Westchester National Forest.

On the other side of the verdant forest, there are ugly pits that are exposed, and the mining companies have simply buried the coal and iron ore after they have mined it, and the large and small pits are like scars on the mountains.

There are some small pits where rainwater gathers, and the rainwater precipitates some other associated minerals from the crushed ore, and the blue pool is green and green, and it seems to have a highly toxic beauty from a distance.

After the mysterious people bought the abandoned mine, they did not completely repair the place and start a new round of excavation, but only placed some no-entry signs and barricades at the entrance of the road, sent special personnel to guard it, and closed the place, and most of the place remained the same.

From time to time, large trucks carrying unidentified objects enter the mine, but no ore has been transported out.

At this time, inside the dark and deep mine.

Countless intertwined three-dimensional tunnels form a complex network, and the reincarnation of Perfect Humanity wraps several sections of the tunnels with translucent waterproof cloth to stop water seepage in the dilapidated tunnels, and reinforces the crumbling pit with a steel frame structure.

It was under such rudimentary conditions that the reincarnators pulled in generator sets, lighting fixtures, and various instruments and equipment, and began their secret experiments.

In the dimly lit tunnel, a man in a curly white lab coat was standing in front of a centrifuge patiently waiting for the blood mixture to be separated, and several assistant-like white lab coats were walking around.

A young man in a peaked cap and black gloves on both hands walked up to him and whispered:

"Mandel, the members of our guard in the town have lost contact."

The curly-bearded man looked up and asked:

"What's the matter, killed by someone from a hostile society?"

The young man shook his head and said:

"You'd better come and see for yourself."

Curly Beard put down his work and followed the cap to another mine, where a metal chassis and a display screen were displayed in a circle, and the screen was the monitoring screen of all the surveillance probes in the town.

The cap pointed to one of the screens and said:

"Look."

Curly Beard looked at the screen, and inside was a black and white rough silent picture:

Tramp pulled out his revolver, shot his companion to death, and then walked out of the surveillance screen in a daze.

On another screen next to him, the homeless man walks slowly into the door of a hotel with a pistol in hand.

Hotel signboard: Dolphin Holiday Hotel.

The curly-bearded man frowned, looked at this scene, and wondered:

"Abel has defected?"

The man in the cap shook his head and said:

"I don't know."

Curly Beard then asked:

"And after that, where did he go?"

Cap shake head:

"He didn't go anywhere, he walked into the hotel and never came out again."

Could it be that Abel is a traitor planted in the perfect person by other reincarnation societies? So why didn't he come out of the hotel when he got in?

It doesn't make sense.

Besides, Abel's level is very low, otherwise he would not have been arranged to go to the town to sentry, he has no access to the confidential internal information of the organization, he defected at this time, what else could he do except kill a companion?

Curly frowned and thought.

He looked up at the cap and said:

"You go check out that hotel and see what's going on."

Cap nodded and said:

"By the way, hasn't you caught the test subject who escaped that day?"

Curly Beard shook his head slightly: "No, that guy is still playing hide and seek with us in the mine, so you can only go alone, there is no extra manpower to send to you now, the law enforcement team will block all the mines, gradually narrow the search area, and sooner or later arrest him!" ”

The man in the cap snorted coldly and scolded "Waste Edgar" in a low voice, but nodded in understanding, and then took the order.

……

The capped man, wearing a leather jacket and gloves on both hands, glanced up at the tall signboard and walked slowly into the lobby of the Dolphin Holiday Inn.

In the bright and tidy lobby, behind the front desk, a handsome waiter bowed slightly, with a slightly stiff smile on his face, and said to the man in the cap:

"Hello sir, welcome to Dolphin Holiday Inn, how can I help you?"

The man in the cap walked straight to the front desk and said:

"Show me the list of recent move-ins."

The waiter smiled:

"Sorry sir, this involves the privacy of the guests and we can't ...... Belch! ”

Before he could finish speaking, a large black gloved hand grabbed his neck and lifted him a few inches from the ground.

The man in the cap stared coldly into the waiter's eyes and said nothing.

The waiter's face was flushed, and he struggled with his hands and handed a form from the back of the front desk to the counter.

The man in the cap let go of his hand and picked up the form and flipped through it.

The waiter slumped back into his seat, clutching his neck and gasping for breath.

The man in the cap ignored the waiter, his eyes swept over the form one by one, scattered check-in information, and then he saw:

Jonathan Abel, Check-in date: August 27, room: 14th floor, No. 1408, Deluxe Mountain View Suite.

"Hmph."

The man in the cap snorted coldly, put down the form, and walked to the elevator.

