Question: what was green and exploded at the slightest provocation?
That's right, a Creeper!
Li Ang was sipping his drink when a muffled boom came from inside the school!
A girl's scream followed right after.
With his X-Ray Vision, Li Ang stared fixedly at the mass of green light amid the dust. Love was a light, so green it made you panic.
"Roar!"
Hulk threw back his head and howled, his voice producing visible sound waves that drove back the flames and dust.
Looking at the nearly three-meter-tall giant not far away, Li Ang marveled inwardly that this was practically a sparring partner sent by heaven!
He had only just acquired the Gravity Capture Net and the Rooster Talisman, and urgently needed a suitable opponent to test them on.
Now one had delivered himself to his doorstep, but Li Ang wanted to watch that old bastard Thaddeus Ross suffer first.
Li Ang leaned against a tree and watched Blonsky charge into the school building. He looked less like there was a big green guy inside and more like there were five million dollars waiting for him.
A loud crash of overturning desks and chairs came from inside, followed by a roar so furious it tore at the throat.
Then glass shattered, something smashed a huge hole through the wall from inside, and Blonsky's body shot out like a cannonball.
He rolled several times after hitting the ground, covered in dust, and climbed up cursing. Just as he raised his head, a green shadow fell over him.
Hulk leaped out, his soles crushing the paving tiles as he landed.
"Little bug!" Hulk lunged at Blonsky and slammed a fist down. Blonsky barely twisted aside, and chunks of concrete exploded three meters into the air!
The surrounding soldiers raised their guns. "Open fire! Cover him!"
Bullets poured down like a torrential rain, striking Hulk's skin with a series of sharp cracks. It was like throwing pebbles at an elephant.
Hulk turned his head, his eyes bloodshot. "Too noisy!"
He swept out a hand, and three armored vehicles on the left went tumbling through the air like toys, crashing onto the lawn and erupting into fireballs.
Inside the command vehicle at the rear, General Ross gripped his radio and bellowed, "Reinforcements! I need more firepower! Bring in air support early!"
Li Ang casually tossed his empty drink cup into a trash can and sighed. "This old bastard really doesn't know when to give up."
He watched Hulk swat away a seventh armored vehicle. The soldiers fled in all directions, abandoning their gear, while Blonsky still wanted to charge in.
"Come on, you monster!" Blonsky's eyes were filled with fanaticism.
The moment he saw Hulk, he understood: he had come into this world to kill this monster!
Against the light, he charged toward Hulk without hesitation, like a martyr.
He roared, but before he could get close, Hulk slapped him straight into a wall!
Even now, Thaddeus Ross was still standing in front of the command vehicle, pointing at Hulk on the screen. "Hold it down! I want it alive! Where are the Stark Industries weapons?"
Li Ang heard every word clearly from over a hundred meters away, and the corner of his mouth twitched.
Seriously, he was still dreaming at a time like this?
Hulk suddenly stopped. His nostrils twitched a few times, then he slowly turned his head, his green eyes locking onto General Ross's command vehicle in the distance.
He charged toward it, his footsteps pounding like drums. The ground shook so hard that even the pebbles beside Li Ang's feet bounced.
Thaddeus Ross's expression finally changed. He stepped back. "Retreat! Retreat now!"
It was too late. Hulk was too fast. In the blink of an eye, he was in front of the command vehicle, both arms raised high, ready to smash down.
Just then, several specialized combat vehicles finally arrived.
Each carried a weapon on the back that looked like a huge loudspeaker.
Sonic weapons!
If conventional firearms dealt physical damage to Hulk, which he could withstand with his armor, then sonic weapons dealt magic damage.
He had no magic resistance. Against something like this, he could only tank it with his health bar.
The instant the sonic weapons activated, Hulk crashed out of the air onto the ground without any ability to resist.
You know how Tang Sanzang recited the Golden Headband Mantra? Hulk was Sun Wukong right now, clutching his head and rolling all over the ground!
In the distance, Betty watched Hulk's suffering, her heart nearly breaking.
