Banner's Power Bank

The fight between the two little Supermen was like that of two monsters. The surrounding vehicles and streetlights were like toys, being casually played with.

Bai Jing sat on the rooftop, enjoying the breeze, watching the fight with no desire to participate.

After all, it wasn't his family's property being damaged.

Besides, going to help wouldn't bring any benefits. Instead, it would expose him to the military's attention.

Having S.H.I.E.L.D. already paying attention was troublesome enough, let alone the military adding to it.

The wind blew past his ears and then vanished in an instant. Various gases were directly converted into energy matter in a state of fluctuating leaps by the immense Gravity deep within his pupils.

However, the absorption of such a small amount of matter was too weak. Bai Jing couldn't feel the slightest bit of enhancement.

Everyone knew the outcome of the battle: the Hulk won, and Abomination lost.

The imitation couldn't defeat the original.

However, the Hulk didn't leave with the helicopter. Instead, he leaped up a hundred meters high and nearly two hundred meters far, directly clearing that street!

He didn't stop after landing, leaping high again, advancing rapidly at a speed of nearly 200 kilometers per hour!

His direction was surprisingly towards Bai Jing's location!

"Huh!" Bai Jing followed, watching the Hulk travel along the road, crossing seven avenues. He arrived right at his territory!

"This is simply fate!" Bai Jing was a little surprised. This meant that even if he hadn't come to watch, he would still have encountered the Hulk.

The Hulk wasn't looking for Bai Jing, of course. The reason he came to the Order Society's territory was because the Order Society was adjacent to the Hudson River!

He leaped again, directly into the Hudson River!

Bai Jing silently followed.

The Hulk's body was almost imperceptible in the green river water, but as long as a little light was caught, Bai Jing could see him!

Not to mention that the Hulk had to surface to breathe!

The Hulk flowed downstream, passing through the New York Bay and directly into the Atlantic Ocean.

Bai Jing looked at the busy New York Harbor ahead, worrying if he would be discovered. But then he thought about his dark blue clothes, flying alone in the sky, being so small and not emitting any light. It should be fine.

Besides, camera technology wasn't advanced at this time; it wasn't like everyone had a smartphone in their hands in later generations.

He simply passed through New York Harbor and followed.

Although the Hulk seemed reckless, this version could be described as having a tiger in his heart, delicately sniffing a rose.

He wasn't swimming aimlessly. Instead, he followed a straight path, using the currents of the Hudson River to cross New York Bay and arrive at a small island belonging to Connecticut.

The island was named Sandy Hook, a famous sunny beach and resort destination throughout America and even the world.

However, it became widely known to our countrymen because of a shooting incident four years later.

A 20-year-old gunman entered the school and shot dead 20 six- to seven-year-old students at Sandy Hook Elementary School, along with six school staff members.

Puff...

The last time he surfaced from the sea, it was no longer the Hulk, but a bare-chested Dr. Bruce Banner, full of exhaustion and mental weariness.

In 2003, during a Gamma Rays radiation experiment accident, a monster named Hulk awakened within Bruce Banner.

Because of the Hulk's immense power and strong desire for destruction, Bruce Banner worried about harming those around him. Therefore, he fled to South America to live, working on factory assembly lines when he was out of money. He did this for five years!

Honestly, Banner had a really good temper. If it were Bai Jing, he would have been so fed up with his idiotic boss within a month that he'd want to start a fight.

This time, with the support of his girlfriend, he finally mustered the courage to return and seek a cure. Unexpectedly, his girlfriend's father took a liking to his body.

Fortunately, Abomination suddenly appeared. Otherwise, he would have been locked up in some research institute by now, participating in scientific research.

Well, the research content was being researched by others.

Now, Banner didn't trust anyone anymore. He just wanted to find a secluded place to live in seclusion, not disturbing anyone, not harming anyone.

To grow old alone and end his life.

But upon reaching the beach, he discovered that a person was standing there, staring at him.

"Uh, I'm a fan of late-night swimming. I just stayed out a bit too late..." Banner greeted the person awkwardly.

The person smiled: "Dr. Banner, can we talk?"

"Ah!" Banner was speechless: "How are you so omniscient to be able to track me here!"

He wondered if he should transform into the Hulk and escape again.

"Dr. Banner, please don't misunderstand. I'm not from the military, nor am I from the government!" The person stepped out of the shadows and into a slightly lit area. Only then did Banner realize this person was Asian.

"Korean, or Japanese?" Banner asked tentatively. "But I don't plan on going to your country!"

"I'm from China, but that's not important!" Bai Jing pointed to a lounge chair by the edge of the beach: "Shall we talk?"

Banner hesitated. He didn't want to talk to anyone, but he didn't know how this person had tracked him here.

