Check His Teeth

Pondering for a moment, Mercer smiled and said, "How about this? If you trust me, give me a vial of your blood sample. I'll go back and study it to see how I can help you control Hulk."

"Fine!" Banner agreed without a second thought, nodding abruptly as if afraid Mercer might go back on his word.

Although the two were meeting for the first time, Banner had complete faith in Mercer.

He had once watched the footage of Mercer entering Abomination's sealed room, and after Mercer walked out, Abomination's figure was indeed gone from the room.

There were only two possible outcomes. First, Mercer let it escape, but given the room's specialized construction, it was impossible to open a gap from the inside unless they bombarded it wildly with rocket-propelled grenades.

Second, Mercer used some means to kill and contain it, and it definitely wasn't an ordinary containment method, otherwise not a single trace would have been left behind.

Now, if Mercer couldn't be trusted, he wouldn't be standing here fighting Hydra alongside them.

It was precisely because of all these reasons combined that Banner, meeting him for the first time, could hand a vial of his blood over to Mercer without the slightest hesitation.

At least Banner currently had no way of dealing with the Hulk inside him, so he could only pin this hope on Mercer.

Naturally, they couldn't start working the moment they met, and Nick Fury knew this.

Seeing the three of them chatting naturally, it saved him the trouble of trying to get them to mesh, so he let them chat for a while to deepen their understanding of each other.

The three of them didn't chat for long either, just bantering for a few minutes before steering the topic back on track.

"Banner and I used S.H.I.E.L.D.'s satellites and my own satellites to create a specific program specifically designed to locate the signal source of the Gamma Rays."

Stark looked with a smile at Banner, who had a helpless expression on his face, and continued.

"Aside from the large signal source we have here, there's another signal source, right here."

Stark tapped the map with his finger, where an address was displayed: Queens, First High School.

"A school? Why does he plan to make a move in this school?" Nick Fury asked with a frown.

"Equipment capable of operating something like this can't possibly be small. How could they smuggle it into a school?"

"You're right," Stark nodded, moving the content on the screen. A news story popped up, and he said, "As you can see, their school has a science fair these days, and several major corporations have invested in it.

This includes my Stark Industries and the recently rising Oscorp. Hydra must have used this point to transport those large equipment items into the school."

Hearing this, everyone felt it was a bit tricky.

If the opponent made a move inside the school, they would also be using the teachers and students of the entire school as human shields, making it impossible for them to properly seal off the surrounding area.

Students were the most easily panicked group, and once panic set in, the possibility of causing casualties was extremely high.

"That's bad news then. Our people can't enter the campus in large numbers. If something like this happens, it will be hard to find the Hydra members hidden in the crowd.

In case they plan to go down together and detonate the corresponding weapons at First High School, the damage caused will be terrifying."

Everyone fell silent. This truly was a very serious problem.

"Mercer, what are your thoughts?" Carter turned her head to look at Mercer, only to find him standing there in a daze, so she called out to him a few more times.

"Ah... Oh! You guys share your thoughts first," Mercer said hurriedly.

The reason he was zoning out just now was because this location brought back too many memories for Mercer.

Queens, high school, Oscorp-all these keywords were related to a superhero in Mercer's memory.

That was Spider-Man, Peter Parker!

I wonder where Peter Parker, who has already been bitten by the spider, is. Maybe I can go look for him, Mercer thought to himself.

Pondering for a moment in his heart, Mercer looked up at the few people who were arguing fiercely about how to infiltrate the school, and he suddenly said, "I'll infiltrate and check out the positions of those Hydra guys. I'm young, so it's more appropriate."

"Huh?" Nick Fury was full of confusion. "You're the one who is least able to infiltrate, alright."

"That's right, you've long since been a high-priority target for Hydra. If you appear at the school, you'll definitely be spotted by their lookouts immediately," Natasha chimed in as well.

"What about this?"

Mercer smiled faintly, running his palm across his face. The next second, everyone's jaws dropped in astonishment.

Mercer's face suddenly changed from his originally striking Asian features into very common Caucasian features-the kind that would never be noticed in a crowd, ordinary to the extreme.

"You-you know the Disguise Technique?" Carter walked up to Mercer in a single stride, examining his features closely. The more she looked, the more shocked she became.

Not a single trace of a disguise could be seen. If anyone claimed this was the face Mercer had worn since birth, they would believe it.

"I can transform into quite a few more, too."

As he spoke, Mercer shifted through a few more different faces. Even Natasha, who had undercover experience, was subdued by this trick; she completely failed to detect any signs of a disguise.

This Disguise Technique was something only Mercer could perform in this world, because this wasn't considered a disguise at all, but rather truly becoming that person.

This was the camouflage ability of the Blacklight Virus. The people Mercer was turning into now were those he had absorbed previously, only he had dialed back their ages.

In the game, this point was unachievable, but now that the Blacklight Virus had become a reality, adjusting the age of his camouflage form was effortless for Mercer.

As long as he used the Blacklight Virus to remove wrinkles and fill in collagen, even septuagenarian or octogenarian elders could have their youth recreated by Mercer.

Snap.

Just as Mercer was performing his face-changing act, the sound of an object dropping rang out nearby.

The group turned to look. A staff member was staring at this scene in utter shock, and upon feeling everyone's gaze directed at him, he hurriedly squatted down to pick up his things, wanting to make his escape.

Gazing at that figure, Mercer frowned and said softly, "Galacta, pin him down."

Swish-

With an extremely faint whistling of wind, Galacta, who had still been standing beside the group, blinked and moved right next to the staff member, grabbing him by the neck and lifting him up directly.

The clueless S.H.I.E.L.D. members who saw this scene all simultaneously raised the rifles in their hands, staring at Galacta with nervous expressions.

A girl standing around one meter sixty centimeters tall was actually choking a bulky man over one meter eighty by the neck, and the latter couldn't even move. This kind of inhumane strength was breathtaking to witness.

"Alex, what's going on?"

Nick Fury waved his hand at the armed men, signaling them to relax, while asking Mercer.

"Check his teeth."