Chapter 408: In the Blink of an Eye, Hydra Turns to Ash! (Fourth Update!)

When Natasha said this, both her tone and expression were quite certain.

In fact…

Alexander Pierce watched the crimson light streaking in from the horizon, listened to Natasha's words, and did not refute them.

After all!

The fact was exactly that.

Boom!

The instant Hawk's figure became a rainbow, accompanied by a streak of light, piercing straight down through the topmost Insight mothership, the vibranium shield equipped on the Insight mothership didn't even ripple before being pierced through in an instant.

The next second.

A violent explosion sounded, and brilliant flames burst forth from both the upper and lower ends of the Insight mothership.

The shockwave from the massive explosion swept out in all directions, directly blasting away Captain America and the Winter Soldier—those former best bros who were still sniping each other in midair.

Thud!

After landing, Captain America quickly rolled a few times and stood back up.

But the Winter Soldier wasn't so lucky.

Because he had been caught by Hawk.

The Winter Soldier looked at Hawk before him, and the moment he tried to counterattack, Hawk had already gripped his neck.

Just as Hawk's eyes flashed with crimson light.

Captain America spoke up in time: "Hawk, please…"

The crimson light in Hawk's eyes faded as he looked at Steve, who was scrambling to his feet not far away: "Captain?"

Steve hurriedly said: "Don't kill him, please."

He was very nervous.

Because when they were rushing over from Niuyuecheng earlier, they had heard many things about Hawk from Natasha, Sharon, and Commander Hand.

First and foremost was the Junmie Sect of General Luo Si and the extermination of Wakanda.

Obviously.

Hawk was a ruthless man, so he was also afraid that Hawk might casually, on a whim, really send his best bro to a GG.

However…

Although Hawk was very angry now, he wasn't so far gone as to let anger cloud his judgment.

He just wanted to see if Captain America Steve was really, as legend had it, holding some different kind of feelings for his best bro.

Sure enough.

Having gotten the answer he wanted, Hawk let out a light laugh, looked at the visibly nervous Steve, and then tossed the Winter Soldier Bucky right at Captain America's feet.

"He's all yours, Captain."

"…Thanks."

"Don't mention it!"

Hawk said, then his figure flashed, and he appeared on the second Insight mothership.

Lei Shen Thor was still stubbornly battering the vibranium shield of the Insight mothership.

Hawk raised a sword-shaped brow.

"Need a hand?"

"No need!"

Lei Shen Thor said without turning his head, then, perhaps because his sparring partner had arrived and he didn't want to be looked down on by him, he let out a furious roar. With his biceps tensed, the power of Lei Ting flowed, and Lei Shenzhichui was wreathed in lightning as he once again slammed it into the vibranium shield before him.

"Boom!"

"Crack—"

Following the eruption of a massive thunderclap, a spiderweb of cracks appeared on the vibranium shield, then spread outward at an extremely rapid pace.

Seeing this, Hawk didn't linger either. He went straight to the third Insight mothership that Tony Stark was in charge of—Tony Stark, who had contacted Pepper Potts through Phil Coulson, then, under Pepper Potts's astonished gaze, had put on the Iron Man suit that had flown straight over from his private jet and arrived here.

The Insight mothership was already littered with the corpses of Hydra agents, sprawled every which way.

Hawk glanced over at Tony Stark, who had already entered the Insight mothership's command cabin as if walking through an empty courtyard and was contacting JARVIS to contest control of the Insight mothership. He then withdrew his gaze and looked toward Natasha, who had just finished her own battle here and was standing before the floor-to-ceiling window on the top floor of headquarters watching him.

The next second.

Boom!

Accompanied by a ripple in space, the moment Hawk's figure vanished from the Insight mothership, he had already appeared in the top-floor conference room of the Triskelion.

Hawk's gaze landed on Alexander Pierce first.

"Where is Anna."

"…"

Alexander Pierce looked at the appearing Hawk, his eyes momentarily unfocused, then returned to calm.

"Dead."

"Is that so?"

Hawk's expression didn't change at all; instead, he let out a rare laugh: "Looks like you've been hiding a lot from me, but it doesn't matter. We'll find somewhere to have a nice, slow chat."

Alexander Pierce's pupils contracted, and without the slightest hesitation, his teeth bit down…

Hawk released his six senses, capturing every heartbeat, pulse, and glance of Alexander Pierce. With a single thought, under the force of telekinesis, he froze Alexander Pierce—who was about to bite through the poison capsule and kill himself—right where he stood.

Just then.

Natasha spoke up: "He just tried to activate the Hydra agents hidden outside Palm Street, trying to take Gwen hostage to threaten you."

Hawk's expression shifted slightly.

"But I stopped him. His call never went through. Commander Victoria Hand has already dispatched a SHIELD team to protect Gwen."

"Thank you."

Hearing those words, Hawk's heart, which had just tightened, loosened a little. He glanced at Natasha, said with a smile, then turned his gaze to the gun-wielding Eastern Nation councilor: "I have some private matters to discuss with Alexander Pierce. You don't mind if I take him away, do you?"

