Starting with Naruto, I'll become stronger through my own efforts.

Chapter 243 The Birth of the Great Wall Street Forest

Without any delay, as soon as it entered the electromagnetic orbit, the metal spear-shaped projectile emitted a dazzling electric arc and was accelerated to an extremely high speed of Mach 20 in just 1.4 seconds.

If the electromagnetic track hadn't already emptied the air, forming an invisible vacuum channel, the metal spear would have inevitably turned into a molten metal mass due to such high-speed friction with the air.

However, the electromagnetic track could not be directly connected to Hulk's body. When the spear left the vacuum tube in the last 10 meters, it turned into a bright light in the air and struck Hulk hard.

The spear, traveling at Mach 20 and weighing 50 kilograms, struck Hulk below his left rib, the tip penetrating at least 40 centimeters inward.

But the spear still couldn't pierce the green skin; it was even bounced back, the rebounding spear glowing red as it pierced the concrete wall of a building dozens of meters away.

Hundreds of spears followed, but none of them could penetrate the target.

Although the spears that hit the Hulk's torso couldn't penetrate his skin, they could at least go in quite deep and cause some damage.

The spears that struck the head and limbs ricocheted off without leaving even a scratch.

The most unbelievable thing was the spear that hit Hulk in the groin and buttocks, and the result was indescribable.

Xia Zuo was stunned and blurted out, "This...this can't even break through the defense?"

"Is his skin made of neutron star matter?"

"Damn it, and those damn underwear too!"

Since we can't break through his skin, let's control Hulk and ban him!

Xia Zuo clasped his hands together, and instantly, the projectiles that were attacking Hulk softened into clay and stuck to Hulk's body the moment they hit him.

Since there was no longer a need to leave trajectories for subsequent attacks, tens of thousands of shells rushed in simultaneously.

In just a few seconds, the softened clay from the cement and bricks enveloped Hulk, forming a mud ball with a diameter of 6 meters.

Then, spear-like projectiles rained down, piercing deep into the mud ball and connecting with each other along Hulk's body, forming a metal cage that also became the internal steel reinforcement of the mud ball.

Then the complex mud ball is rapidly heated, and in the high temperature, it consumes heat to undergo chemical reduction, and is restored to cement that has not yet been calcined.

Then Xia Zuo manipulated the tap water that gushed out of the crack and poured it onto the huge dry cement ball. He precisely controlled the contact between the water and the cement powder, completing the hardening of the cement at the fastest speed.

Throughout the process, Hulk fully experienced the preparation of beggar's chicken.

For Hulk, the high temperature of the enclosed environment was only 500 degrees Celsius plus two or three atmospheres of pressure, which posed no threat to his life.

But the enclosed, dark environment and the forced suppression of his all-out struggle instilled fear in Hulk, whose mind was still in the infant stage.

Before fear reaches its peak and undergoes a qualitative change, it transforms into anger hundreds or thousands of times over, and this anger then transforms into power within the Hulk.

Unparalleled power.

As his strength increases, Hulk's size also continues to expand. This unreasonable increase in mass is an unbearable pressure for a rigid reinforced concrete sphere.

Xia Zuo watched helplessly as the reinforced concrete sealing ball he had painstakingly created, using so much chemical knowledge and precise formula, trembled and cracked with countless fissures, exploding like a bomb after only a few seconds.

Xia Zuo finally understood what it meant to be: "One force can overcome all laws."

Hulk, having broken free of the sealing sphere, stood upright, revealing his massive 4.5-meter-tall frame and a raging, ferocious aura.

Upon seeing Xia Zuo, Hulk found an outlet for his rage, raising both fists and slamming them hard into the ground.

An indescribable, terrifying force pressed down on the ground, instantly causing it to cave in, creating a giant crater over 100 meters in diameter and nearly 40 meters deep.

The impact crater affected three buildings; the buildings whose foundations were destroyed collapsed and fell into the crater.

With his eyes fixed on Xia Zuo, Hulk, roaring furiously, was careless and failed to dodge. He was struck by the collapsing building and buried deep at the bottom of the giant crater.

Xia Zuo, assuming a fighting stance:

"—A few seconds later, the enraged beast dug through the ruins and emerged from underneath."

