Chapter 178: Lex Luthor's Experiment
"Welcome, unknown powerhouse brought by the Flash! I'm Lex Luthor, and I hope to be your friend! ā
Led by Joker Girl, Bucky soon arrives at the villain's stronghold, which, unlike the Flash's underworld, is a brightly lit edifice where the words "Lex Group" are made into shiny neon signs, which are very unique in this desperate Gotham. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Lex Luthor himself was a stocky middle-aged man who was already waiting in the lobby on the first floor of the building when Bucky arrived, showing absolute sincerity. The Joker, on the other hand, had already taken Harley Quinn in his arms and kissed him as if no one was around, with the opposite attitude of Lex Luthor, who didn't seem to care about Bucky's appearance at all.
After leading Bucky to a luxurious room and taking his seat, Lex Luthor said straight to the point: "Mr. Barnes, we invited you here for the same purpose as the Flash, we all want to cooperate with you to eliminate the Doom Day that is raging in the Metropolis, I don't know if Mr. Barnes has any interest in cooperating." ā
Although I have heard the Flash say for a long time that after the appearance of Doom Day, many former criminals have also joined the camp against Doom Day, but it still makes Bucky feel a little strange to hear Lex Luthor's righteous and awe-inspiring words.
"It seems that Mr. Barnes has misunderstood me, I, Lex Luthor, am not some kind of villain who does all kinds of evil as the hypocrites of the Justice League promote, in fact, everything I do is for the sake of our human beings on Earth, for our human beings on Earth to have a better future." When Lex Luthor saw Bucky looking at him with strange eyes, he immediately understood what Bucky meant, and he was not angry, but said sincerely: "Doom Day is a mistake, a failed invention, and I am now doing my best to make up for this mistake and destroy Doom Day, hoping that Mr. Barnes can help me." ā
"Cut, pretend to be noble!" The clown, who had been flirting with Harley Quinn, sneered disdainfully and said, "Please, Lex, the way you look now is really disgusting, you have done so many bad things, and you still look like a decent gentleman, it's disgusting, you know?" ā
This is still Bucky's first words when he came here, and the first thing the Joker said was to Lex Luthor, which made Bucky look at him deeply, and asked strangely, "Mr. Clown, don't you want to destroy that Doom Day?" ā
"Think, why don't you want to, it's like a dream! If it weren't for the fact that monster didn't have a brain, I would have killed him with my brilliant brain! The clown seemed to be very angry, pushed Harley Quinn in his arms to the side of the sofa, stood up, paced back and forth, and kept waving his arms wildly, and said very frantically: "You don't know, since that Doomsday killed Superman and Metropolis, this group of people in Gotham has become meaningless at all, and everyone seems to be waiting for death, so that my brain, which was born to commit crimes, has no room to play." Now people are like a fat pig, eating and sleeping all day long, waiting for the day of destruction to turn them into barbecue, a few days ago I wanted to find someone to kill, that person was still very relieved before he died, thank me, this day has not been sent at all! ā
The corners of Bucky's mouth twitched, he never thought that the reason for the Joker's deal with Doom Day would be like this.
"Ahem!"
Lex Luthor coughed twice in dissatisfaction and said, "No matter what, our purpose is the same, and the purpose is the same as Mr. Barnes, and now that Mr. Barnes and Wonder Woman have such a big unpleasant quarrel, why don't you join our team." ā
Bucky said, "My purpose is to find the fragments of the Stone of Self, not to destroy the Day of Doom, but this purpose cannot be told to you. However, there seems to be nothing wrong with joining this villain camp temporarily, for Doom Day, who can destroy half of the United States by himself, Bucky's strength is still a little insufficient, and Bucky knows very little about Doom Day, and with Lex Luthor, the creator of Doom Day, he can also learn more about him.
