While fleeing to Brazil, Banner had been sending his blood to Mr. Blue, hoping he could help him remove the Hulk gene, but the experiments had yielded no results. Banner believed that only by sending all the experimental data from that time to Mr. Blue would there be a chance to solve the Hulk problem.
After being pursued by the pursuit team sent by the U.S. Military, Banner made up his mind to return to America and end everything.
After transforming into the Hulk and escaping the pursuit, Banner returned to the college where he used to work, but when he searched for the experimental data, he found that the data no longer existed. He realized that General Ross must have taken the data long ago.
After that, he met his ex-girlfriend, Betty Ross. Banner had accidentally injured her when he transformed into the Hulk, so to avoid hurting her again, he broke up with her and fled America.
After this meeting, it was clear that Betty still had feelings for Banner. She also knew that her father, General Ross, was pursuing Banner to create powerful weapons, so she secretly gave Banner the experimental data she had previously downloaded. Banner was very touched, and under Betty's farewell, he prepared to leave and find Mr. Blue.
However, General Ross's men suddenly arrived, and he was forced to transform into the Hulk. General Ross was well-prepared this time, even equipped with a secret weapon: a sonic weapon tank, but it still couldn't withstand the Hulk's power. Finally, amidst the explosion of an armed helicopter, the Hulk carried away Betty Ross, who had fainted from the blast.
In a motel.
"Banner, look at the pants I prepared for you, they should fit perfectly." Betty smiled and threw a pair of shorts at Banner, who had just come out of the shower.
Seeing a dark shadow flying towards him, Banner dropped the towel in his hand and caught the pants. He held them up and saw that they were very large and elastic.
"Betty, let's not." Banner gave a helpless smile, knowing Betty was teasing him. These pants were for the Hulk, weren't they?
Betty smiled, took out a newly bought wrist heart rate monitor, put it on Banner, and then personally cut Banner's hair, reminiscing about the good times they shared.
As the atmosphere grew, the two began to embrace and kiss on the bed. Just as they were about to roll around, Banner glanced at his skyrocketing heart rate and quickly stopped.
"What's wrong, Banner?" Betty asked, puzzled.
"I can't do this." Banner propped himself up and looked at Betty below him.
"It's okay, Banner, I'm willing." Betty thought Banner stopped because of her.
"I can't get too excited, otherwise the Hulk will come out." Banner gave a bitter smile, then lowered his head, feeling a bit lost.
A while later, the two left the temporary motel and prepared to go to New York to find Dr. Blue. When they drove to New York, they found that the bridge to New York was closed. Feeling that something was wrong, the two immediately abandoned their car and took a waterway to New York.
Banner had learned Mr. Blue's location when he communicated with him before; he was at Grayburn College in Manhattan (it should be Manhattan, right?). Since Banner didn't want to squeeze into a subway with dozens of people, fearing he might turn them all into meat patties if he got nervous, he chose to take a taxi.
"Hey, Bruce, wait, look over there." After the taxi arrived in Manhattan, as soon as the two got out, Betty noticed something.
Banner followed Betty's gaze. It was several New York Police officers interrogating some people. Banner looked at this scene, a little puzzled.
"What's wrong, Betty?"
"We need to be careful and avoid these people. My father might be looking for us now." Betty knew her father's capabilities; if their whereabouts were too exposed, he would find them at any time.
"Hmm, let's go that way." Banner also realized. Since meeting Betty, this period of time had been too wonderful compared to his previous life, dulling his vigilance habits trained during his fugitive days. However, Banner reacted quickly, finding a largely deserted corner and pulling Betty in.
This area was the intersection of the rich and common districts, so there were still some dark alleys and similar places.
In fact, those Police officers were not looking for them at all; it was just that the security in this part of Manhattan had recently deteriorated, so their Police station had recently increased patrols. You should know that this was the Upper City, considered the rich area of Manhattan, so security management was naturally very strict.
As for General Ross, he had just obtained his conversation with Mr. Blue from the computer Banner used in Brazil, and he should not have departed yet; he was giving Bronski an injection.
Banner and Betty wanted to reach Grayburn College through those dark areas, but these dark, secluded corners were precisely where darkness tended to breed.
