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Chapter 265 Hawkeye's Arrow

For Natasha, the question posed by the notebook, though somewhat embarrassing to ask, was far better than the questions she had anticipated.

As a female agent with outstanding looks, it would be perfectly normal for her to use her beauty to seduce her targets in order to increase efficiency during missions.

When Natasha was training at the Red House, she even had a dedicated instructor to train her in related areas.

Although some of her past actions were unsavory, Natasha did have quite a few dark moments in the early stages of her career as a secret agent; otherwise, she wouldn't have earned the codename "Black Widow."

Because so much time had passed, and coupled with her aversion to that experience, Natasha, who actively tried to forget that memory, genuinely couldn't recall exactly how many men she had been with.

As for women, since there weren't many targets with this kind of fetish, Natasha remembered them very clearly.

After Natasha finished speaking, she glanced nervously at the question notebook in her hand.

Unable to give an accurate number, Natasha, who had heard Erin's description of the notebook, feared that her vague answer would displease the mysterious notebook and result in punishment or curses.

However, Natasha's worries did not materialize.

The golden characters, as if satisfied with gossip, danced joyfully in mid-air before transforming into countless golden specks of light and disappearing into the sky.

[Did I pass the test?]

Natasha was slightly taken aback as she watched the golden characters disappear into the air, but then she completely relaxed.

rustling...

Just as Natasha breathed a sigh of relief.

Suddenly, a voice requesting emergency support came through Natasha and Captain America's earpieces.

"Beta Squad requests backup..."

"Beta Squad requests backup..."

"A gigantic, lizard-like supernatural creature has appeared near 66 Braun Street, slaughtering and devouring civilians. Beta Squad requests backup..."

"Note: This creature possesses extremely strong defense and self-healing capabilities. Ordinary firearms have very limited effect on it. Requesting heavy firepower support."

Amidst a series of cries, Captain America's expression changed upon hearing reports of monsters slaughtering civilians. He immediately said to Natasha, "I'll go deal with that supernatural creature first. You stay here..."

Before Steve could finish speaking, Natasha shook her head and said, "I'll go with you; that way we can save some time."

It hasn't been long since Captain America was freed from the ice.

These days, Steve has been constantly on the go because of Hydra, and he hasn't had time to properly explore the megacity of New York.

We're far from being familiar with each other.

For Steve, who was unfamiliar with the area, finding 66 Braun Street quickly and accurately was not an easy task.

By the time he gets to 66 Braun Street, the monster might already be gone.

"Besides, I've already raised my questions. There's no point in staying any longer. We've figured out what Supervisor Hill and the others most wanted to know. Let them figure out the rest themselves!"

With that, Natasha handed the notebook back to Erin.

Then he straddled a motorcycle that was lying on its side by the roadside.

After pulling out a few wires from the motorcycle and fiddling with them a bit, Natasha easily started the motorcycle.

"Boom... boom boom..."

After revving the engine a few times.

Natasha said to the captain, "Get in the car."

Seeing this, Steve nodded to Erin, then quickly got into the car and sat behind Natasha.

boom!!!

Almost the instant Steve got into the car, Natasha released her hand from the brake.

next second.

The black and red motorcycle, with its engine roaring loudly, sped away into the distance like an arrow released from a bow.

A gigantic, extraordinary creature resembling a lizard!

Recalling the scattered cries for help that she had just heard, Erin, who had already planned to head back, suddenly had a flash of insight and said to Kiris beside her, "Let's go take a look too."

"Yes."

Upon hearing this, Gillies, who was standing behind Erin, nodded and then quickly found a vehicle abandoned by panicked New Yorkers nearby.

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A few minutes later.

When Erin and Kiris arrived at the scene.

The giant lizard that Beta Squad mentioned was being driven back by a man with a silver mechanical arm and Steve.

Further away, Natasha, wielding dual pistols, and Hawkeye Clinton, armed with a bow and arrow, were supporting each other, blocking the giant lizard's retreat.

Looking at the man who was barely holding his own against the giant lizardman with the help of a high-tech mechanical arm, Erin said with slight surprise, "That's... Coulson?"

After recognizing the man wielding the mechanical arm, Erin joked with Kiris beside her:

"Robotic arm, it seems you have a successor."

Upon hearing this, Gillies, who was behind Erin, subconsciously touched her newly grown left arm and said, "I prefer my current arm to that cold, mechanical thing."

After surveying the battlefield, Kiris asked, "Boss, do you need me to help them deal with that lizardman?"

Although it seemed that Steve and Coulson were pushing the lizardman back, their relentless attacks even leaving wound after wound on the giant lizard.

But upon closer inspection, one will find that the wounds they inflict on the lizardmen heal completely within a few breaths.

Even the sniper bullets that were shot into the lizardmen's bodies, creating bloody holes, would be squeezed out of their bodies by the lizardmen's muscles in a short time.

If things continue like this, given the lizardman's terrifying healing ability, it won't be easy for S.H.I.E.L.D. to take him down in a short time.

A strange glint flashed in Erin's eyes as he looked at the giant lizardman with a pair of horns.

[Could this lizardman be that Dr. Lizard from the Osborn Group? But what's wrong with his appearance? Did he take hormones, or did he undergo some kind of unknown mutation? Why does he smell of sulfur?]

A slight doubt flashed through Erin's mind as she said to Gillis, "No rush, let me do a divination first. Please keep an eye on our surroundings for me."

Done.

After finding a relatively safe corner based on his intuition, Erin took out his tools, closed his eyes, and began to perform divination.

As Erin closed his eyes.