This time, Hulk learned his lesson and stopped wasting time roaring and slamming the ground. Instead, he leaped high into the air and pounced on Xia Zuo, whom he hated the most.

Xia Zuo held his right hand up in front of his eyes and vanished instantly, leaving Hulk only to catch a glimpse of his afterimage.

[Ninja Art: Body Flicker Technique]

When Hulk looked up in confusion, he saw dozens of Shazos standing in different positions, doing different things.

[Ninja Art: Clone Technique]

Hulk scratched his head in confusion, and after only a second of thought, he decisively gave up and pounced on the first Xia Zuo.

Of course, Hulk missed and knocked down an afterimage.

Using the time gained by the [Clone Technique], Xia Zuo carefully assessed the power he possessed.

The Marvel universe is extremely compatible with power, so Shazor in the Marvel universe became the one who benefited the most from the power sharing.

However, having too many types of power is itself a problem, and it's easy to be troubled by decision-making difficulties.

After spending a few minutes sorting things out, Xia Zuo chose ninjutsu.

He exerted all his strength to extract chakra from his body, because no one could sense the fluctuations of chakra; he was so unrestrained and undisguised.

Then, Xia Zuo clasped his hands together and unleashed his most familiar ninjutsu.

[Wood Release: Advent of the Tree World]

Wall Street, already ravaged by the storm, trembled violently, and the ground instantly transformed into a turbulent sea, with skyscrapers bobbing up and down.

The already shattered ground was completely pulverized by the tremors, and then deep, bottomless cracks appeared in the ground.

Green saplings sprouted from the cracks in the ground and grew wildly at a visible rate, reaching a height of 6 meters in just a few breaths.

The Hulk, a giant of meters, was submerged in the green forest.

Minutes later, towering trees that would take several people to encircle covered the ground of Wall Street, and climbing pine trees and vines also grew on the towering buildings.

These plants have shown astonishing destructive power, with their ubiquitous roots penetrating into reinforced concrete, causing large and small chunks of cement to fall from skyscrapers from top to bottom.

The steel forest that once represented the center of the world economy has, in the blink of an eye, transformed into a true primeval forest.

No, because of the rows of reinforced concrete buildings, this forest is filled with an aura of the end of civilization, as if it were the end of a civilization that had been devoured by nature.

At that moment, environmentalists watching on television jumped up: "Nature's punishment! This is nature's punishment of humanity!"

"Nature's end has come!"

"This is a warning: humanity must protect nature, or the end of civilization is just around the corner!"

Inside her villa on Long Island, Skye stared in disbelief at the television.

She knew her boss was very powerful, but she didn't know he could create such a miracle.

At Rockefeller Estate, Steven and David, uncle and nephew, face each other.

They thought they had overestimated Xia Zuo's power, but they hadn't expected that they had greatly underestimated him; he was able to display power like a god.

David touched his forehead and sighed, "This is a miracle! No, it's a divine intervention!"

"I bet that starting tomorrow, there will be fanatics of Shazo in the world who worship him as a god."

Steven smiled wryly, "No need to start tomorrow, I'm already a believer in Shazo."

"Uncle, my legs are so weak. If I weren't sitting here, I would definitely be kneeling on the ground watching TV."

David was taken aback for a moment, then burst into laughter.

He patted his thigh and said, "Actually, I'm the same way."

In the command center of S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters in New York, Nick Fury, Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, Maria Hill, Black Widow Natasha, Hawkeye Barton, and other key agents, along with hundreds of other agents, were all stunned by the television footage.

S.H.I.E.L.D. prides itself on being the protectors of Earth, and they have dealt with countless superhumans, but they have never encountered an entity with such terrifying power.

Almost all the agents were muttering, "God!"

Tony Stark tilted his head: "Well, a god has appeared. Looks like we don't need to lift a finger."

"This ending is quite good; the green primeval forest burying the green monster is very fitting."

Rogers took a deep breath and asked, "Fury, have you found out who this superhuman is?"

Nick Fury nodded: "It hasn't been officially confirmed yet, but based on current intelligence, he is most likely Shazo Dawson, the former honorary captain of the NYPD's ESU."

