Marvel: Starting with the Glint-Glint Fruit

The rock formations around him had all dried out.

"I almost suffocated," Matthew gasped, his face showing lingering fear.

I glanced at the waterproof watch on my wrist; it showed three hours and fifty minutes.

It took almost four hours.

My body has already reached its limit.

He put immense pressure on himself; the pressure of 320 meters of water alone, plus hundreds of tons of rock, was already an inhuman level of training.

Moreover, being at the bottom of a lake, he also had to endure the additional conditions of lack of oxygen.

Holding your breath for a long time is a dangerous activity and also consumes a lot of energy.

When the human body is lacking oxygen, the heart rate will soar, the heart will beat wildly, and the oxygen consumption will increase dramatically.

At this point, the body will instinctively begin to struggle, muscles will stiffen, energy will burn wildly, lactic acid will begin to accumulate, the more you hold it in, the more tired you become, and the more tired you become, the less you can hold it in.

Therefore, ordinary people will experience weakness, dizziness, and limp hands and feet when they lack oxygen.

The same goes for Matthew.

What makes him stronger than ordinary people is his monstrous physique. First, there's his lung capacity, and then there's his abundant energy, which allows him to hold his breath for far longer than the average person.

However, there is still water pressure and carrying a giant rock on one's back.

In addition, there is continuous underwater movement, punching, kicking, running, and even occasionally using the "Shave" technique, one of the six styles, which involves stomping on the ground dozens of times at high speed.

This kind of martial arts technique, which bursts out at the limit of power and speed in an instant, also consumes physical energy.

With all the debuffs applied, he almost suffocated from playing too hard.

Fortunately, he eventually succeeded in understanding the meaning of returning life.

The ability to freely control all cells, muscles, hair, and nerves throughout the body, making the mind the body, including the pores.

A superhuman ability to amplify a faint instinct to its extreme.

Matthew opened all the pores on his body to absorb the trace amounts of dissolved oxygen in the water.

Then a burst of energy caused it to leave the lakebed and return to the shore.

Of course, it's unlikely that he suffocated completely, since the elemental mobility of the Glint-Glint Fruit allowed him to break free of the chains at the last moment.

Overall, this training has truly helped him grow physically once again.

Furthermore, he grasped the meaning of returning life and gained immense insights.

After that, he was able to train at the bottom of the lake for longer periods of time until he was fully adapted to the water pressure and the weight.

But now he is very tired and hungry.

Soon, his breathing returned to normal, and he turned to look at the shore not far away, where there were two huge metal boxes and an open parachute.

Those were food supplies and daily necessities purchased via airdrop.

He needs to have a good meal.

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The godfathers threw away their monthly tickets and begged the godfathers on their knees.

Chapter 50 Unlucky Nick Fury (Seeking monthly votes and recommendations)

With strong logistical support, Matthew saved a lot of time and effort, at least in terms of cultivation.

He only needs to focus on cultivation, but the logistics team has many more things to consider.

In addition to overcoming the extreme environment to airdrop these living supplies to him, they also had to shield Matthew from the energy fluctuations he emitted during his cultivation.

In terms of cutting-edge technology, this world is far more advanced than the previous one.

Leaving aside the fact that the sorcerers of Kamar-Taj can detect abnormal energy bursts through their magical barriers, many other factions have also developed specialized detection equipment for such bursts.

Any anomalies are easily detected and located.

Two large shipping containers were airdropped; one contained daily necessities, and the other was a makeshift kitchen and house.

It provides him with a place to cook and sleep.

After all, it's quite difficult to find a place to sleep in a place like this.

He came here to cultivate, not wanting to suffer without effort.

Before long, the kitchen grill was powered by natural gas, and a large fire was cooking a sheep and some fresh vegetables.

Even with nutritional supplements, he will still maintain his eating habits.

Delicious food brings joy.

While Matthew was training hard, he was also enjoying himself.

Meanwhile, Hawkeye Clint, inside the St. Petersburg safe house, seemed somewhat impatient.

In the brightly lit living room, Clint, wearing a dark turtleneck sweater, stood by the window, watching the heavy snow outside and the cars driving by on the road.

He was holding his phone, reporting to his boss, Nick Fury.

"Sir, the target has completely disappeared. We've used all our resources, but haven't found a single clue."

There was a brief silence on the other end of the phone before Fury's signature deep voice came through: "Disappeared into thin air?"

"Yes, we only found the last place she disappeared, a coffee shop, and we couldn't find her in the surveillance footage afterward."

"Did she sense the danger?"

“Uncertain, but possible.” Clint agreed with the director’s point of view.

Otherwise, it would be too absurd.

To say that another force intervened and silently took someone away right under their noses, erasing all traces.