But he didn't notice that the waiter behind him, who had a frightened face, faded with a frightened look on his face, slowly stood up straight, and resumed a stiff smile.

……

"Ding Dong!"

The elevator door opened, and the man in the cap stepped into the carpeted hallway to the door with the "1408" sign on it.

"Bang!"

Punch through the lock and push the door in.

The living room of the suite was empty, with a few newspapers on the couch and some ashes in the ashtray on the coffee table.

The man in the cap walked into the living room, looked at several rooms, and said slowly:

"Jonathan Abel, I'm the Iron Hand, I know you're in there, come out, let's talk."

The suite was quiet, the bedroom and bathroom doors were open, and no one answered him.

Suddenly, there was a "bang" behind him, and the man in the peaked cap looked back, and the door closed automatically.

"Drop!"

An old-fashioned timer on the bedside table in the master bedroom suddenly sounded, and the man in the cap named Iron Hand turned his head to see that the red number on the timer was rapidly changing, and finally, it was fixed on the number "60:00".

“59：59”

“59：58”

The bedside timer begins an hour-long countdown.

Iron Hand frowned inexplicably.

What do you mean?

"God babble."

Iron Hand snorted disdainfully, and instead of paying attention to the closed door behind him, he entered the master bedroom and searched the wardrobe, under the bed, and under the carpet, and there was nothing but a few pools of dried blood.

But it is also very strange that there are so many blood stains in a hotel room.

At this time, the real room 1408 is inside.

The plastic doll turned her head and asked:

"Are you going to follow the process of "1408 Phantom Murder" to walk him through, and then break through his psychological defenses?"

Zhang Yuning shook her head and said:

"No, on the contrary, you can't let him realize that this is a supernatural event, there has always been a horror movie universe in the world of reincarnation, and you can't let his mind think in this direction."

In the room, Iron Hand searched all the rooms, but found nothing, looking at the timer that kept counting down, his heart was irritable, and he couldn't help but hammer his fist on the timer.

"Boom-"

With an explosion, the timer erupted into a large burst of fire, and the orange flames instantly engulfed the man in the cap, and he watched as his clothes and gloves were burned, his skin and flesh were scorched and rolled up, and the pain was piercing to the bone, except for the two silver-white steel arms that were intact.

……

Iron Hand slowly woke up from his stupor.

When I opened my eyes, I found myself lying in the mine.

Iron Hand groaned in pain, craned his neck from the pulley stretcher, and found himself covered in bandages, and a voice next to him asked with concern:

"Iron Hand, are you awake?"

Iron Hand turned his head to look at it, and said in surprise:

"Mandel, what's going on? How did I end up here? ”

The bearded Mandel said, "Have you forgotten? You were hit by an explosion at the Dolphin Holiday Inn, and the entire hotel was blown into rubble, and we rescued you from the rubble. ”

Iron Hand was stunned for a moment, and immediately remembered that he had blown up the weird and annoying timer with one punch, and it turned out to be a bomb, and he seemed to have lost consciousness at the last moment because of the explosion.

Thinking of this, Tie Shou hurriedly asked:

"What about Jonathan Abel?"

Mandel's face was solemn, and he said:

"That's the tricky situation I'm going to tell you about now, that guy was caught by the law enforcement team when he was leaving town, and the law enforcement team tortured him to extract a confession, he said in his confession......"

Speaking of this, Mandel glanced at Iron Hand strangely, and said:

"He said, "You instructed him to do this."

When Iron Hand heard this, his eyes widened, and he scolded:

"He farts!"

Mandel sighed and said:

"I also believe that you didn't do it, you have no reason to do it, but Edgar and they insisted on going through the process, they wanted to interrogate you, you have extensive burns all over your body now, I am afraid that under their methods, it will be difficult for you to hold on."

Iron Hand looked hideous, and roared angrily:

"Of course, I knew that that shit just wanted to revenge myself, and I wouldn't give in!"

Mandel Road:

"What can you do if you don't give in? You're now burned all over your body except for those two arms, what are you going to fight Edgar with? He interrogated you for a valid reason, at least in Abel's confession. ”

When Iron Hand heard this, his expression changed for a moment, and he gasped angrily, not knowing what he was thinking in his head.

He slowly raised his head, looked at Mandel, gritted his teeth, and said:

"I can't sit still, I'm going to go out to find Master Jerome, I'm going to report to him alone, I can't let that fool Edgar get his way, he's been coveting these hands of mine for a long time, damn it."

Mandel looked puzzled and said:

"Can you contact Lord Jerome alone?"

