Airbus plane, 13,000 kilometers above the ground.

A few hours earlier, Hive had boarded Airbus with a few Inhumans that Malik had snagged for him, and flew to the "afterlife" with a large number of Inhumans living in them. Now, a few hours later, he's back in the air with a cabin full of Inhumans, an invincible superpower army with all sorts of extraordinary abilities.

Although the "afterlife" is a group of Inhumans, in fact, there are only a few Inhumans who actually have superpowers, and most of them are just potential Inhumans who carry mutant recessive genes. They must undergo a rigorous review by the Council of Elders, and go through a series of tedious vetting steps to qualify through the Terrigen Mists and activate their superpowers to become true Inhumans.

Due to these strict rules, only a new Inhuman is born in the "afterlife" every few years, which is not too many.

But this rule was broken the moment the hive came.

The first to be transformed by the hive was Gordon, the eyeless teleporter. After being brainwashed into becoming a loyal follower of the Hive, he voluntarily took the Hive to meet Jia Ying, the ruler of the place.

Jay-Ying was soon transformed into the Hive's leader, and her daughter Skye, who was now supposed to be Daisy, followed in her footsteps. At the behest of the Hive, Jia Ying summoned everyone to break the Terrigan Crystal and release the mist, transforming all the gene carriers present into Inhumans in one go.

Then, before the transformers had time to digest and accept their new abilities, the hive unleashed a storm of parasites on a massive scale, infecting and transforming all of the Inhumans.

So he had such an invincible army.

Giera, the Inhuman who had previously been loyal to Malik, was piloting the plane at the moment. He tilted his head and asked his new boss, "So, let's go straight back now?" ”

"Nope." The hive replied indifferently, "We're not going back." ”

Giera was stunned: "That...... Where do we go now? ”

Hive didn't answer directly. He turned to Gordon in the cabin and asked, "You can sense any place and teleport in some special way, right?" ”

Gordon nodded, "Yes, I can sense most people or places, as long as they are located on this planet." ”

"Good." The hive said, "Then I need you to help me find a place." ”

***

The location is kept secret somewhere, the headquarters of the Heavenly Sword.

Just as the Aegis of the past had a three-curved wing building, Skysword also has a similar facility as its headquarters. This is the dispatch center and command center of all the Tianjian branches around the world, and every day there is a huge amount of data and information fed back from all over the world through optical fiber, and there are also hundreds of millions of astronomical wealth flowing in and out from here.

In general, the place is almost impossible to penetrate by breaching. Its defenses are remotely managed by Shirley, the state-of-the-art artificial intelligence, with sensors filling every entrance and even every ventilation duct. The firewall system is also guarded by Shirley herself, at least with the technology on this planet, no one can hack in.

Today, however, it welcomes a team of enemies that are completely out of the ordinary.

In the first step, Gordon teleported into the facility's power center with Lincoln Campbell, an Inhuman with the ability to control and release electricity. Lincoln pumped far more power than the entire facility's power grid, and the current overload system burned out the circuitry, crippling 80 percent of the facility's function.

In the second step, they set up shielding equipment in various sub-districts of the headquarters, and the electromagnetic shielding remotely blocked Shirley from the entire facility, so that they could neither see what was going on inside nor take back control. At the same time, the shielding device also interfered with the communication between the internal agents, and everyone lost command and vision. They could not see the intruders, so they could not organize an effective counterattack in time.

Then there was the occupation by force. Gordon's teleportation ability proved to be a powerful and versatile ability, as he accurately teleported the Inhumans of the brigade to each section of the facility, and the Inhumans attacked by surprise, using their ever-changing abilities to instantly seize control of important areas and lock out most of the agents from the relevant areas. In just a few moments, many areas of the Heavenly Sword Headquarters were under the control of the Inhumans.

But the agents can't be blamed for their negligence in defense. In fact, for any facility in the world today, this team of abilities is almost unstoppable. Even the Triquillary Wing Building before the fall of Aegis could not stop their invasion, and any defense system was as pale as paper in front of them.

After Gordon and his team took control of the shutdown room, he instructed Lincoln to temporarily restore power to the garage. They opened the sluice gates in the ceiling, and the iron doors slowly slid open to the sides, making room for the steel birds of prey that were landing.

The Airbus landed on the tarmac with a piercing hum, the lift gate fell, and the rest of the brigade of Inhumans descended the gangway. Dressed in a trench coat and with his hands behind his back, the Hive strode ahead like a king who reigned over the world along the red carpet to the throne that awaited him.

"The facility is completely under control and all resistance has been cleared." Gordon stepped forward and said.

"Good." The hive didn't stop, "ready to move on to the next plan." ”

Bang!

It was a dull, loud gunshot, and a long spear flame lit up the darkness and fired a sharp golden bullet. It pierced through the darkness and over the crowd, striking the hive's head with a "poof" sound of flesh.

Everyone was taken aback. They looked in the direction of the shot, and with the limited light cast from the top of the hangar, they saw a black-clad guy with a robotic arm half-crouched high, holding a sniper rifle pointing in the direction of the hive.

The Winter Soldier.

They were surprised, but so was the Winter Soldier. He'd noticed the intrusion of these strange creatures, but he had been patiently holding his troops still, like a bobcat waiting for an opportunity to move. He waited until the leader-looking guy stepped off the plane before pulling the trigger.

He never missed, and the bullet that came out of the chamber was often fatal with a single shot.

It stands to reason that a headshot with such a large-caliber bullet should blow up your entire head like a broken watermelon. But this guy was clearly unusual, he leaned back only slightly, twisting his neck unnaturally. The huge bullet was squeezed out of the blood hole in his forehead, and it fell to the ground with a "dang" sound, and the blood hole in his head healed itself.

The Winter Soldier frowned.

What the hell is this.