Chapter 102:
The battle lasted a full three minutes before She-Hulk's offensive gradually slowed.
Yang Jian had been holding back the entire time, afraid he might accidentally knock her to the ground.
She stopped, panting heavily. Her swimsuit was already in tatters, but the fighting spirit in her eyes hadn't diminished in the slightest.
"Refreshing! But…"
She suddenly showed a sly smile. "Superman, do you know the true nature of gamma energy?"
Yang Jian tilted his head, puzzled.
She-Hulk smiled faintly. Her entire body suddenly erupted with dazzling green light, and her size swelled again!
Her muscle fibers wriggled and restructured like living things, finally settling into an ultimate form over three meters tall. Even her hair turned into green flames of energy.
She looked like the God of Gamma descending, even more terrifying than Hulk.
"Now! The real show has just begun!"
Her eyes, burning with green flames, locked onto Yang Jian. Her voice boomed like thunder.
"Round two begins!"
Yang Jian raised an eyebrow, watching with interest.
"Looks like I need to get a little serious."
A long-lost fighting spirit began to burn in his eyes!
Whoosh!
She-Hulk vanished from the spot in an instant. No one else knew where she had gone.
But under Yang Jian's super dynamic vision, Jennifer's movements were still no different from a snail's.
Too slow!
Just as She-Hulk was about to make contact with Yang Jian, his figure suddenly disappeared from the spot.
The next second,
He had already appeared diagonally above and behind She-Hulk. A whip kick precisely struck the back of her neck.
Bang!
With a dull thud, the massive She-Hulk crashed to the ground, kicking up a cloud of sand and dust.
The entire process was so fast that even the cameras couldn't capture a single frame of the action.
The beach fell into dead silence.
Everyone stared wide-eyed, unable to believe what they were seeing.
The ultimate She-Hulk, who had just displayed astonishing power, had been subdued in a single move!
"Sorry." Yang Jian shrugged, looking a little embarrassed.
"I might have used a bit too much force."
Gwen Stacy's microphone dropped to the ground. "This… it's over just like that?"
She trotted over and poked the unconscious She-Hulk.
"Jennifer? Can you still hear me?"
In the rest area, Tony facepalmed and muttered, "I knew fighting a Kryptonian was never a good idea."
Yang Jian gently lifted She-Hulk with his bio-field and sent her to a medical bed in the VIP rest area.
"She's just temporarily unconscious. She should wake up soon."
With that, he turned to the remaining heroes. "Anyone else want to challenge?"
Everyone: ......
The scene fell deathly silent.
All the heroes took a collective step back. The young heroes beside the Avengers stared at everything in dumbfounded silence.
Seeing this, Gwen Stacy immediately jumped in to smooth things over: "Alright, alright! Since everyone is so modest…"
She suddenly pulled a pile of volleyballs out of her fourth-dimensional pocket.
"How about we switch to something more relaxing?"
"I think that's great!"
"Yeah yeah! Let's play beach volleyball!"
And just like that, the originally tense "Strongest Heroes Tournament" inexplicably turned into a joyful beach party.
Yang Jian lay on his lounge chair, watching the Earth's heroes playing and laughing, the corners of his mouth unconsciously lifting into a smile.
He wasn't sure if his power had grown stronger again, but he always felt these people's strength was… just average.
But he knew this was their normal state. In the comics, everyone had their shining moments.
He picked up a glass of juice and took a leisurely sip.
The beach volleyball match was in full swing. The heroes had split into two teams and were playing intensely.
Black Cat and Gwen Stacy on one team, against the team led by Thor and Captain America.
"Look at my super spike!"
Gwen Stacy leaped high into the air. Her pink hair drew a graceful arc in the sky.
At that moment, Yang Jian suddenly stopped moving and looked thoughtfully toward a corner of the stage.
"Gwen, did we forget something?"
"Huh?"
Gwen Stacy got distracted. The volleyball slammed straight into her face.
"Ouch! Wait!" She followed Yang Jian's gaze and suddenly widened her eyes.
"Oh no! Doctor Banner!"
Everyone stopped moving and turned their heads in unison toward the forgotten cage.
Inside the cage, Bruce Banner helplessly pushed up his glasses: "Finally someone remembered me."
