Someone Intervened-No, a God Intervened
Fury's smugness hadn't completely dissipated; his chin was slightly raised, like a victorious Black Panther.
He turned to Tony Captain America, his voice deliberately calm yet threatening:
"I will expose everything that happened today." He swept his one eye across Tony's mask. "Let the whole world see that their revered leader of the Arbitrators has even used Infinity Stones to 'extract confessions.' Tsk tsk, the bottom line of 'justice' is truly flexible."
He even added "kindly," "Don't worry, the focus is only on Chen Tian. You two... at most you've 'failed to dissuade him.'" The fake smile on his lips made Tony's teeth itch.
Tony was so angry that his armor joints were creaking and his fists were clenched.
But the next second, he suddenly let go, crossed his arms over his chest, and leaned back against the edge of the broken conference table, scoffing, "Fine, try it. Write your report however you like."
This reaction is wrong! Too calm! Fury's one eye narrowed into a slit instantly.
When has Tony Stark ever suffered such a loss in silence? Unless... he has absolute confidence! Confidence enough to ignore all of Fury's political maneuvering!
Chen Tian?! Could it be...?
As if in response to the exclamation in his mind, a hand gently, with a hint of mockery, patted Fury on the shoulder.
Fury's muscles tensed instantly! He jerked his head around—so fast he almost twisted his neck!
Behind him, Chen Tian stood perfectly fine, a bright, wicked smile on his face that made you want to punch him.
He was carrying a completely unconscious person in his right hand like a sack of potatoes— Carol Vers! The usually radiant Captain Marvel was now bruised and battered, her short, golden hair plastered messily to her sweaty forehead, clearly having received a severe "lesson."
"Surprise~~" Chen Tian grinned, revealing his White Fang, and drew out the sound as if he were unwrapping a prank gift.
He even deliberately shook the unconscious Carol in his hand.
Fury's eyes nearly popped out of their only sockets!
This is impossible!!! His mind went blank. That's Captain Marvel! A cosmic-level fighter! How much time has passed?! Less than a minute?! Even if she couldn't beat Chen Tian, she couldn't have failed so quickly, could she?!
Tony chuckled beside him, even whistling, "Well done, Chen Tian, I knew it! How could you be so easily taken away by that sparkly woman?"
He smugly gestured with his chin towards Fury, the meaning couldn't be clearer: Dumbfounded, aren't you? Nick Fury!
Even the usually serious Captain America couldn't help but twitch his Kakuzu, coughed tactically, quickly lowered his head, and used his shield to cover his face—his shoulders were suspiciously shaking.
Fury stood frozen in place, his one eye fixed on Chen Tian and the "spoils of war" in his hand.
His meticulously planned "Storm Expulsion" strategy, his trump card of Carol that he relied on to turn the tide... was just casually picked up and thrown back like freshly packed battlefield junk?
The only sounds in the conference room were the faint hissing of the air purification system repairing the hole and Tony's barely suppressed chuckle. Fury's dark face was a tapestry of emotions, a mixture of shock, disbelief, and a hint of bewilderment at the complete failure of his plan.
His meticulously constructed "sure-win" chess game was overturned by Chen Tian in the most brutal and unreasonable way, with a single kick.
Chen Tian casually tossed Carol onto a relatively intact metal bench beside him, making a dull thud.
He clapped his hands, as if brushing off dust, then looked at Fury with a smile, but his eyes were sharp:
"Alright, Director Fury," he said casually, "now, can we talk calmly? About the 'Compensation Serum,' about Valentina ... and," he paused, his smile deepening, "About those 'safest' little secrets you keep in your head?"
Fury's throat went dry, and he couldn't utter a single word. He looked at Chen Tian, then at Carol in the chair, then at Tony, who was trying not to laugh, and Captain America, who was trying to appear serious.
What the hell is this monster?!
In Fury's single eye, the emotion described as "mental breakdown" was clearly reflected.
Fury slumped in the cold chair, feeling as if all his strength had been drained away.
