Mr. Blue, Mr. Green, Mr. Silent, Mr. Chatterbox!

Yu Xian and the others waited silently outside a teaching building.

Beside them were broad, clean streets and lawns with a hundred-percent greenery coverage.

Once the clusters of students had left the building, they finally spotted Samuel Sterns emerging from the crowd with lesson plans in hand.

"Dr. Samuel Sterns, I think there's someone you need to meet!" The moment Betty saw him, she stepped forward and stated her purpose.

"Mr. Blue," Dr. Samuel Sterns, looked at the woman before him in surprise, then glanced at the man in the baseball cap behind her and instantly understood.

"Mr. Green?"

In Samuel Sterns's laboratory, Yu Xian and the others had all been brought here.

"I really can't believe I get to meet you in person, Mr. Green!" Samuel Sterns stared at Banner with delighted excitement, as if he wanted to see through every part of his physical structure.

"I've always wondered whether you really existed!"

"A person with such enormous power actually looks so unassuming..." He began chattering endlessly at Banner, venting his excitement.

"Ahem, Dr. Sterns, I think we should get to the point first!" Yu Xian interrupted Mr. Blue's excitement. Having read the original story, he knew perfectly well how intense this man's curiosity could be.

"Right, right! We should begin the experiment!"

"Mr. Green, I think you understand just how much uncertainty our research contains.

This isn't a simple matter.

Even if we successfully guide the process and precisely calculate the dosage of the drug,

we still can't be sure whether you'll be cured or merely recover temporarily!

I don't know what the result will be!

And if we inject too much of the drug and it becomes toxic, then..."

"You don't need to worry about that, Dr. Sterns!"

Yu Xian spoke up from the side. "Just go for it. We've made the necessary preparations. This experiment will definitely succeed!"

"Yes, Mr. Blue. We're all mentally prepared for this!" Banner added at the right moment.

"If that's the case, what are we waiting for? Let's begin the experiment! I can't wait to witness a miracle!"

Meanwhile, inside the military base.

Having obtained the exact address, General Ross had already begun mobilizing the troops. This time, he would capture Banner alive in one fell swoop and win his wager against that guy from S.H.I.E.L.D.

Elsewhere in the base, inside a brightly lit washroom.

Emil Blonsky stood bare-chested before a mirror, splashing cold water over his cheeks.

Blonsky, who had survived the Hulk, looked at his somewhat haggard face without noticing the fractures spreading across the bones in his back.

On the operating table.

Banner sat shirtless, strapped to a chair.

"Are you ready? I'm starting!" Dr. Sterns held an electric-shock chip as he approached Banner.

Banner took a deep breath, his gaze resolute. "Yeah. Start."

Smack! Smack! Smack!

Dr. Sterns instantly placed the chips against Banner's temples...

Catalina watched Banner convulse continuously under the electric shocks from outside the room, surprise filling her heart. "Captain, you said you had preparations? What preparations? How come I don't know about them?"

"Heh, what preparations? I only said that to reassure Dr. Sterns and get him to make up his mind and start the experiment sooner!"

"Huh? Then what if the experiment fails?"

"Relax. It won't fail!"

"C-Captain, it looks like you're on the news again!" Skye, who had been tapping away on her tablet nearby, stared at the string of news reports on it in disbelief.

#Shocking! A UFO spotted deep in the forest? The reason was actually...#

#Weather Bureau reports tornado-like weather near New York last night? Bureau chief responds: I've never seen weather this bizarre in all my years!#

#A massive hundred-meter crater appeared in Adirondack Park!#

"..."

The hottest post was a cellphone video with nearly ten million views. It showed distant footage of Yu Xian fighting the Hulk.

Because it had been filmed from too far away, the video only captured the strange phenomena caused by Yu Xian unleashing his Zanpakutō at full power, along with the sky and forest.

However,

even so, it clearly showed trees being incinerated, pillars of ice and fire shooting into the sky, and vast stretches of land collapsing.

The comments beneath the video had completely exploded.

"God, this isn't a movie, right?"

"Are aliens coming to invade Earth?"

"Waaah, Mom, Dad, I'm scared!"

"Uh, looking at this scene of ice and fire intertwined, why do I feel like I've seen something like it somewhere before?"

"Huh, now that you mention it, it really does have the vibe of the Winter Lord!"

"..."

Uh!

Seeing himself make the news yet again, Yu Xian immediately had black lines appear across his forehead.

No,

bro, isn't secretly filming people like this a little inappropriate?

This was already an invasion of his privacy, wasn't it?

Fortunately, whoever had secretly filmed it hadn't captured anyone's figure. That was the only comfort he could take from it.

And besides,

it was late at night, and it was pouring rain. Instead of staying home, that person still had the mood to wander around outside?

Could they have been one of those people who sought thrills in the wilderness,

those brave warriors who dared to fence with each other in broad daylight?

Or perhaps the seafood supermarket had officially opened, and the warriors were outside eating free abalone?

No.

This needed to be thoroughly investigated. It was time to clean up society's moral climate.

Roar—

Banner began transforming under the electric shocks.

Green light appeared in his eyes as his body changed into that of a green muscular giant.

Crack! Crack! Crack!

The operating table could no longer bear the strain and let out anguished groans.

"No, now! Right now, hurry!" Seeing Banner in pain, Betty immediately urged Dr. Sterns to begin injecting the drug.

Dr. Sterns was beside himself with excitement.

"Oh, what am I seeing?"

"This is the complete transformation process! It's incredible!"

Betty immediately climbed onto Hulk's body and made him look into her eyes. "Bruce, Bruce, hold on!"

"What are you waiting for? Inject the drug already!" Betty turned and shouted at the overwhelmed Dr. Sterns.

"Oh, right, right!" Snapping out of it, Dr. Sterns immediately began operating the machine beside him and started the injection.

As the drug continuously flowed through the tubes into Hulk's body, Banner's body gradually began returning to normal.

"Oh, God!" Sterns looked at the data displayed on the experimental equipment and let out repeated cries of amazement.

"Ha, Captain, it worked! It worked! They successfully suppressed Dr. Banner's transformation." Catalina was overjoyed by the sight, but then she suddenly realized something.

Wait, something seemed wrong.

I remembered that the wager between the Captain and General Ross was whether Ross could create a controllable super soldier.

Then this had nothing to do with Dr. Banner at all!

Even if Dr. Banner successfully suppressed his transformation, it wouldn't prove anything!

Thud! Thud! Thud!

Just then,

someone knocked on the laboratory window.

Outside the window,

the elegant White Phoenix was lowering her head to preen her feathers.

Yu Xian sensed his sky general had come to report, so he opened the window and invited the little fellow inside.

"Coo! Coo! Coo!" She gestured at Yu Xian with her wings.

BOSS, Ross's people are here!

They've started deploying troops outside, preparing to capture Big Guy!