Gwen Stacy fumbled for the key: "Sorry, sorry!"
She opened the cage door and tore open another comic page. "Here, this is your exclusive exit."
Banner stepped out of the cage and stretched his limbs.
He looked at Yang Jian and gave a gentle smile: "Thank you. You really are strong."
Yang Jian smiled faintly and shrugged: "I think the Immortal Hulk might be even stronger."
Banner chuckled lightly, as if remembering something.
"I hope we never have to test that assumption."
With that, he turned and leaped into the comic page. His figure gradually disappeared into a patch of ink.
The beach fell quiet for a moment.
Gwen Stacy scratched her head.
"Uh… does anyone still want to keep playing?"
Thor suddenly raised his hammer: "Of course! But this time I want to be on Superman's team!"
"Hey! That's not fair!" Tony protested.
Just as the crowd started making noise again, Yang Jian looked up at the sky.
In the afterglow of the sunset, he seemed to see a faint green figure flickering in some space.
But when he looked more carefully, there was nothing there.
Someone was watching? Yang Jian felt a bit puzzled.
"What's wrong?" Gwen Stacy came over with the volleyball.
Yang Jian withdrew his gaze and shook his head with a smile: "Nothing. Come on, let's keep playing."
The waves gently lapped the shore. Laughter and cheerful voices once again echoed across the beach.
Meanwhile, in some unknown dimension, a pair of green eyes watched everything quietly through the dimensional barrier!
Those幽 green eyes flickered in the dimensional cracks. Deep in the pupils, unsettling gamma energy pulsed.
It — this high-dimensional existence from the Gamma Hell — was staring fixedly at Yang Jian on the beach through the barrier of reality.
"You again."
Its consciousness vibrated in the dimensional crevice, sending ripples of energy in circles.
Memories flashed back to some time ago, when it had finally planted a gamma seed inside Banner.
It had been so close to turning the Immortal Hulk into its perfect vessel in the material world.
But at the critical moment, this self-proclaimed Superman had suddenly appeared and used that damn power to forcibly suppress the rampaging Hulk.
"Hulk was supposed to be my avatar."
Its thoughts twisted and churned in the void. That green giant's potential far exceeded imagination.
Anger is power. The angrier, the stronger. In theory, there was no upper limit.
If such an existence could be completely corrupted by gamma energy, it would be the perfect weapon to tear apart the multiverse.
The sea breeze suddenly turned icy cold.
Yang Jian instinctively looked up. His super vision pierced through the clouds, but it only caught a fleeting green energy afterimage.
"What's wrong?" Gwen Stacy came over holding the volleyball.
Yang Jian frowned slightly: "I feel like something is watching…"
As he spoke, he suddenly paused. His magical perception caught a strange fluctuation coming from the dimensional crack.
The sound was like countless Hulks' roars叠加 together, or the hum of a gamma ray burst.
In a layer normal people couldn't perceive, It was raging with fury.
After the previous failure, It had spent some time regathering enough energy to interfere with reality.
With its power, it should have been able to solve everything with a single thought.
But that damn OAA had severely restricted It, preventing It from exerting even one billionth of its power in the real dimension.
And now, that damn Superman had ruined Its plans again — this time by safely sending Banner back to the comic dimension!
"You can't escape."
Its will spread through the void, beginning to search for new potential hosts.
The heroes on the beach, each radiating energy, looked like beacons in the night to It.
The lightning energy flowing through Thor's body.
Even the chaotic cross-dimensional energy inside Gwen Stacy was a decent backup option.
But Its favorite was still Jennifer, the She-Hulk, who was currently walking toward the sea to drink water.
The gamma energy boiling inside her was as tempting as a bonfire in the darkness.
"This time,"
Its will quietly wrapped around Jennifer's shadow, "I'll try a different approach."
At the same time, Yang Jian suddenly felt a surge of energy fluctuation.
He turned to look at Jennifer by the sea. With his super vision, he saw the energy inside her beginning to boil.
The moment Jennifer bent down to scoop up seawater, her eyes began to glow with green light.
Yang Jian's super vision immediately detected the anomaly. Inside Jennifer's body surged gamma energy that did not belong to this dimension!
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