Ryan put his hand on the fish tank, Bleeding Stream's rotting eyes looking at her. This scene filled Ryan with contempt and disgust.

"How? The messenger asked, his own shortness of breath and a sharp pain in his neck. Even after all these years...... Even after all these years, he still remembers his adoptive father's hand choking him by the throat. What they say is true. You'll never forget your first time. "How ......"

"Uncontrolled mental mutations," Dr. Tellano replied with a shrug, misunderstanding the question. The vice president refused to feed him a genome, so his genetic code kept degrading and becoming something completely alien. After a while, the human part can't keep up with these forces. ”

A thought flashed through Ryan's mind: this is the fate that awaits all psychopaths, if they can't avoid rotting. The elixir of life has transformed their bodies into aliens. Something more suitable for accommodating the infinite energy of the colored dimension.

Is the blood flow still perceptible? Did one of the humans survive, or was there only the elixir left? Did he recognize his daughter, or smell her blood?

"He's ......" The dwarf's voice sounded so shaky, so faint, that Ryan could barely hear what she was saying. My dad...... Is my dad in there?"

"A few years ago, we chemically sterilized him, and then he stopped trying to communicate," Tirano replied without tact. He may be a genius, but social connections are clearly not his specialty.

"How can you ...... How can you do that?" Ryan looked at the mad scientist and hissed. "Inside...... There's a guy in there!"

"Not exactly, management sees him as an asset to the company," Tellano said, completely missing the point.

Ryan walked over to the computer panel hanging from the fish tank, his Saturn armor easily invading the closed system. Data appeared on his lenses, from bioanalysis to counterfeit test reports. The courier was quick to confirm that since 2016, Dy

Amis seized the blood; Terranor cloned him from a sample taken after the madman raided the company's warehouse.

Ryan also notices a folder called "Monster Girl Project" that he refuses to open. He had a feeling that it would traumatize him for all the rest of the cycle.

But most importantly, Ryan learned that Dr. Tellano used an encrypted email system to engage in discussions with others, primarily his lawyers. The messenger remembered the access code so that he could contact the mad genius directly in a future loop.

"Why...... Why are you looking for me?" Ryan asked, pointing a water gun at Terranor. Dinosaur fanatics raise their hands in surrender. "What's the point?"

"Because your father implanted a foreign substance in your blood cells, it causes counterfeits to react violently when touched," Terranor confesses. "Since the old substance in your blood precedes chemical sterilization, synthesis produces a new substance that is able to resist it. Inevitably, our consumers will ...... Reversion. ”

It's a polite way to put it, they turn into blood clones.

"I asked the management to conduct an in-depth study of you to reduce the risk of retesting, but Mr. Enrique kept vetoing my proposal," the scientist complained. This made the Courier respect Blackthorne more than before.

"It's a million-dollar question," Ryan said, glancing at the bloody shogoth floating in the fish tank. "How are we going to kill this thing?"

Le

Flinch. "Rihanna ......"

"Ryan, your father is gone," Ryan argued, waving his gloved hand at the psychopath in the jar. "He's not even human anymore."

"You say...... You said you could find a cure for psychosis!" She protested.

"I think we can cure human mutations, but we can't turn tomato juice into Homo sapiens." Ryan watched as Ryan's weapon shook from her trembling hands. "I'm looking at the analysis right now, and he now shares less than 50% of his DNA with humans. Banana is closer to us than he is. ”

Even if Ryan had all the time in the world, they needed a genome with miraculous solutions. Besides, the Courier wasn't going to waste so much time helping that incorrigible monster. He raided the lab to confirm the survival of the blood, but the demons that plagued his childhood seem to be long gone.

Ryan was willing to give all the money to see Ryan's reaction under the helmet. She stood silently for a moment, then lowered her head and lowered her weapon. She didn't say a word because she noticed her friend's words. Maybe she always knew it would end like this, until she put the facts in front of her eyes.

Her beloved father died many years ago.