Thinking of this, Bucky nodded and said, "Okay, no matter what, our purpose is the same, and there is nothing wrong with cooperating with you until we achieve our goal." It's just that I don't know much about Doom Day, and since it's Mr. Luther's handiwork, I wonder if you can give me a copy of his information? ā
"Of course it's fine!"
Lex Luthor commanded the phone, and in a few moments, a beautiful young girl walked in. Lex Luthor smiled and said to Bucky, "Mr. Barnes, this is Vivian, in this building, she will be there for you all the way, and you can ask for anything. The information you want about Doom Day has been transmitted to the computer in your room, and the battle with Wonder Woman must have consumed a lot of your physical strength, so let Vivien take you to rest. ā
In this regard, Bucky did not refuse, he really needed to recover his seriously damaged mental strength.
Although Lex Luthor is the creator of Doom Day, the information he can come up with is very limited, basically some data from the time of the creation of Doom Day, and Bucky has not studied this much, and he can not understand much. However, through this information, Bucky also understands why Doom Day is so powerful.
Doom Day is Lex Luthor's use of the corpse of Kryptonian General Zod, in terms of ability, the superman who is also a Kryptonian has the ability, Doom Day has it, Iron Body, super power, heat ray, these abilities are even more powerful than Superman. And what really makes Doom Sun extremely terrifying is his other talent, he lives on energy, no matter what kind of attack, he will generate energy, and these energies will make Doom even more powerful, except for kryptonite, Doom Sun is not afraid of any attack. The tragedy is that kryptonite, a weapon that can restrain Doom Sun and Superman, has been completely exhausted several years ago, and there is no kryptonite on the earth anymore.
Bucky stayed in the room for a day and a night before he fully regained his mental strength. Returning to his heyday, the first thing Bucky did was open a spatial door that teleported directly to a secret room in the building.
Although this room is secret, it can't hide from Bucky's mental power exploration, as early as a day ago, when Bucky had just recovered some mental power, he had already used his mental power to explore the entire building, and found this room, and under curiosity, after the mental power was fully recovered, Bucky teleported in directly.
This is obviously a laboratory, or rather, a production workshop, and the product here is a person in a culture tank in front of Bucky's eyes. In this room, there were hundreds of neatly arranged cultivation tanks, and in each cultivation tank, there was a teenager who looked like an eleven or twelve year old sleeping.
Although Bucky has no research on natural science, Bucky has only one guess about the way he looks in front of him, that is, clones, and nine out of ten of the hundreds of teenagers in the cultivation tank are clones cultivated by Lex Luthor.
"Mr. Barnes, it's a bit of a surprise to see you in my training room!" Behind Bucky, the voice of Lex Luthor was suddenly heard.
However, Bucky was not surprised, when Lex Luthor entered here, Bucky had already sensed it, and the reason why he did not teleport away was just out of curiosity, wanting to know what was going on with the people in these cultivation tanks.
"It's all Superman!" Lex Luthor didn't pursue Bucky's uninvited behavior, but said with a bit of pride: "Or, these are all half-superhumans, clones made by me based on superhuman DNA combined with the DNA of ordinary humans on our earth, they have 50% of Superman's genes, and they can also have some of Superman's abilities." ā
Speaking of Superman's old enemy, Lex Luthor was a little excited, and said indignantly: "The world always says that I, Lex Luthor, is a bad person, but how do they know that the freak from Krypton will be the source of hindering the progress of human beings on our earth, Superman has weakened the potential of our human beings, he should not be a superhero in the metropolis, but should become an experiment in the laboratory!" ā
"Is it like these?" Bucky gestured to the clones in the tank.
"Yes, I used to clone 100% of Superhumans, but that's not something I can control, and these are my latest research, half-superhumans, a combination of humans and superhumans, when these experimental subjects become adults, I will send them to society, combine with ordinary humans, and gradually improve our human genes."
