"No!"
Wolverine, lurking below, saw Goku shackled by huge metal chains and felt a surge of anxiety.
But he quickly calmed down, as panicking was useless; going out now would be a suicide mission. There was only a sliver of hope if he waited for Magneto to land and then launch a sneak attack.
During the time Goku and Magneto were fighting, he hadn't been idle.
First, he stealthily approached and killed Dr. Rice, who was trying to escape. Then, he used readily available materials to make a simple bow and arrow.
The arrow was made purely of wood, contained no metal, and was even smeared with anesthetic.
As for the source of the anesthetic?
It was extracted from the tranquilizer guns carried by the mercenaries.
Since Dr. Rice planned to capture him alive, he naturally had his subordinates prepare tranquilizer guns.
Unfortunately, they were completely useless.
Goku could catch machine gun bullets with his bare hands, so tranquilizer guns were even less of a threat.
As a combat veteran who had participated in World War I and World War II, Wolverine had learned how to simply create weapons and traps when firearms were unavailable.
However, in previous battles, with his healing factor and Adamantium claws, he never needed these skills.
But now he was facing Magneto; close combat offered no chance of victory, and firearms were just decorations.
Only with these non-metallic weapons did he have a chance of survival.
"Roar!"
However, just as he was lying in the grass, aiming his bow and arrow at Magneto, who was descending, a terrifying roar echoed through the sky, interrupting his attack.
Looking closely, a look of horror instantly appeared on his face.
Baron Strucker, who was controlling Magneto as he was about to land, was also startled.
What did they see?
They saw Goku, heavily bound by metal chains, rapidly expanding in size, actually breaking free from the metal chains and transforming into a terrifying giant ape over ten meters tall.
"King Kong?"
The moment they saw Goku transform into a giant ape, both of them simultaneously thought of the movie "King Kong" that had been popular in cinemas a few years ago.
Additionally, the same question arose in their minds.
Is he really a mutant?
Although mutants have various mutations, it shouldn't go as far as transforming into such a large King Kong.
"Roar!"
Under the full moon, the giant ape roared towards the sky, quickly locking its gaze on Magneto, who had attacked it earlier.
It slammed its arms down in anger, causing the ground to crack. With a powerful Kick from its thick legs, the giant ape, transformed from Goku, charged towards Magneto in the air.
Baron Strucker was immediately alarmed by this and hastily controlled Magneto to gain altitude, gathering a metal wall in front of him again.
After the previous chase, he had already collected tens of thousands of tons of metal.
Even the energy rays the boy had just fired could no longer penetrate his current metal wall defense.
Probably only the powerful Impact energy wave from the first strike would have a chance.
If he hadn't been wary of that energy Impact, he would have counterattacked long ago, instead of continuously employing attrition tactics to delay and deplete the boy's stamina.
"Boom!"
The defensive wall, composed of tens of thousands of tons of metal, exploded under the giant ape's fist, as if the giant ape's fist had struck not a metal wall, but foam.
"This is impossible!"
Baron Strucker controlled Magneto to narrowly dodge the giant ape's fist, his voice filled with disbelief.
From the power displayed in this one punch from the giant ape, it was evident.
The pure physical strength of the wild mutant boy, after transforming into a giant ape, had increased at least tenfold.
The wild mutant boy's strength was already terrifying, and now it was even more so.
"How can we fight this?"
At this moment, Baron Strucker's face was extremely grim.
He felt that even if he controlled Magneto to a sufficiently high altitude and continued to manipulate tens of thousands of tons of metal to attack the giant ape, it would simply be unable to cause any damage to the giant ape.
And if the giant ape landed just one hit on Magneto, whom he was controlling, then Magneto would be ruined.
His thirty-five years of hard work would be for naught.
Without Magneto's original body as a research subject, it would be unknown how long it would take to create a clone of Magneto again.
Although he had mastered Dr. Rice's cloning technology.
That technology was not perfect.
Firstly, Dr. Rice's cloning technology wasn't capable of cloning anyone he wanted; cloning ordinary people didn't pose too many technical difficulties.
But mutants are different from ordinary people; they have the miraculous X-gene in their bodies.
Different X-genes exhibit different abilities, meaning each mutant's X-gene is unique.
Therefore, the cloning difficulty was greatly increased.
Dr. Rice had studied Wolverine's genes for so many years and had only just mastered the cloning of Wolverine's X-gene.
Moreover, the cloned X-24 also had significant personality weaknesses, almost no intelligence, and its healing gene was inferior to the original.
Using the same cloning technology would not immediately allow the cloning of other mutants.
This was also why he wanted to protect Dr. Rice.
He needed Dr. Rice to modify the cloning technology based on Magneto's genes, thereby creating a clone of Magneto.
If Magneto's original body was gone, relying solely on the genes left at the Base, then according to HYDRA's current biotechnology, it would probably take thirty to forty years to clone him.
Furthermore, the giant ape's massive size would likely quickly attract official attention, specifically S.H.I.E.L.D.'s attention.
Even with clairvoyance, it would be difficult to conceal it further; Nick Fury was no fool, and being too obvious could easily lead to repercussions later.
So, the only course of action now was to withdraw first, and then think of other ways to capture this wild mutant boy who could transform into a giant ape.
Oh no, whether he was a mutant was still uncertain.
But that didn't matter; he had developed a strong interest in this terrifyingly powerful boy who could transform into King Kong.
An interest even stronger than his previous interest in Magneto.
Whether he was a mutant or not didn't matter; as long as he could capture the boy for research, he would have another trump card for World domination.
He looked down to find Dr. Rice, intending to take Dr. Rice with him during the retreat.
However, when he found Dr. Rice, he discovered that Dr. Rice had already been pierced through the heart by claws and was thoroughly dead.
"Damn Wolverine!"
He had been so focused on fighting the wild mutant boy that he hadn't had the extra energy to pay attention to Dr. Rice.
He hadn't expected Wolverine to secretly kill him.
Mainly, he had seen the stretched limousine drive away earlier and assumed Wolverine and the others had all retreated.
Without Dr. Rice, the plan to clone a Magneto army in the later stages would be delayed again.
Seeing the giant King Kong charging at him again, Baron Strucker dared not delay any longer and quickly controlled Magneto to escape from here at the fastest possible speed.
Alas, he had still underestimated the power of Goku transforming into a Saiyan Great Ape.
Seeing Magneto trying to escape, the giant ape directly opened its mouth towards Magneto.
"Boom!"
Immediately, a terrifying mouth cannon, with a diameter of over two meters, shot out and blasted towards Magneto.
Compared to Goku's Kamehameha, which required charging and a two to three-second pause, the giant ape's mouth cannon was instantaneous and its power was greatly enhanced.