"My son is dead."
"Your son won't live either."
"Die for me!"
"Ah!"
Strucker heard Hawk's words telling the S.H.I.E.L.D. warplane to leave first, and instantly erupted, the image of his son being cleanly killed by Hawk reappearing in his mind, and the two pea-sized blue lights on his face mask flared up again.
At the same time, the Mind Stone embedded in his chest also shone brightly at this moment.
The next second.
Two faint yellow Mind Rays once again shot out from what could be considered Strucker's eyes, blasting towards the S.H.I.E.L.D. warplane preparing to leave.
But—
He had rays, and Hawk had them too!
"Phoenix Ray!"
"Boom!"
The moment the Phoenix Ray and the Mind Ray collided in the air, a violent disturbance instantly occurred, and an Impact appeared at the point of contact between the two rays, then spread out in all directions at an extremely fast speed.
The airflow entangled by the two Impacts firmly locked the S.H.I.E.L.D. warplane.
The S.H.I.E.L.D. warplane swayed under the Impact of the blast.
"sh*t."
"Get out of here, Mark!"
Inside the cabin, feeling like a falling leaf in a raging storm, seemingly about to crash the next second, a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent stumbled to the cockpit door and roared at the pilot.
"F*ck!"
"Don't rush, I'm trying."
"Fly for me!"
The S.H.I.E.L.D. pilot named Mark also roared out.
He had already unleashed the warplane's engine power to its maximum.
The S.H.I.E.L.D. warplane hummed.
But... their plane seemed to be stuck by something, and even with the engine power at maximum, it remained stationary.
Wanda in the cabin looked through the window at Hawk, who was standing to their right, clashing with Strucker, thought for a moment, and passed Billy and Tommy in her arms to Pietro.
Pietro was slightly stunned, instinctively took Billy and Tommy, then looked at Wanda as she got up.
"What are you doing?"
"Helping."
"Helping my ass!"
Pietro rolled his eyes, looking at his sister whose hands had already turned scarlet: "Can you fly? The moment you leave the cabin door, you'll probably fall into the sea."
Wanda frowned at his words.
"But..."
"Sit still. The only thing we can do now is not to cause him trouble."
"..."
Wanda listened to her brother Pietro's words, thought for a moment, and looked through the window at Hawk and Strucker clashing outside.
Strucker's tone was ferocious.
"Die for me!"
"Just you?"
Hawk's tone was disdainful. As he spoke, his body continuously rose, and the Phoenix Ray also clashed with Strucker's Mind Ray from above.
He didn't put Strucker in his eyes at all.
Strucker in human form was not his opponent, let alone Strucker who was no longer human.
However... although Hawk didn't take Strucker to heart.
He did have his eyes on the Mind Stone.
Logically speaking, Strucker was not qualified to use the Mind Stone. To be precise, no creature should be able to use the Mind Stone without any burden.
It is well known.
Infinity Stones.
If you have blue, it consumes blue. If you have no blue, it consumes life!
For any human using an Infinity Stone, the only outcome is that before they succeed, their life force will be drained first.
But now Strucker was no longer human.
Strucker, who had transferred his soul into this steel body made of a combination of pure Vibranium and nanobots, from a certain perspective, had almost achieved immunity to the side effects of the Mind Stone.
He didn't know if this guy did it on purpose or was lucky.
However—
As Strucker continuously fired Mind Rays, his Vibranium body also began to turn gray at a visible speed.
But his body was not only Vibranium, but also nanobots.
So after his Vibranium body showed side effects and began to turn gray, nanobots instantly filled in.
Just like Tony Stark's future nanotech armor, if it was damaged, nanobots would instantly fill in.
So, from a certain perspective, Strucker perfectly circumvented the side effects of using the Infinity Stones.
But!
Strucker relied on external objects.
Hawk, on the other hand, relied on himself.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
As Hawk's Little Universe continued to burn steadily, the energy output of the Phoenix Ray became even more stable, and at a visible speed, it began to push towards Strucker from above.
He was forcing Strucker to make a choice.
Strucker either gave up the idea of blasting the S.H.I.E.L.D. warplane and rose up to continue clashing with Hawk.
Or... he would just watch Hawk's Phoenix Ray blast his body.
"Hehehe!"
"Hawk Phoenix, you are truly hypocritical."
"You said you didn't care if I killed your children, but in fact, you still care a lot."
Strucker saw Hawk's plan, then, as if he had discovered something amusing, laughed maniacally.
"That's right."
"With your level of life, you simply cannot know that these three children might be your only three children from now on."
"After all, Gwen Stacy cannot conceive your children."
"It was I who gave you your three children."
"You should kneel and thank me for giving you three children."
