6 Chapter 6

Inside the casket was a rotten skeleton.

It has a long sword in its body, and a transparent crystal cube in its hand.

Suddenly, the officer's eyes suddenly shrank, the inside of the casket was filled with explosives!

The officer had just pushed open the casket and saw the body lying there riddled with explosives, he almost had no time to react as it suddenly exploded.

"Boom—!" With a loud blast, the entire hall shook violently, and thick smoke along with some rubble spewed out from the church.

Despite trying his best to avoid it, the officer was still blown away. The casket burst open instantly, and the flames of the explosion swallowed him whole. His whole face burned under the raging flames, exposing the red skin underneath, and the powerful shock wave blasted him out. As he flew out, his mask was completely torn apart, and a blood-red skull shaped face was completely exposed. Amazingly, he was the biggest villain in the movie, the leader of the mysterious organization "Hydra" Red Skull, Johann Schmidt!

Red skull fell heavily on the ground, and after the explosion some shards from the casket pierced through his body. Blood continuously gushed out from his wounds, and soon formed a pool of blood under him.

As soon as the flames dissipated, a figure fell from top of the church, with two whooshing sounds: "swish, swish" silver lights flashed, two flying knives made of steel shoot into Red Skull, targeting his eyes and throat separately.

Red Skull, who was barely alive, felt a wave of dizziness. The massive blood loss and the intense dizziness caused by the explosion weakened him and made him unable to stand up at all. He was barely propped up by his arms, his face ashened. Looking at the figure standing in front of him, this was the person who'd set this trap and wanted his life. And he was about to succeed!

After glancing at the person, Red Skull was shocked. The person in front of him was wearing the exact clothes as him! Black military uniform, windbreaker and high leather boots. The most frightening thing was that even his face was exactly the same as his!

Red Skull immediately understood. The person in front of him wanted to kill and impersonate him.

It's a pity that even if he understood it nothing would change. Shen, who was disguised as Red Skull, threw two flying knives at him.

Shen has been planning this for a long time, how could he give Red Skull the chance to retaliate?

The Red Skull was like an arrow at the end of it's flight. Facing the flying knives that were approaching him at a terrifying speed, he forced himself to avoid it, but with his body's current strength along with the extreme dizziness, his movements were too slow, the twenty centimeters long flying knives instantly pierced through his eye sockets and directly penetrated his brain.

The story's biggest villain who just appeared on the scene and just barely said a couple of words, was easily killed by Shen. It was not that Red Skull was weak, but that Shen relied on his familiarity on the sequence of events that would happen based on the story. So he made a trap that could kill him.

Schmidt never expected that after racking his brain and learned the location of the Tesseract in a remote church, there would be someone who'd set a trap specifically for him. Yes, it didn't kill him immediately but after being seriously injured by the explosion he had almost no strength left to fight back and keep his life. So Shen took advantage of it and just used the flying knives as his final move and directly killed him.

With deep resentment, Red Skull's body slumped on the ground, a famed individual in his generation, dead. In the future, Shen will bear his identity for him.

As soon as Shen saw that the Howard Stark in the newspaper was exactly the same as the one in the movie, he boldly speculated that the other characters should be here as well. Shen, who had a clear understanding of the whole story came up with this bold idea and directly killed Red Skull to assume his identity.

Shen made full preparations for this. He drew sketches of tailor-made clothes according to his memory, he learned German, imitated sounds, and he even made masks that he could wear just to look exactly like "Red Skull" even if he would look differently

Just a while ago, Shen was hiding above and observing quietly. He has mastered Schmidt's voice and tone.

Who would have thought that the Hydra leader who they worshiped as a God be killed and replaced in such a short period of time? Therefore Shen thought that it would be better if he just pretended to be Red Skull.

Shen placed Red Skull's corpse inside his space. Everyone else in the church was dead. No one would know of what happened just now.

After the smoke and dust from the explosion dispersed, a group of Hydra soldiers quickly rushed in.

Seeing Shen standing in the field, one by one they stood in attention and saluted immediately. No one asked what happened just now. Red Skull has a lot of weight in Hydra. If he doesn't say anything, then nothing. Also, no one dares ask him. They just need to follow his orders

Shen nodded in satisfaction, Schmidt trained Hydra well which saved him a lot of time.

Ignoring these soldiers, Shen turned around and looked at the church. The violent explosion made it a mess, the murals on the walls cracked.

For fear of Red Skull being strengthened after he was injected with the Super Soldier Serum, Shen placed all the explosives he had stolen from the nearby German military camp a few days ago inside the casket. The facts proved that Shen's decision was the correct one, such a violent explosion and it only severely injured Red Skull, but it was more than enough for Shen to kill him with his flying knives. The strengthening of the body from the serum really is powerful, Shen is really looking forward to it.

Shen came before a mural of Yggdrasil, finding a box hidden behind a depiction of a Nidhogg. After poking it a couple of times the box popped out with a "click".

Shen slowly opened the box, and a dazzling blue light shot out from it.

Inside it is a blue cube, emitting a dazzling light. The cube seemed to contain an endless starry sky in it. It is beautiful and breathtaking, and looks like it contains endless mysteries, which makes people fall into a trance and can't bear to look away from it.

This is the Space Gem, it harnesses endless energy and space power. Shen was dumbfounded when he really saw the real thing. It is far more shocking than what he saw in the movie. It is really worthy of being called a celestial treasure.

Putting away the box, Shen turned around and walked out. But suddenly, a silver light flashed in the corner of his eye.

Shen turned his head and looked, he saw that at the corner of the wall, a bright silver sword was embedded into a stone pillar. The tip of the sword penetrated the stone pillar all the way to the back, reflecting the silver light under the fire.

Walking to the stone pillar, Shen grasped the hilt of the sword and tugged it forcefully, pulling the sword out of the stone pillar with a "swoosh" sound, the sword's body buzzed in the air.

If Shen remembered it correctly, this should be the king's sword buried along with him inside the casket. It's just that the original rusty surface fell off during the explosion, revealing it's true form. The sword looked brilliant and sharp.

It was a two-handed broadsword with a blade length of nearly one meter and it's grip was more than 20cm long. It also has a cross-guard The blade is wide and sharp. He doesn't know what material it is made of. It weighs more than ordinary two-handed broadswords. It was heavy, but not for Shen who wielded it smoothly.

Shen slashed towards a stone pillar single handedly, and the long and slender blade passed through it smoothly, easily cutting it off.

It seems that this king's sword is not an ordinary funerary treasure, and it should also have an extraordinary origin. If I have time, I should study it carefully.

He successfully replaced the Red Skull and also got the Space Gem. But unexpectedly he also gained another piece of treasure, Shen walked out of the ruined church satisfied.

Looking at the huge tank that looked like a steel fortress in front of him, Shen really had to admire that Hydra's technological advancement is really at the top during this era. In comparison, even his current era is much worse than them, but now all of this will belong to him.

In the past, Shen focused all his time and energy on improving his own abilities, ignoring the role of someone with power. It was not until Shen Jingde got seriously injured that Shen woke up from this mentality.

High social standing is power, which is correct. But one's own strength should also be strong enough to intimidate anyone. Being powerful can help him achieve his goals. If Shen had some power at the beginning, how could Zhou Tianhao dare to do that to his grandfather.

Therefore, the idea of ​​forming one's own power has long been planned by Shen in his heart. This is also the main reason why Shen can come up with the idea to replace Red Skull.

Taking control of Hydra will be of great help whether it is for his next plans or the accumulation of its own power after he returns to the real world.

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