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

Chapter 245 Taming the Hulk

The rushing water quickly washed away the fishy smell.

Skye was pleasantly surprised to find that the sticky sweat on her body was easily washed away, without the need for shower gel or other washing products.

Moreover, after rinsing off the sweat, she immediately smelled the fragrance that had been masked before—a light and lingering floral scent that didn't completely disappear even in the shower.

After checking several times, the girl confirmed that it was indeed the scent emanating from her own body. She suddenly felt extremely ashamed, and her face turned completely red with embarrassment.

As a girl who struggled to rise from the bottom, Skye's life was built on her own efforts, and she never considered using her looks to please others.

Even after clarifying her relationship with Xia Zuo, she still has her own career and her own strength, which can provide indispensable assistance to her boss and lover.

Skye is a truly independent woman who strongly resists the idea of ​​using her beauty to please men.

So she bought a lot of perfumes to collect and enjoy, but never sprayed them on herself, making herself a large perfume diffuser.

Today, she found herself transformed into a real incense burner, and she felt incredibly embarrassed.

I can't see my boss anymore.

Shazo also benefited from the bells rang out by Hulk.

So he abandoned his real killing move. As long as Hulk showed any signs of regaining consciousness, he would manipulate the wooden figure to punch him, keeping him in a daze.

Having unleashed a full 40 punches at Hulk with all his might, Xia Zuo obtained enough data to correspond with the Great Dao of Power in Xia Zuo's memories of the Heavenly Tribulation, and immediately felt that he had gained a great deal.

At the same time, he also discovered that Hulk was beginning to adapt to the wooden man's attacks.

Despite receiving so many punches, Hulk not only remained unharmed, but his rate of regaining consciousness actually accelerated.

When the first punch landed, Hulk would be stunned for half a minute, but after only 2 seconds of the 41st punch, Hulk's eyes regained their sparkle.

Xia Zuo knew that he could no longer extract any benefits from the Hulk today, and it was time to end the battle with a decisive move.

The armed wooden figure raised its right fist, and after a moment of gathering strength, a thin layer of white mist enveloped its fist before it punched Hulk in front of him.

After the giant fist stopped, the white mist that had enveloped it covered Hulk, then transformed into a sharp-edged cube that trapped him.

【Dust Release: Particle Style Detachment Technique】

The tree branches around Hulk and the soil beneath his feet instantly crumbled and disappeared, but he and his underwear remained completely unharmed.

No, it can't be considered completely intact. The frayed seams at the edge of the underwear have disappeared, and some tiny black dots have appeared on Hulk's green skin, with barely visible black substances emerging from them.

But those wounds, smaller than a pinhead, heal completely before they even cause any damage.

Dust Release, also known as Blood Elimination that can disintegrate all things, can only cause Hulk extremely minor injuries, so minor that he cannot even perceive them himself.

Xia Zuo's bewilderment upon witnessing this scene is unimaginable.

In terms of destructive power, [Dust Release: Particle Style] is his strongest known skill, far stronger than [Nuclear Release: Sunspot].

Planting a giant mushroom can destroy the entire Manhattan, but it cannot completely eliminate the titanium block at the blast point. However, Dust Escape can make the block disappear without a trace.

But Xia Zuo was still unwilling to give up. He manipulated the wooden figure to raise its left fist, which produced a wisp of black smoke before smashing it into Hulk.

Black smoke formed a peanut-sized black bead on Hulk's chest, greedily devouring everything around it, including light, which was noticeably distorted.

But when Hulk's body was drawn to it, it smashed the terrifying black bead, turning it back into a wisp of black smoke.

Now Xia Zuo completely understood that the Hulk's mutation definitely contained some kind of magical law, far exceeding the laws represented by Dust Release and Dark Release.

Only in this way will the ninjutsu he considers an absolute killing move be ineffective.

On the contrary, what seemed like an ordinary heavy punch landed with a powerful impact, causing the Hulk to stagger and scream in agony.

A question popped into Xia Zuo's mind: If the enemy's rank is higher than yours, how do you fight him?

A great voice answered him: "You fight your way, I'll fight mine."

Guided by this statement, Shazor decided to abandon his brute force against the Hulk.

Once he abandoned his pointless obsession, his mind cleared, and he quickly figured out the key to defeating the Hulk.

