American Comics: Tales of Cultivator

# Chapter 97: Situation and Experiment

Kane sat at the table with a few subordinates, skillfully using a small dagger in his hand, slicing pieces off a smoked ham hock and putting them into his mouth.

Tang Song held a deck of cards, watching the others messing around nearby.

Fox giggled and picked up a piece of preserved fruit, feeding it to Tang Song. Tang Song bit her fingertip, and Fox burst into laughter.

Just then, Lane walked in from outside.

Tang Song smiled, stood up slightly, and waved a greeting. Lane quickly walked over.

Sitting down next to Tang Song, Lane said to him:

"Boss, we got word back from Africa. The World Security Council suffered heavy losses in Wakanda. They hired a batch of mercenaries in Africa to act as the vanguard!"

Tang Song had expected this:

"The Vibranium technology that Wakanda has developed over hundreds of years is no joke. Those ragtag troops from the World Security Council were bound to suffer a setback!"

"But these bastards are scum. Wakanda's advanced technology and Vibranium are like rotten meat, and they are a bunch of flies... Who came up with this bad idea of spending money to hire mercenaries..."

......

At the World Security Council headquarters, Alexander Pierce, who was in a meeting, sneezed twice in a row.

This drew the attention of the attendees.

"We cannot back down on the matter of Wakanda, everyone. This concerns the prestige of the World Security Council!"

Alexander Pierce rubbed his nose, stood up, and spoke forcefully:

"Vibranium belongs to all humanity. Wakanda has monopolized it for hundreds of years, not only failing to contribute to world development but even defrauding the Security Council of aid supplies to Africa."

"We must resolutely resist this behavior. Temporary setbacks are nothing. I propose increasing troops to Wakanda..."

The several councillors of the World Security Council exchanged glances, testing each other's intentions.

This deployment of Peacekeeping Forces to Wakanda was not entirely without gain. At the very least, they now knew that Wakanda was the source of Vibranium.

One gram of Vibranium is worth up to 10,000 US dollars. The Federation had previously sent troops to the Middle East for oil.

If they could truly take down Wakanda, the potential profit was immense.

"Seconded!"

"Seconded!"

"Seconded!"

"Seconded!"

The proposal to increase troops to Wakanda was unanimously passed.

...…

Just a few days ago, in East Africa.

Two Quinjets hovered in the air above Wakanda. The weapons on board were aimed remotely at Wakanda's border.

"You are about to enter Wakanda's airspace. Warning, warning..."

The two Quinjets received a warning sound.

Before the warning sound finished, at the Wakandan Royal Palace, the Old King looked at the two Quinjets and calmly said:

"Shoot down these two little birds!"

Swish swish swish swish swish swish...

More than a dozen blue energy pulses shot out from within Wakanda's protective shield.

Boom boom boom boom...

The two Quinjets had not expected to be suddenly attacked.

However, the performance of the Quinjets was excellent. Even under sudden attack, one of the Quinjets drew an arc and soared into the sky.

As for the other Quinjet, it wasn't so lucky. Hit by more than a dozen energy pulses at close range simultaneously, it instantly turned into a ball of fire.

"Damn it!"

Brock Rumlow sat in the cockpit with lingering fear. He was just a hair's breadth away from being finished.

But even though he escaped, half of his rapid response Special Forces subordinates were instantly casualties.

One must know that his team members were not cannon fodder like those in S.H.I.E.L.D.; they were his own people, true Hydra.

"Launch missiles, counter-attack!"

When had the infamous Crossbones ever suffered such a loss? He immediately ordered the pilot to launch the missiles on the Quinjet.

The Quinjet maneuvered flexibly in the air. The pilot aimed at the direction from which the energy pulses had been fired within Wakanda's territory, about to press the missile launch button.

The airborne radar showed a red dot rapidly approaching them.

Without time to think, the pilot quickly maneuvered the aircraft into a dive, narrowly avoiding a Vibranium Jet.

