37: Chapter 37 Blood Scale Anomalies, The Allure of the Infinity Stones

New York, Hell's Kitchen. Top floor of Fisk Tower.

Lynn pushed open the office door. The Punisher Frank was standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window on guard. Seeing Lynn return, he immediately lowered his head in greeting.

"Boss. S.H.I.E.L.D. has withdrawn all secret sentries. There isn't even a single Police officer on the edge of Hell's Kitchen," Frank reported.

"As expected."

Lynn walked behind the large desk and sat down, casually tossing the Mind Stone inlaid with glowing gems onto the desktop.

"Clang."

The sound of metal colliding was exceptionally clear in the quiet office.

The moment the Mind Stone touched the desktop.

"Hum—!"

The crimson blood watch on Lynn's left wrist, which had been in a dormant state, erupted with extremely violent vibrations without warning. Deep within the watch face, the crimson light flickered madly like boiling magma, even faintly revealing a greedy dark gold color.

[Warning! Extremely high-purity cosmic energy source detected.]

[Material classification: Cosmic wonder (Mind sequence singularity).]

This was the first time the Bloodtrix had shown such a strong desire to "feed" on an external material.

Lynn narrowed his black eyes slightly, bringing his left hand closer to the Mind Stone on the desk.

"Sizzle sizzle sizzle—"

Dozens of dark red biological metal filaments, thicker than ever before, impatiently probed out from under the watch face, tightly wrapping around the energy shell at the front of the Mind Stone.

Accompanied by a teeth-grinding sound of metal shattering, the blue shell used for disguise and cushioning on the front of the Mind Stone was crushed by the Bloodtrix.

A pure crystal emitting a brilliant yellow light was exposed to the air.

Mind Stone.

The Bloodtrix's filaments instantly pierced into the energy halo on the surface of the gem, beginning to absorb madly.

[Energy analysis in progress... Core damaged sector beginning repairs.]

[System charging progress: 13%... 15%... 18%...]

Feeling the energy reserves inside the Bloodtrix surging geometrically, a bright light shone in Lynn's eyes. This was much faster than draining the blood of a few mutants.

However, the moment the progress bar jumped to 20%.

The red light of the Bloodtrix suddenly stalled, forcibly cutting off all biological filaments.

[Absorption aborted.]

[Warning: Target material is a materialized entity of cosmic rules (singularity). Current system is in Lv.1 damaged state, host's physical strength is insufficient. Forcibly devouring the entity will lead to genetic chain collapse and system destruction.]

[Current progress: 20%.]

Lynn withdrew his left hand, looking at the Mind Stone on the desk whose light was slightly dimmed. Not only was he not disappointed, but the corners of his mouth curled into an extremely fanatical arc.

He knew very well the gold content of the Infinity Stones. With his current physical body, he was indeed unable to digest this kind of cosmic rule directly.

But the next prompt that popped up from the system completely ignited Lynn's ambition.

[Core database retrieval complete.]

[There are a total of six such cosmic singularities in this Universe.]

[If the host can collect and devour all six cosmic singularities, the Bloodtrix will be repaired to a perfect state and permanently unlocked: Ultimate Creator authority (Master Control).]

[At that time, the host can ignore time limits, freely switch, or even permanently fuse all known high-dimensional god-level forms.]

"Six gems."

Lynn leaned back in the boss chair, his slender fingers tapping gently on the desktop.

For the Avengers, the Infinity Stones were time bombs capable of destroying half the Universe. For Thanos, they were tools to achieve cosmic balance.

But now, in Lynn's eyes, these six great Infinity Stones that shook the Universe were nothing more than "high-energy rations" used to feed the Bloodtrix and let him reach the highest life level of the entire Universe.

"It seems that my hunting ground cannot be limited to Earth."

Lynn looked at the dark night sky outside the window, the violence and ambition in his eyes like substance.

...

At the same time. Thirty thousand feet high, S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier.

Although Loki had been beaten by Lynn in Stuttgart until he was bleeding from seven orifices, Nick Fury, in order to figure out the whereabouts of the Tesseract, still sent people to bring the seriously injured Loki back to the Helicarrier and imprisoned him in the special fully enclosed glass cage originally prepared for Hulk.

In the command hall, the atmosphere was depressed to the extreme.

Tony Stark, Black Widow, Steve with a cast, and Dr. Banner who had just been found by S.H.I.E.L.D., were gathered around the conference table.

Everyone looked extremely irritable.

"S.H.I.E.L.D. uses the Tesseract to create weapons of mass destruction, don't you think this is the root cause of attracting aliens?" Tony tapped the table irritably, questioning Fury.

"That's because I saw that monster who broke the Captain's arms with one punch!" Fury's only remaining eye was bloodshot, "We must have the armed reserves to counter that level!"

The arguing grew louder.

No one noticed that although the Mind Stone had been taken away by Lynn, Loki had already given a death order in the mind of the controlled Hawkeye before he was captured.

Inside the glass cage.

Loki, with a blood-stained face and a collapsed nose bridge, listened to the argument outside, and a cruel sneer flashed in his one eye that he could barely open.

Although he had been beaten up by that terrible Earthling, this did not prevent him from continuing to destroy S.H.I.E.L.D.

"Boom—!!!"

Without warning, the No. 3 engine on the right side of the Helicarrier erupted with an Earth-shattering roar!

Fire soared into the sky.

Hawkeye was piloting a fighter jet, precisely shooting and blowing up the turbine engine of the Helicarrier.

The huge explosion's Impact instantly swept through the entire command hall. All the instruments exploded with electrical sparks, the Helicarrier's balance system failed instantly, and the entire huge hull tilted violently to the right!

"Alarm! No. 3 engine stopped! The Helicarrier is falling rapidly!" The Agent's roar echoed in the broadcast.

The floor of the conference room tilted thirty degrees instantly.

Dr. Banner fell heavily to the floor amidst the violent shaking. His head hit the metal table corner, blood flowing straight down.

Severe pain, a sense of weightlessness, and the panicked screams of people around.

Became the last straw that crushed his sanity.

"Uh... Ah..."

Banner clutched his head, his body beginning to tremble violently. His breathing became extremely heavy, and a terrifying sickly green began to permeate under his skin.

"Dr. Banner! Calm down!" Black Widow noticed something wrong and immediately tried to appease him.

But it was too late.

"Roar—!!!"

A terrifying roar that seemed to come from an ancient giant beast exploded in the tilted Helicarrier cabin!

Banner's body swelled madly like a balloon, and his clothes were instantly torn apart. In just two seconds, a green giant nearly three meters tall, covered in muscular knots, and full of endless destructive desire, smashed the metal floor and stood up abruptly.

Hulk, went berserk.

"Bang!"

Hulk slapped the thick alloy wall into pieces, rushing into the structural load-bearing area inside the Helicarrier like a madman, smashing everything he saw.

The Helicarrier, which had already lost an engine, had its alarms reaching the extreme under Hulk's crazy destruction.

The numbers on the altimeter were dropping wildly.

Twenty thousand feet.

Fifteen thousand feet.

Fury grabbed the tilted railing tightly, looking at the unstoppable Hulk on the surveillance screen, and the Helicarrier about to crash, a trace of despair flashed in his eyes.

The Avengers' combat power could not suppress Hulk in the narrow cabin at all.

To save the lives of this Helicarrier and thousands of Agents, he seemed to have only one extremely humiliating choice left.