When the huge gate like the gate of hell slowly opened, and the huge and suffocating underground military kingdom behind it was revealed, even a Super-Soldier with an iron will like Steve·Rogers couldn't help but skip a beat of his heart.
Everything in front of me has long gone beyond the scope of war.
This is basically an industrialized empire.
The cold steel structure held up the roof of the cave like the skeleton of a giant beast, and the beams of countless searchlights criss-crossed in the huge hangar below, illuminating the ferocious-looking aircraft with a cold light.
The air is filled with the smell of engine oil, gunpowder and some indescribable fanaticism. Thousands of Hydra soldiers are busy at their posts like a colony of ants. The entire base is like a heart that operates accurately, pumping out the threat of death with every beat.
"Everyone, follow the shadows." Steve's voice was extremely low, like a dagger tempered with ice, accurately piercing each team member's nerves that were somewhat distracted by shock. His eyes were terrifyingly calm, as if the steel hell in front of him was just another ordinary fortress that needed to be conquered.
"Our mission is to destroy that aircraft." He pointed his chin towards the Black Noir bomber with an astonishing wingspan in the deepest part of the hangar. That was the "Valkyrie", the core of the Hydra Doomsday Plan. "Remember, never expose it before you succeed."
Before he finished speaking, he was the first to bend down, every muscle in his body tensed, and his whole body was like a cheetah blending into the darkness, silently stepping into this Hydra underground kingdom.
The team members of Howling Commandos are worthy of being elites who have fought for the rest of their lives. After the brief shock, they immediately returned to their professional soldier qualities.
They didn't have any extra words, they just exchanged determination with their eyes, and then followed Steve one by one, using the huge aircraft and equipment in the hangar as a cover to infiltrate forward quietly.
Their movements were coordinated, like a whole body moving in the dark, with every step taking place in the gap between the roar of machinery and the footsteps of guards.
Steve remained calm and used the simplest tactical gestures to guide the team's route. A raised hand, a fist, and a pointing all contained instructions accurate to the second.
They walked through the long shadows, bypassed the patrolling soldiers, and avoided the rotating probes. The whole process was extremely smooth.
"Falsworth, I leave those small planes to you." Steve lowered his body, pointed at the small individual flying wings on the tarmac that were like Black Noir bats, and said to the demolition experts in the team.
"Understood." James·Montgomery·Falsworth, this gentleman soldier from the United Kingdom, had excitement shining in his eyes at this moment.
He understood it clearly, took out a bunch of sticky explosives from his backpack, and started to install them quietly on the engines and fuel tanks of those aircraft with his hands and feet as deft as a watchmaker.
The plan is simple and crude: make an attack in the east and attack in the west.
They will set off the biggest and most gorgeous fireworks in this underground kingdom to attract the attention of all Hydra. Then, Steve and Chu Hang, the two strongest sharp knives in the team, will take advantage of the chaos to seize the final target - Red Skull and the "Valkyrie".
A few minutes later, when Falsworth made an "OK" gesture to Steve in the shadows, Steve took a deep breath.
His eyes passed through the noisy hangar, past countless busy figures, and locked on the distant high platform like lightning, a man wearing a Black Noir leather trench coat who was lecturing a group of Hydra officers.
Red Skull, John·Schmidt. Even from a distance, you can feel the evil aura mixed with pride and cruelty exuding from him.
"Action!" Steve shouted, and the command was transmitted to Falsworth through the bone conduction headset.
Falsworth pressed the detonator in his hand without hesitation.
Boom--boom boom--!!!
A series of explosions that were violent enough to overturn the entire base exploded simultaneously in every corner of the hangar without warning! Dozens of individual flying wings that had just been filled with fuel instantly turned into huge fireballs rising into the sky. The orange-red flames licked everything Greed. The chain reaction caused by the explosion also detonated the mountains of ammunition boxes and fuel depots around it!
Fires shot into the sky and thick smoke billowed! The shrill sirens instantly resounded throughout the base, as sharp as if they were about to pierce people's eardrums!
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"
"There is a fire in area A! Repeat, there is a fire in area A! Requesting support!"
"Medic! Quick! We need medics!"
The originally orderly underground kingdom of Order Law, in just a few seconds, completely turned into a pot of boiling hell porridge of steel and flames.
