Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Tragic Tony
At this time, the giant rat had already hated Bucky scurrying around on him, and he tried to tear this monkey-like creature to pieces countless times but failed to do so, so he could only let Bucky cut off a piece of scale armor on his body from time to time, constantly weakening his defenses.
The giant rat is having a hard time, and Bucky is not much better. After more than ten minutes of high-intensity fighting, coupled with the fact that the armor of his left arm was constantly pumping biological energy from his body in order to provide him with stronger strength, Bucky was now tired and needed to stop and catch his breath and recover a little to consume most of his physical strength.
But if Bucky loses his control, Bucky can't even think about what kind of damage the monster-like giant rat can do to New York. Not to mention, even Jean, Oloro and Scott, who are only more than 100 meters away from him, and Tony, who is hiding in the other direction, are afraid that they will all be poisoned by the giant rat. Although Bucky is not a superhero with a good heart, he does not want those friends who come to help him die in front of him, even if his physical strength is severely reduced, Bucky still does not choose to temporarily avoid the edge of the giant rat.
However, Bucky's luck is obviously good, and at this moment, another group of guys who can attract hatred arrives.
Military reinforcements arrived, but fortunately it was not far from an army barracks, and in ten minutes, more than a dozen light armored vehicles surrounded the giant rat and Bucky from all directions, and the blockade line composed of policemen hundreds of meters away was also evacuated four or five hundred meters back under the order of an officer, which made many reporters who disregarded the danger for promotion and salary increase.
"General, the siege of the target has now been completed, but the target creature seems to be fighting a person, please give instructions!" In an armored car, an officer-like figure uses a communicator to report to his superiors.
The unknown general was silent for a moment before ordering, "Complete the mission, kill the target creature, and I want you to bring back its corpse!" ”
"Yes, sir!"
After receiving the order, the officer immediately gave the order to open fire with all his might, and for a moment, the armored vehicles surrounding Bucky and the giant rat all erupted into the most powerful attack, and all kinds of guns and cannons opened fire on the giant rat together. The smoke from the explosion immediately filled the air, and people could only see a huge figure still standing in the smoke.
"Can that monster really be of great help to research? I was the one who gave the order to fire in front of the whole world, ignoring the man who was stalking the monster, and you know how much it will affect my career! In Washington, D.C., in a secret laboratory located more than twenty meters underground, the general who had just given the order to open fire asked an old man in a white coat who was already sixty or seventy years old.
"General, you have to understand that no one can play this package ticket until the sample is obtained, I can only say that this mutated mouse is very likely to further improve our experiment and put it into use as soon as possible" Seeing that the general's face was a little unkind, the old man continued: "A little risk, maybe we can speed up our progress by ten years or even longer, and this deal will not be lost." ”
The general kept his face composed, but in the end he didn't say anything, and he was already thinking about how to explain to the public that he had no regard for the safety of a heroic citizen, just like the giant rat attacking.
In the general's mind, Bucky had almost been sentenced to death, and he didn't think anyone would be able to escape from such a dense network of firepower. However, in fact, Bucky is now safely hiding in a building on the side of the road, and with S.H.I.E.L.D.'s experience in firing directly regardless of himself, Bucky is ready to flee quickly when the military's armored vehicles approach.
Sure enough, as Bucky expected, the military bastard also did not care about his own safety, and opened fire directly, but fortunately, Bucky, who had been prepared for a long time, relied on the speed beyond the human limit, and managed to escape into the nearest building before the first shell exploded.
Looking up at the environment in front of him, Bucky found himself in an office, and the workstations with partitions proved that it was supposed to be a large company, but the riot caused by the giant rat had emptied the room, and now there was no one here.
The sound of guns outside is still endless, judging from the sound, at least the types and numbers of weapons are much more than S.H.I.E.L.D., as for whether it can bring effective damage to the giant rat, Bucky is unknown, but according to Bucky's guess, this may not be an easy task.
