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External energy is being absorbed...
[System energy replenishment begins... 10%... 30%... 70%... 100%...]
[Energy replenished...]
[Rebooting system core modules...]
A cool, familiar stream of data, like a spring of clear water after a long drought, flowed back into his mind. The feeling of reconnecting with the world made him almost groan with pleasure.
【Restart successful.】
A crisp, emotionless electronic voice rang clearly in his mind.
The Super Photocopier is now back online.
The new player protection period has ended.
[New feature module unlocked: Capability Analysis.]
[Currently available target for replication: Carol Danvers.]
[The target has been detected to have multiple capabilities. Please select the options you wish to copy:]
【1. Binary Formation (Cosmic Energy Manipulation)】
【2. Super Power (Energy Amplification Version)】
【3. Super Endurance (Energy Amplification Version)】
4. Flight capability
5. Energy Absorption and Release
In an instant, a long list of clear options, like a sumptuous menu, appeared clearly in Chu Hang's mind.
Chu Hang looked at Carol Danvers, who was still in a state of utter shock, and his smile became even more playful.
Finally, we can reopen.
And this time, it started with a lavish feast.
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Chapter 67 A big gamble
The menu, so vivid in his mind that it almost made him want to cry, dispelled all the resentment in Chu Hang's heart.
Capability analysis function.
These four words carry too much weight.
This means the end of the primitive era where abilities were copied purely by luck, like opening blind boxes. From now on, he can directly see what good items his target has and take whichever he wants. It feels like a primitive man randomly poking around in the dark with a stick has suddenly been stuffed into a top-tier exoskeleton armor set, holding a high-precision sniper rifle with an 8x scope. The experience? It's on a completely different level.
However, when his gaze followed the menu down and landed on the first option, he froze.
【1. Binary Formation (Cosmic Energy Manipulation)】
"Wait a minute..." Chu Hang's heart skipped a beat, and he began to wonder, "Didn't I already have this thing? Six years ago, when the light speed engine exploded, didn't I already copy it? How come my system rebooted and also formatted my save file?"
This is no small matter. If he loses his ability, then things will get really messed up.
With a hint of unease, he tentatively asked in his mind, "System, what's going on? I clearly already have the binary form."
[Answer the host.]
The system's voice remained unchanged—cold, mechanical, and devoid of any human emotion. But this time, it didn't offer a simple prompt; instead, it delivered a long, detailed explanation that sent chills down his spine.
Six years ago, due to severe damage to the system's core module during a spacetime jump, and the target being copied (the light-speed engine explosion) being in an extremely unstable state of energy overflow, the 'binary form' you copied is a fragmented data piece with only 17% integrity.
This data fragment has caused the primal energy of the Cosmic Cube within your body to be in a state of long-term instability, and has created a continuous conflict with your 'self-healing factor' and 'super soldier serum,' severely depleting your life essence.
This restart was achieved thanks to resonance with a high-intensity, homologous, stable energy source (Carol Danvers), which replenished the system's energy.
[The current option, 'Binary Form,' is the complete data template. Selecting this option will complete and upgrade the incomplete data fragments within your body, and use this as a framework to fully integrate the original energy of the Cosmic Cube within you. At that time, you will gain perfect control over this energy.]
Chu Hang read the explanation word by word, and felt a chill run from the soles of his feet straight to the top of his head. His back was instantly soaked with cold sweat.
After all that, it turns out that for the past six years, I've been carrying a nuclear reactor that could explode at any time!
He had always thought that the energy within him was difficult to control because this power was too advanced, too high-level, and simply beyond his capabilities. Now he realized that wasn't the case at all. To put it bluntly, what he had copied from the light-speed engine was nothing more than a "trial version," and one with backdoors and viruses at that!
No wonder he'd felt like two opposing forces were clashing within him for the past six years. One was the raging, unstoppable energy of the Cosmic Cube, the other the life force resulting from the fusion of the healing factor and the super-soldier serum. Every day, he had to be like the most cautious animal tamer, carefully guiding and managing the beast within him that could break free of its shackles at any moment. It felt like a bomb disposal expert sleeping with an activated nuclear warhead, his nerves constantly taut like a string about to snap.