Even if he ran now, if he didn't know the other party's tracking methods, he would still be caught.

He might as well listen and see what they wanted.

After all, it was just one person. Banner wasn't worried that such a thin and small person could do anything to him.

He's not even afraid of Jack Chan!

On the lounge chair, Bai Jing handed him two pieces of clothing and shoes. He had grabbed them on the way, as he didn't have a hobby of chatting with a man wearing only briefs.

"Uh..." Banner awkwardly put them on and sat down.

His impression of the Asian man improved considerably.

"Actually, I'm quite curious, what material are your briefs made of? They became so big just now, and now they're so small. How did they not get damaged?" Bai Jing asked.

"Uh..." Banner awkwardly scratched his head. "It's a material I invented in Mexico. It has extremely strong elasticity, but due to material and cost issues, I didn't make much of it, just enough for this little bit of clothing."

"Oh, oh!" Bai Jing nodded and asked again, "Then what was that giant thing just now? I'm more curious. Transforming into such a large size, it must consume a lot of energy to move around. You swam so far, but you don't seem very hungry? Doesn't this violate the law of conservation of energy!"

"Huh?" Banner's eyes lit up. This person actually knew about the law of conservation of energy?

Right, Asians are generally good at studying.

High-IQ people don't like chatting with ordinary people because they might not understand many things, and then they'll ask why, why is it like this!

And high-IQ people in China haven't even considered the problem of energy conservation; they've only been researching why the Hulk is so strong and if he can be replicated...

They just want to apply the Hulk to military use.

The audience found it amusing, but it's fortunate they failed. Otherwise, if they had succeeded, which country do you think would have suffered?

This was the first time Banner had met someone who wasn't concerned with power but only with principles, and he suddenly felt the urge to confide in him.

"This was caused by a failed experiment of mine. I was exposed to a large amount of Gamma Rays during that experiment!" Banner said. "Afterward, a monster called the Hulk appeared in my body. Although the radiation level was very high at the time, it was no more than what is produced by ordinary particle collisions. Theoretically, it shouldn't carry such immense energy, so I'm also very curious where the Hulk's energy comes from!"

"I've measured the weight change before and after transforming. Even with the Hulk's high activity level, my own weight change before and after is within the normal range. I've also tried not eating for five days, only drinking water, but the Hulk is still active!" Banner scratched his head. "So I suspect the Hulk's energy doesn't come from me at all, but from somewhere else!"

"So that's how it is..." When in doubt, quantum mechanics; furrow your brow, parallel universe.

I didn't expect you, Banner, a scientist, to be like this too!

"That's why I can't control Banner. Even if I'm injected with sedatives, controlled by hunger or poison, the Hulk still appears. So stop trying to catch me, it's meaningless. I really don't want to fight anymore!" Banner said earnestly.

This was his goal, to make the organization behind Bai Jing back down. Although he knew most organizations were stubborn and wouldn't give up until they hit a wall.

"Energy from an unknown source?" Bai Jing blinked. "Can I try it?"

"What?" Banner blinked. What did he want to try?

"To be honest, I also have a very special ability. I can absorb all energy and matter!" Bai Jing said. "If I can absorb the Hulk's energy within you, will he never come out again?"

Light carries light and heat, and black holes can also absorb. Of course, Bai Jing could also absorb energy, just like Superman could absorb sunlight to become stronger.

But that little bit of light was insignificant to a black hole, so Bai Jing wouldn't deliberately bask in the sun.

"Really?" Banner was hesitant. I've never seen any superpowered beings in my life. Are you trying to fool me?

But then again, he himself could transform into the Hulk, so who's to say others couldn't have their own encounters!

"We'll know if we try!" Bai Jing's eyes narrowed slightly, his gaze already probing into Banner's body!

He often scanned himself with gravity. He knew exactly what should be in the human body! Therefore, in just an instant, he discovered a vast, terrifying, and somewhat abnormal green energy within Banner!

"It's you!" Bai Jing activated gravity and was about to try absorbing it. This attempt was no small matter; that mass of energy flowed into the black hole as if a young swallow returning to its nest, without any resistance, and was absorbed by Bai Jing!

"Huh?" The matter was too smooth, making Bai Jing afraid there might be a problem. He quickly cut off the energy channel and sensed the changes in his eyes.

It seemed to have improved a lot?

He blinked and didn't feel like he had a Hulk inside him or anything.

Instead, the world before him seemed to have become brighter?

Wait, I absorbed air for two days and my eyesight didn't change much, but after absorbing the Hulk for less than 3 seconds, my eyes feel much stronger?

And Banner before him jumped up excitedly, "It works, it really works! I feel like the Hulk has suddenly become much weaker!"

