into the hallway walls.
If Jessica had learned martial arts, she might even have created the spectacular sight of people hanging from walls like paintings.
Weaving and darting through the crowd, she was a tiger among sheep. The recklessness of a superhuman was the greatest terror to ordinary people.
More than forty professional agents had only managed to damage Jessica's clothes.
As usual, she stripped the clothing from an unconscious agent and put it on, then knocked on the sealed door in front of her. It had some cracks, but it was not completely damaged.
After weighing her options, Jessica shook her head. Her current strength was far inferior to the Hulk's, and there was no way she could tear open S.H.I.E.L.D.'s specially customized security door.
"Arida sent me. Is that Skrull alien in there?"
As soon as she finished speaking, the door opened, and a wounded, raggedly dressed Nick Fury walked out.
"Arida!!!"
Egghead did not even glance at Jessica. He called out Arida's name and ran straight toward her.
The two embraced amid the bloodshed, creating an almost romantic scene, but for some reason, Jessica only felt like throwing up!
After all, Egghead was hugging a green-haired egg and getting all lovey-dovey with her...
"Blegh~~ Sorry, maybe I drank too much tonight. Blegh!!!"
Perhaps she really had drunk too much that evening, because Jessica actually leaned against the wall and started vomiting.
The two Skrulls glanced at her before resuming their embrace without a care.
Just as humans found them ugly, they found humans especially ugly too.
Not even a wrinkle, and not green at all. How could that compare to the mysterious wrinkles on our faces!
While they embraced, Arida also told Nick Fury about her agreement with Heisenberg.
"You have to die once as Nick Fury, in public. After that, the real Nick Fury and Hill must be handed over to Heisenberg!"
After hearing that, Nick Fury nodded decisively.
"Don't worry, my identity hasn't been exposed yet. I'll find a good place to die in a moment. By the way, Arida, that female human over there is...?"
"Heisenberg's subordinate. She's very strong, probably stronger than a Super Skrull in its normal form!"
"Earth really is full of hidden dragons and crouching tigers. Let's go. I'll die quickly, then we'll go home!"
"Mm, home!"
The two aliens quickly reached an agreement, then headed toward S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy with Jessica!
At that moment, the place with the largest concentration of S.H.I.E.L.D. personnel was New York Shield Academy.
There were over three thousand outstanding reserve agents there, and ninety-nine percent of them had not yet been corrupted by Hydra!
As a result, it became the main target of the Hydra Agents' attack.
"Simmons, where are you, Simmons!!!"
Leo Fitz, a Level Three S.H.I.E.L.D. agent who was actually a S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy graduate with two doctorates, kept calling out his friend's name.
The war had come too suddenly, and the order to fight had only been issued to one side.
The poor people in S.H.I.E.L.D. who still possessed justice in their hearts had not been able to organize any effective resistance at all.
So in less than ten minutes, the defensive line spontaneously organized by the students at S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy had been crippled.
Hydra stormed into the academy and began seizing all kinds of outstanding talent.
The reason Leo Fitz had survived until now was precisely because Hydra valued and needed talented people.
Fitz searched everywhere, holding his degree certificates high as he constantly moved along the edges of various small battlefields.
He wanted nothing else. He only wanted to find the person he longed for and make sure she was still alive and well in this world.
But he never expected...
Boom!
When he rushed to Lecture Hall 3, violent tremors suddenly came from underground!
The tremors were incredibly intense, and the ground shook as a mound over 1.3 meters tall and twenty-five meters wide rapidly rose from the earth.
"Damn it, what is that!"
Fitz fled at once. He knew that something was about to burst out from underground.
But what kind of monster could it be?
What kind of monster could possess such enormous strength?
More than once, terrifying tremors like this had come from beneath S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy!
What exactly was hidden down there?
Even at such a critical moment, Fitz could not help thinking about it. It seemed that maintaining curiosity was a common flaw among research scholars like them.
Fortunately, he kept running while he thought. After he had fled more than eighty meters away, the ground began shaking again.
This time, a gigantic green monster over six meters tall suddenly leaped out from where the mound had been!
He jumped nearly eighty meters high, and that was after he had already broken through the ground!
With that one leap, the stunned Fitz came to a conclusion: this green giant could definitely lift an object weighing over ten thousand tons.
Perhaps even more!
At the same time, Nick Fury rushed to the center of the academy plaza. As he fired his gun, he shouted at the group of students still resisting.
"I'm Nick Fury, everyone...!"
Bang!!!
Just as both Hydra and the S.H.I.E.L.D. students were drawn in by Nick Fury's name, something shocking happened.
With that fatal gunshot, a huge spray of blood burst from Nick Fury's chest.
The next instant, a hole appeared in Nick Fury's chest, and he collapsed helplessly to the ground.
Leaving aside the S.H.I.E.L.D. students' instant grief and fury, and leaving aside the Hydra Agents' instant excitement.
Hulk, who had just leaped into the sky, happened to see Nick Fury fall.
Hulk was furious!
"Hulk... hates liars, roarrrr!!!"
As he roared, he charged like a madman toward Nick Fury's corpse.
From the looks of it, he seemed ready to smash Nick Fury's body into pulp.
Jessica, who had thought the job was over, nearly died on the spot. She was so frustrated she almost coughed up blood!
"What the fuck is that monster? Fuck, I'm going all out!!!"
She charged madly toward Nick Fury as well. Just as Hulk's massive foot was about to stomp on Nick's corpse, Jessica's slender, fair foot kicked hard into Hulk's waist.
Boom!!!
Hulk was sent tumbling more than twenty meters to the side, but he climbed back up in the blink of an eye.
Jessica's strength was nowhere near enough to hurt him. It only made him angrier!
"Hulk is very angry!!!"
"I'm fucking angry too! Damn it, Heisenberg, I've repaid your kindness this time!!!"
Jessica actually charged Hulk head-on. She narrowly avoided one of Hulk's punches, then rolled twice to get close to his side.
She got up and drove two hard punches into Hulk's shin.
It was not that Jessica liked attacking low. Without jumping, the shin was the only place she could reach.
But asking her to jump in front of Hulk?
She would never dare.
If Hulk caught her in his hands after one mistake, almost no one could escape that situation unscathed!
For details, see the Nordic rice-grinding duo...
After landing those two punches, Jessica fled and dodged wildly without looking back. Only after evading more than ten berserk attacks did she find a second chance to throw a few more punches at Hulk.
She held Hulk back for more than three minutes before he finally found an opening and slapped her straight into S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy's library!
That single slap nearly drained all the strength from Jessica's weakened steel-like body.
She struggled for a long while before barely getting back up, but by the time she finally stood, Hulk was already blocking her path!
"Hulk hates little people!"
Along with his roar, a green fist steadily grew larger before Jessica's eyes, as did her pupils.
She thought she could not avoid that punch and was even about to die beneath it.
But the next second, a flippant voice sounded beside her ear.
"Isn't this Superman's little bedmate? Why are you fighting him yourself? Did that bastard Heisenberg abandon you?"
The voice came from above, and as Tony teased her, he launched two-thirds of the missiles stored on his armor's shoulders and back at Hulk's head.
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