Chapter 22: The Great Evolution

As the door to the lab opened, Susan stepped in and walked to Reed's side.

"You're fine, Sue."

Words of concern were spoken, but Reed was still preoccupied with the corpse of the zombie and studying it, intently cutting off a small piece of the zombie's heart and placing it under a microscope for detailed observation.

With his eyes glued to the microscope, he seemed to be communicating with the cells of a zombie.

Susan approached Reed, unconcerned by his coldness, and asked with concern, "Why are you staying here by yourself?" I thought you were working with Banner and Tony. ”

"They're working on other projects, and we're doing different studies separately, so that if one of them finds something, the other person can come and help."

"It was Tony's idea, but I agree with it."

Susan nodded in understanding.

"But honestly, I don't know how Tony's side is, but I think I've made some progress here."

"Oh?"

Reed's eyes twinkled with excitement: "These creatures... It's amazing how they're human... But no, the virus infection makes them such efficient biological ......"

"Can you imagine? An adult male needs at least 15,000 calories and 20 liters of water a week, but these creatures only need 1 in 1,000 or even 1 in 10,000! ”

Susan's eyes widened in disbelief when she heard Reed's description, and she shouted, "These zombies are demons!" They're not new, and let's not forget what happened to our children! ”

Reed still didn't look back at this time, he looked the zombie corpses up and down, and said a little indifferently: "Of course I haven't forgotten, but what I can't ignore is that these zombies seem to have evolved in our body structure. ”

"This evolution has made them more adaptable to the cruel world they are in now."

With that, he took off one of the zombie's eyeballs and put it closer to observe it carefully, and let out exclamations from time to time.

When Susan heard Reed's words, she was filled with grief and anger, she couldn't accept his description of the evolution of zombies, how could such absurd words come from the mouth of Mr. Fantastic?

"Evolution? Cruel world?! The world has been so cruel by them! They destroyed our homes and took away our loved ones, and now you want us to understand their so-called evolution? ”

Her voice trembled, her eyes flashed with anger and helplessness, and she couldn't understand why Reed was so indifferent to describe the zombie changes, seemingly completely ignoring who was to blame for it all.

Turning to walk out of the lab, she no longer wanted to say a word to her crazy husband.

"It's strange that many of their organs have stagnated because they don't need useless things, but they still retain mobility and intelligence in such a situation, but their minds rarely work......

"Are you still there? Sue? ”

Reed continues to immerse himself in the study of zombie organs, and he doesn't seem to care too much about Susan's departure.

He was observing the organs of zombies in an attempt to understand their evolution. He only looked back when he heard the door slam shut, but quickly turned his attention back to the experiment.

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"How, is such evidence enough? He even called this virus evolution, and no matter what you think, I don't think a bunch of man-eating monsters are evolution. ”

Seeing that "Susan" who walked out of the laboratory returned to her dull appearance after the door closed, and the crack in the wall disappeared, Bai Ye opened his mouth and said.

As he expected, Reed may have gone mad after losing his child, or maybe he was already crazy, but he is now bent on zombies as the future of humanity.

Honestly, part of what he said was true, zombies do have very little need in terms of energy consumption, but Reed ignores a crucial point, which is the appetite of the three major human desires.

Under normal circumstances, after a person is full, his brain will send signals to his body to prevent him from supporting himself to death, but zombies are different, although zombies still feel full, due to their undead nature of being "alive" even after their heads are broken.

As long as these things still have a mouthful of meat in front of their eyes, they will stuff the meat into their mouths even if they will eat a stomach, and they won't die anyway.

However, there are indeed some zombies among the zombie heroes who can resist this hunger, but that is a hundred years later, and in the past forty years, they have almost eaten the entire universe.

"Hmmm......"

Fury looked at Reed, who was still spinning around the zombie corpse on the screen, and fell into a rare hesitation.

Afraid that the head of the secret service would be moved by compassion and want to let Mr. Fantastic go, Bai Ye hurriedly got up and added, "Do you remember what you said? I have prophetic powers, and it was my wounding of Quicksilver that gave you precious reaction time. ”

"If that doesn't prove the accuracy of my prediction, then I just said that these zombies can live forever without eating or drinking, which coincides with the results of Reed's experiment."

Looking at the one-eyed dragon in front of him, he still lowered his eyes and was silent, Bai Ye slapped the table, quite angry: "What are you waiting for, don't you kill Reed quickly, do you want us all to eat this bunch of things as dessert?" ”

Fury pondered silently for a few seconds, then burst out laughing. There was a sense of relief and joy in his laughter, and he held out a large hand to the prophet in front of him.

"You've proven your worth, and where you stand, and S.H.I.E.L.D. welcomes you."

This sudden change surprised Bai Ye a little, but then he also showed a smile, stretched out his hand and shook it hard.

"It's a pleasure to work with."

Returning to his seat, Fury re-lit a cigar and handed it to Hakuya, who smiled as he took it, his left hand flicking in the holographic projection.

The camera instantly zooms in on Mr. Fantastic's body, and his every move is in full view.

"Computer, clean up the 16th area of the 30th floor of Gamma."

"There is a registered hero in the target area, ID: 00042, Mr. Fantastic Reed Richards, the protection program is activated, and it cannot be cleaned up."

Fury took a casual puff of his cigar, then flicked the ashes, and added:

"Override with Level 10 clearance to ensure that the target is completely inactivated."

“............. The overwriting is successful and the cleanup begins. ”

As the mechanical sound in the holographic projection faded away, White Night clearly saw that Mr. Fantastic, who had been lying next to the corpse in the laboratory, moved.

He took off his head-mounted magnifying glass, walked to the desk in the distance, wiped his forehead, took off his white coat and hung it on the back of his chair, and then looked around with some confusion.

Is it your own delusion?

How do you feel that the laboratory is still a little cold...... Suddenly getting hot?