Chapter 57: Marvel: Awakening the Little Universe at the Start, Chapter 27

“……”

On the other end of the line, General Thaddeus Ross, who had just left the Pentagon and sat in his car, couldn't help but freeze on the spot upon hearing the news coming through the phone.

Good grief.

What had he just heard?

The Gamma Laboratory had been invaded?

How was that possible?

The Gamma Laboratory was located inside the Marine Corps base in Quantico; how the hell could there be an invasion there?

Because General Thaddeus Ross couldn't quite believe this news, after his initial shock, he couldn't help but ask.

“Say that again, where was invaded?”

“The Gamma Laboratory.”

“Shit!”

General Thaddeus Ross’s heart sank completely.

“What’s going on?”

“The emergency response unit has already gone over, and I am on my way there now.”

“……”

Thaddeus Ross took a deep breath, couldn't help but loosen his tie, and patted the driver's seat: “Quantico, hurry!”

The driver nodded, slammed on the gas, and started playing a game of street racing right under the noses of two Capitol Police officers nearby.

The two Capitol Police officers looked at each other in dismay as they saw this scene.

Meanwhile.

The base’s emergency response team had already arrived at the Gamma Laboratory, which was surrounded by corrugated iron.

Inside the Gamma Laboratory, huge, rumbling impact sounds echoed continuously, and the secret experimental personnel who had been inside the Gamma Laboratory were running out, looking terrified and panicked.

The moment they ran out, the soldiers who had arrived rushed over and grabbed them aside like they were catching chicks.

“What’s the situation inside? How many intruders are there? What do they want?”

“I don’t know, I don’t know anything.”

“One. He’s after the Gamma Stone.”

“……”

The emergency response captain looked at the experimental staff member who had revealed the information and fell silent.

The other soldiers also looked at the experimental staff member with incredulous eyes.

“You just said… one?”

“Yes, just one.”

The experimental staff member still had a look of extreme terror on his face: “But he’s not human. He shattered the wall with just one punch, and bullets couldn't hit him at all. The soldiers who opened fire on him are all dead.”

Everyone looked at each other.

At this moment, a soldier who was being helped out by an experimental staff member, appearing only injured but not dead, spoke up to corroborate: “Everything he said is true. There is only one intruder.”

The emergency response captain’s gaze instantly fell on the soldier being supported.

“Soldier, report the situation.”

“Just like he said, there is only one intruder. He seems to have come for the Gamma Stone. Our bullets couldn't hit him at all. He killed all the soldiers who opened fire on him in almost an instant.”

“And you?”

“Didn't you hear what I said?”

The injured soldier, now appearing to have a mental breakdown, roared at the emergency response captain: “He killed every soldier who opened fire on him.”

In fact, he had opened fire at the time too.

But…

His gun had suddenly jammed the moment he fired, and it didn't shoot any bullets.

It was precisely because of this that Hawk had not taken his life at the last moment, but instead shattered one of his legs, causing him to lose his ability to fight.

But the other soldiers who had opened fire and the armed experimental staff inside were not so lucky.

Just as Hawk had said before.

Once the valve of slaughter is opened, killing is no longer a multiple-choice question; it becomes only a matter of quantity.

However, Hawk was still restraining himself.

At this moment, Hawk had already arrived at the basement of the Gamma Laboratory building.

The first thing he saw was the hole that had been excavated in the basement.

With a thud.

Wearing a hoodie and a medical mask, Hawk jumped straight into the hole.

Immediately after.

He saw an excavated tunnel; on the floor of the not-so-spacious tunnel, tools like stone picks still remained.

Good grief, how primitive.

No.

It must have been intentional; after all, the military wasn't entirely of one mind.

Hawk thought to himself, and his gaze then fell on the stone walls on both sides of the tunnel.

That’s right.

This was the very stone he had seen at Dr. Connors’ laboratory back then.

Just then.

In Hawk’s cosmos, following the sound of a phoenix cry, a message was transmitted to Hawk.

“Devour.”

“Just leave it to you to refine.”

“That’s simple.”

Hawk digested this message.

He had originally thought he would have to moonlight as a miner to excavate these stones, which had absorbed gamma rays after the explosion at the Gamma Laboratory for reasons unknown.

As it turned out…

He only needed to place his hands on them and burn his own cosmos so that the Phoenix in his cosmos could absorb the Gammanium stored within the stones.

This…

Is fantastic.

Hawk’s face lit up with joy, and he prepared to start absorbing.

But the moment he was about to start, his gaze flashed toward the hole he had just jumped down from.

Hawk threw a punch into the air toward the hole.

Rumble!

Under the force of his punch, the entrance to the basement collapsed instantly. Under the power of this blow, dust and shockwaves swept through the excavated but shallow tunnel.

But this dust couldn't affect Hawk in the slightest.

He did this mainly because he didn't want the people above to disturb his upcoming work.

Now that it was done, he could absorb in peace.

Hawk thought to himself, and without hesitation, he placed his hands on the stone walls on both sides.

The next second!

Cosmos exploded!

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

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