An hour later.
Sean sat aboard a C-17 Globemaster III strategic military transport aircraft. The rear cargo bay was loaded with a large quantity of stored Eihman Metal, a rare gain from this trip to Tokyo.
Ichiro Yashida had originally planned to use Adamantium to forge a giant suit of samurai armor, barely prolonging his life with Hydra's life-support equipment. Then, he would absorb the Eihman Metal in Wolverine Logan's body to obtain its active Healing Factor.
Unfortunately, things did not go as planned. Logan, who had been under the Yashida Family's surveillance, vanished without a trace. Ichiro Yashida's plan fell through, leaving him no choice but to implement Hydra's backup plan. In the end, that extravagantly expensive suit of Eihman Metal armor became Sean's spoils of war.
The transport aircraft that had taken off from Yokosuka Fleet Base circled above Tokyo Bay. The lonely island had sunk beneath the sea, with only a few sharp "reefs" protruding from the surface.
A Longtail Shark-class submarine had exploded. As a third-generation nuclear submarine, its destructive power rivaled that of a conventional ballistic missile. The tremendous blast directly shattered the island, causing it to collapse and split apart.
It was like the explosion of Russia's K-480 cruise missile nuclear submarine years ago, which unleashed scorching temperatures of three thousand degrees Celsius and instantly vaporized the submarine and the twenty-five people on the platform, leaving not even a trace behind.
As for the submarine Viper had been riding, even though the explosion occurred underwater, it still unleashed tremendous force. It nearly triggered a terrifying tsunami. The destructive power whipped up raging waves that directly swallowed the secret laboratory beneath the island.
The entire island was struck by the shockwave. The rock layers at its base peeled away and disintegrated, breaking into pieces. Rubble