After a full seventy years, they finally met again.
This twisted evil fate that began with Hydra would be completely brought to an end today.
The emotions Hive displayed were abnormally agitated, even close to a crazed and deranged state. His eyes carried deep infatuation, as if he wanted to crush her flesh and blood, then swallow it inch by inch into his throat, merging her with himself forever.
By comparison, Yvette's reaction was very calm.
In her pale-blue eyes, as tranquil as a lake, there was neither the slightest trace of disgust nor any emotional fluctuation. It was as though she were looking at a stranger unrelated to her, showing the kind of indifference that treated him as if he were invisible.
Whether hatred or disgust.
If it were those emotions and gazes, Hive could actually accept them, and they would even stimulate him instead, making him feel extremely excited.
But the only thing he could not accept was the indifferent gaze of his mother treating him as if he were invisible, as though he had no connection to her, like wild grass and stubborn stones that could be seen everywhere by the roadside, without the slightest sense of existence.
"That hateful gaze again..."
The joy on Hive's face faded inch by inch, replaced by gloom and ferocity. "Could it be that in your heart, you have never once had even the slightest thought of liking me?"
"No."
Yvette said faintly, "I have never been married, and I have never had a child, so I am not your mother either."
Such a blunt rejection...
Peggy and Bucky glanced at each other, unable to hold back the corners of their lips from curling up.
As expected of Yvette, who was nearly a complete blank slate in terms of common sense. Even her wording when rejecting someone was this blunt and forceful. Hive's already ugly face became even uglier after hearing those words.
"Very good, very good!"
Hive lowered his head, clenched his fists, and squeezed an almost insane murmur out of his throat through gritted teeth. "Since Mother is unwilling to acknowledge me, then I can only eat you. That way, Mother will be with me forever!"
Boom!
Hive abruptly raised his head, and a slit opened between his brows, revealing an eerie purple pupil.
Everyone only felt endless oppression spreading over them. The violent spiritual power steamed like a blazing sun emitting endless light and heat.
Especially from the level of the soul, they could feel an intense impact, far surpassing the pressure on the physical level. It was like being trampled and ravaged madly by tens of thousands of giant elephants, causing their minds to shake repeatedly and their brains to become completely blank.
An eerie purple light gathered in that vertical pupil.
Hive stared fixedly at Yvette, the spiritual power around him surging and releasing pressure. From beginning to end, his target had only been one person. As for the others, they were all trash and did not need to be taken seriously at all.
"Careful! He's going to use his ability!"
Seeing this, Peggy hurriedly warned everyone, "Do not be hit by the purple light shot from that eye, or you'll be forcibly controlled by Hive."
"We know that even without you saying it!" Bucky roared, gathering spiritual power into the soles of his feet, his eyes fixed on Hive's vertical pupil. His right hand wearing the metal knuckle duster clenched into a fist. "Create an opportunity for me to get close to him!"
"Accept my domination!!!"
The vertical pupil between Hive's brows suddenly shone, and a nearly tangible purple ray approached Yvette in a flash.
"How could I let you touch our 'general' right from the start, bastard!" Howard Stark had long been prepared for this. His palms suddenly clapped together, and he said coldly, "The World Between Gaps!"
A light-blue wall of light directly extended from the gap between his palms, faint ripple patterns surging on its surface.
The instant Yvette was touched by the light-blue wall, she seemed to be "sandwiched" into the gap of the world. The eerie purple beam followed immediately afterward, but it passed straight through that layer of light-blue wall and vanished into the hazy rain curtain in the distance.
"It actually..... passed straight through?"
Hive clearly had not expected this scene, and his eyes widened in disbelief.
"Anything touched by the wall of light and sandwiched into the gap will be inside the gap of the world." Howard maintained the posture of his palms pressed together and said faintly, "As long as I am here, your ability cannot hit anyone."
"In that case, I'll kill you first!" Hive's evil intent rose from his courage. His foot suddenly stomped down, raising rolling dust and crushed stones. His figure was as fast as lightning, smashing through layers of fine rain curtains, and his heaven-reaching killing intent surged toward Howard like a wave. "You're actually stupid enough to explain your ability to someone. Looks like your brain is still as foolish as it was decades ago, Howard!"
"Is that so?"
Howard did not show the slightest expression of panic, and a trace of mockery appeared in his eyes.
Accompanied by the sharp sound of the air tearing apart, just as Hive's monster-like ferocious claw was about to tear through the aged Howard's chest, a surging gale suddenly swept past from the side, and immediately afterward, Howard vanished from where he stood.
Peggy was seen carrying Howard in one hand, appearing more than ten meters away from him.
"Such fast speed!" Hive's heart shook violently, and his pupils involuntarily shrank. Peggy's movement speed just now was something even he, if he burst out with all his strength, would probably find very difficult to catch up with.
"Let me introduce my ability... Dirty Boots."
Peggy raised her right foot, tapped the heel of her left foot, displayed that pair of dirty boots covered in mud, and said, "The dirtier these boots are, the greater my attack movement speed and the impact force of my attacks will become in direct proportion."
Hive's eyes changed, and just as he was about to say something, he was interrupted by a loud shout.
A fist-sized stone tore through the air and smashed toward Hive's face at extreme speed, but he reacted extremely quickly and caught it barehanded.
But after he caught that stone, an uneasy premonition suddenly surged in his heart. He discovered that a blue word was attached to the surface of the stone, slowly wriggling and rising and falling like a creature with self-awareness.
He looked at that word and subconsciously read it aloud.
"(Explosion)?"
Rumble—!
A violent explosion instantly swallowed him, and a miniature mushroom cloud rose several meters high.
The dazzling firelight illuminated the surrounding dozens of meters, dispelling the hazy mist and fine rain, while the scorching, pungent smoke spread out.
"Have you experienced the 'power of words'?" Zemo had a cold smile on his face, spinning a fountain pen nimbly between his fingers. "As long as I carve words on objects, I can give them corresponding power. This is my Fullbring—the Power of Words."
"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!"
A spiritual power tornado broke through the flames, and Hive, his face covered in blood, was furious, as ferocious as a demon. "You're nothing but a bunch of trash. Just because you have some special abilities, do you really think you can defeat a great god?!"
"I'll state it again. You are not a god!"
A voice filled with killing intent poured into Hive's mind along the wild wind.
The instant he followed the source of the voice and turned his head to look back, a fist wearing a metal knuckle duster rapidly enlarged in his eyes.
"Go..... die!!!"
The fist Bucky swung forward as he stepped out suddenly vibrated at extreme speed the instant before it was about to touch Hive.
This punch was unstoppable!
Condensing decades of hatred, spiritual power surged like a volcanic eruption, pushing his strength to the extreme.
Buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz...
The fist vibrated at a high frequency of hundreds of times per second, raising heaven-reaching air waves that rolled like a tsunami.
Terrifying shockwave ripples spread out, shaking the surrounding ground violently. Countless crushed stones were shaken into powder, and the explosive air waves swept in every direction, raising powder all over the sky like rotten wood being crushed, before blasting straight into Hive's head.
Yvette watched this scene expressionlessly, silently took out a pocket watch, and pressed the exquisite round button at the top.
Tick tock tick tock tick tock.....
The two hands on the pocket watch began moving at this moment.