"I don't think you have a way to deal with counterfeits, do you?" Ryan asked Terranor.

"Of course we have an antidote," the mad genius protested, much to the courier's surprise. "Do you think we were criminally negligent?"

"You turned the monster into a drink!" Ryan replied bluntly. "You're worse than Pepsi!"

"But as long as only one dose is used, the risk of reversal and health problems is close to zero!"

"That's why I'm going to nationalize this place and confiscate all its assets. Including you. ”

"You can't nationalize a person—"

"I am the president of the United States of America, that is, the president of the whole world," Ryan interrupted. "We're going to nationalize you and your treatment. How does it work?"

The scientist opened his mouth to protest further until Ryan pointed to the weapon in his chest. Ah, the benefits of monopolizing force ...

"I developed an injectable neutralizer that attacks blood cells and repairs the target's genetic code, returning it to its pre-consumption state," Dr. Scully admits. "In the event of a ruptured container, a stronger variant of the formula can be injected into the aquarium. It completely destroys the copycat product. ”

"But isn't it an alchemist's elixir?" Ryan asked for confirmation, and Genius shook his head. It makes sense. Blood-based imitations are still mutated psychotic cells in the end, and the true elixir is an alien entity that transcends traditional biology. "If your treatment only works with injections, what happens if multiple copycat users recover at the same time?" Even if you destroy the original source, it won't eliminate the substance from all your clients' bodies. ”

"There is no risk of a massive reversal," Terranor replied with a shrug, tentative fate.

These people have no plan at all. Dy

Amis's criminal negligence is incomprehensible. "Okay, in that case, you hand over the antidote and go to Area 51 with us."

Dinosaur narrowed his eyes. "Area 51?"

"If you want to be technical, it's an MEC

o

Base. "Now that Ryan knows where the others are, they can stay there and research ways to cure their psychosis. He made a promise to Sa-Bianca, and he will keep it. "We can produce counterfeits that are safer than the bottled slime you harvest here. An elixir that follows health and safety protocols. ”

“Mech

o

Base?" Genius's eyes lit up with interest. He couldn't resist the temptation of the laboratory that Mirren had made. "You know what? I have a contract not to work for the game, but if you kidnap me, I won't resist too much. I guess kidnapping is force majeure, right?"

"For me?" This is providence. "Ryan defended religious tolerance, but only in his own denomination." Now, where is your blood vaccine?" We euthanized him when we went out. ”

Ryan didn't even respond, much to Ryan's surprise. He had expected her to rebel against his decision, but when he found out the truth, he shook her completely.

Ryan downloaded the data from the blood vaccine for future circulation. Now, they must find a way to leave the building with Terranor, if possible. Now that Ryan knows about the encrypted email and confirms the existence of the bloodstream, he can contact scientists at any time to optimize the raid on Lab 66.

The sensors on his armor suddenly noticed a sharp rise in temperature.

Don't ...... "Shorty, get down!" Ryan shouted, but his friend wouldn't listen. She stared at the fish tank, without saying a word, lost in thought. "Shorty!"

One of the walls of the room melted in a crimson flash.

The explosion came from the previous room and cleared the debris blocking the road outside. Ryan covered his helmet with his hand, and the lab was filled with a cloud of dust.

Alphonse Manada is back, the living embodiment of the nuclear flame. But he's not alone. He was followed by none other than his brother Blackthorne. Vines and moss cover this Il Miglio

The armor of Manager E, like the second layer of protection, he alone did not carry a gun. He didn't look happy, though, and glanced at the aquarium in disgust.

"None of this would have happened if you and your father hadn't lied to me at the time," Enrique said, as his men raised their arms against Ryan and Ryan. The Courier is ready to fight his way out. Wyvern was right. It can't go on like this. ”

"In the end everything will work out, you'll see," his brother replied, lying to himself. "As for the father...... After this incident, no matter what, he will leave. ”

"Radiation" raised his hand at Ryan and Ryan, but did not fire. The danger of breaking the aquarium is too great. "All of you are dead, you are surrounded," he threatened. "Give up".