Iron Hand nodded.

Mandel thought for a moment, didn't ask any more, but reminded him with words:

"But you can't get out now, the law enforcement team has sealed off the entire mine."

Iron Hand said without hesitation:

"I can get through that rift in the northwest corner, that rift that leads to the underground river."

After finishing speaking, Tie Shou was slightly stunned, as if he had thought of something, looked at Mandel suspiciously, and said:

"No, we discovered that crack together, and you should know that it exists."

Mandel's expression froze, and the corners of his mouth suddenly pulled out a strange and penetrating smile:

"I didn't know before, but now I know."

……

Mandel came to the monitoring room and asked a reincarnation on duty:

"Hasn't the Iron Hand come back yet?"

The reincarnation shook his head and said:

"I haven't come out since I entered the hotel, and I've been watching all the surveillance around the hotel."

The curly-bearded man walked back into the laboratory, pacing back and forth with some unease, thinking and thinking, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong, he raised his head and said to several assistants around him:

"Speed up the original plan and double the test intensity of all the several receptors that are now being experimented."

Hearing this, one of the assistants in the white coat reminded:

"My lord, if the test intensity is doubled, these people will not be able to stand it, and the mortality rate will increase greatly."

Curly Beard waved his hand and said:

"I have a bad premonition, we may not have much time, complete this batch of experiments as soon as possible, and catch them again when they run out."

Speaking of this, Curly Beard's face was a little ugly, and he said:

"A few of you don't understand the current situation, eighty percent of our mutant members in X reincarnation are from the main universe of Marvel, this time we failed to prevent the occurrence of M Day, the mutant division was almost wiped out, and as soon as the X reincarnation, which accounted for one-third of the community's combat power, disappeared, those reincarnation societies that had already had grievances before came to find trouble, the fifth dimension, the Zero Realm Guild, the Songtsevo Brotherhood, the lion awakening...... are sending people to attack the bases and strongholds of our perfect humans in the main Marvel universe. ”

As he spoke, the curly beard couldn't help but scold to himself:

"This time, taking advantage of the reincarnation world, a new Marvel Comics universe has been opened, and I specially brought manpower and equipment into this main world, just to avoid the war in the 616 universe, we have been very hidden, and we have not participated in the main plot, damn, how can this happen?"

Seeing that he was angry, several assistants around him didn't dare to pick up the stubble, and silently carried out their experiments with their heads down.

……

Iron Hand opened his eyes and found himself still lying on the big bed in the hotel suite, and before he could react, the gacoco turned into a twisted black mist and enveloped him, and the reincarnation instantly bulged into his eyeballs, spurted out a mouthful of blood, and died.

Two chairs sit quietly beside the bed, on which a woman with an indifferent expression and a plastic doll sit.

Upton Dupont turned to his head and asked:

"If you can see his memories, can't you dig up clues directly from his memories? Why do you have to listen to him talk to himself here for half a day? ”

Zhang Yuning shook her head and said:

"I can't read his memories directly, these scenes are not entirely illusions created by Valak, but the man's own subconscious imagination based on his own subconscious, in other words, he is dreaming, not me."

Upton understood, and said:

"The curly-bearded man I described to you earlier should be more trustworthy in this person's heart, and the one named Edgar should be the person he usually has a grudge against, so he will subconsciously fantasize about these contents."

Zhang Yuning said:

"That's right, and that one named Jerome may be the most powerful person sent to this Overworld by the Perfect Human, have you heard of this person?"

Upton Dupont thought about it carefully and said:

"Completely unheard of. Well...... It shouldn't be, the perfect people used to be very high-profile, if it was their high-level combat power, they shouldn't be nameless...... Jerome may be his name within the Perfect, but externally by another title. ”

Zhang Yuning nodded and said, "The good news now is that we know that this person named Jerome is not currently in the pit laboratory, and we also know the way to avoid the law enforcement team and leave the mine." ”

"What's next?" Upton Dupont then asked.

He knew that the abilities of Zhang Yuning's two evil spirits were best to be attached to a building, and although he had obtained a lot of key information now, if he wanted to forcibly break into the pit occupied by a perfect human, it was not what Zhang Yuning was good at, so he asked.

Zhang Yuning chuckled lightly and said:

"You haven't been on the Internet lately, but in the two days we've been in town, there's been a lot going on in New York outside."

Upton Dupont looked dazed and said:

"What's the matter?"

Zhang Yuning threw a tablet over, got up and left the room, and said:

"Just open a video site, search for 'Battle of Manhattan,' and watch it for yourself."

With that, he left the suite.

…………