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Chapter 25 Final Stronghold

Flames swirled and smoke billowed.The black armor burst out of the dense forest suddenly, like thunder piercing into Sterak's secret facility.

The automatic defense mechanism of the base was quickly activated, the unmanned turrets rose one after another, and the black projectiles roared under the dazzling artillery fire. The dust several meters high had such splashes, and the ground was full of pits in a blink of an eye. depression.The metal cannonballs pierced through the tree trunks one by one, and the towering giant trees tens of meters high fell down with a clatter.

Less than a minute had passed since the first gunfire of the battle, and the area had already been bombed beyond recognition by all kinds of amazingly powerful thermal weapons.

Michael maneuvered his battle suit sideways to pass through the gap between the two stray bullets, and at the same time, with the assistance of artificial intelligence Shirley, he locked the position of each turret that fired at him.A few rounds of miniature missiles dragged long smoke and flew out from the shoulders of his battle suit, and with several deafening explosions, all the unmanned turrets were turned into smoking turrets. Scrap iron.

"Sir, a strike team is approaching from the southeast." Shirley reminded, "The scan results show that they have two laser tanks, and another 12 people are equipped with exoskeleton power equipment and energy weapons."

Hydra's energy weapon technology originated during World War II.At that time, Red Skull, the founder of Hydra, briefly held the Rubik's Cube. Hydra scientists developed a series of energy weapons through the study of its endless special energy, which once became a nightmare for the Allied forces.

Although the Cosmic Rubik's Cube is no longer in the hands of Hydra, the weapon technology derived from it has been preserved. After so many years of research and transformation by generations of elite scientists of Hydra, it has been further improved. It melts through steel armor and penetrates tanks. No problem.

Too bad it wasn't enough to help them defeat this lone invader.

As soon as the two sides fought, the well-equipped Hydra was torn apart by the sonic cannon.The scattered Hydra soldiers still tried hard to form an encirclement. They raised their guns and shot high-energy beams at the armor floating in the air, but most of them were avoided by the opponent's flexible use of high mobility.

The thrusters on Michael's back shot out flames, and the pulse beams of his palms poured out continuously. In the blink of an eye, most of the attacking team had been killed or injured.The two laser tanks managed to catch the opportunity to lock on to his figure, and the laser bombardment sprayed away like a torrent, but he only drew a circle to block it.The high-density laser light hit the flame-colored magic barrier with all its strength, but at best it only splashed a few sparks.

Michael raised his right arm, and a slender red laser beam shot out from the gauntlet.With a sweep of his arm, the laser beam cut across like a silent blade, cutting the laser tank's armor down the middle along a red hot cut.

Baron Strucker was watching the battle outside on the screen of the control center, his face was so gloomy that it was about to drip water.

Here we go again, the "Black Knight", Dr. Angus Norton - if the previous guess is correct.But where did his information come from?Not only the locations of those top-secret Hydra backup sub-bases, but now he even chased all the way to the door of the top-secret stronghold that Strucker personally hid.

Can he predict whether the prophet will succeed?Could it be that during the three years that Norton disappeared, did he have any adventures, and gained some superpowers similar to mind reading?

Such an idea, although absurd, seems to be the only reasonable explanation.Norton can read minds, so he can always be one step ahead of them. No matter where they hide or what kind of plan they have, the other party will see through and take action first, so they really have no chance of winning.

No, and it's not hopeless.Regardless of whether he can read minds or not, Norton has indeed arrived at the gate of their base now.Well, this also means that this is also the best opportunity for Strack. As long as they can kill Norton here once and for all, they will also remove the biggest obstacle to a comeback in the future.In that way, his ambition of rebuilding Hydra and ruling the world is still not impossible.

Thinking of this, Baron Strucker's mind became active again.He loudly asked a communicator wearing a headset next to him: "Where has he broken through now?"

"The first two lines of defense have been breached!" The correspondent replied sweating profusely, "Captain Middleton's troops still have 30 seconds to contact the opponent!"

Middleton's team is also one of Strack's most elite combat forces. They are well-equipped and well-trained. If they are pulled properly, they should be able to delay for a few minutes.Strack thought about it in his heart, and then turned to Ivan Vanke behind him: "How long will it take to activate that suit of armor?"

"Ten minutes should be enough," the Russian burly replied.

"Get ready immediately." Strack ordered, and at the same time his eyes returned to the screen, "Turn off all other functions in the facility for me, and charge all the energy into the shield for me."

"Sir," the old man in a white coat stepped forward and whispered in his ear, "Maybe we should consider sending twins."

"No, they're not ready yet." Strack said coldly, "It's not yet, my people can last long enough."

***
The technological level of Baron Sterak's facility is indeed much higher than that of other Hydra bases. It took a little more effort to break through the outer defense line than Michael had originally expected, but there were no surprises after all.

The last batch of Hydra teams trying to intercept were also wiped out under the powerful firepower of the armor. Michael accelerated and flew towards the building hiding in the back.When he got close to less than 20 meters away, he raised his hand and shot out two pulse beams, but the shock wave violently hit an invisible barrier, causing ripples of light blue waves on the outside of the building. ripple.

Michael reversed direction, and his figure in the sprint suddenly rose up, and the thruster sprayed down the tail flame to stabilize his figure in the air.

"Shirley, did you see that?"

"I see, sir." The artificial intelligence replied crisply, "A layer of energy shield protects the outer layer of the building, and the pulse gun has no effect."

"It's like a tortoise shrunk in a tortoise shell, but Strucker can't shrink for a lifetime." Michael moved around the periphery of the shield, "Scan the shield's energy efficiency to analyze its firmness, and tell me how hard it is."

"The shield is designed to automatically adjust the energy and balance the force whenever it is hit. As long as the energy is not exhausted, it will continue to repair itself, unless a large-scale blow beyond its tolerance is applied at one time." Shirley quickly gave Out of the analysis, "It may be difficult to break through with conventional weapons equipped with armor. But I can scan the particle fluctuations and analyze the source of the shield generation. As long as the concentrated firepower destroys the generator, the shield will be disarmed. Do I need to do this?"

"No, that's more time-consuming," Michael said, "I'm more inclined to save time and effort."

He took a deep breath, crossed his palms, and immediately spit out two dark green magic circles from the palm of the armor.He hung in the air, gently closed his eyelids, and began to chant the spell in a low voice.

***
"Sir, he stopped moving." A correspondent in the control room reported, and at the same time, the image on the enlarged screen showed the image of the black armor hovering above the shield.

Strack sneered: "He must have realized that the shield cannot be breached easily. It is impossible for him to crack this layer of shield in the remaining few minutes. He must be scanning the energy source that generates the shield now. We can take advantage of this Chance"

"Sir." The other correspondent sitting on the side paled, pointing to the screen on his side like a frightened child, "You might have to look at this."

Baron Straker looked in the direction he was pointing.

The sunlight from the forest was blocked out at some time, and the dark clouds silently accumulated over the base.Thick lead-colored clouds slowly swirled directly above the building, and invisible forces manipulated the airflow to create a spiral black vortex at the bottom of the clouds.

In that vortex, light shot out like an arrow.

Baron Strack was dumbfounded.

The clouds and mists were pushed away, and white light descended.The dazzling light paths intertwined complicatedly, and the strokes clearly formed a huge magic barrier, like a palm covering the sky and the sun, covering the whole building protected in the turtle shell, and the momentum was overwhelming.

(End of this chapter)