Another Advanced Achievement

10:20 a.m., Heisenberg Mansion.

Heisenberg was drinking in the Nightclub.

Across from him, Bullseye stood there, endlessly bragging.

"BOSS, you're famous—really famous!

"This is different from before. Somehow, someone compiled footage of you beating the Hulk last night and uploaded it online!"

"Mm-hmm..." Heisenberg nodded.

"God, that was the fucking Hulk! The Hulk who had destroyed cities more than once and left the United States military completely helpless!"

"Mm-hmm!" Heisenberg nodded.

"We all knew you were strong, but nobody could have imagined just how strong you were. You took down the Hulk with only three punches...!" He clenched his fist and slammed it downward. "You took him down!!!"

"Ha..." Heisenberg obligingly let out a breath.

"And you kicked him all the way to the moon! That crater is still there right now!"

"So what? Stop telling me this boring crap and get to the point!"

Heisenberg finally could not help interrupting Bullseye. Getting flattered once or twice was fine, but too much of it became embarrassing fast.

Bullseye was absolutely not about to get angry over being interrupted. As a professional subordinate, he knew how to present himself the way his boss wanted.

When his boss was drinking alone out of boredom, he had to step up and flatter him to liven up the mood.

And now, his boss wanted to talk business.

Bullseye instantly stood ramrod straight, as though he were...

Well, he was only straight for an instant before painfully bracing his lower back with one hand and desperately leaning his upper body backward.

It could not be helped. His ass...

Even Heisenberg could not bear to watch, so he waved a hand.

"Forget it, forget it. Go rest."

"No, Boss. I still need to keep taking those idiots out onto the streets to offer condolences to New York citizens!"

"Heh. Send less alcohol. Are you trying to make the whole city alcoholic so they can have shootouts every day?"

"Understood, Boss. We do not have much alcohol left in stock anyway. This afternoon, I'll take my men to deliver fuel for citizens to escape New York, along with the toasters our factory has always processed and sold!"

???

Heisenberg froze. Kingpin, that fat bastard, had sold toasters too?

Still, as the boss, there was no need to be surprised over such a trivial matter.

Heisenberg simply nodded expressionlessly and said,

"Do whatever you want, but don't let your injuries worsen. Go."

"Yes!"

Bullseye immediately left after receiving his orders.

After he left, Heisenberg pressed the service bell on the table.

Billy, the manager who had been watching over the Nightclub, hurried over at a jog.

"BOSS!"

"Call Jessica. Have her notify the Skrulls to meet me on the rooftop."

"Yes."

Billy immediately went to make the arrangements, while Heisenberg leisurely passed through the Nightclub's backstage.

After briefly appreciating the dancers' dazzling bodies, Heisenberg lay down on a lounge chair and waited in the sun.

As for Bruce Banner, he had already been moved into the villa, because Heisenberg did not want to enjoy the sun in the company of another man...

Before long, two Skrulls arrived on the rooftop.

The moment they poked their heads out, they performed an incredibly elaborate salute toward Heisenberg from far away.

They did not even care whether Heisenberg was looking at them.

Then, when they approached Heisenberg, they stopped about ten meters away and dared not move any closer.

Heisenberg looked up at them, and the male Skrull immediately bowed to him again.

"It is an honor to meet you, great Lord Heisenberg."

The instant he finished speaking, Heisenberg disgustedly shuddered.

"Guys, there's no need to be so serious. We're both outsiders on Earth, more or less. Sit."

As he spoke, Heisenberg pointed toward the lounge chairs beside him.

But the Skrulls did not dare sit at all. They remained where they were and respectfully said to Heisenberg,

"No, no, no. We are not qualified to sit beside a great life-form such as yourself. I have seen countless powerful beings in the universe, but you are the most dazzling among them. Simply standing here and looking at you already feels immensely presumptuous."

"Heh..."

Heisenberg laughed without interest.

Whether it was his own experiences in the Origin Universe or part of the memories shared with him by the Kryptonian Elder,

All that valuable experience had taught him one truth.

Never take other people's flattery seriously. Otherwise, if they were joking and you got carried away, it would be embarrassing.

So he continued,

"If I tell you to sit, then sit. Don't treat my words as a joke, Skrulls."

"Yes!"

The two quickly found seats, and as they sat down, Heisenberg continued his questioning.

"Last night, I only made a verbal agreement with Ms. Arida, so..."

Heisenberg lifted his eyelids and slowly scrutinized the Skrulls.

An invisible pressure gathered around them, making the Skrulls nervously draw in a breath.

As the two panicked, Heisenberg continued asking,

"So after you are rescued, our agreement...?"

"Will be fully honored, sir!"

The male Skrull immediately answered. He still appeared calm, but the deepening wrinkles on his face had already completely betrayed the turmoil in his heart.