"Is this plane crazy?"

Nearly crashing and dying, the Serpent S.H.I.E.L.D. pilot of the Quinjet couldn't help but curse.

Before he could recover, the Vibranium Jet suddenly turned around in the clouds and dived towards them.

F-Two wing pods, two dogfight missiles, first locked onto them.

"Target locked!"

...…

"Connect me to the Intelligence Department. Find out what exactly is going on with this Wakanda!"

At the Triskelion, Nick Fury's face was as black as could be.

As a spy chief who managed his resources carefully, he had painstakingly embezzled funding from the World Security Council to accumulate some family fortune for S.H.I.E.L.D.

The Quinjet was S.H.I.E.L.D.'s masterpiece, each one expensive to build. Now, one had suddenly been shot down.

Nick Fury felt his heart bleeding.

"Officer, this combat mission targeting Wakanda was directly authorized by the Security Council. The Director-General himself is in command!"

Agent Hill quickly finished communicating with the Intelligence Department and shook her head at Nick Fury.

"Personally in command? Deploying two Quinjets to invade the airspace of a small East African country? If it weren't for the Quinjet's crash warning, would we have even known about this mission?"

Nick Fury pointed at the satellite screen and questioned.

Agent Hill looked at the two red dots on the screen, her eyes widening the more she looked: "Officer, this is clearly not the technological level shown by a small African country. The speed of this Vibranium Jet is abnormal, it's too fast!"

The Vibranium Jet's speed reached Mach 3. In front of it, the Quinjet had no ability to fight back.

In just a few rounds, the Quinjet lost an engine and was forced to make an emergency landing on the African Continent.

"Where is the nearest support we can mobilize?"

Nick Fury looked at Crossbones, who was crawling out of the Quinjet wreckage in a sorry state, and asked Hill.

"Our two closest teams are two hours away from the target point!"

Agent Hill shook her head: "Unless we deploy a Quinjet, but that Vibranium Jet..."

Hill didn't finish her sentence, but Nick Fury understood clearly. At the speed of that Vibranium Jet, ordinary Quinjets going there would just be serving themselves up.

"Connect me to the Security Council. I want to know the whole story. Do these bureaucrats only know how to sit in their office desks drinking coffee and flirting with female secretaries!"

"Where are the Federal Air Force planes... Get the Air Force fighter jets deployed!"

Nick Fury was filled with a pent-up rage he couldn't vent.

Although S.H.I.E.L.D. was nominally a military organ belonging to the World Security Council, its true financial backer was the Federal Government.

This time, the Security Council bypassed S.H.I.E.L.D. to mobilize the Quinjets. Although he didn't know if it was because politicians had some dirty motives again, Nick Fury could only take over this mess.

"Officer, Tony Stark is in New York. We can contact him~~"

Hill hugged her arms, watching Crossbones and a few remaining S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents struggling to hold on under the enemy's firepower, and couldn't help but speak.

"No!" Nick Fury rejected Hill's suggestion without hesitation.

"You should have seen Tony Stark's psychological analysis report. If we ask him for help, how do you think we should explain this matter?"

Tony Stark was related to Nick Fury's Avengers Initiative. He couldn't let S.H.I.E.L.D.'s dark side be exposed to Tony Stark.

"But Brock can't hold on for much longer!?"

Agent Hill retorted. Even if the Department of Defense issued an order and the Federal Air Force deployed, there wouldn't be enough time.

...…

"Da da da da..."

Crossbones and his remaining few subordinates hid behind the wreckage of the Quinjet in a sorry state.

A group of Wakandan soldiers coldly and fiercely unleashed blue energy pulse rounds at them.

Crossbones wasn't worried about his own safety. If the other side truly wanted to kill them, they wouldn't need much; just one missile from the Vibranium Jet overhead would finish them all.

Crossbones was waiting, waiting for the order to withdraw.

