Ophelia's body, like a skin instantly filled with high-voltage current, violently expanded.
On her face, frozen in shock, a bizarre blue-white light emanated from beneath her skin, as if her bones were glowing.
She didn't even manage to let out a single scream.
Furious electrical arc pulses raged wildly within her body.
Starting from the most fragile internal organs, all biological tissues were incinerated.
The nervous system was completely destroyed in the first millisecond, muscle fibers convulsed and tore violently under the strong current, and blood instantly boiled.
A strong, pungent odor of burnt protein erupted from her mouth, nose, and skin pores.
William's entire right arm felt the terrifying heat that burst from within.
He was expressionless, his eyes cold, without a trace of mercy.
This was a fight to the death.
Any hesitation could lead to his utter ruin.
He could feel his vitality rapidly draining away as the poison spread.
His vision was already blurry, and each heartbeat felt like dragging a rusty bellows, heavy and powerless.
But he still didn't stop.
His Lightning Affinity ability was fully activated, continuously pouring the remaining electrical energy from his body into the woman's body.
Continuous, destructive electrocution!
In Ophelia's emerald green eyes, all expression, including shock, anger, and confusion, was instantly incinerated, leaving only a dead, blank emptiness.
Her proud body, which had undergone countless enhancements, was as fragile as a piece of paper under William's unreasonable internal attack.
William slowly withdrew his right hand.
His hand had turned completely charred and was still emitting wisps of smoke.
Intense pain radiated from his arm, but the expression on his face remained unchanged.
His Pain Suppression ability allowed him to maintain absolute calm at this moment.
Ophelia's body, like a wax figure from which all its framework had been removed, slumped softly to the ground.
Her body was still twitching slightly, a residual reaction after her nervous system was completely destroyed.
Is she dead?
William didn't dare to be careless.
He braced himself against the dizziness, took a step forward, raised his foot, and stomped heavily on Ophelia's neck.
"Crack!"
The crisp sound of bones breaking was particularly jarring in the dead silent warehouse.
This time, he was certain that the woman was beyond dead.
After all this, William could no longer hold on, his body swayed, and he fell to one knee, gasping violently.
Damn poison!
He could feel that his internal organs were being pierced by countless red-hot steel needles.
The three abilities: Toxin Resistance (Elementary), Accelerated Healing (Elementary), and Super Soldier Serum, were engaged in a fierce tug-of-war with the potent neurotoxin within his body.
Cells were wailing, dying, and then stubbornly regenerating.
William gritted his teeth and pulled his phone from his pocket.
He couldn't die here.
He dialed an encrypted number.
The phone rang only once before it was answered.
"Boss?" Lei Ling's slightly nervous and worried voice came from the other end of the line.
"I'm injured," William's voice was hoarse, like sandpaper rubbing, "I need backup."
"What? Where are you? How serious are your injuries?" Lei Ling's voice instantly rose by an octave, and the sound of colliding tables and chairs could be heard in the background.
"Brooklyn," William reported the address, "Don't panic, I won't die."
He paused, then added, "Bring Bronski too. Have Maurice drive the fastest boat."
"Understood!" Lei Ling didn't ask further and decisively hung up the phone.
William leaned against the cold container, feeling his consciousness gradually blurring.
No, he couldn't fall asleep.
He bit the tip of his tongue hard, and the sharp pain jolted him awake.
He struggled to his feet and walked to Ophelia's corpse.
He had killed her; it felt like a wasted effort if he didn't search the body.
He squatted down, enduring the nausea, and began to search the woman's body.
A strangely shaped Dagger, several miniature bombs, and a black, unmarked phone.
William's gaze fell on the phone.
His Data Touch ability activated.
As soon as his finger touched the phone screen, countless chaotic data streams, like a breached dam, instantly flooded into his mind.
Encryption protocols, firewalls, data traps... these defensive measures, which seemed like an insurmountable chasm to ordinary hackers, were like unlocked doors in front of William's Data Touch.
His consciousness penetrated directly.
Countless pieces of information flashed through his mind.
The locations of HYDRA's secret Bases around the world.
Lists of Agents lurking within S.H.I.E.L.D., the Military, and high-ranking government officials.
Various ongoing secret experiments, including the preliminary concepts of the "Centipede Project" and the "Insight Project"... and... a large number of investigation reports about himself.
From his first appearance in New York, to his contact with Spider-Man, to his purchase of that isolated island, and even the messy affair between him and Jessica Jones, everything was recorded in detail.
William's back was instantly drenched in cold sweat.
This feeling of being stripped bare and studied under a microscope filled him with unprecedented anger and... fear.
Fortunately.
Fortunately, he acted today.
If this woman had lived a little longer, who knew how many of his secrets she would have unearthed.
He endured the throbbing pain in his brain from the Impact of the massive information and found what he needed most.
Ophelia's private account information, and... the transfer password for the huge sum of money she had hidden in a Swiss bank.
The corners of William's mouth curved upwards uncontrollably.
This wasn't a loss.
Not only did he eliminate a major hidden danger, but he also made a fortune in the process.
Without hesitation, using the authority of his Data Touch, he transferred that astronomical sum of money through a dozen shell companies in various countries, changing hands seven or eight times, and finally depositing it into one of his offshore accounts.
After all this, he directly formatted all the data on the phone.
Cut the grass, root it out.
He leaned against the wall, feeling his eyelids growing heavier and heavier.
In the distance, the sound of explosions from Manhattan also seemed to become more distant.
Just as he was about to lose consciousness, the warehouse door was violently torn open from the outside.
A huge, grotesque figure appeared at the doorway.
Abomination, Emil Blonsky.
Behind him were a visibly anxious Lei Ling and a terrified Maurice, the Water man.
Bronski looked at the horrific scene inside the warehouse, then at William's half-dead state, and frowned.
"It seems your trouble is bigger than I imagined."
William twitched the corner of his mouth, trying to smile, but it aggravated his internal injuries, causing a violent fit of coughing.
"I won't die..." he said weakly, "Help me... onto the boat..."
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