If you don't consider how to kill the Hulk, then you don't need to consider how strong his defense is.

Since the Hulk has no ranged attack capabilities, his immense power is meaningless as long as there is no direct or indirect contact between the two sides.

Earth's matter cannot trap the Hulk, but what can the Hulk do without access to matter?

Xia Zuo understood all of this and suddenly felt a sense of light in his heart.

As Hulk fully regained consciousness and roared as he leaped high into the air, Shazo smiled and extended his right hand, channeling powerful electromagnetic force into Hulk's body.

That was a magnetic force with the same properties as Earth's magnetism. Since like magnetic forces repel each other, Hulk's body was lifted into the air by the magnetic force and could no longer fall down.

Hulk got anxious and started swinging his thick arms like he was paddling.

But while the frantic swinging could create gusts of wind, the reaction force could not propel his body forward.

It's worth noting that the enraged Hulk has now swelled to a height of 6 meters, and his weight has also increased to nearly 10 kilograms.

ton.

The strength of the Earth's magnetic field is extremely weak; it cannot even support a needle.

Shazo concentrated nearly half of the electromagnetic force to use the Earth's magnetic field to hold Hulk in the air.

If that immense electromagnetic force had a sufficiently strong support point, it could easily levitate a ship weighing tens of thousands of tons.

Such immense power could not be blown away by the wind generated by Hulk paddling with his arms.

At this moment, Hulk facing Shazo is like Wolverine standing in front of Magneto. Under the absolute attribute restraint, even with his immense strength, he has no way to exert it.

But Hulk is Hulk; his furious roars are deafening, and the powerful gusts of wind he creates by waving his hands howl and rage.

"I forgot that air is also matter."

Shazo rotated his hands, just like when he created the vacuum electromagnetic track before, using electromagnetic force to remove the air and turn the area around Hulk into a vacuum environment.

Without air, the roaring sounds disappeared, the strong winds created by waving hands were gone, and the world became so quiet.

Hulk, trapped in a vacuum, looked pained; all the blood vessels in his body bulged as the air pressure dropped to zero.

Afterwards, the air dissolved in the blood is released, leading to air clots.

This condition typically occurs when deep-sea divers surface, hence its specific medical name: decompression sickness.

This disease is an incurable and fatal acute illness for ordinary people.

The only treatment is to stay in the pressurized chamber for several hours to gradually adapt to the pressure changes.

But for Hulk, it was a small matter.

His powerful heartbeat forced a large number of air bubbles through the various embolism sites until the air bubbles circulated with the blood to the lungs and were expelled from the body through exchange.

As a monster with limitless energy, Hulk doesn't need to breathe; he maintains his body like a perpetual motion machine.

But the lack of air to breathe triggered an instinctive fear in Dr. Bruce Banner, which was then passed on to the bewildered Hulk.

Instinctive fear created a false premonition of death, and death terrified Hulk. For the first time, his inner fear surpassed his anger and began to dominate his thoughts.

When one is able to fight desperately, the fear of death can ignite the anger of the will to survive; but when one is powerless to struggle, the fear of death will extinguish all anger.

Shazo smiled and tried the next step of the plan: taming the Hulk.

This is no joke.

Hulk's physical body is incredibly strong, practically invincible on Earth today, but his mental state is very weak because he is less than five years old and has spent most of his time trapped in Bruce Banner's mental depths.

As a naturally intelligent species, a human child raised by wild beasts will become a wolf child with a lifespan of only 30 years.

Hulk's situation is similar to that of a wolf child; he has no opportunity to receive education or even to come into contact with other intelligent beings.

However, Hulk's soul is exceptionally strong, completely unaffected by the genjutsu of the Naruto world, and the Yamanaka clan's spiritual techniques cannot penetrate his mind.

In fact, the Hulk is indestructible—unyielding, uncookable, uncrushable, unexplosive, and can withstand the roar of a copper pea; he is an invincible being.

Xia Zuo clicked his tongue and muttered to himself, "It seems that the portrayal of Thanos in the movie was quite inadequate."

"When the purple sweet potato first met Hulk, it was able to grasp Hulk's characteristics after only one round of fighting, and it completely defeated Hulk in the second round of fighting."

"That set of military boxing is just a facade; the real attack will inevitably occur at the psychological level."

