Chapter 177: Marvel: Awakening the Little Universe at the Start, Chapter 87

Hawkeye looked expressionlessly at the two-thirds of whiskey remaining in Betty's hand: "I'm curious, what was your initial plan? Kidnap Gwen, and then let me commit suicide out of guilt?"

Betty took another sip of the whiskey in her hand and looked at Hawkeye.

"No."

"Then what was it?"

"Kill her, then record it into a video and send it to you."

"..."

Hawkeye listened to Betty recounting her plan, feeling somewhat surprised inside, and gave Betty a calm look.

He seriously suspected that this Betty Ross had gone insane.

But it didn't matter.

Mental illness only grants criminal immunity in court; it doesn't with him.

Hawkeye thought, and gave a soft laugh.

"A nice plan. If you can't kill me, you kill my girlfriend. That way, even if I find out and kill you, Gwen would have already been buried with you."

"Yes!"

Betty nodded, admitting this point crisply and cleanly, then said in a deep voice: "Unfortunately, it was ruined by you."

While speaking.

Betty seemed to have thought of something, shook her head with a self-deprecating smile, downed the last drop of whiskey in the glass, placed the glass on the bar counter, and then looked up at Hawkeye.

"She is truly lucky."

"Her good luck is your misfortune."

Hawkeye said expressionlessly.

"Whoosh!"

"Thud!"

Hawkeye flashed in front of Betty, then directly grabbed Betty's neck and flashed out from behind the bar, followed by a thud as he lifted Betty high and pinned her against the wall.

He slightly relaxed his right hand that was gripping Betty's neck.

"Giving you one last chance to speak."

"Heh!"

Betty, without struggling or showing fear, stared into Hawkeye's eyes, let out an inexplicable laugh, and then her voice became calm and venomous.

"I will wait for you in the Underworld."

"..."

Hawkeye was slightly stunned, then looked at Betty, whose eyes had also become incomparably venomous, and smiled slightly: "I will go to the Underworld."

After all, his younger sister was still waiting for him in the Underworld to take her home.

Having said that.

As Hawkeye's right hand exerted force, only a crisp crack was heard, and Betty's expression froze in an eerie venomous state.

Betty Ross...

Dead!

Thud.

Having lost its life, Betty's corpse fell straight onto the floor.

Hawkeye moved his gaze away from Betty's corpse, and then his gaze fixed on a large photograph on the living room wall not far away.

That was a photo taken when Bruce Banner and Betty Ross got married.

This was their wedding photo.

Hawkeye raised an eyebrow, seemingly thinking of something, and his gaze fell once again on Betty's lifeless corpse on the floor.

Thoughts flashed rapidly through his mind.

After a while.

Hawkeye looked at Betty's corpse and let out a sudden laugh.

"Heh."

"Entering the game with your own body?"

"Fine."

"I'll give you this chance."

Hawkeye's thoughts turned, and after taking one last look at Betty, who had become a corpse, he said this, then turned and left the apartment.

When he saw that wedding photo, he had already guessed what trick Betty was playing.

Betty herself certainly had no way to kill him.

Therefore...

If Betty wanted to avenge her father, she could only rely on external forces.

But who would dare to help her?

Who could help her?

After Hawkeye's show of force in Quantico, the military, having been silenced, could not possibly help her.

At the very least, they would not strike at him again until the military had formulated a plan with at least an eighty percent probability of defeating him.

Unless the military wanted to stage another tragedy like Quantico!

S. H. I. E. L. D.?

Perhaps.

But it had already been two months since Hawkeye returned to Niuyuecheng, and S. H. I. E. L. D. had made no moves, which could only mean that S. H. I. E. L. D. did not intend to get involved in this matter.

Perhaps it was because Hawkeye was in the right, or perhaps it was because they, like the military, had no confidence in capturing Hawkeye.

In short, without external support, it was a very difficult thing for Betty to avenge her father using her own strength.

Therefore...

She chose to enter the game with her own body; it is estimated that marrying Bruce Banner was also part of her revenge plan.