He tugged at the corners of his mouth, revealing a wry smile that was more like a grimace.
That was too hasty! Absolutely too hasty, damn it!
It's not that he underestimates Chen Tian; he's already listed this guy as the top threat in the cosmic threat database!
But the intelligence! The damn intelligence was all wrong! Those desperados on Blue Planet dared to sell him intelligence because S.H.I.E.L.D., built up over many years, still lingered.
But what about the other planets in the universe? Those cowardly wimps!
Fury's mind was buzzing. The Skrulls spies he had sent out and the "secret files" he had bought at great expense—now, looking back, it all seemed like a complete rip-off!
Who would dare to reveal Chen Tian's true strength to a human from Blue Planet? Especially when that Blue Planet is trying to scheme against Chen Tian himself? That's not selling information, that's risking your life!
Who in the universe doesn't know that Chen Tian, that ruthless star, wiped out the Celestials? Not even a fart was left!
Faced with such a track record, which intelligence broker would dare take Nick Fury's job? Would they want to die? That arrogant, stupid woman, Carol, probably doesn't have much better intelligence sources than him!
Fury, a mere mortal, thought he was playing a grand game, but his opponent wasn't a chess player at all; he was a god who Table Flip!
Looking at Chen Tian's smiling face, Fury tried to straighten his back, attempting to maintain the last shred of his authority. His throat was dry, and he managed to squeeze out a sarcastic remark in a hoarse voice:
"Ha... Infinity Stones... Mind Stone control... The leader of the Arbitrator Alliance, his methods are truly 'upright'..." He tried to salvage his reputation with the last shred of moral high ground, "Chen Tian, do you think this will make you..."
"Save your breath, Nick Fury," Chen Tian interrupted directly, his smile vanishing instantly, his eyes turning icy. "I don't have time to listen to your moralizing."
Before he could finish speaking, the Mind Stone reappeared in Chen Tian's palm without warning!
Buzz!
The light suddenly surged!
Fury's pupils constricted sharply. He tried to dodge, but his body was like an insect thrown into amber, unable to move even a finger! The warm golden light was now like a cold probe, piercing his brain with an irresistible force!
"OMG!!!!!"
Fury felt like a runaway meat grinder had been shoved into his head!
Countless fragments of memory— Valentina's secret communication codes, the true sequence map of the Compensation Serum, the secret agreements he signed with those forces that were "not to be told to outsiders," his backup plan against the Arbitrator Alliance... all the secrets buried deep at the bottom, which he thought were absolutely safe, were forcibly torn open like a safe, brutally and nakedly dragged out by that yellow light!
Excruciating pain! Indescribable pain! It wasn't just physical pain, it felt like my soul was being forcibly torn apart and read!
Tony, watching from the side, grimaced. "Damn... that's ruthless! But I like this efficiency!" He watched with schadenfreude as Fury's dark face contorted in pain.
Captain America frowned, turning his head away reluctantly, but still whispered, "Chen Tian... restrain yourself, don't damage his brain." Although he was furious at Fury's actions, this direct invasion of the brain still made him instinctively uncomfortable.
Fury's body convulsed violently in the chair, his black leather jacket instantly soaked with cold sweat.
He no longer had the strength to curse; all that remained were broken, suppressed groans of pain escaping his throat.
His so-called dignity, calculations, and chessboard... were utterly shattered in the face of Chen Tian's absolute power and ruthless methods.
Chen Tian remained expressionless, the light of the Mind Stone steadily focused on Fury's forehead.
For him, reading information from the brain of an ordinary person (even a super spy like Fury) is no more difficult than flipping through a dictionary. The "vault" in Fury's mind is no different from paper in his eyes.
"Valentina ... safe house coordinates... serum transaction records... interesting, 'Stellar Project'? Heh, Fury, you've been keeping it well under wraps." Chen Tian murmured coldly, like a judge reading out a list of incriminating evidence against a criminal. With each word he uttered, Fury's body trembled more violently.