Kiris, who had been feeling a bit lazy, instantly became fully alert.

A dagger gleaming with a pale green light emanated from Kiris's hand, its killing intent constantly shifting. Her bright eyes, filled with a sharp killing intent, scanned her surroundings.

It seems that if she senses anything amiss, Kiris will not hesitate to unleash her power and end the enemy's life with the dagger in her hand.

Several tens of seconds later.

Erin then opened his eyes again.

Through Kilis's back, Erin glanced with a complex expression at the lizardman in the distance whose mouth still had a trace of flesh and blood hanging from it, and stood up, saying to Kilis who was standing guard in front of him, "Come with me."

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Watching Steve and Coulson struggle to break through their defenses.

With a slight bruise on his face, Hawkeye Clinton said to Natasha beside him, "Given this big guy's regenerative abilities, fighting like this isn't going to work. Let me give this big guy a good beating!"

Natasha hesitated for a moment after hearing this, but finally nodded.

"Be careful not to hurt the captain and the others."

"Don't worry, don't you trust my archery skills?"

As he spoke, Clinton slowly loosened the taut bowstring, replacing the ordinary superalloy arrow with a special arrow with a blue ring at the top.

After taking a slight aim.

Taking advantage of the lizard man's burst of energy, which allowed him to avoid an opening between Captain America and Coulson, Hawkeye Clinton immediately loosened the bowstring.

"call out!"

With a sharp whooshing sound, Hawkeye's arrow, traveling at a speed almost comparable to a bullet, struck the lizardman directly in the chest.

At the moment of impact, a powerful electric current burst forth from the special ring on the arrow.

"Sizzle!"

Even the lizardmen, who would only grimace slightly when hit by a sniper bullet, couldn't help but twitch from the electric shock when faced with this powerful current that instantly spread throughout their bodies.

Amidst the intense heat of the electric current, a faint aroma of roasted meat seemed to emanate from the lizardman.

Just as the giant lizardman was paralyzed by the powerful blue electric current...

Just as Steve and Coulson were about to give the dog a good beating, Clinton shouted at them.

"Get out of the way!"

Before the words had even finished...

With a flick of his wrist, Hawkeye Clinton fired three arrows in quick succession toward the giant lizardman's head, throat, and heart.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh!"

The next second, three specially crafted high-explosive arrows, accompanied by a sharp whooshing sound, struck the lizardman's vitals.

Under intense crisis stimulus.

The lizardman's enormous eyes suddenly contracted, as if they had turned into vertical pupils.

Driven by his survival instinct, the lizardman managed to muster his paralyzed hands and, at the last second, managed to shield his throat and head.

Grab it! Grab it! Grab it!

next second.

The three special arrows hit their respective targets directly.

Immediately afterwards, a bright red light flashed.

Three violent explosions, occurring almost simultaneously, engulfed the enormous lizardman in a cloud of red-glowing smoke.

"Coulson!"

After seeing three special arrows, each slightly more powerful than a high-explosive grenade, hit their target, Hawkeye Clinton seemed unsatisfied and shouted at Coulson, who was not far away.

At Clinton's call, Coulson pressed a hidden button inside the robotic arm without hesitation.

next second.

A small missile, trailing its tail fin, was launched from the palm of Coulson's robotic arm.

boom!!!

Before the smoke from the gunpowder enveloping the lizardman had dissipated, a massive fireball, over three meters in diameter, engulfed him.

A powerful shockwave swept across the area in an instant.

A car that was close to the lizardmen was thrown backwards by the powerful shockwave.

All the glass within a 50-meter radius was shattered by the terrifying roar.

"Well done."

Looking at the small mushroom cloud rising not far away, Clinton, whose face was illuminated by the firelight, smiled slightly.

Even if that monster had a strong self-healing ability, it would be impossible for it to survive an explosion of this magnitude unscathed.

After laughing.

Hawkeye Clinton then took another special arrow from his quiver.

This special item is filled with concentrated nitrogen gas. Upon impact, the burst of nitrogen gas is enough to freeze the target it hits.

Although reason told him that the lizard monster couldn't possibly have survived an explosion of that magnitude, Clinton's long-standing habit of caution still made him instinctively reach for his weapon.

On the other side...

Steve and Coulson, both armed, stared intently at the center of the dissipating smoke.

Be wary of the monster that might burst out from the flames and smoke at any moment.

They, with their rich experience, would not let their guard down for a moment until they witnessed their target's death.

Steve and Coulson's concerns do not appear to have materialized.

When most of the firelight that had engulfed the battlefield had dissipated, there was still no sign of any monsters rushing out.

It's as if that giant lizardman really died in that violent explosion.

A while later.

Just as the lingering smoke was about to completely dissipate, Hawkeye Clinton, holding a bow and arrow, seemed to see something, and his expression suddenly changed.

Meanwhile, Steve and Coulson, who were also closely guarding both sides of the smoke, also went to one side.

Holding his shield, Steve quickly rushed into the still lingering smoke.

Seeing this, Coulson, who was not far from Steve, was worried that something might happen to his captain, so he quickened his pace and caught up with him.

After running a few steps, a huge, dark hole appeared in front of Steve and his companions.

Looking down into the dark cave entrance, one could faintly smell a foul stench and hear the rushing water.

Clinton said with a grim expression, "Damn it, the road surface is only this thin between us and the sewer. The explosion just now created a gap in the sewer, which gave that monster a chance to escape."

Steve crouched down, carefully feeling around the dark opening, then picked it up and sniffed it before saying in a low voice:

"No, this hole wasn't made by the explosion just now, but by... that monster."

(End of this chapter)