The explosion sent a violent shockwave surging through the ventilation ducts.
Everyone in the conference room, who had been arguing moments before, were thrown off their feet.
To make matters worse, the floor cracked, and Black Widow and Dr. Banner plummeted to the level below.
The entire Helicarrier was instantly thrown into chaos.
"Hill!" Nick Fury struggled to his feet, immediately checking on Hill.
"External explosion, Engine Three is down!" Hill reported immediately.
Hawkeye's expression was more than a little grim. Although this event was happening in the future, it was clear Loki was controlling him in all of this.
But no matter what, he was the one who started it.
This was truly hard for Hawkeye Barton to accept.
"Can we fix the engine? Answer me!" Nick Fury continued to shout in the communication channel, and Hill immediately began consulting with the technicians.
"The turbines are basically fine, but as long as we're running, it's impossible to send someone out to repair them," the technician said.
"If we lose another engine, we're done for!" Hill immediately made the judgment, "Someone has to go out and fix the engine!"
Undoubtedly, aside from Tony Stark, there was no one else on the Helicarrier capable of handling this task.
"Stark, do you hear me?" Nick Fury immediately began speaking to Tony Stark.
"I'm going to fix it right now!" Tony Stark replied immediately.
"Coulson, open the lockdown on the containment zone immediately!" Nick Fury barked orders to his subordinate. "And then head to the armory, Romanoff?"
"I'm fine!" Black Widow replied from the ground. A heavy object pinned her legs, preventing her from getting up.
But that was a small problem for Black Widow.
The real, life-threatening issue for her was Dr. Banner, who was on the verge of losing control!
Dr. Banner was in an extremely unstable state due to the immense impact he'd suffered.
"Listen, we'll all be okay!" Black Widow immediately began soothing the increasingly agitated Dr. Banner. "I swear on my life, I'll get you out of here and far away…"
"Your life?"
Dr. Banner roared, cutting Black Widow off, and then began struggling violently.
But after being bombed and thrown around repeatedly, Dr. Banner could no longer control himself, growing larger and greener in the struggle.
Finally, the Hulk appeared.
Black Widow, at this critical moment, pulled her leg free from the heavy object and began to escape.
ROAR!
A beast-like roar came from behind, as the Hulk, like a wild animal hunting, pursued Black Widow.
Next, the Hulk and Black Widow put on a spectacular human-beast battle.
The Hulk was simply a human tank. Everything that stood in his way during the chase was ruthlessly smashed to pieces.
If Black Widow hadn't been as agile as a monkey, darting around, she would have been smashed into a pile of meat long ago.
But even so, Black Widow was quickly swatted away by the Hulk, landing in a daze and unable to get up.
ROAR!
Amidst the roar, the Hulk took a step towards Black Widow.
Black Widow was forced into a corner, unable to dodge any further, and could only watch the Hulk advance towards her.
Everyone present couldn't help but hold their breath for Black Widow.
Just as the Hulk was about to smash Black Widow, WHOOSH!
A figure suddenly dashed out, tackling the Hulk to the ground.
The two of them crashed through a wall, creating a hole and entering another room.
It was none other than Thor.
"I recognize this image!" Thor immediately recognized it. "This image has been shown before."
Not only Thor, but the other veterans present who had seen the relevant video also recognized it.
That was the answer to the question of "who can't lift Thor's hammer."
Everyone had been wondering why Thor was fighting the Hulk. Now, they finally understood.
Under everyone's gaze, Thor and the Hulk engaged in a fierce battle.
However, even Thor couldn't defeat the Hulk. In the end, Hill sent out a fighter jet to attack the Hulk.
ROAR!
The enraged Hulk immediately abandoned Thor and, with a boom, jumped out of the Helicarrier and onto the fighter jet.
He put on a show of tearing apart the aircraft with his bare hands.
That finally resolved the "Hulk crisis."
Next, the scene began to switch to other locations.
Tony Stark and Captain America went to repair the engine that Hawkeye, Barton, had blown up.
Meanwhile, in the Helicarrier's main hall, an invasion was underway, with a special ops team led by Hawkeye, Barton, relentlessly attacking the Avengers.
During this, Hawkeye, Barton, fired another arrow.
This arrow carried a virus program that instantly hacked the Helicarrier's control systems, causing all the screens to go black.
"Engine One is down!"
The technicians immediately reported.
Agent Hill had just said that they were finished if they lost another engine. And now, another engine had actually lost power.
Stark and Captain America hadn't finished repairing the first blown-up engine, meaning the Helicarrier was now without power.
The entire Helicarrier began to plummet!
If Stark couldn't fix the engine in time, everyone on the Helicarrier would die in the crash, without exception.
The situation was extremely critical.
"He really is the God of Mischief," Dr. Banner couldn't help but exclaim.
Loki's move was undeniably brilliant. Whether it was the Hulk or the loss of power to the Helicarrier, both were devastating blows.
If Agent Hill hadn't acted decisively to lure the Hulk away, and even without Hawkeye having to do much, the Hulk would have torn apart the entire Helicarrier.
Up to this point, Loki hadn't even done anything himself, yet he'd brought the Avengers and the S.H.I.E.L.D. base to the brink of destruction.
In this regard, Loki's title as the God of Mischief was truly well-deserved.
