A gunshot rang out.
The bullet was not aimed at Yang Ming.
General Alexei lurched forward, a bullet hole appearing in the back of his military overcoat.
The bullet passed through his chest and grazed out below his collarbone. Blood immediately welled out.
"The Avengers opened fire!"
Someone shouted from the rear ranks.
A second gunshot followed.
A Sokovian soldier fell. Before the people beside him could duck, three grenades had rolled between the armored vehicles.
"Kill them!"
"The Americans attacked!"
"Open fire!"
The shouts came from different positions.
It took only two seconds for the military formation to descend into chaos.
Yang Ming did not look at the general.
He heard eight distinct heartbeats.
Not one accelerated.
The ordinary soldiers around them were all retreating. Only those eight stood firm.
Hydra.
These people wouldn't even try a new way to frame someone.
Kill the general, then kill a batch of his own country's soldiers, and pin everything on the Avengers.
As long as Tony and Steve fought back, the Sokovian military would immediately classify them as enemies.
Yang Ming raised his right hand.
His body turned into lightning first.
A streak of blue-white lightning swept through the military formation, skimming the snow as it rushed behind Alexei.
A kick knocked the fired bullet off course.
The bullet grazed past the general's shoulder and struck an armored vehicle's tire.
Yang Ming raised his hand and opened the Anywhere Door.
A grenade had just bounced out from beneath a vehicle when it fell into the Blue Doorway.
The door closed.
The grenade exploded a hundred meters in the air.
Its fragments could not reach the ground.
Peter's webbing had already caught the second grenade, suspending it in midair.
"Peter, let go."
"If I let go, it'll fall."
"That's why I'm telling