Chapter 709 - 681: Crumbling Apart (1)

Boom——

The sound was left behind by Lille, a deafening roar!

Fusion elements violently penetrated the melted Vibranium molecules through inertia, with extreme pressure causing these molecules to rapidly fuse within the Vibranium. Through specific frequency vibrations, the structure of Vibranium molecules changed, thus controlling the efficiency and power of fusion——

At this very moment, it’s full power output!

The arms, legs, and the fixed-wing aircraft on the back— a total of nine thrusters using the high-temperature plasma produced by nuclear fusion, the air intake by ramjet structure for high-speed flight, and strong magnetic field control methods—allowed Lille’s speed to stabilize at nearly Mach 4.

This steel body sliced through the sky, heading straight to Washington, where Lille’s targeting sensor found Mackinaw, the gift from Atlas to the President, in the chaotic city, and immediately locked onto the Trampler Mecha!

Behind Lille, the terrifying shockwave gathered clouds, mist, shattered glass, smoke, and even roaring flames, all colliding in his wake——

He couldn’t attack the Trampler Mecha, which was so close to Barnes, at supersonic speed!

But starting to decelerate from too far could mean not catching up in time:

Lille recalled the technologies he was familiar with, shutting down and reversing one of the thrusters, as the structure of his body moved and transformed under his control...

Upon reaching the anticipated height and deceleration range, this reversed thruster suddenly pushed at full power, becoming a one-time decelerator!

Until the height dropped to the attack range, the speed finally reduced to nearly supersonic——

Yet still possessed tremendous kinetic energy!

Boom!

The side of the thruster spewing fire slammed hard against the Trampler Mecha; its improved connection structure was detached by Lille before impact, preventing any interference with his planned flight trajectory!

The violent collision sparked a dazzling blaze, as if igniting the world before Barnes and Carter——

But for Steve inside the Trampler Mecha, it felt different:

This over-one-ton War Mecha took a massive dent from the impact and was instantly knocked flying!

Lille soared high: an acceleration of up to 15 G is unbearable for humans, even if only the brain remains.

But he had no brain now!

The machinery creaked under the high acceleration, and the frenzied thrusters made him appear like the sun in the sky——

The missile launchers behind the struggling Steve fired fully, yet failed to catch up with Lille’s assault!

Boom!

An explosion completely enveloped the two, and Carter swiftly carried Barnes, running back.

Barnes blurted out in confusion, "What was that..."

"Doesn’t matter! They’re with us if they’re helping us!"

Bam.

A mechanical arm suddenly shot out, slamming onto the ground with a bang!

Following the sound, they saw the arm’s hot and smooth cut, as if severed by something extremely sharp and heated...

Whoosh!

The ferocious wind dispersed the smoke, and the Trampler Mecha staggered into the air!

Carter and Barnes both found it odd: they shouldn’t use "stagger" to describe flying normally...

But now, the Trampler Mecha was indeed staggering!

Lille’s six Octopus Arms pierced from various angles into the Trampler Mecha, with powerful currents hacking through each cable...

This mecha, made decades ago, had an extraordinarily advanced internal structure, its alloys far ahead of its time——

Yet it still couldn’t withstand the high temperature and sharpness of Chroni Titanium.

Steve’s once intuitive control system was completely out of control!

The mecha flew erratically in the air, its engines and control systems losing control, repeatedly crashing into walls, the ground, and cars...

Steve couldn’t maintain normal flight at all!

Lille, with a full set of excellent motion control systems, moved agilely on the mecha while continuing the hack——

He discovered some interesting things:

Steve Rogers hadn’t injected the Super Soldier Serum in this world but used the Hydra Crusher made by Howard Stark for the support of the Roaring Commando.

A long time ago, this mecha was manually operated internally for combat.

The mecha itself used Vibranium as its power core: the special property of Vibranium allowed it to indiscriminately store almost anything, including something like the super reaction of nuclear fusion, and control its output.

But decades ago, Howard didn’t possess this technology, having just breached the fission weapon technology, with fusion merely an idea.

So the Vibranium served as a colossal battery, storing immense electricity as the energy source; Lille was determined to take this——

However, he found a Brain-Computer Interface on Steve, an inferior imitation of the Atlas Group’s interface...

An inferior imitation, but sufficient to interfere with the nerves, even reverse-stimulating Steve’s neural system, disturbing his thoughts!

A brainwashing technique.

This technique completely merged Steve’s brain and the Brain-Computer Interface, intertwining nerves with biological materials...

More severely, his body had long decayed within the mecha; Hydra hadn’t figured out how to repurpose this mecha, simply maintaining Steve’s head separately, freezing it when not in use, and activating the life-support system within the mecha when used.

If power were cut, this little guy would certainly die.

Whoosh!

A missile came from above; Lille fully controlled Hydra Crusher’s thrusters, using the Octopus Arm to dodge, narrowly avoiding the missile!

Boom!

Lille glanced at the sky, where the Quinjet flew through the clouds:

The engine of this aircraft was advanced enough to achieve speeds of Mach 3.5 without even considering other functions.

Though the data of a single aircraft wasn’t on par with Lille, there were a total of 243 of these planes in service.

Destroying a Hydra Crusher is simple, as it’s merely an assassin, deployed by Hydra for precise aerial assassinations to erode the nation and even the world over the years...

But considering there are already seven Space Carriers in the sky, along with over two hundred Quinjets and the entire military might of the United States...

Lille couldn’t destroy them all one by one.

[Zz...]

[Zz...]

[Atlas communication signal: Carrier... currently... New Future City...]

The situation had spiraled out of control; one person couldn’t quell a war.

A war quelled by one person... bears no significance.

With this in mind, he upgraded the system of the Hydra Crusher.

"Aaargh!" Under intense electrical stimulation, Steve gradually appeared with asymmetric eyes, gradually becoming fierce, gradually developing other emotions!

"I could... be electrocuted like this all day!"

Lille raised the red-hot metal cutting tool high: "Then you better be mentally prepared, because this isn’t just for a day!"

The overloaded current completely knocked Steve out, his arm was utterly severed, and the enormous mecha Lille rode crashed to the ground, sliding all the way to Carter.

Bam!

Carter, carrying Barnes, watched with shock and complex feelings at the former friend, as Lille’s voice came from within the mecha:

"He’s passed out, but the machine can receive voice control, Mr. President, just find any branch of Atlas, it’s time to mobilize the army."

"Huh?"

Boom!

The thrusters exploded even before Carter finished speaking, and Lille shot up into the sky!

"Mobilize the army?" Carter felt something was blocking her thoughts, but she couldn’t wrap her head around it, "To fight who? We don’t even know who the enemy is now!"

Barnes understood quickly: regardless of who caused the situation today, it was clear that Lille didn’t think they could kill the mastermind like a Superhero and then have world peace...

They could only proceed with overt actions——

And overtly, there are currently two Presidents of the United States...

Two Presidents, two factions, splitting the fifty states and even two hundred countries worldwide, as violence surfaced, destroying order, everything was falling apart.

He watched Lille fly toward the sky, toward the Space Airship, looked at the missiles and warplanes cramming the sky, felt the surrounding gunpowder smoke, and the long-separated companion beside him, gradually becoming spirited——

No longer the exhausted old politician.

Who is the enemy?

At least to him...

"...the United States of... Meiguo."