Overwhelming

"Sizzle..." The smell of flesh burning came wafting up, making everyone above gag.

No one had expected that in this place, which someone had just escaped from, there would be a pool of lava five or six meters down the hole.

The person below had even hidden the lava maliciously, deep inside the pipe, where no one above could see it, and quietly placed a pool of lava there!

"Impossible! Flames can burn forever, but without an energy source, lava will soon solidify!" Obadiah absolutely refused to believe it.

Only after several soldiers sent down one after another had turned to charred corpses amid their agonized screams did he stop the others from going down to their deaths.

He wasn't an idiot. Judging by the looks the soldiers around him were giving him, if he kept sending people down, they'd probably send him to hell next.

The pungent smell of sulfur wafted out of the pipe, filling everyone with fear.

They'd thought they had already taken every precaution and made thorough preparations, but once again, they'd run into trouble here.

Obadiah had returned to the vehicle behind him. Narrowing his eyes, he watched the mercenaries advancing toward the mansion with their guns raised.

"Bang!" A gunshot rang out, and a soldier who had been walking at the front with his gun raised immediately fell. Everyone hit the ground.

The instinctive reactions and intuition of combat personnel were terrifying. Unfortunately, they still couldn't withstand that uncanny marksmanship.

This was the plaza in front of the City of Freedom mansion. They'd only been on a routine patrol, never expecting that someone would be shot dead by a bullet fired from inside the mansion.

"Get down! Third window on the second floor—fire!" Gunshots immediately rang out in a dense barrage. Everyone had a powerful rifle in hand, and they swept the room on the second floor with a crackling fusillade.

"Hey! Not bad. You really are a secret agent!" Tony gripped the Lightsaber in one hand. On his other hand was a steel glove, and a ring of light appeared in his palm.

"Let me see how well this electronic cannon made with the new energy source works!" He leaned against the wall behind him. Light gathered in his palm, and with a boom, he fired a shot.

Several soldiers were guarding cars in the distance. The blast from his palm turned them into a pile of wreckage.

"Boom!" The tremendous blast echoed across the plaza. If this place hadn't been so far from the city center, the Los Angeles police would probably already have arrived in helicopters.

Even so, the dazzling flash drew the attention of quite a few people nearby. A group of men in black hurriedly looked toward the explosion and rushed over.

"Just as I thought!" Tony no longer looked tense about the arrival of the enemy. Instead, he began enthusiastically testing the performance of the weapons and equipment he had just designed.

Now they were in the dark while their enemies were in the open. Unless Obadiah wanted to go down fighting, they could keep dragging things out here.

Fang Bie held the Lightsaber Tony had given him and, following his instincts, made his way beneath the armored vehicles.

Then, without anyone noticing, he quietly dug a hole beneath one of the armored cars and planted a Sticky Bomb made by Tony on it.

He repeated this more than ten times until he had planted Sticky Bombs on every vehicle.

If the enemy wanted to kill them, they had better be ready to get killed in turn. Fang Bie had mastered Minecraft's dirty tricks to perfection.

There had been many times when he'd dealt with bizarre bosses in just this way.

Whether they were monsters lurking atop towers, dragons endlessly floating through the air, or terrifying beasts with no blind spots, he'd used the terrain to his advantage and taken them down.

For Fang Bie, using this kind of method in a world so much like reality felt strange. But defeating enemies in a way no one could imagine was actually more in keeping with his usual fighting style.

He wasn't the kind of player who charged headfirst into a fight. If he could solve a problem another way, he wouldn't choose to face the enemy head-on—unless he had a set of equipment considered top-tier.

The terrifying defense of such equipment would block every threat for him.

For example, the Terrasteel Armor Set from Botania, the Nano Armor Set from industrial technology, or the Sky Armor Set made from various ores, and so on...

These sets all had an attribute that was nearly impossible to refuse: they reduced damage infinitely and had durability that was almost impossible to wear down. They were so powerful that even if a nuclear bomb exploded right in front of him, it would at most destroy half his health, not kill him outright.

Some equipment that went beyond the limits could keep his health from falling under any circumstances, forcibly maintaining his physical condition and full combat strength. Those were the truly terrifying divine artifacts.

But Fang Bie still hadn't found any equipment like that. He couldn't even get his hands on the best armor in the game, the Diamond Armor Set.

And finding diamonds in a real world like this was even less realistic. If he hadn't known a rich man like Tony, he might never have had the chance to even touch a diamond. Besides, the diamonds in this world were fundamentally different from the diamonds in Minecraft.

Speaking of which, by the time he had planted bombs on all the armored vehicles and safely escaped through the tunnel he'd dug, Yinsen had finally gotten used to the armor's controls. Under the numb, astonished stares of the mercenaries, he slowly lifted his foot.

"Boom!" The heavy footstep and the tremor it sent through the ground made all the soldiers realize something was wrong. Obadiah leaned out of his car and stared at the seemingly bloated robot as it raised a hand toward his vehicle.

"Oh my God! Coulson's missiles!" Obadiah shoved the driver out onto the ground and tried to drive away.

His plan to wipe out everyone here and take the patent for himself hadn't even succeeded, and it was already falling apart.

"No, Mr. Obadiah. You can't leave just yet!" He could only hear a shifting voice coming from underground. Then something clamped onto the front of his car, and he smelled the foul odor of special paint meeting extreme heat.

Obadiah had no choice but to get out of the car. He saw an object resembling a Lightsaber thrust into the ground, firmly blocking the front of his vehicle.

"Bang!" The gunfire continued without pause. The mercenaries all took cover behind the walls. After only a few shots, several of their leaders had already been killed!

Anyone would have been terrified by such deadly accuracy and seemingly unbeatable marksmanship.

Fang Bie couldn't help admiring the top agent's skill. Everyone focused on his social skills and relationships with others, but no one noticed that Coulson had been S.H.I.E.L.D.'s top agent from the beginning, second in rank only to the director.

With just a few ordinary moves, the entire situation had already been turned around.