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Chapter 176 - Chapter 176: Superheroes have all turned into zombies

"Hope van Dyne can also be ruled out."

Nick Fury also spoke at this point, "The only reason Hope van Dyne wasn't immediately ruled out was because she might have the Ant-Man suit, so let's assume she does."

"We've all seen Ant-Man's fighting style. She can shrink to fight, and of course, she can also grow very large. But considering the fight is inside a train car, Hope van Dyne would only be able to choose to shrink."

"This means that Hope van Dyne shouldn't be able to catch Captain America's shield, let alone slice Captain America in half!"

"Even with the suit on, she only has the strength of a normal person, doesn't she?"

Could an ordinary person use a shield to slice a zombie in half with one blow?

Naturally, they couldn't.

Of course, given that everyone currently doesn't know what kind of zombie the question is referring to, and doesn't know the "hardness" of Zombie Captain America, this cannot be 100% guaranteed.

But regardless, compared to Spider-Man and Bucky, Hope certainly doesn't have much of a "winning chance" when it comes to slicing Captain America in half.

Those two are genuine superhumans.

Hope van Dyne was thus happily ruled out, leaving only Peter Parker and Bucky Barnes as possible answers.

And after a brief comparison, everyone quickly came to a conclusion.

"The answer to this question should be C, right? You all think so too, don't you?" Black Widow scanned everyone present and said.

"We've all seen Peter Parker's fighting style. Although he possesses great strength, he's clearly an amateur; he doesn't understand combat at all."

"He just continuously shoots out webs."

"Using a shield to slice Captain America in half isn't something everyone can do. Of course, what I'm referring to here is accuracy, not strength."

"Peter Parker hasn't received training, so he's very likely to miss."

"Furthermore, in terms of temperament, Peter Parker probably wouldn't do something like that. That's slicing someone in half!"

"On the contrary, Bucky Barnes is a well-trained super agent. From all perspectives, I think he's more likely than Peter Parker."

No one present raised any differing opinions. For this question, a consensus was happily reached: choose C, Bucky Barnes.

Frankly speaking, although this question was explosive, it was actually relatively simple.

Next, only Black Widow and Nick Fury had yet to answer. After a brief discussion, they ceded the opportunity to Nick Fury.

"I choose C, Bucky Barnes!" Nick Fury immediately spoke his answer to the question-answering system.

[Correct Answer!]

As expected, the system immediately gave feedback, confirming that everyone's analysis was correct.

[Congratulations to Nick Fury for winning the reward: the Sky Eye System!]

[Reward has been distributed. Please check!]

Immediately after, a seemingly unremarkable USB drive appeared in Nick Fury's hand, which was undoubtedly the Sky Eye System.

"A very good reward!"

At the same time, the corresponding introduction appeared in Nick Fury's mind, and he nodded with great satisfaction.

"With this system, my eyes will be in every corner of the globe!" Nick Fury then said to everyone.

"Is this a surveillance system?" Black Widow made a natural guess.

"Yes, but not entirely," Nick Fury explained to Black Widow, "Simply put, this system can connect all networked cameras and microphones worldwide to the system, under my control."

It must be said that this system was quite powerful and very practical for Nick Fury.

"All cameras and microphones? Nick Fury, are you saying all?" Tony Stark immediately pressed him sharply from the side.

"I just said that; don't nitpick with me here, Stark." Nick Fury glanced at Tony Stark with his single eye. "This system, of course, cannot bypass J.A.R.V.I.S.'s protection protocols."

In fact, not only some cameras protected by J.A.R.V.I.S., but also cameras under military and some high-security networks, the Sky Eye System could not bypass.

However, such cameras were, after all, a minority.

Things like ubiquitous traffic cameras, dashcams, everyday surveillance cameras, computer cameras, phone cameras, and so on.

The vast majority of cameras could be controlled by the Sky Eye System, and the same applied to microphones.

For the system to reach this level was already enough.

Coupled with the surveillance drones Tony Stark gave Nick Fury, there were very few places in this world that Nick Fury couldn't see.

Plus Nick Fury's clairvoyance.

Well, Nick Fury finally compensated for the drawback of having only one eye.

[Question answered. Beginning to play answer analysis.]

After a few casual remarks, a corresponding scene appeared on the big screen.

The first thing that caught everyone's eye was an exterior shot.

The camera focused on a very peculiar building: a special "house" suspended in the air by countless spider webs.

This made everyone in front of the screen very curious about what kind of person would live in such a house.

This was too exaggerated, wasn't it?

Without certain means, one couldn't even get in.

However, considering the zombie background mentioned in the question, everyone quickly understood that this house was obviously to prevent zombies, right?

Only such a completely suspended house could completely prevent zombie invasion.

Then the camera switched, and the interior of the house appeared before everyone.

It was a group of people discussing around a digital projection screen, with lines of curves and data flashing on the screen.

"A survivor camp claims they've made progress in developing a cure," a bald black woman said to everyone.

No one in front of the screen currently recognized the bald woman, but she was not a simple character; she was Okoye, the captain of the Dora Milaje, Wakanda's royal guard.

In Endgame, she pierced Ebony Maw with a spear, which was also quite exaggerated.

"That's great! The global crisis is over, let's high-five!" Spider-Man Peter Parker immediately cheered happily.

Global crisis!

These four words made everyone present's eyelids twitch violently.

Considering the zombie background in the question, these four words conveyed a cruelly bleak future: global zombification!

"Not so fast. The signal's location was corrupted during transmission. We don't know where it was broadcast from," Bucky Barnes said with a solemn expression.

