Hulk: A Weak God?

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The streets of Harlem looked as though they had been tossed into a massive blender, every impact triggering violent tremors.

Amid the ruins, a tan monster covered in bone spikes was being brutally pounded into the ground by a red giant with four arms.

"Weren't you acting pretty tough just now? Huh? Go on, scream again for me."

Jiang Li, in Four Arms form, was thoroughly enjoying himself.

Although the newly mutated Abomination might have been roughly equal to Four Arms—a fully grown Tetramand—in terms of raw strength, Jiang Li had the advantage in both number of limbs and fighting technique.

Abomination was like a street thug who only knew how to swing a club, while Tetramands were natural gladiators born for combat throughout the universe.

Jiang Li's upper two hands locked tightly around Abomination's arms, fully exposing his chest, while his lower two hands turned into a pair of heavy hammers, leaving afterimages as they hammered wildly into Abomination's abdomen and ribs like pile drivers.

"Tetramand Combo Punch!"

"Thud! Thud!"

Every punch was accompanied by the dull crack of breaking bones. Abomination was seeing stars, green blood spilling from the corner of his mouth. His once-unbridled arrogance had long since been beaten out of him.

"Let... let me go..." Abomination struggled with difficulty, but under the absolute suppression of four arms, he could not even turn over.

"The Omnitrix combat database has hundreds of fighting styles stored in it. That's more than enough to crush you."

Jiang Li sneered. With all four arms working together, he lifted Abomination directly over his head, preparing to unleash a classic Destruction Throw.

However, right then—

A wild, heart-pounding beastly aura suddenly erupted from the end of the street.

"HULK!! SMASH!!"

Accompanied by a roar powerful enough to shatter eardrums, a massive green blur descended from the sky like a falling meteor and smashed viciously into the center of Jiang Li and Abomination's fight!

"BOOM!!!"

The violent shockwave, mixed with shattered stones, instantly forced the two struggling combatants apart.

Jiang Li felt an overwhelming force crash into him. Even with Four Arms' weight, he was blasted back more than ten meters. His feet plowed two deep trenches into the ground before he barely came to a stop.

The dust settled.

A giant roughly two and a half meters tall stood in the center of the crater. His muscles bulged as if inflated, and his skin was an enraged emerald green. Heavy breaths blasted from his nostrils.

The Invincible Hulk had arrived!

Hulk was currently in an extremely enraged state. He glanced at the half-dead Abomination on the ground, then turned toward Jiang Li, who was even taller than him and had four arms.

Hulk's not-so-bright brain instantly overloaded.

In his logic:

Big guy = enemy.

Red one, reminds Hulk of General Ross = annoying enemy.

Taller than Hulk, with more hands than Hulk = cheating bad guy!

"Red monster! Hulk hates red!" Hulk roared at Jiang Li, spraying spit everywhere. "Hulk smash you flat!"

Jiang Li relaxed his fists and rolled the shoulders of all four arms.

[ Ding! Omega-level lifeform detected: Hulk. ]

[ Scanning Gamma-mutated genes... Progress: 10%... ]

Hearing the system prompt, excitement flashed in Jiang Li's four golden eyes.

This was Hulk! If he could merge Hulk's genes into Four Arms, the result would be too incredible to imagine.

"Perfect timing! Let me see just how tough Marvel's power ceiling really is!"

Rather than retreating, Jiang Li charged forward. All four fists clenched at once as he rushed straight at Hulk.

The red and green torrents collided violently in the streets of Harlem!

"Bang!!!"

Two fists against four arms!

Visible ripples tore through the air, and the glass windows of several nearby buildings instantly shattered.

The instant they made contact, Jiang Li's expression changed slightly.

So heavy!

He felt a mountain-crushing force travel up his arms and through his entire body. His upper two hands had blocked Hulk's fists, but the ground beneath his feet could not withstand the pressure. It instantly crumbled, and both legs sank half a meter into the earth!

"Get lost!"

Seeing that he had failed to push Jiang Li over, Hulk grew even angrier. Green light blazed in his eyes, and in that instant, his strength surged by another thirty percent!

"Crack..." A faint brittle sound came from Jiang Li's arm bones.

[ Warning: The opponent's strength is rising exponentially. ]

[ Genetic scan complete. Immediate evasion recommended! ]

"Now that I've got what I came for, there's no need to risk my life fighting you."