The outcome is decided. Chen Tian has exposed all of Fury's trump cards in the most unreasonable and direct way.
The golden light in Chen Tian's eyes slowly faded, and the Mind Stone vanished without a trace. His brows furrowed, and the core intelligence of the "Stellar Project" deep within Fury's mind made his heart sink.
Sentry! Fury, that old fox, has been hiding his ultimate trump card—this thing!
A million alpacas ran through Chen Tian's mind in an instant.
That's not right! Before he traveled through time, there was absolutely no plan for the Sentry to appear in the future blueprint of the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe)!
Is Kevin Feige, that old fox, playing the "trailer deception" trick again? Or... is there a damn discrepancy between the script of this universe and the "canon" he remembers?
In Fury's memory, the 'Stellar Project' aimed to create a super- Super-Soldier Serum with ten thousand times the effect, and Chen Tian was all too familiar with this serum! It was the very source of the Sentry!!
"Damn!" Chen Tian couldn't help but mutter under his breath. The movie version of the Sentry? A bit weakened, still manageable. But the comic book version of the Sentry... that's going to be tricky!
Yes, for Chen Tian, it's just a bit tricky.
However, the only piece of good news was like a lifeline— Fury's memories clearly showed that the Sentry hadn't been built yet! The plan that Fury had hidden deepest within was still stuck in the serum manufacturing and live screening stage.
The core serum, with its 10,000x effect, has only produced a 1,000x effect so far, and the Sentry test subjects haven't been found yet!
Chen Tian knew that only one person could adapt to this effect! And this person, Chen Tian had tried to find before, but to no avail. It was as if Robert Reynolds did not exist in his world.
Time! There's still time! Chen Tian's eyes sharpened.
Fury slumped in the chair like a lump of mud, soaked to the bone, his eyes glazed over, only painful gasps remaining.
All his secrets were forcibly uncovered, completely draining his energy and spirit.
"Tony!" Chen Tian turned his head, speaking rapidly, "This is your responsibility and the captain's. This old fox," he gestured with his chin toward Fury, "Whether you lock him up in solitary confinement, send him to a space prison, or sacrifice him to the heavens, it's up to you! Procedural justice or vigilante justice, whatever makes you happy!"
Tony's visor snapped open, a hint of schadenfreude still on his face, but his eyes had turned serious. "No problem! I'll make sure he's dealt with perfectly!" He cracked his knuckles, making a clicking sound, and gave Fury rather unfriendly look.
Captain America frowned and stepped forward, looking at Fury's miserable state, before finally saying in a deep voice, "He will face trial in a joint court, following all legal procedures."
Chen Tian waved his hand. "You decide! I have no objection!" He only cared about one thing now— Valentina!
This is Fury's front manipulator, the key figure in serum production, and a crucial link in "Stellar Project"! The coordinates of several safe houses marked as "emergency evacuation points" in Fury's mind clearly point in the same direction!
"No time to explain!" Chen Tian spoke at double speed, "That old bastard's 'Stellar Project' is a massive bombshell! I have to put out the fuse! Valentina is the key!"
Before he finished speaking, the space around him began to distort and fluctuate, as if he were about to disappear on the spot at any moment.
"Hey! Chen Tian!" Tony shouted hurriedly, "What the hell is this 'Stellar Project'?! It sounds really off! Shouldn't it be 'Silver Shield Program'?"
Chen Tian's figure had become blurry, leaving only a sentence, tinged with the stench of sparks, that crashed into the conference room:
"'Silver Shield Program' is just a fucking smokescreen! That madman Fury wants to create a Homelander he can control! And that guy! He's just a fucking brain-dead Injustice Superman!"
He glanced one last time at Fury there like a lump of mud, and Carol, who was unconscious in the chair, and sneered, "Keep an eye on this mess, and wait for me to come back... Hopefully, it's not too late!"
Buzz!
The spatial ripples suddenly collapsed inward! Chen Tian's figure vanished from his spot in an instant.
