"What? Oh!"
"Wait a moment! General."
Corin knew that at this stage, it was still the early phase of various superheroes awakening.
The Abomination rampaging below might look terrifying, but in the early game he was at most an elite mob, not even a Boss.
If this were later on, whether it was the Hulk at his peak, Thor, or Tony in his fully matured technological form, any one of them could easily deal with him.
Now that he controlled 999 tons of magnetic force, taking care of an Abomination, or an early-stage Hulk with discounted power, should not be much of a problem.
When he saw Abomination going wild in the streets, he had already made up his mind. If the general brought it up, he would first make things clear. Each target had its own price.
Only then did he feel at ease enough to take a short nap.
To be fair, the helicopter swaying back and forth was actually quite sleep-inducing.
Corin knew that even if he did not step in, Banner would eventually stand up. This was the climax of the original story.
The reason he followed along was because neither Abomination nor Hulk was someone the military could handle. While fulfilling the agreement for the 200 million deposit, he was also thinking about whether he could find another chance to fleece the military.
It just so happened that General Ross, who had been watching the battle for a long time, was gradually losing confidence in Hulk taking down Abomination, so he came to Corin.
That was when Corin told the general to wait.
But what General Ross could not understand was what "wait" was supposed to mean.
'Down there, people's heads are getting smashed into mush, the death toll is skyrocketing. How long am I supposed to wait?'
'Could it be that this damned bounty hunter saw how strong the opponent is and got scared, planning to back out?'
The faintly respectful expression on Ross's face gradually turned cold. He narrowed his eyes, "Cockroach, you… are you going to back out?"
Corin froze for a moment, looked at the General Ross who was on the verge of exploding, then glanced at the monitor where Hulk was being beaten senseless by Abomination.
Only then did he realize that Ross seemed to be worried he would flee at the critical moment.
Speechless, Corin shook his head, "General, you misunderstood."
"What I want to ask is this: Those two guys down there, which one do you want dealt with?"
"Or should I say… both of them taken out?"
General Ross's eyes instantly widened when he heard this. His serious expression vanished, replaced by sheer disbelief, "How dare you!"
He understood Corin's words, but he could not comprehend them.
This bounty hunter was actually treating those two terrifying monsters below like products, laying them out in front of him.
And letting him choose?
Was Hulk's fist no longer hard, or had Abomination's bone spikes gone dull?
Or was it that the thing sitting on top of your so-called special body wasn't a brain at all, but a defective one?
In General Ross's eyes, what Corin just said went far beyond bragging. It was outright nonsense.
Ross did not know where Corin's confidence came from, but looking at the apocalyptic scene unfolding in the streets below, as a high-ranking military officer he had to do something, or he would not be able to escape responsibility.
Let alone any thoughts of stepping into the core of power.
With a try-it-and-see attitude, he said to Corin, "No matter what, stop this farce."
"So if I understand correctly, this commission is to deal with the gray big guy down there?", Corin thought for a moment and confirmed the mission target for Ross.
"That's right."
Ross could no longer care about his super-soldier plan. The situation was escalating far beyond his control and imagination. He just wanted this farce to end as soon as possible.
"Five hundred million dollars, General."
"Including the previous two hundred million, you only need to pay another three hundred million to meet your request!"
"Such a discount is not to be missed! Sir!~"
Corin smiled and said something that instantly drove General Ross crazy.
"Over my dead body!"
Ross angrily turned away, no longer paying attention to Corin, this opportunistic extortionist, and loudly ordered his subordinates to open fire on the target.
"Fire!"
Click!
The bolt was pulled. The helicopter-mounted Gatling gun chambered its rounds and aimed at Abomination on the ground. Fire opened. The muzzle flash stretched over a meter long.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
In the midst of battle, Abomination was intoxicated by his current power and could not pull himself out, "Oh~ so cars are actually this light? Artillery is just loud noise, that's all."
Watching soldiers who fired at him get flattened by trucks he swung around, a savage thrill boiled and bubbled in Abomination's gray chest, "All ants!"
Unlike the enraged Hulk after transforming, Abomination, though massive in size, still retained clear rationality.
Recalling the pain of having his entire skeleton shattered by Hulk's kick earlier, Abomination prepared to give Hulk a vicious blow next…
Suddenly, the helicopter's heavy gunfire disrupted Abomination's attack rhythm.
The large-caliber bullets clearly caused him no real damage. As he turned his head, he saw a familiar figure. General Ross.
The cruel smile made Abomination's ferocious appearance even more terrifying. A hint of disdain flashed in his eyes as he nimbly climbed onto a rooftop, then leapt with all his strength, hanging onto the helicopter with one hand, "Now, I am the apex predator!"
The enormous weight made the helicopter shake violently.
The pilot shouted a warning, "Prepare for forced landing!"
After the negotiation with Ross fell apart, Corin had planned to go back to sleep, but the roaring gunfire, the bellowing giant, and Ross's nonstop cursing annoyed him to no end.
Then the violent shaking completely shattered any hope of falling asleep again. Corin finally snapped.
"Everyone, stop!"
With a sweep of both hands, magnetic control burst open.
Buzz!
Silence, unlike the noise of the previous moment, the helicopter now fell into complete silence. Even the engine sound cut off abruptly.
The spinning rotors froze in midair.
The Gatling bullets froze in midair.
Even the powerless helicopter itself froze in midair.
Everyone on the helicopter, including Abomination hanging below it and Hulk, witnessed an incredible scene together. It was as if time had stopped.
But that was not the case. People were simply stunned by shock.
Wasn't Abomination's body still swinging back and forth beneath the helicopter due to inertia?
It was just that his heavy body could no longer make the helicopter shake even a bit.
Corin had activated magnetic control to lock all nearby metal in place.
"Go fight somewhere else!"
With a raised hand, the bullets in the air and countless pieces of metal from nearby rooftops flew up one after another, combining and reshaping into a gigantic iron plate even larger than Abomination himself.
The new deal had fallen through, and Corin was not in a good mood.
Smack!
With an impatient wave of his hand, like swatting flies away, the huge iron plate in midair slapped Abomination and Hulk, those two "big green flies," sending them flying far away. They crashed into the ground, leaving two massive craters and billowing clouds of dust.
Silence!
Everyone stared blankly at Corin, unable to comprehend what kind of method he had used to achieve something like this.
But Corin's own thought at the moment was, 'Damn it, it finally got quiet, and now I'm not sleepy anymore.'
'I wonder if anyone understands that feeling.'
Just moments ago, General Ross had been certain that Corin was nothing more than a con artist who relied on a special physique to extort money everywhere.
Until he saw the scene before his eyes, General "Thunderbolt" Ross's aging heart gave an involuntary twitch.
"Is this something a human can do?"
Then a wave of resentment rose as he stared at Corin's eyes, "If you were this badass, would I be this passive right now?"
At the same time, far away in Washington, the black one-eyed man suddenly had a flash of insight, a thought crossing his mind, "General Ross didn't seriously think Corin was a small fry, did he… That would be blind beyond belief!"
Coming back to his senses, General Ross screamed internally, "I was blind beyond belief."
Since Cockroach was personally recommended to me by the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D., he must have something special about him.
Recalling what Nick Fury had once said to him, ("General, this is not an ordinary bounty hunter…")
General Ross nearly went mad, "Then why the hell didn't you tell me earlier that he was this strong? What am I supposed to do now?"
Thinking back to how he had just flatly rejected Corin's proposal without hesitation, General Ross regretted it deeply.
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