"This is the battle suit I truly need." Chen Xiao's lips curled slightly, and with a single step, his figure appeared hundreds of thousands of kilometers away.
With another step, aided by a slight distortion of reality, it leaped hundreds of thousands of kilometers, one step at a time, as if walking on flat ground, heading straight for Earth.
Because the distance of each jump is limited, the load caused by spatial warping is negligible.
In just over ten minutes, he traversed more than 100 million kilometers and stood firmly on the edge of Earth's atmosphere.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
As soon as he appeared, Chen Xiao's mind stirred slightly, and dozens of satellites that were secretly tracking him within a radius of more than a thousand kilometers instantly exploded into dazzling fireballs.
Do you really think nobody cares about privacy? They're constantly watching us.
Illuminated by the blazing firelight, he appeared cold, awe-inspiring, and unfathomable.
With a slight thought, perception swept across thousands of kilometers like a storm, instantly blinding global satellites and plunging the Earth's surface into a "visual vacuum."
After destroying the satellite, Chen Xiao did not land immediately. Instead, he hovered at the edge of the atmosphere, slowly lowered his eyes, and activated both eyes and ears at the same time. His vision penetrated the clouds, and his hearing spread across the surface, bringing the entire planet into his perception range.
In an instant, billions of sounds surged in: city noise, waves crashing on the shore, a baby crying, whispers in the dead of night... a chaotic tide, flooding my mind.
His brain worked at high speed, filtering out redundant information layer by layer, leaving only the key clues, like panning for gold in a desert, filtering out the dust and taking only the pure gold.
After a long while, a slight smile appeared on his lips, tinged with coldness.
" Hydra? They really did have their eyes on me."
"It seems the deterrent effect from last time wasn't deep enough, which is why they dared to attack my lab while I was away from Earth."
Before he finished speaking, he remained standing beyond the heavens, listening intently and searching for Silk.
More than four hours later, as the Earth's rotation slowly pushed the west coast of North America directly in front of him, he nodded slightly, his eyes suddenly lighting up and shooting out two golden-red flames.
boom!
The beam of light pierced the sky, tearing through the atmosphere, growing rapidly until it finally merged into a blazing pillar of light over ten meters in diameter...
In the America, on the coast of Melbourne, lies a small town that appears ordinary yet is strangely out of place.
Built by the sea, bathed in sunshine, with pristine beaches, it never develops tourism; the town has neither factories nor large-scale businesses, nor any distinctive industries to support it. Strangely, the residents are never short of food and clothing, their accounts always have large sums of money from unknown sources, and their daily expenses are unrestrained.
This unusual phenomenon had aroused curiosity and led to secret investigations in the past.
As a result, all of them disappeared without a trace.
Today, the town is just like any other day. Some people stroll leisurely through the streets and alleys, while others lean against the beach basking in the sun, their leisurely pace bordering on laziness.
Suddenly, the clouds in the sky churned and dispersed, revealing a huge circular hole in the center.
Looking up, a golden-red beam of light, over ten meters thick, cleaved down from the heavens and, amidst countless astonished and terrified gazes, precisely struck the center of the town.
boom!!
The earth and sky trembled violently, and an invisible Quake swept across hundreds of miles at dozens of times the speed of sound. Wherever it passed, the air hummed and the earth cracked.
Immediately afterwards, a blinding golden-red light erupted from the heart of the town, as if a miniature star had suddenly ignited. The fireball expanded wildly, instantly soaring thousands of meters into the sky.
Then came the devastating Havok, which melted buildings like paper, turning people to ashes before they could even react; the earth melted into crimson Magma, and the near-shore seawater evaporated completely.
Thousands of lives vanished into nothingness the instant the flames engulfed them.
The intense light from the explosion almost turned half the night sky into daylight.
The violent tremors instantly alerted the surrounding towns. People instinctively looked up towards the town.
"Ah!"
My eyes hurt so much!
"Nuclear explosion! It's a nuclear bomb! Get out of the way!"
Desperate cries rose and fell.
The mushroom cloud that blotted out the sky and the tremors that shook the mountains convinced everyone that they were facing a sudden strategic attack.
The unexpected turn of events not only shocked the local area, but also caused a sudden change in the America president and his staff in New York.
Although Chen Xiao has destroyed some satellites, the America still has a large number of military-civilian shared orbital platforms. The high-energy signal was captured in real time the moment the Heat Vision burst.
But no one expected that he could unleash a devastating attack comparable to a space-based weapon while simply floating quietly outside the atmosphere, effortlessly erasing a small town from the map.
That's terrifying. This Mutants.
Inside the S.H.I.E.L.D.. command center, the Avengers members, who considered themselves responsible for the nation's security, stared intently at the images transmitted back from the satellite, their faces ashen.
"Why did he do this?" Black Widow's voice was strained, full of confusion.
Hawkeye said in a deep voice, "This isn't a human, it's a calamity. Tony is right, nobody understands what he's thinking, and nobody can guess what he'll do next."
Iron Man and Banner both wore solemn expressions and remained silent.
They were unaware that this attack precisely eradicated Hydra's core lair, which had been dormant for many years.
At this moment, Chen Xiao believes that if he so chooses, there are no real secrets left on Earth, unless all of humanity falls into complete Hush.