Although the soldiers had just ignored Bucky's safety, Bucky sincerely hoped that they could hold out a little longer and earn themselves a little more precious rest.
Finding a vending machine at the door of the office, Bucky is not polite, knocking open the door of the vending machine with a punch, and taking out two bottles of drinks and a few packs of snacks from inside. After fighting with the giant rat for more than ten minutes, the biological energy in Bucky's body was consumed a lot, although the energy that these junk foods can provide is pitiful, but at least it can fill his stomach, Bucky just ate and drank leisurely, standing in a corner destroyed by the giant rat, as a spectator, watching the battle between the military and the giant rat on the ground.
Sure enough, as Bucky expected, although the military burst out with the strongest firepower as soon as it came up, seemingly suppressing the actions of the giant rat, in fact, it failed to cause much effective damage to the giant rat. When the giant rat relieved himself, the soldiers of the military fell into bad luck, the sturdy armored car in front of the terrifying power of the giant rat and the sharp claws, there was no way to protect those poor soldiers, in less than two minutes, four armored vehicles were destroyed by the giant rat, even the soldiers on it, were not spared.
What's even worse is that the military can't restrict the behavior of the giant rat at all, unlike Bucky, who can always contain the giant rat in a small range, and now the giant rat is more than three hundred meters away from where it first appeared, and the roads and buildings along the way have been damaged by the giant rat, and there is even an eight- or nine-story building, which has been turned into a pile of ruins with the cooperation of the giant rat and those soldiers.
"Mr. Barnes, hurry up and find a way to stop those military idiots, if this continues, they will join forces with the giant rats and tear down all of New York!"
Coulson's anxious voice came from the earphones, which made Bucky pout: "Don't worry, it's not so serious, before this street is demolished, I'm afraid those unlucky soldiers will all go to see God!" ”
"But ......"
Before Coulson could finish speaking, Bucky directly interrupted him and said, "First, I'll go up now, those bastards in the military will attack me together." Second, I need to take a break and regain my strength before I have a chance to take out that giant rat. Third, well, there is no third, when those soldiers are finished, I will take the boss's hatred! ”
Ignoring whether Coulson could understand what the boss's hatred was, Bucky took out the communicator directly from his ear, threw it on the ground, solved the snacks and drinks in his hand in two bites, and jumped directly from the third floor to the ground, hanging far behind the giant rat, ready to shoot at any time. At the same time, Bucky gives Jean, Oloro, and Scott, who are hiding behind a building, and the three of them follow.
Without Bucky's containment, the giant rat showed its terrifying destructive power, and there were only three of the military's dozen armored vehicles left, and it was the luck of these three armored vehicles that they were relatively far away from the giant rat and were temporarily spared.
"Retreat, retreat!"
The voice of the unknown general came from the armored car, and it was obvious that the general knew very well that with the lethality of his own army, he could not help this giant rat at all, and staying here would only increase casualties.
The frightened soldiers on the armored car received the order, immediately stopped the attack, and did not care about the glory of the soldiers, stepped on the accelerator directly to the end, and disappeared into a path in a few seconds while the giant rat's attention was not on him.
Only five or six hundred meters away from the giant rat, a young reporter of twenty-seven or eighteen years old and his cameraman were risking their lives to broadcast live.
"Here's Jonah James live. The army that our government spends nearly $300 billion a year to build is simply vulnerable in the face of this terrifying monster, and in less than five minutes, it was almost wiped out by the monster. ”
At this moment, Jonah James's fellow cameraman opened his mouth wide in surprise, pointed behind Jonah James, and motioned for him to turn back.
