Of course, that's assuming the Captain Marvel of this Universe actually cares about humanity~
After all, given her character as Captain Skrull, it's hard to say which side she would even support...
As for now...
Ryan looked down at the Skrulls raiding party chasing the survivors below and sneered.
"Heh, the Zombie Captain Marvel of this Universe is already dead, so there's no longer any need for you heretics to exist!"
Admit it, you simply cannot tolerate these grotesque heretics...
So... be destroyed!
Hummm—Rumble!!!
A rainbow beam of light descended from the sky, instantly bombarding the Skrulls pursuit team that was chasing the human convoy on the ground!
It blasted all the Skrulls until not even ashes remained!
This also caught the attention of Shang-Chi and the others in the fleeing convoy ahead.
While driving, Katy saw the rainbow beam descend from the sky in her rearview mirror, sweeping across and obliterating all the Skrulls pursuing them from behind, causing her to cry out in surprise:
"Whoa! What's going on? Has help arrived?!"
From the passenger seat, Shang-Chi leaned his upper body out of the window and looked up at the shimmering figure in the sky. His expression held no joy at being saved; instead, it became solemn.
"No, Katy, something's not right. That doesn't look like an ally; it's the Zombie Captain Marvel from the Valley of the Two Gods!"
In the entire World, they couldn't think of anyone else who could emit energy of that color and power besides the Captain Marvel who had turned into a zombie!
Hearing this, Katy, who had clearly heard the legends of the Valley of the Two Gods, gasped.
"You mean the one coming is one of those two god-like powerful beings? But haven't they been keeping each other in check for years?"
"Why would one of them travel thousands of miles to come here now?!"
Shang-Chi shook his head. "I don't know. Right now, I just hope she isn't coming for us..."
But often, the more people fear something, the more likely it is to happen.
Just like now, as soon as Shang-Chi finished speaking, the shimmering figure in the sky that had finished off the Skrulls seemed to notice them. It actually dove down, trailing light, and flew toward their convoy!
"Not good!"
Without a second thought, Shang-Chi nimbly flipped out of the car window onto the roof and threw a punch through the air toward the incoming rainbow light!
In an instant, four rings glowing with golden runes flew from Shang-Chi's wrist toward the rainbow light heading for their convoy!
But to Shang-Chi's surprise, each of his rings—which were equivalent to a small missile strike—hit the incoming shimmering figure without even causing it to pause for a moment!
This was simply too ridiculous!
And worst of all, the opponent seemed to have caught the four rings he used to attack, because he couldn't recall the four rings he had sent out!
The next second... Shoom—Boom!!!
The rainbow light slammed violently onto the ground directly in front of their convoy, kicking up a cloud of yellow sand like a missile explosion!
This forced their convoy to come to a halt!
Everyone got out of the vehicles and drew all their weapons, aiming them into the smoke formed by the yellow sand.
However, under their tense gazes, the rainbow figure that emerged from the yellow sand was not the Zombie Captain Marvel from the Valley of the Two Gods they had imagined.
Instead, it was a much taller male figure, and more than one person had arrived.
Besides the figure they had mistaken for Zombie Captain Marvel, there was also a Black man in a white suit with glowing eyes.
But as Shang-Chi looked at the four rings being held in one hand by the opponent, vibrating as they tried to fly back, his pupils shrank violently.
Holy crap, he caught the four rings with his bare hands?
Even the Hulk couldn't just grab his four rings barehanded like that without even moving an inch, right?
Is this guy even human?
Shang-Chi swallowed hard, an awkward smile on his face.
"Um, gentlemen, this is all a misunderstanding. I just mistook you for another super zombie, which is why I attacked..."
"I assume you're here to help, right? Could you give me my four rings back first?"
Ryan was noncommittal about Shang-Chi's claim that it wasn't intentional. He looked down at the four rings in his hand, then looked up and grinned at Shang-Chi and the others.
"I'm indeed not that bitch you thought I was, but who said I was here to help? Now, this is a robbery. Hand over the remaining six of the Ten Rings!"
Shang-Chi and the others: ???
They thought a righteous superhero had arrived, but after all that, it turned out to be a supervillain!
As for handing over the Ten Rings, that was naturally impossible.
How had they managed to survive this apocalypse for so long and even go into zombie-infested cities to collect supplies? Wasn't it by relying on the powerful Ten Rings?
Asking them to hand over the Ten Rings was equivalent to cutting off their most important survival tool in this zombie apocalypse.
Moreover, in the early stages of the zombie outbreak, one of Shang-Chi's arms had been bitten by a zombie.
It was entirely due to the suppression of the Ten Rings that Shang-Chi's infection hadn't spread to his whole body and turned him into a zombie!
So, without waiting for Shang-Chi himself to reply, Katy—who had been given five rings by Shang-Chi—stepped forward to block him and refused sharply.
"Don't even think about it! Big guy, give the Ten Rings back to Shang-Chi right now, or we won't be polite!"
Following Katy's words, the other members of the Ten Rings Gang also stepped forward, shielding their young master and staring at Ryan and the other man like tigers watching their prey.
"The Ten Rings will always belong to the Ten Rings Gang. As long as the rings are here, we are here. You, an outsider, have no right to possess them!"
Ryan, who had originally intended to give these people two choices, saw how foolish they were being. His already thin patience vanished, and the temperature in his eyes dropped instantly.
"As long as the rings are here, you are here? That means if you're gone, the Ten Rings will have no owner, right?"
After saying that, Ryan made a zero-frame start. Over a dozen sharp tentacles erupted from his body, instantly skewering everyone opposite him like kebabs!
As ordinary humans, it was impossible for them to react to the speed of Ryan's Symbiote tentacles!
That included Katy and Shang-Chi, who possessed the five rings!
In just the blink of an eye, the Ten Rings Gang members skewered on the tentacles, including Shang-Chi and Katy, had their life force drained by the Symbiote tentacles, turning into withered corpses.
When Ryan retracted his tentacles, they all turned to ash and scattered across the golden sands.
It was true that Ryan didn't kill indiscriminately, but he had never been a 'good' person. For dogs like these who dared to bare their teeth at him, he had no intention of taking them in as his lackeys!
Furthermore, why would he keep a group like this—remnants of the Ten Rings Gang who were all villains to begin with?
In his eyes, aside from the Ten Rings in their hands, these people were nothing more than wild dogs with zero utility value.
If they hadn't bared their teeth, he might have spared them and even taken them to his World to live out their lives in peace.
But since they did, then beating them to death was all there was to it!
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