Feeling of weightlessness.
No, it's more terrifying than the feeling of weightlessness. It's a feeling of being forcibly separated from the real world.
Carol felt like a stone that was thrown into Slingshot and was launched within 0.01 seconds. Everything around him turned into blurry light stretched by Infinity. The wind was no longer wind, but a wall so hard that it could tear apart steel, squeezing her body crazily. The energy in her body instinctively formed a shield, but even so, the terrifying acceleration made her brain go blank, and she couldn't even scream.
She subconsciously looked at the man holding her arm.
Then, she saw a scene that she would never forget in her life.
Chu Hang's expression was as calm as if he was walking in his back garden. There was not even a wrinkle on the corner of his windbreaker, as if the strong wind that could tear everything apart did not exist for him at all. He did not turn energy into blazing armor and wear it on his body like her, he just stood like that It is floating, or "suspended", with an almost invisible layer of energy force field around it that ripples slightly like water waves. All the strong winds, all the resistance, and all the terrifying accelerations, when they come into contact with that thin layer of force field, are like hitting an absolutely smooth mirror surface and being lightly slid to both sides.
Efficient, precise and without any waste.
This is not flying at all.
This is a blatant defiance of the laws of physics.
Carol finally understood the meaning of what he said before. Compared with the man in front of her, her own flying style that relied on bursts of energy and rampage, was like a three-year-old child wielding a siege hammer. The other man was a top-notch Grandmaster who could use a lancet to carve out an entire Along the River During the Qingming Festival on a grain of rice.
They clearly used the same power, but what they displayed was a realm of two dimensions.
"You... where are we going?" Carol-El finally recovered from the suffocating sense of acceleration and struggled to squeeze out a few words from her throat. Her voice seemed insignificant in the roar of the sonic boom.
"Find a quiet place where no one will disturb you." Chu Hang's voice came clearly to her ears, as if the two of them were not flying at several times the speed of sound at an altitude of tens of thousands of meters, but chatting in a quiet cafe.
He even had time to lower his head and smile at her.
"Relax, Carol. You have to learn to trust others, especially... the same kind of people."
Carol was silent.
The word "same kind" was like a key, opening a dusty corner in her mind. She thought of the memory fragments she had just seen that did not belong to her. The man who stretched out Bone Claws, the man holding the shield. She could feel that those memories contained an extremely strong emotion called "trust".
Maybe, she can really try to believe him for once.
I don't know how long it took, but the tearing feeling finally disappeared. Chu Hang took her, as smoothly as a feather, and slowly landed on a vast white plain. The ground was dry and cracked salt-alkali land, reflecting a strange white light under the cold moonlight. There was no human habitation here, not even a weed could be seen, there was only deathly silence.
The moment his feet landed on the ground, Carol immediately broke free from his hand, jumped back more than ten meters, and assumed a fighting posture vigilantly.
Chu Hang didn't pay attention to her actions. He just patted the non-existent dust on his windbreaker and looked at her leisurely.
"Okay, we can chat now." He said, "Nick Fury's people will take at least a few hours to find here. We have plenty of time."
"Who are you?" Carol's voice was hoarse due to nervousness. "Why do you have the same power as me? Also, why can I see things in your head?!"
She threw out all the questions in one breath, and the golden light on her fists flickered on and off as her emotions fluctuated.
"First question, my name is Chu Hang. You can think of me as... a pioneer who came into contact with this power earlier than you." Chu Hang's tone was very calm, like a teacher explaining a complex problem to his students.
"As for the second and third questions, the answer is actually the same." He pointed to his heart and then to Carol, "Our power comes from the same source. Six years ago, Lightspeed Engine from the Project Pegasus base. You absorbed the core energy when it exploded. The strength, and I absorbed the other part that it leaked. We are like... two people struck by the same lightning. Therefore, our power resonates, and our consciousness has established a weak connection. You can see my memory, and I can also feel your emotions. This is fair, isn't it?"
This explanation is reasonable and perfectly conceals the existence of the system.
Carol was stunned. The worldview in her mind that had been instilled by Kree for six years was being shattered bit by bit by the other party's words. Kree told her that her power was The unique gift was the honor given to her by Supreme Intelligence. But now, the man in front of her told her that this was not a gift at all, but a "gift" from an accident, and she was not the only one to "win".
"No... impossible..." She retorted subconsciously, "My power is Kree..."
"Kree gave it to you?" Chu Hang seemed to have heard some big joke and couldn't help laughing, "Carol, do you really think so? They told you that they saved you, gave you a new life, and gave you this powerful power. It sounds like a perfect fairy tale, right?"
He took a step forward and his eyes became sharp.
