Marvel Universe's Ultimate Martial Arts School

北美时间2008年11月21日，凌晨1点31分。

New York, 10,000 meters above the ground.

The giant space carrier hovered in mid-air, its background reflective panel activated, blending seamlessly with the surrounding sky. From a distance, it appeared as if nothing was there, utterly silent.

But inside the command center of the space carrier, things were in a chaotic and bustling state.

Nick Fury's phone is ringing off the hook.

The mayor of New York City, the NSA...

The S.H.I.E.L.D. space carrier's arrival in New York was actually for another mission.

Just days earlier, the mad scientist who destroyed the circuit with his electric whip and nearly killed Tony Stark had escaped from prison.

S.H.I.E.L.D. came mainly to investigate this matter.

After all, that mad scientist was Anton Fancosh's son. As the man who co-founded Stark Industries with Howard, Anton Fancosh and Howard were sworn enemies.

Given the ambition and advanced technology displayed by his mad scientist son, if S.H.I.E.L.D. doesn't intervene, not only will Tony Stark, whom Fury values, be in danger, but the entire city of New York may also be unsafe.

That's an extremely dangerous person.

But less than five hours after arriving here, before he could even find Ivan Vanco's whereabouts, another major incident occurred, catching the director of S.H.I.E.L.D., who happened to be in New York, completely off guard.

First, a huge, green monster jumped out of the cell lab at Graham University and rampaged along Eighth Avenue from the northbound intersection of 121st Street and Broadway all the way to Queens.

This paralyzed traffic on Eighth Avenue, caused hundreds of civilian casualties, and plunged the entire street into a cacophony of sirens and flames.

The city government urgently mobilized fire trucks and police to evacuate traffic. After assessment, Fury also immediately dispatched a top-notch emergency response team consisting of 21 Level 7 agents, 6 Level 8 agents, and 2 Level 9 agents, equipped with heavy weapons and capture tools. The team was unprecedentedly large and was tasked with intercepting and capturing the green behemoth that caused the damage.

But before the emergency response team could even arrive on the ground from the space carrier by transport ship, an even more terrifying scene unfolded under the monitoring of the space carrier.

That was on 21st Street in Queens, which was also the destination of that big green guy.

Although the wireless signal here has been blocked by the military, it obviously cannot play its due role under the advanced technology of the space carrier.

So Nick Fury witnessed everything that happened there firsthand.

General Ross's illegal experiments were a minor matter; the NSA had been aware of them for a while but simply turned a blind eye.

But that mysterious figure with an Eastern face is the real big deal!

He actually used a fruit knife to kill a total of 566 professional Marines, including General Ross, in just over ten seconds, and also destroyed five armed helicopters, eleven heavy armored vehicles, and twenty light armored personnel carriers...

Saying it's only for ten seconds is actually being generous.

In fact, according to the surveillance footage, the mysterious Easterner only took about three seconds to do all of this!

The remaining ten or so seconds were spent on mentally torturing General Ross.

The Easterner, wielding the fruit knife, slowly plunged it into the roof of the armored vehicle, which to him was as fragile as chocolate, giving General Ross ample time to witness his own death.

He can destroy an army without taking damage in three seconds; all the bullets from firearms seem to have no effect on him.

Even as the director of S.H.I.E.L.D., even though Nick Fury has witnessed many supernatural phenomena, knows a lot of advanced technologies that ordinary people don't know about, and has even come into contact with aliens.

Nick Fury was still terrified. If he hadn't witnessed it with his own eyes, he probably wouldn't have been able to imagine what kind of combat power it was!

Even Captain Marvel, whom Nick Fury once considered a god, was far less terrifying and precise in terms of destructive power than this mysterious Easterner.

This guy is practically a living Satan!

His first reaction was to immediately contact the emergency response team that had just been sent out to capture the green giant, and to tell them that they must not go near 21st Street in Queens, that would be suicide!

They then urgently called in the technical team to restore and analyze the surveillance video.

The results came out very quickly.

There's a lot of bad news.

The knife that destroyed the entire army was confirmed, after comprehensive surveillance, to be just an ordinary steel knife. The surveillance footage not only clearly captured its shape when it was hovering, but also showed it vaporizing into smoke in the air after killing General Ross.

This means that the mysterious Easterner wasn't using any high-tech products, but rather superpowers like mind control.

