Intelligence Overwhelming!
A blinding light exploded in the control room.
The light dimmed.
A half-meter-tall alien landed on the control panel. It had grayish-white skin, a huge head, and bulging, spherical eyes.
Grey Matter!
"Manual physical locking successfully bypassed the software firewall."
Jiang Li's voice became shrill, but he spoke extremely fast. The Galvan's brain, which surpassed the limits of the universe, instantly took over his thoughts.
Bang! Bang!
Two Kree soldiers who had escaped the net broke through the gate and aimed their guns at the control panel.
"Don't even think about it!" Gwen fell upside down from the ceiling, kicking one person away and shooting out spider webs from her hands, covering the helmet of another person tightly.
"Hold on for thirty seconds."
Without even looking up, Grey Matter unplugged a main data cable from the console and plugged it directly into the physical interface at the bottom of the Omnitrix watch face.
Sizzle!
Hundreds of windows popped up on the holographic screen instantly. Crimson virus code flooded the screen like a waterfall.
The Grey Matter placed his hands on the virtual keyboard.
Afterimage.
Ten short fingers typed on the keyboard, leaving afterimages too blurry to be seen with the naked eye. Mars flew from the edge of the console.
"Inferior brute-force algorithm. Crude gene fragment truncation mechanism."
The Grey Matter looked at the screen full of red codes and mocked mercilessly.
"High Evolutionary? Nothing more than a smattering biological butcher. Trying to play with code in Azmuth's digital realm? He's asking for death."
Press Enter to overwrite.
[Clear foreign garbled characters.]
[Reconstructing DNA isolation bands.]
[Extracting the virus's underlying logic... Decompilation successful.]
In just fifteen seconds.
The wildly jumping red and yellow gibberish on the Omnitrix dial came to an abrupt halt. The deep green high-dimensional runes re-lit and flowed smoothly.
[Virus has been cleared.]
Master Control is now back online.
"System restored."
The Grey Matter unplugged the data cable, but he didn't stop typing on the keyboard.
"It is impolite not to reciprocate."
The Grey Matter retrieved the deep space radar array from the Moon Base and dragged a green Trojan program that had just been decompiled and forcibly rewritten into the launch bay.
"Broadcast-level targeted transmission. Target: All enemy warships in lunar orbit."
Press the Enter key.
Lunar orbit.
Three thousand combined warships of the Kree Empire and Skrull Empire are forming a dense bombardment formation.
Inside the flagship command center.
Commander Kree looked at the crumbling blue shield on the lunar surface, a cold smile playing on his lips.
"The High Evolutionary virus has taken effect. The Plumbers has not retaliated. Main cannon charging, prepare for the final blow, to completely breach the base!"
"Report to the commander!" the radar officer suddenly exclaimed, "An unusual frequency signal from the Moon Base has been intercepted!"
"Intercept it!"
"Interception failed! The signal penetrated the physical firewall... and entered the fleet's mainframe!"
Buzz--!
The lights in the command center went out instantly.
The next second, a huge green hourglass symbol—the Omnitrix emblem—lit up on all the holographic screens, control panels, and even the goggles of the soldiers' individual armor!
"What's going on?!" Commander Skrull roared in fury.
"Main engine... shut down!"
"Weapon system... locked!"
"Life support system is disconnecting! Backup power has been formatted by an unknown program!"
Three thousand Star Destroyers that had roamed the universe were all transformed into scrap metal coffins floating in space within five seconds.
The powerless warships, pulled by the moon's gravity, began a violent series of collisions. Fiery explosions erupted one after another in the silent space.
Plumbers Main Control Room.
"Fleet paralyzed. Counter-terrorism operation successful."
The Grey Matter jumped off the main control panel.
A thought flashed through my mind.
Swish!
The Grey Matter disappeared.
A pool of black and white liquid metal, covered with green circuit patterns, shot into the sky.
[Upgrade (Upgrade)]!
Instead of transforming back into human form, the liquid metal lunged directly at the core energy pillar of the base in the center of the main control room.
The green circuit pattern spread instantly.
Click click click!
The entire Plumbers Moon Base, this massive metal fortress covering hundreds of square kilometers, seemed to come alive.
The external armor flipped up. Dozens of giant planetary railguns, originally hidden underground, rose from the ground under the forceful control and enhancement of the Upgrade, their muzzles pointing straight into space.
"System Upgrade complete."
Jiang Li's mechanical echo reverberated throughout the entire base.
"My turn."
Boom----!!!
Dozens of green plasma beams, amplified to their maximum by the Upgrade, tore through the moon's night sky.
The beam of light pierced precisely through the stationary enemy warships.
In space.
The combined Kree and Skrull fleet was like a burst bubble. One Star Destroyer after another exploded and disintegrated under the barrage of green beams of light.
Completely devastating.
Two minutes later, the railgun ceased firing.
Of the five thousand coalition warships, less than one hundred wrecked vessels remain adrift in space.
The flagship's command center was half destroyed. Commander Kree was sucked into the vacuum, clinging desperately to a broken steel bar. He looked at the fleet around him, now a living hell, his eyes filled with incomprehensible terror.
Swish.
Inside the main control room, liquid metal peeled off from the energy pillar and reformed into Jiang Li's human form.
His face was slightly pale. Forcibly controlling the entire Moon Base to fire had taken a huge toll on his mental energy.
But the effect was perfect.
Gwen stepped forward and handed him a bottle of water.
"All wiped out?" Gwen stared at the disappearing red dots on the radar screen.
"A flagship was left behind."
Jiang Li unscrewed the bottle cap, took a sip of water, and stared coldly into outer space.
"Since the High Evolutionary has declared war on me, this matter cannot be left unresolved."
Jiang Li threw the empty water bottle into the trash can and strode towards the teleportation pod.
"Assemble the first expeditionary force of the Plumbers."
"Target: Counter-Earth."