Lord of Cinder in American Comics

Similar to the previous operation to take down the teddy bear, after redesigning the plan to deal with large creatures, these airborne combat personnel began to distribute and place power generation equipment, which, together with steel cables, formed a capture net.

This time, the ATS exoskeleton armor transformed into workers. They held huge metal rods in their hands, smashed these pointed metal rods into the ground, then gripped one end above ground and twisted it hard. The metal rods underground extended their hidden barbs, firmly securing themselves in place.

The ground-level parts of the metal rods were connected together by steel cables and linked to the power generation equipment, forming a trap.

Once all the ground work was completed, the attack aircraft that had been waiting in the air began their work.

Incendiary bombs began exploding on both sides of the giant wolf; the intense flashes and loud explosions were a source of fear for the animals.

The A-10 attack aircraft did not rashly attack the giant wolf, but instead used artificially created fear to gradually drive the giant wolf into the trap ahead.

The panicked giant wolf fell right into the trap, plunging headfirst into the steel cable on the ground, which tripped it and brought it down.

Meanwhile, the ATS exoskeleton armor, which had been waiting, threw its steel spears, which pierced the giant wolf's body and immobilized it.

Under such an attack, the giant wolf began to howl in pain, then raised its forelimbs to prepare to escape. However, just as the control center had completed the initial stabilization, the power generation equipment began to operate.

Several power generators were connected in series, their voltages were combined and then transmitted to the giant wolf. Under the influence of the voltage, the giant wolf's entire body was paralyzed.

Just as everyone breathed a sigh of relief, Russell in the helicopter noticed something was wrong: the ripples on the distant river were so large and were getting closer.

"Ash! Run! There's another one!"

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Author's Remarks

That's all for today. I've been on duty since yesterday and have drunk four cups of coffee. I really can't take it anymore; my eyes are blurry.

2022-05-11 20:32

Chapter 230: The Silly Shark

"Russell! Can't your intelligence be more accurate?! Everyone abandon supplies and evacuate the site!"

The ripples in the river grew more numerous and closer to the giant wolf, and the giant wolf seemed to sense something, struggling frantically despite the steel spears on its body.

However, before it could break free, a huge crocodile climbed up from the river beside it.

Although it is called a crocodile, its body length is more than twice that of a giant wolf, and its body has long been mutated. Its tusks protrude from its upper jaw like those of a wild boar, and its tail has become a meteor hammer tail like that of a cephalopod.

After the giant crocodile crawled out of the river, it rushed towards the giant wolf with its mouth wide open, biting the wolf's foreleg, and then began to roll dead on the land.

The giant wolf was smaller than the giant crocodile, and inside the crocodile's mouth, it could only spin around with the crocodile. But this also gave the giant wolf a chance to escape.

During the death roll, the giant wolf broke free from the steel spears on its body and the steel cables fixed to the ground. Although its body was covered in blood, the giant wolf escaped the trap.

After a brief pause, the giant wolf lowered its entire body, reducing its center of gravity, and then with a sudden struggle, broke free from the crocodile's mouth.

Despite losing a large portion of its flesh and blood, the giant wolf still retained basic mobility and unleashed even greater power than before, dashing into the forest.

The appearance of the second behemoth rendered the previous contingency plans useless. This crocodile was also larger and more threatening.

Furthermore, faced with the giant crocodile's thick biological armor, the Hellfire missiles carried by the A-10 attack aircraft were like fleeting fireworks, failing to cause any substantial damage.

The giant crocodile used its large eyes to search for traces of food. Fortunately, the combat personnel on land all had full-coverage exoskeletons that blocked smells and infrared signals, making it difficult for the giant crocodile to detect them.

The search yielded no results, and the giant crocodile slowly retreated back into the river and hid there.

On the plane, watching the behemoth depart, Ash trash-talked Russell on the other end of the channel: "Lasseter, do you even know how many behemoths there are?!"

"Uh... I only found one, now there are two... The White siblings' company is now under S.H.I.E.L.D.'s control, they might have a way to confirm the number..."

Russell's voice trailed off as he spoke, realizing that he had come to dig up dirt on S.H.I.E.L.D., and that S.H.I.E.L.D. would never provide such assistance.

