"Fuck that," Tony cursed with a dark expression, embarrassed again. Why was he so unlucky lately? Then, recovering some strength, he took out his phone and bypassed the Mark Armor's system.
At this moment, Dr. Reed said, "It's great that you're here, Ben. We'll start the experiment right away."
Everyone was speechless. You're truly persistent, aren't you? Just then, an alarm suddenly blared from the Space Station: "Cosmic Storm accelerating, expected to reach the Space Station in three minutes."
"What?"
Everyone was shocked to hear this. Tony even shouted, "Reed, what's going on? Didn't you say the Cosmic Storm wouldn't arrive for over nine hours?"
Dr. Reed rushed to the control panel. He checked for a while, then, covered in sweat, said, "The system's prediction was correct. The Cosmic Storm is about to arrive. Damn it, there's no time for the experiment."
"Forget the experiment, Earth's smartest man!"
Tony shouted, "Activate all Space Station defenses."
Dr. Reed yelled, "I can't activate them! The authorization is with Mystique."
Hearing this, Tony quickly shouted to Professor Charles, "Professor, control Mystique to activate the defenses."
Agent Barton shouted, "I don't want to stay in this godforsaken place! Red Devil, quickly take us back to Earth."
"Alright."
Red Devil stopped talking nonsense, pulling the Professor and Barton, preparing to teleport. However, as soon as he transformed into red mist, he immediately reverted to his original form.
Red Devil's face was a bit pale: "Damn it, the Cosmic Storm is causing instability in the surrounding Space. I can't teleport."
"What?"
Professor Charles's expression changed drastically, and he quickly controlled Mystique Raven to activate the defenses.
Mystique walked to the control panel expressionlessly and activated the defenses. At this point, there was less than a minute until the Cosmic Storm arrived. Everyone could even clearly see the fiery red Cosmic Storm, which made them all very nervous.
At this moment, under the influence of the Cosmic Storm, several controlled Mutant regained consciousness. Mystique immediately shouted, "Staff of God, activate all!"
Accompanying Mystique's voice, the Earth-based weapon floating outside began to rotate. Barton was shocked and immediately plunged the short knife from his waist into Mystique's back. Mystique screamed and fell onto the control panel.
Professor Charles was both heartbroken and furious: "Raven!"
"Raven."
Seeing Mystique heavily injured, Toad and Sabretooth immediately rushed towards Barton. The three of them began to fight.
"Everything I do is for the Mutant! Long live the Mutant!" Mystique shouted with a crazed expression. She released the Earth-based weapon to destroy humanity's centers of power, so that humanity would fall into chaos, and even war.
Once humanity was in chaos, Mutant would have the opportunity to rise and establish their own country.
"Dream on, all of you."
Iron Man tapped his phone, and the Mark box transformed back into the Armor state. Then, the Armor flew outside, and its chest glowed with dazzling light—this was a remote control system, inspired by Ivan.
The next second, a huge pulse cannon from the Mark Armor's chest blasted towards the Earth-based weapon. The Earth-based weapon was instantly blown apart, and a large number of parts and tungsten rods floated in Space. However, one tungsten rod had already activated and was falling straight towards the Earth below.
Tony cursed but was too late to stop the tungsten rod. At this moment, the Cosmic Storm descended. He tapped his finger, controlling the Armor to return and protect himself.
Because Mystique had not opened all defenses, the crimson Cosmic Storm surged into the interior of the Space Station. Everyone shouted simultaneously, their bodies twisting and deforming like mud in the storm.
"Looks like I'm lucky."
Near the Rocket Base, Andrew, leaning against his sports car, saw the situation at the Space Station and couldn't help but whistle. The Earth-based weapon had still launched.
Although there was only one, it was enough. Andrew didn't hesitate. While broadcasting the tungsten rod's descent live on Horn TV Station, he ordered the Black Widows to begin their work.
As for Andrew himself, he headed to the Space Station—Fire Fox had already passed out from excessive speeding.
The target of this tungsten rod was... Washington. Yes, not New York, but America's center of power, Washington.
"It's over! The Staff of God is falling! Huh, it's not New York?"
New York citizens were about to cry out in despair when they realized the tungsten rod was not heading towards them. To be honest, the happiness came too suddenly; they could hardly believe it. Had New York finally turned its luck around?
The citizens of New York wept tears of joy; God had finally opened his eyes.
"The people of New York are so pitiful, about to suffer another disaster. What? The Staff of God's target is our Washington?"
The citizens of Washington felt the exact opposite of New York's citizens. They cursed loudly: "Hey, God, you got the target wrong! You should be aiming for New York!"
At S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarters, the council members angrily questioned Nick Fury: "Is this what you meant by 'resolved'?"
"Motherfuckers," Nick Fury cursed, ignoring the council members. He took Hill and a group of high-ranking officials and escaped in a quinjet, while at the White House, the President had already boarded Air Force One with a host of high-ranking officials early on.
High-ranking officials could escape, but ordinary citizens did not have that Ability. They stared at the burning tungsten rod on the screen, their hearts filled with despair.
At the speed of the tungsten rod, they simply didn't have enough time to escape the City, which meant they were doomed.
At this moment, the despairing citizens were drawn into an illusion. Because of the large number of people, this time there was no one-on-one service, but one-on-one hundred.
"If you want to live, sign a contract and give your soul to the Devil King after death."
Yelena said impatiently, "You have thirty seconds to decide. Don't waste my time. I'm very, very busy right now."
One person couldn't help but ask, "If we sign the contract, will we not die?"
"Of course you will. It's clearly written in the contract that after signing, the Devil King will protect you," Yelena said. "Those who don't sign the contract can only stay in the City and wait to die. Don't expect missiles to shoot down the tungsten rod; that's impossible. Otherwise, your President wouldn't need to flee.
You have ten seconds left. Decide quickly. No waiting if you're late."
Under the threat of the Earth-based weapon, a large number of Washington citizens signed soul contracts. This time, Andrew would gain at least tens of thousands of soul contracts—Washington D.C. only has a population of over six hundred thousand.
At the Space Station, Andrew stood in the Cosmic Storm, looking somewhat excited: "A Cosmic Storm that can grant people Ability? Good stuff, I'll take it."
Andrew opened a Space Channel, and the Cosmic Storm rushed into Rebirth Hell. The Devil King raised his left hand, and Space energy formed a small Space, sealing the Cosmic Storm inside.
Andrew planned to have Big Head research the Cosmic Storm and develop an Ability enhancement device. At that time, Rebirth Hell would gain another trump card.
While transferring the Cosmic Storm, Andrew pulled the consciousness of most people in the Space Station into an illusion.
Only most people. Andrew didn't touch the consciousness of four people: Red Devil, Frank, Iron Man, and Susan.
Red Devil and Frank were his own people, no need to say more. Iron Man was protected by his Armor and felt no despair. As for Susan, she was covered in Andrew's energy; she was destined for Hell in this life and needed no further action.
In the words of Heaven, Susan had been completely defiled by the Devil King.