#486 - Super Beast

"Target Number One," this unfamiliar term suddenly popped into Yang Le's mind.

Because he didn't know when the military would update the information, Yang Le didn't have the splinter unit lurking in the military system withdraw. Anyway, human technology couldn't possibly discover it at the moment. It was better to keep it hanging around, maybe it would come in handy someday. And now it had.

In fact, normally, as long as a Gravattack Transformation didn't want to expose itself, there were very few people who could actively discover them.

According to the data transmitted by the splinter unit, this so-called "Target Number One" was the most special of the giants, the one Frank mentioned who could control all the giants.

The military listed him as the most important target, his danger was unmatched by other giants. The order from above was that once discovered, do not engage him, but report it immediately, and then the military would send Hyperion to deal with him.

Of course, this was just the most superficial information released to the public. After all, General Ross was just a mortal. Even his own troops, he couldn't guarantee everyone was loyal to him. The secrets were only known to a small circle of confidants.

This included a secret squad that was completely under General Ross's command, specializing in handling dirty work. This squad's code name was Thunder, the Thunderbolts.

Ross actually led a Thunderbolts team in the comics, so this was a professional match. Since he had found out, Yang Le naturally wouldn't give up. He immediately dug up all the information on the entire Thunderbolts team.

This Thunderbolts team had a total of five members.

The leader was the legendary mercenary, G.W. Bridge. Yang Le didn't know much about him, only remembering that he seemed to have worked under Cable.

The remaining members were also familiar faces: Anthony "Tony" Masters (Taskmaster), John F. Walker (U.S. Agent), Josiah Bradley (Josiah X), and Eugene "Flash" Thompson.

Yang Le was stunned when he saw Thompson. Compared to the previous few, Thompson was a bit out of place. But after seeing the introduction of the Thunderbolts team, he understood.

It turned out that, apart from Bridge whose label was still "legendary mercenary", the others were just ordinary soldiers, but their abilities were among the best in their respective units.

Moreover, all five of them had passed the Super Soldier Serum experiment, but all their data was weaker than the data left behind by Captain America Steve Rogers in history.

This was because they were injected with a diluted version of the Super Soldier Serum, which could be understood as a youth version. According to Yang Le's deep dive, the soldiers who turned into giants were injected with an upgraded version, but it seemed that the upgrade wasn't very good.

However, even though they were injected with only the youth version of the serum, the Thunderbolts team's combat power was not to be underestimated. In team battles, their power even exceeded the original Captain America, which was the so-called "two heads are better than one."

And if the condition for the Thunderbolts team was to pass the serum experiment, of course, those who didn't pass were dead.

This squad was now deployed in New York City, searching for the so-called "Target Number One."

Not long ago, the Thunderbolts team, guided by the transmitter, discovered Target Number One's heart in a Walmart supermarket. According to the on-site investigation, they speculated that Target Number One, in giant form, had ripped out the heart containing the transmitter to mislead their tracking.

However, the scattered food and the heart all indicated that Target Number One had been here. And that Walmart supermarket was in Manhattan, and the Thunderbolts team was now slowly extending their search from that supermarket as the center.

Now the goal was clear. Everyone knew the principle of capturing the leader first. But at the moment, Yang Le had to go to that Walmart.

Letting the splinter unit follow the Fantastic Four, Yang Le jumped towards that supermarket according to the information recorded by the military.

Letting the splinter unit follow Reed and the others was to prevent them from dying here, not only because they might become a superhero team in the future, but also because even if they didn't become superheroes, this group of people, especially Reed, was too important to humanity. This guy was officially designated as a genius.

Not to mention anything else, just the fact that Reed invented a serum that could cure 16,000 kinds of poisons showed how important Reed was, of course, provided he didn't cause trouble.

With the speed boosted by Ultimate Four Arms, Yang Le quickly arrived at that supermarket and found a row of food shelves inside.

The reason for coming here was because Target Number One's heart had been lying here not long ago. After the Thunderbolts team reported the target, General Ross quickly sent another team of soldiers to deal with the scene.

Now, let alone the heart, even the blood had been cleaned up. Even the leftovers eaten by Target Number One had been recovered. Normally, it would be impossible to find anything useful here.

But that was only under normal circumstances. Obviously, the wearer of the Omnitrix was not within the normal range.

Turning the Omnitrix, Yang Le selected a new alien hero and pressed the transformation button.

The white light dissipated, and an alien hero on all fours replaced Ultimate Four Arms.

This alien hero was covered in orange fur, with brown stripes distributed on his bulging back. The round head had neither eyes nor ears, only an Omnitrix symbol embedded in the center. Below the symbol was a bloody mouth, with terrifying fangs like saber-toothed tigers extending from the mouth. The limbs on the ground had sharp claws, and there was a long tail behind him.

This was one of Ben's initial ten alien heroes, the Vulpimancer known as Wildmutt, and one of the most suitable alien heroes for tracking.

Vulpin is a severely polluted planet. The entire surface of Vulpin is no longer suitable for normal creatures to live on, so the native species, the Vulpimancers, naturally moved to live underground.

Over a long period of time, the Vulpimancers strengthened all their senses except vision in order to adapt to the dim environment underground, but the cost was that they forever lost their eyes.

However, their most praised sense of smell and hearing perfectly made up for the shortcomings. Vulpimancers can even 'see' everything around them with just their sense of smell.

And this was why Yang Le chose to transform into Wildmutt. Relying on his powerful sense of smell, Yang Le could easily find that Target Number One in this mixed steel city.