"The Mind Stone is an energy source, equivalent to a reactor that continuously transmits power throughout the body. His limbs, behavior, expressions, language, and abilities are all controlled by this small gem."
"Wow! Look, there are millions of neural components in his head. This may be why his appearance is so close to that of a human being."
"Is the skin on his body made of vibranium? He is a product of Earth... Wakanda can actually create such exquisite humanoid weapons... No, no, no. This is simply a weapon of war."
"The density of the body can be changed at will. The gaps between atoms can be widened, narrowed, or even overlapped..."
Reed looked at the research machine excitedly. The various data displayed on it thrilled him. He had never seen such sophisticated mechanical technology. It was even more difficult than the Ultron Legion he had researched and manufactured. How could Wakanda have developed something like this?
Carter frowned and looked at Reed with disgust. Although the two were comrades-in-arms, their personal relationship was quite ordinary. Captain Carter's character was comparable to Captain America's. Both of them were upright people with a strong sense of justice and responsibility.
And Reed was the low-EQ version of Tony Stark, without even Tony's charm as a playboy. Once he became addicted to scientific research, not even ten Thanoses could drag him back. His thoughts always fell into a loop whenever he encountered something novel. Sometimes, what he said and did was truly unpleasant.
Carter was dissatisfied, but at least Reed was someone who cared about humanity and had a strong sense of responsibility. As the leader of the Fantastic Four, although his rubber-like ability was not very useful on its own, his extremely high technological level could always make up for his shortcomings. On the contrary, it made him the most versatile warrior in the Illuminati.
Reed could not help shouting in front of the test bench. If Professor X had still been here, he would definitely have made Reed restrain himself a little.
...
Wanda woke faintly. What she saw were two tear-stained children's faces, their little bodies exhausted from crying. She had only just raised her head, wanting to touch their sleeping faces, when—
"Ah!" A sharp pain pierced her head. Wanda covered her head in agony. Her hair was disheveled, and her face was full of exhaustion. Scarlet energy faintly leaked from her body. Her whole body looked like an evil Shura crawling up from the depths of the earth, and the killing intent in her pupils could barely be suppressed.
"Get out of my head!" Wanda roared heartbreakingly, striking her head again and again. Tears burst uncontrollably from her eyes, and she was in terrible pain.
"Mom!"
"Mom!"
Tommy and Billy were awakened by their mother's roar. Seeing her miserable state, they burst into tears, not knowing what to do.
They were only two children. Unlike those who were fabricated, they were real beings in this world. They were the two babies that Wanda of Earth-838 had risked her life carrying for ten months. They were mother and sons, connected by blood.
They did not know what had happened to their mother, but they could see that she was in pain, and that pain seemed to tear at their hearts as well.
Billy tried to use his abilities to reduce his mother's suffering. Crimson magic spread from his young body like a long ribbon, tightly wrapping mother and sons together.
The scarlet ribbon penetrated Wanda's mind, and Billy became afraid.
Red. Endless red.
Billy had never seen such monotonous and terrifying colors, beautiful and cruel, as if he had stepped into another world. The surging magical power noticed him like a wild cat smelling fish. It roared and rushed toward the boy in excitement, trying to burrow into his body, tear out his soul, seize his body, and feast at will.
The devil's claws kept wandering around Billy's body, and a familiar, cold feeling surged across his skin, as if a demon's whisper had climbed onto his head. Billy instantly withdrew from Wanda's mind. He was so frightened that he stepped back again and again, knocking over the yellow cup on the coffee table. Some unknown drink spilled all over him.
"What's wrong, Billy!" Tommy rushed toward his brother worriedly. Seeing Billy's eyes red with fear and his body trembling, his responsibility as the older brother immediately showed itself.
Tommy hugged Billy's slightly shaking body. He carefully comforted his brother, stroked his hair, and hummed the song their mother loved singing to them most, as if they were small children again.
Back then, the two of them had babbled and crawled around randomly on the floor. Their mother would always follow them gently and patiently, either walking behind them or squatting in front of them, clapping her hands to attract their attention. Happy smiles had filled her face, and the young faces of the two children had smiled as well...
Crystal tears slid from the corners of Wanda's eyes. Crimson completely occupied her mind. The scarlet aura exploded instantly, sweeping across the entire street with lightning speed.
"Bob? Is there an earthquake? Bob!"
A woman hurried downstairs anxiously and shouted to her husband, "Run outside!"