"I don't think so," Ryan said, moving closer to Ryan while Terranor hid behind his computer. "I still have ammunition in my backpack. If you want a large mushroom salad, I'll give it to you. ”

"I don't believe you," Alphonse replied, a bluff. "I don't understand what you're trying to do here, Mutie, but you've failed."

"Cover me, dwarf." Ryan said. He can't fight radiation head-on, but they can bypass him if they handle it properly.

But his friend did not answer.

"Shorty?"

Ryan raised her water gun to the aquarium and opened fire.

Before Ryan could stop time, a stream of pressurized liquid hit the glass. The private security team opened fire on Ryan, and in vain Enrique raised a hand to tell them to stop; Their lasers are frozen in mid-air, so the Courier knocks Ryan to the ground, keeping them out of reach.

"Little man, what is this—" Ryan looked at her helmet and couldn't finish the sentence.

All he could see was thick black blood wriggling behind the mask.

Ryan glanced at the captive blood in horror, the monster's rotting eyes staring at his daughter with a wicked look. When the creature is no longer sentient, his proximity triggers an infection in the body of the pedicle and allows it to take over her.

As time recovered, some lasers hit the aquarium's protective barrier, and Alphonse roared angrily and rushed forward. Ryan's mask exploded, and tendrils of blood came out of it, forcing Ryan to jump backwards. The Courier could only watch as blood flowed from his friend's armor, the substance that had consumed her from within. As for the aquarium......

The glass shattered, and blood and tears flowed.

Ryan barely had time to take a few steps, as Ryan's tendrils bonded with the slime trapped in the fish tank. Blood is screaming.

As the imprisoned monsters grew bigger and stronger, the aquarium exploded violently. Huge ooze grows large, fanged mouths that hiss, blue eyes as big as TV screens, and porous holes that release geysers of green Flux particles. A strange, alien moss forms on anything these particles come into contact with, like an infection from another reality.

Ryan wished he could erase his memories at will, and he watched as Ryan's armor was engulfed in the ooze she once called her father. The ogre devoured his daughter.

Blackthorne stretched out the vines and tried to take Terranor to safety, but it was too late. The red slime overwhelms the scientists, and Alphonse has to use a bomb explosion to stop the monster. The ooze face was hit by a burst of nuclear fire, but soon regenerated. The bloodied monster form swelled, and the room was filled with evil flesh.

Now that it had eaten Ryan, the monster turned its attention to Ryan. The sparkling alien eyes showed neither intelligence nor signs of recognition; Only hunger. His mind has degraded to the point of no return, and only the instinct of propagation remains.

The blood became a virus

To make matters worse, some of the private security guards began screaming, blood pouring out of their armor and shattering their masks. The counterfeits in their circulatory system have begun to recover, though Ryan doesn't know how far the effects will go.

"What's his range?" Ryan muttered to himself, an unsettling thought passing through his mind.

The sprinkler sprinkled the room with a white substance, possibly Terranor's vaccine. But the liquid failed to affect the strengthened blood, and the mutated fear turned into a wave of blood.

Rya

At the end of his cooldown, he froze time and ran away as fast as he could.

Alphonse Manada formed an energy shield around his brother and himself, fending off the tide of blood and his own people. Ryan glanced at Terranor, but he was already submerged in the distant Red Sea.

The messenger fled through the hole in the wall, leaving the Manada to take refuge on their own. Ryan couldn't risk blood passing through the armor. If the monster manages to take control of him and destroy his save point......

Ryan must return to Livia to complete the memory transfer. "I have to go back." He whispered to himself as he walked to the ruins of the cloning factory. "Go back in time."

The roof of the cloning factory collapsed, burying the room and Ryan's dead ally under tons of rubble, despite Alphonse Manada successfully melting a path. As the ceiling disappears, acid rain falls to the ground through a hole in it. Ryan activated his jetpack, just as time returned.