Chaos spread like a plague, Hydra soldiers scurrying around like headless flies. Some rushed to the explosion point to try to put out the fire, while others searched in vain for traces of the enemy.
At the peak of this chaos, two figures, like ghosts in the dark night, rushed straight towards the deepest part of the hangar at an inhuman speed against the flow of fleeing people.
Steve was in front, and he held Vibranium Shield in front of him, like an unstoppable humanoid tank. Any soldiers, equipment, or even small vehicles that stood in front of him were knocked away by him with his pure power and speed! The edge of the shield cut through the air, making a frightening roar.
Chu Hang followed closely behind, his posture was much more freehand. He was like an erratic ghost on the chaotic battlefield, his steps were light and his figure was erratic.
Countless bullets and explosions Havok, the moment they approached his body, were strangely slid aside by an invisible and twisted force field, as if there was a space around him that was independent of this world.
"Schmidt!" Steve roared like thunder, covering up the roar of the explosion.
Red Skull, who was furious due to the surprise attack in front of the command podium, suddenly turned around and saw the figure he hated most in his life, wearing a uniform of blue, white and red stars and stripes. His face instantly became extremely ferocious, and the red skull face showed deep hatred.
"Rogers!" He squeezed out the name through his teeth, then turned around without hesitation and ran towards the boarding lane of "Valkyrie".
He knew that this base could no longer be defended and the situation was over. But he still had the last and strongest trump card - the aerial fortress loaded with destruction.
"Want to run?" Steve kicked his feet violently, and the ground cracked instantly. His whole body was like a cannonball, spanning a distance of tens of meters in an instant, and heading straight towards Red Skull's back.
But at this moment, several "Bat" fighters parked nearby suddenly started up, and the unmanned pilot system was activated, blocking the path that Steve must pass. The cannons under the wings rotated and spit out dense tongues of fire, forming a death barrage that could tear any flesh and blood to pieces.
"I'm coming!" Chu Hang's figure appeared in front of Steve like a ghost. He pushed his hands forward and shouted, "Space Curvature Barrier!"
Those bullets that were capable of shredding steel seemed to have been shot into the viscous water when they flew in front of him, and their trajectories began to twist and deflect strangely. The speed of the bullets dropped sharply, and finally they fell powerlessly to the ground and walls nearby. None of them could break through the invisible barrier invisible to the naked eye.
"Go quickly! Leave this place to me!" Chu Hang shouted without looking back, his arms maintaining the barrier as steady as a rock.
Steve did not hesitate at all. This was the absolute trust cultivated through countless battles. He bypassed the planes that fired in vain and continued to chase Red Skull, who was about to board the plane.
Seeing Steve's figure disappearing at the entrance of the boarding passage, Chu Hang's mouth opened in a cold arc. "Okay, you bastards, the game is over."
He suddenly closed his hands inward, as if to swat a fly to death.
"Space·collapse!"
The space around those "Bat" fighter jets that were firing wildly seemed to be grasped by an invisible big hand, and then squeezed crazily inward! The hard alloy fuselage made a twisting sound, and within a second, it was crushed by an irresistible force into a pile of scrap metal flashing with electric sparks!
After solving this little trouble, Chu Hang glanced at the Hydra soldiers behind him who were already fighting with Howling Commandos. Without any nostalgia, he turned around and rushed into the boarding passage of the "Valkyrie".
He knows that the real show is in heaven.
When he rushed into the aircraft, the battle between Steve and Red Skull had already entered a fever pitch. In the huge cabin, the two were like two prehistoric beasts, engaging in the most primitive and violent hand-to-hand combat.
Steve's fist was filled with tremendous power, and each blow made a dull sound of breaking through the air, with great force. After Red Skull was injected with Imperfect Serum, its power was equally astonishing, and his attacks became even more crazy and reckless. The two of them fought back and forth, and the metal walls were knocked out one after another by shocking dents.
Chu Hang did not intervene. He knew that this was a battle that belonged to Steve. It was the ultimate showdown between two beliefs and a collision between idealism and fascism.
His eyes were immediately locked on the center of the cockpit. There, a Cosmic Cube body emitting a faint blue light was quietly suspended in an energy device, as if the pulse of the universe was beating in it.