"Then tell me, who were you before you became the Kree Starforce elite member 'Vers'? Where is your family? What do you like to eat and what do you hate? Do you... still remember your own name?"
Every question Chu Hang asked was like a heavy hammer, hitting Carol's heart hard.
Her face instantly turned pale.
Name... Family... Past...
To her, these words were like Abyss shrouded in thick fog. She knew they were there, but as long as she tried to get closer, she would be pushed away by an invisible force, followed by a tearing headache and countless chaotic and meaningless pictures.
"I... I don't remember..." Her voice was full of pain and confusion, "Supreme Intelligence told me that it is the duty of a warrior to focus on the present and the future. The past... is not important."
"Is it 'not important', or do they not let you think about it at all?" Chu Hang's voice turned cold. "They took away your most important things, your memories, your life, and then put a false halo on you to make you work for them. They are not benefactors, Carol, they are thieves and liars."
"No! You're talking nonsense!" Carol's emotions were completely out of control. She roared, the energy in her fists exploded instantly, and two thick golden beams, like two heavy cannons, blasted towards Chu Hang.
However, Chu Hang just stood there without moving.
He didn't even bother to raise his hands.
The two energy beams, which were enough to melt the tank, were less than one meter away from his body, as if they had hit an invisible wall and solidified in mid-air. Then, under Carol's horrified eyes, the two violent energies, like tamed pets, meekly changed their direction, drew two beautiful arcs, bypassed Chu Hang's body, shot into the distant sky, and disappeared at the end of the night.
"Look," Chu Hang said with a trace of pity in his tone, "You can't even control your own power. It doesn't listen to you, because it was not 'given' to you by them from the beginning, but something that was already in your body. They just put a lock on you, making you mistakenly think that the lock is the source of power."
Carol was completely stunned. She looked at her empty fist, and then at the man who was unscathed and whose clothes were not even messed up. The last line of defense in her mind began to collapse.
"I... what should I do?" There was a cry in her voice, like a lost child.
Seeing her like this, Chu Hang knew that the heat was almost over.
He slowed down and said, "Think about it. Think hard. Don't be afraid of those headaches, don't resist those memory fragments. They are not enemies, they are part of yourself. The more you try to hide, the more chaotic they will be. Try to accept them and piece them together."
As he spoke, he stretched out his hand, and an extremely weak but extremely pure Cosmic Energy was slowly injected into Carol's body. This energy was not aggressive, it was like a cool stream, gently soothing her inner energy that was on the verge of going berserk due to emotional excitement.
Carol felt that the tearing headache had really alleviated a lot. She took a deep breath, closed her eyes as Chu Hang said, and no longer resisted the chaotic images in her mind.
She saw a tarmac.
She saw a strange-looking airplane.
She saw a black woman wearing a bomber jacket and a warm smile.
She saw a serious-looking white woman wearing glasses.
"Doctor Lawson..." A name came out of her mouth uncontrollably.
Immediately afterwards, another name also surfaced.
"Maria..."
"Very good." Chu Hang's voice sounded in her ears, like a patient guide, "Who is Maria? Where is she?"
"She is... my friend. My... family." Carol's body began to tremble slightly, and more memory fragments came up. She saw herself and Maria singing Kara OK in a small bar, saw them repairing the aircraft together in the hangar, and saw Maria's lovely daughter...
"We are...Louisiana." She opened her eyes suddenly, and her eyes were no longer confused, but were illuminated by a new kind of light called "hope".
"I remember an address. A house near the air force base."
She raised her head and looked at Chu Hang with burning eyes. At this moment, most of the wariness and suspicion in her eyes had disappeared, replaced by a complex emotion of dependence, gratitude, and a trace of... trust that she was not even aware of.
"Can you take me there?" she asked.
Chu Hang smiled.
This was what he was waiting for.
"Of course." He said, "This is your first step home."
He didn't say anything more, just stretched out his hand again. This time, Carol did not dodge, but hesitated and took the initiative to hold his hand.
The next second, the golden light lit up again.
The two soared into the sky, pulling out a gorgeous golden trajectory over Salt Lake City, and galloped away towards the southeast, the home that carried all her past.
Nearly an hour after they left, a dozen black Chevrolet Suburbans arrived belatedly. Nick Fury got out of the car and looked at the deserted salt-alkali land with only two shallow pits left, his face as dark as the bottom of a pot.
"Coulson."
"Yes, sir."
"Put me through Pentagon, highest priority." Fury put on his sunglasses and said in a cold voice, "I want to apply for permission to use... the space-based kinetic energy weapon system."
"Sir, that's just a theory..."
"Not now." Fury interrupted him and looked up at the starry sky, "We have guests. And there's more than one."