Hulk was caught in a loop now. Pain made him angry, anger made him stronger, but being stronger still hurt, so he grew even angrier...
Soon, his rage brought Hulk to his feet. Grunting twice, he forced his way against the sound waves, lifted a boulder, and hurled it at a vehicle!
Boom!
Amid the violent explosion, Hulk excitedly hoisted the vehicle's wreckage. Before long, all those vehicles had been smashed to pieces.
Hulk charged toward Thaddeus Ross's command vehicle once again.
This time, Thaddeus Ross was about to be sent flying along with his vehicle. Seeing this, Betty cried out from nearby, "No!"
As she spoke, she rushed over and planted herself directly in front of Thaddeus Ross's vehicle.
Hulk's enormous green hands stopped just as they were about to fall.
"Beauty and the Beast..." Seeing Hulk stop, and that old bastard Thaddeus Ross having taken a beating, Li Ang figured it was time to make his entrance.
With that thought, Li Ang changed into his combat suit and floated down from high above.
His cape billowed in the wind. Against the ravaged ground and the beastlike monster, he looked like a true god come to save the world!
Hulk stared at Li Ang descending, the corners of his mouth twitching a few times. "You. Hulk doesn't like!"
With that, he raised his hand and smashed it toward Li Ang. It happened so suddenly that no one around them reacted in time!
Except Li Ang, who raised his hand without hesitation and threw a punch of his own!
A shock wave spread in every direction, whipping dust dozens of meters into the air with an utterly thunderous, muffled boom!
The dust slowly cleared.
Thaddeus Ross and the surviving soldiers around him stared wide-eyed. The figure was not tall or imposing, and spiderweb cracks spread beneath his feet, but he had not taken a single step back.
His cape snapped in the wind, his combat suit completely undamaged.
"Not bad strength!" Li Ang slowly raised his head and managed a smile.
He truly had not expected Hulk to be so strong, only a little weaker than his enhanced self. Thankfully, he had upgraded his body beforehand.
Hulk froze for a moment, then flew into a rage. "You. Annoying!"
If a girl had said that with a blushing face, Li Ang would have really liked it. But hearing a burly man say it with a green face sent a shudder through him.
Li Ang shook his head. "I'm here to help you cool down."
With that, he suddenly exerted himself, grabbed one of Hulk's hands with both of his, then unleashed his full strength and hurled Hulk away!
Like a green meteor, Hulk smashed through the school building and out the other side, finally crashing into the lawn behind the sports field and plowing a trench over ten meters long.
Thaddeus Ross's mouth hung half-open, and stayed that way for a long time.
The soldier gripping a rocket launcher beside him asked blankly, "General, who is that?"
Thaddeus Ross suppressed his shock, a flicker of greed flashing through his eyes. "This power is even more stable than Hulk's. If we could..."
Before he finished, another explosive boom came from the distance. Hulk had already jumped out of the trench.
He brushed the dirt off himself, the anger in his eyes growing stronger. "You're strong!"
Li Ang rolled his wrist. "Not bad. A teensy bit stronger than you."
Hulk pounded his chest and roared, then kicked off the ground, charging like an out-of-control heavy truck with no brakes!
Li Ang neither dodged nor ducked. Floating in midair, he collided with Hulk. As they grappled, Li Ang took advantage of his flight, floated up, and kicked!
The muffled impact alone sounded like a bomb exploding beside their ears. Hulk clutched his chest and staggered back several steps, the shock making the distant soldiers' hearts tighten.
Before Hulk could react, Li Ang closed in and slammed a backhand elbow into his face!
Man!
"Ow!" Hulk cried out in pain, stumbling back two steps and shaking his head like a rattle drum. For the first time, a trace of confusion flashed through his eyes.
How was this guy so tough? Tougher than me?
[Earned Hulk's shock: +3,000 Presence]
Li Ang exhaled, feeling the power surging through his body. He raised a finger and beckoned at Hulk. "Feeling what the Mamba Mentality is yet?"
Hulk exploded with rage. Green light surged around him, his muscles swelled larger, and he lunged again, nearly twice as fast as before!