Cosmic Cube. This is the real purpose of his trip.
"You can't beat me, Rogers!" Red Skull punched Steve back and laughed crazily, "What I control is the power of God! It's the power of the universe! And you are just a clown in funny costumes, selling cheap hope!"
He turned around suddenly and rushed towards Cosmic Cube desperately, as if he wanted to draw more powerful power from it to completely crush the old enemy in front of him.
"Don't touch it!" Steve's face changed drastically. He had learned about the danger of this thing from Colonel Phillips, and rushed forward with a roar.
But it was already too late. Red Skull's hand had already firmly grasped the Cosmic Cube body.
In an instant, the unimaginable and extremely violent Cosmic Energy poured out from Tesseract without reservation, filling Red Skull's whole body in an instant! The space itself was shaking!
"Ahhhhhh--!" Red Skull let out a shrill scream that was not like a human voice. The voice was full of pain, fear and a strange sense of relief.
His body began to be decomposed and vaporized by pure energy at a speed visible to the naked eye! A dazzling beam of light rose into the sky, directly burning through the ceiling of the aircraft, connecting the sky and the earth! In the beam of light, Red Skull's body turned into dots of Starlight, which were torn apart by an irresistible force and transported to the unknown depths of the universe.
The light dissipated. Cosmic Cube fell from the sky. The energy contained in it became extremely unstable due to the explosion just now. The scorching high temperature directly melted through the metal floor of the aircraft, all the way down, and finally with a "plop", it fell into the freezing cold Arctic Ocean below and disappeared into the bottomless darkness.
The plane was jolting violently due to the energy impact just now, sparks erupted from all the instrument panels, and the autopilot system had completely failed. The death fortress lost its restraints and was plunging in the direction of U.S. East Coast.
"Damn it!" Steve rushed into the cockpit and frantically fiddled with the completely malfunctioning instrument panels and joysticks, but everything was in vain. Every bomb on the plane was enough to destroy a city. He absolutely could not let it fly to United States's homeland.
Chu Hang didn't care about that. In his eyes, there was only the big hole that had just been burned through by Cosmic Cube, with pure space energy still remaining on the edge. The breath of that energy, like the sweetest poison, made the [Superpower Copier] system in his body emit an unprecedented, crazy desire!
Opportunity, only once!
"System! It's now! Facing that residual energy! Copy it for me." Chu Hang roared crazily in his heart. This was his biggest gamble since time travel.
[... Command confirmation. Copying...Cosmic Cube source energy...]
The next second, a torrent of energy that was billions of times larger than what he had felt in Hydra Base before, as vast as the entire sea of stars in the universe, followed Chu Hang's will and poured into his body crazily!
"Uh-huh--!"
Chu Hang only had time to let out a suppressed groan before he felt like his body was instantly pumped into a glass bottle with a pressure of one billion atmospheres. From Soul Law to every cell, he was moaning overwhelmed! Healing Factor, Super-Soldier Serum, the newly fused Three-Phase Power... All the power in his body, in front of this true and pure original energy of the universe, was like a stream flowing into a tsunami. Not even a single wave could stir up the waves, and it was washed to pieces in an instant!
His vision went dark, and his consciousness was like a kite with its string broken, falling straight into the endless darkness Abyss.
Before completely losing consciousness, the last words he heard were the voice from Steve via the radio, which was filled with endless tenderness and reluctance.
"Peggy... I... I might have to miss our dance."
"...Steve?" From the other end of the radio came the crying and disbelieving voices of Peggy·Carter. The signal was intermittent in the wind and snow.
Steve glanced at Chu Hang next to him who had completely passed out, with blood starting to ooze from all his orifices, and then glanced at the endless glaciers speeding past outside the window.
He smiled. There was regret and relief in his smile, but more of it was a kind of calmness that was clear from his heart. He completed his mission.
He grasped the joystick tightly and used all his strength to aim the aerial fortress carrying death and destruction at the endless, white and cold Eternity below.
"Goodbye, Peggy."
Boom--!!!
The huge "Valkyrie", like a fallen Black Noir star, plunged into the thick ice.
It stirred up ice chips all over the sky, like a grand funeral.
Then, everything fell into dead silence.
It was as if nothing had happened.