Marvel: Starting with the Glint-Glint Fruit

Think of it and do it.

Banner stood up, intending to dress himself up and put on his baseball cap. Luckily, there were some illegal internet cafes in the slums, though they were a bit expensive and had outdated equipment, but he couldn't ask for more.

But as soon as he stood up, Banner's expression changed.

He suddenly looked toward the doorway, his eyes fixed on something as if he could see something outside the tightly closed door.

An uneasy premonition arose in my mind.

Thump! Thump! Thump!

His steady heartbeat began to quicken, and a hint of green appeared in his pupils.

boom!!

The massive explosion and flames instantly engulfed the entire building.

The three-story old apartment building collapsed, and countless rubble and stones fell, raising clouds of dust.

The area surrounding the building, once densely populated with slum residents, had been emptied out at some point. A large number of fully armed soldiers, riding in armored vehicles equipped with special weapons, smashed through layers of old buildings and surrounded the area.

Several armed helicopters flew in from the distance in the sky.

The whole process was extremely fast.

All the soldiers' eyes were focused on the collapsed building, staring intently at the billowing dust and smoke.

But the next moment, a deafening roar echoed across the sky, like thunder.

Roar! !

With this roar, a huge green monster, about two and a half meters tall and covered in muscles, emerged from the dust and smoke.

Wearing only a pair of shorts, his face and eyes flashed with terrifying rage as he surveyed the densely packed soldiers surrounding him.

Then, looking up at the sky, he saw armed helicopters soaring in mid-air, and dense black dots on the distant horizon—the US Air Force's most advanced F-22 fighter jet formation.

The familiar scene left only one thought in the mind of the giant green monster.

Destroy everything, smash those persistent little crawlers to death.

Roar! !

So, the green monster bent its legs slightly and charged forward towards the small reptile formation.

Unexpectedly, the equipment mounted on the surrounding armored vehicles launched composite steel cables with a "bang".

Dozens of steel cables shot out and instantly hooked the large green monster, and with the help of some kind of power, they wrapped the monster around with great precision.

Green Monster: ? ? ?

The monster was stunned for a moment, then its anger surged and its muscles bulged. It immediately exerted its strength and tried to pull the armored vehicles connected by steel cables over and throw them away.

But to his utter surprise, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't budge those armored vehicles.

If he could observe calmly, he would discover that the chassis of those armored vehicles actually had specially designed earth-drilling devices.

The armored vehicle chassis will launch seven drilling steel rods that extend to about six meters underground. The bottom steel rod will spread out horizontally with a dense array of hooks, gripping the ground tightly.

In this way, the armored vehicle and the ground become one.

There were more than a dozen of these steel cable armored vehicles that were launched, and it would be impossible to break free with brute force alone in a short time.

But the enraged green behemoth didn't think things through, so it struggled even more fiercely.

The ground trembled slightly from his fierce power.

At that moment, the soldiers surrounding the green monster pulled the triggers of their launchers.

Bang!Bang!Bang!

With a clear, resonant sound, bullets resembling soda cans were launched and struck the ground around the monster. The bullets then exploded, sending wisps of white smoke rising into the air.

A mixture of highly concentrated anesthetic gas and nerve gas rushed into the monster's nasal cavity.

The intense drowsiness immediately made the frantically struggling green monster sluggish.

Meanwhile, the fully armed soldiers around them were all wearing protective helmets, so they naturally wouldn't inhale anything and be affected.

Soon, the monster's eyes became blurry, it blinked a few times, its legs went weak, and it knelt on the ground.

The surrounding soldiers made way for him, and the soldier carrying the metal box walked past unhurriedly.

Chapter 358 The United States Mass-Produces the Hulk (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

The green monster was captured, and the US military traveled across borders to Rio to arrest Bruce Banner.

However, not a single word of news has been released.

It was as if the whole thing never happened.

But when a superpower is determined to do something, and several parties work together, the energy it unleashes is absolutely unimaginable.

Compared to Terra, which now holds a transcendent position, the United States seems to have declined.

In reality, the superpower is still the same superpower, the only strongest power on Earth besides Terra.

The decline of American influence has made the world realize that the air in America is not as sweet as it seems, and the moon is not necessarily brighter.

However, its military and economic strength are still not lagging behind.

On the contrary, the United States has become stronger over time.

It's fair to say that the United States has become a mountain of code, riddled with bugs that will eventually come to a head.

However, it cannot be said that it has now become garbage.

The arrest of Bruce Banner in Rio is the best proof of this; it was a joint operation by multiple federal intelligence agencies, the government, and the military, with multiple forces working together.

The Brazilian government cooperated fully throughout the process.

It's important to understand that Brazil is not a small country.

It is the world's fifth largest country by land area and the largest country in South America, and is a typical regional power and a global middle power.

There are approximately 33 active-duty military personnel and over 130 million reservists.

The two countries are not allies; they only intersect within these general multilateral mechanisms and are not bound by any dedicated alliance-type international organizations.

But the United States still managed to facilitate this operation quietly.

The Brazilian government remained silent. Rio de Janeiro is Brazil's second-largest city and has considerable global recognition, yet it watched helplessly as the United States sent a large number of armed forces, armored vehicles, and even F-22 fighter jets into the city's airspace.

As a result of this classified mission led by the United States, Bruce Banner was arrested and immediately sent back to a classified U.S. military base for immediate research.

