Assassination

"Brotherhood?"

Bai Jing was still thinking about the hint Natasha had given him.

He had watched plenty of Marvel and plenty of videos dissecting its plotlines, and he was certain no such organization existed in the Marvel Universe.

There were organizations like that elsewhere, though, such as in Wanted and Assassin's Creed.

But he was in a real world now, so blindly trusting the plot was hardly wise. After all, Natasha had never been shown speaking the language so fluently in the story, because the actress could not learn it.

"Still, now that I've turned down S.H.I.E.L.D., we'll be enemies from now on, right?" How would S.H.I.E.L.D. deal with him?

I'm really curious!

Bai Jing thought about it and was not too concerned. Aside from Captain Marvel, Carol, S.H.I.E.L.D. did not seem to have anyone particularly capable of fighting.

Besides, if he could not win, he could just run. S.H.I.E.L.D. could not cover the sky with one hand.

He lowered his head and continued reading.

At the same time, he put the knowledge he had just learned into practice.

"Black holes can warp time and space, so could I twist space into a ball? Wouldn't that make it a Pocket Dimension?"

Banner had a Pocket Dimension filled with transformation energy, and Bai Jing was quite envious.

He might not have a Pocket Dimension full of transformation energy, but would it not still be useful for storing other things, like supplies, guns, and bombs?

In battle, he could pull tens of thousands of RPGs out of thin air and fire them while time was warped, then...

Yeah, please call me magical girl Bai Letian!

But to create warped space, he first had to sense space.

Bai Jing had no idea how to do that, but it was not as though he had no options. Did Ancient One not teach spatial magic? Perhaps she had a way to comprehend space!

As for time!

Bai Jing suddenly slapped the table. "Oh, I get it!"

"Hey, keep it down!" a student reading nearby said unhappily.

"Oh, sorry, sorry. I got a little excited..." Bai Jing cupped his hands together and hurriedly apologized.

The main reason was that thinking of Ancient One had made him realize something.

His cheat was so powerful that it could even devour Earth. By all rights, Ancient One—the defender of Earth, guardian of the multiverse, and Sorcerer Supreme—should have come to talk to him long ago.

Yet Ancient One had not done so.

Why?

Bai Jing had never thought much about it before. Perhaps Ancient One already knew he existed, but also knew that he was kind and would not endanger Earth.

But now, there might be another possibility.

His time had been warped by the black hole, making him impossible for Ancient One to observe.

But after thinking about it for only a moment, he stopped dwelling on it.

Ancient One was not S.H.I.E.L.D. She was a good person.

Bai Jing had never intended to endanger Earth, so why would Ancient One want to deal with him, given her magnanimity?

They were not natural enemies.

"Should I take the initiative and visit the Sanctum Sanctorum?" Bai Jing stroked his chin. North America's Sanctum Sanctorum seemed to be at 177A Bleecker Street, in the center of Greenwich Village, New York.

With nothing better to do, Bai Jing simply got up, registered his borrowed books at the library, then headed out with them in his arms toward the Sanctum Sanctorum.

As he stepped out of the library and felt the biting North American wind, Bai Jing pulled his clothes tighter around himself.

Outside Columbia University's library stood several enormous round columns resembling those of the Parthenon.

Bai Jing had just passed one of the massive columns when he saw a middle-aged man in a white suit and white trousers stride briskly up the stairs, his neatly groomed hair immaculate.

The man stood straight, looked forward evenly, had broad shoulders, and walked with composed confidence!

It was not that Bai Jing had deliberately noticed him. Compared to the students around him, this man's bearing was simply far too confident.

Bai Jing had only glanced at him before withdrawing his gaze, but then he noticed from the corner of his eye that the man had slipped his right hand into his suit.

That movement!

"Hm?" Bai Jing instinctively dodged. Then he saw the middle-aged man pull a silver pistol from his jacket, its body twice as long as an ordinary gun, reaching twenty-five centimeters.

Only then did the man turn to look at Bai Jing, raise his hand, and fire!

