The Winter Soldier retreated half a step, raising his mechanical arm with its emblazoned red star across his body.
Su Zhou drove both feet down onto the mechanical arm with his full body weight.
An immense force surged through the mechanical arm, and Su Zhou's kick sent the Winter Soldier lurching backward.
He used the momentum to backflip out of the way of Su Zhou's next attack, drawing his tactical dagger with a reverse grip.
Under the room's rather dim lights, the blade reflected an azure gleam!
"Antelope Leaps!"
Su Zhou shouted again, continuing his fierce assault on the Winter Soldier!
Pushing off the ground with his left foot, he shot forward like a sharp sword.
His right leg swung toward the Winter Soldier like an axe. The Winter Soldier had no time to counterattack.
He could only take another step back as the tip of Su Zhou's right foot swept right past his nose.
Even though the kick missed, the wind it stirred up was like a sharp little blade.
It left a tiny cut on the tip of the Winter Soldier's nose!
"Two Dragons Play with a Pearl!"
Su Zhou abruptly exerted his waist and abdominal muscles, thrusting two fingers of his right hand straight at the Winter Soldier's eyes!
The Winter Soldier reacted extremely quickly as well. His mechanical arm reached for Su Zhou's right hand with a low hum.
At the same time, his tactical dagger traced a subtle arc through the air, attacking from Su Zhou's blind spot!
Unfortunately, Su Zhou had anticipated all the Winter Soldier's movements, and the corners of his mouth involuntarily curved upward.
A centimeter before the Winter Soldier's mechanical hand could catch his two fingers, he changed his move, using a coin held between his fingernails.
He drove it precisely into a gap in the mechanical arm's joint. In an instant, the arm's gears gave off a teeth-grating screech!
The coin had been given to him earlier by some kindhearted young Black guy, and it was one of the few hard objects Su Zhou currently had on him.
From the very beginning of the fight, Su Zhou had planned to target the Winter Soldier's mechanical arm!
Black Tiger Alfred was a kung fu master, after all, so naturally he knew basic techniques like pressure-point strikes.
Inserting a coin into a gap in the mechanical arm's joint was no difficult feat for Su Zhou now!
The Winter Soldier's mechanical arm malfunctioned, throwing him completely off balance.
The tactical dagger slashing out in his right hand also lost its aim, but to buy himself time to recover,
he hurled the tactical dagger like a throwing knife at the retreating Su Zhou!
But Su Zhou bent backward into an iron bridge, then flipped back, copying the Winter Soldier's earlier move with a backflip off the ground!
When he stood up, the dagger he had just caught was clenched between his teeth.
"A knife against bare hands was bad enough, but now you're even using hidden weapons! Old people really have no martial virtue!"
Su Zhou spat out the tactical dagger, then punched it.
The tactical dagger turned into a streak of light, shooting toward the Winter Soldier.
By now, the Winter Soldier had pulled the coin out of his mechanical arm's joint and raised his left hand to knock the flying dagger aside.
But Su Zhou appeared behind him like a ghost, chuckling:
"Black Tiger Passes over White Wolf!"
He immediately crouched and swept the bewildered Winter Soldier off his feet with a leg sweep!
"Sickle Sweeps the Ground!"
While the Winter Soldier was still in midair, Su Zhou landed another heavy kick on his waist, keeping him airborne!
"Elephant Kick! Tornado Destroys Parking Lot!!!"
Su Zhou spun twice on the ground, then drove his right leg into the Winter Soldier's chest with terrifying force!
The Winter Soldier traced an arc through the air and slammed into the wall with a bang!
Unable to get up for a long while, he lay on the floor and spat out a huge mouthful of blood!
"Alfred flattened the Winter Soldier!"
Su Zhou bared his gleaming white teeth and smiled as he straightened his slightly disheveled clothes.
"Chinese kung fu always welcomes seniors to spar!"
Su Zhou's terrifying performance left Crossbones and Alexander, who were watching the monitor outside the room, utterly stunned!
"Rumlow, does being Chinese mean you know this fighting skill called 'kung fu'?"
"Are you saying every Chinese person is actually Jackie Chan, sir?!"
As the captain of a special forces unit, Crossbones was not merely proficient with firearms.
He had dabbled in most of the world's martial arts, and his close-combat abilities placed him among the best in the world.
In his view, Su Zhou's stormlike barrage of attacks also required a great deal of training.
But Su Zhou had been taken in and trained by HYDRA since he was fifteen, and all his training was documented.
Who knew when he had learned kung fu-or had some innate bloodline in his Chinese ancestry awakened?!
Not only Crossbones and Alexander, but the other Hydra members standing behind them were also stunned.
As far as they remembered, Su Zhou had always settled fights with guns.
They had never known Su Zhou was so formidable in close combat, too. God is watching over our HYDRA!
"You should go in, Rumlow. If you don't go in now, I'm afraid Su Zhou will beat the Winter Soldier to death!
"He's our organization's most important asset. We must protect him!"
Secretary Alexander nodded in great satisfaction. He did not care what abilities Su Zhou had hidden.
As long as he remained loyal to HYDRA and to Alexander as his leader, that was enough!
As long as he was still one of Hydra's people, it would be fine even if Su Zhou could smash the Earth apart.
He would also be useful on Hydra's future campaign to conquer the universe!
When Crossbones opened the door to the room, the Winter Soldier was still lying on the floor coughing. Su Zhou's kick had been far too heavy!
Su Zhou, meanwhile, stood motionless where he was, like a straight pine tree.
"Time's up. Su Zhou, you can come out."
Su Zhou shook his head. His character trial card had run out just then.
A system notification sounded in his mind, but this time, he had not gained a brand-new skill.
[Physical Fitness Enhancement: Your physical fitness has improved in all aspects.]
There was no warm current flowing through his body as he had imagined, nor did his body secrete any foul-smelling black liquid.
But he knew his own body. Even walking felt much lighter.
He checked his heart with [Super Vision] and found that all the cracks on it had healed completely.
Like a kung fu master who had trained for years, his resting heart rate was now only around fifty beats per minute.
This was also a tremendous improvement to the steadiness of his arms when using firearms.
The side effects of using [Bullet Time] would also decrease considerably. After all, even his heart had been upgraded.
Even if Black Tiger Alfred was a cartoon villain, his brute strength was nothing to underestimate.
With enough strength to send Tohru flying with a single kick, he could casually leap four or five meters into the air.
Kung fu was merely a complement. That toughened physique was Alfred's greatest weapon!
But the improvement to his physical fitness was not Su Zhou's greatest gain from this fight with the Winter Soldier.
His greatest gain was another system notification that appeared in Su Zhou's mind!
[Defeated Hydra's most ferocious Winter Soldier. Justice Points +100]!