The conference room was a mess, with only Captain America's heavy breathing, Tony's furrowed brows, Fury's painful groans, and Carol's unconscious body remaining.
Tony rubbed his temples, looked at Fury, and said in a complicated tone, "Injustice Superman's not quite right in the head? Damn it, if that's really the case, is this bald guy going to turn this hard-won peaceful world into a mess again?"
Captain America stared at Fury with a grim expression, gripping his shield even tighter. "Tony... whatever the mess, it doesn't sound like a problem we can handle."
Tony frowned upon hearing Captain America's words, but then smiled again, remembering what Chen Tian had given him. He patted Captain America on the shoulder, "Steve, you can't say that. I'm incredibly strong right now."
Captain America, confused, looked at Tony with surprise.
Fury seemed to hear their conversation, and a wheezing sound, like a broken bellows, came from his throat, sounding both desperate and mocking.
His "star," before it even rose, seemed poised to fall. And the storm was rapidly approaching the lair where Valentina was hiding.
Deep in the Amazon rainforest, ancient pyramid ruins stand silently, entwined and covered by lush green vines.
From the outside, it is nothing more than the ruins of the Maya civilization, full of the weight and mystery accumulated over the ages.
Inside, however, metal walls replaced the ancient stones, and blinding white lights illuminated the futuristic experimental space. Huge synthetic pipes and various sophisticated instruments hummed, and the air was filled with the cold smell of disinfectant and some kind of chemical reagent.
Valentina's research team and a well-equipped guard squad are busy at work.
Researchers in white lab coats were nervously recording data at their workstations, while soldiers in black combat uniforms vigilantly patrolled every corner.
Sudden!
Boom!!!
The massive top of the pyramid was shattered by an irresistible force! Rock and metal fragments flew everywhere!
A figure, enveloped in sunlight and dust, descended from the sky like a cannonball, landing heavily on the cold floor inside the pyramid. Wherever its feet stomped, the solid superalloy floor instantly dented and cracked! The shockwave overturned the nearest instrument panel!
"Enemy attack!!!"
The piercing alarm was instantly drowned out by the roar of gunfire! The well-trained black-clad Warrior reacted with lightning speed, their energy rifles and live ammunition spitting out deadly flames almost the instant Chen Tian landed!
Bang bang bang bang! Whoosh whoosh whoosh--!
A hail of bullets rained down on the figure standing in the dust!
All the bullets aimed at Chen Tian seemed to hit an invisible wall that was absolutely insurmountable when they were about one meter away from his body!
The kinetic energy was instantly "frozen," and the bullets clattered to the ground.
Limitless!
Chen Tian didn't even glance at the terrified soldiers.
His sharp gaze swept across the chaotic laboratory.
Valentina wasn't there. His gaze finally settled on a middle-aged, balding man in a senior researcher's white coat, being escorted by two soldiers towards the emergency exit. This guy was clearly the lead researcher here!
"Isn't Valentina here?" Chen Tian muttered to himself, his voice not loud, but clearly drowning out the gunfire and alarms.
He casually raised his right hand, his index finger pointing upwards.
A scarlet energy ball, radiating a destructive aura, appeared out of thin air at his fingertips and began to spin rapidly!
The terrifying repulsive force fluctuations were enough to suffocate the soldiers even from a great distance!
"'He'," Chen Tian uttered softly.
Buzz--!
A tooth-grinding buzzing sound, as if space itself were being forcefully crushed!
Centered on the crimson dot on Chen Tian's fingertip, an invisible, overwhelming, and irresistible repulsive force field suddenly erupted!
Like the invisible hand of a giant god, it slammed down!
Puff puff puff puff--!!!
Like a tomato instantly flattened by a giant hydraulic press!
