After Kingpin killed the soldiers protecting Dr. Connors, he used his monstrous strength and speed to catch up with the nearby snipers in just a few strides and kill them one by one.
But after that, Kingpin could no longer get Dr. Connors away without S.H.I.E.L.D. keeping watch.
Although he had burst out of the underground sewers after mutating and caught S.H.I.E.L.D. off guard, he couldn't simply return to the sewers to evade their pursuit as he had before. The problem was Kingpin himself: he was now far too huge. He stood two meters taller than the mass-produced Lizard Monsters, and his build was an entire size larger. There was no way someone that big could fit into the sewers.
And even if Kingpin could squeeze inside, he wouldn't get very far.
With no other choice, he carried Dr. Connors out onto the street. But the moment he did, chaos erupted.
"Eeeeeeeeeek!"
Normally, that sort of shrieking belonged exclusively to women. But when Kingpin appeared on the street in this terrifying form, everyone who saw him—men and women alike—screamed in horror.
Kingpin's enormous, grotesque half-man, half-lizard body, along with the heavy thuds of his feet hitting the ground, brought back memories of that terrifying time a week ago: the Day of Purgatory. Back then, countless people had died at the hands of Lizard Monsters like this. Some had become food in their bellies, while others had been treated like toys, mangled beyond recognition and left as bloody, unrecognizable heaps...
They had thought it was all over. But now that Kingpin had appeared again in the form of a Lizard Monster, the nightmare had returned.
As Kingpin watched the "little bugs" shrieking and scurrying in every direction, the twisted grin on his face grew even more distorted. He felt no affection