In an instant, a stream of blood poured into the factory and spread throughout the building. Ryan managed to escape the flood and flew over the headquarters of Dinamus. If blood can produce matter out of thin air, it means that his mutation gives him the ability to surpass his original abilities.

But Ryan didn't understand how much until he took a closer look at New Rome.

The whole city turned red.

Everywhere Ryan looked, people mutated, blood gushing out of their skin, turning them into blood clones. Every counterfeit elixir in New Rome was restored to its original appearance. The genome turns into a monster, attacking the uninfected like a mad dog. On the ground, Ryan sees a blood clone shoot crystalline spikes at the private security guard. All those who were scratched by the projectile joined the zombie army.

The fires have spread everywhere, and even acid rain cannot extinguish them. Mount Augustus turned into a burning candle, its smoke obscuring the sky for miles, and Rusty didn't look any better.

"His strength has run out of scope," Ryan realized, his throat aching from the illusory pain that had circled for the first time. "The whole world. He will spread all over the world. He will be the world. ”

This one...

It's a nightmare.

"Helen?" Ryan shouted. Somehow, the acid rain continued to fall. "Helen, where are you?"

He saw her lying on the ground. A bloody monster that changes position with the raindrops and falls on the uninfected like an eagle falls on a mouse. Blood can not only infect the genome, but also continue to use their ability.

If he infects Ryan...

If he infects Ryan, the blood will be able to travel through time.

"Tea? Alchemo? Brain-dead, are you there?" Ryan panicked and called the rest of his team, only to be silenced by the radio. "Anyone?"

But no one answered.

Ryan thought he would only care about Chacha, but her father's silence ...... It made his heart ache for a while.

Damn, this is the third apocalypse in New Rome since he started, and the worst so far!

"Livia?" Ryan made a phone call while changing the frequency. The building beneath his feet turned red, and the growing blood shattered the windows and flowed down the steel walls like a waterfall. A thirty-meter-long tendril tried to grab the messenger, but the messenger dodged and flew south of the city. "Livia? Livia!"

If the blood reaches her before he does

A gentle, reassuring voice answered his request, "Ryan."

Ryan breathed a sigh of relief. "Livia, are you okay?"

"Yes, I ...... I'm in a safe house in Sorrento. She made a brief pause, her breathing shortened with panic. Ryan, what's wrong?" My visions, I couldn't believe what I was seeing. It was raining blood outside. ”

Thank goodness his first lady came to the Cheyenne Mountains. "Isolate yourself and prepare for memory transfer. I'll send you the data I've collected. Record it, don't touch anyone but me. Not a drop of blood. ”

"It's Dinamus, right?" She guessed, coughing. "Now...... Is it too late to do anything now?"

"It's too late this time," Ryan replied bluntly, clenching his fists in anger. "But not the next one."

He could have sworn she nodded on the other end of the phone. "Don't die on the road," Livia pleaded. "I'll wait for you."

Ryan cut off communications as he met other pilots in the air. The living Sun Leo and the Shroud watched this destruction in a trembling silence; Although the latter created a cloud of glass shards when he saw the president approaching.

"Truce!" Ryan shouted, crossing his arms. "Truce!"

"You caused it!" The Shroud roared. "It's all your fault—"

Leo Hargraves wakes up from his trance and raises a hand to stop his companion. He understood that at this time, they could not afford to fight. Not even a dashing supervillain. "Your sister is ......" Sunshine asked Ryan, and the acid rain turned into colored steam as soon as it came into contact. Is she dead?"

Ryan looked away, and his silence itself confirmed it. "I'm ......" Living Sun Leo has completely failed. I feel sorry for her. And you, Marselius. We failed to meet your mother's last request. ”

"We can't stop it." The Shroud muttered to himself, his voice shattered with grief and despair.

"Did you know this was going to happen?" Ryan asked, he was very disappointed in himself

"It's prophecy, so we're ...... We tried to disrupt circulation, but ......" Leonard struggled to find the right words. "We failed."

"We just delayed the disaster," Mr. Perspective said, before glancing at his teammates. "Leo, you have to do this."