Apart from the bald chief researcher who was targeted by Chen Tian's mental power, the entire interior of the pyramid laboratory—all the soldiers in black combat uniforms, all the researchers in white coats screaming and running for their lives, the buzzing precision instruments, and even the thick metal walls—was crushed into a thin layer of flesh, mixed with blood, metal fragments, and electronic components... a meat paste in a fraction of a second by this pure and extreme repulsive force!
Death came so suddenly and completely that many people didn't even have time to scream before their existence was completely erased by an incomprehensible force.
The air was filled with a strong, nauseating stench of blood and the acrid smell of burning metal.
The once vibrant and noisy underground base instantly transformed into a deathly silent slaughterhouse, covered in a layer of crimson and metal fragments.
Only the bald chief researcher remained standing there, as if frozen in place.
His face was splattered with warm liquid and bits of flesh that had sprayed out when the soldiers next to him were instantly crushed, and his crotch was soaked, with a strong smell of urine mixed with the stench of blood.
His eyes were wide open, almost bulging out, his mouth was unconsciously agape, and only gurgling sounds like a broken bellows could be heard coming from his throat.
The immense fear completely shattered his mind; he didn't even have the right to faint— Chen Tian's gaze was fixed on him, forcing him to consciously experience this hellish scene.
Chen Tian remained expressionless as he walked step by step across the sticky, slippery "ground" towards the chief researcher who was slumped on the ground like a lump of mud.
"Name?" Chen Tian's voice was icy cold, devoid of any human emotion, like a death knell in this deathly silent space.
"Arthur ..." The chief researcher's teeth chattered violently, as if uttering this name had exhausted all his strength.
"Arthur?" Chen Tian raised an eyebrow. "Very good, Dr. Arthur. Tell me, where is Valentina? What are the coordinates of the safe house where she is most likely hiding?"
He looked down at the man trembling on the ground, his gaze as if he were examining a tool. "And where are the core samples and data of the 'Stellar Project' stored?"
As soon as Chen Tian finished speaking, the puddle of blood and urine beneath Dr. Arthur seemed to have expanded a little more.
He knew that this jinx who had descended from the sky was truly capable of turning people into mincemeat!
"Mrs. Valentina ...she...she's not even here!" Dr. Arthur's teeth chattered wildly, his words tumbling out incoherently. "We...we were only responsible for the later stabilization and mass production testing of the serum! She...she made us research the serum...the one with ten thousand times the effect...it was already made! But...but we couldn't find any living subjects that could withstand it! She...she kept saying the test subjects were garbage...waste!"
He was panting heavily, his fear making him unable to hide anything. "She... she went to the Middle East! Deep in the desert! There... there's a secret laboratory there! Deeper underground! She said... she said there's some 'special trash' there that actually passed the experiment with a hundred times the serum! She's going to go there herself to 'recycle and reuse' it! The coordinates... the coordinates are..."
Dr. Arthur, trembling, recited a string of latitude and longitude numbers and the deep entrance code of the underground facility.
Valentina even kept it from Fury!
Chen Tian's eyes narrowed. Fury's memory didn't include this Middle East desert location among the safe house coordinates! This woman was indeed cunning, keeping her real backup plan and trump card!
"Very good, Dr. Arthur." Chen Tian finally showed some expression, an extremely cold smile that barely qualifyed as a genuine smile. "Thank you for your cooperation; your information is very valuable."
Upon hearing the word "thank you," Dr. Arthur's taut nerves seemed to relax slightly, and a twisted, ingratiating smile, a hint of relief spreading across his face frozen in fear, appeared. "It's... it's my pleasure, sir! I've done everything..."
Before he could finish speaking...
Chen Tian simply raised his hand casually.
Smack!
A crisp the Snap.
The ingratiating smile on Dr. Arthur's face froze instantly, replaced by an extreme, incomprehensible Shocker! He felt as if the space around him had been suddenly gripped tightly by an invisible hand!
Pfft!
He couldn't even let out a complete scream.