"Hey! You two, stop for us brothers!" Just then, a voice with a strange accent came from behind them. The two turned around and found several hoodlums squatting in a corner, smoking cigarettes, with various strange tattoos on their bodies. They clearly weren't easy to deal with.
Banner gripped Betty's hand tightly, shielding her behind him. These people clearly looked like small-time gangsters. Banner had encountered many such people when he was in Brazil, and several times they had made him transform into the Hulk.
The blond hoodlum by the corner threw down his cigarette butt, stood up, and walked arrogantly towards Banner and Betty. Several of his subordinates also stood up with him.
These few people all had Asian faces, with various colored hairstyles, and were wearing black vests with Japanese writing, which looked like gang uniforms, as they all wore such clothes.
Nagasaki Haradan decided that this period of time had been truly unlucky. Their Nuclear Contamination Gang, being an outsider gang in the Hell's Kitchen area, was already difficult to get by. They usually could only pick up scraps under the big gangs, and these subordinates couldn't get many benefits; the bulk went to the gang leaders.
Then, at some unknown point, another ruthless character emerged in the Hell's Kitchen area. Every night, many gang members met a tragic end, and it wasn't just one or two. That guy specifically targeted crowded places. Several times, entire gangs were directly wiped out, and the fates of those people were also terrifying: all were severely injured, basically destined to spend the rest of their lives in a wheelchair or bed.
In the Nuclear Contamination Gang where Nagasaki Haradan was, their boss was so scared that he immediately moved his entire gang to another district, which is how they ended up in this place.
However, apart from Hell's Kitchen, other areas had stricter security, so since they arrived here, their lives had been worse than before. Moreover, they weren't the only gang to relocate; several other small gangs similar to them also came here, which caused the security in this area to worsen and led the Police department to increase patrols.
"Baka, I heard that the guy who causes trouble in Hell's Kitchen all day is that Swift Wind Swordsman. These guys, wearing such cool gear, don't go make money, but instead meddle in other people's business all day long." Nagasaki Haradan took a puff of his cigarette and cursed bitterly.
"Exactly, Big Brother." At this moment, his subordinate Hiroshima also echoed from the side. Just as he showed a fawning smile, he suddenly looked as if he had seen some treasure, his eyes filled with greed. "Big Brother, look, that girl is so hot."
Hiroshima suddenly patted Nagasaki's arm excitedly, making him look in a certain direction.
In the dark corner, a man and a woman walked out. The man was an ordinary White male, and the woman, Nagasaki swallowed his saliva, he thought she was too hot.
Nagasaki was suddenly controlled by his lower instincts and couldn't resist wanting to go up with his brothers to chat her up. As for whether the guy next to her was her boyfriend? Sorry, he, the Minotaur, liked to cause trouble the most.
"Hey! You two, don't you know this is our Nuclear Contamination Gang's territory?" Nagasaki yelled arrogantly in his English with a Japanese accent (the kind with a rolled 'r').
"Sorry, we'll leave immediately." Banner certainly didn't want to cause trouble. He had already let the Hulk run out and smash things several times in such situations, so he just wanted to leave quickly, and he was with Betty now, so he had to ensure her safety.
After Banner finished speaking, he pulled Betty, intending to leave, but two hoodlums darted out from the side, blocking their way.
"What do you want? I'm warning you, don't provoke me." Seeing this scene, Banner's chest slightly rose and fell, and his heart rate was slowly increasing.
"Hehe, you think you can just leave after entering our territory?" Nagasaki pulled out a switchblade, smiling maliciously, his eyes, however, fixed on Betty behind Banner.
Several hoodlums gradually closed in on Banner and Betty. In this dark, narrow alley between buildings, once surrounded, it would be very difficult to escape.
"Banner, let's just run." Betty whispered, telling Banner to break through with her in the direction where there was only one hoodlum.
Banner gripped Betty's hand tightly, then threw the backpack he was carrying at Nagasaki's face. The struck gang leader stumbled backward, and Banner immediately pulled Betty and ran towards the alley entrance where there was only one hoodlum.
"Nani!!"
The hoodlum was still looking at his boss when Banner, who rushed over, kicked him directly to the ground. Banner, making vigorous movements, no longer cared about his skyrocketing heart rate; if he didn't leave soon, he would transform immediately.
