Cannon Fire Roared-Could He Still Stand?

You've got to be kidding!

Did Hulk's abilities only show themselves in his strength?

As the most perfect creature, Hulk's skin was practically impervious to blades and bullets. Whenever he took a hit, he grew angrier, then his body would expand explosively, causing his resistance to attacks to increase once again.

Besides his absurdly powerful defenses, even if Hulk was injured, he possessed an even more terrifying ability to recover!

In this world, having transformed into the Human-Human Fruit: Mythical Zoan - Hulk Form, Banner had perfectly inherited this ability. Faced with an attack that barely fazed him, Banner even revealed a faint, mocking smile.

"Ugh—"

The people nearby looked at Will, who had already died a miserable death, and no one dared make another sound.

Was this really a vanguard force?

They had basically sent a group of cannon fodder up there.

"Concentrate your gunfire on him!" someone stepped forward and shouted. "Otherwise, none of us will survive! Focus our fighting strength and eliminate this menace first!"

Several individuals who had originally been hostile to one another responded in agreement, then stopped fighting among themselves.

A wondrous scene appeared on the battlefield.

The several factions that had been fighting fiercely suddenly stood on the same side without any prior arrangement, and their common enemy was Banner!

Faced with such an overwhelmingly powerful individual, they would eventually be wiped out if they continued fighting among themselves.

That was why they had decided to temporarily unite as they were doing now and deal with Banner together.

"Boom!"

"Bang!"

"Bang-bang-bang!"

In an instant, everyone aimed their guns at Banner. Nearly all the ammunition was unleashed at once, followed by wave after wave without pause. The dense artillery fire raised dust and smoke that blotted out the sky. Flames roared and fires raged, turning the street into a scene straight from hell.

The roar of the artillery continued for a full minute. Some people had emptied all their ammunition, without leaving a single round.

Smoke and dust filled the air. Banner had not left immediately—he had endured the full baptism of the artillery fire. So what had happened?

Everyone stood rooted to the spot without daring to act rashly, waiting for the black smoke to disperse.

However, as the smoke gradually thinned, a massive figure, as sturdy as a mountain, was still standing behind it!

He was even larger than before.

Clearly, after enduring several fierce waves of attacks, Hulk's defenses had not been breached—but he had been thoroughly enraged!

Hulk's fury had been roused once again!

"Roar!"

Banner's consciousness seemed to have completely vanished. A pure beast was now in control of his will.

A berserk beast with nothing left but slaughter and fury!

His body, originally three meters tall, had expanded directly to five meters—and it was still growing. The visual oppression brought by his size, combined with the terrifying pressure from his vicious gaze, made even these hardened villains, who lived by the blade's edge, weak-kneed and fearful.

"It didn't have any effect at all?"

Someone let out a despairing cry.

The guns and cannons these people held were not especially powerful, but the concentrated barrage of fifty or sixty people had actually failed to accomplish anything?

Even dripping water could eventually pierce stone!

Why did this green monster become tougher and stronger the more they attacked him?

In the end, Banner's body stopped growing at six meters—six meters was already considered tall even among unusually large humans, making him only slightly shorter than the Giants.

But was this really Hulk's limit?

Soon, someone witnessed the answer!

"Quick, move aside! Those are Kham's people!" someone shouted, telling the people in front to scatter.

Everyone turned around and saw a fairly uniform group of people pushing out more than twenty cannons and aiming them at Hulk.

"Those aren't cannons from a warship, are they?"

Someone asked cautiously.

"With barrels of that caliber, they're probably main-gun class. One shot could probably flatten an entire building!" Seeing the enormous barrels, someone could not help sucking in a cold breath. "That monster can't possibly survive this!"

"Everyone, spread out! Don't get caught in the crossfire!"

Soon, these disorganized people retreated to both sides, while the more than twenty cannons were all aimed at Hulk.

Banner was confused by his sudden increase in size and had not noticed the changes around him. But during that brief opening, all the cannons had already been prepared.

"On my command!" The commander was actually the lackey who had met with Kham earlier. "Fire!"

At the same moment, several black shells the size of human heads came hurtling toward Hulk from multiple directions.

Finally, Banner raised his head and looked at the black spheres, somewhat curious about what they were.

Banner extended his huge green hand and actually caught the first shell. But in the next instant, the shell exploded, and the scorching impact blasted his hand into a bloody mess.

Besides that, dozens of other shells struck various parts of his body.

"Roar!"

An enraged roar pierced the sky, but it was soon drowned out by one deafening explosion after another.

The furious roar abruptly ceased, leaving behind only the unending rumble of explosions.

This time, let alone the surrounding buildings—even the entire ground had been blasted into a huge crater.

The place where Banner had been standing was completely destroyed. The earth was scorched, and dust and rubble filled the air.

"He's dead, right?" the lackey laughed loudly. "These are cannons on the level of a Buster Call! Although they're not as large in scale as those dozen-odd warships, each individual cannon is no less powerful!"

Looking at the cannons, which were still as good as new, the lackey grew even more awed by his boss.

"And we haven't even used the real secret weapon yet. This Zoan user is nothing special after all."

The contents of the crater were completely exposed. A battered and crippled green body lay inside, green blood flowing all over the ground—it looked deader than dead.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk."

Everyone saw it clearly and finally let out a sigh of relief.

"The monster is finally dead!"

One person even jumped straight into the crater and began cursing as he stepped on Hulk's "corpse."

"Thump!"

"Thump!"

"What was that sound?" someone asked in confusion.

"Thump!"

"Thump!"

The sound grew clearer and clearer, like an extraordinarily heavy heartbeat. It made people wonder what kind of colossal body needed such a powerful heart to pump its blood.

"Wait?"

Someone was so frightened that he dropped straight to the ground.

"He's not dead!"

"What?"

Everyone turned to look, their hearts, which had just settled, rising into their throats once again.

Listening carefully, they realized that the heartbeat was indeed coming from the "corpse" beneath the feet of the bold, fearless man.

Just then, the fearless man—or rather, the ignorant man—suddenly felt that the body beneath his feet was astonishingly hot. Even through the soles of his shoes, the heat badly scalded his feet.

"Boom!"

Before everyone's eyes, Hulk's battered body rapidly healed at a speed visible to the naked eye. All his wounds vanished in an instant, and even the green blood that had been flowing everywhere disappeared.

"No way..."

The scene fell utterly silent, as everyone feared that this monster, which had clearly been "playing dead," might stand up once again.