The entire waterfall... is a door?
What the hell is this word of tiger and wolf? Has this kid been in the ice and snow for a long time, and his brain has been frozen into a lump of ice?
"What a damn international joke!"
This group of veterans would rather believe that the enemy has become a god than dare to believe that the natural wonders they see in front of them are fake.
Among the crowd, there was only one exception.
Logan.
This old monster, who has lived for hundreds of years, is still lazily leaning against the cold rock wall, with his arms folded in front of his chest. His Beast-like eyes that can penetrate people's hearts glance back and forth between Chu Hang and the huge waterfall.
His eyes didn't have the shock of seeing a ghost like other people's, only an almost substantive examination and exploration.
As a Mutants with top-level Beast senses, he can't smell anything wrong or hear any unusual sounds.
Everything here, in his perception, is extremely normal.
But his intuition, the intuition honed on countless occasions of life and death and more accurate than any instrument, was frantically alerting him.
--This mysterious oriental boy named Chu Hang never does anything he is unsure of.
From the time Normandy landed until now deep behind enemy lines, has this guy created too many "miracles"?
In the eerie silence, only Howard was still chattering on the communicator, like a crazy old mother, trying to use pale words such as "science", "logic" and "rationality" to pull Chu Hang back from the cliff of "feudal superstition".
However, Steve·Rogers ignored him at all.
Captain America just stared at Chu Hang. In those eyes that were bluer than the clear sky at the top of Alps, there was no trace of doubt, only a pure and almost blind trust.
This trust was forged by Chu Hang's incredible predictions and achievements in countless battles.
"Prove it to me."
Steve spoke. His voice was not loud, but it was extremely calm, like a sea-fixing needle, which instantly suppressed the roar of Howard in the command channel and the panic in the hearts of the team members.
Proof?
Hearing these two words, Chu Hang felt almost overjoyed.
This is what he was waiting for!
If this were revealed, he would not go to blow up Hydra Base tomorrow, but would be directly packed away by Howard·Stark and tied to the operating table to be used as a guinea pig to be sliced and studied.
Therefore, he needs a proof method that is simple, crude, intuitive, and can make these guys, especially the scientific madman Howard, shut up completely.
Chu Hang turned around and looked at Steve again, grinning, revealing a mouth of teeth that looked particularly white in the cold air.
"Captain, this method of proof should not be too simple." He pointed at the red and blue iconic shield with a five-pointed star on Steve's arm, and his tone was as relaxed as saying to someone on the street, "Hey, buddy, lend me a hand."
"Use your precious pot lid, point it at it, and use your sucking power to give it a hard blow."
Steve was stunned.
The Howling Commandos team members were also stunned.
Howard on the other end of the communicator exploded. "That's it?! Chu! Are you really fucking crazy or are you pretending to be crazy?!" His voice became hoarse due to excitement, "That shield is made by Vibranium! It is the only miracle metal on the earth! But it is also It's just a shield! You asked Steve to throw it into the waterfall? Do you want our only Super-Soldier to lose his most important and only weapon before the mission officially begins?! What if it falls into the deep pool behind and cannot be found? Will you compensate?!"
"You'll know if you try it, won't you?" Chu Hang shrugged indifferently, with a calm expression on his face that said, "You mortals just think too much."
Steve took a deep look at Chu Hang, and he saw an absolute sense of confidence and Control in those dark eyes. He no longer had any doubts.
"Everyone, stay back!"
He shouted lowly, and then silently took a few steps back, leaving enough room for himself to exert his strength.
He took off the shield from his arm and held it tightly in his hand. The muscles strengthened to the human limit by Super-Soldier Serum instantly stood up under the tactical uniform, like a cheetah ready to attack.
The waist is twisted, the core is exerted, and the force is transmitted to the arms through the spine. The entire arm is like a giant bow stretched to the full moon!
The next second, the bowstring suddenly loosened!
Phew--!
The red and blue round shield instantly turned into a phantom that was almost impossible to catch with the naked eye. With a scream that tore the air and made people feel sad, it drew a perfect arc of death in the air, spinning and whistling, and slammed into the glacier waterfall that looked extremely soft but actually hid murderous intent!