Fortunately, Tony Stark proved reliable in the critical moment. He quickly repaired the first engine that had been destroyed, allowing the Helicarrier to regain power.
This averted a disastrous "machine destroyed, people dead" scenario.
However, the chaos Loki had unleashed was far from over.
The scene shifted.
Thor, who had just finished battling the Hulk, was shown wandering through the Helicarrier's corridors, his hammer in hand. He eventually arrived at the room where Loki was being held.
Clang!
The door of the confinement cell slowly began to open, and Loki was about to escape.
"No!"
Thor shouted, rushing towards Loki to stop him.
However…
That Loki was just an illusion. Thor lunged and missed, ending up inside the containment cell.
Clang!
The containment cell door immediately slammed shut, trapping Thor inside with ease. Loki had effortlessly locked him in.
"This trick really works on you every time."
Loki stood outside the cell, looking at Thor, a mocking smile playing on his lips.
Enraged, Thor swung his hammer, smashing it against the cell's glass in an attempt to break free.
However, the glass was far more durable than he anticipated. Thor's blow only managed to crack it slightly.
"Heh heh heh!" Loki laughed. "The humans think we're immortal gods, want to test that theory?"
With that, Loki walked over to a control panel, seemingly ready to press a button.
"Get out of the way!"
A voice rang out. It was Coulson, holding a very cool-looking gun that didn't look like a regular weapon, aiming it at Loki.
"Do you like this? We started researching this after you sent the Destroyer," Coulson said as he walked towards Loki. "I don't know what this gun can do. Would you like to find out?"
With that, Coulson activated the gun.
Chh!
At that moment, the sound of a blade piercing flesh echoed. Loki had appeared behind Coulson at some point, and with a scepter, he pierced Coulson's chest.
"No!"
Thor roared in rage inside the confinement cell.
However, he couldn't do anything at that moment.
Just watching Loki do whatever he pleased.
After killing Coulson, Loki, with the smug smile of a victor, walked back to the console.
He tapped a few buttons, and the floor beneath the cell where Thor was imprisoned suddenly contracted inwards, revealing a passage leading down.
Loki then pressed a lever.
Whoosh!
The entire cell plummeted down that passage, exiting the Helicarrier.
It fell rapidly towards the ground from a great height.
The scene then shifted again.
Loki was in a fighter jet, leaving the Helicarrier, a triumphant smile on his face.
The image froze on Loki's smile.
"This is a complete and utter defeat," Hawkeye Barton couldn't help but exclaim.
"Tell me about it," Black Widow agreed, shrugging her shoulders. "The Avengers, plus all those S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, almost wiped out."
Black Widow wasn't exaggerating. The Hulk, two engines destroyed in a row, all of this was a "Level Extinction" crisis.
If handled poorly, the Helicarrier would be destroyed, and everyone on board would perish with it.
"So this is Loki's true face, Loki's true ability," Captain America said seriously to everyone. "We underestimated Loki before."
In the previous footage of Loki, he was either captured by S.H.I.E.L.D., manhandled by Thor, or even blown up by Hawkeye's arrow.
This led everyone to underestimate Loki to some extent.
But now, this video clip made everyone look at Loki in a new light.
Loki had been locked up in a confinement cell the whole time, never lifting a finger himself, yet he managed to get both Hulk and Thor to fall from a great height.
Although everyone didn't think those two would die from the fall, even if they survived, they'd be in a bad way.
The entire Helicarrier almost plummeted from the sky. Although Tony Stark eventually fixed the engine in time, avoiding a disaster.
However, the entire Helicarrier base was left in disarray.
In the end, Loki just walked away.
He had a style of planning from within, winning from afar.
"Only those without power would resort to such scheming tricks!" Tony Stark scoffed, a hint of disdain in his voice.
He'd never liked Loki before, and now, he liked him even less.
[This round of questions is over!]
At that moment, the system's prompt sounded, and the large screen that had been floating above everyone's heads disappeared instantly, as if it had never been there.
Dr. Banner and Hawkeye Barton surveyed the scene, noticing that everything around them, including the still leaves, immediately returned to normal.
The quiz was indeed over.
"I have to say, this is truly an amazing experience. I never thought there would be a magical quiz system like this in the world," Dr. Banner couldn't help but exclaim.
"Why us?" Hawkeye Barton questioned, glancing at the people present. "Why us?"
"Barton, why bother with such a meaningless question," Tony Stark shrugged. "Since we were chosen, it's a stroke of luck! We just need to seize the opportunity."
Hawkeye, Barton, nodded, "Makes sense!"
Next, the group exchanged a few more words. Black Widow then invited Dr. Banner, "Dr. Banner, we're heading back to S.H.I.E.L.D. soon. Why don't you come with us?"
"There are other quiz takers in New York. We're going to get together and share information about the quiz system."
Dr. Banner instinctively agreed with the idea, but then hesitated.
He was afraid of losing control and letting the Hulk reappear.
"It's okay, Banner. I'll keep an eye on you."
Captain America saw the expression on Dr. Banner's face and knew what he was worried about, so he said with a smile.
Dr. Banner glanced at the bracelet on Captain America's wrist, and his concerns were greatly lessened.
After some thought, he agreed, "Alright!"
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