Chapter 280： Thirty-three days time limit

Rome, Italy.

In order to avoid causing international disputes and panic among the people, SHIELD’s Harrier fighters landed in stealth on the edge of the city.

With Captain America Steve Rogers as the leader and command, the eighth-level agent Phil Coleson, and the seventh-level agent Melinda May as the auxiliary, the elite special operations combat team led by Brock Rumlow together formed The main force of this'annihilation' mission.

Everyone took the bullet-proof car provided by SHIELD to go to the target location of the mission.

The Church of Our Lady of Cosmetine, located on the Theater Avenue in Marcello, the world-famous marble sculpture "The Mouth of Truth", suffered a strange collapse yesterday afternoon. It is speculated that the collapse may be caused by the earthquake, but fortunately it did not cause it. Casualties, the area has been sealed off by the local police.

SHIELD is a global organization.

Except for the Asian region, there are branches in Europe, America, Africa and other countries. This time the European branch immediately blocked the scene after discovering the abnormality to avoid causing panic among ordinary people.

Coleson and May got out of the car, then took out the documents they had prepared and handed them to the police in charge of the perimeter cordon.

The police received the documents and glanced at them in surprise: "United Nations Special Operations Investigation Team, and the World Heritage Protection Center?"

"Yes."

Coleson didn't change his face and his heart beat, smiled and said: "We are responsible for evaluating the damage this time and the work of'repairing' the cultural relics.

"...Are you really here to repair the cultural relics?" The corner of the policeman's mouth was twitched.

These dozen or so men who are close to two meters tall and are sturdy and murderous from the inside out, no matter how they look at them, they have nothing to do with repairing cultural relics, right?

After passing the police officer's chest, May looked directly into his eyes, half-threatening and half-seriously said: "Officer Daniel, for your work and life, it is better not to ask too clearly about some things, understand?"

Daniel was silent for a while, glanced at the group of people with dread, then turned sideways to make a way out: "Come on."

The crowd crossed the police cordon and came to the mouth of truth.

The second cordon was responsible for receiving the group of them. It was the branch members who had been contacted beforehand. After seeing them, they went up and gave Coleson a warm hug.

"Thank God, you are finally here!"

The man wiped the sweat from his head, without a trace of muddy water, and went straight to the subject: "The underground research room has completely collapsed, but we have detected two vital signs. According to the data, it should be a human being."

"Did you clear the entrance?" Coleson asked.

"One was barely cleared out, but it can only accommodate one person to pass through, and the situation inside is unknown, so we have been waiting for you to come over." The person in charge described the situation clearly in a few words.

"Let me go."

Steve did not hesitate and volunteered to be the pioneer.

Coleson and May exchanged glances, and both agreed that the captain was the best candidate.

Now that everything below is in an unknown state, and the collapsed passage is narrow and can only accommodate one person, so handing it over to Captain America with the highest combat effectiveness on the scene is a perfect choice!

"Captain Rogers, be careful." Coleson was still a little worried, and reminded him again.

"Well, I will be careful."

Steve won’t make jokes about his life. After he was equipped with a vibrating shield, he put on the familiar Star-Spangled Banner suit, and said while moving his muscles and bones: “If it’s really still underneath, I’ll find a way to hold them. , You support as soon as possible."

Click!

Rumlow pulled the bolt and grinned: "Don't worry, Captain."

In order to eliminate the'Pillar Man', S.H.I.E.L.D. has specially equipped them with a brand new energy weapon based on the energy of the Cosmos Rubik's Cube. Any carbon-based creature will be hit by thousands on the spot. The high temperature burned to ashes!

The Man of Pillar?

In the face of modern technology, they are just a group of wild men who drink blood!

Steve had seen the power of this weapon as early as World War II, so he was more assured of Rumlow and others, so the cat got up and drilled down the collapsed gap.

The cave below has collapsed quite severely.

There is almost no place for people to step on. You have to rely on the strength of your hands to grasp the wall and slowly climb down.

This is also thanks to him being a super soldier, otherwise, if someone else comes over, he might not be able to go on safely.

This period of difficult climbing lasted more than ten minutes.

Steve just squeezed out of the gap in the collapsed boulder and successfully arrived at the location of the research institute.

The giant steel gate on the outermost periphery of the institute is about one meter thick, which should be the most defensive facility, but after being violently knocked away from the inside, it flew out a full three or four meters away and penetrated deeply. Inside the underground rock wall.

But the most surprising thing is that when Steve looked at the inside of the iron gate, he found that there were many messy and violent fist marks printed on it, deeply submerged several inches of steel.

"What a terrible power!"

Steve stretched his hand across the fist marks, feeling the lines after the steel cracked, his pupils couldn't stop trembling slightly, and a violent shock rose in his heart.

This is a steel gate with a thickness of one meter. It was smashed open by punch after punch, and it was able to reach this level with pure physical power. It is conceivable how terrifying the ancient family of pillar men was!

At least, he can't do that.

call......

Steve took a deep breath, wiped the shield hanging on his right arm, settled down a bit, and continued to move toward the interior of the research room.

Along the way.

Except for the collapsed research room, there were sucked up human skin everywhere.

There was no flesh and blood left inside these people, only dry skin, which made Steve shudder.

As he continued to deepen, Steve suddenly saw a gleam of light under the collapsing boulder not far ahead.

The brightness of the dim light is very weak, if it weren't for his good eyes, I'm afraid he might not be able to see it.

Is it a survivor?

With this thought, Steve approached the boulder cautiously.

"Is it Rogers...captain?"

The person who was crushed under the boulder could barely see her face, but her long red hair undoubtedly proved her identity.

"Agent Natasha Romanoff?"

After Steve saw that it was his own person, he immediately let go of his guard, and said with a little relief: "I didn't expect you to be alive, is Agent Button alive?"

"Barton... in a lower place." Natasha was quite weak and pale and said, "If you come slower, I'm afraid we will really die."

"What happened?" Steve took out the adrenaline, gave Natasha a shot, and asked, "Everyone in the institute was killed. How did you two survive?"

With adrenaline Natasha's complexion was slightly rosy, and she said intermittently: "When the institute collapsed, it was Shutro Heim who opened the defensive facilities in time and let me and Patton escape. After a catastrophe."

"And then?" Steve frowned.

Even if they could escape the initial collapse, how did they survive from the hands of Zhuozhimen?

All the personnel in the research room along the way were sucked into human skins by the man of pillars, but only Natasha and Patton survived. He wanted to know why.

"Because of an oath."

Natasha looked bitter and said: "I played a trick with Patton and made one of the warriors named Waumu think that we could surpass him in a month, so the other party let us go and agreed to be 33 days later duel."

Steve looked a little weird: "This kind of lie...Did they really believe it?"

"Yes, but..." Natasha sighed, and a sorrow appeared in her beautiful eyes, and said: "They each left a poisoned ring on the heart artery of me and Patton. , The antidote can only be obtained after defeating them."