Marvel With Zanpakutou

"A few flies. I can swat them to death casually."

Chen Lin raised his hand seemingly at random, a faint blue light glowing in his black pupils.

Immediately afterward, under Natasha’s horrified gaze, his five long, clearly jointed fingers slowly contracted, clenching into a fist.

Crack crack crack crack...

Amid a series of teeth-aching sounds of steel tearing apart, ten Apache helicopters were forcibly twisted into pretzels.

This was absolutely not some figure of speech, but something that truly happened. The Apache helicopters hovering in midair were like they had been thrown into some kind of field, forcefully shredded and twisted by an invisible force, turning into ten "pretzel"-shaped iron rods.

"Hiss—"

Everyone seated inside the control room gasped sharply when they saw this scene.

The source of global warming had been found.

Grant’s expression changed drastically in an instant. He finally realized the source of his unease, as well as the reason Viper’s mission had failed.

That damned bastard Alexander Pierce!

With just a casual raise of his hand, he could twist ten armed helicopters into pretzel-like iron rods. With the little strength they currently had, how could they possibly stop him?!

This was sending them to their deaths!

Grant’s back was soaked with cold sweat. He ordered everyone to continue maintaining the defense mechanism.

As for him, he turned and left the control room, intending to go to the Director’s office and properly question that bastard.

Sharon’s eyes flickered. Taking advantage of everyone not paying attention, she quietly slipped out of the control room, closely following behind Grant.

...

"Sorry!"

Natasha suddenly said without warning.

"What are you referring to?" Chen Lin was a little confused by her sudden apology.

"If there was anything in the past where I offended you, please be sure to forgive my rudeness."

Natasha said seriously, "Those were all missions. If you want to look for trouble, please go find the former Director, Nick Fury. He was the one who issued the mission to monitor you. I was only following orders."

"..."

The corner of Chen Lin’s mouth twitched, left speechless by her desire to survive.

"If you don’t say anything, I’ll take it as you agreeing?" Natasha held a charming smile that made it hard for people to refuse. "I’m just a weak woman. Someone as powerful as you shouldn’t bother arguing with me, right?"

"Whatever."

Chen Lin shook his head in amusement and pointed ahead. "Focus on driving properly. I’m too lazy to argue with you."

Natasha secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Just now, she had truly been frightened.

At the same time, she couldn’t help feeling somewhat glad. Back when she had offended this guy, he had not directly twisted her into a pretzel. He had only dislocated the bones throughout her body, which already counted as showing mercy.

In the brief gap while she was thinking, the car had already passed through the tunnel.

Heavy-firepower machine guns set up on both sides of the road aimed at the moving Audi R8 and began carrying out a destructive assault.

An automatic targeting system, combined with a crossfire blockade net. Even if a tank barged in, it would be beaten into scrap metal, let alone an ordinary sedan with no bulletproof modifications whatsoever.

Ahead, on the road leading to the Triskelion, three alloy walls half a meter thick were slowly rising from underground.

Besides that, laser-guided weapons had already locked onto the vehicle they were in.

An abnormally ear-piercing sonic boom came from the sky, signaling that the king of aerial combat, the F-22 Raptor fighter jet, had already arrived at its designated combat position. Based on Natasha’s years of experience calling in support, in less than ten seconds, what greeted them would be a fierce artillery strike.

"Prepare yourself."

Chen Lin said faintly.

"Wait... prepare for what?" Natasha froze for a moment, an ominous premonition rising in her heart.

Chen Lin slowly turned his head back, grinning to reveal a mouthful of white teeth. The smile hanging on his face made one feel somewhat frightened. "I suggest you fasten your seat belt. Next, we’re preparing to accelerate."

Natasha did not doubt him and immediately fastened her seat belt.

Bang—!

With one huge sound, the entire Audi R8 flew up!

All four tires left the ground at the same time, as if being dragged by something, rushing toward the Triskelion at astonishing speed.

Before her next words could leave her mouth, a violent feeling of being pushed into her seat suddenly struck her. The enormous inertia pressed down on her like a mountain, as if it wanted to shove her entire body into the leather seat. The scenery before her eyes swept backward rapidly, like a tape rewinding at sixty-four times speed.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Several missiles dragged tail flames behind them and slammed into the highway behind them, their explosions kicking up rolling waves of heat.

But the even more terrifying thing came afterward. Natasha discovered in horror that a conical ring of air had actually appeared around the body of the Audi R8. A deafening roar that almost pierced her eardrums covered up every other noise.

The pilot flying the F-22 Raptor stared dumbfounded at the Audi R8 speeding like lightning on the highway below.

"What the fuck? What the hell is that thing?!"

The pilot could not help cursing. "Please, someone tell me if I’m fucking seeing things. An Audi actually broke the sound barrier, and it’s even faster than a Sidewinder missile!"

"...07, are you sure it’s an Audi?"

After a brief silence, the command platform issued a soul-searching question. "Did you go drinking again yesterday?"

"I swear on my wife, I absolutely didn’t see it wrong!" the pilot shouted in shock. "That is an Audi, and it’s even the classic R8 model. Fuck, I absolutely did not drink!"

While both the pilot and the command platform were doubting their lives...

The Audi R8 was like an accelerating meteor, blasting out a deafening sonic boom. Wherever it passed, layers of asphalt shattered. The massive sonic wave and air current blasted cement and gravel dozens of meters into the sky, plowing out a deep trench several meters wide.

"Wait, you’re not planning to crash straight through, are you?!"

Natasha turned her head in terror to look at Chen Lin, trying to find a trace of comfort in his eyes.

"A real man doesn’t need to turn when driving."

The corners of Chen Lin’s lips curled up, his eyes flashing with dangerous light as he said eagerly, "Do you know? There was once someone in One Piece who said: speed... is power!"

The next moment, the Audi R8 crashed into the metal wall.

Rumble—!!!

A roar like raging waves and rushing thunder instantly resounded through the clouds.

Like a comet striking the Earth, it kicked up rolling gale-like air waves. Amid the explosion-like shock, a mushroom cloud dozens of meters high rose up.

A massive shockwave visible to the naked eye swept across the entire highway in less than a second. The tremors, like ten million elephants trampling, made the road surface shake madly without stopping, followed immediately by the overloaded groans of collapse.

Amid the terrifying sonic boom, three half-meter-thick alloy walls had been smashed open with enormous breaches.

And that Audi R8, which had shocked countless people’s eyes, was now parked steadily beneath the Triskelion. Even more mocking was the fact that it had actually parked properly in an outside parking space.

If one ignored the roof being torn off, the front of the car being smashed flat, and the A-pillar being twisted, the vehicle could still be considered relatively intact.

Chen Lin got out of the car calmly and leisurely, raised his head to look up at the Triskelion, then turned back and said, "Once you’re done vomiting, hurry up and get down. Next, you lead the way. We’re going straight to find Alexander Pierce."

Natasha had vomited until her face turned pale. Supporting herself against the side of the car, she staggered out and said weakly, "Next time... I will never... ride in your... car again..."

August Horch probably never would have imagined in his life that the Audi automobile he founded would, one day in the future, be so fast that even a Sidewinder missile could not catch up.

Mm... the U.S. Department of Defense had not expected it either.

A Sidewinder missile, which consumed enormous funding and cost over a hundred million dollars to build, actually could not even see the taillights of an Audi R8.