The End of the World: Chaos

At first, Reina didn't notice anything unusual, but soon she noticed the things that kept appearing: particles that looked like ice crystals from outer space, which gathered and merged, and finally formed a crystalline column with a strange shape.

"What is this?" Lena asked confusedly.

"The Terrigen superconducting crystal is the core of your evolutionary awakening." Lu Yu explained.

“Shouldn’t we be looking at the material inside the obelisk?” Reina asked.

"The obelisk contains the Terrigen superconducting crystal, which is what stimulates your potential." Lu Yu replied. He wrapped his hands around the crystal and used powerful brain wave energy to send it to Lena. Then he released his mental power again to shatter it instantly.

The Terrigen superconducting crystal immediately transformed into a diffuse Terrigen energy cloud, surrounding Reina's entire body. Then, Lu Yu used telepathy to build a cubic protective field around her to ensure that this energy could be completely absorbed by Reina.

Reina didn't feel any discomfort at first, but then she found a sticky substance emerging from her body. It quickly wrapped around her body like an unknown substance in the universe, hardened into a shell, and sealed her in a cocoon.

Lu Yu was no longer surprised by this phenomenon. He found a random seat nearby and sat down, patiently waiting for the start of the biological evolution process driven by Terrigen energy.

Just like the evolution process of Rena and Skye or Daisy, Rena's genes in the cocoon are being activated and her evolution has already started, but it takes a little longer.

After waiting for a few minutes, Lu Yu felt that the energy cloud had completely merged into Reina's body. With a barely audible popping sound, the cocoon shell broke open.

Reina slowly emerged from it, wearing a familiar flower-patterned dress, but her image was completely different. Her hair had disappeared, and instead, her head, face, and even her entire body were covered with sharp spikes, which looked extremely terrifying.

For those who suffer from trypophobia, the sight may be unbearable.

"I finally awakened successfully!" Lena didn't notice anything unusual at first and was still very excited until she looked at her hands.

"What's going on?" Lena screamed in horror.

"Maybe your gene sequence has not been optimized yet." Lu Yu responded calmly.

"Genes not optimized?" Lena repeated.

"You are a different species, and you have the ability to awaken extraordinary abilities through special methods. This is not abnormal, but at the same time, the genes of people like you also have innate deficiencies, such as genetic defects."

"So, that's why I became like this?" Reina still found it hard to accept the fact before her.

"In comparison, you are already very lucky. Some people will mutate into other species. For example, there is a creature on the moon that mutated into a canine. His personality has even begun to change towards that of a canine. He is almost completely transformed into a dog."

However, Lu Yu's words did not seem to calm Reina's panic. Even so, she still could not accept her new form and began to try to touch and remove the thorns on her body with her hands.

However, this action did not really help except leaving more scars on her hands. Those spikes were extremely hard and could hurt others as well as herself.

"This is not the result I wanted at all!" Reina finally broke down. She ignored the spikes on her body, knelt on the ground in pain and cried loudly.

For a long time, her education taught her that her current body was just an ugly shell, and that only after awakening could she achieve a gorgeous transformation like a cocoon and a butterfly. But now it seemed that everything was contrary to her expectations - she had not become more beautiful, but uglier, and she could not accept all this, even if someone had suffered worse than her.

Lu Yu did not comfort her too much, but immediately began to analyze her genetic structure and her newly acquired super powers.

After a minute, Lu Yu came to the conclusion that Reina's superpower was not the power to control fate or manipulate time, but a special ability to predict future fragments, similar to the ability of the Flash's teammate Shockwave in DC Comics, but not exactly the same. Shockwave can observe objects and their related information through shock waves, while Reina can only foresee the future in the form of dreams, and she cannot control when and where the prediction will happen.

Compared to Shockwave, Reina's ability is indeed weaker, but it is better than nothing. As a geneticist, Lu Yu naturally has the ability to adjust and strengthen her genes so that she is no longer as useless as Reina.

At this moment, although he seemed indifferent on the surface, Lu Yu had actually introduced the modified Reina gene into his body. With the help of the intelligent core, Lu Yu started the gene modification and ability activation program.

The next moment, Lu Yu's eyes became blurry, and scenes from the future appeared one after another:

On a distant lunar ruin, a hammer fell like a meteor, creating a huge crater;

The scene then switches to the bustling streets of New York, where a beam of light shoots straight into the sky, tears through the night sky, and opens a black hole leading to another world, from which a group of hideous alien creatures emerge;

...Similar future scenes appeared repeatedly, continuously revealing various future possibilities to Lu Yu.

Until the scene froze at the moment when Thanos embedded the Time Stone into the Infinity Gauntlet, the powerful light released by the Time Stone forcibly pulled Lu Yu back to reality from these scenes.

Lu Yu stroked his head, which was aching slightly from receiving a huge amount of information. A shocked expression appeared on his face, and he whispered to himself, "Something is not right! Why are there neither Gu Yi nor me in these future images?"

In this future scene, Lu Yu did not find the figure of Master Gu Yi, which was not surprising. After all, Gu Yi held the Time Stone and it was very likely that he chose to hide himself outside of time. But in these major events that were about to happen, why did Lu Yu himself disappear?

After careful consideration, Lu Yu came up with a bold guess: in the future timeline, he might be in an "invisible" state.

As soon as this idea came to his mind, Lu Yu immediately tried to contact his artificial intelligence system for answers.