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Chapter 1756 The Hulk Who Was About to Drown
Steve Rogers, the warrior who always puts others before himself, had a complex emotion flash in his eyes at this moment—disappointment with Rumlow's nature, concern for his comrades, but more so, trust in Tony and responsibility for the remaining team members.

Without further hesitation, he took a deep breath of the cold air, which carried the salty smell of seawater and the corrosive smell of metal, and plunged into the murky water of the platform below the passageway, swimming with all his might towards the last intact, and relatively exposed, "Seahorse" escape pod. His heavy body crashed into the water, creating an even bigger splash.

Just as Steve's heavy body fell into the hatch and the hatch slammed shut and locked with a "whoosh," he saw through the rapidly spreading water stains and floating debris on the composite observation window that Tony's Mark L armor had not entered any escape pods, but was suspended like a rock above the collapsed passage entrance!

"Tony! What are you going to do?!"

Steve's voice came through the emergency communication line of the escape pod, carrying the unique echo of the metal cavity and an undisguised anxiety.

The murky seawater had almost completely submerged the lower part of the observation window of the escape pod.

"Don't worry about the elderly, I have my own 'personal vehicle'!"

Tony forced out a trace of his signature, metallic ease in his voice, but against the backdrop of deep-sea noise and the groans of the armored structure under pressure, this ease sounded so fragile and tragic.

"The 'Seahorse' can't hold all my luxury gear!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the deep-sea thruster arrays on the back, legs, and feet of the Mark L armor suddenly erupted with an unprecedentedly intense blue-white flame! This light was as dazzling as a supernova explosion in the pitch-black deep sea!
"Jarvis! Activate the 'Deep Sea Jump' protocol! Target: Sea surface! Maximum power! Tear this damn abyss apart!" Tony's roar echoed inside the armor.

Boom——! ! !
The golden-red armor instantly transformed into a humanoid torpedo! The powerful plasma thruster ejected a high-temperature, high-pressure jet, instantly vaporizing the surrounding seawater, forming a brief cavitation bubble, and generating a huge reaction force.

At an almost vertical angle, against the raging torrent of seawater and the hail-like debris of buildings, the armored vehicles resolutely charged upwards into the endless darkness and unknown, along the precarious escape route that could collapse at any moment!

The tunnel walls groaned under the impact of the rushing water created by the armored vehicles as they passed at high speed, and more cracks began to spread.

Almost at the same millisecond!

The electromagnetic/chemical hybrid thrusters at the bottom of the four "Seahorse" escape pods ignited simultaneously! There were no huge flames, only intense energy fluctuations and the muffled burst of compressed gas expanding instantaneously.

The powerful thrust, like an invisible giant hand, slammed them out of the base tunnel, which resembled the dying throat of a giant beast! The cabin shook violently, and the occupants inside were pressed tightly onto their impact-resistant seats by the immense G-forces.

They followed a pre-set, complex catapult trajectory calculated by the base's AI in the last second before their destruction, like four torpedoes launched in despair, resolutely shooting towards the dark, cold, perilous, and yet only path to survival deep sea above!
Behind them, "Neptune's Eye of Insight," amidst the aftershocks of the frenzied battle between Hulk and Norman Osborn, two primal behemoths representing raw, violent power, finally let out its final, desperate cry.

The once incredibly sturdy outer alloy structure, under the continuous and terrifying impacts and internal pressure imbalance, began to collapse, twist, and disintegrate in a large-scale, chain-reaction manner, like tin foil being kneaded by an invisible giant hand. Huge metal plates tore and flipped, and internal pipelines ruptured, spewing out high-pressure gas and liquid, like the arteries of a dying beast gushing blood.

And the giant observation window, tens of meters in diameter, that symbolized the soul of the base—the "Eye of Neptune"—this window through which humanity peered into the abyss, finally met its complete end.

Its window, made of multiple layers of ultra-strong composite glass, was first cracked by the aftershocks of the battle between Hulk and Osborn, and now it could no longer withstand the terrifying water pressure from the deep sea, which was more than one ton per square centimeter!
With a shattering sound more muffled and chilling than any previous explosion (the sound traveled exceptionally clearly through the deep sea), the entire observation window instantly turned into billions of sharp crystal fragments!
These fragments did not scatter and fly everywhere, but were swept up by the raging, icy, and incredibly high-pressure seawater, like a destructive torrent, crashing heavily into the base's vulnerable core area with overwhelming force!
The absolute pressure of the ocean at a depth of 10,000 meters, this invisible yet heaviest hammer, finally fell without any hindrance.

The remaining air inside the base was instantly compressed and ignited, triggering a series of secondary explosions. The flames flickered briefly in the surging seawater before being mercilessly swallowed up.

The once brightly lit corridors, sophisticated laboratories, and server arrays storing countless data points... were all instantly crushed, flattened, and pulverized by the relentless seawater and pressure, turning into part of a cold, metallic tomb.

Hulk struggles against Norman Osborn in the deep sea.

The resistance of the deep sea is immense; every cubic centimeter of water acts like a viscous colloid, slowing down their every movement. However, the forces of these two entities have long transcended the boundaries of common sense in physics.

Hulk's muscle fibers, as taut as mountains, bulged in the dark seawater. With each stomp (even though there was no solid ground beneath his feet, he could only kick the water or broken metal debris), he stirred up a violent current, creating visible shockwaves that spread outwards.

His powerful punch was no longer a deafening roar that tore through the air on land, but rather a force that squeezed through the heavy water, forming a high-pressure water jet that slammed into Osborn's body, which was covered in hard scales or shells, with a dull thud like a deep-sea thunderstorm. The impact was dull and the sound of bones cracking echoed.

Osborne's counterattack was equally terrifying.

His massive tail, tens of meters long and covered with barbs or energy tentacles, stirred up a destructive vortex with each sweep, churning the surrounding metal fragments and murky seawater into a deadly whirlpool, attempting to pull the Hulk in and tear him apart.

His claws tore through the seawater, grabbing at Hulk with the force to rip through steel. Each collision caused the surrounding seawater to crackle with a low, explosive sound due to the instantaneous compression and release.

The feeling of suffocation was like a cold iron clamp tightly gripping Hulk's throat (even though his powerful lungs were still working frantically).

The immense pressure of the deep sea, thousands of meters below the surface, not only acted on the outside but also frantically squeezed his chest cavity, trying to force out the precious air from his lungs.

(End of this chapter)