On the public trial platform.
The hundreds of Vought Execution Squad agents standing behind the criminals received their orders at the same time.
Clack!
The perfectly synchronized sound of weapons being cocked rang especially sharp and piercing through the loudspeakers. These were the first batch of High-Energy Pulse Rifles that the Vought Weapons Research Department had just modified using Zola's legacy.
"No! You can't kill us! We are warriors of the Skrull Empire!"
A Skrull Radicals leader kneeling in the front row abruptly raised his head and roared in despair.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The answer he received was the merciless sound of triggers being pulled.
Hundreds of blazing white High-Energy Pulse Beams tore through the air within the same microsecond, blasting into the back of every Skrull war criminal's head with unerring precision!
There was no sickening spectacle of splattered brains. As the extremely hot pulse energy pierced through them, the alien war criminals' heads and upper bodies carbonized and disintegrated in the blink of an eye, turning into clouds of charred black ash that scattered across the metal platform in the wind.
Just three seconds.
The public trial platform, which had been packed with kneeling prisoners moments earlier, held nothing but empty Suppressor Collars, clattering and jingling across its surface.
The entire crowd fell deathly silent for a moment.
Then thunderous cheers and applause erupted throughout Manhattan and countless cities around the world where people were watching their screens! Although witnessing hundreds of lives evaporate in an instant had left quite a few people's stomachs churning, the satisfaction of vengeance led most to cheer Vought International's iron-fisted methods from the bottom of their hearts!
The smoke on the public trial platform had yet to clear, and the cheers below continued.
Yet the massive holographic screen suspended in midair did