Russell rubbed his head and asked Ash, "So what do we do now? Hand this mess back to S.H.I.E.L.D.? Or lay an ambush on them?"

Russell's unwilling statement prompted Ash to retort irritably, "How are you planning to bury me? If you go there now, S.H.I.E.L.D. will probably bury you! Didn't Davelyn give you any demands?"

Russell chuckled and said in the lowest possible voice, "The requirement is that all the bad things were done by S.H.I.E.L.D. The agency has prepared a batch of black ledgers, which are almost ready to arrive in Chicago..."

Since things had come to this point, Ash couldn't very well keep Russell there. After all, S.H.I.E.L.D. was currently located at White Biotech in Chicago, and it was obvious who would be blamed for this mess.

Ash said goodbye to Russell, as it wouldn't be appropriate to leave Russell there.

The giant crocodile in the river must also be monitored by the control bureau. Ash is preparing to bring in mines from other places to see if he can blast the crocodile out.

As for the escaped giant wolf and other potentially appearing behemoths, Ash is currently only sending planes to monitor the wolf's movements. After all, this is something S.H.I.E.L.D. did, right...?

Chicago, White Bio, the White siblings are relaxing in their rooftop circular conference room.

They called it a break only because the office still belonged to them temporarily; outside the door were armed agents from S.H.I.E.L.D. who were never far from them.

Braden White, the younger of the White siblings, was hiding on the sofa, drinking one glass after another, trying to numb himself with alcohol.

His sister, Claire Wyden, walked to the door and listened quietly, then took off her necklace and tied it to the doorknob.

After doing all this, Claire stood barefoot on the desk in the office, trying to grab the ceiling above her head.

Unable to reach the ceiling, Claire turned to her brother and yelled, "Idiot! Stop drinking! Come help me!"

With bleary eyes, Braden White held up his glass, bringing it to his eyes, his gaze passing through the liquid in the glass and looking out the window at the world.

"Claire! Save your energy, we can't escape..."

"Who said we were going to run away? This is our last chance to turn things around! Come here now!"

Hearing about a chance to turn the tide, Braden instantly sobered up. These two siblings were lawless people; otherwise, they wouldn't have started a gene fusion experiment in the space lab. And after the matter was exposed, Braden even dared to let the space lab crash.

On the desk, Braden lifted Claire and took a silver-white box from the ceiling.

Claire placed the box on the desk and opened it, revealing neatly arranged medicines and a professional equipment control panel.

Although it was the siblings' office, Braden had never seen this kind of medicine and equipment before.

"what is this?"

Claire stroked the potion and said, "This is our hope, the antidote for the gene fusion virus in the space lab, and Dr. Emma Russell's ultrasound generator..."

Upon hearing this name, Braden scoffed, "That madman who came to guide the research? Humans can't talk to animals! They can only train them!"

“We don’t need to communicate with the animals, we just need to give them a goal. I’ve already received information from S.H.I.E.L.D. that the drug in the space lab has leaked and giant mutant creatures have appeared. Now we just need to give these animals a goal.”

Seeing his sister's fanatical expression, Braden remained skeptical of the plan, asking hesitantly, "Then what do we do? We should get out of here as soon as possible..."

"Why leave? If the biological weapon succeeds, we will be the new leader in the arms race. Besides, S.H.I.E.L.D. is not a monolithic entity. Otherwise, how would I have information about those large animals?"

"As long as we can demonstrate the usefulness of these weapons, we can become the new big shots..."

Claire, looking frantic, manipulated the control panel inside the box. Following her commands, a satellite antenna on the White Biotechnology building began to transform into a transmitter.

Ultrasonic signals, imperceptible to humans, were transmitted to the outside world under Claire's control.

The changes on the rooftop naturally did not escape the notice of the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents inside and outside the building. Just as Claire finished doing these things, the armed agents outside the door also received the information and prepared to come in and subdue the two.

However, the necklace that Clay had hung on the door was specially made, like a cable tie, to tightly close the door.

Finally, unable to get in, the agent yelled "Prepare the breaching shotgun!" and fired two shots, destroying the door hinges, before kicking the door open and rushing in.