As a veteran member of Serpent S.H.I.E.L.D., Crossbones knew the distribution of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s armed personnel in Africa better than Nick Fury.

Originally, with the speed of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Quinjets, personnel could be mobilized within two hours within the Western Hemisphere.

But the Vibranium Jet in the sky had completely locked down air superiority.

"Agent Brock, mission canceled!"

Sure enough, Alexander Pierce's voice soon came through Crossbones' communicator.

"Withdraw!"

Crossbones made two tactical hand signals and led his remaining few subordinates to retreat.

...…

"King, just letting them leave like that?"

Inside the Wakandan Royal Palace, the Bald Head Guard Captain held a spear, looking at the Old King with some confusion.

"We are not enemies with S.H.I.E.L.D.!"

Old King: "Connect me to Nick Fury!"

Buzz buzz buzz buzz...

At the Triskelion, the satellite screen in front of Nick Fury suddenly filled with static.

T'Chaka's figure appeared on the screen.

"Nick Fury!"

A synthesized voice echoed in the hall.

Nick Fury's complexion changed, and he made a gesture to Hill behind his back.

Agent Hill glanced at the screen and hurried out of the office.

"Who are you?" Nick Fury looked at T'Chaka and asked in a deep voice.

"I am T'Chaka, King of Wakanda,"

At the Triskelion, T'Chaka revealed his identity.

"A lesson, Director Fury. Do not attempt to provoke Wakanda!"

"Provoke? Before this, if I remember correctly, Wakanda receives a large amount of international aid every year. I'd like to know what you've been painstakingly hiding!"

Nick Fury's face was full of mockery, but his single eye was full of calmness.

He was buying time. With S.H.I.E.L.D.'s network protection system, he wanted to use this opportunity to counter-hack Wakanda's network and find out the specific situation in Wakanda.

"We are not enemies, Director Fury! Your enemies have returned in force!

This time, I've cleared out a batch for you!"

"Enemies? What enemies!" Nick Fury reacted and quickly asked his question.

"This is the badge they left behind when they broke into Wakanda!"

On the screen, T'Chaka took out a damaged badge. On it was the image of an octopus.

Static filled the screen, and T'Chaka's figure disappeared from the screen.

Hydra? Nick Fury's expression was unreadable.

At this moment, Hill pushed the door open and walked in, shaking her head at Nick Fury.

"Not enough time. There's no way to lock onto the other party's IP."

Nick Fury looked at Hill seriously, his single eye full of scrutiny.

A moment later, "Hill, recall Hawkeye and Black Widow. The three of you go and meet up with Brock and bring him to ****" Nick Fury gave a coordinate address.

"Don't let him have contact with the outside world, and don't alarm anyone in the bureau!"

Hill's body stiffened, her eyes widened, looking at Nick Fury in disbelief.

"Hill, they're back. They're among us!"

...

At the World Security Council headquarters building, Director-General Alexander Pierce, who had just finished the meeting, met with Nick Fury.

Alexander stood with his hands on his hips, his face flushed abnormally from excitement, with beads of sweat on the bridge of his nose.

During the recent security meeting, several councillors had implicitly and explicitly mocked him about the Federation's security issues.

One must know that the World Security Council, although a global organization, was also a battlefield for the game between several major powers.

Although Alexander Pierce was the Director-General of the World Security Council, he represented the interests of the Federation behind him more often.

There were many people who were dissatisfied with him.

Alexander threw a tantrum, picked up the black tea on his office desk, and drank it in one gulp.

"Oh, right, Fury, this is the intelligence you wanted to know..."

Alexander Pierce picked up a file from his office desk.

"The Security Council recently discovered that this African country called Wakanda is very abnormal. Not only is it suspected of defrauding the Security Council of aid subsidies to Africa, but it also illegally possesses weapons of mass destruction!"

