"This was probably the uncertainty of Compound V..."
Carl could not help recalling a comic related to The Boys.
It showed many cases of physical mutations caused by injections of Compound V.
Like those Epsilon-class inferior mutants, they were superpowered individuals who looked neither human nor ghost.
It was precisely constrained by this uncertainty that Vought Group gave up on cultivating superheroes on a large scale.
In the end, they chose to take enormous risks, using despicable methods like financial inducement to bribe greedy parents and hospitals across the country.
They secretly injected Compound V into swaddled infants.
Because Compound V was only at its most stable when injected during infancy!
If they successfully awakened superpowers.
They could then use their powers without any restrictions, just like Homelander.
Carl did not consider himself a saintly person.
Yet he still deeply loathed Vought Group's vile actions.
If he ever got the chance in the future, he would definitely uproot that company of countless crimes!
For the moment, he suppressed the anger in his heart.
Carl fixed his gaze once more on the "speaker man" across from him.
It was not hard to tell from the other's appearance that his superpower was most likely related to sound waves!
Although sound waves were also a special kind of energy wave.
In theory, they should not have been able to penetrate the Energy Coat covering Carl's body!
But he did not want to try that again.
Or rather, he did not want to waste any more time on this bunch of trash.
"It's time to end this farce!!"
Carl violently flung both arms outward, and blinding light like a supernova immediately burst from his body.
Inexhaustible cosmic energy poured outward as if it cost nothing.
In an instant, it enveloped the entire interior of the barrier.
"Damn it, my eyes..."
The Werewolf, who had already pounced into midair, abruptly froze.
He instinctively clutched his eyes tightly with both hands.
But the instant he moved his hands, an incomparably vast torrent of chaotic energy had already swept over him.
The violent energy directly tore apart his steel-hard skin. His fur, flesh, and bones began to break down, burn, and turn to ash...
Even though he possessed extremely powerful regenerative abilities.
He ultimately could not compare to the almost freakish levels of Wolverine and Deadpool.
So it only slightly delayed the process as he was being disintegrated.
He had no power at all to reverse his annihilation.
The Werewolf's howl of agony came to an extremely abrupt stop almost immediately.
As for Shield Man, Matchstick Man, and the sound-wave man who had not even had time to display his superpower.
They did not even have time to scream before they were all turned into scattered ashes by the surging torrent of energy.
Boom...!!!
Without Shield Man's energy support, the previously incomparably sturdy barrier was now like paper mache, shattering with a tremendous crash in an instant.
The hurricane-like torrent of energy within swept outward in every direction.
The entire space trembled with it.
"Mayday, mayday, mayday! We got a Blackhawk down!!!"
The armed helicopters that had been circling overhead.
After being struck by the torrent of energy, all their electronic instruments overloaded and failed.
Amid the pilots' screams, they began spiraling downward along irregular trajectories.
Soon, a series of thunderous explosions rang out from the ground, followed by balls of rising fire.
And those Hydra soldiers did not fare any better.
Most of the soldiers hiding behind the Hummers had no time to react before they were crushed into bloody pulp by the heavy vehicles rolling backward without stopping.
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"Good thing we didn't choose to hide behind the vehicles just now..."
The soldiers hiding behind rocks and trees around them thought they had narrowly escaped disaster and were secretly rejoicing.
But the next second.
Their bodies were precisely severed at the waist by two laser beams piercing through the distant smoke.
"Please, don't kill me... As long as you're willing to let me go, I'll tell you every secret related to the organization!!"
Amid the ruins, one of Major Lox's legs was pinned firmly beneath an abandoned Hummer.
Suppressing the fear in his heart, he pleaded fawningly to the figure gradually emerging from the smoke in the distance.
Compared to his own life, any damn loyalty had long ceased to matter.
Only by surviving would he have a chance to rise again.
However.
Carl's cold voice completely shattered his fantasy.
"No need to make it so troublesome. I already found the answer I wanted in your head..."
As his words rang out, two energy beams directly blasted Major Lox's head apart.
The valley outside the base finally returned to its former tranquility.
Only the still-burning wreckage of vehicles occasionally produced inexplicable explosions.
The pungent smell of gunpowder smoke and nauseating stench of blood soon drifted away on the fresh mountain wind.
"The Telepathy + Cyclops combination is ridiculously useful. It's absolutely a battlefield harvesting skill!"
"Time to give Hydra a little shock. Otherwise, they probably won't remember this lesson!"
Carl's body slowly rose into the air. Before leaving, he did not forget to call toward the base:
"Pietro, bring people out and clean up the mess!!!"
Then he transformed into a streak of golden light.
And flew at top speed toward the Greater Caucasus Mountains.
A few minutes later.
Pietro led more than a dozen soldiers out of the base.
Looking at the bloody, chaotic battlefield before the valley.
Not only did he show no trace of fear, his face was instead filled with fanaticism and longing, like that of an extreme cultist.
"That's right, this is how superheroes should fight!"
"Carl was so damn cool just now. He was practically like a god who ruled over life and death..."
Although Pietro had only watched the entire battle from inside the base.
The hot blood in his body was already surging and boiling.
Men were creatures born to yearn for power!
Especially the kind of immense power capable of destroying heaven and earth.
By now, Pietro had long regarded Carl as his idol.
On countless nights, he had secretly fantasized about the imposing scenes of himself slaughtering enemies in every direction after "awakening" his superpowers.
But...
Reality was like a bucket of cold water poured over his head, extinguishing all his passion and fantasies.
Even now, his superpower showed no signs whatsoever of "awakening."
This could not help making Pietro feel deeply inferior.
At the same time, a strange thought arose in his heart: Could I really just be a useless piece of trash?
Otherwise, why was he the only one among the three who had undergone the experiment to have yet to "awaken" superpowers?
"Ah..."
Pietro shook his head miserably, then stubbornly comforted himself:
"Even if I can't become a superhero, it's actually no big deal. At least now that we have Carl, Wanda and I will never be bullied or excluded again!!!"
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