Crushing Victory

"Sizzle..." A smell like burning flesh wafted up, causing those above to retch uncontrollably.

No one expected that in a place someone had just escaped from, deep within that hole, five or six meters down, there was actually a pool of lava.

The person below had been quite vicious, hiding the lava deep within the pipe, quietly placing a pool of it at a spot where no movement could be seen from above!

"Impossible, fire can burn continuously, but lava has no energy source; it should solidify into a solid very quickly!" Obadiah absolutely refused to believe this, until the several soldiers he sent down one after another turned into charred corpses amidst their struggling screams, at which point he stopped sending men to their deaths.

He wasn't an idiot; looking at the expressions of the soldiers around him, he reckoned that if he continued to send people down, he would be sent to hell by this group in the next second.

That thick scent of sulfur surged from the pipe, filling everyone with a sense of dread.

They had thought they had taken perfect precautions and preparations, yet they had suffered a crushing defeat here once again.

Obadiah had returned to the car behind him, squinting as he watched the mercenaries, who were gradually advancing toward the interior of the villa with their guns raised.

"Bang!" A gunshot rang out, and a soldier who had been walking in front with his rifle immediately collapsed, causing everyone to dive to the ground.

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

This was the plaza in front of the City of Freedom villa. They had only been conducting a simple patrol, never expecting that someone would be sniped by a bullet coming from inside the villa.

"Get down! 2nd floor, 3rd window, fire!" A dense barrage of gunfire instantly crackled across the sky. Everyone held high-powered rifles, immediately riddling that room on the second floor with holes.

"Yo! Not bad, you really are an agent!" Tony held a Lightsaber in one hand, while his other hand wore that steel gauntlet, a ring-like object shimmering on his palm.

"Let me try out this electronic cannon made with new energy and see how it performs!" Leaning against the wall behind him, he gathered light in his palm and fired a shot with a thunderous boom.

The cars guarded by several soldiers in the distance were reduced to a pile of ruins by that single blast from his palm.

"Boom!" A massive roar echoed through the plaza. If this place weren't so far from the city center, the Los Angeles police would likely have already arrived in helicopters.

Even so, such a massive flash of light attracted quite a few people nearby. A team of men in black looked at the explosion with hurried expressions and quickly rushed toward the scene.

"Just as I thought!" Tony no longer had the nervous expression he'd had when the enemies first arrived; instead, he began to study the performance of the weapons and equipment he had just designed with great interest.

Now that they were in the shadows and the enemy was in the light, unless Obadiah wanted to go down with them, the situation here would inevitably be dragged out by them.

Fang Bie held the Lightsaber Tony had given him, sticking to the philosophy of "following his heart," and arrived beneath the armored vehicles.

Then, in a way that no one could possibly notice, he quietly dug a hole under the armored vehicle and placed Tony's custom-made Sticky Bomb on it.

He repeated this process more than ten times until all the vehicles had been rigged with Sticky Bombs.

If you want to take us out, you have to be prepared to be countered. Fang Bie's mastery of these "old-school" ambush tactics from MC could be considered quite refined.

Once upon a time, he had used these same methods to deal with all sorts of bizarre bosses.

Whether it was monsters lurking in high towers, giant dragons constantly drifting in the sky, or terrifying beasts with no blind spots, he had used terrain-exploiting tactics to finish them all off.

For Fang Bie, using such methods in a world similar to reality gave him a strange feeling. Solving enemies in a way no one could imagine was actually more in line with his usual combat habits.

He wasn't a truly reckless player; he wouldn't think of fighting enemies head-on. If he could solve a problem through other means, he wouldn't choose to tank it, unless he possessed a set of what was known as top-tier armor.

The terrifying defensive power of such equipment would block all trouble for him.

For example, the Terrasteel Armor Set from Botania, the Nano Armor Set from IndustrialCraft, or the Sky Armor Set from various other ores, and so on...

Because these sets almost all possessed an irresistible attribute: infinite damage reduction and nearly indestructible durability. This equipment was so terrifying that even if a nuclear bomb exploded in front of him, it would at most destroy half his health without killing him instantly.

Some transcendent equipment could even prevent his health from dropping under any circumstances, forcibly maintaining his physical state and full combat power—those were the truly terrifying artifacts.

However, Fang Bie had yet to find such equipment; he couldn't even obtain the best Diamond Armor Set from the game.

As for looking for diamonds in this reality, that was even more unrealistic. If he hadn't known a tycoon like Tony, he might not have even had the chance to touch a diamond, and the diamonds in this world were fundamentally different from those in the MC world.

Returning to the matter at hand, after he had planted bombs on all the armored vehicles and retreated safely through the tunnel he had dug, Yinsen finally became familiar with the configuration of the armor on the mountain. Amidst the numb and shocked gazes of the mercenaries, he slowly lifted his foot.

"Boom!" The heavy footsteps and the tremors they sent through the earth made all the soldiers feel that something was wrong. Obadiah even poked his head out of the car, looking at the seemingly bulky robot as it raised its hand toward his vehicle.

"Oh my god, Jericho missile!" Obadiah shoved the driver aside, threw him to the ground, and started the car to flee.

The conspiracy he had planned to wipe everyone out here and monopolize the patents hadn't even been achieved, and his forces were already being torn to shreds.

"No, Mr. Obadiah, you can't leave just yet!" He only heard a drifting voice coming from underground, and then the front of his car was firmly jammed by something. He could even smell a peculiar stench of paint reacting with high heat.

Obadiah had no choice but to get out of the car. He saw an object resembling a Lightsaber stuck horizontally into the ground, firmly wedging his car's front end.

"Bang!" Gunshots continued to ring out, and the mercenaries hid behind walls. In just a few short volleys, several of their leaders had already been sniped!

Such terrifying lethality and near-invincible marksmanship—anyone who saw it would be trembling with fear!

Fang Bie also marveled at the capabilities of this top-tier agent. Everyone focused on his social skills and his relationships with others, but no one noticed that Coulson had been the highest-ranking top agent in S.H.I.E.L.D. from the very beginning, aside from the Director!

With just a few simple actions, the entire situation had been completely turned around.