Looking back, Jonah James saw the last three armored vehicles disappear from his field of vision, and couldn't help but exclaim: "Oh my God, our army the monsters, and then left us alone, a real group of valiant soldiers!" But I, Jonah James, am a qualified journalist, I won't do what those timid soldiers do, I will stick to the end, and if I die at the hands of this monster, then I hope that my report will win me a Pulitzer Prize! ”
The giant rat, which had lost its target, cast its eyes on Jonah James, who was talking a few hundred meters away, the corners of his mouth turned up, revealing a hideous and terrifying smile, and he stepped out of his thick hind legs and walked towards that side.
As soon as the giant rat took two steps, the tire of a car hit the back of its head accurately, attracting its attention at once. Bucky, who threw the tire, also made a defiant gesture at the giant rat, shouting at the giant rat, "Hey! Stinky rats, where do you want to go? ”
The giant rat that turned around immediately found the person who had opened countless holes in his scale armor, and his eyes immediately burst out with hatred, ignoring the ordinary people who had turned pale with fright, and rushed directly towards Bucky, intending to tear Bucky to pieces.
Looking at the giant rat that was coming straight at him, Bucky couldn't help but smile slightly. Bucky found that at this time, there were more scars on the scale armor of the giant rat, and even a piece of scale armor that was destroyed by Bucky had been completely destroyed by the military's thermal weapons, and it also injured the body of the giant rat, and a lot of blood flowed.
"It's finally broken, now it's up to you to die!"
Bucky cursed in his heart, but the movements of his hands did not stop for a moment, brushing a few knives, and the edge of the scale armor that had been completely destroyed was cut off a lot by Bucky, and in less than two minutes, a piece and a half meters square, and the flesh covered by the scale armor was exposed to the air.
"Jean, do it!"
Jean, Ororo, and Scott, who had been waiting impatiently for a long time, immediately found the large piece of missing scale armor and bloody flesh on the giant rat's abdomen under Bucky's reminder, and without hesitation, they took out their strongest attack.
Oloro's lightning and Scott's laser eye immediately hit the giant rat's abdomen, which had lost the protection of its scale armor, directly causing the giant rat to stop howling miserably, and its body fell to the ground.
Jean's attack surprised Bucky, and a lamppost was controlled by Jean's telekinesis, and flew towards the giant rat at a speed that was neither fast nor slow. Bucky could see that Jean seemed to have the power of Magneto, and the lamppost gradually sharpened at one end of the giant rat, and it was easy to pierce the giant rat's abdomen. Although it has lost the protection of the scale armor, the muscle strength of the giant rat itself cannot be underestimated, and this lamppost can pierce the body of the giant rat, which must be due to Qin.
After being hit hard one after another, the giant rat that fell to the ground finally couldn't hold on, and convulsed twice, and its body, which was originally seven or eight meters tall, quickly shrank and became the size of a domestic cat.
"Kill it?"
It was Scott who spoke, and after the giant rat's body shrunk, the three young mutants came out of hiding and walked behind Bucky, carefully looking at the mutant rat lying motionless on the ground.
Bucky turned around and found that Jean's face was pale, apparently she had just used an attack beyond her own capabilities, and now she couldn't even walk or stand, relying on Oloro to support her.
"I don't know." Bucky motioned for the three of them to stay where they were, and cautiously stepped forward to examine the mouse's corpse.
However, at this moment, Tony, who had not been too far away from the battlefield, also ran over and shouted excitedly, "Cool! Those three attacks are so cool, I really envy you! ”
Tony, who didn't know whether he was alive or dead, actually stood directly between Bucky and the mutant mouse, looked at the mutant mouse and said, "Can this mouse let me take it back to the lab, I want to study how it mutated?" ”
Before Bucky could remind Tony to stand back, he saw the mutant rat behind Tony twitch and raise his head.
"Be careful!"
It's a pity that Bucky's reminder is too late, the mutant rat in this form is amazingly fast, and before Bucky's words fall, the mutant rat has already jumped onto Tony's shoulder, and its long tail is wrapped around Tony's neck, and it is slightly retracted, so that Tony can't breathe.
At this moment of imminent victory, Tony was captured!