Time flies, and another month has passed since the Spider Island incident in New York.

It has to be said that after suffering countless disasters, New York City's resilience and recovery ability is second to none, and although it has been helped by some super heroes, its repair speed in a month is really staggering. By this time, New York had largely returned to its original state, and the city was back in normal operation.

Eric spent most of the month in the watchtower, almost like a man in the middle of nowhere. For an entire month, even Raven had only seen him once after the disaster, and the two of them were still in contact via video communication most of the time.

As Eric said before, he doesn't really have much to do, and all he does every day is to rummage through the materials in the watchtower archives, review the memories of the comics in his past life, and pass the time by going around the world to catch some supercriminals who have nothing to do with him. He didn't know what he was becoming, but he subconsciously kept his distance from others, like instinctively having the illusion that he would one day hurt the people around him.

Since he returned from another world, many people have said that he has changed, and he has always known this in his own heart. But it wasn't until the last time he spoke to Raven that he suddenly realized how important she was to him, and noticed that he had been subconsciously avoiding her for so long.

Maybe he should really notice what has changed in him.

Stark Building, New York.

"It's a miracle that those spider monsters didn't tear down my building." Tony said as he walked out of the lab.

Eric sat up from the bed for the CT scan and asked, "How am I?" ”

"Anyone who can read the results will be amazed." "Technically, your body isn't human. ”

He said that, but it was nowhere near as serious as it had been when Eric had asked him for a test. It seems that he had expected such an outcome, and it was not surprising.

Eric, too, glanced at his CT scan with a blank face, and said lightly, "Is there anything else I don't know?" ”

"It seems that the submojo virus in your body has passed the first stage and is now entering a new step." "They're not just content to bind your nerves and assimilate with your consciousness, but now your bones, your internal organs, all your organs, are full of viruses. It transforms you, makes most of your organs very strong, and even transforms the structure. Outwardly, you may still be the same as most people. But inside, you are like the next stage of human evolution, and the inside of the body has been fully optimized by the virus. ”

"Sounds like a good thing." Eric said lightly.

"Part of it, maybe. But I'm not sure that's a good thing. "One more thing that's different from the past is that they also modify your cranial nerves. ”

"Is this something new?"

"In the past, the virus was just combining with your brain to help you further interact with the armor's systems. But now it's a little different, and I've noticed that your nerve fibers are showing some signs of alteration, and some attachments of unknown composition are appearing. At this stage, I don't have enough means to confirm the effect it will have on you, but I suspect that they should have some effect on the emotional center of your brain. ”

Eric frowned: "Emotional center? ”

"To put it simply, it makes you unable to laugh when you should laugh, and you can't cry when you should cry. It will mask out your mood swings and make you look at things more rationally. I guess you've felt it somewhat. ”

Eric was silent.

Tony was right. I don't know when he felt like his heart was wrapped in a layer of iron, so cold that he felt terrible when he thought about it. But when he thinks about it, he doesn't feel like he's done anything wrong, and it seems that every decision is the most practical and reasonable move.

But is that true?

"Thanks, Tony." He spoke suddenly, and walked out, "I see." ”

Tony didn't stop him, but said, "I don't think you know, but I also know that it's impossible to stop you now." I only hope that there won't come a day when I have to stand across from you. ”

Eric was now on the balcony, his armor covering himself, and he didn't look back, "I don't want it either." Then he "swished" to the sky and left.

Elsewhere, in the middle of nowhere.

Without warning, waves of blue light burst out like an irresistible wave of air that swept across the wilderness. A building in the center of the eruption bore the brunt, its shell shattered entirely, and debris flew all over the sky.

The light had cleared, half of the building had collapsed, and the word "AIM" could be faintly seen on the exterior wall of a dilapidated laboratory. In the rubble-strewn laboratory, a man laughed wildly, and the laughter stretched across the field for a long time. Through the pale blue glow, I could barely see that it was a large oval head, with short limbs very comically placed on a person's tall head, and the facial features were surprisingly large, but they were indescribably ugly.

Known as the "Killer Brain" and named Murdoch, he was the leader of the cutting-edge technology organization AIM at this time. The facility destroyed by the blastwave was also owned by AIM, but he smiled merrily beneath the ruins of the facility.

One of his cronies survived the explosion, and it took a lot of effort to lift off the boulder fragments, crawl out from below, and hurriedly crawl to Murdoch's side, and patted him on the back: "Ha, it's worthy of Lord Murdoch, what a rare genius in the world!" You've done something that no one has been able to do in a hundred years! ”

Who knew that Murdoch didn't appreciate it, and kicked him over with a kick and said, "Fart!" What I have achieved today is unprecedented and unprecedented, and no one can surpass it even if it is thousands of years old! ”

"Yes, yes," the cronie hurriedly got up, gave a thumbs up, and said, "What Stark, Wayne, Lex, those so-called future technology groups are simply not worth mentioning in front of you!" ”

"Well, I told you they were just jokes. It's ridiculous that Stark was lifted into the sky with just a few sets of armor. Murdoch snorted and groaned for a while, but seemed to calm down a little, "But without the help of the resources of the 'center', it would be really difficult for me to get to this point." ”

He stopped talking, thought about it, and finally made a decision as if after a fierce ideological struggle, and said, "In this way, we will not tell our allies about the results of today's experiment. ”

The cronie was stunned for a moment, and said with some hesitation: "Huh? But isn't ...... rule of the 'hub' that the results accomplished with the help of resources must be shared with them? ”

Murdoch snorted and said, "I naturally have a way to do this." ”

The man didn't think much about it, and hurriedly patted his ass: "Lord Murdoch is amazing!" ”

Murdoch laughed again, as if he had truly reigned over the world, and the whole world was in the palm of his hand.