"So—"
"Kneel!"
Strucker roared out the last word, choosing to ascend. With a bang, he flew even higher than Hawk, reversing the situation, and using his height advantage to suppress Hawk with his Mind Ray.
But by doing so, he also gave up targeting the S.H.I.E.L.D. warplane.
The moment Strucker ascended, the S.H.I.E.L.D. warplane, which had been firmly locked by the ray's Impact and unable to escape, roared its engines, regained power, and the S.H.I.E.L.D. pilot quickly lowered the nose, then tried to escape from there at the fastest possible speed.
Hawk felt something was wrong.
Indeed.
The Mind Stone on Strucker's chest shone to its extreme brilliance.
His voice was also extremely ferocious.
"These three children were bestowed upon you by me."
"What I can bestow, I can also take back."
"Just watch, just like me, watch your three children die before your eyes."
"Hehehe!"
Hawk listened to Strucker's ferocious roar, like a mechanical demon, his Sixth Sense stirred, and he glanced at the sea below.
He saw.
From the corner of his eye, he saw a black shadow below the sea, skimming the surface, flying rapidly towards them.
Is this... Namor Mckenzie?
Boom!
Namor, flying close to the sea surface like a swordfish, grasping his trident, suddenly leaped from the sea. After a furious roar, the trident in his hand, like an intercontinental missile, instantly broke through the air and shot towards the rapidly flying S.H.I.E.L.D. warplane.
Strucker's laughter was ferocious: "Now it's your turn to choose, Hawk!"
Either ignore the S.H.I.E.L.D. warplane and continue clashing with him, at the cost of the S.H.I.E.L.D. warplane being shot down by the trident.
Or go to the rescue, but at the cost of taking a direct hit from him.
Hawk did not speak.
"Bang!"
The moment his figure flickered and disappeared from its original spot, Strucker's Mind Ray blasted Hawk's right shoulder, causing Hawk's body to sharply skew.
The next second.
"Duang!"
"Whoosh!"
Namor looked at Hawk, who appeared in front of the S.H.I.E.L.D. warplane almost the instant he was about to succeed, punching away his trident, his eyes narrowed, and he opened his right hand, re-summoning the trident that had flown back.
"Hiss!"
"He's injured."
Wanda, in the S.H.I.E.L.D. warplane, which was once again locked by Strucker's psychic power and suspended behind Hawk, looked through the window and saw Hawk standing in mid-air outside, but with blood overflowing from his right shoulder, and exclaimed.
"Hawk!"
In the command center of New York S.H.I.E.L.D., Gwen's eyes widened as she saw Hawk with a gruesome wound on his right shoulder, constantly bleeding, and couldn't help but exclaim.
Sharon next to her also gasped instinctively, then frowned deeply.
"Something's not right."
"What?"
Gwen heard Sharon's words and quickly looked at Sharon: "What's not right?"
Sharon looked at Hawk in the satellite image, who, despite his injured right shoulder, showed little change in expression, and seeing the calmness in Hawk's eyes, she seemed to realize something, her eyes lighting up: "No, Hawk is fishing."
Gwen was slightly stunned, then looked at Hawk on the big screen.
She had been too nervous just now.
But with Sharon's reminder, and her understanding of Hawk.
Hiss.
Hawk deliberately got injured?
Gwen seemed to realize something, taking a sharp breath.
"Hehehe!"
"I knew you were just bluffing."
"Die!"
Strucker looked at Hawk, who had taken a direct hit from him to protect the S.H.I.E.L.D. warplane, his eyes lit up, he laughed ferociously, then from above, he once again shot a Mind Ray at the S.H.I.E.L.D. warplane.
His son was dead.
He also wanted Hawk's three children to die tragically before Hawk's eyes.
Hawk was expressionless, his left hand open towards the S.H.I.E.L.D. warplane.
"Psychokinesis!"
"Bang, bang, bang—"
The intense Mind Ray, upon hitting the S.H.I.E.L.D. warplane, seemed to encounter a transparent barrier, creating ripple after ripple with loud bangs.
"Hmph!"
Namor, barefoot on the sea surface, watched this scene. After re-summoning his trident, he also let out a roar. Immediately after, as the trident danced, several sea dragons rose from the sea.
The sea dragons roared in anger, surging upstream, blasting towards Hawk.
Hawk looked down at the sea dragons sweeping towards him from below, and opened his right hand.
"Psychokinesis!"
"Boom, boom, boom—"
Countless Water dragons were summoned by Namor one after another, continuously blasting against the barrier in front of Hawk.
Above was Strucker.
Below was Namor.
"Bang, bang, bang—"
"Boom, boom, boom—"
"..."
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