Jiang Li's gaze sharpened. Tetramands might be powerful, but their strength had limits. Hulk, on the other hand, only got stronger the longer he fought. That guy was completely unreasonable.

Since brute force would not work, he would use something that countered him!

"Big guy, you're pretty strong, but can you handle this?"

Jiang Li suddenly released his force. Using the coordination of all four arms, his lower two hands shot out and grabbed Hulk around the waist. Then he executed an over-the-shoulder throw, hurling Hulk away.

Taking advantage of the moment Hulk hit the ground, Jiang Li rapidly swiped his fingers across the badge on his chest.

"Try dealing with something tough yourself!"

"Switch!"

Green light erupted once more!

This time, the light was no longer wild red, but a cold, razor-sharp pale green radiance.

Hulk had just climbed back up when he roared and charged again. This time, his fist carried world-destroying momentum, enough to punch through the armor plating of an aircraft carrier.

"Die!!" Hulk roared.

Yet just as his fist was about to touch Jiang Li's nose, the red giant vanished.

In his place stood a crystalline, incomparably sharp crystal wall!

"Clang!!!"

A crisp metallic crash, sharp enough to make teeth ache, rang through the sky.

Hulk's fist slammed fiercely into a diamond shield that had suddenly risen before him.

"Crack!"

The seemingly indestructible diamond shield was instantly covered in fractures. At the same time, Hulk was knocked two steps back by the terrifying recoil, as though he had punched a steel plate. Shaking his hand, he cried out in pain, "Ow!"

Before Hulk could react, the shattered shield healed itself in the blink of an eye, becoming smooth and gleaming as new!

The shield slowly moved aside, revealing an entirely new alien form behind it.

It was a humanoid creature composed entirely of turquoise crystals. His body was sharply angular, as though sculpted from the most perfect diamonds, with four sharp crystal spikes protruding from his back.

His expression was cold and stern, radiating an indestructible aura.

"Petrosapien—Diamondhead!"

"How... is that possible?"

Not only was Hulk stunned, even General Ross, watching from afar, was dumbfounded.

"Who is that now? That fire guy? That four-armed giant? And now he's become... a diamond man?" General Ross felt his worldview collapsing. "What kind of monster is he? Can he evolve freely on the battlefield?"

Jiang Li lowered his head and looked at his freshly healed crystal arm, inwardly thinking that had been close.

As expected of Hulk. He had nearly broken through Diamondhead's defensive threshold.

But Jiang Li still wore an unfathomable smile. He raised his right hand, and his entire arm instantly transformed into a sharp crystal lance.

"Hulk, calm down. Otherwise, I'll have no choice but to turn you into a specimen."

At that moment, the roar of an engine broke the standoff.

A black Audi R8 performed a beautiful drift and came to a steady stop at the edge of the battlefield. The window rolled down, revealing Black Widow Natasha's cool, beautiful face.

She spoke into her communicator. "Director, I think we need to reassess this target's threat level. He just... transformed again."

Through his crystal-refracted compound eyes, Jiang Li had noticed Black Widow long ago.

"So S.H.I.E.L.D. has finally entered the scene? Looks like the 'first appearance' mission has been perfectly completed."

At that moment, Hulk seemed ready to pounce again, while Abomination in the distance staggered back to his feet and attempted a sneak attack.

"Still want to fight? I don't have time to waste on you two."

Jiang Li snorted and slammed both hands onto the ground.

"Then please quiet down for a little while!"

Tayden Energy surged madly within him, flowing through his arms and into the earth.

"Crystal Maze: Thorn Burial!"

"Rumble—!!!"

The earth groaned.

Countless thick, sharp turquoise crystal pillars burst from the ground like a crazily growing bamboo forest!

They were astonishingly fast, covering a radius of fifty meters!

Just as Hulk tried to jump, several enormous crystal pillars trapped his legs and arms.

Abomination had it even worse. Countless tiny crystal thorns sealed off every possible movement, freezing him in place like a fly trapped in amber.

In only a few seconds.

The once-devastated street became a dazzling crystal forest.

Hulk struggled wildly within the massive crystal cluster. Fine cracks began spreading across the crystal surfaces; clearly, they would not hold him for long.

But that was enough.

Jiang Li slowly rose to his feet. Sunlight fell across his diamond-like body, refracting into seven-colored radiance.

He turned to look at Black Widow inside the Audi R8. On that expressionless crystal face, there seemed to be a faintly teasing smile.

"Beautiful, watching a show requires buying a ticket."