"Either Thanos's mental strength was so great that it crushed Hulk's soul and subjected him to inhuman torture in his inner world."

"Just like when Itachi Uchiha defeated Kakashi Hatake, he only glanced at him on the surface, but in reality, he stabbed him in the genjutsu space for 72 hours. Although it was 72 hours, every second felt like a day."

"Tsk tsk, I really don't know what Thanos did to Hulk in his mind to scare this little kid so much that he developed autism."

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"Either Thanos's fist possesses a special power that can directly shake the mind through physical attacks, breaking Hulk's will."

"It's a pity that my strength is too poor; I can only slowly endure it through physical means."

Xia Zuo looked up at Hulk, who was struggling helplessly in the air, and casually threw out a series of ice spikes, which accurately nailed into Hulk's body.

The ice spikes certainly couldn't pierce Hulk's skin, but after the ice spikes shattered, they sublimated rapidly in the vacuum, and the biting cold penetrated through his skin.

The feeling of being frozen was unpleasant; Hulk even experienced numbness in his body as a result.

After a row of ice spikes shattered, a series of lightning bolts followed, striking the Hulk with equal precision.

The electric current cannot damage Hulk's skin and muscles, but it can disrupt Hulk's nerve conduction, causing his limbs to tremble and temporarily lose control of his body.

Seeing Hulk's anger and silent roar in pain, Xia Zuo didn't hesitate to repeat another round of ice and lightning attacks.

After taking control of the Hulk, Shazo used attacks that were neither painful nor fast. His aim was no longer to harm the Hulk, but to torment his mind.

Using Thanos's conquest of the Hulk as a reference, he tormented the Hulk in his own way, exhausting the Hulk's mental strength and making it unable to control the growth of fear.

Shazo's goal was to take advantage of Hulk's young age and immature mind to completely tame him with pain and fear, plant the seeds of fear in his heart, and thus make him fear him.

Just like how people in tropical regions catch baby elephants and use ropes to restrain them, limiting their ability to move.

When the baby elephant grows into a full-grown elephant and has the strength to tear the rope at will, it will still be restricted in its freedom by the thin rope.

It is because elephants have developed a deep impression of ropes from a young age that they habitually believe they cannot break free and therefore do not try.

Xia Zuo was certainly not afraid of the Hulk, since he could control the Hulk right now.

Moreover, he is confident that he will become stronger in the future and will be able to defeat the Hulk with his strength in the near future.

However, Hulk's power and irrationality are inherently problematic; his condition is somewhat like that of a seven or eight-year-old boy.

Why are boys of this age so disliked?

Because they are half-grown up, they possess considerable strength, vigorous energy, and boundless curiosity, but lack a proper understanding of the world.

Even if they have no malicious intent, their recklessness and curiosity can easily cause chaos and even lead them to take risks that endanger themselves.

At this point, the family needs an elder with sufficient authority to restrain the boy's adventures and guide him to understand the laws of the world.

Only with the protection and guidance of elders can boys safely get through this dangerous period.

Then comes the even more annoying rebellious phase.

Shazam felt that Dr. Bruce Banner was too unlucky, but Hulk himself was the most innocent and pitiful one.

Therefore, he wanted to take on the responsibility of guiding Hulk's growth, so that his soul would be able to match the strength of his body, and that in the future he would no longer be the monster that everyone feared and avoided.

Only if Hulk himself grows up can the fate of Banner and Hulk merging into one be avoided.

Xia Zuo hated this result.

Perhaps the appearance of Dr. Hulk is an acceptable outcome for Bruce Banner, but for Hulk, an independent soul, what difference is there between such complete disappearance and death?

Along with Hulk, the super Hulk, who had unlimited potential, was able to snatch and smash gods and fight against cosmic emperors, also disappeared.

This is absolutely a major loss to Earth's power, no less than the departure of the Ancient One.

The appearance of Saint Seiya Shazam and Saiyan Shazam gave Shazam unprecedented power, making him a tall man on Earth.

In other words, now that the sky has fallen on Earth, he's the one who has to shoulder the burden.

But Xia Zuo knew that the sky over the earth was about to collapse, and it would collapse again and again.

As a tall man, he must find ways to increase Earth's combat power, especially high-end super combat power.

Hulk is the most worthwhile investment and the most likely candidate to shoulder the responsibility of mending the sky.

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