Chapter 29:
With Alex Chen's powerful entry into the fight, Tony, who had been like a lone boat in a storm, instantly felt as if he had reached land.
At this moment, Loki, who had been hiding in Stark Tower, finally couldn't hold back any longer upon seeing this scene. He revealed himself and roared at Dr. Selvig on the rooftop:
"Hurry! Increase the transmission energy for me! Make that damn mothership descend!"
Dr. Selvig, whose mind was under control, obeyed Loki's every word without question.
Selvig fiddled with the controls for a moment, and soon the energy beam emitted by the Cosmic Cube increased geometrically.
Meanwhile, Tony and Alex Chen were already fighting fiercely. The battle between the two races had erupted into its most intense phase in the blink of an eye.
"Bang!"
Alex Chen and Tony charged once again toward the Chitauri troops closer to the portal.
If they could maintain this momentum, the two of them could block all the Chitauri forces outside the portal, preventing them from descending to Earth.
In that case, the remaining Avengers would only need to deal with Loki and Dr. Selvig.
But things didn't go as planned. As Selvig increased the energy output from the Cosmic Cube,
The portal, which had originally been the size of a truck, instantly expanded to the size of a standard football field.
Looking through the portal, the mountain-like Chitauri mothership soon appeared before the two of them.
Seeing the countless Chitauri warships still outside the portal, even Alex Chen, who had cheat-like abilities, couldn't help but gasp.
"Fuck, how long are we going to have to kill these things?!"
Looking at the terrifying number of enemies before them, even Tony, who had seen many storms, couldn't help but curse.
And at this moment, the portal was still continuously expanding. Endless streams of Chitauri soldiers poured out from it.
Alex Chen and Tony's speed of clearing the soldiers gradually began to fall behind the enemy's reinforcement speed.
More and more Chitauri slipped through the defensive net created by the two of them.
Suddenly, streaks of lightning flashed across the sky.
These lightning bolts accurately struck down the Chitauri that had slipped through.
It was Thor who had arrived.
Looking at the chaotic scene before him, Thor could guess with just a twitch of his toe that this was definitely his brother Loki's doing.
But right now, Thor had no time to look for Loki. He urgently spun Mjolnir in his hand and rushed to support the two at the portal.
Although Thor's arrival reduced the pressure on Alex Chen and Tony considerably, simply blocking the entrance to clear the soldiers was still only treating the symptoms, not the root cause.
As the portal continued to expand, the rate at which enemies descended would only grow faster.
Moreover, everyone's energy and stamina were limited. They could not compare to an entire intact Chitauri army.
The most serious issue was that the portal's diameter had now expanded enough to allow the Chitauri mothership to pass through.
"Boom!"
The massive Chitauri mothership quickly filled the three men's field of vision.
Feeling the powerful impact from the mothership, all three of them were forced to retreat.
Just as the three had barely stabilized themselves, the mothership's cannon fire already landed on the position where Alex Chen and the others had just been.
The space where the three had been was twisted by the high temperature of the cannons.
However, their retreat caused the already precarious defensive line to collapse instantly.
Without the three holding them back, the Chitauri army immediately poured through like a flood.
"Boom!"
At this moment, a familiar green figure was charging straight toward them, smashing everything in its path.
It was the Hulk!
Seeing the Hulk's arrival, the three felt both joy and worry.
The joy was that the Hulk's terrifying strength could help share a lot of the pressure. He could even smash the Chitauri mothership with a single punch. The worry was that no one knew whether the Hulk at this moment would distinguish between friend and foe and smash anyone he saw.
But clearly, these worries were unnecessary.
Just when Alex Chen thought they would be trapped in a bitter battle, the Hulk suddenly charged actively toward the first Chitauri mothership that had descended.
The Hulk used his familiar move — leaping high into the air and delivering a heavy punch to the head of the mothership.
"Boom!"
The mountain-like Chitauri mothership was knocked upright by the Hulk's single punch.
Then, the armor plating on the mothership began to fall off one after another, and the mothership crashed heavily to the ground.
Seeing this scene, both Tony and Alex Chen breathed a sigh of relief.
At this moment, both Alex Chen and Tony had faces full of exhaustion.
"Huff… huff!"
Both Alex Chen and Tony took deep breaths.
This battle had not been easy for either of them!
Unlike Thor, who had a divine body, or Captain America and the Hulk, whose bodies had been modified by gamma radiation, the two of them were essentially still ordinary humans. Their energy and stamina were limited.
Although both of them were feeling tired right now, they had to hold their position here to reduce the pressure on the ground as much as possible.
"Swish! Swish! Swish!"
At this moment, streaks of breaking air sounds suddenly rang in everyone's ears.
"What is that?"
Hearing the sounds, both Alex Chen and Tony couldn't help but look up toward the sky in confusion.
There, countless Chitauri fighter jets had now appeared.
These fighter jets hovered densely in the high sky, like dark clouds blocking out the sun.
Alex Chen and Tony exchanged a glance, then continued pushing back toward the portal again.
Meanwhile, the battle on the ground was equally intense.
After being brought back to S.H.I.E.L.D., Hawkeye had recovered his senses not long afterward. At this moment, he was also heading toward Stark Tower together with Captain America and Black Widow.
But due to the appearance of the mothership, the Chitauri soldiers blocking their path were now densely surrounding them.
Just as everyone was struggling to hold on, Nick Fury arrived with S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and the local police and military forces.
With the arrival of the main force as reinforcement, the pressure on Captain America and the other two was instantly greatly reduced.
"Hahahahaha~"
"All the humans here belong to us!"
"We are the true rulers of this planet! All life here should become our slaves!"
Although everyone was fighting bravely, the number of Chitauri only increased the more they fought.
And because there were simply too many Chitauri, even Captain America and the other two were starting to struggle to hold them back.
"All these humans must die!"
"All of you, go to hell!"
Seeing that everyone was too busy to pay attention to them, the Chitauri officer excitedly waved his arms and shouted frantically.
"Swish! Swish! Swish!"
Just as the Chitauri officer's shout fell, countless missiles shot toward everyone.
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