The blinding tidal wave of energy surged, obliterating everything in its path— walls, floors, and steel doors alike, nothing escaped its reach.

  "Ahhhhhh!" The bespectacled old stist's screams were drowned out as his body disied, vanishing pletely.

  The corridor crumbled, its walls colpsing uhe force of the explosion. Dust filled the air, sending shockwaves that flung Kyle through the air with great violence.

  After a few moments, the chaos subsided.

  At the end of the corridor, Red Skull ripped off his fake mask, revealing the horrifying crimson skull beh. He gazed at the devastated corridor and spoke with a cold expression on his face, "Until we meet again, Super Soldier," before turning away without a backward gnce.

  After a short while, a disheveled figure emerged from the rubble— it was Kyle, who had narrowly escaped the disaster.

  "Cough, Cough." Kyle dusted himself off before his eyes fixated on the discarded mask lying on the ground. His voice carried an icy determination as he spoke, "Red Skull, ime… I promise you, the sight of your death will be a glorious one for me!"

  He vowed to remember this grudge.

  Fortunately, with the human shield in front of him, Kyle mao withstand most of the energy wave and thanks to the Vibranium Bracer's defense, only his sleeves were burnt to a crisp, and his clothes suffered minor damage.

  "However, I missed the perfect opportunity to seize the Tesseract." Kyle sighed inwardly. This setback was a true wake-up call, reminding him not to uimate the ing vilin, Red Skull.

  After all, Red Skull was the founder of Hydra, and while his strength might be slightly inferior to Steve's and not on par with Kyle's, his deceptive tactics were hard to anticipate.

  In the midst of Kyle's ption, a sudden arm bred from the partially intact tral trol room and he snapped back to reality and rushed ih a sense ency.

  Within the trol room, the trol paed bck smoke, and the main s dispyed red Germa: "Factory Self-Destruct tdown: 61 seds," with the seds tig doidly.

  Fag the s was a young man, who was unscious and strapped to an experimental table. Adjat to him, a rge map adorhe wall, dispying six scattered fgs marking various German on produ factories and bases.

  Kyle's gaze locked onto the map, and a card message appeared in his mind.

  [German Factory Distribution Map]:

  It taihe distribution map of six German on produ factories and bases. White Item Card.

  Extract it?

  "Another map. This must unloe new information." Kyle blinked and a cold smile formed at the er of his mouth.

  Red Skull, you run as much as you want, but I will dismantle your ir piece by piece.

  As Kyle extracted the distribution map from the wall, a tall figure burst into the room. Their eyes met, and both individuals paused in surprise.

  "Kyle?"

  "Steve?"

  After their meandering paths, Kyle and Steve reunited in the factory's trol room.

  "What happened here?" Steve surveyed the heavily damaged trol room, a mixture of and fusion on his face.

  "It's simple— the ander of this factrew impatient and threw an energy bomb to stop me." Kyle shrugged, nodding towards the unscious young man in the room. "That's the person you wao save, right?"

  "Bucky!" Steve's face lit up with joy upon seeing the young man and he hurried over, intending to wake him up.

  "Just throw him over your shoulder. This pce is about to explode." Kyle poi the main s where the tdown had dwio thirty seds.

  Steve nodded and hoisted his unscious rade onto his shoulders. Kyle, ready to lead the way to safety, noticed something on the trol sole.

  [Car Key]: The car key to Red Skull's exclusive vehicle, a four-wheel-drive car crafted with top-notch German engineering, boasting astonishing horsepower.

  White Item Card.

  "I've got it. Follow me!" Kyle swiftly grabbed the car key and guided Steve toward the factory's garage.

  With the tdown reag zero, the factory erupted in a rea of explosions, engulfing the surrounding area in a fiery spectacle. The fmes illumihe deserted night wilderness.

  Outside the factory, a rge group of captured Ameri soldiers was set free. Armed with the new energy ons and tanks they had seized, they had already overwhelmed the stationed German forces.

  Witnessing the factory's self-destruct sequence, all the Ameri soldiers hurriedly evacuated to safety.

  At that moment, amid the fiery backdrop, the roar of an engine apanied by the sudden appearance of a stylish and exquisite luxury car reached the surroundings.

  "Follow my lead and break through towards our base!" Kyle shouted from the driver's seat as he floored the accelerator, taking charge and crashing through the factory's iron fereating Red Skull's precious vehicle as if it were a tank.

  "Follow me! Everyone, follow!!" The Ameri soldiers, catg sight of Steve and Bucky in the spicuous car and realizing they were on the same side, erupted with excitement. They trailed behind the car, surging into the vast darkness of the wilderness.

  One night passed.

  In the early m, with the sky barely brightening, Agent Carter couldn't tain her curiosity and rushed to the unicatioer at the training base to inquire about the news.

  "Sed Lieutenant Kyle and Steve Rogers vanished in Zone 3 st night. The factory in that area has gone silent. The search team has returned, and reparing to officially decre them deceased," Agent Carter's ay increased when she heard the report.

  Officer Brandt personally received the message, and he spoke to Carter in a cold tone, "Because of you, we have not only lost an outstanding officer and a propaganda captain but also the lives of hundreds of soldiers!"

  "I am prepared to take full responsibility for the sequences," Agent Carter responded calmly. She couldn't bring herself to believe that those two men would perish so easily otlefield.

  "No matter what you say now…" Brandt's words were cut short as his attention shifted to the sound of a car engine faintly emanating from beyond the base's wilderness.

  "Quick, look! What is that?"

  "Oh My God!"

  The soldiers who were preparing for training in the base gathered in astonishment at the rear entrance, quickly making their way on both sides.

  A heavily damaged luxury car led the way, with Kyle driving cautiously at the front. Steve and the now awake Bucky sat side by side in the backseat.

  Behind the luxury car were hundreds of Ameri soldiers armed with new energy ons. Though exhaustion marked their faces from the ht battle, their steps exuded unwaveriermination.

  They had returned!

  "That guy… He really…" Brandt, the anding officer, struggled to find words as he saw eanks being brought back at the rear of the formation.

  Had they pluhe enemy factory?

  "Please give me a ce to show my abilities as a soldier!"

  The resolute words of the young man echoed faintly in Brandt's ears. Somehow, that new recruit who had arrived at the base had quickly bee a hero, repeatedly defying the odds.

  "He truly is remarkable!"

  Finishing his interrupted words, General Brandt led the appuse, and the soldiers at the training base followed suit, g their hands.

  The thunderous appuse resohrough the air above the base for a long time.

  (End of Chapter)