At first, Luo Xia had been worried that Hulk would smash these green-skinned orcs into pancakes. After all, once Hulk went berserk, no one could stop him. But unexpectedly, the moment Hulk appeared, the howling green-skins charging toward them instantly dropped to their knees.
They had not been knocked down by Hulk. They had knelt on their own.
The green-skins were all bewildered. They wanted to ask their mothers: Why were they kneeling as they entered the arena?
Hulk was just as surprised. He seemed never to have encountered enemies who knelt and begged for mercy before. He let out several irritated roars but did not attack.
Only Luo Xia could roughly guess the reason. It was probably genetic suppression.
These green-skins had been genetically invaded by Hulk. While they had gained tremendous enhancements, those bloodline traits had invisibly formed a genetic hierarchy among them.
The more Hulk genes one possessed, the stronger one became, and the greater the suppression over the other infected individuals.
Denarian Saal had become a hero to his people because he had been more deeply eroded by those genes than the others.
And when the green-skins encountered Hulk himself—the true, pure collection of ancestral green genes—their bodily instincts bypassed their brains entirely and forced them to kneel before Hulk.
"Looks like you've got yourself a race of followers, Hulk," Luo Xia said to him.
"Hulk doesn't need bugs to worship him!" Hulk roared.
Even though these green-skins possessed some of Hulk's genes, to Hulk, it only meant taking two punches to kill instead of one. There was not much difference.
Luo Xia hurriedly soothed him. "Hulk needs his own kind too. More importantly, you need to find a wife. A creature's instinct is to reproduce—you can't stay single forever. Bruce's wife isn't Hulk's wife."
Hulk's