As soon as Whitehall died, the Hydra forces under his leadership were defeated. S.H.I.E.L.D. has full control of the situation in the abandoned theater, and the next step according to the original plan is to set up a bomb to blow up the key tunnels of the underground city and destroy a temple in the heart of the city.

Of course, this was all originally planned, but the plan has now had to be put on hold. Because one of them, S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Skye, chased a woman named Rena into the city.

Rena is also a carrier of Inhuman genes, and she has believed since she was a child that she was destined to be different. She volunteered to work with Hydra to help them find the alien city, and secretly took the obelisk into the depths of the city when Aegis and Hydra were in a fight. Skye found out and chased her down into the ground.

If Fury was here, he might have given the order to detonate without hesitation for the sake of the overall situation. But Agent Coulson was clearly not Fury, and he couldn't accept leaving his favorite agent inside to be buried in the alien city, so he decided to go down and bring Skye back himself.

"I take back what I said you were crazy," Agent May said as he looked at Coulson, who was buckling up and about to jump into the bottomless hole that the ion drill had punched out, "You're crazy now." ”

"Skye is one of us...... One of the most important ones. I have to bring her back. Coulson insisted.

"Hell, but you're the director, you can't ......"

"If I don't come back, you'll be the director." Coulson interrupted in a non-negotiable tone, "Keep watch over here, May." If we don't come back within ten minutes, you'll seal the entrance and forbid anyone to enter. ”

"Coulson, don't even think about it......"

May wanted to argue something, but the second half of her sentence was drowned out by a buzz of thrusters. The steel remnant slammed open the door and flew in, sending a whirlwind over the two of them, sprinting headlong down the hole before they could react.

The two agents froze at the edge of the hole for a moment.

Coulson turned his head slowly: "Did you see what I just saw?" ”

...

The results of the deep terrain scan showed that the depth of the cave was more than 100 meters, and when Michael swooped to 50 meters away, he adjusted his posture and opened the resistance plates on both wings of the thruster, and the thrust reverser tail flame sprayed vertically down from the thrust port to help him slow down quickly and land steadily.

The underground space was pitch black, and there was no light source as far as the eye could see. The built-in display of the helmet intelligently activates the night vision mode, and the display interface switches to dark green.

"The electromagnetic shielding reaction was detected, and some kind of high-intensity electromagnetic field was enough to paralyze and destroy 80 percent of the electronic equipment." Shirley reminded loudly, "The anti-EMP module of the suit has been automatically turned on, and all electromagnetic influences have been shielded. The remote link between the suit and the server is interrupted, and it will automatically switch to quantum link mode, and the upload speed may be unstable. ”

Quantum linking is an emerging cutting-edge technology in the field of communication, which can maintain the connection of long-range signals despite electromagnetic interference, but the disadvantage is that it is unstable.

"Good. Maintain alert mode and monitor the danger directly on the screen. ”

Michael made his way down the tunnel.

The city sits at the base of a few hundred feet of volcanic rock, and these ancient and old tunnels were dug out of the volcanic rock by the Cree people, and the walls are surrounded by black, hard ore rock. There was a thick layer of ash like a carpet on the ground, but through the ashes, it was still faintly recognizable that the engravings had been carved into the ground, a pile of strange shapes and lines of unknown meaning.

The Cree left these marks, and there is no doubt about that. Energy detections show that even after so many centuries, there is still a residual flow of energy in these inscriptions, as if water is flowing through a city along a particular channel.

Shirley warns that it is best not to come into direct contact with the inscriptions, and while she has never seen anything like it and cannot make an accurate judgment, she speculates that if she touches it directly, some kind of substance hidden inside could infect the human body, and that the infected person will be assimilated into a part of it by the city, like an unconscious puppet.

Walking around a corner at the end of the tunnel, the word "Danger" with an exclamation point popped up on the right side of the monitor. Michael paused, shrunk as a powerful punch swept less than a millimeter in front of his helmet with a cold wind.

The punch was extremely powerful, but there was absolutely no sound, and it was fast and incoherent. Before Michael could gain his footing, the next punch followed, and the black fist took over the entire field of view of the main monitor.

The opponent's move is amazingly fast, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is beyond the limits of human beings. But Michael was quick to decide, simply did not dodge the left foot and flew away, and kicked the opponent in the chest in a way that seemed to be a blood-for-blood play. But firstly, he has armor on his body and the other party seems to be only flesh and blood, and secondly, he has the right timing and direction, although he is a late striker, he can come first, and he calculates that his kick can hit the target one step ahead of the opponent.

The man's reaction to the change of move was also surprisingly fast, and he simply gave up his punch and used his elbow hammer to attack the leg armor he kicked in instead. Michael kicked the opponent's elbow, and the forces of the two sides collided, and the figure shook and staggered back two steps.

In this short three-move two-style exchange, although Michael had the upper hand, he was also a little surprised. You must know that although the power output of his leg just now is not the highest, he also has close to ten tons of leg power. And this guy touched each other in the flesh, although he suffered some losses, but he barely survived.

The man staggered to his feet, and slowly raised his head, which turned out to be a bald black man. He had strong, broad shoulders, tall oxen and horses, and thick arms with intertwined muscles. His face was expressionless as if he were nervous necrosis, and some pitch-black substance filled his eyes, obscuring his pupils.

Shirley automatically activated the facial recognition program the moment he raised his head: "This gentleman is Alfonso McKinsey, S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, mechanic, proficient in multiple hand-to-hand combat abilities. Subject's physical abilities have been significantly enhanced, and he is confused and unconscious, and is suspected to be affected by the kind of alien inscription he has just observed......"

"Thanks, Shirley - it doesn't seem like it helps to know that's going to help."

Agent McKinsey sprinted up again, and he was menacing, like a bull enraged by a matador.

But this round he has lost the opportunity to surprise the attack. Michael slapped and slapped the opponent's two punches, and squeezed the right fist handed by Agent McCarthy with his left palm. Michael lifted his leg and kicked him in the knee, hammered him in the chest with his elbow, and slashed him in the neck with a knife. Agent McCarthy staggered back two steps, and before he could catch his breath, he ate another pulse cannon from the door. Agent McCarthy threw his head back and fell to the ground, fainting and unresponsive.

"I'm sorry, but it's not aimed at you, Agent McCarthy." Michael said lightly, stepping over the fainting agent, "I'm just in a hurry." ”

Michael took two more steps forward and the tunnel began to shake. Not just the tunnels, but the foundations of the entire underground city began to tremble. Large clouds of dust poured from the top, and cracks crept along the walls of each tunnel.

"The fluctuations originated in the temple in the center of the city, and there was a powerful energy response."

At the same time as Shirley prompted, the energy monitoring meter has also popped up in the upper right corner of the display interface. The energy readings went straight straight as if they were dying, and the powerful waves on the map were released like a devastating tsunami centered on the temple, each ripple carrying a shock ten times more powerful than the previous one, shaking the entire underground space as if it were trembling.

"Warning, the level of shocks is increasing rapidly, the building structure is seriously damaged, and the space is at risk of collapse." Shirley spoke again, "No corresponding crustal movement was detected, an unnatural seismic phenomenon, and the epicenter could not be determined. ”

"Relax, Shirley, I know exactly what the epicenter is."

Michael stopped and stood outside the temple, which was blocked by a heavy stone gate more than five meters high.

"Let's go in and say hello to Shockwave Girl."