American comics: Starting with Luke the Maker

"Oh, no!" Reed didn't show any joy at the arrival of a large number of soldiers. Instead, he felt like his luck had run out.

Were they reinforcements?

After seeing Doom's current form and feeling his power, he didn't dare to think that way anymore. They had some understanding and resistance to psionic energy, and Doom seemed more interested in tormenting and playing with them than defeating them instantly. But those ordinary soldiers would probably find it difficult to resist Doom's methods.

Now, the best reinforcements in Reed's mind were those from Harry Osborn, with whom he had a good chat. In Reed's opinion, the other party had a deeper understanding and research on psionic energy than him, and perhaps he would have better ways to fight Doom at the moment.

Threatening voices blared from the loudspeakers, demanding that Reed and Doom, under the glare of the spotlights, surrender. At the same time, fully armed weapons were aimed at the area below, ready to completely cover it in an instant and eliminate everyone on the field, leaving not even a complete limb behind.

"You want to save them?"

Doom once again discerned Reed's thoughts. A strange smile stretched across his mask, and with a flick of his fingers, the armed helicopters in the sky went out of control, spinning and falling to the ground amidst the soldiers' terrified screams.

The tanks and chariots that had surrounded them in the darkness also stalled and shut down at the same time. The fire control systems were inexplicably locked, and communication equipment was also subject to strong interference, making it impossible to communicate with the outside world.

The soldiers, who only had guns, rocket launchers, and other individual weapons, jumped out of the transport vehicles and chariots. Some went to rescue their comrades who were locked in the vehicles, while others continued to follow orders, surrounding the area and gradually shrinking the encirclement.

They had already seen the helicopters falling from the sky and lost contact with their partners above, so their advance was cautious and slow. Many soldiers even felt a slight resistance to moving forward, as if some unknown beast was lurking in the darkness ahead, silently staring at them.

"Don't!" Reed had just shouted when he saw the blazing fire. Even though Susan and Johnny had used their abilities to save the soldiers at the first moment, they could only save a small number of people under Doom's interference and threat.

"With so many soldiers around, how many can you save?" Doom didn't care about the soldiers who were rescued. He just laughed wildly and asked Reed.

"Johnny!" Reed ignored Doom's ridicule and shouted at Johnny.

"Are you really sure you want to do this?" Seeing Reed's crazy and desperate eyes, Johnny, who had never been very fond of or recognized him, immediately understood Reed's determination.

"Don't let them come over." Reed shouted again. Besides not wanting those soldiers to die, Reed had a faint feeling in his heart that if those soldiers really participated in the battle between them and Doom, the situation might be even worse!

He didn't know where this sudden feeling came from, but he could increasingly feel its existence and warning.

As the fastest moving member of the team, Johnny immediately gritted his teeth and drew a curved arc like a rainbow in the air, flying quickly around the surrounding area, creating a wall of fire that was burning fiercely. As he sped around in circles, he instantly created a pillar of fire like a tornado made of flames.

The eye of the storm was Doom and Reed, while the outside of the eye was a wall of fire built with high temperature, refusing anyone to approach.

This was the fastest way Johnny could think of to achieve Reed's request. There was no notification or persuasion, and the soldiers would not easily listen to him. The best approach was to directly make them flinch.

The facts also proved the correctness of this point. The soldiers, having lost their vehicles and other tools, could only sigh at the [wall]. Before the next batch of reinforcements arrived, they had no way to cross this wall of fire. Even the weapons in their hands were useless against the wall of fire. The scorching heat was enough to melt the bullets they fired the moment they touched the wall. At least they knew that the bullets they fired randomly were useless.

"It's useless, Reed!" Doom looked arrogantly at Johnny and Reed's actions, and at the wall of fire that was being built quickly. He didn't care at all and opened his mouth again. "You can only save them for a while, but you can't save them for a lifetime. Moreover, this kind of rescue is inherently an invalid rescue."

"That's not necessarily true!" Reed retorted sharply to Doom as the surrounding temperature continued to rise. At the same time, his brain was running fast, trying to figure out how to truly hurt and defeat Doom, who was firmly protected by a mass of shadows.

"It seems you haven't despaired yet, that's good." Doom laughed loudly in the face of Reed's toughness. As a mass of shadows, carrying a mass of flesh and blood, split from his body and exploded in all directions, the sense of crisis in Reed's heart intensified once again.

He still didn't understand where the danger came from, but he realized that something was wrong.

Susan, as usual, put up a psionic shield, blocking a mass of flesh and blood explosion nearby. The dark brown flesh and blood exploded into a mass of minced meat, which fell directly on the shield. The rest either sprayed onto the wall of fire dozens of meters away, or sprayed onto the soldiers who escaped from the helicopter, as well as the cold machines.

The next moment, Susan, who was at the front, changed her face drastically and transformed the psionic shield condensed in front of her into a psionic shock wave, which she emitted forward in a fan shape.

The rampaging Ben was the first to bear the brunt, directly turning into a reef, resisting the surging shock wave. His big feet were firmly gripping the ground, and his huge body dragged deep, several-meter-long grooves, ten centimeters deep, on the ground under the push of the shock wave.

A figure transformed into a flame walked out of the wall of fire under everyone's horrified gaze. His height was as high as five meters, a proper flame giant in the eyes of Reed and the others. The moment the other party walked out of the wall of fire, he stuck his claw-like hand into the wall of fire and pulled out a long sword that was constantly absorbing flames and high temperatures.

The wall of fire that had divided the battlefield became thinner, and eventually all the flames were swallowed up by the flame giant's raised flame long sword like a whale swallowing water.