Bang!

A huge crater exploded into the marble column beside Bai Jing's head. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a bullet with a silvery metallic sheen and strange patterns embedded in the blasted marble.

That bullet is incredibly powerful, and its material is unusual! Bai Jing was startled. Even more terrifying was this man's speed!

Bai Jing was within the black hole's time-warping field. His base speed and reaction speed were twice those of ordinary people!

Yet this man drew and fired far too quickly—so quickly that Bai Jing had nearly failed to react!

In mere hundredths of a second, the man's left hand also slipped into his jacket while his right hand continued firing!

"Fuck!" Bai Jing hurriedly retreated while increasing the Gravity Field in front of him!

Buzz!

As though it had encountered no obstacle at all, the bullet passed straight through Bai Jing's Gravity Field!

"Ah!" Screams rang out behind him from other students entering and leaving the library.

Bai Jing had no time to care about them. Beyond the library steps was a vast open plaza, while there was also some distance from the columns to the library entrance. Trapped between front and back, he could only rely on the column beside him and circle it with the assassin like King Qin circling a pillar.

As for hurting other people, sorry, he did not want that either.

Who told them they were Americans? Born randomly, dying freely!

As he circled the column, he rapidly analyzed his opponent.

"The Gravity Field actually can't restrain it? No, that's not it. Mainly, the bullet is too fast, and its material is special, so my restraining force on it is greatly reduced!" Bai Jing was somewhat glad he had not tried to show off by facing the bullet head-on and had chosen to evade instead.

The entire gang had seen him catch bullets in his hand. There was no way that would not spread, and yet the enemy had still chosen guns to assassinate him. They must have made special preparations!

Either the gun was special, or the bullets were special.

Now it seemed both were special.

Counterkilling them would be difficult too. He did not dare show himself before the assassin, or he would be killed with one shot. And the marble column beside him had a diameter of a full 1.5 meters, so he could not devour the assassin on the other side through it.

Wait!

Since they had chosen to assassinate him here, did these assassins not know there were several columns here that would let him circle them like King Qin?

Bai Jing's heart began pounding. With a thought, he swiftly turned his head and saw a thirty-story building two kilometers across from the library!

With his enhanced vision, he spotted a Latina woman on the twenty-third floor, dressed in the same white suit and white trousers, holding an unknown sniper rifle at the window and aiming at him!

Bang!

Another silver bullet marked with strange patterns flew out. Under Bai Jing's superhuman vision, he could clearly see the reflected image of the Columbia library building on its smooth tip—and himself, despairing beneath the marble column!

Am I going to die here?

No, how could that be!

I am the end of the universe, the destroyer of worlds, the ultimate existence among celestial bodies—a black hole!

Ahem!

Too embarrassing, too embarrassing!

After indulging in that little bout of teenage melodrama, Bai Jing lightly tilted his head, and the bullet grazed past his temple.

Was this sniper brain-dead? At a distance of two kilometers, even if the sniper round had an initial velocity of three thousand meters per second, he still had over a second to react within the Time Acceleration field. That was enough time for him to run three or four meters!

Of course, such an encirclement would have been a guaranteed kill against ordinary people. They could not even see the bullets clearly, much less dodge them!

"Your skill is already impressive, but it's still not enough!" Bai Jing pulled two playing cards from his pocket. One became a streak of Rainbow Light and arrived at the sniper's throat in an instant.

That was right. Ordinary people could not react in time!

He held the other card in his hand, then suddenly spun around and slashed directly at the suited man's hands!

Thin as cicada wings, the black hole titanium was already the sharpest blade in the world. Blood immediately poured from both of the suited man's wrists. He could no longer hold his guns, and they were about to fall to the ground when Bai Jing casually caught them.

The middle-aged White man's jaw moved, but Bai Jing smiled!

Then the man's expression, which had remained calm even after the assassination failed, instantly turned to horror.

The thing hidden beneath his teeth had bitten down on empty air!