He had always thought these were necessary trials on the path to becoming a strong person, but now it seems he brought them upon himself.
It was only thanks to the healing factor copied from Logan and Steve's strong foundation from the super soldier serum that he managed to survive for six years without burning himself out. Someone with a weaker foundation would probably have been torn to shreds by this internal conflict long ago.
Now, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity is before us.
A fully licensed, feature-rich, and lifetime after-sales service "complete version" capability. It can not only completely eliminate the biggest security threat within him, but also transform him in one step from a novice trembling with fear while clutching a bomb into a master who can detonate bombs at will and control the entire situation.
Is there even a need to choose?
"It's you I choose! Twin Star Form!" Chu Hang practically roared in his mind as he made the decision.
[Command confirmed. Begin copying and integrating the complete 'Binary Pattern' data template...]
Almost the instant the system notification sounded, an unprecedented experience swept over him.
A completely different energy flow was precisely extracted from the invisible energy resonance field between him and Carol. It was no longer the violent and painful experience of being pierced through his body by billions of volts of electricity six years ago, but an extremely gentle and orderly warm current that slowly flowed into his body and into his soul.
If the replication six years ago was a barbaric, reckless infusion of energy, then...
This time, it was more like a sophisticated genetic surgery.
A perfect piece of code, a flawless genetic sequence, was precisely etched into the underlying logic of his life.
He could clearly "see" the cosmic cube energy within him that had been boiling for six years, wild and unruly, like a herd of untamed wild horses that had been galloping and crashing across the grasslands for countless days and nights, finally meeting their destined rider.
The previously chaotic and colliding energy, guided by the new "data template," began to rearrange, recombine, and circulate in a mysterious and beautiful way. Those volatile and destructive power particles were gradually soothed and tamed, and then incorporated into a brand-new, stable, and powerful cyclical system.
Chu Hang closed his eyes. He could feel every cell in his body resonating with joy under the guidance of this new power. The self-healing factor had finally been relieved of its heavy burden and no longer needed to be constantly on guard against energy outbursts; the powerful physique brought by the super soldier serum had finally found a perfect point of convergence, truly merging with this cosmic-level power, no longer mutually repelling or consuming each other.
He felt like a pirated computer that had been used for years, constantly lagging, overheating, and frequently crashing with a blue screen. Now, he had finally installed an official, genuine, and deeply optimized operating system.
The whole world seemed different to him.
If his previous control over spatial energy was still at a crude stage of using brute force to "bend" and "twist" it, like a blacksmith wielding a sledgehammer, smashing things down entirely based on feeling and luck, then now he feels that with just a thought, he can be like a top surgeon, wielding the most precise scalpel, accurately "editing" and "modifying" space itself.
This absolute control over power almost intoxicated him.
However, while Chu Hang was enjoying a transformative change, Carol was experiencing the complete opposite.
The instant Chu Hang began copying, she felt an incredibly strange connection being established between herself and the other. An incomprehensible flow of information was flowing from her body, or rather, from the source of her power, to the other. She didn't feel any loss of power; the feeling was even more bizarre, like... like she had become an open book, being "read" and "analyzed" page by page by the other.
Immediately afterwards, fragments of memories that did not belong to her flooded into her mind without warning.
In the muddy trenches, shells whistled past his ears, and a weathered man with a cigar in his mouth suddenly extended three gleaming white bone claws from the back of his hand...
In the frozen cockpit, outside the window lay a bottomless expanse of blue ice. A blond, blue-eyed man in a blue, white, and red bodysuit was giving her a warm and apologetic smile across the ice…
These images flashed by so quickly that she couldn't even catch the details, yet they were so real that they made her heart pound. She subconsciously took a step back, looking at the man in front of her with his eyes closed and a hint of enjoyment on his face. The shock in her eyes had completely turned into horror and confusion.