Bucky looked at Lex Luthor with some surprise, it seems that this villain is really as he said, everything is for the progress of mankind, but for this purpose, he has become unscrupulous. However, his plan does seem to be very feasible, if these semi-superhuman clones can really combine with ordinary humans under his control to produce the next generation, then it can indeed make the weak body of the human race on Earth stronger, although this is an experiment that will take several generations to complete, but from an evolutionary point of view, it is undoubtedly a feasible experiment.
Suddenly, Lex Luthor seemed to think of something, looked at Bucky with interest for a moment, and said, "I have an experiment here that can increase strength, I wonder if Mr. Barnes is interested in participating?" ā
"Nope!"
Bucky was not in the habit of being a guinea pig, and without even thinking about it, he rejected Lex Luthor.
"Doesn't Mr. Barnes want to hear about it?" Lex Luthor's tone was full of temptation, and he continued: "This is an experiment that allows you to have a superman, comparable to Doomsday, I have some superhuman DNA here, I once wanted to directly use those DNA to transform ordinary adults into semi-superhumans, but Superman's DNA is too powerful for ordinary people to accept such transformations." However, Mr. Barnes, you already have the strength that is not weaker than Superman, so you must be able to accept his DNA and thus have some of Superman's abilities. ā
Listening to Lex Luthor's words, Bucky couldn't help but feel a little moved, he remembered what Rodney of the Eternals had said to him, if you want to control the Infinity Stones, one way is to strengthen yourself at the genetic level, so that your body can withstand the powerful energy of the Infinity Stones, and the other way is to increase your mental power and control the energy of the Infinity Stones with your spiritual power.
All along, Bucky used the second method, devouring Dormammu's doppelganger, giving him enough mental power to control the aether particles, and devouring one of Manda's magic rings, allowing him to control the Cosmic Cube. Previously, Bucky had already planned to find the Power Stone, but with Bucky's current mental power, there was still a lot of distance to control the three Infinity Stones at the same time.
Originally, Bucky wanted to find a way to improve his mental power in the universe, but when he came here, Lex Luthor proposed a way to strengthen himself at the genetic level. Superman's Kryptonian genes are many times stronger than ordinary people on Earth, even if Bucky has been strengthened twice, he is still far from catching up with Superman at the genetic level, if he can really use Superman's genes to strengthen himself as Lex Luthor said, then for Bucky, it can definitely be regarded as a metamorphosis.
It's just that Lex Luthor is a person, but Bucky is very uneasy, he can control these semi-superhuman clones, and he may not have no way to make trouble in the process of experiments, and he also controls himself, Bucky doesn't want to be a puppet in the hands of others.
Seeing the glint in Bucky's eyes, a smile appeared on Bucky's face, he didn't have any superpowers himself, but he was well aware of the desire for strength of those superpowers, and he believed that Bucky would agree to the experiment.
"How's it going, Mr. Barnes? It's a rare opportunity, if it weren't for my physique that couldn't accept such an experiment, I would have wanted to try it myself. ā
This time, Bucky didn't refuse outright, but pondered for a moment and said, "I need to think about it again." ā
With that, Bucky directly opened a spatial door and teleported to his room.
Looking at Bucky's disappearing figure, Lex Luthor's smile became even worse, he was already convinced that this unprecedentedly excellent test subject could no longer escape from the palm of his hand, and couldn't help muttering excitedly: "Superman, although I don't know if Doom Day has completely destroyed you, but as long as this experiment is successful, I will have a warrior in my hands who is more powerful than you, the master of the earth, or us humans!" ā
And Bucky, who returned to the room, also had his own ideas, it was impossible to accept Lex Luthor's experiment, but his experiment undoubtedly pointed out a path for himself, as long as he obtained Superman's DNA, Bucky believed that when he returned to the world of Marvel, he could make a Superman brand serum, and Superman's DNA, Lex Luthor seems to have it in stock here.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Villain, it looks like I'm going to be a thief in this world!" Bucky thought to himself. (To be continued.) )