Chen Yu had been looking forward to the 'Lady's Butt Sword Style,' but Melinda only performed the usual sword-splitting bullets.
Without expectations, there's no disappointment, but seeing Melinda merely demonstrate splitting bullets with a sword, Chen Yu still felt somewhat let down.
However, Chen Yu still drew an 'O' on Melinda's resume, allowing her to proceed to the next round of interviews.
Anyway, he would eliminate her in the final round, which wouldn't raise suspicions from S.H.I.E.L.D., making them think Chen Yu was specifically targeting them.
Having watched a few episodes of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Chen Yu knew very well that the so-called agent career path was either one of suspicion and betrayal or one of corruption and redemption.
Especially with S.H.I.E.L.D. and Hydra intertwined, Chen Yu didn't want to get involved with these agents.
It wasn't that he was afraid of them; he just found them troublesome.
After all, their agent experiences were too complex; even when not betraying, they'd act as if they were doing it for your own good.
Moreover, Chen Yu suspected that these S.H.I.E.L.D. agents couldn't come up with names.
Natasha was like this, and Melinda was the same, always thinking their names were flawless, believing others wouldn't recognize them as S.H.I.E.L.D. members.
Perhaps they thought Tony and Chen Yu didn't know of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s existence, so they were so reckless when using aliases while infiltrating?
Chen Yu scratched his head and invited the next interviewee in.
Aside from the Deadpool interlude, the interviews continued in an orderly fashion.
Suddenly, his phone rang; he pulled it out of his backpack and saw the contact was Tony Stark.
Chen Yu first told the interviewee in front of him to stop their self-introduction and directly answered Tony's call.
"Hello, Tony? I'm still hiring my sword instructor here, so tell me what you need quickly; if it's nothing important, I'm hanging up."
Chen Yu told Tony to be brief, as he was busy at the moment.
"Put your unimportant matters aside for now; the people of New York need you, my friend."
Hearing Tony's tone, Chen Yu was a bit confused. What did he mean, 'the people of New York need me'?
"I'm almost at the Stark Industries building in my Iron Suit; open the window in your room."
Chen Yu was startled: "What's so urgent?"
"I can't explain it over the phone! Hurry and open the window, or I'll crash!"
As soon as Chen Yu opened the room window, Tony, wearing the latest MK4 Iron Man Armor, swiftly landed inside the room.
The rushing wind scattered documents throughout the entire room.
"Chen Yu, your recruitment will have to be paused for a while."
"Hogan, Natasha, tell the recruiters outside that the recruitment process is temporarily canceled due to an urgent matter."
"Sorry, Rhodes, you need to step out for a moment."
"The same goes for everyone else; everyone, please leave. I have an urgent matter I need to discuss with Chen Yu alone."
After seeing everyone leave and having jarvis check for any listening devices, Tony directly asked Chen Yu: "Do you have any spells for finding people, like a spell that can locate someone just by knowing their name?"
Chen Yu shook his head, indicating that he didn't currently know such a spell.
He had never taken a divination class, and the divination books in the Library were even more obscure than the spell books, so he naturally hadn't learned how to find people with spells.
"Good thing I had a backup plan. Chen Yu, quickly come with me."
He immediately put down and opened the briefcase he was holding, pulling Chen Yu directly inside.
Tony had installed an Iron Man Armor assist device inside the briefcase.
Chen Yu looked at the slightly smaller, unpainted Iron Man Armor in the room with some surprise: "Is this for me?"
"Yes, put it on quickly. The situation is urgent; I'll explain later. With your turtle-like flying speed, everything will be cold by the time you arrive. Come, stand here, jarvis will help you put on the Iron Suit directly."
Chen Yu's broom flying ability was only slow in comparison; even if its speed could rival a sports car, it was still insufficient compared to the Iron Suit's flight speed of up to Mach 2.
Chen Yu followed Tony's instructions and stood in the center of the circular metal platform. Several mechanical arms deftly disassembled the smaller Iron Man Armor in front of Chen Yu and assembled it onto Chen Yu's body.
In just over ten seconds, a complete Iron Man Armor was assembled around Chen Yu.
When the faceplate was lowered, Chen Yu had become a mini version of a silver, small-sized Iron Man.
Wearing the small Iron Man Armor made by Tony, he took a few steps inside the briefcase.