Everyone present, including Logan, subconsciously held their breath and stared at the swirling afterimage without blinking.
In their expectation, the shield would pass through the water curtain without any hindrance, making at most some splashes, and then fall into the deep pool behind the waterfall with a "plop", causing a circle of ripples.
However, what happened next was like a heavy hammer from God, severely shattering all the perceptions they had built over the past few decades.
Dang--!!!
There was a metal collision sound that was not like anything on earth at all, resounding through the sky, sharp enough to pierce the eardrums, and exploded throughout the entire canyon without any warning!
That sound was not the muffled sound of a shield hitting ice or rocks at all, but a... purer, harder, and more terrifying trill! It was like the cosmic scream that would be emitted when two neutron stars from outer space collide violently at the speed of light!
The Vibranium Shield thrown by Steve was enough to smash through the tank. The moment it came into contact with the waterfall water curtain, it was like a high-speed truck hitting an invisible, absolute barrier cast by the gods!
It was slammed back by an unimaginable and extremely violent force, with a faster speed and stronger momentum than when it came!
At the point where the shield hit, the originally surging and seamless waterfall water curtain, the perfect holographic projection, suddenly experienced a violent and extreme energy disorder!
The waterfall image in that area was like an old TV that had been kicked, flickering and distorted crazily, covered with snowflakes and garbled data.
In the blinking interval of less than a tenth of a second, a huge, dark, non-reflective metal wall with a surface as smooth as a mirror flashed past behind the waterfall!
Although it was just a glimpse, the cold metal texture full of anti-humanity and anti-Life Law atmosphere, as well as the huge and ferocious Hydra emblem engraved on the surface of the wall, as if mocking everything in the world, have been clearly captured by everyone's retinas!
"My... my God..."
In the communicator, Howard·Stark's voice seemed to be strangled by an invisible big hand. Only half of the sound was left, full of confusion and horror after the collapse of faith. "Then... what kind of material is that... that kind of energy reaction... impossible... absolutely impossible..."
The team members of Howling Commandos seemed to have been looked at by Medusa and collectively cast a petrification spell. They all froze in place, with the expressions on their faces changing from shock at the beginning, to horror in the middle, and finally evolved into a deep, almost worshipful awe for Chu Hang.
The way they looked at Chu Hang had completely changed.
This can no longer be explained by "good luck" or "accurate intuition".
This is simply a miracle! It's a prophet!
Steve turned sideways and firmly caught the shield that flew back. The huge shock force from the shield made his hardened arms feel slightly numb. He lowered his head and glanced at the edge of the precious shield. There was not even a single scratch on it, and it was intact.
He slowly raised his head and looked at the waterfall again, which had returned to normal, as if nothing had happened. His eyes were extremely solemn, as if he wanted to see through it.
"How did you know?" He asked Chu Hang in a deep voice. This question represents the voice of everyone present.
"Guess."
Chu Hang spat out the two words without changing his expression and his heart did not beat. At the same time, he silently watched the frantically refreshing prompts on the system panel.
[Ding! Gain a shock value of +100 from Steve·Rogers!]
[Ding! Gain +500 faith collapse value from Howard·Stark!]
[Ding! Get the awe value +999 from everyone at Howling Commandos!]
Cool!
Seeing everyone's aggrieved expressions of "I believe you, you are such a bad old man, but I dare not refute you", Chu Hang felt so happy.
Steve: "..."
Everyone: "..."
Okay, boss, you are awesome, everything you say is right. Even if you say this door is made by your family, we will believe it.
"Okay, gentlemen, don't stand here like a wooden pile in a daze." Chu Hang clapped his hands, breaking the awkward and weird silence, "Now we are 100% sure that this thing is a door. Then, here comes a new question..."
He paused and turned his attention to Falsworth, the demolition expert in the team.
"How do I get in?"
Falsworth was shocked by what he saw and suddenly came to his senses. He almost rolled and ran to the waterfall. From his backpack, which was more magical than a treasure bag, he took out a bunch of weird detection instruments with various indicator lights flashing. He scanned the place where the shield hit just now and frantically scanned it. He also muttered a series of data that no one could understand.
