Chen Xiao's gaze turned cold. With a flick of his finger, a fierce, domineering bolt of golden lightning pierced straight through the passage.
Boom!
The violent lightning blasted the dark green death aura into nothingness, utterly crushing the trace of sinister will within it. Kaecilius seized the opening and roared, "Up!"
Lightning chains forcibly dragged the deep-diving pod, already twisted into the shape of an iron discus, out of the void and slammed it onto the special-alloy floor.
Bang!
A massive green hand ripped the warped hatch clean off and hurled it away.
Drenched in sweat and tainted blood, Banner tumbled out as though utterly drained. The green on his body receded beneath his skin like an ebbing tide, but his hand remained locked around the completely intact specialized lead box.
Steve and Sersi climbed out after him, their armor and shield covered in scorched acid scars. Both braced their hands on their knees and gasped for breath.
"Tony, that coating of yours... couldn't hold up against what's down there." Steve wiped the grime from his face, his voice hoarse.
Chen Xiao walked over and nudged the lead box on the floor with the tip of his shoe. "You nearly threw your lives away for this junk?"
Banner gulped down air and struggled to straighten his glasses, half of which had shattered. "Death-plague residue scraped from the contaminated zone. It devours life with incredible potency, but what's even stranger is that it contains anomalous matter at an extremely high density... If this lead box hadn't been sealed so tightly, we'd all have turned into rotting flesh just now."
Tony stepped forward. A miniature scanning beam swept around the edge of the lead box, and the molecular stability index on the instrument screen instantly flashed a scarlet warning.
"Its half-life is