Boom...!!!
A luxury cruise ship that happened to be passing by, weighing over a hundred thousand tons, was effortlessly sliced in two by the monster's shark-fin-like bony blade atop its head.
Rumble...!!!
Amid two violent explosions, the cruise ship, broken into two halves, slowly sank into the sea.
However.
The enormous monster was completely unaffected by the explosions.
It continued swaying its massive body as it headed toward the coastline.
Along the way, it even smashed through the Golden Gate Bridge blocking its path, causing the live feed to cut out entirely.
What the hell was that ugly thing?
Could it be some disobedient little brother under Godzilla?
No!
Its utterly unaesthetic appearance, as though it had been hastily pieced together, was vastly different from the MonsterVerse Godzilla belonged to!
"Could another monster world have merged in as well?"
Carl frowned slightly, feeling as though he had seen a similar monster somewhere before.
So he began searching through the giant-monster movies he had watched in his "past life."
Very soon, a movie about mechs fighting monsters surfaced in his mind.
"Could this fucking be a Kaiju?!!"
That was right—the movie Pacific Rim.
The Kaiju in it came in all kinds of forms. Some looked like crabs, some like turtles, some like crocodiles, and so on.
One of them, a monster called Knifehead, looked extremely similar to the one before him.
Combined with the destruction of San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge—
Carl could almost confirm that this monster was the first Category III monster, Trespasser, sent to Earth by the alien colonizers known as the Precursors through the Breach at the bottom of the Mariana Trench to wipe out humanity!
Although the movie had not shown any footage related to Trespasser, it had briefly described the destruction he caused.
Trespasser possessed tough, thick skin that could withstand almost any conventional weapon.
When he first landed in San Francisco, he triggered a powerful earthquake of roughly magnitude 7.1, causing enormous damage to the city.
The U.S. military immediately deployed its army, navy, and air force to attack him.
For six straight days, they used every conventional means of attack available, yet none of it inflicted any effective damage on Trespasser.
In the end, with no other choice, the U.S. military dropped three tactical nuclear weapons on Oakland to destroy him!!
However, even the nuclear bombs failed to completely erase his sturdy body.
And the special blue blood inside Trespasser contained a large amount of ammonia-based chemical compounds.
It was actually a special toxin lethally harmful to humans.
The intense heat generated by the explosion instantly vaporized it into the air.
And so...
San Francisco and everything within a hundred miles became a barren wasteland filled with toxins and radiation, with nearly a million people dying unnatural deaths!
The disaster was later known as the San Francisco Incident, while the day the Kaiju landed was called K-DAY!!!
Humanity therefore launched the Jaeger Program.
They attempted to build giant mechs and use purely physical attacks to cause the Kaiju to die from "internal bleeding," thereby reducing the contamination their internal toxins caused to the atmosphere and environment.
At that thought.
Carl stood directly up from the hydrotherapy tank.
His muscular physique, along with the capital that dwarfed all others, was revealed in full detail beneath the icy water.
"Oh my God!!!"
The little secretary covered her mouth and let out an extremely reverent gasp.
Her burning gaze locked directly onto the source of life.
She subconsciously swallowed.
This must be the legendary key capable of taking any woman to Heaven, right?!!
Only when an unhappy snort sounded beside her did she snap back to her senses and hurriedly grab a bathrobe to dress Carl.
Waving for the little secretary to leave, Carl picked up the phone and called Zemo.
Perhaps because of the earthquake, the call connected successfully, but the signal kept cutting in and out.
"Zemo, that monster is called a Kaiju. Its blood is highly toxic. Quickly take Samuel Stern and leave San Francisco!!"
"Yes."
Even while in danger, Zemo's voice remained steady and calm.
That composure of remaining unflustered even with Mount Tai collapsing before him instantly put Carl more at ease.
Sure enough, his previous approach to recruiting subordinates had been correct.
Only those who could withstand pressure and danger at crucial moments and continue completing their missions were truly talents worthy of Carl humbling himself and spending heavily to recruit!!
After hanging up.
After thinking for a moment, Carl called John Jameson as well.
This was undoubtedly a great opportunity to harvest Prestige Points.
How could he possibly miss it!!!
San Francisco.
Time rewound slightly to more than ten minutes earlier.
On the broad pedestrian walkway on the left side of the Golden Gate Bridge, Zemo was escorting the vacant-eyed Black Widow alone toward the center of the bridge.
This was a condition Zemo had specifically demanded to prevent S.H.I.E.L.D. from trying anything underhanded.
Both sides could only send one person with their hostage and walk to the center of the bridge for the exchange.
This would minimize the possibility of either side double-crossing the other.
Very soon, Zemo arrived at the designated location.
Less than twenty meters away, on the opposite side, stood a man with short brown hair, dressed in a black bodysuit, with a quiver of arrows strapped to his back.
He was sizing up Zemo and the Black Widow being escorted by him with sharp eyes.
At the same time, beside that man stood an oddball wearing specially made handcuffs and a gag. His appearance was ordinary, but his head was more than three times larger than that of an ordinary person.
Judging solely from his appearance and the features of his head, he should be Samuel Stern himself.
"Director, something seems off about Natasha's condition!"
Clint Barton, the Level Seven S.H.I.E.L.D. agent codenamed Hawkeye, noticed the abnormality and hurriedly informed Director Nick Fury through his communicator.
"Motherfucker!!!"
Nick Fury's furious voice immediately came through the earpiece. "Check Romanoff's condition carefully later. If anything is wrong, kill the person handling the exchange immediately and bring both hostages back."
Being extorted for ten million had already hurt enough.
If they got back a useless idiot on top of that, then S.H.I.E.L.D. would truly suffer a massive loss this time.
"Yes."
Hawkeye escorted Samuel Stern forward slowly, then stopped again roughly two meters away from Zemo.
The two released their hostages in tacit understanding, and the hostages obediently walked toward the other side.
"Natasha, are you okay?"
Hawkeye remained vigilant toward the other side while repeatedly calling out to his friend.
However.
The Black Widow acted as though she had not heard him, her face still wearing that vacant expression.
"Damn it... What exactly did you do to her!!!"
Furiously, Hawkeye drew his bow, pulled the string taut, and aimed at Zemo across from him.
The arrow he used carried a specially made high-explosive warhead, with greater power and a wider kill radius than an ordinary armor-piercing round.
If they could not give him a satisfactory answer now, he would definitely make sure they died without a complete corpse!!!
Thanks to boss "Yemo" for the two monthly tickets, boss "Qin Blackfish" for the one monthly ticket, and all the other readers who voted with recommendation tickets. This little author is immensely grateful!!!
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