After a few minutes, he turned off all the instruments and turned around, his face uglier than the ten thousand-year-old ice at the bottom of the canyon.
"Captain..." His voice was dry and hoarse, with a hint of despair, "It's over. It's all over."
"At that moment, my vibration sensor, metal density analyzer, energy spectrum analyzer... all went off the charts. According to preliminary estimates from the system, the thickness of this door... is at least thirty meters. The material... I don't know what the hell it is. Its atomic density and structural strength are hundreds or even thousands of times higher than any known alloy in my database."
He took a deep breath, as if he had exhausted all his strength, and came to the most despairing conclusion.
"Don't talk about the little C4 explosive we brought, captain, even if you move the entire Allies Europe explosive depot from the battlefield and bombard it for a year, you can't even think of blowing up a decent hole in it."
The little fire of hope that had just been ignited by the discovery of the truth was instantly doused by this cold and biting reality.
Yes, the door has been found.
But this is a door that they cannot physically open.
What's the difference between this and staring at an entire mountain wall?
Whoa--!
Once again, everyone's eyes were focused on Chu Hang like a dozen high-power searchlights. The meaning in his eyes was very clear: Boss, stop pretending and continue your performance!
Chu Hang felt like a hole was being burned into his forehead by the looks of these people.
"Hey, hey, hey, don't look at me like that," he spread his hands exaggeratedly, with an innocent look on his face, "I can only guess riddles, but I can't open locks. I'm not professional."
Although he said this, he had already taken steps and walked slowly along the edge of the huge "Waterfall Gate".
As he walked, he stretched out his hand and pretended to be groping on the cold, frost-covered "wall". His brows were furrowed and he was mumbling something, making him look like a magic stick who was "telepathically sensing".
Found it!
On the surface, there is no difference between this place and the surrounding rock walls. They are also covered with thick layers of ice, making them unremarkable and unremarkable.
"Huh? Here..."
Chu Hang stretched out his finger and tapped it lightly on the ice, making a crisp sound of "knock-knock".
"What's wrong?" Steve, like a loyal bodyguard, immediately followed him, fully alert.
"I don't know." Chu Hang shook his head, with a hint of confusion on his face. "It just feels like... the sound here seems to be different from other places."
Logan also came over. His nose, which was more sensitive than a police dog, sniffed the air vigorously. Then he frowned and shook his head at Steve: "There is no special smell."
"Let me do it."
Steve Without saying a word, he stretched out his thick hands wearing tactical gloves and began to scrape the ice in that area vigorously.
Super-Soldier's power allows him to do this kind of thing as easily as an ordinary person scraping a wall.
Soon, the thick ice layer was scraped away in large areas, revealing the dark brown, wet rocks below.
The surface of the rock is still unremarkable.
Just when everyone thought that Chu Hang's "magical intuition" finally failed this time, Steve's fingers seemed to touch a very small seam on the smooth rock surface.
He increased his strength and used his fingertips to pick and pry at the gap.
"Click."
With a soft sound, a thin piece disguised as rock skin fell off, revealing a palm-sized groove made of unknown Black Noir metal.
In the center of the groove is a peculiar Hydra logo that emits a faint red light. Below the logo, there is a slot that can just fit a standard Energy Block.
"Entrance!" Dugan shouted in excitement, lowering his voice.
"No, this is not an entrance." Falsworth looked at the precise groove and immediately gave his professional judgment. He shook his head, "This is more like... a keyhole."
Keyhole?
Everyone looked at each other.
Where is the key? They can't expect Hydra to be stupid enough to hide the key under the carpet at the door. On this mission, they didn't bring Hydra Base's access card.
At this moment, Chu Hang, who had not spoken much and seemed to be staying out of the situation, slowly, like magic, took out something from the tactical bag on his waist.
It was a piece of Energy Block that was completely blue, seemed to have electricity flowing inside, exuded a faint light, and was full of futuristic science fiction.
It was the trophy he had conveniently taken from the corpse of the unlucky Hydra patrol team leader.
"You said..."
Chu Hang shook the blue Energy Block in his hand, then looked at the slot whose size and shape perfectly matched Energy Block, with a bright smile on his face that looked like a successful prank.
"Can I use this?"