Neural transmission controlling the mech—this was a novel feeling, completely different from manually driving the Iron Monger.
The next moment, Tony's voice came through the communication channel: "Let's go, we need to leave here. Time waits for no one. jarvis, enter autopilot mode; we need to depart immediately."
"Yes, sir."
Chen Yu heard jarvis's voice in his ear, then felt the Iron Man Armor on him begin to move autonomously, beyond his control.
"I don't have time for you to get used to the Iron Man Armor. This smaller Iron Man Armor, aside from its energy and propulsion systems, didn't have time for weapons installation. Strictly speaking, it's an unfinished product."
Tony apologized while having jarvis control the small Iron Man Armor to fly out of the Stark Industries building.
Chen Yu felt indifferent about Tony suddenly letting jarvis take over control; after all, if danger arose, he had plenty of ways to escape it.
Chen Yu was happy about suddenly receiving a mini Iron Man Armor, but he was still a bit annoyed that Tony had abruptly interrupted his planned schedule: "So, aren't you going to explain why you suddenly interrupted my sword instructor recruitment?"
"Sorry, ever since you were taken by that bald female sorcerer, I've had jarvis keep an eye out and search for supernatural traces in this world."
"Although you returned safe and sound, and I learned that the other party had no ill intentions, I didn't have jarvis stop searching for traces of supernatural existence in this world."
"As for the sorcerers of Kamar-Taj who took you, jarvis didn't find much related information online, but jarvis did find some more hidden things on the internet, such as... the military's Super Soldier Program."
Calling the Ancient One 'that bald female sorcerer,' Chen Yu couldn't help but admire Tony Stark's courage.
It had to be said that ignorance was bliss, but Chen Yu felt that even if Tony knew the Ancient One's power and identity, he would still stubbornly call her 'that bald female sorcerer.'
Before Chen Yu could reply, a large amount of data and videos popped up in his mask's field of view.
The guy in the video was a giant with exaggerated muscles, green skin all over, and a height exceeding three meters.
He was fighting fully armed American soldiers on a lawn.
However, rather than an evenly matched fight, it was more like a one-sided crushing.
Bullets and missiles hit the green giant without even scratching his skin, and machine gun fire was like a tickle to him.
As if following the 'no damage with smoke' rule, RPGs hitting the Hulk only produced smoke and fire, not even damaging his pants.
But the Hulk, to the military, was like a small monster from a special effects show; walls crumbled at his touch, a casual kick could send an armored vehicle flying, lifting a tank was as easy as lifting a piece of bread, and casually snatching a nearby jeep and throwing it into the sky could bring down a heavily armed helicopter that was 'da da da'-ing fire from above.
Tanks, armored vehicles, sonic weapons, armed helicopters—none of these steel creations equipped with light and heavy weapons caused him the slightest harm.
And the Hulk only needed to touch them lightly, and these steel creations, like paper, were all destroyed.
The whole scene was basically the Hulk, with an invincibility cheat, wreaking havoc among the American forces.
Chen Yu gasped in awe.
Although Chen Yu had seen movies about the Hulk, the footage Tony showed was even more shocking.
Then Chen Yu saw a woman in white walk up to the Hulk, instantly calming the rampaging Hulk, who allowed the woman to stand in front of him without any intention of attacking.
Chen Yu knew who this woman was: Betty, Banner's girlfriend and General Ross's daughter.
Speaking of which, James Rhodes was a colonel in the U.S. Air Force, and Thaddeus E. Ross was a lieutenant general in the U.S. Air Force; he wondered if they knew each other in the same military system.
Chen Yu was letting his mind wander when he saw the Hulk immediately shield the woman in white behind him, allowing another helicopter's heavy machine gun to fire.
Amidst the hail of bullets, the Hulk emerged unscathed, still protecting the woman, then freed a hand to grab a scrapped armored vehicle door and hurl it at the helicopter.
The helicopter crashed and exploded again. The Hulk, with the woman in white, ran far away, and then the footage ended.
Good heavens, the Hulk's defense was much more durable than the Iron Man Armor Tony made; at least Tony wouldn't dare to withstand the U.S. military's arsenal for so long like the Hulk in the video.
Given the Hulk's defense, the light weapons mounted on Tony's Iron Man Armor couldn't subdue him at all; no wonder Tony felt he couldn't handle it and needed his help.
