American comics: Praising the sun, starting from Gotham!

S.H.I.E.L.D.'s blockade proved somewhat vulnerable when faced with a dilapidated Ford RV that appeared to be malfunctioning.

Several broken warning tapes fluttered in the rain as the RV, covered in mud and with an indomitable spirit, nearly crashed into a S.H.I.E.L.D. SUV parked on the side of the road. Finally, with its rear wheels half a meter off the ground, it came to a forced stop at the edge of the crater.

"Oh My God!"

Before the car door was fully opened, a petite but powerful figure jumped out, and because she was in such a hurry, she stumbled in the mud.

"Thor! What's wrong?"

Jane Foster practically slid all the way to the bottom of the pit.

She first checked to make sure the big guy who was chewing on a biscuit wasn't missing any limbs, and then her gaze was inevitably drawn to the light source.

That's incredible.

At the heart of this stormy electromagnetic field, where even microwave communication struggles to penetrate, stands a being radiating a soft golden light.

Raindrops evaporated automatically three centimeters from his body, forming layer upon layer of dazzling halos.

She pulled out a phase meter, its pointer spinning wildly like a drugged dancer.

"That's impossible!"

Jane even forgot that she was going to help Latour. She took two steps to stand in front of Xiu En, ignoring Ivy's disdainful sunflower-like gaze, and shoved the device directly into Xiu En's face.

"Your energy dissipation rate is zero?! You're continuously emitting high-energy light and heat, but the entropy of the surrounding environment isn't increasing? How do you do that? Are you some kind of thing that can realize the Maxwell's demon effect on a macroscopic level?"

"Hey, stop!"

The sunflowers protested.

A vine snapped away Jane's outstretched hand, pointing to the black smoke billowing from the RV and then to Jane's oil-stained cuffs.

"Get away, woman. Your vehicle is far exceeding emission standards, and you have static electricity."

"Calm down, calm down, ma'am."

Xiu En found it somewhat amusing.

He extended a finger and gently tapped the still-wobbling detection probe.

The next second, the poor instrument exploded with a brilliant burst of electric sparks and black smoke due to overload.

"First of all, I'm not some Maxwell's Demon, that's called Shaohao Divine Light! Okay, in terms you can understand, you can think of me as a super solar panel with its own ecological cycle system."

Xiu En smiled.

"Besides, compared to that hammer that's all energy and no soul, doesn't that big guy over there still savoring his cookies deserve your slightest attention?"

"Hey! Stop! Over there!"

Coulson finally led a team of agents to surround them. He now felt that today's report would most likely be written into a science fiction novel.

"Miss, this is a military restricted area!"

But just as the mad scientist nearly went to extreme lengths for data, a down-on-his-luck god ate a cookie with a broken heart, and S.H.I.E.L.D. agents tried to maintain order.

In the sky, the real guests finally made their appearance, not wanting to be left out.

The already thick, dark clouds seemed to be torn apart, and a beam of colorful light struck the desert less than a kilometer from the base.

Xiu En raised his head, feeling the shockwave transmitted through dimensional vibration.

Thor struggled to stand up in the mud.

"brother!"

That cry was filled with sorrow.

Even though he had lost his divine powers, and even though he was now just a homeless man with crumbs in his mouth, the sense of honor etched into his bones still led him to make the most reckless decision of his life when the familiar rainbow bridge's radiance pierced through the clouds.

That was the direction of his hometown, the call of his father—at least that's what he believed at the moment.

"In the past, this would indeed have been a touching family reunion."

A hand landed on Thor's shoulder, forcefully pressing the golden lion, who was about to take flight, back into the mud pit.

puff.

Mud and water splashed, and Jane let out a cry of surprise.

"But even your brain, which is all muscle, should start moving, shouldn't it? What makes that thing look like it's coming to pick you up with flowers and beer?"

Xiu En floated half a foot above the ground, his golden pupils shrinking into needle-like vertical pupils as he stared at the core of the slowly dissipating pillar of light.

The roar of the storm seemed to be suppressed by the figure emerging from the smoke and dust.

It was an empty shell of armor, filled with murderous intent and sacred majesty.

Destroyer!!!

The three-meter-tall body was entirely made of Asgard's finest Uru metal, and behind the visor were two orange-red vortexes that were gradually lighting up.

"Wow..."

Hugh made an undisguised swallowing sound, and the look in his eyes made Jane feel that he was even more terrifying than the Iron Giant who was gathering his strength.

"Pure Uru structure? Hollow? Filled with a divine core? This is simply a dream pudding made for the taste."

