Chapter 257 The Price

The mechanical life forms trapped in the thorn cages obviously did not listen to the warning of the old voice.

Some mechanical life forms even regarded this as a conspiracy of humans to trap them here.

They struggled more subconsciously.

Some mechanical life forms even picked up their weapons and fired at the surrounding thorn cages.

"Da Da Da..."

"Boom Boom!!!"

The fierce machine gun fire was occasionally mixed with the sound of several missile explosions.

Under such fierce artillery fire.

The thorn cages suffered huge damage in an instant.

For a while, the fallen leaves flew, the thorns broke, and the thorn cages covering a radius of 150 meters began to vibrate.

It seemed to be trembling slightly, and it seemed... to be excited.

Not long after.

Those seemingly indestructible thorn cages that bound the mechanical life suffered varying degrees of damage.

There were even two thorn cages with big holes blasted out by missiles.

Just when the mechanical lifeforms thought their counterattacks had worked and couldn't help but increase the intensity of the destruction.

The SHIELD agent who had one hand on the mini thorn cage suddenly felt an unprecedented terrifying suction from the mini thorn cage in his hand.

The next second, his own blood, essence, and even the little vitality left after sacrificing thirty years of life, all flowed to the mini thorn cage along with this terrifying suction.

Under the terrifying suction, the skin and flesh of the SHIELD agent shrank at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The Mimi cage that absorbed the vitality of the agent's flesh and blood emitted a bright green light.

"No..."

The SHIELD agent's throat trembled slightly with fear in his eyes, but before the sound came out of his throat, a ray of green light swallowed up the SHIELD agent's body, which had become as shriveled as a mummy.

At the moment when the green light swallowed up the agent, a chilling green light appeared on the large thorn cage covering most of the battlefield.

With the onset of this faint green light, the thorn cage that was previously destroyed by those mechanical life forms grew back in an instant.

And this time, the thorn cage that grew back again was tougher and more... dangerous.

Those humans who stayed in the thorn cage honestly before, or who did not struggle violently because of the restraint of flesh and blood, were fine.

The thorn cage that was repaired as before and had a higher strength level only grew more densely and bound more tightly.

Those mechanical lives that struggled violently and even destroyed part of the thorn cage were in a miserable state.

Tough vines shot out in an instant, tying them up tightly like tying dumplings.

The thick thorn spikes that seemed to have mutated were like water guns, "sizzling" and spraying a large amount of highly corrosive dark green liquid at the mechanical lives they tied up.

"Sizzling..."

As a large amount of white smoke with a pungent smell rose.

Those invulnerable mechanical lives were soon corroded with large dents.

Some dark green liquid even penetrated directly from the gaps in the mechas of those mechanical lives into their bodies.

And how could the internal components of those mechanical lives block the dark green liquid that could quickly corrode even alloy armor?

Almost in the blink of an eye.

Many mechanical lives had a lot of white smoke coming out of their bodies.

Some unlucky ones had large holes corroded in their bodies, and even the core modules related to the life of these mechanical life forms were corroded.

In the unbelievable eyes of many mechanical life forms, in the crackling sparks, many mechanical life forms were silently killed by the dark green liquid ejected from the thorn cage.

"Hiss~~~ Damn, what the hell is this thing."

After seeing the miserable state of the mechanical life forms struggling hard not far away, Tony Stark took a breath of cold air.

At this time, he was extremely glad that he stopped struggling after hearing Kilis's warning.

Otherwise, he would probably end up like those mechanical life forms at this time.

Tony is different from those robots made of steel. Under his Mark VI armor, he is a real flesh and blood body.

If his flesh and blood body is accidentally stained with the dark green viscous liquid secreted by the thorn spikes.

The consequences, Tony thought of it with a chill.

Steve, who had never seen such a strange scene, turned his head and looked at Natasha, the "Black Widow" who was also trapped in the thorn cage beside him.

If he saw it right, the guy who used this so-called thorn cage was wearing the clothes of SHIELD.

"Natasha..."

Before Steve could ask, Natasha took the initiative to say: "Don't look at me, I don't know what this thorn cage is, but... If I'm not mistaken, this thing should be a 'taboo' contained by SHIELD."

"Taboo?"

Steve and Tony couldn't help but have two rows of question marks on their foreheads when they heard this.

Natasha had to explain: "The legend of the 'forbidden object' is a special forbidden object left by the devil in the world. In the past two months, strange events have occurred frequently around the world, and some long-forgotten 'forbidden objects' have reappeared in people's sight with some extraordinary events."

"When SHIELD and countries around the world paid a huge price to solve these extraordinary events, they also obtained a lot of extraordinary objects, and among them, the 'forbidden object' is the most powerful and strangest extraordinary object."

"Before, all the events about the 'forbidden object' in SHIELD were personally handled by Director Fury, so I don't know much."

"Of course, all this is just my guess, and I can't be sure whether this so-called 'thorn cage' is the so-called 'forbidden object'."

After Natasha finished speaking.

Kilis' eyes flickered a few times.

[I didn't expect that SHIELD still controls a taboo item of the level of the 'thorn cage'. It seems that Alexander Pierce underestimated Nick Fury. ]

SHIELD has collected some information about the 'taboo items', and Kiris certainly knows about it.