Her husband also felt the shaking. The teacup filled with water on the table had spilled, accidentally wetting his pants. But the current situation did not allow him to care about such things. The dishes and cups in the cupboard also fell to the floor, frightening his wife into screaming. The husband quickly took his wife's hand, and the two left the house, preparing to find an open place.
As soon as they opened the door, the scene that greeted them completely shattered their spirits.
Large swaths of scarlet covered the entire sky like evil spirits, and strange, sinister energy constantly flowed through the air. When it saw a person, it rushed straight into their mind. There were many families like Bob and his wife on the street who had rushed out, thinking it was an earthquake, and the consequences were...
"Ah!"
A man collapsed to the ground, clutching his head and roaring. At first, it was a human voice, but later it gradually became like that of a beast. A meaningless "snoring" sound came from his mouth, seemingly accompanied by a cold laugh. Then he slowly collapsed to the ground and went silent.
There were many people like this. The neighbors who had come out first had all become the same. In pain, they smashed their heads against the ground or the walls until their heads bled. Worse still, some were so confused by the crimson that they even raised knives and guns against their own families.
Chop!
Splashes of blood fell onto the street. Bob and his wife were so petrified that they did not even dare to move.
The wet stain on Bob's pants became more and more obvious. They had seen their neighbor shoot his own family with their own eyes. Then the man turned to look at Bob and his wife and rushed toward them like a madman.
"Close the door!" Bob was timid, but he still reacted when faced with danger. He immediately took his wife's hand, pulled her into the house, then shut the door and locked it quickly.
Boom! Boom!
Two gunshots rang out.
Two holes were blasted through the door.
Bob waited for a while and looked out through one of the holes. The madman had left, and Bob finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Dina, stay in the house and don't go out. I'm going to call the police." Bob stood up and prepared to pin his remaining hope on New York's usually idle police force.
"Damn it, there's no signal!" Bob threw down his phone angrily and looked through the glass at the scarlet sky outside, which looked like the end of the world. The streets were filled with people who looked like the walking dead, including old people and children.
"Dina, how long can the food in the refrigerator last?" Bob shouted to his wife without looking back. "Dina... Dina?"
Bob called his wife several times, but there was no response. He turned his head helplessly. Maybe she had been frightened by the scene just now.
Chop!
A fruit knife stabbed into Bob's body. His eyes were full of disbelief, but the smell of blood could not be faked, and the pain in his body was real. "Dina..." Before Bob died, his eyes remained wide open as he collapsed weakly to the ground. Blood flowed along the floor. Beneath the house, the rats were also bewitched by the scarlet, biting and killing each other...
Dina had killed her husband with her own hands. Her red pupils were filled with madness, and a strange, hoarse laugh came from her mouth. Vaguely, it seemed that she was chanting a name.
Then Dina raised the fruit knife, aiming the blade at her own heart, and then...
Swish!
The blood... grew thicker.
Illuminati.
Reed was still studying Renzo's body structure, intoxicated by such exquisite technology.
Carter looked at him with disgust, unaware that the other side of New York had already fallen into chaos.
"Du~du~"
The phone rang. Reed looked at the buzzing phone with dissatisfaction. Who dared to call at the most critical moment of his research?
"Hello? I'm Reed!" Reed suppressed his temper and spoke to the person on the other end in an unhappy tone.
"Seventh Avenue... Seventh Avenue is under attack by unknown enemies!"
"What?!" Reed was shocked. Hadn't Thanos just been dealt with yesterday? How could someone continue attacking Earth? The threat had clearly been eradicated!
"Requesting support... requesting... support... shasha... it's too late... shasha... run..."
The call disconnected. Reed anxiously took off his white coat. Captain Carter looked at his expression and asked, "What happened?"
"Seventh Avenue was attacked. That was a call from Sam. Immediate support is needed!"
Seeing this, Captain Carter hurriedly followed. The two rushed out of the laboratory and immediately saw scarlet magic filling the sky like a massive cruise ship, gradually moving toward them. In a few hours, the entirety of New York might be shrouded in that mystery.
"Mad! Immediately notify the X-Men and the Thunder Agents and have them move toward Seventh Avenue. Also contact the sorcerers of Kamar-Taj and have Mordo find the source of the problem!"
"You gather the Fantastic Four and the Inhumans. Evacuate all residents from Third to Tenth Avenue and move them toward Brooklyn!"
