Marvel: The Fake Inventor
Chapter 38

Destruction Mode, Activate!

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The weapons covering this entire wall had naturally not been prepared by Luca.

In fact, they were all part of his father Herman's collection, gathered during his lifetime.

However, Connecticut was home to many wealthy people, and gun ownership and use were strictly regulated there. So these guns really were just collector's items. Apart from occasionally taking them out to maintain and admire them, Herman had hardly ever used them.

"Young master, you'd better stay here. I'll take care of them!"

Shamira headed straight for the nearby weapon rack, grabbed a weapon, and immediately prepared to go out and face the enemy.

But before she could take a step, Luca reached out and stopped her.

"Wait!"

As he stopped Shamira, Luca rapidly tapped a few keys with his left hand, quickly bringing up the surveillance footage from the entire mansion. He then dragged the feeds onto the other monitors.

And, just as Shamira had said, the cameras covering the exterior of the mansion showed masked figures dressed in black, carrying weapons and sneaking toward the mansion.

Luca looked at the screens before him, then at Baymax, who had just finished putting on his armor beside him.

Without hesitation, Luca pressed the arm of the Tracking Glasses and popped out the tracker.

He stood up and inserted it into the port that had been built into Baymax's head armor in advance.

Then he took out a Bluetooth earpiece and handed it to Shamira.

As Shamira gave him a puzzled look, Luca patted Baymax's armored arm and smiled.

"This time, Baymax will lead the charge!"

"But..."

Although she had already seen Baymax use "Boxing," Shamira still didn't think the robot had much practical combat ability.

But this wasn't the time to argue. Seeing the confidence in Luca's eyes, she wisely kept quiet and chose to follow her young master's orders.

"Baymax, connect to the Tracking Glasses."

"Tracking Glasses connected." (●-●)

Still somewhat dazed and unaware of what was going on, Baymax simply followed Luca's command.

As he ordered Baymax to connect to the glasses, Luca pressed the button on their left side again.

At the same time, with a thought, a red-to-green thermal imaging display immediately appeared on the left lens.

Luca quickly looked up and scanned the area above. Every enemy who had entered the vicinity stood out clearly on the thermal display.

"Tsk, tsk. Even this thermal imaging's ability to see through things would keep those weapons companies busy for a lifetime."

Luca cleared his mind of distractions and immediately ordered Baymax, who stood nearby:

"Baymax, activate Destruction Mode!"

At his words, Baymax's previously somewhat goofy demeanor changed in an instant. The cameras in his once-black eyes glowed an eerie red, and his voice turned icy cold.

"Understood!" (✪-✪)

Even Shamira was momentarily stunned by the murderous chill radiating from Baymax.

Luca continued giving orders.

"Baymax, go upstairs and take out all the enemies!"

"Yes! The best medicine is... taking out all the enemies!!" (✪-✪)

As Baymax walked up the stairs, Luca turned to Shamira and said:

"Aunt Shamira, follow behind Baymax and proceed carefully. Listen for my instructions."

After saying that, Luca sat back down in front of the surveillance monitors.

Seeing that Luca had no intention of putting himself in danger, Shamira felt considerably relieved. She hefted the submachine gun in her hands, flipped off the safety, and followed Baymax without a word.

Watching Shamira head upstairs, Luca adjusted the microphone in front of him and grinned before speaking at an unhurried pace.

"There are sixteen enemies around the mansion. No heavy weapons. They're split into four groups of four, approaching and surrounding the mansion from the east, south, west, and north."

"Aunt Shamira, don't show yourself yet. Let Baymax give them a little surprise~"

At that moment, the intruders surrounding the mansion upstairs had no idea what was about to happen.

More than a dozen of them were cautiously making their way toward the mansion under cover of darkness.

However, just as the four intruders coming from the west stepped into the courtyard,

the brightly lit mansion, with lights on in most of its rooms, suddenly went completely dark. Only a few streetlamps outside cast enough light to faintly illuminate the courtyard.

Before they could react, a huge shadow suddenly burst out of the house.

Then—

Boom!

The armed intruder at the front was struck as if by lightning and sent flying with a tremendous crash.

"Ahhh! What the hell is that?!"

"Open fire! Open fire!!"

"Rat-a-tat-tat-tat—"

Flames flickered rapidly from the muzzles of two carbines, their intermittent flashes lighting up the surroundings.

That's right. Only two of them opened fire.

Because just as the first man was sent flying, Baymax, already right in front of them, raised a foot and kicked the second intruder flying as well.

The remaining two nearly panicked out of their minds when they saw Baymax. They hurriedly swung their gun barrels around toward him.

A dense spray of bullets rained down wildly around Baymax.

In fact, the bullets could do some damage to Baymax's makeshift armor.

But the two men were firing in such a panic that their aim was terrible.

Besides, Baymax in Destruction Mode wasn't going to stand still and let them attack.

"Directive: take out the enemies!" (✪-✪)

His voice was a cold, mechanical monotone.

Baymax reached out with both hands and instantly seized the two submachine guns aimed at him.

"Ahhhhhhh—"

The two intruders screamed in agony at the same time.

Baymax's fan-like hands clamped down on their weapons and forearms, crushing both together.

Crack! Crack!

The crisp sound of breaking bones rang out.

The intense pain had already made the two men stop firing.

Ignoring the pair, who were nearly unconscious from the pain,

Baymax raised both arms and casually tossed them aside.

Like their companion, the two intruders collapsed unconscious in a corner of the courtyard.

In the blink of an eye—

In fact, only two or three seconds had passed from the mansion going dark, to the enemies opening fire, to Baymax taking out the last man.

Even so, the gunfire and screams had obviously alerted the intruders approaching from the other three directions.

Knowing their presence had been discovered, they stopped bothering to hide.

Shouting, they raised their guns and began spraying bullets into the mansion.

Meanwhile, the four men by the front entrance also continued firing as they rushed toward Baymax's position.

At that moment,

down in the basement, Luca gritted his teeth and cursed under his breath.

"Damn it! My house!"

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