But the list of 'taboo items' she knows does not include the 'thorn cage'.

Now it seems that although Nick Fury is a little incompetent, he is not completely useless. At least there are some things that he really hides tightly and does not let Pierce intervene at all.

Of course.

This may also be related to the fact that the boss has reminded him a long time ago that there are now a large number of Hydra spies lurking in SHIELD.

However.

In this way, he and the boss can plan well and completely control SHIELD in their own hands.

After all, those good things will only be wasted in Nick Fury's hands.

Thinking of this, Kiris looked at the figure with a green glow all over his body not far away, and his eyes, which were slightly charming, narrowed slightly.

Except for Kilis.

Tony and Steve, who heard the term "forbidden item" for the first time, could not help but slowly ponder the information revealed by Natasha.

After a few seconds of silence, Tony said with some dissatisfaction:

"Heh, since SHIELD has such a good thing as "forbidden item", why didn't they use it earlier just now? Why did they have to wait until so many people died before using it?"

If SHIELD had used the "thorn cage" earlier, the casualties of those policemen and ordinary SHIELD agents would not have been so tragic.

As soon as Tony said this, Steve looked at Natasha calmly.

Although that look didn't say anything, it also made Natasha feel a little dissatisfied with Captain America.

"I said, the matter of 'forbidden objects' is not my responsibility. In fact, I didn't know that Director Hill had someone bring a forbidden object this time. Moreover, as far as I know, things like 'forbidden objects' have various serious restrictions on use and side effects. Not to mention using them, once they are not handled properly and something unexpected happens, the disaster caused by the out-of-control explosion of the forbidden objects will not be any less than the current disaster..."

Just as Natasha was explaining.

The mechanical life that was shocked by the tragic situation of its companions stopped struggling.

The center of the thorn cage.

The figure that was emitting green light began to gradually collapse.

After seeing the current appearance of the figure in the green light, Tony, who was originally complaining about SHIELD's late use of the taboo "thorn cage" and causing so many casualties on the battlefield, shut up instantly.

After the green light disappeared, where the SHIELD agent had stood, there was only a pale skeleton wrapped in thorns.

Steve, who also saw this scene, had his eyes narrowed.

"Is this... the price of using those taboos?"

After a second of silence, Tony, who was usually a bit sharp-tongued, said to Natasha first: "Okay, I apologize. No matter what, the guy who used the Thorn Cage is a hero. If he has relatives, we, Stark Industries, will take care of their living security for the rest of their lives."

Natasha, who was also shocked by the scene in front of her, heard the words and said in a heavy voice:

"I thank you on behalf of that guy. If he has relatives, I will tell you."

Just as Tony and Natasha began to discuss the aftermath of the hero who used the 'Thorn Cage', Kilis on the side suddenly said: "You two, Excuse me, now is not the time to discuss this."

"As far as I know, once the 'forbidden object' loses its master's control, it will easily go out of control, thus erupting into various disasters, and now, um, it is obvious that it seems to have lost its master again."

"For our safety, and to prevent the forbidden object from really getting out of control, Miss Natasha, I think you'd better ask if SHIELD has any good way to control this forbidden object."

As she said, Kiris glanced at the mechanical life forms not far away, and lowered her voice:

"Besides, the person who controlled the thorn cage is dead, and those robots may..."

After listening to Kiris's words, Natasha's heart was instantly trembling.

Yes!

Although those robots seem to be frightened now, when they react and realize that the human agent controlling the thorn cage is dead, will they still stay in place as honestly as they do now?

Think of this.

Natasha quickly put her hands on the wireless headphones she wore on her ears, trying to contact Maria Hill, the head of the New York SHIELD agency in charge of the operation.

As the head of SHIELD in New York, Natasha didn't believe that Maria Hill didn't know about the forbidden object "Cage of Thorns".

Or rather.

This forbidden item was simply ordered by Maria Hill to be carried.

That being the case.

So no matter what, Maria Hill will know more or less the information about this forbidden object ‘Thorn Cage’!

“Zizzizi…······Zizzizi·······”

Just when Natasha tried to contact Hill, a blind tone came from her wireless earphones.

Even no matter how Natasha adjusted her wireless headphones, she could not receive any information from the outside world.

Forget about connecting with Maria Hill.

Even the combat channel with Steve who was very close could not be connected.

Looking at Natasha who was constantly adjusting the headphones, Tony Stark on the side said gloomily: "Don't waste your efforts. This weird thorn cage seems to have a way to interfere with the signal. Just now I asked Javi Si tried every means but could not connect to the outside world.”

After hearing the conversation between Tony and Natasha, Kiris's eyes flashed with solemnity.

Looking at Steve who was tightly restrained by the thorn cage not far away, Kiris took out a small mirror she carried with her from her arms and threw it to Steve through the gap in the thorn cage. husband.

With some difficulty, Steve raised his hand and took the mirror thrown by Kilis. Steve looked at Kilis with some confusion.

That look seemed to be asking Kiris why she threw this thing to him.

"Put it away. If this 'thorn cage' really gets out of control later, this mirror may save you at a critical moment."

(Typos, posted first and corrected later.)