Chapter 61

'No matter how much pain and oppression he had suffered, pitiful as he was.'

'In the end, his guilt had been fully established.'

After all, no one had possessed Number One Mutants or taught him to set off a nuclear explosion.

Whatever his original intentions had been, this act had already surpassed what Magneto had done.

His crimes were monstrous!

He was unforgivable!

The charges against him could no longer be cleared.

After sensing that his heart had turned dark, they had fully embraced Mister Fantastic Reed's plan to exile him from the planet, under S.H.I.E.L.D.'s leadership.

As for the goodwill shown by holding a public trial, it could not be called entirely false.

If he had been willing to appear in court and admit his guilt.

Even after the first round of persuasion, if he had sincerely confessed before the global broadcast, fallen to his knees, and accepted the shackles, the plan might not have been set in motion.

And then...

There was no then.

Because the plan had failed completely.

They had gravely underestimated how terrifying the enemy they faced was.

The planners, along with the people in the courthouse, had nearly all died.

The stage that the performers had worked so hard to build had become their own burial ground.

Hum!!

Clouds of dust and sand rose endlessly, shooting into the sky like columns of smoke.

Su Chen slowly descended from the air. The waves swirling around his body kept the windblown sand from touching him at all.

He descended from the sky just like that.

Whoosh!!

He waved his arm, and a powerful wave swept the dust from an area in front of him.

In the vast crater, the green-skinned Hulk lay mostly embedded in the earth. His bloodied body was slowly healing.

This was not Su Chen's first encounter with the monster.

He knew how extraordinarily tough the Hulk was. The angrier he became, the stronger he grew, like a tireless machine of destruction.

Thanks to the Hulk, Su Chen's physical enhancement had increased considerably.

But now...

The Hulk had opened his eyes, and fear showed in them.

Yes...

He was afraid.

The Hulk, who had once used cities as playgrounds and toyed with the armies pursuing him around the world for who knew how many years, was now afraid of the boy before him.

"Why aren't you roaring anymore?"

The imposing image of the Hulk pounding his chest with both arms and roaring again and again still lingered in Su Chen's mind.

For a moment, he found it hard to get used to seeing the Hulk so pathetic and cowardly.

Of course the Hulk could feel fear.

The monster might have grown stronger the angrier he got, but when faced with a predator at the top of the food chain, he became completely docile and afraid. ..

At that moment, the Hulk's personality was replaced by Dr. Banner's own.

"You..."

This was the first time Bruce Banner had spoken in the Hulk's form, and also the first time he had felt the Hulk's personality so afraid.

He knew what had happened.

He glanced around. The surroundings were empty, and there were hardly any intact bodies to be seen in the terrifying crater, as though a meteorite had struck.

Banner swallowed.

He suddenly understood what he had to do.

One of the world's foremost physicists, with an intelligence that ranked among the top eight in the world, Dr. Banner still held the last collapsing black hole device in his Hulk hand.

"I've done a lot of things wrong, but in the last moment of my life, I just want to be a hero."

He spoke with great resolve.

There was no choice.

His teammates were gone, and most of the newly formed Avengers had been wiped out. Dr. Banner roared and leaped from the spot, taking control of the Hulk's body for the first time to charge at the figure before him.

In the last moment of his life, he would reclaim the Hulk's dignity.

Even if he died!

He would die standing!

He leaped up, raising his right hand high.

In an instant, a terrifying wave burst forth, and another collapsing black hole appeared. Its dreadful suction swallowed the Hulk's right hand first.

"A hero?"

Su Chen found the words grating.

This was the third time an enemy had used this high-tech device against him.

He was truly bored of it.

And so.

With a gentle kick, he sent the Hulk into the ground.

The poor fellow could not even reach him before the terrifying collapsing black hole began to swallow him first.

His entire figure vanished without a trace.

He had clearly been a supervillain before, pursued and on the run for years, yet he had suddenly been transformed into a superhero by S.H.I.E.L.D.

That was the answer Su Chen found hardest to accept.

They had not even been willing to treat him with sincerity, only to build a fake stage to welcome him.

It was far too ironic.

Ruthless typing robot: These two chapters contain two pieces of foreshadowing in total. There's no need to worry about how the story develops from here. Everyone can take a guess too..

Chapter 61

The Hulk, raging helplessly, had wanted to drag Su Chen down with him, but he had only trapped himself. Kicked to the ground, he was completely swallowed by the collapsing black hole he had created.

Hum!!

The violent, sweeping force soon vanished without a trace. When the distorted light returned to normal, an even more terrifying crater had appeared before them.

Su Chen, meanwhile, was unharmed. He had not even budged.

This was the third time he had encountered this kind of attack, and he could not even be bothered to respond.

Amid the howling wind.

Su Chen's clear eyes, black and white sharply defined, swept over the surroundings. All that remained of War Machine and Falcon, who had fought so desperately moments ago, was burning mechanical wreckage.

As for Ben, the Thing, who was known for his extraordinary vitality, he too was buried in the sand. Half his granite-like body was soaked in blood; he was delirious and showed only a faint sign of life.

Besides them.

There was one other survivor: Iron Man, Tony.

He had relied on a heavier suit of Mark Armor to shield him, along with a force-field shield mode, yet he too had ended up buried deep in the earth, covered in blood.

The cataclysm had nearly wiped out the superheroes and S.H.I.E.L.D. members gathered there.

And now.

The people outside the encirclement had mostly been knocked to the ground by the shockwaves from the earlier bombardment.

Many who had drawn close were even buried beneath the rubble of collapsing buildings.

Those worse off had been swept into the air by the immense shockwaves and hurled dozens of meters away.

The S.H.I.E.L.D. Rapid Response Force had been caught in the blast, losing more than half its members at once.

Only when the dust gradually began to settle did some survivors rise from the ground in panic.

"Oh, God, this..."

Only then did people notice that the ground beneath their feet had cracked open, a spiderweb of fissures stretching endlessly toward the horizon.

"It's just like a meteorite hit."

Looking ahead, everyone saw a terrifying crater that had appeared within their field of view.

And on the shifting sands, only the figure who had been hovering in the air stood unharmed.

His black hoodie was spotless, clean as if it had been washed, as though he had not been through a great battle at all.

"They're all dead..."

The Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. guarding the perimeter turned pale.

They realized that disaster was upon them.

The balance of the world was about to change!

Unlike the grief-stricken Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., the Mutants who had come to their senses immediately began to celebrate.

"Our king hasn't fallen!!"

"Drive them out!"

The Mutants shouted.

It was as though, at that moment, they were cheering and celebrating the birth of a new king for Mutants.

"Take them down!!"

The Mutants, having recognized their opponents' despicable conduct, soon could not resist attacking the S.H.I.E.L.D. personnel before them.

The two sides immediately began to fight.

"The plan to exile him from Earth has failed completely."

"All participants have been wiped out!"

Inside the Triskelion, S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarters, also located in the capital, all the agents and staff wore grim expressions.

No one had expected such a tragic outcome.

Nick Fury, the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D., took several deep breaths before he managed to keep his trembling facial muscles under control.

"What are you standing around for?"

"Activate the highest level-one global alert."

"Get all temporary bases ready for use and prepare to launch the headquarters' aircraft carrier. Activate the second set of contact codes. All personnel are to clear away the materials in their possession, change into plain clothes, and leave immediately."

Nick Fury spoke through gritted teeth, his voice full of loathing.

Although the Fantastic Four had devised the plan to exile him from Earth, S.H.I.E.L.D. had organized the manpower, and Number One Mutants would certainly not spare them.