The game begins with two leaders on the opposite side, along with about a dozen half-mechanical warriors, and dozens of miscellaneous soldiers.
With my own strength and speed, I don't need to pay attention to the miscellaneous soldiers, just need to focus on the two Hydra leaders.
But the Hive is just a bunch of insects, physical attacks have almost no effect on him, this is not the MCU version of the Hive that dies easily with a single hit.
Since the Hive can't be taken down, then let's kill Viper instead. That woman has mediocre martial arts skills, excels at terror attacks and guerrilla warfare in the city, which are nothing to Su Ming.
The key is she loves playing with poison. Her poisons often inexplicably take effect, even with Strangulation as the base, Su Ming doesn't want to try touching biological weapons. So let's deal with her first, and then move on to the Hive.
The tactic of attacking the east and striking the west is one of the simplest, combined with a Flash Bomb that blinds the senses, even experienced enemies will be panic-stricken for a short time.
When a person loses one of their five senses, even if they know it's temporarily lost, their brain will experience a brief blank due to missing one-fifth of the information they originally had.
That fraction of a second is enough for Deathstroke. The Hive, being a collection of insects, wasn't blinded, but he isn't faster than Su Ming, and can't save Viper in time.
With the surrounding soldiers' vision not yet restored, the attacking Deathstroke, with Godslayer's dual blades, performed a Tornado Slash, just enough to finish Viper and her nearby personal guard.
That woman likes to wear tight-fitting clothes, like leather skirts, dressing up beautifully, so many times her poisons are carried by her guards. Sometimes they are not even in the guard's bag, she implants some special containers into the guard's abdomen or chest cavity.
When used, she connects it to an external faucet, like turning on a water dispenser. When unable to defeat the enemy at critical moments, she can use the Poison Burst Skill. These guards are her expensive Death Warriors, not even blinking when self-destructing.
All the special agent organizations in the world are actually just as shady in that way, just that S.H.I.E.L.D., evolved from the SSR, covers a bit more. Hydra never hides, biological weapons, terror attacks, brainwashing, poisoning, they come in all forms, and after doing it they're afraid others won't know, they have to broadcast it on TV to promote it.
Even so, losing moral support, their agents are evidently of higher quality than S.H.I.E.L.D., all built with money and order.
After graduating from the academy, S.H.I.E.L.D. agents hardly study anymore, during task gaps they fully embrace the American style, going to bars, picking up girls, whatever is relaxed and pleasant, they do it that way, calling it degeneration and corruption.
And Hydra agents? They take all the time agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. spend on leisure for study and exercise.
Honestly, if Hydra hadn't turned S.H.I.E.L.D. into their branch like result that went astray, in a real fight S.H.I.E.L.D. wouldn't stand a chance, and as for superheroes with brains, there are only a few, possibly restrained by various schemes thoroughly.
Even the Illuminati had to pull Namor in to make up the numbers, imagine how rare brains are in the superhero world.
The Hive didn't retrieve his split arm, maybe his millions of insect eyes caught a glimpse of the brutally dead Viper, maybe they didn't, but he immediately launched a counterattack on Su Ming.
His attack looked somewhat familiar, resembling Setorak's Red Belt, except the yellow-brown belts floating from his hand are composed of countless insects.
With just one sweep, Su Ming bent down to dodge, able to hear the momentary buzzing of wings flying overhead.
However, the Hive's attack gave Su Ming an idea. The insects forming the opponent's body are too small to see what structure they specifically have, but when they gathered and brushed above the head earlier, the air vibration suggests they have wings.
This is the reason why these insects can fly in the air like dust.
"It's over, I've already entered your body, I will soon control your brain to kneel."
The Hive did not attack again, but withdrew the fluttering yellow belts, the insects reformed the shape of arms.
His previous attack was just a blinding technique, actually, while no one was paying attention, tiny insects climbed from the ground, through the blood traces of Viper, into the seams of Deathstroke's armor, then penetrated the skin and muscles through the pores.
The Hive is the Insect Swarm, the Insect Swarm is him, so he didn't realize how strange his previous words were, but controlled his insect clones, intending to enter Deathstroke's brain along the nerves.
Su Ming's mouth twitched slightly, the Hive's behavior and words were disgusting, feeling like they almost caught up with his little cousin.
Wade once described his own relationship with Spider Hero as 'like a combination of Brokeback Mountain and Fifty Shades of Grey, it's so heartwarming.' Now this Hive, always wanting to enter other people's bodies, is equally disgusting.
However... it will probably disappoint him.
Su Ming is never fighting alone, he is not alone! The Magic Floating Cloak and Symbiote instantly possessed the soul!
Actually, it's not that exaggerated, but Strangulation easily strangled and consumed those insects within the body.
After the Symbiote killed the parasites within the host's body, the Hive twitched his neck as if having a spasm, looked at Deathstroke with surprise in his eyes: "What's inside you? Why does it..... You're a monster!"
"You Captain David Jones still call me a monster? Alright, look at your Flying Dutchman, it's coming to pick you up." Su Ming pointed behind the Hive, suddenly took out several incendiary bullets from his waist, pulled the safety pin and threw them towards the opponent.
Although the original plan was to keep the incendiary bullets for dealing with vampires, using them now to burn insect wings isn't bad either.
"τυχ."
The Hive didn't fall for it, transformed into a cloud of insects and dodged behind the soldiers, emitting weird, piercing sounds from within the cloud, sounding like some kind of low-frequency sonar, he used this approach extensively to control his subordinates, perhaps it's the language of insects.
All in all, those infected Hydra warriors erupted with extreme speed upon hearing the strange sound, building a human wall in front of the Hive, forcibly catching Su Ming's incendiary bullets.
These are military-grade white phosphorus incendiary bullets, a touch will burn to the bone, but even when turning into firemen those emotionless soldiers stood there without moving, using their bodies to keep the flame and Hive separate, crackling and popping.
A roasted meat smell permeates the air, along with the stench of hair and clothes being burnt.
The Hive made another sound, those burning soldiers directly jumped into the large pit at the side with flames, the human-shaped blaze gradually shrinking and then disappearing from Su Ming's view.
As for the half-mechanical warriors, the flames only burned off their exterior, revealing the silver-glowing metallic structures beneath, they still protected the Hive and took Gravityium from their chest storage box.
The Hive split a cloud of insects, collided into Gravityium, absorbed the constantly twisting and deforming metal like drinking water, and on the path that dimmed after the flame dissipated, the silver glow suddenly intensified.