This also means that whatever falls into the hands of that Easterner could probably unleash the same, or even more terrifying, destructive power.

Secondly, the attack speed of the throwing knife, after precise calculation, reached a terrifying 13 meters per second.

That's a speed of 130 kilometers per second, which means Mach 382, ​​or four ten-thousandths of the speed of light. And that's a circular speed, not a linear speed!

This has far exceeded the speed limit of any technology currently in the possession of S.H.I.E.L.D.

No wonder that throwing knife could easily penetrate thick armor plates. Let alone steel plates, with such speed, even a grain of rice could destroy a building in an instant with its kinetic energy!

Even more terrifying, the technical department even reconstructed the scene of him cutting the bullet.

Thousands of bullets were split in two in an instant, and the computer analysis of all the paths the throwing knife took in doing so revealed it to be the perfect route that minimized distance...

This not only signifies the precision and efficiency with which the Easterner wielded the throwing knife, but also represents his formidable reflexes and mental acuity.

Planning and executing the perfect route to cut through thousands of bullets would probably take even a second or two, even for S.H.I.E.L.D.'s supercomputers. Yet, the Asian man in the video didn't even need half a second.

This means that his reaction and mental abilities far exceed those of ordinary people, and even surpass the limits of supercomputers!

This is definitely not an opponent that S.H.I.E.L.D. can handle, and Captain Marvel is far away in outer space.

Compared to the terrifying nature of this mysterious Easterner, Nick Fury instantly felt that the mad scientist Ivan Vanko, the focus of their previous mission, was completely insignificant.

Now, all of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s focus and strategic objectives must immediately shift and concentrate on this formidable figure.

Of course there is also good news.

First, S.H.I.E.L.D. retrieved the registration information for the Extreme Martial Arts Academy.

It turned out to be a special stamp approved by Mr. Phillips, the former director and Nick Fury's superior.

There was no need to investigate. Nick Fury knew perfectly well that the "stamp" was fake. After all, he had been Mr. Phillips' most trusted assistant and had accompanied General Phillips during the last few years of his life. He knew everything that General Phillips had handled at the time, and this inexplicable special approval stamp was definitely not among them.

Therefore, although it is unknown how the mysterious Easterner tampered with the NSA's data, this shows that the other party was actually willing to abide by the superficial rules of American law.

Meanwhile, although only video recordings were available, technicians were able to reconstruct all the conversations between the mysterious Easterner and General Ross through spoken dialogue during the video reconstruction process.

The dialogue was brief, consisting of only a few sentences.

— Climbing the wall and shooting tranquilizer darts, you provoked the Extreme Martial Arts Academy twice.

—The authority of the Ultimate Martial Arts School cannot be challenged, whether you are the military or the government.

—Considering I was unaware of this and it's my first time doing this, if you leave with your people now, I can pretend nothing happened.

And the last one, tinged with a touch of melancholy—fire?

Even without waiting for a psychologist's analysis, Nick Fury could already roughly understand the other party's attitude and principles by combining the judicial approval process for the Martial Arts Academy's fraud and this conversation.

Firstly, the Extreme Martial Arts Academy does not tolerate provocation. As long as you don't provoke them, they are unlikely to cause trouble.

Secondly, he is well aware of his own power and therefore does not care about the US government and military. A guy who can control an object to cause destruction at a speed of 130 kilometers per second, and who also has superhuman reflexes and intelligence, is definitely not someone that S.H.I.E.L.D. or the US government can suppress or control by force. You simply cannot carry out any assassination operation against such a being, let alone capture him.

Of course, there is a third, and only, good conclusion: this mysterious Easterner is not bloodthirsty, nor is he evil. He is even willing to abide by social rules to a certain extent, which can be clearly seen from his words, "Take your people and leave, and I will pretend nothing happened."

General Ross's decision to open fire despite warnings can only be considered his own fault. In fact, he had been conducting illegal experiments against congressional orders, and the NSA had been watching him for a long time, but lacked evidence; otherwise, they would have arrested him long ago.

For someone like him, being tried and being killed are really no different.

And now, the deaths of him and his army are not without meaning.

At least, it made S.H.I.E.L.D. aware of some of the principles and bottom lines of this terrifying Easterner.

Becoming friends with someone like that might be the best choice.