Chapter 449: This Is No Marvel Newbie Village!
"How did this Hell's Kitchen find out about our mission? This intel leak is just ridiculous. Dammit." Ye Liangchen muttered resentfully between heavy gasps, disbelief flashing in his eyes.
He'd run with everything he had and finally reached a relatively hidden corner. Panting hard, he leaned his back against a cold wall and gulped down air.
Sweat ran down his cheeks and mixed with the dust on his face. He looked thoroughly wretched.
Thinking back on that harrowing moment, a wave of belated terror washed over him.
Every one of those Hell's Kitchen guys was powerful and vicious. If he hadn't activated his invisibility skill in time, he'd have been cut down long ago.
Even so, his combat suit, which could withstand Rank Three damage, had been torn to shreds. It barely hung on him, as if it might fall apart completely at any moment.
Remembering how high-spirited and fearless he'd been in the Lord God's space, then looking at how filthy and battered he was now, Ye Liangchen felt a powerful sense of defeat.
"Something's off. Something's definitely off!" He shook his head hard, trying to clear it. "Since when is Hell's Kitchen this strong? They shouldn't have this kind of power at all!"
"And if I heard right, I'm pretty sure I heard 'Avocado Kedavra.' Isn't that the Killing Curse from the Harry Potter world? Why would it show up here? That makes no sense at all!"
He wondered whether he'd misheard, or was having some kind of hallucination. But when he listened carefully again, the eerie sound came through clearly once more. He had to accept it was all real.
"Could it be... these superheroes knew we were coming all along? They prepared in advance?" One bold guess after another flashed through his mind, and each one terrified him.
While he'd been running, he'd noticed that Hell's Kitchen's people were all strong. Not one of them was below Rank Four.
And there were alarmingly many of them, far outnumbering the Reincarnators.
Reincarnators could only send in two hundred at a time. This Hell's Kitchen actually had more superheroes than that.
In the other universes' Hell's Kitchens, there'd only been a handful of superheroes. But this time...
Ye Liangchen pressed himself tight against the wall and looked up. Just the Spider-People he could see in the sky made a whole swarm!
And on the ground, all kinds of Deadpools were combing the streets in a grid search.
Ye Liangchen didn't think much of the Deadpools' fighting strength. The problem was that Deadpools had one infuriating trait: they were basically unkillable.
Once they spotted you, you were stuck in a long, ugly fight. And once a fight started, the noise was sure to draw more enemies.
These Deadpools were like living radar, everywhere at once, leaving nowhere to hide.
Ye Liangchen weighed it in his head. Fight, and he'd give away his position and bring more trouble down on himself.
Don't fight, and he couldn't shake off these annoying guys. He was stuck in a dilemma, and it was driving him up the wall.
This is no Marvel newbie village! This is a Marvel hell-mode instance!
What unsettled him even more was the data on his Reincarnator panel. He could clearly see their numbers steadily dropping.
[189/200]
[200/200] (a brief rise; new replacements must have come in)
[195/200]
Every time new replacements entered the battlefield, someone immediately died.
The brutal rate of attrition put a pressure on Ye Liangchen like nothing before.
He knew that if this kept up, sooner or later they'd all be wiped out.
And right now Ye Liangchen was seeing Hell's Kitchen's devastation with his own eyes. War raged, smoke filled the air, explosions roared nonstop in his ears, as if the whole space were shaking.
The fire and smoke were like envoys from hell, devouring everything in their path and turning the area into a living hell. Explosions boomed and debris flew on every side. There was nowhere to hide.
By now, however slow or stupid Ye Liangchen might be, he understood: this was Hell's Kitchen's furious revenge, the bitter fruit of what they'd done before.
Their Reincarnator squads had massacred the Hell's Kitchens of more than a hundred universes. At first the Reincarnators had been fairly alert, careful with every step, afraid of walking into an enemy trap.
But as the massacres went smoothly, they'd grown less wary and started getting sloppy.
They'd thought Hell's Kitchen was just a rabble, nothing to worry about.
This time, they'd gotten careless, and this universe's Hell's Kitchen had caught them completely off guard.
At the thought, Ye Liangchen felt thoroughly jinxed. "I knew this mission wouldn't be that easy. But when everyone was racking up points, I didn't get a single bite, and now that the payback's coming, I'm right in time for it. Just my luck."
But complaining aside, Ye Liangchen quickly realized he couldn't afford to wallow in negativity right now.
He raised his head, his eyes shining with resolve. "No, I have to pull myself together! Hell's Kitchen is just a newbie village, a proving ground for us Reincarnators to grow.
"The bigger the waves, the pricier the fish! This just proves this Marvel world hides even greater power, waiting for me to uncover and conquer it!"
Ye Liangchen took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down.
He understood that as long as the Reincarnators were careful and took it step by step, these Hell's Kitchen people could only manage sneak attacks. Once the Reincarnators had regrouped and steadied themselves, in a head-on fight they'd definitely have the upper hand!
As long as the high-ranked Reincarnators made their move, they'd gain the advantage soon enough.
But why hadn't the high-ranked Reincarnators made a move yet this time?
Ye Liangchen wondered too.
...
"Just as I thought. This Lord God's space is no joke. Tell Logan and his team to speed it up. Strange and Kang won't be able to hold those high-ranked Reincarnators for long."
"I'm seeing quite a few familiar faces. All that hard work building this dimensional space paid off. They took the bait."
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