Fitz and Simmons, the scientific duo, stared at the giant shadow rising from the ground and stood frozen in shock, unable to speak for a long while.
"Mr. Li, he's... he's..." Fitz felt as though his tongue had tied itself in knots, and he could not get the words out.
But when they turned back in shock, they discovered that their other three teammates had already headed toward the portal.
"All right, you can be surprised after we get back. For now, let's get out of here!" Daisy stopped and waved them over.
The two young scientists finally came to their senses and hurriedly supported each other as they followed.
Fitz muttered, "How are you guys not surprised at all? Wait, don't tell me you already knew?"
Coulson glanced back at him. "It's classified, Fitz. Director Fury's orders."
Fitz was somewhat displeased. "No, if it's classified, why do I feel like everyone except me knows about it? Is it classified only from me?"
That was what he said, but he did not slow down. In the blink of an eye, they had all passed through the portal and returned to Earth.
Only the giant Space Beast incarnated by Hive and the silver giant remained at the scene.
"I don't know who turned you into this," Richard said as he unleashed mental pressure, "but it doesn't matter. You'll tell me eventually."
The Space Beast Hive had transformed into let out a low roar.
Richard sensed that his mental world was chaotic, filled with meaningless memory fragments and scattered snippets that could not be logically connected at all.
Over his thousands of years, Hive had changed hosts countless times and devoured innumerable people. Whenever he consumed someone, he inherited that person's memories as well. Thus, Hive's mind was mixed with memories from