"Catch them!"
Nagasaki, after shaking off his backpack, yelled furiously.
Banner and Betty, unfamiliar with the roads, were inevitably affected by obstacles underfoot while fleeing, so the hoodlums quickly closed the distance.
Just then, a group of people appeared at the front of the path Banner and Betty were taking. Banner stopped, because the attire of that group was clearly the same as the hoodlums they had just encountered; they were all together.
"Hmm? Nagasaki, what's going on?" Among the newly arrived group, a slick-haired hoodlum shouted at Nagasaki and the others who were catching up from behind.
"Oh! It's Big Brother Abe! These two are causing trouble here, I want to catch them." The panting Nagasaki saw the people ahead and immediately beamed with joy. Now you two can't escape, can you?
"Is that so? Catch them." Shinzo Abe looked disdainful and told his subordinates to go up, so the group swarmed them.
Banner's hands were held down by several people, while Betty fell to the ground in her struggle.
Seeing this, green light glowed in Banner's eyes, his chest heaved violently, and he gasped, "Get away from her!"
The few people completely ignored Banner. Nagasaki walked towards Betty with a sinister smile.
"I said! Get! Away! From! Her! ROAR!" "BOOM!"
A Beast-like roar and a huge impact stopped the few people in their tracks, making them turn around.
Behind them, a cloud of dust had appeared at some point, and several screams came from within, making the few people swallow their saliva.
"Big Brother Abe? What happened?" Nagasaki asked cautiously, but there was no sound from his Big Brother in the dust.
"Thump thump ~" The sound of heavy footsteps came, and from within the dust, a huge, green, raging giant appeared before them.
"ROAR!"
The Hulk roared, and the strong wind it created blew the few people backward, stumbling.
The few hoodlums had never seen such a scene, and Nagasaki had already seen it: where the dust dissipated, his Big Brother Abe and a few subordinates were embedded in the wall, their fates unknown, and Abe was the worst off, his chest seemingly pierced by a large hole.
Seeing this terrifying scene, Nagasaki immediately took off running. The few subordinates also reacted and ran after him.
The Hulk's face was furious, his teeth clenched. Seeing these guys, his anger continuously surged. The Hulk leaped, directly landing in the middle of the few people. The huge impact sent the running people flying.
With a casual swing of his arm, a hoodlum was sent flying by the thick arm, crashing heavily against the wall, then sliding down like a pile of mud.
The hoodlums who fell to the ground also didn't escape the Hulk's grasp. The Hulk grabbed two people by their legs, swung his arms, and smashed the two figures together. The immense force instantly disfigured them. The Hulk casually flung them, and the two piles of matter were thrown onto a dumpster.
"Ah! Ah! Don't come over!" Nagasaki, who had just managed to get up, saw this scene and felt his soul shatter. Fear made his hands push backward constantly, trying to escape from the terrifying Hulk, and the pants between his legs were visibly wet.
"Tsk!" The Hulk snorted disdainfully, casually grabbing a nearby dumpster and throwing it directly at him.
Nagasaki watched in terror as a shadow loomed over his face. Then, the dumpster directly covered his upper body, leaving only his legs, which had stopped twitching, and blood flowing from the bottom of the bin.
"Hoo~ Ha~" The Hulk panted heavily, looking at the last person on the scene, Betty.
"Banner, are you okay? It's over, you can calm down." Betty had already stood up. She felt no sympathy for what happened to those people; they deserved it. But Betty had to soothe the Hulk; she had experience with this. Last time, after the Hulk left the college, it was with her soothing that he transformed back into Banner.
Betty gently soothed the Hulk, and it indeed worked well. After hearing Betty's voice, the Hulk's agitation significantly decreased, and he slowly walked towards Betty.
Betty came before the Hulk, extended her hands, and cupped the Hulk's face. If nothing unexpected happened, the Hulk would soon transform back into Banner.
"Oh~ Is it lively here?" Just then, a voice came.
The Hulk's eyes widened again, and he roared in the direction the voice came from behind him.
Betty stumbled back a few steps and also saw the newcomer.
In the alley above, a figure slowly descended. Betty recognized the person's identity.
"Iron Man? No, Swift Wind Swordsman