Chapter 67
Su Chen had collected quite a few fighter jet models as a child, so naturally he would not pass up an aircraft carrier that represented the pinnacle of Earth's technology.
"Let's go take a look."
Soon.
He took Su Shan with him, and they traveled over to the aircraft carrier.
Standing on the deck and feeling the gentle, warm breeze blowing through the air, Su Chen could not help feeling a touch of emotion.
The aircraft carrier beneath his feet alone was decades ahead of Earth's current technology.
A single scan with his senses revealed row upon row of Quinjets beneath the deck, more advanced than the Raptor fighters he had once destroyed.
He would not pass up any of them.
In fact.
After finishing his revenge, Su Chen was somewhat uncertain about what he would do with his life after turning thirteen.
But what Su Chen found both funny and exasperating was that Su Shan, the little witch, had only recently been hoping he would put an end to all these messy battles.
Now she was cheering along with the other Mutants.
In any case, since he had chosen to wear this crown and follow the ambition that had arisen within him, Su Chen would continue gathering more resources.
This was the first step.
"Damn it, do you know who you've offended?"
Amid the angry roars, armed personnel fought to defend the carrier to the death, putting up a desperate resistance in its island structure.
But Juggernaut, Cain Marko, did not waste words on them. In short order, he endured their bullets and brutally strangled the two figures before him.
"Hail Hydra!!"
Suddenly, one of them charged forward with a bomb in his hand before dying, like a devout believer embracing martyrdom.
Snap!!
Su Chen snapped his fingers 300 times, each snap crisp.
Hum!
An invisible wave instantly erased the bomb in the man's hand from existence.
"Huh..."
The suicide bomber who had tried to blow everything apart was stunned.
"Looks like you underground rats have hidden yourselves well. You've even infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D.?"
Su Chen's tall, slender figure arrived outside the command room in the island structure, and his gaze swept over the figures fighting desperately inside.
A faint light appeared in his eyes as he began freely reading the memories in their minds.
At that moment, Su Chen realized that S.H.I.E.L.D. had long since rotted to the core. HYDRA, which had disappeared for decades, had already infiltrated everything here and undermined it from within.
"Damn bastard!!"
Soon.
The HYDRA personnel immediately realized that their minds were being read like books.
"Cut off one head, and two more shall grow."
"Hail Hydra!!"
Faced with an almost unstoppable existence, these people drew their guns without hesitation, pressed them to their heads, and killed themselves.
"Remember that you rejected our HYDRA's offer. HYDRA will always be watching you. When we welcome our master back from the endless abyss, that will be the day you die."
Chapter 67
Suicide. They had killed themselves in an act of martyrdom again.
HYDRA's resolve caught the Mutants present completely by surprise.
As for HYDRA, which had once dominated much of the world, everyone's memories and impressions were limited to books and school lessons.
Now that they had seen it for themselves, they found it all the more bizarre and horrifying.
These people were clearly very weak, but their ruthlessness and resolve left some of the Mutants feeling a measure of awe.
"Hmph, just a bunch of trash who couldn't take a beating."
Juggernaut remained as carefree as ever. He thumped his chest and roared in a rough voice, "If I find out where those guys are hiding, I'll root them out for our king."
Su Chen's expression remained calm and composed. He did not pay much attention to HYDRA's existence.
Of course...
From the HYDRA leader's mind just now, Su Chen had also learned that HYDRA branches already existed all over the world.
Besides seeking to rule the world, HYDRA's members had all along been working to welcome back a HYDRA ruler exiled to another world!
It was said to be a terrifying existence that had been banished to another realm thousands of years ago.
That was quite a pleasant surprise.
Su Chen raised an eyebrow, but regarded it with disdain.
After all, he had never feared a challenge!
In a sense.
His endlessly evolving mutant genes had determined Su Chen's eagerness for challenges.
Soon.
S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarters, the Triskelion, a building personally designed and constructed by Howard Stark in the past and whose security system had been renovated by Iron Man, Tony Stark, fell into Su Chen's hands.
The Mutant Electronic began cracking its system data, gradually taking control of the various areas.