But this kind of all-encompassing surveillance is extremely mentally taxing. The conversations, chatter, ramblings, and arguments of billions of people are all mixed together, and even with keyword filtering, his temples still throbbed.
Moreover, these voices contain not only everyday trivialities, but also a considerable amount of... things that are best left unsaid.
For example, in a certain island nation in the Eastern Hemisphere, late at night, the streets and alleys are filled with unbearable shouts; with super vision scanning, I also caught a few glimpses of things that shouldn't be there... cough, let's skip that.
After wiping out Hydra's headquarters with a single blow, Chen Xiao suddenly swooped down, crashing into the atmosphere and hurtling towards the Kamar-Taj Sanctuary at hundreds of times the speed of sound.
Because of its excessive speed and the lack of an energy shield, it violently rubbed against the air, causing a dazzling blue-red flame to erupt on its body, leaving a trail of light hundreds of meters long as it streaked through the sky and flew towards the still dark Northern Hemisphere.
The unusual phenomenon was so striking that many passersby looked up and exclaimed, "A shooting star!"
His original plan was clear: first, merge the space factor to break the London seal and obtain the Reality Stone; then merge the time factor to enhance his control, so that he would have the confidence to confront the Ancient One, who wields the Time Stone, head-on.
However, his strength surged far beyond expectations after the Silver Leap, and with the added power of the Reality Stone, he was certain that even without the ability to time, he could subdue the Ancient One.
There's no need to take a detour and turn back.
Moreover, it seems there's been a problem over there.
In a remote town in Nepal nestled in the Himalayas, an eerie night is descending. On the streets, large numbers of residents lie silently, trapped in an unawakable slumber.
Inside the building known as the "Temple," the space is completely distorted, as if the universe has been forcibly shattered and divided into countless independent mirror domains.
In these isolated fragmented spaces, renowned wizards and reclusive sorcerers of Earth are engaged in a fierce battle against hordes of dark creatures.
In the largest Mirror Dimension, the Scarlet Witch was fighting a bloody battle, her body surging with violent crimson energy, its blazing light tearing through the darkness.
Each time he raised his arms, a burst of Berserk Chaos Magic would erupt into beams of crimson light, each beam covering a radius of a hundred meters. Wherever it touched, hordes of shadow monsters would instantly vanish into thin air.
In the center of the layers of dark, demonic mist stood Agatha, the witch from London who had once dissuaded Chen Xiao.
At this moment, she stood before a rift in another dimension that stretched across the heavens and the earth.
That dark purple-purple void rift, like a gigantic maw devouring everything, tore apart layers of mirrored planes, from which countless twisted and ferocious dark creatures surged forth.
Whenever Wanda unleashes her destructive power to temporarily clear away the demonic tide before turning her attention to the rift and launching a fierce attack, Agatha always intervenes in time to intercept her.
The magic she unleashed was also Chaos Magic, though far less powerful than Wanda's, it was enough to firmly withstand the attack.
On the other side of the rift, a massive, shadowy face, so large it blotted out the sky, confronted Ancient One.
Within the myriad Mirror Dimension, the Ancient One remained calm, her gaze serene, maintaining the entire mirror barrier while firmly trapping all the encroaching darkness within.
Deep within the rift, Dormammu, like the ruler of eternal night, exuded a suffocating pressure, his voice low and echoing like the abyss. " Ancient One, you've blocked my way for centuries, did you ever foresee that today would be your end?"
Ancient One's gaze remained unmoved, his voice calm. "The cycle of life and death is the natural order; why fear it?"
Even if I perish here today, you will never set foot in this universe.
Dormammu chuckled, his tone laced with disdain. "What, going to pull out your 'predetermined future' rhetoric again? It's futile. I've long since transcended time."
The 'future' you see is nothing more than a tapestry of countless variables; it is not predetermined, much less my destiny.
At this moment, it showed no signs of anxiety.
Especially when it realized that the Ancient One was continuously absorbing dark energy to prolong its life, a mocking smile even appeared on its distorted shadowy face.
Right in the back of the Ancient One's heart, a pitch-black dagger was embedded, its eerie dark corrosive power coiling around it, accelerating the erosion of his life force while completely severing his connection with the power of the Vishanti.
In such a state, he could only eke out a living by consuming darkness; but the more he absorbed, the faster he would perish.
Unless... he emulates Dormammu, willingly succumbs to darkness, and transforms into a shadow puppet controlled by him.
But given the Ancient One's proud and aloof nature, she would never take this path, as it would be tantamount to offering up her soul and becoming a slave for eternity.
Meanwhile, in another Mirror Dimension, an old white-haired wizard was desperately resisting the onslaught of the demonic tide, urgently shouting, " Sorcerer Supreme, the temple is beyond saving! Retreat immediately!"
An elderly man standing nearby, resembling a cultivator from an Eastern esoteric sect, echoed in a deep voice, "Indeed, although the core of the formation has been destroyed, we can still rebuild the barrier on the outer perimeter."
"If you keep going, you'll die."
Faced with earnest advice, Ancient One gently shook her head. "We cannot retreat. Once this place falls, all the outsiders will be overrun and reduced to mere zombies."
"More importantly, if Dormammu were to truly become a reality, no one would be able to restrain him."
Looking into his unwavering resolve, Dormammu from the other side of the rift slowly spoke, " Ancient One, do you really think you still have a sliver of hope?"