"Really?" Bai Jing blinked. Is the black hole so effective against Gamma Ray energy?

Speaking of which, the origin of Gamma Rays seems to be related to black holes.

When black holes devour matter, due to the violent collisions between atoms, some particles are ejected at high speeds. These are Gamma Rays!

During supernova explosions, when massive stars collapse, the violent collisions between super-abundant atoms can even generate Gamma Ray bursts that can be emitted hundreds of millions of light-years away!

As for what happens after a supernova explosion?

Smaller masses become white dwarfs, larger ones become neutron stars, and even larger ones become black holes.

It's not an exaggeration to say that black holes are the fathers of Gamma Rays!

Banner was still nodding, nodding frantically!

From 2003 to 2008, the Hulk had tormented him for five years!

Five years, do you know how he spent these five years?

He was capping bottles on a beer production line!

A brilliant scientist, a biologist and physicist who could replicate perfect evolutionary agents, was capping bottles on a beer production line!

This was why, even knowing how dangerous America was, he still wanted to return. He truly wanted to solve this problem!

He thought this time there would be no result and he would leave in disappointment, but unexpectedly, just before leaving, he found a solution?

What is this, mountains and rivers doubting there's no path, willows darken and flowers bloom, another village?

"Help me, what can I do, I..." Banner immediately stood up, almost kneeling before Bai Jing.

"Don't do that, Teacher Banner, don't!"

Bai Jing quickly pulled Banner up and said, "To be honest, I've created an organization called the Order Society. Running into you this time was actually an accident, but since I've met you, I sincerely invite you to join our organization!"

He really disliked white people, but people like Banner were truly hard to dislike.

Both were genius scientists. Look at Tony Stark's demeanor, then look at Banner.

It was like comparing scum to a saint!

To avoid harming others, he'd rather go to the slums...

Wait, there were plenty of people in the slums too, why wasn't he afraid of hurting them?

Didn't he go to India later?

He just ran wherever there were people!

Or perhaps, he was simply afraid of hurting Americans?

Turning his head to look at the grinning Banner, Bai Jing felt he might have been overthinking things.

But, whatever!

Anyway, absorbing energy was good for his eyes. Besides, a genius scientist like this, one who could build a time machine, how much effort would it take to recruit him in his past life?

"What kind of organization is this?" Banner asked. Although he said he could help, if it involved any terrorist attacks, he definitely wouldn't agree!

"You'll know when you get there. Don't worry, it won't violate your principles as a person!" Bai Jing said, then extended his hand, "Let me help you solve the Hulk problem first!"

"Okay!" Banner nodded. "What should I do to cooperate with you?"

"Just stand there and don't move!" Bai Jing replied.

"Okay!"

Spiritual Power extended, enveloping the mass of energy, then, he opened it up to absorb!

Bai Jing felt the world before his eyes becoming clearer and clearer, the sound of the waves and tides around him also becoming more distinct. Closing his eyes, vaguely, he could even construct a world in his mind using only sound!

This mass of energy was too large and too much. Bai Jing was stunned to absorb it for a full half hour before it was all gone!

Then, just as he was about to retract his Spiritual Power, he noticed that where there was nothing before, a point of energy suddenly appeared again. Then, that point of energy continued to grow.

"Ah, this..." Bai Jing was speechless. After absorbing this point of energy, in the same spot, another point of energy emerged.

Continue absorbing, and it kept appearing.

Absorb again, and it kept appearing!

"What is this!" Bai Jing's Spiritual Power probed the area and was surprised to find a hole there!

Of course, under Spiritual Power detection, it was a hole. In scientific terms, it should be called a wormhole, or a spacetime rupture point.

Of course, these were all made up by Bai Jing. He wasn't a scientist, he just gave it a plausible-sounding name.

He didn't know what was on the other side of the hole because the range of Spiritual Power detection was too short. However, the area he could detect was filled with this energy!

No wonder the Hulk was like a war god, an eternal engine, and no wonder the transformation didn't use Banner's energy.

So, he was connected to another world?

So, the angrier he got, the stronger he became. Could it be that the angrier he got, the larger this hole would become?

Retracting his Spiritual Power, Bai Jing looked at Banner as if he were looking at a rare treasure!

This was a freaking power bank!

Sob sob sob, this chapter is 4400 words.

I wrote this during work hours, using the chat window of a messaging app, so I couldn't see how many words I'd written.

When I pasted it into the backend, it showed 4436...

I didn't pad it either!

I originally wanted to split it into two chapters, but considering the word count of the "Myriad Races' Tribulation" chapter, I decided against it.

I'm not as talented as others, nor am I as hardworking...

There's more in the afternoon, updated at six.

I won't be updating tonight because I have to watch a match.