Johnny, who was maintaining the wall of fire, was like he had a bad connection. The fire on his body flickered a few times, and then he lost his propulsion and drew a semicircle in the air, falling straight to the ground. If his sister Susan hadn't once again used her telekinesis to precisely eliminate the inertia on his body and safely send him to the ground, this time alone would have been enough for him to crash directly into the ground under the acceleration of inertia and achieve a new achievement of becoming a meat sauce.

Crack, crack.

Following the flame giant, the helicopters appeared. They stood up from the fire of the exploding fuel tanks on the ground like Transformers. They had the form of humans, and their metal skin still carried fleshy tissue. It looked like they were combined with the corpses of the soldiers in their bodies, becoming a monster of flesh and blood mixed with steel.

These monsters, three or four meters tall, had a kind of evil and crazy [beauty] in their shape, like Doom, as if they were steel knights walking out of hell. On the steel torso, there was either a blood-red, huge eyeball that turned up and down and left and right in its socket like a real eyeball, or a ferocious giant mouth full of sharp teeth. Others had propellers turned into tentacles, floating behind the steel knight like hair, moving nimbly.

As for the soldiers who were caught off guard and splashed with flesh and blood all over their bodies, they were uh-uh-uh, with great pain on their faces, hunching over and performing a transformation in front of Reed and the others.

Ferocious bone spurs pierced through the flesh and blood, the skin became deathly gray, the palms became larger, sharp beast claws evolved, the body became larger, taller, or directly on all fours, turning into hunters like geckos with fast movement speed.

Standing, lying, twisting like snakes walking on the ground, and even living in the shadows, the mutated soldiers almost went straight to the encirclement with a strong aura of life, rushing towards their colleagues.

"Stop them!" Reed almost subconsciously stretched out his arms to stop those people, but they were extremely powerful, and almost directly flew Reed away. Moreover, Reed's rubberized skin had a burning pain like being branded by a soldering iron, making him unable to stop the mutated ones after he retracted his arms.

"Don't worry about them, please find a way to solve our problems first, okay?" Johnny, who was rescued by his sister, only managed to get the fire that made him feel at ease to reappear on his body after anxiously experimenting many times. He quickly dodged a hot great sword, circling around the flame giant, dodging and walking, and roaring at Reed in exasperation.

Now there are more and more strange monsters, who knows if more monsters created by Doom will appear in the next moment? Thinking of the mutated ones who rushed to surround the soldiers, Johnny didn't dare to think in the worst direction. He really wanted to help the soldiers, but he really couldn't spare his hands now!

This flame giant is not afraid of his flames and high temperatures at all, and is even absorbing his flames and energy. The surrounding high temperatures are absorbed into its body, and even the rising temperature around it before is reduced again. This flame giant's tall body has incredible agility, like a magnet, deeply attracting him to its surroundings. Once he wants to keep a distance from it, that kind of inexplicable traction force makes him feel like he is trapped in a quagmire, and his speed is extremely slow. And often at this time, the other party only needs to take a step with its long legs to easily smooth out the distance, and then the flame great sword that makes Johnny feel dangerous will chop over his head.

This sword is constantly devouring the flames and energy of the flame giant and the surroundings, as well as Johnny's body, which makes its energy constantly accumulate and climb. The energy fluctuations inside it also make Johnny feel more and more thrilling. If this sword suddenly explodes, the release of its contained energy in an instant, he doesn't know if Doom will die, but the surrounding soldiers may not survive. Including the few of them, the probability of surviving safely is not very high, it depends on timing and luck.

This makes Johnny become more and more restrained and irritable. Along with the irritability, a strange whisper vaguely sounded in his heart, making him even more unable to calm down.

A scream of soldiers sounded in the encirclement, it seems that a massacre is taking place there. The sound of da-da-da guns rose and fell one after another, a mess, but it did not kill the enemy, and reduce the casualties of the soldiers.

The gunshots are still ringing, and the screams are still continuing.

"Doom!" Reed shouted in Doom's direction, a black, cube-sized cube appeared in his hand.

"Don't be so angry, this is just the prelude to the new world. Look, giving life to inanimate objects! This is the method of gods and creators! Humans should abandon their weak bodies and eventually merge with me to become gods together!

There is no need to worry about death, and do not resist death, they will eventually survive permanently with everyone in another form! Reed, Susan, Ben, Johnny, you will also be one of them, and eventually you will all become part of [me]. Your abilities, brains, will all be mine!" Doom scanned those creations mixed with elements and steel flesh and blood, his expression became a little crazy.

"Are you trying to make me despair?" Reed took a deep breath. After giving Susan a look, he immediately launched an attack on Doom.

Susan also immediately understood and cooperated with Reed to restrict Doom's movements. Of course, it is impossible to completely restrict Doom's movements now, but Susan can still do it with all her strength to make the other party slow down as if they were in water and swamp. She has now completely put everything aside, and after blocking Ben for a moment, she launched a psionic shock at Doom with all her strength.

Her psionic power was drained in an instant, and the huge mental power fell into Doom's mind, causing his body to be impacted and his mind to be dizzy. Although this brought Susan dizziness and staggering to her knees, she did create an excellent opportunity for Reed.

Of course, Reed did not miss this opportunity. The black cube in his hand was almost stuffed into the cracked mouth on Doom's chest and abdomen with a kind of brute force.

The expression on Doom's mask froze, and a fierce and irresistible explosion erupted in his body.

Psionic bomb.

A dangerous item that Reed secretly created in the Osborn laboratory.