Balvino aimed his rifle and unleashed a torrent of fire at the target. His powerful arms ensured that even with the full-auto setting engaged, the bullets were remarkably accurate.
However, every single bullet was blocked by that shield.
"Shoot! Keep shooting!"
Balvino swapped out a magazine and continued pulling the trigger, aiming at Bob Eagle. They hadn't transformed immediately, planning to give the Lizardman a massive surprise when it charged forward through the barrage of bullets.
Steve, Hawkeye, and Black Widow, all highly experienced warriors, reacted instantly. They sought cover while returning fire with their own weapons, matching Balvino's team shot for shot.
For a moment, the sewers filled with a chaotic dance of gunfire, the ground and walls erupting in a storm of shattered stone.
Steve, holding his shield in one hand and a rifle in the other, advanced while firing. He alone managed to hold back the four of them.
Boom!
Hawkeye's arrow exploded mid-air, releasing a blinding flash of light, causing instant blindness.
Black Widow moved like a nimble cat, skillfully dodging the barrage of bullets. She wanted to close the distance and take down Balvino and his crew in hand-to-hand combat.
With a flick of her wrists, she launched two Electric Darts.
Balvino's heart skipped a beat. He realized that their opponents were extraordinary, with frighteningly high combat skills and impeccable coordination. Although they had launched a sneak attack first, they had quickly fallen behind and were being suppressed, unable to lift their heads.
Facing the incoming Electric Darts, he swung the sheathed curved sword hanging from his waist, knocking them away.
"Roar!"
Bob Eagle roared. Braving the hail of gunfire, he leaped several times, appearing in front of Balvino and his men. He was about to tear them to shreds when his body suddenly stiffened.
A human-like look of confusion appeared on his half-Lizardman face.
"Cade?"
"Huh?"
Cade Eagle sized up the Lizardman in front of him, stunned to find he looked about five parts like him.
"Cease fire! Cease fire!"
Bob Eagle raised his hands. The scales on his body quickly receded, returning him to human form. Now the two looked like twins, with nine parts of similarity. Only Bob was more lean and strong.
"Bob! You, how did you become a Lizardman?"
The live broadcast on n was too blurry and didn't clearly capture Bob Eagle's face, so Cade didn't know until now that the mutant on TV was actually his cousin.
"What exactly is going on?"
Steve put away his shield.
"He's Tessa Eagle's father, and also my cousin. He runs a farm in Texas,"
Bob explained.
"Then what's with these three Mexicans? They don't look like cowboys."
Black Widow sized up Balvino and his companions. She could tell at a glance they were Mexican, and judging by their marksmanship and tattoos, they were likely assassins from a Mexican drug cartel.
She'd dealt with this type before during her missions in Mexico.
"I hired them as bodyguards from Mexico to save my daughter,"
Cade blurted out a suitable excuse almost instantly.
Black Widow eyed Balvino with suspicion. The way he deflected the Electric Dart didn't seem like the work of an ordinary assassin. Even S.H.I.E.L.D. agents would find it difficult to be that clean and decisive.
"You were reckless, Cade. You can't take on Winston with just three assassins."
Bob patted his cousin's shoulder comfortingly. He hadn't expected the gentle Cade to go to such lengths for his daughter.
"Captain, let them come with us."
In his eyes, Cade wandering around the dangerous sewers was likely to get himself killed in no time.
Steve hesitated for a moment, then nodded. Cade Eagle's sincere paternal love had touched him. He couldn't bear to see this great father, who had spent everything and risked his life to save his daughter, die pointlessly.
Furthermore, the marksmanship of these three Mexicans was excellent, even surpassing the well-trained S.H.I.E.L.D. agents; they were a strong support. The situation in the sewers was far more complex than they had anticipated. This group of inexplicable Lizardmen had thrown the situation out of control.
"Our goals are different."
Cade quickly refused.
"Your target should be Colonel Johnson. I just want to save my daughter. Now that Colonel Johnson is tied up, it's the best time for me to rescue Tessa."
Black Widow raised the tablet in her hand.
"Your daughter is temporarily safe now."
The drone filmed a makeshift lab built by Lizardmen. One Lizardman was lying on the ground, writhing in pain. The scales on his body were rapidly disappearing, and his giant body began to shrink, eventually returning to normal size.
The antidote was quickly destroying the lizard genes in his body. In a matter of seconds, he had devolved into an ordinary person, with only lizard scales remaining on his face.
Tessa picked up the assault rifle that the Lizardman had dropped and pulled the trigger on the unconscious Lizardman, riddling him with bullets.
"Wise choice."
Hawkeye raised an eyebrow. As a former Navy SEAL, the Lizardman was definitely more than those two high school girls could handle. Waiting until he was unconscious before making a move would only get them killed.
"Now, our goals align. If we don't take down Colonel Johnson, your daughter is still in serious danger, especially now that she's created the Antidote Serum. Colonel Johnson won't let her go."
The existence of the antidote all but eliminated Colonel Johnson's plan to replace humans with Lizardmen. If there was a similar antidote for mutants, they would have vanished from the face of the earth long ago.
Black Widow eyed Cade, studying his micro-expressions. She had a feeling these four were hiding a big secret.
She knew the Mexican cartel's hitmen well. There was no way they'd suddenly developed a sense of professionalism. Based on their usual behavior, Cade Eagle should have been taken out a long time ago.
"Since we have the Antidote Serum, why don't we just use it to turn Colonel Johnson back into a human?"
Steve suddenly suggested.
Peter Parker, who had been listening quietly, shook his head.
"The antidote will only work on Lizardmen who have recently been injected with the serum, and Colonel Johnson has eaten so many of his own kind that the Lizardman genes have already fully integrated into his body. The antidote won't have any effect."
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