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"Hundreds of thousands?!!"
Hearing this, everyone present was shocked and astounded. Harry, who knew firsthand how dangerous these green-skinned monsters were, exclaimed in disbelief.
Luca just shook his head helplessly.
"Yes. And this guy doesn't know the exact number, but the total probably doesn't exceed a million. Also, the vast majority of Skrulls on Earth are hiding within the United States."
Hearing this, the corners of everyone's mouths twitched uncontrollably.
Probably doesn't exceed a million? So it could easily be several hundred thousand?
At first glance, this number might not seem huge.
But considering the current US population was only around 300 million... forget several hundred thousand, even if there were only 500,000, that would mean roughly one Skrull for every 600 ordinary humans.
This ratio of "spies" was enough to leave the country with nowhere to hide in any aspect.
And don't forget, these Skrulls' disguise ability was a racial trait. In the current situation, it was highly likely that the vast majority of hidden Skrulls held high positions.
At this moment, everyone had only one thought:
America is done for...
However, just then, Dr. Banner, who had been mostly silent, suddenly noticed a key point in Luca's words.
"Wait, Luca, you said 'Skrulls on Earth'? Do these aliens have an extraterrestrial population?!"
As soon as he said this, everyone froze and looked at Luca in unison.
"Yes... but I wouldn't call it an extraterrestrial population. It's more like... their headquarters, I guess, isn't on Earth."
"It's a large space station hidden in low Earth orbit. At least tens of thousands of Skrulls are living there right now..."
"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"
Before Luca could finish, Dr. Banner interrupted excitedly.
"A super-large space station capable of housing tens of thousands of people? Even if the Skrulls have that level of technology, they couldn't have built it silently! No country on Earth would allow such a thing to hang over their heads! Besides, you said earlier they were a refugee race. Where could they get so many resources?!"
Dr. Banner spoke with absolute certainty, his face full of disbelief.
But Luca shattered his argument with a single sentence.
"What if I told you... this space station was originally built by Nick Fury using S.H.I.E.L.D. resources...?"
At this moment, the room fell into a bizarre silence.
In fact, when Luca extracted this information from the fake Rhodes' brain, he was also freaking speechless—speechless enough to open the door for speechless and invite it home.
Although Nick Fury hadn't intended for the space station he spent over a decade building to be just a refugee camp for Skrulls.
He mainly wanted to build a space base for S.H.I.E.L.D.
However, S.H.I.E.L.D. lacked the technology, so many parts utilized alien tech brought by the Skrulls. Plus, for secrecy reasons, few Earthlings could pass Fury's loyalty check and meet the conditions for space travel.
So essentially, this so-called S.H.I.E.L.D. space base had always been built and used by Skrulls.
S.H.I.E.L.D. mostly just provided resources and cover.
Hmm... and most of those resources were embezzled by Nick Fury under various pretenses and secretly shipped to space.
This resulted in a situation where, when the Skrulls truly decided to rebel, the handful of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents on the station couldn't put up any effective resistance.
Hearing this, Natasha, the only S.H.I.E.L.D. agent present, buried her face in her hands, utterly ashamed.
Unfortunately, this still wasn't the most serious problem.
"By the way, according to this Skrull, the space station Nick Fury built has the means to strike Earth directly. Though a Skrull of his level doesn't know the specifics..."
"This..."
Now, even Dr. Banner was speechless.
Originally, with the Skrulls' infiltration capabilities, it was unknown how many high-ranking US military officials had been replaced.
Maybe these aliens already had their fingers on quite a few nuclear launch buttons.
Now adding multiple orbital strike capabilities... it didn't seem... didn't seem like enough—bullshit!
Any attack from space, even just dropping some space junk, would be enough to level most cities on the surface!
"Also..."
Seeing everyone silent, Luca spoke up again.
But as soon as he opened his mouth, everyone's faces fell...
"There's more?"
Seeing their reaction, Luca shrugged helplessly. But unfortunately, what needed to be said had to be said.
"Also, about the Skrulls' disguise ability."
"You've probably all seen that they can transform directly into any human they see."
Everyone nodded in unison.
"However, it's worth noting that the Skrulls' innate ability to transform into others only mimics appearance."
"But..."
Harry immediately looked confused.
He had seen Skrull transformations before. Among them, the Skrulls who turned into his father, old Norman, clearly possessed Super Soldier-level strength, while other Skrulls seemed to have physical stats only slightly better than ordinary humans.
Seeing his confusion, Luca raised a hand.
"Let me finish."
"Although the Skrull's innate ability only changes appearance..."
"Now, they can rely on their biotechnology to extract the genes and memories of other humanoids. Through extraction and implantation, a Skrull can then transform and acquire the target's complete memories, fingerprints, biological information, and even special superpowers—everything!"
"That's why these Skrulls always try to capture us alive."
Hearing this, everyone didn't know whether to feel relieved or terrified.
The relief was that this seemed to imply the captured Avengers were likely still alive.
But correspondingly, it meant...
"So far, we know Captain America and Norman, two Super Soldiers, have been captured. Plus a super marksman like Clint..."
"This means all Skrulls have the potential to transform into Captain America and gain all his abilities..."
"In the worst-case scenario, we might be facing hundreds of thousands of Captain Americas..."