The Eastern Nation councilor, scholarly in both attire and expression, said with a smile.

"We never interfere in the internal affairs of others."

"Thank you."

Hawk smiled faintly. When he looked at Alexander Pierce again, his gaze had already become incomparably sharp: "I always thought you were the smartest person in HYDRA. I never imagined that you were actually the most foolish one."

Alexander Pierce, frozen in place by telekinesis, showed no expression at all.

But…

His heartbeat was quickening, and even his pupils were contracting rapidly at this moment.

Hawk chuckled, preparing to take Alexander Pierce away from here, first returning to Niuyuecheng to confirm Gwen's safety, then finding a place with no one around to have a proper chat with Alexander Pierce about the matters between them.

Just then, Natasha seemed to hear something, called out to stop Hawk, then took out the earpiece she was wearing and handed it to Hawk: "Hawk, Gwen already been rescued from the safe house."

Hawk took the earpiece Natasha handed over and placed it in his own ear.

"Gwen?"

"Hawk!"

Gwen, who had walked out of the basement safe house confirmed as a S. H. I. E. L. D. identity after Commander Hand personally led the team and was accompanied by the female agent she had seen at the hospital, listened to Hawk's voice coming through the earpiece and said with a smile: "I'm fine now. Go do what you should do. Be a hero. I'm proud of you."

The corner of Hawk's mouth turned up.

"Hero, you know…"

"A hero doesn't need to be one all the time. He only needs to step forward at the critical moment — that is a hero."

"Alright, if you want me to be a hero."

"I'll wait for you to come back."

"Mm."

Gwen's voice was very gentle, very calm. This reminded Hawk of when he had finished showing off at the Quantico base, and Gwen called him home — her voice seemed to be just like now, instantly soothing his restless heart.

"Gwen wants me to be a hero, so I'll help you out this once." Hawk took off the earpiece, handed it to Natasha, and said: "Keep an eye on Pierce, don't let him kill himself. Although if he dies I can still go to hell to find him, that's a hassle."

After all, he had already crossed Mephisto.

Although the last confrontation had ended with Mephisto compromising.

But…

That was because, whether it was Hawk or Mephisto, neither of them could kill the other. But if there was a chance, whether it was Hawk or Mephisto, both wanted to kill the other.

So in this situation, if Pierce died and his soul went to Mephisto's side, and Hawk wanted to retrieve it, there would inevitably be some friction again.

Better one less thing to worry about.

Hawk thought this in his heart, then after Natasha nodded in agreement, his mind moved. When he appeared again, he was already in the sky above the S. H. I. E. L. D. Triskelion headquarters.

The next moment.

His sixth sense, like a net covering heaven and earth, spread out overwhelmingly toward the S. H. I. E. L. D. building before him.

He saw the S. H. I. E. L. D. agents inside the building, at a disadvantage but still stubbornly resisting the HYDRA agents.

He also saw Sharon Carter, leading a squad of S. H. I. E. L. D. agents, attempting to break through the command center of the S. H. I. E. L. D. underground helicarrier base.

The S. H. I. E. L. D. agents had resolute expressions, ready to die.

The HYDRA agents had ferocious faces, with a strong tendency toward self-destruction, looking as if Laozi died but still had to drag someone down with them.

With his sixth sense fully open, Hawk hovered in the sky above, his mind taking in every state of being of the S. H. I. E. L. D. and HYDRA people above and below the ground.

Immediately after—

Boom!

Hawk's cosmos exploded in response. Accompanied by the immense energy produced by the explosion of the cosmos, his sixth sense split into countless threads of perception, precisely locating one HYDRA agent after another.

Until the last HYDRA agent was located.

Hmm!

The HYDRA agents who were fighting the S. H. I. E. L. D. agents vanished one after another, as if by Bian Xi Fa, abruptly disappearing before the S. H. I. E. L. D. agents' eyes.

Sharon, who had already led her team to the underground base control center but suddenly saw a HYDRA agent with a gun pointed at her, felt her heart sink and had already prepared herself to die.

As a result…

That HYDRA agent abruptly disappeared before her.

Sharon was stunned at first, then seemed to think of something.

"Hawk!"

"Yes, it's him."

Natasha, who had just pulled the poisoned tooth directly out of Pierce's mouth, listened to Sharon's murmuring through the earpiece, then looked at the scene outside and gave an affirmative answer.

Looking ahead.

Outside the S. H. I. E. L. D. building, a lifelike fire phoenix spread its wings in the air.

And beneath this fire phoenix, HYDRA agents appeared one after another, then instantly, under the phoenix's fire, didn't even have time to let out a scream before being burned to ashes!

The countless HYDRA agents that Hawk had teleported out using 【Sixth Sense — Telepathy】 flew toward their self-destructive end like moths to a flame.

This could also be considered—

Getting what one wished for!

……