Philadelphia, Lincoln Financial Field. The "Devil's Home."
The Lincoln Financial Field, home of the Philadelphia Eagles, was renowned as the "Devil's Home Field," infamous for its fans' ferocious intensity and rowdy behavior. Today, the atmosphere was fraught with unusual tension. The Eagles, a top Super Bowl contender, were led by Head Coach Rivers, whose face was pale with fury. He stared at the giant screen displaying the slow-motion replay of Levi snapping the goalpost, the tactical board in his hand nearly shredded.
"Listen up, my defensive unit!" Rivers roared at his players. "We are not the soft Cowboys! We will not engage him head-on!"
"Our tactic is: Octopus Clamping!"
Rivers pointed to a graphic on the board—an object tightly bound by eight tentacles. "Do not let him accelerate! Cling to his knees and ankles from every angle! Disperse his kinetic energy! He may be Indestructible, but he is a running back! If he's pinned, he's a dead object!"
The game began. The 49ers took the ball first.
The tens of thousands of Eagles fans erupted in a deafening chorus of boos, a sonic tsunami intended to swallow Levi whole.
Levi stood at midfield, his eyes holding no fear, only intense excitement. The Critical Threshold energy within his body was slowly climbing, like a volcano poised for eruption.
[System Prompt: Facing multi-angle clamping, best counter-strategy: Vertical Burst.]
The first snap. Quarterback Purdy handed the ball off to Levi. Levi initiated his run.
The Eagles' defensive unit moved instantly! Just as Coach Rivers had planned, no one chose to meet him frontally!
Five defensive players, like five tentacles darting from the ground, simultaneously lunged at Levi's lower body from five different angles!
Tackling! Swarming! This was the textbook "low-level kinetic energy dispersal" tactic!
Levi's body was instantly bound by five forces. His legs—knees, ankles, and thighs—were completely locked, slowing his movement to a crawl.
"It worked!" the Eagles' coaching staff screamed, leaping up excitedly. "He can't move!"
"Haha! Look! What good is an Indestructible Body? He's pinned! He's frozen there like a statue!" the commentator roared with laughter, convinced Levi's myth had ended.
However, a dangerously subtle smile spread across Levi's face.
"Pinned?" Levi sneered into his helmet. "Dr. Sophie, you were wrong."
[Energy Critical Threshold: Breaching 20%! Vertical Burst Power Activated!]
Levi was locked down by five men, but his upper body suddenly exploded with power!
"Get off me!"
Levi roared, every muscle fiber in his body tightening. He did not charge forward; he launched upward!
To the horror of the five defensive players pinning him, Levi's body began to soar vertically in a way that defied all reason!
"Holy hell! He's flying!" an Eagles linebacker screamed.
Levi's body, dragging five human anchors locking his lower limbs, was pulled from the turf! He resembled a red rocket, towing five human garlands, as he flew over the defensive formation!
This was Parting the Red Sea!
The entire stadium fell into stunned silence! The boos of seventy thousand Eagles fans instantly dissolved into gasps of pure astonishment!
"My God! Did he turn them into balloons? He's flying with five men attached!" the commentator's voice cracked with disbelief.
Levi soared over the defensive line, his feet sketching a perfect arc in the air.
CRASH!
Levi's body slammed down hard at the five-yard line. The five Eagles players on his back were instantly thrown backward by the explosive reactionary force generated upon impact!
Brown, one of the Eagles' cornerbacks, was thrown against the sideline advertising board, emitting a cry of agony.
"Don't look at me, Levi!" Brown screamed in terror. "I didn't touch you! I was just thrown off you in mid-air!"
But Levi paid no attention. He was only five yards from the endzone.
The four remaining Eagles players, in their panic, made a fatal mistake: they again rushed to tackle Levi's ankles from a low position.
"You want to hug me again?" a flicker of amusement crossed Levi's eyes.
Levi didn't accelerate; he simply bent his knees slightly, and again, launched vertically!
[Energy Critical Threshold: Breaching 35%! System Assessment: Air Touchdown Possible.]
Levi soared again with terrifying hang time! He easily flew over the four scrambling defenders!
In mid-air, he looked down at the end zone, the symbol of victory.
Levi extended his left hand and performed a motion as if sinking a coin into a slot machine, aiming for the turf!
BAM!
Levi spiked the football into the end zone like a basketball!
"TOUCHDOWN!! MID-AIR TOUCHDOWN!! ZERO CONTACT!" The commentator was incoherent. "He humiliated Philadelphia! He completed the touchdown in the air like a god! The Eagles' clamping tactic became his personal runway!"
Score: 49ers 14:0 Eagles. (A lightning touchdown completed in the first two minutes.)
Levi landed smoothly outside the end zone, without even stepping into the designated area. He looked down at the huddled, defeated Eagles defenders with utter disdain.
"Your tactic was superb," Levi mocked.
"Too bad you were just my jump-pad."
As the Eagles fans roared in helpless fury, Coach Rivers' face turned ashen. He finally threw his tactical board to the ground.
"Damn it! Who is he?!"
"He completed a touchdown in the air! He used our players as a launchpad! This is a public violation of the very rules of football!"
Meanwhile, behind the 49ers bench, Dr. Sophie Vance's pupils narrowed as she checked the data receiver.
"His internal energy level... it spiked directly to 50% during that Vertical Burst!"
Sophie's face turned instantly white. She wheeled around and saw a figure who should not have been there.
A man in a black baseball cap, wearing an Eagles staff uniform, stood calmly in the medical tent's shadow.
"Dr. Sophie, hello," Observer-03 said, his voice chilling and mechanical. "What did you monitor? The Critical Threshold?"
Sophie's phone clattered to the ground in sheer terror.
"You... how are you here?!"
Observer-03 stepped closer, a chilling smile spreading across his face.
"My Shadow Subject was your warning. Clearly, you didn't take it seriously."
He picked up Sophie's phone and glanced at the terrifying energy curve.
"50%... Excellent. The desired eruption is brewing."
Observer-03 grabbed Sophie's arm, his grip inhumanly strong.
"Your role is complete."
"Now, you will become the bait. You will trigger the critical eruption within him!"
Observer-03 violently pulled Sophie from the medical tent, heading straight for the center of the field!