Dr. Arthur's body, along with the pool of filth beneath him, was as if struck precisely by an invisible hydraulic hammer weighing tens of thousands of tons! His entire body was instantly compressed into a viscous, slippery "pancake" less than an inch thick, a mixture of bone fragments, internal organ fragments, and clothing, which splattered onto the equally compacted flesh-metal mixture ground with a soft thud.
Clean and neat, leaving no trace.
Chen Tian didn't even glance at the pile of "meat paste" again, as if he had merely brushed off a tiny speck of dust. Ripples once more spread through the space around him.
Buzz!
The figure vanished instantly from the blood-soaked, hellish interior of the pyramid.
The next second, he was hovering hundreds of meters above the pyramid ruins, with the dense and boundless Amazon rainforest below him. The ancient pyramid, whose interior had been thoroughly desecrated and stained red, looked particularly striking in the sunlight.
Chen Tian looked down at the scene with icy eyes. Valentina's clues pointed to the Middle East; this place was no longer of any value, and besides... leaving traces would be too troublesome.
He slowly raised his right fist. There was no dazzling light gathering, only an invisible, heart-palpitating sense of spatial distortion lingering around his fist.
Then, he casually threw a punch at the magnificent pyramid below.
The movements were understated and casual.
Rumble rumble rumble--!!!
The space groaned and shattered under the strain!
Starting from the direction from which Chen Tian's fist struck, the space below, along with the pyramid ruins and the surrounding jungle and land within hundreds of meters, resembled a fragile glass mirror that had been struck by a boulder!
Dense white cracks instantly filled the field of vision! Space crumbled into pieces amidst a mournful cry!
The massive pyramids, along with the earth beneath them, began to crumble silently and terrifyingly!
Rocks, metal, previously flattened flesh and the remains of instruments... everything, under the forced decomposition of the spatial rules, lost its original structure and turned into the most primitive, fine, grayish-white... powder!
There was no billowing smoke or Kakkō sparks.
In just two or three seconds, the enormous building that symbolized an ancient civilization, along with all the secrets and filth it carried, vanished completely from the earth's surface.
All that remained was a huge, smooth-edged, circular pit, its bottom covered with a thick layer of fine, lifeless grayish-white powder.
The winds of the Amazon rainforest swept through, raising a pale, lifeless cloud of dust.
Chen Tian hovered in the air, Valentina... the Middle East... a test subject with a hundredfold increase in serum?
Chen Tian snapped his the Snap again, and his figure disappeared once more.
Deep in a Middle East desert, the yellow sand shimmered with distorted heat under the scorching sun. Hundreds of meters below the surface, an ultimate laboratory, secretly controlled by Valentina, was reaching its most critical stage.
The heavy lead alloy gate separated the inside from the outside. Valentina, dressed in a white lab coat, stood in front of the huge one-way observation window, her indifferent gaze piercing through the reinforced glass as she stared at the figure struggling in pain inside the isolation room.
The lights were stark white. Inside the isolation room, a blond man, whose once robust physique was now twisted beyond recognition, was bound to a specially made metal restraint.
His bare upper body was bulging with muscles that were also convulsing and deforming violently. It was as if countless venomous snakes were writhing wildly beneath his skin. Sometimes huge tumor-like bulges would appear, and sometimes they would collapse strangely, revealing the outline of his bones.
His golden hair, soaked with sweat, clung to his face, contorted in extreme pain, and only broken, incoherent hoarse sounds could be heard from his throat.
What was most unsettling was the faint glow flickering in certain parts of his body—it was the result of a violent phase shift in the atoms that made up his body! Unstable! Extremely unstable! His flesh and blood seemed as if it might disintegrate into a mass of chaotic quantum energy at any moment.
"Injection dosage confirmed, serum with 10,000 times the effect, 100% load." A cold, synthesized electronic voice echoed in the control room.
Valentina gave a cold laugh. Success! At least, a partial success!
This "Bob," whom she salvaged from the garbage dump and "fed" with countless failed experimental subjects and small doses of serum—this pure consumable and experimental waste in her eyes—actually withstood an ultimate infusion of ten thousand times the serum!