Handing the documents to Nick Fury, Alexander said: "The Security Council recently plans to impose sanctions on this country and station Peacekeeping Forces to thoroughly investigate the problems of this country! This deployment of Quinjets was merely intended for a military reconnaissance of this country, but we didn't expect them to dare to attack the Security Council's aircraft!"

Nick Fury took the documents and flipped through them. A small African country, did it require the Security Council to go to such great lengths??

Although puzzled, Nick Fury still buried the question in his heart: "Is there anything you need me to do?"

"Send a few capable agents to infiltrate Wakanda and find out the hiding place of their powerful weapons..."

Alexander Pierce put down his teacup, his words barely concealing his killing intent.

During this time, several Hydra bases had suffered heavy losses, and they had finally figured out the enemy's origin.

Although somewhat absurd, the country of Wakanda had officially entered Hydra's sights.

What would follow would be bloody revenge.

Of course, this was the script constructed by Alexander Pierce, the head of Hydra.

"Also, Fury, Brock, as the commander of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s rapid response Special Forces, knows too much confidential intelligence about S.H.I.E.L.D. Regardless, you must find him. We need to see him alive, or his corpse if he's dead!"

"I understand. I will find out Brock's whereabouts as soon as possible!"

.........

Two days later, the World Security Council announced sanctions against Wakanda.

It was claimed that this small African country not only defrauded the World Security Council of aid supplies to Africa but also illegally possessed weapons of mass destruction.

Therefore, the World Security Council not only imposed economic sanctions on this small country but also sent in a Peacekeeping Force led by NATO.

Does this small country of Wakanda have oil? This was the first reaction of everyone who heard the news.

Of course, no one held much expectation for this small country.

The Federation's campaign in the Middle East had shown everyone what true great power strength was.

The Five Giants implicitly backing the World Security Council represented almost the highest military force in the entire world.

They were known in the Jianghu as the Five Elder Stars!

To everyone's surprise, the progress of the Peacekeeping Forces stationed in Wakanda by the World Security Council was not smooth. This small African country of Wakanda was not as weak as imagined.

Weapons of mass destruction, they seemed to truly possess them.

It was said that a Federal Paratrooper Battalion was wiped out directly at the Wakandan border.

This was quite...

Many people said that when others say you have weapons of mass destruction, you'd better actually have them.

When the Peacekeeping Forces approached the Wakandan border, this small African country tore off its disguise.

Howling Vibranium Jets, energy pulse weapons decades ahead of modern technology.

When Wakanda showed its claws, many people were stunned.

.........

Of course, Boss Tang, the instigator of all this trouble, was currently sitting in his manor, examining the Goddess of the Night under the moonlight, lifting her chin.

"Looks good!"

Lighting a cigar, the burning red dot of the cigar reflected on Selene's face. Tang Song blew a smoke ring, looking at the vampire's rebellious pretty face before him with interest.

"Have you found out the reason?"

"It's because of that vampire at New York Station back then. It's said to be an elder of this Vampire Clan!"

Frank pulled up a chair and sat down directly.

Kane threw him a bottle of beer. He flicked off the bottle cap with his thumb and drank heartily.

"Death Dealer, are you here for Amelia?"

Selene, kneeling on the ground, heard Tang Song mention the elder's name and immediately struggled to look up at him.

"Goddess of the Night, Death Dealer Selene, the Moonlight Rose among Vampires!"

Tang Song flicked the ash from the cigar in his hand. Under the moonlight, his shadow began to squirm strangely.

Selene widened her eyes, watching as this human's shadow turned into a bloody phantom, standing in front of her.

The bloody phantom changed from faint to dense, finally transforming into the missing Vampire Clan elder, Amelia, right before her eyes.

......…

Vampire Castle! At this moment, the vampires inside the Ancient Castle were in chaos, like a chicken coop raided by a weasel.

Inside and outside the Ancient Castle, vampires were scattering and fleeing everywhere.

Pfft!

A soldier pulled the trigger, and a soft silver net bullet with a diameter of five meters shot out, covering a fleeing vampire.