Clint preferred to believe that the Black Widow herself sensed the danger and then quickly fled St. Petersburg.

Even if their department invests the least amount of power and resources in this country, it is still far superior to any ordinary force.

Getting around them and taking the target would be extremely difficult.

As a Level 7 elite agent, Clint was well aware of the vast reach and immense power of his department.

The probability of a top spy trained by the Red Room sensing danger and escaping is much higher.

After all, spies of that caliber must have the highest level of awareness of danger and counter-tracking capabilities among ordinary people.

When it comes to stealth, Clint is no match for top spies.

"We must find her and find out who the real controller behind the Red Room is before we can destroy it."

Regardless of the possibility, Fury decisively issued the order: "I will mobilize all resources over there, and once we have her whereabouts, we will find her."

Fury had always known about the existence of the Red Room.

After all, this is a spy organization left over from the Soviet era. S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Red Room have had many dealings, but in essence, the two sides have rarely had direct conflicts except during wartime.

His department prioritizes stability.

However, since the 1990s, many of the department's plans have been disrupted, and after an investigation, the blame was placed on the Red House.

The Red Room may not know that S.H.I.E.L.D. exists, but many of the Red Room's espionage missions over the years have more or less run into S.H.I.E.L.D.'s targets.

Furthermore, Fury has realized that the Red Room's reach and activities are expanding, and he has decided that the Red Room must be destroyed.

Fury wasn't particularly concerned about the operation itself.

The Red Room isn't bad, but it's far inferior to S.H.I.E.L.D.

Fury doesn't care about someone like Black Widow; S.H.I.E.L.D. has never lacked top talent.

He dispatched Hawkeye, the ace agent, mainly because the location was Russia, and S.H.I.E.L.D.'s resources were insufficient. Therefore, Hawkeye was deployed to ensure a higher success rate.

Unexpectedly, a huge mistake occurred before the operation even began.

Black Widow has disappeared; we can't find her, let alone the person in charge of the Red Room.

It wasn't that he was getting a sore throat, but Fury felt something was off lately, very off.

He had a feeling that many things had been going wrong for him lately.

Based on his intuition as a top agent, Fury secretly decided that he would conduct an internal self-examination.

Let's start with this operation.

Hawkeye Clint was unaware of Fury's thoughts. He had received a clear order from the director, and after hanging up the communication, he did not rush to take action.

After all, he couldn't really help with finding the person.

Back in the living room, he took a sip of a cup of freshly brewed coffee from the coffee table in front of the sofa, then sat down on the sofa and looked at the data on his laptop.

The above is information about Natasha, the target of his operation.

The data was very detailed, even including several missions the other party had carried out, indicating that they had been under surveillance for some time.

Upon seeing this, his hand paused, and he frowned.

Did you truly sense the danger yourself?

"The operational logic and the observation of the mission process were all correct, so how could you have detected the danger?"

"Why didn't we notice it the previous times, but only this time? Is it a coincidence?"

Clint seemed to have thought of something, and quickly stood up, put on his down jacket and hat, and hurriedly went out.

A dozen minutes later, he arrived at the coffee shop where Natasha had last disappeared.

Once inside, he sat in the spot where Natasha had been sitting and, through the glass window, saw the building across the street.

"She was on a mission; her target was the people inside that building."

"She was observing the gaps in the security guards' shift changes. She wasn't carrying out an assassination, or infiltrating to find something and assassinate someone along the way."

"You've been here all along, everything's normal, but then you disappeared in less than ten minutes."

"why?"

“We had our people observing beyond visual range and used the surrounding surveillance cameras, but there was no one there. Why would you feel danger? Where did this danger come from?”

The more Clint thought about it, the brighter his eyes became; he had figured out the key point.

That's right. Premonitions are never logical, especially the intuitions developed after experiencing battlefields or life-or-death crises.

But there is always a logical premise.

That is, in the subconscious of such a person, a certain point that they have overlooked will suddenly flash through their mind. Under normal circumstances, this overlooked point will not be judged as dangerous.

However, the subconscious mind does the exact opposite.

It is reminding us, warning us.

But this time, Natasha's experience was different; she shouldn't have triggered this subconscious thought at all.

So the real reason is that a third party intervened.

Damn it!

After figuring it out, Clint immediately got up and left. He needed to report on the matter and re-examine the direction of the investigation.

Chapter 51 Good News Keeps Coming

It wasn't very difficult for the red house to be taken over.

Since the 1990s, due to certain political reasons, the spy organizations that were originally affiliated with the government were disbanded.

Without government funding, the Red House should also be dissolved.

But Drekoff saw things very clearly. He took advantage of the situation to take over the Red Room, taking away all assets, technology, employees, bases and data, and completely privatizing the entire organization.