His body was struggling frantically on the verge of collapse and reconstruction, but the sense of power hidden on the edge of collapse, as violent as the core of a star, was already making her soul tremble with excitement!
"Good boy, Bob ..." Valentina's voice carried a twisted admiration, as if she were appraising a work of art nearing completion, "Hold on! Hang in there! You are the perfect 'star'! You are the key to our future!"
A burning fire of ambition blazed in her eyes.
What Arbitrator Alliance? What Chen Tian? What that old fox Nick Fury? As long as "Star" is successfully born and firmly controlled by her, all of them will turn to dust!
Fury thought he was playing a grand game, unaware that the true ultimate weapon was already in her grasp! The world will ultimately be reshaped under her will!
On the control panel, the various monitoring readings were fluctuating wildly, but the alarm lights remained eerily silent.
Valentina's entire being was focused on the power that was about to erupt within Bob; success was within reach! She could almost see herself standing at the pinnacle of world power...
Waaaaaah!!!
The piercing, highest-level intrusion alarm suddenly shattered the silence of the control room!
Even before the alarm sounded, Valentina heard a faint, extremely short, and shrill scream coming from deep within the passage!
The sound stopped abruptly, as if it had been cut off instantly by scissors!
Valentina's ecstasy and fantasy froze instantly! They were replaced by astonishment and horror!
"What?!?!" She whirled around and rushed to the control panel, her fingers frantically swiping across the touchscreen, trying to access external surveillance and the vital signs of the guards. "Which area?! Who are the enemies?! How many troops?!" Her voice was shrill and distorted with extreme shock and sudden fear.
On the screen, the monitoring footage representing the outer guard corridor was filled with static, and on the vital signs monitoring module, the green dots representing the guards were going out in suffocatingly fast!
There were no battle signals, no energy burst readings; those people... seemed to have been wiped out of thin air!
Impossible! This base's defenses are impenetrable! Only she and a very few assassins know the entrance coordinates! Fury doesn't know! Who?! Who could have found it so quickly?!
A chill instantly shot up her spine to the top of her head! A name exploded in her mind like a thunderclap— Chen Tian! Only that monster!
Run! We must run immediately! Take the core data with us! Abandon this place! As long as the blueprint for "Star" remains...
Valentina reacted almost instinctively to the best of both worlds—abandon Bob, abandon the lab, and survive! She reached out and grabbed a hidden emergency escape button beneath the control panel.
However, her hand froze in mid-air.
No! Not just her hands! Her entire body, from her toes to the tips of her hair, was held firmly in place by a force!
It wasn't a rope, it wasn't a force field, it was... gravity! Gravity so immense it was despair-inducing!
This force held her firmly to the floor, making even moving a finger an unattainable dream!
She felt like a completely frozen statue, unable to make a single movement.
"Uh..." A faint gasp escaped her throat, a sound of suffocation.
Sweat instantly soaked her back, and her heart pounded so hard it felt like it would burst her chest! Fear, pure fear of facing an absolutely insurmountable force, instantly overwhelmed all ambition and calculation.
Just then, an extremely faint sound of footsteps, like the death knell of the Grim Reaper, came from the direction of the heavy gate at the only entrance to the control room.
The alloy gate, which was theoretically capable of withstanding the impact of a nuclear explosion, melted and disappeared silently, like butter melted by high temperatures, revealing a huge hole with molten metal flowing around its edges.
Amidst the billowing metallic steam and smoke, a figure strolled in leisurely.
Chen Tian.
Not a speck of dust touched him, his expression was terrifyingly calm, and his gaze pierced through the billowing smoke, fixing on Valentina, who was held firmly in place by gravity, her face filled with extreme terror.
Chen Tian's gaze didn't linger for even a second on "Bob," who was twisting and struggling in the isolation room, radiating terrifying energy fluctuations; his eyes were firmly fixed on Valentina.