In that short time, Claire had completed all the necessary actions. When she saw the agent enter, she immediately threw the antidote from the box onto the ground.

All Hill saw was the broken potion and Claire's indifferent expression. In Hill's understanding, in light of what had just happened, Claire had suddenly done something that would allow her to negotiate with S.H.I.E.L.D.

S.H.I.E.L.D. is already too weak to withstand any further damage. Holding the White Beast, a ticking time bomb, is enough to give Hill a major headache.

Now, with White Bio's mess inside, there are two more massive experimental beasts outside.

This extinguished any goodwill Hill had towards the siblings. Narrowing her eyes, Hill ordered them to be taken away. She was no longer willing to negotiate with them; torture was the fastest way to obtain information.

As for the status and identity of these two siblings, there's no place in the whole country where there aren't several shootings every day, and no place where people don't go missing.

The only misjudgment the Wright siblings made was that the current S.H.I.E.L.D. is not the same as before; the previous S.H.I.E.L.D. was under the leadership of Nick Fury.

Nick Fury tries to have everything under control, and he has the opportunity to participate in the affairs of his subordinates, which allows him to be well-informed about most things.

S.H.I.E.L.D. is now a mess, and the financial deficit left by Nick Fury has made the five delegates feel like their money has been stolen by a dog.

Hill's previous risky actions, accompanying Geralt on fantastical events, served not only as an assessment of the Hunters but also as a reassessment of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Hill felt increasingly guilty about wasting his money; what could be done for the price of a Quinjet was now costing him an entire squadron under Fury's command.

Cursing Fury, Hill returned to the command room.

As soon as he returned, Hill urged, "Hasn't Clint gone back yet? Why is Geralt taking so long!"

Agent Thirteen, Sharon Carter, quickly reported the situation: "Clint has returned, Geralt's exact arrival time is unknown, but Director... we're in bigger trouble..."

Sharon Carter projected satellite surveillance footage onto Hill, showing the giant wolf that had just escaped, a giant crocodile in the river, a lab rat the size of a truck, and even a huge shark in the footage.

"They're all heading this way, um... except for that shark..."

All the animals seemed to have found a coordinate and began heading towards Chicago, while the shark, clearly due to its limited brain capacity, kept tumbling ashore, then struggling to breathe through its gills, writhing and struggling back into the sea, only to tumble ashore again...

"I suspect it was the message Claire just sent..."

Hill looked at the screen, at the shapes of the four large creatures and their marked routes of movement.

"Go urge the hunters again. Didn't Clint say that Geralt taught him that hunters excel at fighting large creatures? Notify the Control Bureau; this is clearly a supernatural event, and it should be their responsibility..."

Also, blow up the antenna on the roof, and have someone question that brother and sister to find out what they're hiding!

## Chapter 231: Swift Hunt

Shortly after Claire sent the signal, Ash saw the river begin to churn. A giant crocodile burst from the water.

Ash initially thought the giant crocodile was about to fight back, so he hurriedly ordered his men to retreat.

However, the giant crocodile ignored the personnel from the control bureau and charged straight ahead in one direction.

Ash had considered communicating with these animals. If they were single-species creatures like carrots, or magical creations like the Savive Beast, Ash could communicate with them.

Unfortunately, these behemoths were animals created through gene fusion experiments, and their genetic makeup was so mixed that they lacked a complete primary consciousness.

Ash wasn't sure whether the albino gorilla in the movie had taken too little medication or whether its albino genes made it immune to this kind of mental confusion.

However, the albino gorilla has not been found yet. Even in the information released by the Bureau of Investigation, which showed that they had stolen S.H.I.E.L.D.'s satellite signals and marked all four giant beasts, the albino gorilla was still nowhere to be found.

Ash also began his preparations, planning to warn the residents along the way that the damage caused by these behemoths should not be borne by ordinary people.

"Anderson, issue avoidance warnings to people along these routes, and bring all the big stuff you can get to Chicago. We're going to have a tough fight!"

The control center sprang into action. This time, there was no air traffic control, and all aircraft took off, heading towards Chicago.

The control bureau sounded the alarm, and residents along the way panicked. Fortunately, with the control bureau's command, the people took refuge in basements or underground facilities, waiting for the giant beast to pass.