Director Lu Dan took out a file that had just been delivered: "Xia Zuo has his own file at S.H.I.E.L.D."

"According to the information in the file, Shazo Dawson's abilities are [Precision Shooting], [Building Demolition], and [Gunfighting].

"He once single-handedly wiped out the private army of more than 300 Mexican drug lords, killed Kingpin, the mob boss, and blew up Kingpin's Wilson Building."

Tony Stark added, "I remember this guy; he played a decisive role in my fight with Obadiah Stane."

"I remember it was he who stopped General Ross from seizing the Iron Monger."

Nick Fury raised an eyebrow and said, "Tony is right, it's Officer Shazzo."

Natasha asked, "Director, is it possible there's a mistake? The difference is too big."

Nick Fury replied, "No mistake, it's him."

"The armor he's wearing is unique; it's in the style of ancient Chinese armor, and NASA uses titanium alloy plates, making it very distinctive."

"That was a gift from the Rockefeller family to Shazo Dawson, representing the Rockefeller family's friendship."

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"I bet he deliberately wore a suit of armor to identify himself to people like me, but without revealing his identity to ordinary people."

"Therefore, it must be Shazo Dawson."

"But all the information about Xia Zuo's power in this file is wrong."

"Perhaps he had been hiding his true power before, or perhaps he only recently acquired this powerful ability."

"In short, this is yet another uncontrollable superhuman."

Tony Stark scoffed dismissively, "You've got quite the nerve. You're always talking about controlling this and controlling that, but why should others be controlled by you?"

Steve Rogers is a moral exemplar of the spirit of the rice grain, with an unparalleled pursuit of freedom and justice, yet he also reveals a degree of discontent.

Nick Fury noticed their objections, but he simply said, "The purpose of S.H.I.E.L.D. is to protect the Earth like a shield."

"Controlling any targets that may pose a threat to Earth is my duty as the director of S.H.I.E.L.D."

The agents all agreed with their director's statement, but Steve Rogers and Tony Stark, who were not agents, were even more disgusted.

Just as Stark was about to unleash his sharp tongue and say something, the images on the television caught his attention, and he immediately forgot what he wanted to say.

In the vast forest of Wall Street, green giants leaped up and down.

Hulk destroyed the branches chasing him while fiercely attacking the large trees around him, trying to break free from the forest's embrace.

The primeval forest created by Wood Release is a dead end for ninjas, but it poses no threat to Hulk.

No branch could penetrate Hulk's skin, nor could any branch withstand Hulk's immense strength.

Even with a massive amount of chakra and a thick layer of defense, nothing could stop the Hulk's advance; he could only rampage through the forest at will.

Seeing that the ordinary forest could not stop Hulk, Shazah extracted a large amount of chakra again, then clapped his hands together and used a new ninjutsu.

[Wood Release: Wood Human Technique]

The giant trees in the forest began to flow, converging at Xia Zuo's feet and merging into one, forming a chubby head, followed by shoulders, body, hands, waist, hips, and legs.

Xia Zuo stood on top of this giant head, rising higher and higher. When the wooden figure's giant feet emerged from the ground, he was already 30 meters tall.

Xia Zuo, who used to look up to the Hulk, is now completely looked down upon. The 4.5-meter-tall Hulk is just a cute little thing that you have to jump up to hit the wooden man's knee.

But when Hulk saw the wooden figure that he had to look up at, he was not afraid at all, but rather felt extremely excited, finally he had a powerful enough enemy to defeat.

Hulk roared excitedly, "Hulk!"

Under Xia Zuo's control, the wooden figure also emitted a deep "roar".

Hulk smashed a large tree blocking his way with a punch, then stomped his feet out, creating a large hole in the ground. Using the force of the impact, he shot like a cannonball toward Shazo on the wooden man's head.

His intuition told him that the wooden figure wasn't the key; the guy he had been fighting all along was.

Xia Zuo had no intention of engaging in hand-to-hand combat with the Hulk. Under his control, the wooden figure raised its hand and slapped it towards the leaping Hulk.

This scene is just like when the First Hokage manipulated the True Thousand Hands to grab the Nine-Tails.