"It looks like this message is composed of non-linear hexadecimal code," Dr. Banner, as expected of a tech expert, immediately spoke with professional jargon.

Reminded by Dr. Banner, everyone finally saw some clues.

"Does this location look familiar? Agent Carter?" Bucky Barnes glanced at a blonde woman beside him and asked.

It was Sharon Carter.

"That's Camp Lehigh in New Jersey, S.H.I.E.L.D.'s first operational base. There are indeed various equipment there that can produce a cure," Sharon Carter immediately replied.

"Good, we leave tonight!" Okoye immediately made the decision.

The camera then switched again.

In a hall, everyone, fully armed, pushed open the door and entered. It was a train station.

Okoye began to speak to everyone: "Hope, Banner, Parker, go to Line 7 and figure out how to start the train."

Clearly, they planned to take the train to Camp Lehigh.

"Splitting up?" Peter Parker immediately expressed his doubt, "Don't you Wakandans have horror movies?"

"We don't need them. We have American reality TV, that's enough," Okoye said to Peter Parker, then added to the others, "The rest of you stay here and hold the perimeter."

The group began to split up.

Dr. Banner and Hope went to the train's cab, only to find that the train couldn't be started, which meant someone needed to push it.

Logically, Hulk's strength would be enough, but whether Hulk would actually push the train or smash the locomotive if he came out was hard to say.

This arduous task fell to Spider-Man, Peter Parker.

Peter Parker walked out, shot several webs at the front of the train, and began to pull it manually.

He was providing power to the train in this manner.

It must be said that the methods of superhumans are sometimes this simple and crude.

However, because of this, the train wouldn't start immediately, as the brakes needed to be engaged to build up tension before the webs could be pulled to sufficient elasticity.

Whoosh!

Suddenly, a flock of birds flew in, startling Happy outside the train.

Wearing the Iron Man gauntlet, he continuously fired repulsor blasts at the birds.

But it turned out to be just a flock of birds.

"Heh heh, birds!" Happy said with a touch of self-mockery, embarrassed that he had been so startled.

"According to the rhythm of horror movies, Happy is probably about to be in trouble," Hawkeye Barton couldn't help but say.

Someone behaving like Happy in a horror movie is a standard cannon fodder, and according to the usual rhythm, he's probably about to be taken out by a zombie.

"Do S.H.I.E.L.D. agents watch horror movies too?" Tony Stark glanced at Barton from the side, a little curious and surprised.

"I wasn't born an agent," Hawkeye Barton shrugged.

Moreover, he had a wife and children before joining S.H.I.E.L.D., and had lived a normal life.

Splat!

Indeed.

The next moment, an arrow pierced Happy's shoulder, and a rope attached to the arrow dragged Happy into the darkness.

Happy initially fired a few repulsor blasts in the direction he was being dragged, but soon there was no more movement.

Everyone could imagine his fate.

"Happy isn't with me, but with these people. Could it be..." Tony Stark pondered slightly, a grave expression on his face.

In this zombie apocalypse, Happy, no matter how one looked at it, should be with Tony Stark.

Could it be that Tony Stark had already died by then?

But he was Iron Man; for him to be bitten by a zombie seemed a bit exaggerated.

"Everyone, someone's hurt, someone's hurt, we've lost Happy," Sharon Carter's voice rang out. She said to everyone over the comms, "I think that's..."

Splat!

Before she could finish her sentence, another arrow shot out from the darkness, pinning Sharon to the wall.

A zombie holding a bow emerged from the shadows. It was indeed Hawkeye Barton.

"It's Hawkeye!" Sharon Carter immediately told everyone.

Okoye and Bucky, in another corner, both had their expressions change slightly. This was no ordinary zombie.

Crash!

But then, the glass behind them was shattered, and someone with metal wings flew in. It was Falcon, Sam Wilson.

Sam Wilson flew directly towards Okoye. Okoye's agility was also remarkable; she leaped, somersaulted, and landed on Sam Wilson's back.

She was carried into the air by Sam Wilson.

"Barton, Sam, even they weren't spared," Nick Fury said with a solemn expression. Even people of that caliber becoming zombies showed how dire the situation was.

Meanwhile, Sharon Carter was pinned to the wall by Barton's arrow, unable to move, but Happy, who had turned into a zombie, staggered over to Carter.

He continuously fired repulsor blasts at Carter, but because he was a zombie, his aim was terrible.

All the shots hit the wall next to Sharon Carter.

But as Happy got closer, even with his bad aim, he couldn't possibly miss.

And eventually, Happy indeed reached Sharon Carter, raising his repulsor blast at her.

The situation suddenly became critical.

Everyone in front of the screen couldn't help but hold their breath for Sharon Carter.

However, Sharon Carter was not to be underestimated. She quickly grabbed Happy's hand, twisted it, and aimed it at Happy's face.

Boom!

The repulsor blast fired, blowing Happy to smithereens.

Crisis averted.

And on Winter Soldier's side, Sam Wilson had already broken free from Okoye and engaged Winter Soldier in combat. At another critical moment, he was taken down by Okoye.

Meanwhile, Hope van Dyne, in ant-size, flew around in the air, proving to be a super weapon against zombies. One zombie after another was shot down by her.

Through the efforts of the group, finally, Peter Parker completed his charge, and Dr. Banner suddenly released the brakes, sending the train soaring forward.

The train successfully started.

The group quickly rushed inside the train.

"We did it! Destination Camp Lehigh!" Dr. Banner said with a hint of excitement on his face.

However, everyone in front of the screen knew that Dr. Banner and the others were celebrating a bit too early, because Zombie Captain America was waiting for them on the train!

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