Manhattan, Central Park.
Under the cover of night.
Everything here was extremely quiet, the daytime hustle and bustle long gone.
Alex Johnson, wearing a black hood, sat on a park bench, listening to pop songs through his headphones, his head lowered as his right hand gently stroked a stray cat that had appeared from who knew where.
Not long ago, this pitiful stray cat rubbed against his pant leg, meowing and rolling into a ball at his feet.
This clingy little kitten reminded Alex of the cat he used to have at home; it had escaped because the windows and doors weren't properly closed, and was unfortunately hit and killed by a car on the street outside. Alex remembered his younger sister crying for a long time over it.
Sigh!
He let out a soft sigh.
He hadn't expected that after arriving in this longed-for city, in the vastness of the night, only a pitiful stray cat would be accompanying him.
[Reality Warping + 2]
[Reality Warping + 2]
... The constructed system constantly reminded him of genetic metamorphosis and ability enhancement information.
In the lonely depths of the night, coins continuously floated around Alex, appearing out of thin air and then vanishing instantly. In this cycle of illusion and destruction, he constantly utilized this Reality Warping ability to facilitate his metamorphosis.
Compared to the unknown target of his revenge, finding his younger sister first was far more crucial.
Tap!!
Just then, increasingly clear footsteps approached from a distance.
"It's you!"
Alex frowned.
The girl in front of him, panting heavily and supporting herself on her knees, wasn't she the little girl who had killed so many people in the alleyway?
A chance encounter... No, counting now, it was their third meeting.
And each meeting seemed more exaggerated than the last.
Last time, she was killing people.
This time, it was Central Park at one in the morning, and two teenagers, just over ten years old, were talking.
"You idiot, you shouldn't be wandering around on the main road! Don't you know you're wanted now?"
Hit-Girl Mindy complained bitterly.
After learning the situation from Big Daddy, she couldn't help but rush over.
Although some key information was hidden, Mindy still learned that this was someone who had escaped from a shady experimental base.
Thinking that the cold and aloof figure must have suffered a lot of harm, Mindy felt a bitter pang in her heart.
Anyone who would feed stray cats in Central Park must also be a good person.
"Come with me quickly, I'll take you to a safe place."
Mindy didn't hesitate.
The fierce little girl stepped forward and firmly grabbed Alex's right hand, trying to pull him away from this unsafe area.
Alex frowned, feeling a bit resistant.
Hours ago, a kind-faced stranger, an older brother, had given him a bag of donuts, and at the time, he felt an immense warmth in his heart, but the hidden sinister intentions behind it had deeply hurt him.
Who knew if this woman had her own agenda?
Even the cat at Alex's feet meowed, seemingly protesting against the wild girl.
"Hurry up!"
Mindy turned around, looking at the unmoving figure, tears welling up in her eyes, her pleading evident.
Alex's heart was instantly touched.
But... Bang!!
A sniper shot from a thousand meters away had already rung out, and an armor-piercing bullet instantly struck Alex right in the center of his forehead.
To deal with such an existence, rumored to be immortal, General Ross's sniper specifically used an armor-piercing bullet made of Adamantium.
"Rest in peace!"
The power of a sniper rifle is naturally much greater than that of a handgun.
Especially an anti-material sniper rifle, which is capable of penetrating an armored vehicle from a thousand meters away. When using a bullet cast from Adamantium, its power is further enhanced significantly.
Boom!!
A sharp bullet instantly shot out from the nearly one-meter-long barrel, the strong recoil enough to make the soldier's shoulder suddenly ache. It fired directly at Alex on the garden bench from a rooftop a thousand meters away.
In less than a second.
Bang!
Alex's forehead, right between his eyebrows, was instantly struck by a bullet.
"Ah!!"
The girl instinctively shrieked in fright, but the sight before her made her expression change; the sharp bullet was just slightly embedded in the middle of Alex's forehead, its immense instantaneous penetrating power abruptly halted, leaving more than half of the bullet body exposed in the air.
Clink!!
The bullet couldn't hold its position and simply fell off. As for Alex's forehead, there wasn't even a trace of blood, just a faint bruise on the skin's surface.
But in that brief moment, even the bruise on the surface disappeared.
[Steel Body + 2]
Due to the damage caused by the instantaneous penetrating power, Alex's skin strength underwent a slight metamorphosis.
Clearly, compared to the previous nuclear explosion, this Adamantium sniper bullet was still not enough.
"This..."
The sniper on the distant rooftop was dumbfounded.
Through the 8x scope, he then witnessed an even more bizarre scene.
"Not good!"
From the distant park bench, a bullet was inexplicably pulled by an invisible force, rising into the air. In an instant, it was imbued with terrifying energy by the target. With a whoosh, the entire bullet followed its previous trajectory and flew back.
Whoosh!!
As if electromagnetically accelerated, the entire bullet left a faint white trail in the air. In less than a second, it pierced through the 8x scope and, in doing so, penetrated the head of the rooftop sniper.
"No need to go, they've already surrounded this place..."
Alex, still sitting on the bench, said unhurriedly.
"Ah..."
Following her instincts as a professional killer, Mindy also felt the atmosphere around Central Park grow increasingly quiet. She gritted her teeth, certain that if she put on night vision goggles, she would inevitably see a group of figures slowly approaching, hidden in the darkness.
Unfortunately, she came in a hurry. Mindy was wearing only a pink dress, and her only equipment consisted of a few butterfly knives strapped to her leg under her skirt.
"What should we do?"
For some reason, Mindy felt a strong reliance on the man beside her.
Compared to the slightly nervous Mindy, Alex's cold expression was calm and collected, as if he truly was just out for a stroll in the park, walking leisurely and at ease, without a hint of panic.
"For every one that comes, I'll kill one."
Thirteen-year-old Alex indeed hadn't paid much attention to the surveillance equipment scattered throughout the city streets.
But after experiencing the nuclear explosion and escaping from that evil experimental base, he was extremely calm and composed.
He would meet whatever came his way.
Since they were willing to come, he didn't mind sending all of them to their deaths.
For every one that comes, he'll kill one?
Mindy's smile grew more bitter. This guy's tone was much more arrogant than hers. She only faced the gangs of the underground world, but he was facing a modern army!
"You should hide."
For the girl who had kindly warned him, Alex uncharacteristically spoke an extra sentence; after all, he didn't want to involve anyone else.