Sunflower Ivy covered her ears with her leaves in disgust: "Stop drooling. That iron bucket is using facial recognition on your mortal friends, and the result is that they're all wiped out."

"It's okay, I'm hungry anyway."

"This is S.H.I.E.L.D.! Identify yourself immediately!"

"Shut up if you don't want to die, Agent!"

Shuen interrupted Coulson's official announcement, which was enough to be included in a collection of lines that villains would love to hear.

The next second, the Destroyer's visor slid open, and a beam of energy, even more dazzling than the sun, shot out.

Hawkeye's arrow was vaporized by the high-temperature force field before it even touched the armor surface, and the agent's SUV was thrown into the air by the shock wave like a toy.

Jane screamed and tried to rush over to pull Thor away, but the blond, goofy guy just knelt there blankly, watching the artifact that was supposed to protect the throne point its cannon at him.

"It? Why did it want to kill me?"

"Maybe it's because the throne is too crowded? And even if you're just a mortal, you take up too much space. Sigh, I really can't comment on your situation."

Xiu En chuckled lightly, and his figure flashed directly onto the inevitable path of this destructive torrent.

He opened his arms.

"This meal is on me."

Well, despite saying that, Xiu En still had to admit that he had really bitten off more than he could chew this time.

"This is way too spicy!"

Xiu En's clone caught the torrent head-on.

The golden energy flickered wildly at the point of contact, attempting to assimilate this destructive power from another world.

The air is distorted due to the high temperature.

Xiu En was like a brave man trying to drink water with a spoon in a tsunami. Although his posture was cool, his appetite couldn't keep up with the influx of millions of kilos per second.

"Get out of here! You big, blond dummy!"

Shuen had his back to Thor, and his voice trembled due to the vibrations of energy.

"I can't hold your hand now. If you don't take your friends and get out of here, you'll really become barbecue!"

Loki, far away in Asgard, seemed to have also sensed the resistance from this side.

With a cold snort that seemed to travel across dimensions, the Destroyer's visor fully deployed, and the two orange-red vortexes transformed into a dazzling incandescent white.

Going all out.

"Click?"

A sound that shouldn't have come from the light body clearly reached everyone's ears.

The golden aura that Xiu En used for protection began to develop cracks, like those found in porcelain.

This is, after all, just an avatar, not as indestructible as the original body.

"Damn it, the main body is still rummaging through that damn refrigerator..."

A wisp of golden light spilled from the corner of Xiu En's mouth, but he still did not take a single step back.

Because behind him was Thor, who hadn't gotten up yet, and the female scientist who was stunned.

He glanced back at Thor with a look of disdain mixed with helplessness.

"Hey, Your Highness, remember this! A true god doesn't become useless just because he's lost his hammer."

The next second, the radiance engulfed everything.

The Destroyer's beam finally pierced through the obstacle, but in that instant, Shuen chose to disintegrate.

That was the last refuge he could offer.

The golden light filled the sky, transforming into countless warm points of light, like a reversed golden downpour covering Thor, Jane, and Coulson, who was still in a daze not far away.

Along with Xiu En's disappearance, the sunflower on his shoulder, which had been bravely waving its leaves in protest, withered instantly, turning into a wisp of green light and vanishing into the air.

Only a crimson Destroyer and a deathly still ember remained on the scene.

Thor stared blankly as he reached out and caught a wisp of golden light that was dissipating.

Like a dream?

died?

The strange deity who inexplicably appeared and gave him a few cookies just disappeared like that?

"No!!!"

Immediately following was a surge of rage.

The man in the mud slowly stood up.

This time, it wasn't about reclaiming glory, nor was it about proving anything to his father.

He watched the killing machine approach Jane, his heart pounding in his chest like a war drum.

"Loki!!!!"

Perhaps it was hearing that roar, or perhaps it was the final piece of the puzzle that was being completed.

At the bottom of the meteorite crater a few hundred meters away, the artifact that had been lifeless since its descent suddenly emitted a pleasant hum.

The agents scattered in fear.

Whoosh-!

No one could see its trajectory. Mjolnir, carrying the force of a thunderbolt, flew automatically into the giant hand that trembled with rage.

Boom!

The sky and earth changed color, and the torrential rain was instantly swept into the air by the whirlwind.

The mud-covered vagrant disappeared, and in his place appeared Thor, wearing a red cloak, holding a warhammer, and bathed in raging lightning!

I'm currently reading Chapter 174, "The Fall of a God and the Night of Thunder," and I'm completely engrossed in it.