Mental Repulsion.
His own mental barrier had automatically deflected the attack, pouring all the backlash straight back into her brain.
The woman clutched her forehead, which felt as though it would split with pain, her eyes filled with incredulous terror. "You... you have telepathy too?!"
In this remote place, where even filling her stomach had become a luxury, she had used mental intrusion to escape danger countless times. Yet this well-dressed young man before her had nearly shattered her brain with nothing but an instinctive rebound.
Where on earth had he come from?
Lucian's lips twitched. "Telepathy? More or less. I dabble in a lot of things. I know a little of everything."
Although he had found the wrong targets and failed to catch any Skrulls, Lucian had no intention of returning empty-handed. Since she could sense his wide-ranging psychic scan and launch psychic attacks herself, he would take her back for Banner to see whether he had uncovered Inhumans as well.
"Since you're not alien lizards, come with me." Lucian's voice was calm, betraying neither pleasure nor anger.
The woman wiped away her nosebleed, her gaze growing more desperate. "Are you taking us back to experiment on us?"
Lucian had no interest in acting out some tearjerker with her.
He casually pulled a heavy gold bar out of his system space. It gleamed with an irresistibly enticing yellow light on the dim woodland path.
With a flick of Lucian's wrist, the gold bar traced an arc through the air, flying straight toward the woman's chest.
"Catch."
The woman jumped, thinking it was some new kind of weapon, and frantically raised both arms to block it.
Its weight drove her arms sharply downward, nearly sending her sprawling into the mud. When she finally steadied herself, that pure golden yellow dazzled