Chapter 1542

"How did Hulk get out?!"

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A roar of near-collapse echoed across the New York skyline.

Adam stood on the roof of Stark Tower, watching the Hulk speeding by below with dozens of Spider-Men in pursuit, and covered his forehead. He couldn't fathom how things had developed to this point.

Because Adam's existence and status were extremely high, there was much he could do in this universe; one could say all things in the universe were under his control, but Hulk happened to be among those uncontrollable factors.

Although Hulk didn't give him as much of a headache as Schiller, having a Hulk pop up while he was already dealing with a headache from Schiller was simply an incomparable disaster.

Adam wanted to stop Hulk, but he remembered he had previously shown himself in front of Spider-Man. If he went down there now and was recognized by the Spider-Men, it would be terrible if they complained to Schiller.

He felt he still had to utilize the original world line to straighten out the current chaotic story. Simply put, a programmer had new ideas for fixing a bug.

The so-called utilization of the original world line meant controlling Hulk's original opponents—preferably the kind that had once made him suffer—and then logically defeating him to make him turn back into Dr. Bruce Banner.

The first thing Adam thought of was the Hulkbuster armor. Although the armor Stark built was, in the vast majority of cases, countered by whoever it was meant to counter, it would be different if he added his assistance.

The reason Adam chose this was that he was truly terrified by humans; as expected, armor that didn't think was more reliable.

Adam immediately rushed into the interior of Stark Tower. Of course, the tower's surveillance facilities didn't stop him, and he moved freely through Stark's armor inventory, but unfortunately, he searched for a long time and couldn't find the Hulkbuster project.

In this world, Bruce Banner had received timely psychological intervention, and it was a joint treatment by Charles and Schiller. Schiller even came up with a method to let Hulk vent in space to relieve his anger, so Hulk almost never had a chance to appear, and naturally, Stark had no need to counter him.

Adam thought about it and wanted to find Abomination, but when he looked along the timeline, Abomination was a KGB agent, and he really didn't want to have anything more to do with the KGB.

In the end, he had to seek help from Hulk's old rival: General Ross, who was still planning to capture Hulk to this day.

Adam quickly found General Ross, but he wasn't at the New York Air Force base; he was at home, and at this moment, he was furious and planning to go settle the score with Bruce Banner.

The reason was that Betty was sitting in her bedroom crying, grieving over her argument with Bruce Banner. When Ross called her, he heard her crying, so he rushed home, but Betty wouldn't talk to him at all.

Ross grabbed his keys in a rage and walked out the door. On the way to Bruce Banner's lab, Adam suddenly appeared in his passenger seat.

"Screech—"

A harsh sound of braking rang out. Ross gripped the gun in his hand tightly and turned to look at Adam.

A flash of light appeared in Adam's eyes. Instantly, hatred for Hulk and anger at Bruce Banner for failing his daughter occupied Ross's heart. He turned the car around and returned to the Air Force base.

The fact that gamma ray experiments created Hulk was no longer a secret within the military. The military, which had always pursued building bigger bombs, naturally couldn't let such a good opportunity pass. They had long prepared gamma radiation machines at a lab in Xinmoxigezhou, intending to mass-produce Hulks at the so-called final moment.

Ross, influenced by Adam's mind, naturally knew of this plan. He returned to the Air Force base and, under the guise of inspecting the lab, obtained a pass for the Xinmoxigezhou facility. Then, Adam opened a portal for him, and he arrived at the Xinmoxigezhou lab at top speed.

There, he successfully used gamma rays to turn himself into Hulk's enemy, Red Hulk. When Red Hulk slowly appeared amidst the radiation, Adam was almost moved to tears; his speed-run strategy had finally succeeded perfectly for once.

Red Hulk's strength and jumping ability were also very strong. He could leap to the height of Earth's orbit, so he jumped back to New York without much effort and successfully joined forces with the Green Hulk. The two giants, one red and one green, began to grapple in New York.

Adam, standing on the roof observing the situation, finally breathed a sigh of relief. But as he watched, he realized something was wrong: why did it seem like Red Hulk couldn't beat Green Hulk?

In many cases, Red Hulk was able to gain the upper hand in battles with Green Hulk precisely because Red Hulk had reason and intelligence during combat, while Green Hulk was controlled only by the instinct of anger. Plus, with Green Hulk now having to face the interference of Spider-Man, the situation should have been one-sided.

But now the situation was completely reversed. Green Hulk was slaughtering everything below, and Spider-Man could only manage to distract him, not subdue him, because they were too light and easily flung away by Hulk.

The clever Spider-Men thought of using spider-webbing to stick themselves to the ground, but Green Hulk was the cure for all fancy tricks; he simply scooped up the ground itself and threw it away. The fight had been going on for half an hour; Hulk was like a clown in a circus throwing balls, and Spider-Man was the ball.

Red Hulk, in whom Adam had placed high hopes, was even worse. Originally, he could gain the upper hand in battles with Green Hulk because he had intelligence, understood tactics, and could often use Hulk's anger to deceive him. As it turned out, when Adam molded Red Hulk, he utilized Ross's hatred for Hulk. Now, Red Hulk was even angrier than Green Hulk, fighting without any technique, swinging his fists so wildly they left afterimages.