Who is this man?
Why does he possess the exact same power as me?
Why...why can I see what's in his head?
Just as she was lost in thought, feeling like her brain was about to burn out, Chu Hang opened his eyes.
A brilliant golden light flashed briefly in his eyes, his gaze so deep it seemed to contain the stars of an entire universe.
He looked at Carol, at the violent arcs of energy emanating from her body, still out of control due to her emotional agitation, and a slight smile appeared on his lips.
He raised his hand and gave a loose handshake in Carroll's direction.
The next second, Carol was horrified to find that the power surging within her, like a wild horse galloping unchecked, was as if an invisible hand had gripped her throat, instantly becoming docile and obediently flowing back into her body. Even her uncontrollable "Dual Star" state, triggered by her emotional agitation, was forcibly suppressed by this gentle grasp. The dazzling golden light on her body quickly faded, and she returned to her normal state.
Throughout the entire process, she couldn't even muster the slightest thought of resistance.
The feeling was like a new recruit who had just learned to fire a gun, and before he could even get his grip on the rifle, a seasoned veteran who had fought on many battlefields disarmed him with just a glance.
"What...what did you do to me?" For the first time, Carol's voice trembled uncontrollably. What was happening before her eyes was completely beyond her comprehension.
"It's nothing," Chu Hang put his hand down, his tone as relaxed as if he were discussing the weather, "I was just helping you turn off the tap that wasn't turned off properly."
He took two steps forward and stopped three meters away from Carroll, his gaze calm and sincere.
"Your strength is great, but your control over it is like a three-year-old child wielding a battering ram. It's too wasteful and too dangerous."
He looked at her and said, word by word, "Now, can we have a proper talk? Talk about who you are, where you come from, and... what you've forgotten."
Carol looked at him, her lips moved, but she couldn't utter a single word. The chaos in her mind was even greater than when she had just fallen from the sky to Earth.
An instinct made her want to trust him. That shared power, that absolute sense of control he exerted over her, gave her a strange feeling of closeness and dependence. But six years of Kree brainwashing had also filled her with wariness and suspicion towards any stranger.
"I..." She was about to say something to break the suffocating silence.
Suddenly, a piercing engine roar came from afar, tearing apart the silence of the ruins.
A dozen bright headlights suddenly lit up from the entrance of the ruins, like sharp swords piercing the night of the Mojave Desert and pinpointing the location of the two people.
Chu Hang frowned slightly. He knew who it was without even looking.
Nick Fury.
S.H.I.E.L.D. acted even faster than he had imagined.
“Looks like we don’t have time for a long chat.” Chu Hang glanced at the black Chevrolet Suburbans that were rapidly closing in, then turned to Carroll and said, “If you want to get to the bottom of this, trust me. Now, hurry up.”
Carol hadn't yet realized what he meant by that.
Chu Hang stepped forward and, to her astonishment, grabbed her arm.
"Hold on to what?" Carol asked instinctively, the warmth from her arm making her stiffen.
"Hurry up and experience it for yourself," Chu Hang grinned, "what real flying is like."
Before he finished speaking, an unimaginably powerful surge of cosmic energy erupted from beneath his feet. Unlike Carol, who allowed the energy to burn throughout his body and form flames, he concentrated all his power with extreme efficiency and precision at that single point beneath his feet.
The hard ground cracked instantly, and a perfectly circular impact crater suddenly appeared. Chu Hang, with a stunned Carol in his arms, rose vertically into the air like a cannonball launched by an electromagnetic catapult, breaking the sound barrier in an instant without any unnecessary movements.
Below, Nick Fury and Phil Coulson, who had just rushed out of the car, could only stare in disbelief at the fleeting golden streak in the night sky, so fast it was almost impossible to catch, and the massive sonic boom that arrived a step too late and made their eardrums buzz.
“Coulson…” Fury took off his sunglasses, rubbed his throbbing temples, feeling his migraine about to flare up again, “Write this down. From today onwards, add two zeros to the end of our department’s budget.”