"If I unleash all my energy, everyone in the city will be burned to death," Leo warned. Ryan had never heard him ...... So frustrating. "Millions of people are going to die."

"If one bird flies away, the whole world flies away." The Shroud sighed helplessly. "There's no other way."

"The whole world has been affected," Ryan said. Although he will soon reload, he believes that Leonard should not have a bad conscience at any point in time because of these deaths. “Dy

Amis had genomes outside of New Rome, and they probably turned. It's useless. ”

"But this will slow down the spread of the virus," Sh

Oud insisted. "We can buy enough time to secure other communications—"

Thunder echoed above their heads.

Crimson lightning struck the Shroud, roasting his flesh in his own glass armor. Lightning struck a hole in his chest, vaporizing his organs and sending him tumbling into the burning street below. Leo let out a cry of horror and surprise, and Ryan looked up at the source of the lightning.

"Hargraves". Augustus descended from the clouds, clad in crimson lightning, like a shining angel thrown to the ground. "I should have known you were involved."

Lightning Bart's clothes were torn to shreds, but he himself was unharmed. In his right hand he holds the top half of a ruined rabbit plush toy, its white fur blackened by ash.

The gods won Lipiromachia.

"You idiot!" Leo roared at his archenemy, his flames now dazzlingly bright. "The world is at stake!"

"The only world I want to live in," replied Zeus the mob with his fist raised, "is the world in which your sun has set." ”

The warlord's movements were as fast as Ryan on a good day, and he punched Leo in the chest, his fingers running through the flames and hitting the burning core below. The blow knocked the "living sun" to the ground, causing the blood clone to evaporate into ashes.

"You!" Ryan roared as Lightning Zeus rushed into the lightning to strike his fallen foe. This madman values personal vendetta more than anything else!" I've had enough of you selfish discounted ivory statue!" Somehow, you're going to sink!"

The thug Zeus looked at him with murderous thoughts, and Ryan cursed his tongue.

Just as the unpopular Greek god unleashed an electric storm in his direction, the messenger instinctively stopped time. While the Purple World overshadowed New Rome and trapped it within two seconds, neither Augustus nor his lightning slowed down. This invulnerable man is completely free from time constraints.

But Vulcan made the best armor, and Ryan expected the unexpected.

The thug Zeus blinked, and the courier's chest weapon absorbed the crimson lightning. This mechanic doesn't have an infinite energy storage capacity, but it gives the time traveler plenty of time to fight back.

Although Ryan knew it was useless, he used all his strength to punch Augustus in the face.

It feels good.

His heavily armed fist slammed into the man's milky cheek, purple and black particles swirling across his fingers. Ryan wished he was hurt worse than Discount Zeus, especially since it felt like hitting a diamond wall; But to his surprise, the blow startled the tyrant. The punch didn't do any damage and didn't seem to be more effective than a light slap, but it made the aura of lightning disappear for a moment.

For a moment, Ryan saw the old man beneath his pious exterior, and his eyes widened in shock while the courier's fist still touched his cheek. Lightning Bart's gaze changed from surprise to anger and, if the Courier was mistaken, a hint of fear.

"I feel it," Augustus said.

When Ryan jotted down the words, time thawed and the mob Zeus fought back.

He played better than Wyve

, Ogre Adam, and Rya

Anyone who's been beaten before has to be ruthless. His fist shattered the armor's chest guards, shattering the weapons underneath, and the courier flew backwards. The time traveler crashes into a building, emerges from the other side, and barely regains control of his flight before he hits the ground.

The jetpack survived, but the armor was destroyed. A drop of blood can leak out. Just then, he felt a rain of acid burning his skin beneath the steel.

So Ryan immediately focused on regaining altitude and looked back.

Thanks to the messenger, Hargraves engaged in hand-to-hand combat with Augustus, delaying him for the time being. The sun has become a dazzling star, shining in the sky, and his heat boils the surrounding atmosphere. However, Ryan can see the shadow of his invulnerable foes trying to grab the core of the living sun; Perhaps this is Hargraves' only weakness.

