MUP: Chapter 89. SHIELD

Seizing the opportunity, Danny gathered all the power of the Iron Fist to his uninjured fist. Without hesitation, he attacked the Beast where the bullet had struck.

The Iron Fist was so powerful that Ryan almost couldn't maintain the clone technique he used for the Beast.

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"Nothing is true, everything is permitted."

On the first floor of the restaurant, Wesley, who fell to the rubble, fired his last bullet.

Hearing the Beast scream, there was a shallow smile on Wesley's lips, and then his extended arm dropped.

Then, there was silence.

Matt's face wavered when he noticed the movement on the first floor, especially when he heard the last line of the Creed that Wesley had recited. The fingers gripping the guide stick in his hand turned pale white.

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The Beast covered the area where he had been hit by the bullet and the iron fist. To hide the fact that he wasn't bleeding, he took several steps backwards and fell to one knee before saying, "If it wasn't for that previous encounter and the wound left by that mysterious person forcing his invitation, you guys wouldn't have been able to hurt me."

"Mysterious person?"

After the Beast said that, Ryan instantly asked, "What person? What did he invite you to do?!"

"Wanna know?" Looking up at the questioning Ryan, the Beast grinned, "I'm not going to tell you, hahaha, I've already told them about Peng Lai. Cough cough... I'm sure you'll see them soon, very soon ..."

As the Beast spoke, his life force grew weaker and weaker.

However, in the next instant, the Beast's eyes, which had been closed, snapped open, and with a gleam in both eyes. He shouted with a wide grin.

"So, I see, I finally understand!"

Ignoring the cautious group in front of him, the Beast sat cross-legged and formed a seal with his hands. With the sound of Buddhist chants, a golden statue of Buddha emerged behind him, smiling.

"So, this is the fifth form of Buddha's Palm -- Welcoming Buddha to the West. Unfortunately, I'm too late to realise it."

Leaving these words behind, the Beast's head, which had been raised, hung down, and the golden Buddha image behind him faded away.

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　　...

The battle finally came to an end.

The Defenders didn't feel any happiness because of that.

They had sacrificed too many friends for this victory. Ah Xing, Wesley ...

At Wesley's funeral, the Defenders looked solemn.

"Wesley, you're a real hero." Luke stared at the tombstone in front of him and spoke with a heavy tone.

Jessica: "..."

Holding up the bottle in her hand, Jessica didn't pour it into her mouth, but on Wesley's headstone, "Here's to you, although I don't even know if you like to drink."

Right now, Ryan's feelings were somewhat nuanced.

He knew full well that Wesley's coffin was completely empty, but on the surface, he still wore an expression of sympathetic grief.

"Master Ip." Coming to sit beside Ryan with his guide stick in hand, Matt took in the atmosphere of the funeral in silence and asked Ryan, who had stepped aside, "What are you planning to do after this?"

With that, Matt clearly hit the nail on the head with his question.

Ryan frowned and brought out the script that he had already prepared in his mind, "To be honest, I was going to go back to Peng Lai after this was over. However, the last words the beast said made me worried. Since Peng Lai's safety might be at stake, I'll stay in New York a bit longer to get some answers."

Hearing that, Matt nodded, "That's probably for the best right now."

Matt was equally wary of the mystery man that the Beast mentioned.

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S.H.I.E.L.D., New York Division.

"Come in."

Nick Fury silently looked down at the information in front of him. When he heard the knock on the door, he answered without raising his head.

"Seems like you're slacking off a bit."

Pushing the door open and striding over to Fury, Natasha Romanoff looked down at the Director, who looked like he was in a daze.

"No, I never slack off." Looking up and glancing at Natasha with his single eye, Fury spoke in a deep voice, "There are just too many threats we don't know about, and some of them are of our own making. "

"You mean that green monster that the military made?"

Curbing the smile on her face, Natasha then asked.

Hulk made a big commotion in New York. Although the military tried its best to suppress it through various secretive means, S.H.I.E.L.D. obviously had its own information sources. The agents lurking inside the military had accurately relayed everything that had happened in New York.

As a result, the Hulk's profile appeared on Fury's desk.

Without directly answering Natasha's question, Fury pushed forward the information in his hand, "Some, on the other hand, came back out after decades of hiding."

Natasha looked down, only to see a plethora of photographs in front of her eyes. Flipping through the photos Fury had given her, Natasha was keen to pick up on some subtle connections in them.

"These are?"

"These are the information collected by the agents in the past few weeks. The most important of which is this part." Stretching out his hand, Fury picked out a few obviously blurred photos. He pointed to the wrecked street and the Chinese restaurant that was almost cut in half, "Chinatown in Lower Manhattan. They suffered great damage. This was the first image captured by our agents after they noticed the incident."

As he spoke, Fury flipped the information in front of him to another page, "According to the investigation at the scene, most of the residents who were in Chinatown that day said that the damage came from a battle."

"Battle?"

Natasha recalled what she had seen in the other pictures. It was hard to imagine what kind of battle could have caused such destruction. If heat weapons were used, naturally, they could easily reach or even surpass the level of destruction seen in Chinatown.

However, Natasha was able to tell that the scene in the pictures wasn't caused by explosions.

Turning the information to the next page, Fury pointed to the Asian man in the Tang suit in the photo, "And he is one of the people involved. "