Captain Carter gave Reed the orders, mounted the large Harley that had been with her for eighty years, and quickly headed toward Seventh Avenue. Her partner was still trapped inside!
Reed opened a teleportation channel and immediately gathered all the superheroes in the United States. This strange phenomenon could not be explained by physical science. The power of magic had to be used.
When the two left, they seemed to have forgotten the person on the test bench.
The Ultron robots diligently cleaned the laboratory, patrolled, debugged equipment, and recorded experimental data... They could all follow instructions.
Suddenly, the body on the test table trembled slightly. If Reed had still been here, he would have clearly seen the trembling eyelids. This synthetic man was about to wake up!
The exposed wires had been stuffed back into the body, and the circuit boards and neural components had been repaired and rearranged by Reed, making them more flexible and more closely integrated with the body than before. As for the severed hand and foot, Reed had no choice. Wakanda would never allow vibranium to wander outside, even in the hands of the Illuminati or other superheroes. T'Challa would do everything possible to recover the vibranium.
Wakanda was very strict about such things.
Reed had no choice but to use other hard metals to repair the broken limbs. Although they were not as strong as vibranium, their hardness was still beyond ordinary metals. Even so, they remained incompatible with vibranium. In the future, if Renzo wanted to phase through objects, he probably would not be able to phase the newly created limbs.
However, Reed had some conscience. At least he had not taken the two Stones from Renzo's chest and kept them for himself. He could have relied on his own abilities and the other members of the Illuminati to imprison Renzo. Black Bolt and Captain Marvel were not the sort of people who sympathized with outsiders. Once someone provoked them, the only thing waiting for that person was to find their teeth scattered on the ground or... death.
Six hours later...
Swish!
Renzo suddenly opened his eyes. The beam of the Mind Stone pierced through the ceiling. Broken roof fragments fell intermittently from above. Some unlucky Ultron robots were smashed into scrap metal by the falling bricks.
"Ha~ha~ha~" Renzo sat up in horror. Purple light erupted instantly, destroying the laboratory that isolated him and the nearby Ultron robots. Experimental instruments flashed with yellow-white sparks, and the sound of explosions came one after another.
The Ultron robots immediately entered combat mode. Their eyes changed from blue to red. Several machine guns emerged from their shoulders, elbows, chest, and abdomen, while lasers appeared in their palms. Then they rushed toward Renzo.
In their instructions, anyone who destroyed the laboratory was to be treated as an enemy. Reed held the highest authority over these Ultrons. They were not intelligent life-forms, but simple artificial intelligences, inferior even to Tony Stark's artificial intelligence butler.
Renzo's mind was still stuck on the moment he had pushed Chthon into the vortex of time and space, only to be dragged into the same vortex himself. When he woke up, he found himself in a laboratory, but because his emotions were unstable, he accidentally triggered the power of two Infinity Stones, causing such chaos.
But when he saw the overwhelming number of Ultron robots attacking him, he no longer thought that way.
His intangibility allowed him to evade the first wave of bullets. Renzo was surprised to find that his control over his body had become much better. At the same time, he discovered that his right arm and right leg could not phase!
After sensing them carefully, he realized they were made of another metal, different from vibranium.
However, the subsequent firepower did not give Renzo time to hesitate or think. His vibranium body was not afraid, but the parts that had been repaired later could not withstand such concentrated firepower and might be damaged again.
The psychic beam fired, directly destroying the approaching Ultron robots one after another. Renzo immediately jumped up from the test platform and pounced toward the swarm of Ultrons.
The material of these robots could only be described as slightly harder than ordinary metal. They were at a level where the Avengers could destroy them with a little force.
In the movie, Wanda could destroy many of them at will. They were on the same level as the Ultron robots in Avengers: Age of Ultron. There was no real difference.
Renzo did not even need to use the Power Stone. He could smash one with a single punch, and by flying directly through them, he could destroy a large number at once. They were only miscellaneous soldiers at best.
When he had first crossed over, he had suffered a great loss against Ultron because he had not been familiar with this body. But now, things were different.
Renzo smiled cheerfully. The Mind Stone accumulated energy and destroyed the entire laboratory. The Ultron army inside was naturally buried beneath it, with no ability to escape.
"Cool!"
Renzo could not help shouting in relief. The humiliation he had suffered at Ultron's hands back then had finally been repaid!
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