The Winter Soldier recoiled half a step, parrying with his red-starred mechanical arm. Kurohane's leg, bearing his entire weight, suddenly lashed out at the mechanical arm. A huge force struck, and the Winter Soldier's body was thrown backward. He used the momentum to execute a backward somersault, evading Kurohane's next assault, and drew his tactical dagger with a backhand strike. Under the dim room lighting, the blade reflected a brilliant blue sheen!
"Roebuck Leap!" Kurohane shouted loudly again, continuing his fierce assault on the Winter Soldier! His left foot pushed off the floor, and his entire body shot forward like a sharp sword. His right leg kicked the Winter Soldier like an axe. The Winter Soldier had no time to counterattack. He could only step back. The tip of Kurohane's right foot brushed past the Winter Soldier's nose. Although the kick missed, the strong wind it generated was like a sharp little knife, leaving a small cut on the tip of the Winter Soldier's nose!
"Two Dragons Playing with a Pearl!" Kurohane's waist and abdomen suddenly exerted force, and two fingers of his right hand thrust straight towards the Winter Soldier's eyes! The Winter Soldier's reaction speed was also incredibly fast. His mechanical arm gripped Kurohane's right hand with a soft buzz. The tactical dagger simultaneously drew a hidden arc in the air, launching an attack from Kurohane's blind spot!
Unfortunately, the Winter Soldier's movements were all within Kurohane's expectations. A small, unwitting curve appeared at the corner of his mouth. He altered his movement one centimeter before his two fingers were gripped by the Winter Soldier's mechanical hand. A coin was pinched between his fingernails, striking precisely into the joint gap of the mechanical arm. In an instant, the mechanical arm's gears emitted a deafening grinding sound!
The coin had been given to him earlier by a kind little black man and was one of the few hard objects Kurohane currently possessed. From the beginning of the fight, Kurohane had planned to target the Winter Soldier's mechanical arm! Black Tiger Afu was also a master of Kung Fu, so he naturally knew basic skills like pressure points. Inserting a coin into the mechanical arm's joint gap was not difficult for Kurohane now!
The Winter Soldier's mechanical arm malfunctioned, and his entire body lost balance. The tactical dagger he swung with his right hand also missed its mark, but he did it to buy himself time to recover. He used the tactical dagger as a throwing knife and hurled it at the retreating Kurohane! However, Kurohane performed a backward somersault on the Iron Plank Bridge, mimicking the Winter Soldier's previous movement and doing a backward somersault on the ground! When he stood up, he still held the dagger he had just caught in his mouth.
"Fighting unarmed against a knife is normal, but now you're even using hidden weapons! Old people really have no martial ethics!" Kurohane spat out the tactical dagger, then punched it. The tactical dagger turned into a stream of light and shot towards the Winter Soldier. Meanwhile, the Winter Soldier had already pulled the coin out of his mechanical arm's joint, raised his left arm, and knocked away the flying dagger. But Kurohane appeared behind him like a ghost, chuckling:
"Black Tiger Sweeps White Wolf!"
Immediately after, he squatted down and swept the bewildered Winter Soldier with his leg!
"Sickle Sweeps the Ground!"
While the Winter Soldier was still in mid-air, Kurohane kicked his waist hard again, sending him flying!
"Elephant Kick! Tornado Destroys the Parking Lot!!!"
Kurohane spun twice on the ground, kicking the Winter Soldier's chest with terrifying force in his right leg! The Winter Soldier drew an arc in the air and crashed into the wall with a 'bang'! He couldn't get up for a long time, lying on the ground and spitting out a lot of blood!
"Afu defeats the Winter Soldier!" Kurohane revealed his pearly white teeth, smiling as he straightened his slightly disheveled clothes. "Chinese Kung Fu always welcomes old people to spar!"
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Kurohane's terrifying performance stunned Crossbones and Alexander Pierce, who were watching the monitor outside the room!
"Rumlow, does this mean that as long as someone is Chinese, they know 'Kung Fu' fighting skills?" Alexander asked, his voice slightly softened by shock.
"Does the Chairman mean that every Chinese person is actually Jackie Chan?!" Crossbones retorted, his eyes glued to the screen. As a special forces captain, Crossbones was not only skilled with firearms. He had tried most of the world's martial arts, and his close-combat abilities were also among the best in the world. In his opinion, Kurohane's series of attacks, like a storm, also required a lot of training time. But Kurohane had been adopted and trained by the Hydra organization since he was 15, and his training was well-documented. He didn't know when Kurohane learned Kung Fu, or if it was an awakening of an inherent Chinese ancestral lineage?!
Not only Crossbones and Alexander, but the other Hydra members standing behind them were also stunned. Because in their impression, Kurohane always finished battles with firearms. They didn't expect Kurohane's close combat to be so formidable as well. God protect our Hydra organization!
"You must go in, Rumlow. If you don't go in immediately, I'm afraid Kurohane will beat the Winter Soldier to death!" Secretary Alexander commanded, his voice containing a strange hint of excitement. "That is our organization's most important asset and must be well-protected!" Alexander nodded with great satisfaction. He didn't care what abilities Kurohane was hiding. As long as he remained loyal to the Hydra organization and to him as leader! As long as you are still a member of Hydra, it doesn't matter if Kurohane can destroy the Earth. He can also be useful on Hydra's path to conquering the Universe in the future!
When Crossbones opened the room door, the Winter Soldier was still lying on the ground, coughing. Kurohane's kicks were too brutal! Kurohane, on the other hand, stood still, like an upright palm tree.
"Time's up, Kurohane, you can come out now," Crossbones said, his expression unreadable.
Kurohane shook his head. The duration of his character experience card had just ended. A system prompt chimed in his mind, but this time he didn't gain a new skill.
[Physical Fitness Enhancement: Your physical fitness has been comprehensively improved.]
There was no unimaginable warm current flowing through his body, nor was there any foul-smelling black liquid draining from him. However, he knew his own situation. Even walking felt much lighter. Using Super Vision to check his heart, he found that the cracks in his heart had completely healed. Like a Kung Fu master who trained all year round, his current heart rate was only about 50 beats per minute. This was also a huge improvement for the stability of his arm when using firearms. The side effects of using Bullet Time would also be significantly reduced; after all, his heart had been upgraded. Although Black Tiger Afu was a villain in a cartoon, his brute strength could not be underestimated. He possessed the power to kick Tohru flying with one kick and could easily jump four or five meters high. Kung Fu was merely a supplement; his hard muscles and bones were Afu's greatest weapons!
However, the physical fitness enhancement was not Kurohane's biggest gain from his fight with the Winter Soldier. The greatest gain was another system prompt that appeared in Kurohane's mind!
[Defeated Hydra's fiercest Winter Soldier, Justice Points +100!]