The steel wire soft net, mixed with a small amount of silver, burned marks onto the vampire's body, but due to the silver content, these soft nets were not fatal.

One, two, three...

Like catching fish, the black Humvees were quickly piled high with captured vampires, forming small mountains.

Outside the Ancient Castle, several large fenced vehicles used for transporting live pigs from the Slaughterhouse were parked. The vehicles were packed full, with at least forty to fifty "prey".

These prey were naturally not live pigs, but vampires wearing silver collars.

These creatures, who considered themselves nobles, were curled up in the fenced vehicles, occasionally wailing in pain as the collars burned them.

Where was any trace of their so-called "elegance"! In the Rolls-Royce, the back car window was lowered. Tang Song pressed Selene's head against the car window, his hand resting on the car window, letting the cigar's ash drift in the wind, inviting her to enjoy this "hunt!"

......

"Block nearby signals, let's experiment with the Lizard Agent!"

Boss Tang pinched Selene's fair chin, stroking her sharp fangs, and casually gave the order.

At the Castle Villa, two Diamond Soldiers heard the order and pressed a button on their bulletproof vests near their necks.

Spider-like metal devices instantly pierced into their necks, and green liquid was immediately injected into their veins.

"Roar!" "Roar!" Two roars echoed across the horizon, and two lizardmen over three meters tall appeared inside the Ancient Castle.

Their grotesque muscles bulged like old tree roots, and their backs were lined with rows of sharp barbs.

"What the hell is that noise!!"

A vampire holding a submachine gun couldn't help but curse: "Shit!"

He instinctively reached for his mobile phone to call for support.

He picked up his mobile phone, but the phone screen showed no signal whatsoever.

Not just his mobile phone, but in an instant, all electronic signals within a two-kilometer radius of this area were cut off.

Mobile phones, communicators, including the satellites passing over this area, showed only blank screens.

This place had become a perfect Weapon Testing Ground.

......

In the basement of the Ancient Castle, a panicked vampire frantically cut his wrist and dripped blood into the metal device in front of him, attempting to awaken the duty elder.

Rip...

The bulletproof iron door was easily torn open from the outside.

Bang bang bang...

The handgun fired weakly, the bullets embedding themselves in the body of the transformed Diamond Soldier, leaving not even a bloodstain.

Facing the Diamond Soldiers injected with the Lizard Agent, these vampires were no different from weak chicks.

They could only rely on speed to dodge the Diamond Soldiers.

The soldiers injected with the Lizard Agent, although their bodies were giant, their intelligence was not affected.

Seeing the vampires darting around nimbly, one of them simply grunted, grabbed the oak long table beside him, which weighed several hundred pounds.

Whoosh! Bang! The unlucky vampire was slammed hard under a car, half of his body crushed into two pieces.

...

"Red Queen, record the experiment data!"

Tang Song rubbed the slippery face of the vampire beside him.

He didn't forget to have Red Queen record the status of the several soldiers after using the Lizard Agent.

On the glass of the Rolls-Royce's car window, the image of a little girl in a red dress appeared.

Red Queen - the artificial intelligence that Tang Song had spent a fortune having researched by the group of super hackers under Skye.

Although it might not compare to the original version from Resident Evil, and was also slightly inferior to J.A.R.V.I.S.

However, for Boss Tang at the moment, this artificial intelligence was barely sufficient.

Every finished agent must undergo experimentation before being truly put into use.

The same goes for weapons.

Boss Tang took the opportunity of capturing these vampire test subjects to kill two birds with one stone, experimenting with the effectiveness of the Lizard Agent.

Boss Tang enjoyed the slippery touch in his hand.

At this moment, the Ancient Castle had become a bloody slaughterhouse.

Several lizardmen, carrying door panels, oak long tables, and even security doors they had dismantled with their bare hands, were swatting at the scattering vampires as if they were flies.

(End of chapter)