The blazing sun burned Augustus' clothes, but could not melt his ivory body. Leo can delay his enemies, but not defeat him. Eventually, the superhero either retreats or dies.

Then Augustus would go to Ryan.

The president transferred all remaining energy to his jetpack, leaving New Rome in the dust.

It took Ryan an an hour to reach Livia's hideout.

By then, New Rome had long since disappeared into a flash of red light, its buildings, its land, its people had been reduced to ashes. Whether Alphonse Manada becomes a nucleus or Sunlight becomes a supernova, Ryan will never know. Although he was already miles away at the time, he still felt the shock wave of the explosion.

That doesn't change much.

As the messenger flew through a forest, he saw that the trees had turned red, the leaves had turned into organs, and the bark had turned into crystallized blood. Even some of the birds turned into nasty things, chasing Ryan to infect him; Although their speed was too slow to catch up, the scene still filled the time traveler with fear.

The blue planet will soon turn red.

He found Livia waiting for him in Sorrento, south of New Rome. She stood on the roof of the building where Ryan was evacuated when Meta blew up the city. The messenger thinks that Princess Augustus is stupid to expose herself, until she notices the circle of ashes around the building. Dozens, if not hundreds, formed an impregnable line of defense around the safehouse, vaporizing any blood clones that came close.

Thankfully, the security system recognized his armor and let him pass.

"Remind me to deliver chocolate to Vulcan after the restart," Ryan said as he landed on the roof, one hand over his chest. The raindrops of acid rain eroded his chest, blood dripping from the cracks left by Augustus.

"It's not perfect, but no one can deny that her security system is working." Livia's gaze scanned his wound with concern, and although he warned her not to touch any form of blood, her fingers slid across his steely chest. "Who did this?"

"Your father," Ryan replied, causing Livia to bite her lower lip. "Even if the world is destroyed in flames, he still wants revenge above all else."

"I see," she said, her eyebrows furrowed. "Where's Lan? Others?"

"It's just me." Ryan sighed wearily. "Again".

Over and over again.

"It's just us." Livia looked at him with pity and sympathy. "That's what you're trying to stop?" Or something else? I can't imagine the burden on your shoulders. That must be painful. ”

"We still have time to change this terrible ending."

Ryan now has the data he needs for a perfect run. Pieces of all the New Rome puzzles.

He just had to put them together in the right order.

"Yes. But next time......" Livia looked up at him resolutely. "Next time, you won't carry this cross alone, Ryan. I swear to you. ”

No. Ryan will have someone else to help him share the burden. Livia, Le

, Alchemo, and others. Their memories will withstand this reset, and he will make their minds transcend time and space.

The time traveler opens Saturn's armored backpack and pulls out a metal helmet. He carefully placed it on Livia's head and hung it on the chronograph radio of his spacesuit. "Does it hurt?" She asked.

"Just for me, but don't worry. I'm immortal. ”

"I'm not going to tell anyone," she replied with a smile. "Next time we will find a painless way. I'm not going to let you die for our mistakes. ”

Ryan almost tells her not to make promises that she can't keep, and despite the bleak ending of the cycle, it also fills his heart with hope.

The next cycle will be different from any previous cycle. The Courier didn't even know if his power would remain the same, and now the power of the black world flowed through his veins. This reset is a dive into the unknown.

But someone will be waiting for him on the other side.

"We'll see." Ryan said as he turned on his power. He stopped the progress of time, and his armor turned a deep purple. A stream of violet particles surrounded him and Livia like a flood, with the occasional black dot floating in between, like oil in the water.

The messenger noticed an ivory man flying in their direction, but it was too late to change anything.

When the transfer is complete and the cycle collapses in a sea of purple particles, Ryan recalls his brief battle with Augustus. He had never known what the Black Supreme would wish for, and now he had the answer.

What do you call the power that kills immortals?

A paradox.