Clearly, the power displayed by this green monster named Hulk is something to imagine.

With its impenetrable defenses and terrifyingly powerful, seemingly infinitely growing strength, if it could be mass-produced, the United States would have the resources and confidence to confront even the Terra Empire.

This completely classified research project has officially begun.

The United States maintained a high level of secrecy, with all high-ranking officials who knew about the project ordered to remain silent and closely monitored to ensure there was absolutely no risk of leaks.

Judging from their own experience, if they were in their shoes, they would absolutely not want to see other countries acquire the ability to mass-produce powerful monsters.

The United States' strict information blockade seems to have worked; Terra appears completely unaware of this and continues its development in isolation.

Thus, the tense atmosphere in the United States and the relaxed and carefree atmosphere in Terra created a perfect contrast.

However, these high-ranking American officials had no idea that their so-called secrets were something Terra had seen from the very beginning.

It's like a teacher in a classroom watching students make small movements.

The United States is racing against time, seeing hope in the fight against Terra.

As for the Emperor of the Terra Empire, he is still troubled by the matter of reforming the Hell's Frontier.

He encountered a problem that was neither too big nor too small.

As the absolute ruler of Limbo, he has completed the transformation of Limbo.

The plane that was once filled with sulfur, lava, and black fog has now become a vibrant, green land.

Fresh air, pristine forests, rivers, and even underground water sources.

The landscape was very primitive. Matthew did not deliberately mold the landscape according to his own ideas, but let it grow wildly.

Just like the natural changes of the ancient Earth, the compression of the Earth's crust formed the various continental plates and peaks we see today.

There are even many deserts, huge canyon basins, and extremely cold places—some forbidden zones for life.

At Matthew's level, his perspective on things has long since changed, just like how the Limbo transformation could have been made even more perfect.

However, this still resulted in some flawed areas.

However, the suitable ecosystem is missing one thing: the source of life—the sun.

In fact, under Matthew's influence, Limbo could be perpetually night or perpetually daytime, and this ecosystem could continue indefinitely.

However, it cannot directly produce sunlight.

The sun releases light and heat through nuclear fusion, serving as the energy source for almost all life activities in an ecosystem, supporting plant photosynthesis, and forming the foundation of the entire ecological food chain.

An ecosystem needs to be intact, and the importance of the sun is self-evident.

A complete ecosystem has both darkness and sunlight; this is the cycle of life's evolution.

The lack of sunlight might not have a significant impact on Limbo, but Matthew could foresee that if this element wasn't added, Limbo's ecosystem would suffer some kind of deficiency.

Matthew believed his premonition.

However, in a pocket universe like Limbo, there are only endless stars in the sky, a dim starry sky.

The Milky Way galaxy is never short of stars like the Sun.

The Milky Way is a vast galaxy containing an estimated total of between 1000 billion and 4000 billion stars.

The Sun is a yellow dwarf star. Although this type of star is not as numerous as red dwarf stars in the Milky Way, it still accounts for a considerable proportion, about 7% to 20%.

According to scientific estimates, there are billions to tens of billions of stars in the Milky Way that are similar to the Sun in terms of mass and spectral type.

Of course, there is no specific record of this thing in A Brief History of the Kamar-Taj Universe.

However, Matthew has yet to find a star directly and transport it across dimensions to the frontier of Hell, something even the Ancient One couldn't do.

The utility of teleportation magic is truly astonishing.

It can even instantly teleport large numbers of troops, but to teleport a yellow dwarf star the size of the sun out of thin air is pure fantasy.

Kamar-Taj's teleportation magic increases exponentially with the weight and volume of the teleported object. Supermassive celestial bodies of stellar mass far exceed the upper limit of the magic's stable capacity, and forcibly manipulating them will directly tear space apart and backfire on the caster.

It would probably take the Ancient One to ascend to a single universe to do that easily.

The difference between the Father and the individual universe is vast.

So Matthew shouldn't even think about doing it.

Although he cannot transmit a sun across dimensions, he can create one.

It just so happens that our family has a mad scientist whose artificial sun project is nearing completion.

This experiment only needs to be initiated in Limbo. The moment the artificial sun is created, combined with the connection between Matthew and Limbo, and enhanced by magic, the artificial sun can completely replace the real sun.

Chapter 359 Plucking Stars with One Hand? No, Creating the Sun with a Mortal Body (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

Dr. Otto's artificial sun is a controlled nuclear fusion device that can continuously output stable light and heat energy, possessing the basic energy properties to replace stars. Its core principle is the same as the energy release logic of the real sun.

Combined with the near-infinite magical elements of the Hell's Frontier and Matthew's omnipotent authority here.

It can create a stable confinement field for the artificial sun, solving the defects of the artificial sun in the original work, such as easy loss of control and energy dissipation. It can also simulate the solar wind, magnetic field and other supporting celestial effects of the real sun.

By continuously replenishing the artificial sun with magical elemental energy, its lifespan can be greatly extended. It can provide a stable light, heat, and gravitational environment for the Hell's Border, just like a natural star, thus achieving a full-function replacement for the natural sun.

The trajectory is pre-set so that the artificial sphere at the edge of hell revolves around the sun, operating according to the rhythm of sunrise and sunset.

It's complicated, but for Matthew it's actually quite easy.