"Valentina." Chen Tian's voice wasn't loud, but it clearly pierced through the noise of the alarm and Bob's painful screams inside the isolation room, "I've found you."
He walked up to Valentina, who was unable to move, and glanced at Bob was writhing in the isolation room.
Sure enough, Bob couldn't be found because they had already hidden him.
"Let's go. This isn't a safe haven for you and that guy inside. I don't want this little broken ball to explode."
Chen Tian raised his hand and snapped his the Snap, and blue light enveloped Valentina and Bob.
When the dizziness and the distorted feeling of spatial displacement subsided, Valentina found herself able to see clearly again.
The cold metal walls and glaring lights of the desert base were no longer before my eyes.
What came into view was a desolate and bleak scene that was so despairing it was almost hopeless. The rust-colored land, filled with huge rift valleys and Un'Goro Crater, stretched out beneath my feet. There was no vegetation, no water, only the Eternity traces of weathering.
The sky was a thick, inky purple, dotted with a few unusually large but dim, lifeless stars.
In the distance, a twisted and broken ring of stars, like a tattered necklace, hung in the sky, the air thick with dust and absolute silence.
This is not Blue Planet, nor does it resemble any known habitable zone planet in any star system.
Chen Tian stood not far in front of her, hovering a few inches above the ground, indifferently looking at this alien wasteland. Behind him, Bob was still imprisoned by the blue energy field, hovering in mid-air, his body still violently twisting and flickering, emitting inhuman screams of pain, each energy pulse causing subtle ripples in the surrounding space.
Chen Tian didn't look at the unfamiliar ground beneath her feet; his gaze fell on Valentina's face, which was filled with horror. He sighed softly, his voice echoing in the absolute silence:
"Why... do you people always have to cause trouble?"
That sigh was devoid of warmth, containing only weariness and... a verdict.
Fear instantly gripped Valentina's entire being; she wanted to scream, to question, to beg for mercy, to offer any possible bargaining chip—
However, Chen Tian simply and casually... flicked his right index finger in her direction.
Buzz!
A tremendous repulsive force, like an invisible cosmic hammer, pressed down on Valentina's head without warning! Her mind didn't even have time to send out the last signal of fear.
Puff
Like a balloon that has been inflated to its limit being punctured by a needle.
Valentina's body, along with her white lab coat, her meticulously maintained hair, her terrified pupils, and all her carefully calculated ambitions... were completely and cleanly erased by this repulsive force in a fraction of a second!
All that remained was a bloody, mangled mess of mud.
Chen Tian's gaze shifted to "Bob," who was suspended beside him, twisted and swollen due to the ten-thousand-fold serum, on the verge of complete loss of control. This pathetic experimental subject, used as a tool, was now a walking, extremely unstable bomb.
Chen Tian showed no pity or hesitation before disappearing again.
When he appeared, he was already in outer space on this planet. He turned slightly to the side, his right arm pulled back in a posture of gathering strength.
Boom
Blue flames and pure white light instantly wrapped around and condensed on Chen Tian's right fist as he pulled it back!
The next moment.
A fist is thrown!
Our goal—this the End, desolate planet beneath our feet, a place steeped in dust and death!
A silent collapse!
Wherever the fist struck, space silently cracked open, spreading like a spiderweb for billions of miles—a dark fissure!
Wherever the crack passes, whether it's rust-colored earth, towering Un'Goro Crater, shattered star ring fragments, or the core of a planet... all the matter that makes them up is forcibly shaken apart and pulverized at the most basic particle level!
There was no explosion, no Kakkō.
It was nothing but a deathly silence—expansion, shattering, and... Oblivion.
The entire planet, under the force of Chen Tian's punch, was like a sand sculpture weathered for billions of years being thrown into a violent particle storm.
In just a few breaths.
Chen Tian stood suspended in the Void, looking at the dust before him with a hint of disbelief in his eyes.
"Such an interesting soul can bring me more of what I want. Little Chen Tian, you ruined one of my toys, but I can't let you destroy this one!"