Chapter 31: Slaughter
Anyone familiar with Marvel movies knows that the Hulk's character in the films is significantly weaker compared to the comics. However, the concept that the angrier he gets, the stronger he becomes is a hidden setting in the movies. The difference between his maximum and minimum strength is not as vast, though.
The improved Hulk serum given by the system captures this maximum value, making a 30% improvement. This is a terrifying number. Thus, when Blake unleashed his full strength, one punch turned a terrorist's head into a burst watermelon. Blood mixed with brain matter splattered all over Blake's face.
Blake casually wiped his face as if he was wiping away sweat and then showed a hideous smile, revealing several big white teeth.
"Get ready to go to hell from now on, scum!"
This marked the beginning of the slaughter.
Most of the terrorists and townsfolk were gathered in the center of the town. Tony, with his aerial advantage, had already spotted the large group in the middle and flew directly towards them. Blake, on the other hand, began clearing the scattered terrorists on the outskirts along the small streets.
At the entrance of the town's only bar, an off-road vehicle was parked. Three terrorists were moving various kinds of alcohol out of the bar box by box. The bar owner, a middle-aged man with a beard, lay on the bar floor with a bullet hole in his forehead. His wife was desperately clinging to the leg of one of the terrorists, letting out cries of anger.
This terrorist, showing a bit of humanity, didn't immediately harm the woman. He tried shaking his leg free a few times but couldn't. Then he raised his gun butt and struck the woman's head hard.
"Bang!"
Once.
"Bang!"
Twice.
Blood appeared at the corner of the woman's mouth, but her hands clung to the terrorist's leg like a knot, not letting go. The terrorist finally grew impatient and aimed his gun to finish her off.
"Damn you!"
A furious shout, rang out, whether the terrorist understood it or not. Accompanying this shout was a fist that suddenly appeared in front of the terrorist's chest. In his rage, Blake didn't even draw his Tang sword. One punch shattered the terrorist's spine and pierced through his chest, leaving a hole.
"Smack!"
The other two terrorists, lifting a barrel of alcohol, were hit by a piece of bloody internal organ that splattered onto one of their faces.
"Crash!!!"
The barrel fell, spilling alcohol everywhere. The two terrorists hadn't even reacted when Blake flashed in front of them. Seeing them still holding the barrel, Blake grabbed the back of their heads, yanking their hair and scarves. With a fierce push, he smashed their faces together with incredible force. Bones shattered, and blood and flesh merged. Blake forcibly turned their heads into one.
Countless fragments of bone and flesh were driven into their brains; there was no chance of survival. The two fell to the ground, forming a V-shape like a conjoined twin.
Despite the bloody and violent scene, the middle-aged woman, lying on the ground with blood at the corner of her mouth from the gun butt strikes, showed no fear. Instead, she picked up a rifle from the ground and aimed it at the terrorist whom Blake had punched through the chest.
She pulled the trigger.
"Rat-a-tat-tat!"
Bullets filled with anger and hatred were fired wildly, though most of them were sent who knows where due to the recoil. However, a few bullets accurately hit the man's head, making it a bloody mess. After venting her rage, the woman sat down heavily, staring blankly at her husband's corpse.
Blake sighed, not offering any words of comfort. He raised a cloud of dust on the street again and sped off to another location.
From a bird's-eye view, Blake seemed like a greedy snake in the entire Wukoda town, rapidly running through the streets. Any terrorists he encountered were met with direct physical confrontations, resulting in gruesome and bloody deaths.
The town wasn't large, and with Blake's efficiency, it only took him about fifteen to twenty minutes to clear the entire town. At the same time, in the town's center, Tony had just finished off all the terrorists. He was about to say a few comforting words to the frightened people when Blake slowly emerged from a street corner.
His clothes, produced by the system, were unscathed, not a single drop of blood on them. However, Blake's exposed parts—his face, head, neck, and hands—were covered in blood mixed with dust and bits of flesh, like a thick layer of dark red mud. His hair, dripping with sticky blood, even had a fragment of bone from some unlucky victim stuck in it, making him look like a demon that had crawled out of hell.
Some timid children and women screamed at the sight of Blake's terrifying appearance. Embarrassed, Blake stopped and flashed a ghastly smile, revealing a set of white teeth, and said to Tony, "I've finished here. There should be a base of theirs around. Let's check it out!"
Tony noticed that Blake was even more out of control than he was. However, this was not the time for psychological counseling. Nodding slightly, Tony turned and flew out of town, leading the way.
Just a few hundred meters out, there was a loud explosion.
"Boom!"
A tank, commandeered by remaining terrorists from who knows where, fired a shot that sent Tony flying. The ordinary tank shell couldn't harm Iron Man's armor at all. Tony sat up, shook his head, and was about to fire a penetrating round at the tank when he saw Blake make a giant leap onto the tank from over a hundred meters away. Blake bent down and inserted his hands into the connection between the turret and the tank body.
"Argh!!!!"
With a roar, Blake tore the entire turret off the tank. The terrorists inside the tank, and even Tony in mid-air, were stunned. Tony's eyes stayed glued to the tank's armor, calculating how many hits from Blake his own armor could withstand.
After tossing the turret aside, Blake grabbed the barrel, jumped off the tank, and began swinging the barrel like a bizarrely shaped giant hammer, aiming it at the tank's body.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
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