Bruce Banner might not avenge a former father-in-law who was hunting him down.

But Bruce Banner would definitely avenge his own wife.

If the wife were also pregnant, that would be even better.

Unfortunately!

Betty Ross was not pregnant.

Hawkeye was very certain of this.

He reckoned that Betty had initially planned to carry out her grand revenge scheme of entering the game with her own body after becoming pregnant, but perhaps she discovered that she had not become pregnant for a long time, or discovered that it was impossible for her to become pregnant, so she simply launched this plan.

She was gambling, gambling that after she entered the game with her own body and was killed by Hawkeye, her newlywed husband Bruce Banner would avenge her.

The plan was not bad.

Hawkeye also wanted to see if Bruce Banner would take revenge.

Because after he returned from Lihu at that time, he also had some regrets.

The reason was simple.

Just like how Daigo could still transform into Tiga after losing his energy bar.

Hulk was dead, but Bruce Banner was not dead.

Who knew if Bruce Banner would transform into Hulk again.

So Hawkeye had a trace of regret after returning from Lihu that time.

But at that time, he still adhered to the principle that every grievance has its perpetrator and every debt has its debtor.

Now...

He would give Betty, who had entered the game with her own body, a chance.

Hawkeye left.

Bruce returned.

But when he returned, Hawkeye had already been gone for more than two hours, and Betty Ross, lying on the floor, had already become cold and stiff.

The moment Bruce looked at Betty's corpse on the floor, his whole person felt as if his head had been struck by a hammer; with a buzz, he was instantly stunned on the spot.

Victoria Hand, who had just met Bruce Banner downstairs and come up with him, also saw Betty's corpse.

S. H. I. E. L. D. satellites had been keeping an eye on this place.

She knew when Hawkeye had left, but she had not gone up, instead waiting until Bruce Banner arrived before coming up together.

Victoria Hand looked at Bruce Banner, whose lips were twitching and tears were beginning to overflow, opened her mouth, and just as she was about to say something, she heard a roar.

"Betty!"

Bruce Banner roared, quickly ran to Betty's corpse and knelt down, then looked at his wife's corpse, with a look of disbelief, his hands trembling, cautiously touching Betty.

When the cold chill came from his fingertips, Bruce Banner instantly collapsed.

He hurriedly hugged Betty's corpse and wailed loudly.

Victoria Hand watched this scene, took a deep breath, and did not speak.

Bruce Banner just hugged Betty's corpse and wailed loudly for a long time, from when the sun was high until the sunset.

It was not until Victoria Hand, who could finally no longer bear to watch, came over to pull him that he fell weakly to the side, watching the S. H. I. E. L. D. agents who came to help collect Betty's remains.

Bruce Banner, his eyes vacant, sat on the floor as if he had lost all strength and hope for living.

Victoria Hand was silent for a while.

"My condolences, Bruce."

"Who."

"What?"

"Who did it."

These three words from Bruce were almost squeezed out from between his teeth.

Victoria Hand looked at Bruce and only then discovered that at this moment, Bruce Banner's eyes were bloodshot, and a flame called revenge was spreading.

"Hawkeye."

Victoria Hand did not hide it; she only stated Hawkeye's name, and then told the whole story of how Betty had hired criminals through a black market middleman to attempt to kidnap and kill Hawkeye's girlfriend, but was discovered by Hawkeye, thus bringing about her own destruction.

At first, Bruce's anger was burning fiercely.

But...

After Victoria Hand finished speaking, the anger in Bruce Banner's eyes clearly showed signs of interruption.

After all, the meaning of these words was already very clear.

It was Betty who struck first; from a certain perspective, Hawkeye killing her was merely revenge.

After listening to Victoria Hand's account, Bruce Banner was silent.

Victoria looked at Bruce, whose eyes had once again returned to a vacant state, and pursed her lips.

"My condolences."

"..."

Bruce Banner sat on the floor, then seemed to have thought of something, looking at the wedding photo hanging on the hall wall as if he were dull-witted.

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