55: Chapter 55 The Legacy of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Project Insight is Mine

Washington, on the banks of the Potomac River.

The S.H.I.E.L.D. Triskelion Headquarters building is still burning. But Lynn has already arrived at a giant secret hangar a hundred meters deep beneath the riverbed.

Here, the ultimate crystallization of force created by S.H.I.E.L.D. and HYDRA over decades at a cost of trillions of dollars is moored—"Insight Project".

Three next-generation heavy Helicarriers, each over four hundred meters long, are quietly lying dormant within massive alloy frameworks. They are equipped with advanced Continuous Detonation Propulsion Engines, Vibranium armor plates, and long-range precision positioning weapons capable of locking onto and killing millions of people globally within a minute.

Alexander Pierce originally intended to use these three carriers to purge the World and establish HYDRA's absolute rule.

"The workmanship is barely acceptable."

Lynn stood on the deck of the first carrier, looking down at these three steel behemoths.

He didn't bring any technicians. Facing War Machines of this level, conventional hacking and piloting were too slow.

Lynn raised his left wrist.

"Click."

The dial turned, locking onto the ninth form. A blinding red light suddenly erupted in the dim hangar.

[Alien Gene Activated: Mimic (Mechanical Variant)!]

Lynn's human shell instantly disintegrated, turning into a massive, roiling pool of dark red liquid nano-metal.

"Sizzle—"

The liquid metal, like a living tide, instantly covered the carrier deck beneath his feet and spread frantically along the island, ventilation ducts, and weapon arrays.

Not only that.

Lynn poured the massive redundant energy left in his body from swallowing a nuclear bomb earlier, without reservation, into the Mimic's cells. The dark red liquid metal instantly split into two other torrents, leaping across a distance of over a hundred meters in the air to precisely pounce on the other two Helicarriers!

One becomes three!

[Physical takeover command confirmed. Beginning assimilation of the "Insight Project" underlying logic.]

[Loading Chitauri interstellar carrier database... Loading Leviathan behemoth silicon-carbon armor sequence... Beginning dual biochemical and mechanical reorganization!]

Inside the hangar, the ear-piercing sound of metal twisting and reorganizing rang out.

S.H.I.E.L.D.'s iconic silver-gray hulls were forcibly covered and penetrated by the dark red nano-metal. Under the Mimic's assimilation, a layer of dark black silicon-carbon biological exoskeleton, much like that of a Leviathan behemoth, grew over the original conventional alloy armor.

The four giant turbine thrusters at the bottom of the ships were forcibly dismantled and compressed, transformed into Anti-gravity Plasma Engines spewing ghostly blue light.

The conventional cannons on both sides of the deck were directly melted down and reshaped into rows of High-frequency Laser Main Cannons with terrifying calibers.

In just ten short minutes.

HYDRA's decades of hard work were brutally crushed and reshaped by Lynn.

The appearance of the three Helicarriers underwent an earth-shattering change. They were completely black, their surfaces covered in glowing dark red energy circuits, and their bows were like an Abyss Magic Dragon with its maw wide open, emitting an extremely cold and terrifying interstellar Raiders' aura.

On both sides of the island, the S.H.I.E.L.D. eagle logo and the HYDRA skull mark were completely erased.

In their place was the totem of a blood-dripping dark red sword from the [Crimson Court]!

"Rumble—!"

The surface of the Potomac River began to boil violently.

The giant underground hangar dome crashed open to both sides.

Under the horrified gaze of Washington citizens and global satellites, three pitch-black aerial fortresses emerging from the depths of hell crushed the remaining riverbed and slowly ascended with the deafening roar of plasma engines!

They no longer hid.

The three Crimson Helicarriers, like three insurmountable steel mountains, hovered unscrupulously over Washington D.C. Their massive shadows completely enveloped the White House and the Pentagon.

Absolute military deterrence.

Politicians around the World were completely silenced at this moment. No one dared to dictate terms to these three supercarriers that had clearly been completely overhauled with alien technology.

...

Main Carrier One, Core Control Room.

Dark red liquid metal surged from the captain's command console and quickly reorganized, changing back into Lynn wearing a black shirt.

He sat in the wide command chair. Beneath his feet, he was stepping on the heart of the entire United States' political center.

"Boss."

The control room door opened. Frank Castle walked in with several trembling top scientists in white coats.

These scientists were originally core members of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s High-Tech Weapons Development Department. After witnessing Lynn's god-like purging methods, they didn't hesitate for a moment and directly chose to pledge their loyalty to the Crimson Court.

"This is your new laboratory."

Lynn didn't waste words and directly threw the scepter embedded with the yellow Mind Stone onto the metal tabletop.

"Clang."

Looking at this alien artifact, the scientists' eyes instantly lit up.

"The energy in the scepter is infinite."

Lynn leaned back in his chair, his voice cold, "I want you to extract the energy from the Mind Stone in the shortest possible time and reverse-engineer mass-producible plasma individual weapons and carrier main cannons."

"Within a month, I want to see the entire 'Crimson Guard' fully re-equipped. If you can't do it, you'll go feed the fish in the Potomac River."

"Yes! Understood! We guarantee to finish it!" The Chief Scientist wiped away cold sweat, picked up the Mind Stone as if holding a priceless treasure, and scrambled toward the laboratory on the lower deck.

Frank watched the scientists leave and asked in a low voice, "Boss, the Mind Stone has been given to them, then you..."

"The energy level of that scepter is no longer enough to fill the gaps between my teeth."

Lynn slowly raised his right hand.

A cube emitting an extremely brilliant, deep blue light floated quietly above his palm.

Tesseract. Space Stone.

Among the six Infinity Stones, it is the Spatial Singularity with the most violent energy and the most difficult to be directly carried by a biological entity. It was also the forbidden object that caused the Red Skull to be teleported and exiled back then.

Compared to the Mind Stone's attribute favoring mental control, the pure spatial tearing power contained in the Tesseract is what currently fits Lynn's aesthetic of violence best.

"The HYDRA scum have been mostly cleared out. Next, it's the turn of those self-righteous superpowered rats hiding in the shadows."

Lynn gazed at the deep blue Tesseract in his hand, an extremely violent crimson light gradually igniting in his black pupils.

The Bloodtrix on his left wrist, as if sensing the vast, boundless high-dimensional energy of the Space Stone, began to vibrate greedily.

"Frank, seal off the core cabin of Carrier One."

Lynn gripped the Tesseract, a cruel smile that made one shudder spreading across his face.

"I'm going to feed."