S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Fault

Chapter 377: S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Fault

"Oh? That was rather unexpected."

Seeing Emil Blonsky seemingly use a simple Wood Style technique unconsciously, Xu Yue was quite surprised.

The diluted solution of the First Hokage’s Cells could only cultivate a Sage Body (Inferior) that could not advance further. Although it granted the ability to use Wood Style, as well as enhanced stamina and Chakra recovery, it was vastly inferior to the genuine article—worse even than an ordinary Kekkei Genkai.

Yet unexpectedly, when the diluted solution of the First Hokage’s Cells reacted with the Super Soldier Serum, the two had complemented each other and improved to a certain extent.

The Super Soldier Serum developed potential, while the diluted First Hokage’s Cells altered the body. This seemed to have directly brought out the potential of what had originally been an inferior diluted cell solution.

"Only the diluted cells could achieve this. The original First Hokage’s Cells are too aggressive and would directly devour the Super Soldier Serum."

Although the Space restricted him from trading his own cells as items, he could still conduct ordinary research.

This had been an unexpected gain. Aside from the Stark factory version of the Super Soldier Serum seemingly having a mind-damaging side effect, the combined effects of the two were rather beyond expectations…

While Xu Yue observed the test subject here, the Reincarnators on the other side, who had thought they could easily pick up some benefits, found themselves facing the most difficult situation imaginable!

Normally, if Hulk had stayed to fight head-on, even the doubly enhanced Emil Blonsky would clearly have been no match for him. He would probably have been pinned to the ground and beaten senseless.

But the damned thing was, before the clash had broken out, they had acted all high and mighty in front of Hulk. Then Hulk had turned around, slung his girlfriend and Human Path Pain over his shoulders one on each side, and run off.

That left only this miserable group of Reincarnators, skewered like kebabs and utterly devastated.

"Ah! Stop!"

"Not there… pfft!"

"Someone save me."

"Didn’t they say he was weak? Didn’t they say we could beat him one-on-one…"

Having gained new power, Emil Blonsky himself seemed to have transformed into a Treant. Great masses of branches burst from around his spine, and together with his wooden hands, he slaughtered everything in his path.

These Reincarnators had always gone with the flow. First, they had sent a few people into General Ross’s team to capture someone in Brazil, and now they had set up an ambush in advance to gain a wave of goodwill. Their choices had all been relatively simple and safe paths.

But no matter what, they had set their sights on Hulk. Their own strength was still among the best of the Veteran Reincarnators. Under normal circumstances, none of them would have lost in a one-on-one fight against an ordinarily enhanced Emil Blonsky.

Yet now, they had been cut down like grass, nearly wiped out entirely.

"I understand now—S.H.I.E.L.D.! He must be one of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s people."

"This was all S.H.I.E.L.D.’s doing!"

Pierced through by branches, shoots bursting outward from within their bodies, the Reincarnators’ powerful vitality kept them from dying immediately. The last one seemed to have a flash of insight before death, his face filling with anger and unwillingness.

Sure enough, even if they acted in accordance with the wheel of history, going even slightly too far could still bring S.H.I.E.L.D.’s intervention.

What injustice…

If only they had known…

As the last of his life force faded away, the final member of the Reincarnation Squad lowered his head, hanging from a bloodstained branch.

"Hulk! Hulk, where are you?!"

Emil Blonsky still remembered the guy who had sent him flying with one punch and embedded him in an armored vehicle.

If not for the new power that had suddenly surged from within him, he might have been finished just like that.

Now that he had obtained that power, his fighting spirit was overflowing.

"Major Emil, calm down. The prey has already escaped. Return to the unit first!"

General Ross was a man who had seen plenty of major events. Even though branches were bursting from Emil Blonsky’s entire body and he looked like a monster, Ross still gave his orders calmly and steadily, without the slightest fear.

"General, let me handle this."

Xu Yue came to General Ross’s side and said to him with a gentle smile.

"I think I understand what happened to Mr. Emil. With this medicine, I originally intended to use Chinese herbs to neutralize the effect that causes mental frenzy. It seems that it may have had the opposite effect instead."

After subtly displaying his ability to improve the Super Soldier Serum, Xu Yue did not wait for a response and walked directly toward the seemingly deranged Emil Blonsky.

"Is there really no worthy opponent?!"

"Roar!"

Branches erupted from all over Emil Blonsky’s body, forming something like an external skeleton. Drool ran from the corners of his mouth, and his eyes were filled with madness and chaos.

The diluted solution of the First Hokage’s Cells had indeed been relatively safe on its own, but after its potential had been developed by the Super Soldier Serum, it was no longer something he could control.

Then he saw Xu Yue slowly walking toward him.

He vaguely felt that the man was someone familiar, but he could no longer care about such things. Right now, he wanted destruction, slaughter, blood!

"Are you my opponent? Then come!"

With a mad roar, Emil Blonsky charged directly at Xu Yue under the alarmed expressions of General Ross and the others.

"Be quiet."

The two simple words left Xu Yue’s mouth. The next moment, Emil Blonsky froze completely, stopping so abruptly that it seemed as though he had strained his entire body.

Although he had lost most of his reason, his biological instincts now frantically warned Emil Blonsky.

Every cell in his body was issuing a warning.

Disobey,

and he would die!

Under that congealed, viscous killing intent, everything around them seemed to lose its color, swallowed by killing intent so dense it was nearly tangible.

It was as if only he and the small man before him remained between heaven and earth.

The drifting killing intent brushed across his face, leaving a streak of blood.

It was precisely that thread of pain that made Emil Blonsky completely docile.

Having lost his reason, he now followed his instinctive desires even more blindly.

And the desire to survive was forever the strongest desire in the hearts of all living creatures…

"Good boy~"

Still wearing a gentle, smiling expression, Xu Yue walked up to Emil Blonsky, stood on tiptoe, and reached out to pat his drastically changed head.

Emil Blonsky also seemed to obediently calm down, then suddenly collapsed to the ground as though he had fainted outright.

General Ross immediately sent medics over with a stretcher to carry him away.

This was important experimental material. Nothing could happen to him.

Ross even jogged over himself, looking at Xu Yue with admiration as he said,

"Doctor Xu Yue, what kind of hypnosis did you use to tame him? He seems to have lost his sanity. Does that make this kind of hypnosis easier to use?"

"General Ross truly is knowledgeable and experienced. It was simply a special hypnotic technique."

Xu Yue turned back with an equally respectful smile, spouting nonsense with a perfectly straight face.

Yet it seemed to hit exactly the right spot with General Ross, making him laugh smugly for a while before he continued.

"Next, I must ask Doctor Xu Yue to help me improve the Super Soldier Serum project. Although the fusion with the Chinese herbs you provided still has some flaws, the enhancement is simply too obvious…"

Two updates complete… I still have work tomorrow. This is absolutely brutal~ The double pressure during the Spring Festival is even more brutal…