Adam stood on the roof, ready to pinch his own bridge of the nose. He hurriedly whispered in Red Hulk's ear: "Wake up, wake up! Stop swinging your fists! Can't you use the terrain to your advantage? Kick him!"

But at this moment, another terrible piece of bad news arrived. The voice of the Annihilation Herald, Vortex, rang in Adam's ear.

"I can't hold them both back anymore! If I don't release the magic authority, Schiller is planning to have Strange sign a treaty with me and make me the Pope…"

Adam gave a start. He just wanted to say if he could guide Strange to cut the screen to somewhere else and not film the scene in New York, but he realized that the consequences of cutting to other places might be even worse.

Peter was currently beating up Reed Richards. That's right, a world wonder was currently being staged in the lab—Spider-Man was hitting someone.

Reed Richards's punchable level had completely surpassed Spider-Man's moral bottom line. To actually anger a moral paragon—who would only go dance on the street even when polluted by evil—to the point of swinging his fists to hit someone was truly unprecedented.

Could Adam let Schiller see this?

Looking at Nick Fury, he was as black as ever, but after being knocked down by Natasha and sent to a safe house, he immediately contacted Sharon Carter, an underling he had developed in S. W. O. R. D., and then contacted Captain America, Steve, through Agent Carter to rescue Nick from the safe house.

Through the power of S. W. O. R. D., Nick found out that it was the chairman of Roxxon Corporation who had sent people to assassinate him. He believed it was very likely that behind the chairman was a mysterious organization that had created the kind of terrifying killers capable of evading multiple surveillance systems.

Nick Fury, whose life safety was truly threatened, was no pushover. Nick Fury directly released all the dirt on Roxxon Corporation that S. H. I. E. L. D. had searched for over the years in one go.

And the most conspicuous piece of dirt among them was Roxxon Corporation's operation of bribing multiple media outlets to smear Spider-Man. Instantly, the heat of this news replaced the Hulk's renewed rampage in New York, making the headlines of every program in New York within a few short hours.

The topic of Spider-Man once again climbed to the top of the trending list. Major online media and physical newspapers dug out all the news about Spider-Man to analyze it again, and this time, public opinion reversed dramatically.

Anyone with a little experience in the media industry should know that the more distinct the reversal of an event, the more news value it has, whether it goes from bad to good or from good to bad.

The reason Spider-Man's public opinion rating had been so rotten before was merely because he had previously been portrayed as a good person, and the media, for the sake of traffic, had to reverse him into a bad person to make it a topic of discussion. This time was the same.

They had cursed Spider-Man as badly as they could before, and this time they were going to reverse him to be as good as possible. First, a group of hindsight experts stood up to point out the loopholes in the details of those reports smearing Spider-Man. Immediately following were a group of "rational centrists" claiming they had opposed certain claims years ago and that the lack of attention must be due to a cover-up.

Then, various factions of racism and sexism randomly fabricated Spider-Man's background, indicating that Spider-Man was one of their own and that was why he was being persecuted. Then, a group of media outlets chasing the heat kept forwarding it, using this to reflect on whether this society could still be saved.

Finally, a group of newspapers that hadn't gotten a piece of the action were going crazy for heat and started creating reversals of reversals, indicating that Spider-Man was just a scumbag and all media had been manipulated by Stark Industries to deliberately whitewash him. Then, another round of reversal, another round of reversal, chicken-egg-chicken-egg-chicken-egg…

But regardless, Spider-Man's rock-bottom public opinion rating finally made a comeback. The news passed like flowing water, but what remained for the general public was the initial and most explosive piece of black propaganda about Spider-Man: it was actually all deliberate smearing by Roxxon Corporation.

Within a short half-day, Spider-Man's reputation had recovered by at least eighty percent. He finally became New York's friendly neighbor again.

Adam compared it to Schiller's plan and saw, good heavens, the result was not off by a bit, but the process was not right at all.

This definitely couldn't be seen by Schiller either, or else what would happen?

Adam cast his gaze toward Stark again. The Iron Demon God and the Light God King were fighting from the Hundred Grass Garden to the Three Flavors Study. Wherever they passed, gongs and drums were deafening, firecrackers were sounding, red flags were waving, and crowds were surging. One didn't even need to look to know that Schiller's plan for next season's member gifts was prepared in vain.

Just as Adam was constantly hesitating about where to have Strange cut the screen, Vortex's voice came again: "The magic has been unsealed. The Sorcerer Supreme's first target is New York."

Adam disappeared instantly, without a trace of his previous hesitation, slipping away as if his butt were on fire.

And as soon as Strange's magic screen unfolded, Schiller saw Chang Wei hitting Lai Fu. How were these two figures, one red and one green, so familiar?

What Schiller thought of was, of course, not the reality he was currently in, but the comics in his head. Wasn't this the Red and Green Hulk battle?

So, after a moment of stunned silence, he relaxed his expression and looked at Strange, saying, "Are you planning to let me watch the excitement of another universe to soothe my mood?"