31: Chapter 31 Shocking Eggshell, The Extraterrestrial Robber

New York, S.H.I.E.L.D. secret safe house.

The rain poured down.

"Bang!"

A massive black shadow descended from the sky, slamming a blood-covered person heavily against the bulletproof glass outside the safe house door.

Alarms blared instantly. Heavily armed Agents rushed outside, but they only saw that massive, nightmarish black monster (Mad Dog) leap a few times and vanish into the thick night.

On the ground lay the unconscious Steve Rogers. Beside him was that undamaged Vibranium shield with the stars and stripes.

...

A few hours later. Nevada, S.H.I.E.L.D. Dark Energy Research Base (Project Pegasus).

Nick Fury stood in the deepest underground monitoring room, staring intently at the encrypted tablet in his hand. On the screen was the injury report for Steve just sent by the medical department.

"Both arms have comminuted fractures. Even with the super serum's healing ability, it will take at least three months to barely regain mobility."

Agent Coulson stood to the side, his voice extremely dry, "That black monster threw him down and left. It didn't make any demands."

Fury's only remaining eye was gloomy to the extreme, and his hands trembled slightly.

Captain America, S.H.I.E.L.D.'s highest combat power, could even be said to be the pinnacle of human combat. He went to negotiate carrying the hardest Vibranium armor on Earth, yet he couldn't even take a single punch from the opponent!

The shield didn't break, but the immense force crushed the arms of the person holding it.

This kind of pure, physical dimensional reduction crushing completely shattered the last shred of hope in Fury's heart.

"Director, should we continue preparing the strike plan against the Crimson Court? The rapid response team is on standby," Coulson asked in a low voice.

"Strike? With what?!"

Fury slammed the tablet onto the table, roaring through gritted teeth, "If even Vibranium can't block a single punch, it's suicide for any number of ordinary troops! Do you want all of Manhattan to be buried with us?"

Fury took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the fear and humiliation in his heart.

"Immediately cancel all surveillance and operations targeting Lynn. Seal the 'Crimson Court' files as top secret. As long as he doesn't leave New York or initiate a war, S.H.I.E.L.D. will never provoke him!"

At this moment, the authorities completely compromised with Lynn's absolute violence.

However.

Just at the moment Fury issued the compromise order.

"Boom—!"

The entire underground Base shook violently. The piercing, highest-level red alarm blared through all the corridors.

"What's going on?" Fury quickly pulled out his sidearm.

"Director! The Tesseract is out of control! Its energy peak is breaking through the critical point, and we can't shut it down!" The panicked voice of Dr. Erik Selvig came through the walkie-talkie.

Fury and Coulson's expressions changed drastically, and they immediately rushed to the core laboratory.

On the large equipment in the center of the laboratory, that Tesseract (Space Stone) emitting a faint blue light was currently spewing out violent space energy crazily.

"Hum—!"

A massive beam of blue light shot toward the open space, instantly tearing through the spatial barrier.

A highly unstable spatial portal formed with a boom.

As the light dissipated, a black-haired man wearing dark green Asgardian armor and holding a scepter embedded with a glowing yellow gem knelt in the center of the portal.

The God of Mischief, Loki.

He slowly stood up, his pale face wearing undisguised arrogance and mockery, as if looking at a group of lowly ants.

"Drop your weapons!" The surrounding security Agents immediately raised their guns and aimed.

Loki sneered and swung the Mind Stone in his hand sharply.

"Boom!"

A beam of faint blue energy instantly cleared out the Agents in the front row. Ordinary bulletproof vests were as fragile as paper in front of a god-level weapon.

"Fire!" Fury roared.

Bullets poured out. But Loki's figure instantly turned into several realistic illusions, and his true body had already appeared in front of the marksman "Hawkeye" Clint Barton.

"You have a pair of good eyes."

Loki grabbed Barton's wrist and lightly tapped the tip of the scepter against Barton's chest.

A wisp of black energy surged in along the scepter. Barton's eyes instantly unfocused, and after struggling for a few seconds, his pupils turned a strange, pure black.

"Officer." Barton put away his bow and arrow and stood respectfully behind Loki.

In less than two minutes, Loki used the Mind Stone's control ability to easily turn Barton and Dr. Selvig.

"This World needs a god to rule it."

Loki smiled and pulled the Tesseract from the instrument. Under the cover of the controlled Hawkeye, he swaggered out of the collapsing Base.

A few minutes later, the Base completely collapsed.

Fury clutched his shoulder, which had been injured by the blast wave, and escaped in a helicopter. Looking at the Base that had turned into ruins below, a trace of deep despair flashed in his eyes.

Earth had welcomed a true godly invasion.

...

Meanwhile. New York, Manhattan.

The morning after the rainstorm, sunlight spilled through the floor-to-ceiling windows into the top-floor office of Fisk Tower.

Lynn leaned on his throne, toying with the vial of "Perfect Super Soldier Serum" just extracted from Captain America.

"Beep—!!!"

Suddenly, the crimson blood watch on his left wrist erupted with an extremely sharp, rapid buzzing sound.

On the dial, the dark gray metal surface instantly transformed into a high-precision cosmic-level energy radar. Circles of dark red ripples spread crazily across the radar.

[Warning: Large-scale space jump energy burst detected!]

[Coordinates: Earth, Nevada.]

[Energy source identification: Space Stone (Tesseract).]

Hearing the cold mechanical voice ringing in his mind, Lynn's movements paused for a moment.

"Has it finally come?" A trace of violent brilliance flashed in Lynn's black pupils.

Immediately after, a dazzling golden dot appeared on the Bloodtrix's radar interface. Around the dot was accompanied by extremely cold blue energy readings.

[Deep scan initiated...]

[Locking onto high-order extraterrestrial life signs.]

[Target genetic sequence analysis: Asgardian race (Royal lineage) and Jotunheim Frost Giant (Royal lineage) hybrid variant.]

[Genetic purity: Extremely high.]

[Judgment conclusion: Premium host genes. Recommend immediate physical extraction.]

"A hybrid of Asgardian and Frost Giant..."

Lynn stood up, his mouth slowly curling into an arc full of greed and fanaticism.

For S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Avengers, Loki's arrival with the Tesseract was an unprecedented disaster capable of destroying the World.

But for Lynn, who possessed the crimson blood watch and could devour all extraterrestrial genes, this was not an alien invasion at all.

This was a premium takeaway that had traveled across the galaxy and been delivered right to his mouth!

"A high-and-mighty god?"

Lynn walked to the floor-to-ceiling window, looking down at New York, "I wonder what a god's blood tastes like when extracted."

The golden dot on the Bloodtrix radar began to move, and its destination was very clear—Germany, Stuttgart. There was a high-society banquet there, which was exactly where Loki intended to seize the meteorite extract and demonstrate his "divine power" in front of the Earthlings.

"Frank." Lynn pressed the communicator on his desk.

"Here, boss." Frank's cold voice came through.

"Prepare the fastest private jet for me. We're going to Germany."

Lynn twisted his neck, and the bones throughout his body emitted a crisp cracking sound.

"I'm going to go steal a boss."