The Overconfident Pig Teammates

S.H.I.E.L.D. tried to manipulate Peter and find a way to restrain Zhan Liu. At the same time, they had to figure out how to rein in their useless allies, preventing them from angering Zhan Liu and making the situation impossible to control.

After Linderman failed to intimidate or bribe him, he returned and reported Zhan Liu’s attitude. This immediately provoked many military generals into wanting to make a move against Zhan Liu and teach him a lesson.

Actually, at the very beginning, not every general wanted to cause trouble for Zhan Liu. Most of those who had stepped forward were generals who held strong objections to Mutants.

Zhan Liu’s Ultimate Limit Qigong had already proven highly effective at activating the Mutant genes within humans. This drove those people to want to use force against him.

However, the Americans had never been able to agree on anything. Some generals who did not care about Mutants opposed resolving the matter with force. Compared with the cases where people’s genes were activated and they became Mutants, there were far more ordinary people who remained unchanged. The ratio was not high.

But when ordinary people became superhumans, it meant that these generals could become superhumans too. That was what they truly cared about.

They were still waiting for those elite soldiers to reach the Magnetic Field Rotation Realm and return to teach them how to practice, giving them Magnetic Field Acceleration and helping them become superhumans as well.

Even if they were going to use force against Zhan Liu later, they should at least wait until they became superhumans first.

They did not understand the vast differences between the War God realms. They were still using outdated ways of thinking, planning to pile up their forces through sheer numbers and overwhelm Zhan Liu.

Under this complicated web of interests, a group of generals had barely managed to reach the agreement from before and sent Linderman to convey it to Zhan Liu.

Who could have expected that Zhan Liu would completely ignore their "goodwill" and then push his luck, making such outrageous demands? This enraged every single general.

They were the masters of the Federation, part of its ruling class. And what was Zhan Liu? He was nothing more than the owner of a mere Martial Arts School, yet he actually wanted to place himself above them. He was far too arrogant. This idea had already crossed their bottom line.

They wanted an obedient dog, not a master over their heads.

Therefore, once the generals understood what Zhan Liu truly had in mind, they immediately reached a unanimous decision: teach this conceited outsider from another world a lesson and make him learn to respect power.

It was under these circumstances that Nick arrived at the Pentagon.

He had to stop these generals from doing something foolish. Otherwise, the consequences would be far too serious.

"Nick, what brings you here this time?" The generals had no fondness whatsoever for S.H.I.E.L.D., which always snatched food from their mouths.

"Do you think I wanted to come to this dump of yours? Every time I come here, I feel like my intelligence drops by ten percent." Nick’s face darkened as he spoke angrily.

"No one invited you!" The generals were just as foul-tempered and refused to indulge his bad habits.

"Although you’re a bunch of idiots, I don’t want you to be stupid enough to kill yourselves. Or rather, it doesn’t matter if you die, but don’t drag the Federation into the vortex of destruction." Nick launched into a barrage of mockery.

"What nonsense are you talking about? This is the Pentagon, the safest place in the world. It’s even safer than the White House!" one general shouted furiously.

"Heh, the defenses here can only deal with missiles and the like. Against a supervillain, all you can do is wait for death!" Nick mocked these short-sighted fools.

"Any criminal who dares attack the Pentagon is declaring war on the Federation. There’s only one outcome for them: death!" The generals spoke as though it were self-evident.

"Don’t get too full of yourselves. The supervillain you’re facing now is nothing like those useless nobodies from before. The Federation is powerless against him." Whenever Nick thought of Zhan Liu’s outrageous strength, his mood darkened along with his expression.

"Who are you talking about?" The generals finally realized what Nick was getting at.

"Who else? Who are you preparing to go to war with?" Nick shot back.

"Don’t be ridiculous, Nick. If your S.H.I.E.L.D. hadn’t interfered, we would have taken that fellow down already," an irritable general snapped.

"Haha, what a joke. When was the last time I heard something like that? Oh, right, when the Hulk appeared. Is General Ross here? Where is your Hulk?" Nick stretched his mouth into a wide grin and laughed delightedly.

"The Hulk incident was an accident. We couldn’t use many of our most powerful weapons in the city!" Having been singled out for ridicule, Ross flushed red with anger and roared in humiliation.

"Oh, really? I seem to remember that you later launched a missile at him in the suburbs. It didn’t seem to have any effect, though." Nick deliberately brought up exactly what Ross least wanted to hear, stabbing straight at his sore spot.

"The military has more than one missile. If one isn’t enough, we’ll use ten or a hundred. There’s no enemy the military can’t destroy." United by their shared interests, the other generals refused to sit back and watch Ross be mocked.

"Idiots! Times have changed. If one missile couldn’t deal with the Hulk, ten or a hundred would still be useless. Or are you planning to use nuclear warheads?" Nick’s single eye swept around the room as he spoke coldly.

A five-star general seated at the head of the table tapped his fingers against it. Once he had drawn everyone’s attention, he said grimly, "When necessary, we can deploy even more advanced weapons. Nick, S.H.I.E.L.D. isn’t the only organization with advanced technology."

"Fine. Even if your advanced weapons can defeat the Hulk, so what? The Hulk would be utterly helpless against Zhan Liu!" Nick tapped the table as well, emphasizing his words. "According to the intelligence I’ve received, Zhan Liu has already reached the Twenty-Five Heavens of the Magnetic Field Rotation Realm. Even a nuclear bomb couldn’t kill him. Besides, he can fly faster than missiles. A nuclear bomb couldn’t hit him at all!"

The five-star general gave a disdainful laugh. "Don’t be foolish, Nick. That’s just what that fellow says to deceive people. According to the intelligence I received, he also claimed that once a person’s realm reached a certain height, they could split the heavens and earth!"

The generals burst into laughter after hearing this.

Another general said smugly, "Thor is also in the Magnetic Field Rotation Realm, but what of it? He was still run through by a cold weapon. Zhan Liu might be slightly stronger than Thor and Iron Man, but not by much. He can’t escape the weaknesses of a carbon-based life-form."

"The weapon that pierced Peter’s body was a divine artifact. It’s now stuck, along with that undersea creature’s head, outside the main hall of the Martial Arts School! You also have Tony’s physical data from when he was in the Current Drive Realm. You know that ordinary firearms and weapons couldn’t affect him!"

"We also know that Tony is still a carbon-based life-form. He needs food and air to survive, and of course, beautiful women."

The generals burst into laughter again, chattering over one another. Their words revealed how envious they were of Tony’s "strength."

"Since you’re so confident, why don’t we conduct a combat test? S.H.I.E.L.D. will send Thor Peter into battle. We’ll let the facts speak for themselves." Nick finally presented the solution he had prepared from the very beginning.

"Fine. It’s a deal!"

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