Unfortunately, a large amount of data had been deleted and could not be fully recovered.
All the records that required level-eight agent clearance or higher to access were lost.
S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Nick Fury had been known as the man who knew the most secrets on Earth, and he alone knew about the secret bases created by this immensely powerful man.
None of these questions could be answered.
Crackle...
In the building's underground garage, arcs of electricity burst from an old-fashioned pager that had been trampled flat.
The Mutants coming and going had no idea what this meant.
Several Quinjets flew out of the aircraft carrier in the sky. Some Mutants piloted them straight to the Manhattan District, where they would take possession of Stark Industries' armored robots.
Besides that...
The Baxter Building, home of the Fantastic Four, would also be taken over.
After all, it contained laboratories with a wealth of scientific research and cutting-edge technology.
Before long, good news finally came from the Mutant Electronic.
"We recovered some data. S.H.I.E.L.D. has a secret base in the north called the 'Joint Dark Energy Mission Facility.'"
"Its security classification is very high, and a great many additional personnel have been sent there. I recommend sending more Mutants to take it over."
From him, everyone soon learned more.
According to the information, the Joint Dark Energy Mission Facility held something called the Tesseract, and S.H.I.E.L.D. had been extracting energy from this treasure to create cutting-edge weapons.
Even more surprisingly, it was a treasure HYDRA had once possessed during World War II.
Everyone present was shocked and marveled at the news.
Even then, none of them knew that the Tesseract stored at the Joint Dark Energy Mission Facility would cause their people considerable trouble in the future.
As soon as Su Chen learned the news, he personally set out with a group of people for the high-tech facility.
The Manhattan District.
In the Baxter Building, the Fantastic Four had purchased all the rooms on the top five floors and converted them into a research facility.
On the rooftop was the Fantastic Four's manned vehicle, called the Fantasticar. It was extremely fast, even faster than a conventional fighter jet.
On the side of the building was also a rocket launchpad, capable of launching rockets into space.
Mister Fantastic, Reed, who had recently been studying parallel universe theory, had even had a spatial gateway to the Negative Zone on the second of his top floors.
It was a truly astonishing thing.
In Reed's plans, it was a place where he would one day exile and banish supercriminals.
But not long ago, a little boy in the family had closed the gateway to the Negative Zone, putting it in his pocket as though it were a door he could use at will.
Franklin Richards sighed. Following Ms. Hill's advice, he left the place with his younger sister, Valeria Richards.
Both of them were Mutants.
The older brother was a terrifying Mutant beyond Omega-level.
Omega-level was already terrifying and outrageous!
Yet he was bound to have the potential to surpass Omega-level in the future.
His younger sister was also recognized as someone of such extraordinary intelligence that her IQ would one day surpass every being on Earth.
Ironically...
Their parents had died at the hands of someone who had suffered persecution and had now become the king of Mutants.
One could imagine how complicated their feelings were.
After all, after confirming the expression of the X-Gene and witnessing his children's somewhat incredible powers, Mister Fantastic, Reed, had not exposed them much to the public, for fear that even a little discrimination from society would affect their psychological development.
For that reason, when Franklin's power had suddenly surged the previous year, he had even been forced to seal his abilities with his father's help.
As a result, at such a helpless moment, he could not muster the slightest power to deal with his terrifying enemy.
"I'll definitely get revenge. Believe me, it won't take long..."
That was the older brother's promise to his younger sister!
It was also his assurance of his own power!
After all, if not for the seal, he might accidentally have broken through the boundaries of Earth and crammed countless spaces into it.
And so they left.
Ms. Hill had come in person, solemnly regarding them as the hope of turning the tables and taking revenge, and carefully took the brother and sister to the West Coast.
Once on the West Coast, she would personally establish a new Avengers.
Called the "West Coast Avengers"!
Whoosh!!
Quinjets sped through the night sky, hurrying toward the Joint A Energy Mission Facility in the north.
But just then.
Boom!!
Boundless dark clouds gathered in the pitch-black night. Flashes of lightning formed in the air in an instant, then swept toward the fighters like giant pythons.