"We Skrulls have long lost our nation and territory. We no longer consider ourselves noble like the Kree and the Shi'ar Empire. It is our greatest honor, as Skrull refugees, to serve a powerful being like you, one comparable to Destroyer Titan Thanos!"

The moment he finished speaking, Heisenberg shook his head.

His rejection made the Skrulls' faces turn green.

Though they had been green to begin with...

In any case, in that instant, the Skrulls even imagined Heisenberg slaughtering all of them refugees.

But Heisenberg merely told them,

"Not just those, my Skrull friends. I want Hill and Nick Fury!"

As he spoke, Heisenberg rose and walked up to the Skrulls, patting the male Skrull on the shoulder.

"Hand those two over to me, and I will send you a suitable planet at the proper time, as agreed. Don't you want that?"

"Of course we do!" The Skrulls nodded together.

"Good."

Heisenberg nodded.

"It is now 10:40 a.m. Earth time. I hope to see them before 10:40 tonight. Go!"

After directly dismissing the two Skrulls, he knew they had ways to contact their people.

Once the Skrulls had left, Heisenberg returned to the villa and casually pushed open Bruce Banner's room.

That bastard was still unconscious—or was he sleeping?

Either way, Heisenberg no longer wanted another man staying in his house.

He instantly unleashed Heat Vision, searing red beams brutally striking Banner in the chest.

In only a moment, before Banner could even cry out, he had transformed into the Hulk.

"Roaargh!!!"

As always, Hulk roared. The moment he awakened, he could not wait to smash something and vent his anger.

He was not like Banner, who had never woken up. He still remembered Heisenberg beating him up!

But after roaring out all the fury in his heart, he looked up and saw Heisenberg standing before him...

In that instant, Hulk lost his love for the outside world for the first time.

Back when Banner had tried every possible way to keep Hulk trapped inside, who knew how badly Hulk had wanted to come out and see the world?

Every time Banner lost control of Hulk was Hulk's happiest time!

Hulk was an exceptionally simple big child. It did not matter whether people attacked him or hated him.

He only wanted to come out, walk around, see things, experience the world up close, and play climbing games on all kinds of skyscrapers.

But today, at this very moment...

Hulk instantly stopped roaring. Even his back bent slightly.

At the same time, his arms hung limply at his sides as he stared blankly at Heisenberg.

Perhaps it was an illusion, but Heisenberg felt as though he could see scenes of himself beating Hulk in those vacant eyes...

But Hulk was Hulk after all. After a brief moment of dazed fear, Hulk chose to attack Heisenberg.

One failure was not enough to break him. He feared nothing!

That was right, Hulk feared nothing.

Even that incident people always mocked him for, when Hulk refused to come out of Banner in Avengers 3.

That was not because Thanos had beaten him into submission. It was because he had grown a brain and become unhappy.

At the time, Hulk felt that Banner was treating him like a tool, like an idiot to be used.

Banner restrained him in every possible way during normal times, desperately keeping him from appearing.

But whenever Banner was in danger, getting beaten was immediately Hulk's job.

Hulk was simple, not stupid. Naturally, he would not always go along with Banner.

So when Avengers 3 came out, Hulk... chickened out.

In short, Hulk, who had not yet grown sick of it, would not become too scared to come out just because Heisenberg had defeated him once.

With a furious roar, he swung his fist straight at Heisenberg's head.

Thud!!!

With a muffled impact, Heisenberg caught Hulk's fist in his palm.

At the same time, he used his Biological Field to protect the rooftop floor, preventing the two of them from crashing all the way down into the Nightclub below.

"Ha ha, you've got plenty of spirit!"

Heisenberg laughed. He had something fun to play with again!

So he grabbed Hulk and shot straight into the sky!

This battle did not take place on Earth, but on Mars.

The fight lasted a full two and a half hours, even causing Heisenberg to miss lunch.

But Heisenberg did not mind. Compared to one meal, the sense of accomplishment he felt now was beyond description!

Heisenberg stood back on his rooftop, stomping on Banner's chest as he shouted at him.

"You're Hulk, right?"

"You get angry, right?"

"You're scared of Thanos but not of me, Heisenberg, right?"

"You still dared fight me, right?"

As he shouted, Heisenberg patted the unconscious Banner's face.

"Weren't you pretty brave before? Why are you such a coward now?"

With that, he directly hauled the unconscious Banner up and began shaking his body continuously.

"You need to pull yourself together!"

After shaking him for a while and seeing no sign of Hulk coming out again, Heisenberg finally let him go in boredom.

Looking at Banner lying on the ground and remaining unconscious, Heisenberg took a satisfied sip of wine.

His second advanced achievement since arriving in the Marvel Universe—beating Hulk so badly that he did not dare show himself—had been achieved!!!

He put down his wineglass and pressed the service bell. When Billy personally rushed over yet again, Heisenberg pointed at the naked Banner on the ground.

"This guy is temporarily useless. Take him away and send him to S.H.I.E.L.D. He can give the slightly recovering New York Shield some trouble!"