"Are we going to deal with this big guy?"
Chen Yu asked Tony.
If Tony really intended to deal with the Hulk, Chen Yu was prepared to find an excuse to leave.
Banner was also a kind, pitiful man; a doctor with seven degrees who was exposed to gamma rays and turned into the Hulk, living a miserable life. He didn't want to go and rub salt in his wounds.
"No, no, no, we're not dealing with it," Tony retorted in the voice channel: "Quite the opposite, we're going to stop the military, help that poor man named Banner, and prevent those idiots from trying to apprehend Banner in the city, to avoid the green monster appearing in the city and causing innocent casualties."
"I used some means to have jarvis hack into the military system and collect some data. I know Banner is going to meet a Dr. Samuel Sterns, whose ID is 'Mr. Blue.' That doctor has been dedicated to researching how to eliminate human mutations, which could help Banner eliminate the possibility of his mutation."
"But the military doesn't want Banner to be cured. Once they lose the sample, their plan to mass-produce super soldiers will be indefinitely postponed, and the military has lost track of Dr. Banner. So the military has only set up an ambush in the city where Dr. Samuel Sterns' lab is located."
"The problem is that Dr. Blue's lab is in Brooklyn, New York City! How dare the military plan an interception in New York City! We must now constantly monitor the roads from New York to Virginia, and it would be best to inform Dr. Banner of the situation before he enters New York to avoid this battle."
"However, Dr. Banner is often pursued by the military and has strong anti-reconnaissance abilities. He currently has no electronic devices, so jarvis cannot determine his location. Fortunately, there are not many main roads from Virginia to Brooklyn, New York City, so we can split up and investigate."
"The military is ambushing the Hulk in Brooklyn, New York City. Which 'genius' came up with this battle plan? Is there something wrong with your military's brains?"
Chen Yu listened to Tony's words incredulously, unable to help but complain.
Although Brooklyn was one of New York City's poorer neighborhoods with higher crime rates, it was also the fourth-largest city in the United States, with a large immigrant population and many residents.
Which genius decided to intercept the Hulk in the city, truly not caring about the lives of ordinary people?
Chen Yu felt that Thaddeus E. Ross truly had a huge hole in his head; his brain wasn't a brain, it was a mess.
Even if the battle plan wasn't set by him, as the direct leader of the Super Soldier Serum project, he couldn't escape responsibility.
"You're wrong," Tony countered, "They don't just have a little problem in their heads; they have a big problem! They didn't consider how many civilian casualties a battle like the one in the video would cause if it broke out in the city, which is why I want to shut down Stark Industries' departments. I will absolutely not let weapons made by Stark be sold to these people with holes in their heads again."
"Alright, Tony, you're right."
No wonder Tony rushed to find him; if that battle from the video were to be replicated in a busy city street, the civilian casualties would be unimaginably tragic.
"Oh, by the way, according to the information I found, I also know that this green monster actually has a name: Hulk."
Chen Yu resisted the urge to roll his eyes; he had known the name Hulk years before Tony did.
"Apologies, sir, the situation has changed."
jarvis's mechanical voice suddenly sounded, giving Tony an ominous premonition.
"Don't tell me Banner has already entered New York City and turned into the Hulk, engaging in battle with the military?"
"Worse."
jarvis immediately played a video on Tony's and Chen Yu's masks.
The streets were filled with panicked crowds fleeing, and bodies and blood were visible everywhere.
Armored vehicles and tanks were driven onto the streets, soldiers bravely shouting and charging, endlessly unleashing firepower on the two monsters in the flames.
At this point in the video, the streets were already devastated, with debris from buildings and vehicles everywhere, and explosions and flames erupting one after another, like a living hell.
In the middle of this ruin, two monsters, one dark green and one light green, were fighting.
Chen Yu and Tony recognized the green one; it was indeed the Hulk they had just been discussing.
The lighter-colored monster had spines all over its back and was pitted and scarred, looking even more terrifying than the Hulk.
Abomination!
Chen Yu recognized the monster's name at a glance.
"F*** you! We were still too late!"
Seeing the horrific state of the streets in the video, Tony immediately maneuvered his Iron Suit, turning around and flying at full speed towards the Brooklyn district of New York.