If the hands of time were turned back, Sean's doubts would be answered. Ten minutes earlier, the Sentry had stormed Hydra's underground base with unstoppable force. Those Hydra agents who had undergone rigorous training were utterly incapable of resisting the golden figure's lightning-fast assault, as helpless as lambs awaiting slaughter.
His thoughts spread out like threads, sensing the Tesseract through the thick walls—a glowing cube, brilliant halos rippling around it in soft, radiant waves.
A faint longing rose within him, and the golden torrent inside his body surged forth. Like a humanoid tank, the Sentry smashed through the reinforced concrete and easily broke into the workshop where Dr. Selvig was building the reactor.
Even through the sealed case, the crystalline, dazzling cube still reflected itself into Sean's inner world in some peculiar way. Its obscure fluctuations became clearer, and his breathing stopped for a second until gunfire erupted outside.
"You can't take the Tesseract! It will show us an entirely new universe..."
Dr. Selvig stood in front of the Sentry. His mind was filled with the knowledge and mysteries hidden within the Tesseract. This tiny cube was like a boundless sea of stars—the more he learned, the more deeply he became immersed in it.
"That's exactly what I want to see."
Sean casually knocked Dr. Selvig unconscious. He looked toward the case on the workbench, where dazzling blue light blossomed from within. Strands of subtle energy fluctuations spread outward like a spiderweb.
The pale blue glow resonated with the golden torrent within him, instantly drawing all of Sean's focus. It felt as though his consciousness had been stripped from his shell, pulled out of the real world and into a realm of the mind.
Gentle power flowed through his body. For the first time, he could so clearly touch that