Marvel's Speedster

After entering the last gene array map into the system, Ross began to organize the recent work records.

It had been a week since he returned to New York from the Pentagon, and he had been studying the changes in himself-whether it was physical changes or invisible changes.

Strength is never obtained for nothing. In order to avoid accidents at critical moments, Ross wants to discover as many of his current strengths and weaknesses as possible, or the latter is even more important.

After reading the recorded data from the beginning, Ross slowly packed his experimental tools while thinking.

Manipulators used to perform various precision operations must be maintained in a timely manner, and obsolete documents and reports have to be destroyed or sealed, especially those dangerous experimental items, which may contain highly toxic substances, may cause species invasion, and may produce various All kinds of weird mutations, let alone an outsider, he has to deal with them himself, so that they can be done safely and properly.

After cleaning up the things in the private research room, Ross checked the system again. The artificial intelligence Pallas is executing the instructions in an orderly manner, incorporating a large amount of data into its own database, and it will generate detailed experimental models based on these data. You don't have to rely on human hands to perform similar operations.

After checking all this, Ross walked to the other side of the research room. Behind a transparent glass wall was a biological culture room, which was divided into several separate compartments, and more than a dozen of them were stacked in one compartment. A box assembled from inorganic materials.

The box is sealed by transparent glass, and there are only some small air holes on the top. It looks a bit like a beehive, and there are indeed some bees in it. Thousands of colorful insects are divided into groups by Ross, densely packed Lie on the inner wall of the box and squirm slightly.

These are not ordinary insects. Their ancestors once belonged to a milder Italian subspecies of Apis mellifera. They were carefully selected and bred by Ross when they were still young larvae. There are Ross himself and some mutant genes, ranging from the normal state to the mutant-like state after cell integration, which can be used to simulate the change process of Ross himself in each stage.

In terms of appearance, these subspecies are almost indistinguishable, but with the gradual increase in the number of mutant genes, the latter is far more dangerous than the former when provoked. If you kick a nest with only common genes, a hundred bees may fly out to attack the intruder; but if you kick a nest of mutant bees, there may be many unexpected ways of attack.

Ross looked at it for a while, reached|into the operation hole, and picked up a mutant bee directly from a certain bee without wearing protective gloves.

The mutant bee flapped its wings fiercely in Ross's hands, and immediately attracted a large number of aggressive companions to attack the main crowd.

Countless sparks burst out from the bee swarm, Ross's expression didn't change, and he didn't retract his arms. On the surface of his skin, countless tiny black scales automatically emerged, blocking the bee swarm's crazy attack.

This scale is an accidental product of evolution, and it comes from Magneto's right-hand man, Mystique.

The Mutant covered in blue scales is famous for its ability to change. Ross originally wanted to learn from her ability to control shapeshifting, so that he can smoothly manipulate the large number of spoilers on the outer surface of the Speed ​​​​3, but with the high temperature and high pressure environment The cells are constantly integrating, and these marginal abilities are also integrated into his body.

Now he can use his willpower as a gene expression switch to control the body to make several simple changes, including the appearance and disappearance of scales.

But this change is inconceivable to Ross, because Mystique cells are used in a very small amount, almost only a few hairs long, and Ross uses them to replace nerves to complete the interface network between the body and the combat suit.

According to previous experience, if there is not a sufficient number of mutant cells, it is impossible to use super abilities, just like Ross used Juggernaut cells, but he has not become as indestructible as Cousin Marco, because unless He turned himself into a strong man of Juggernaut's size, otherwise he would not be able to bear too much pressure.

It's for this reason that Ross conceived something about his newfound shapeshifting Ability.

After looking at the bee in his hand for a while, Ross smiled and threw it back to the hive. His idea has been confirmed.

In fact, what he was holding just now was not a species that had received John's gene from Pyroman, but an adult worm bred with Iceman's gene.

The original genetically modified subspecies were indeed classified according to the source of Ability, but as the experiment gradually deepened, Ross extracted some of them, drew marks on their tiny backs, and then put these newborn larvae into in the hives of other subspecies.

He wasn't worried about the safety of those young bees. Ross understands the habits of bees, and if the young bees are transferred to another colony on the first day of emergence, the colony will also consider them as part of the family.

He does expect, however, that the young bees will be transformed by their new homes: he hopes that the Burning Man bees will learn the self-preservation skills of the Iceman bees, and that the bees with the Barbie gene will inherit the berserk ability of the bees with the John gene— ---Like what he found in himself, he wanted to figure out how it happened.

Ross suspects the answer lies in Mutant's genes.

He doesn't expect actual changes to Mutant's DNA. Except for random mutations, genes generally do not change during an organism's lifetime. What he really doubts is whether the mutant bee's genes will behave differently in their new home -- much differently.

Just like a pharaoh fish that has lost its leader, the second-ranked male will react once it notices that the big, flamboyant "pharaoh" has left. It will experience a massive burst of gene expression within a few hours, and the gene Originally it hasn't changed, but the male fish's blue-gray body color is immediately embellished with gaudy red and blue stripes, and grows 20% in size within a few hours.

It was this change that Ross wanted to see.

These cultivation and experiments started four months ago. After he discovered the changes in himself in S.H.I.E.L.D headquarters, he deliberately increased his research efforts, and finally got the answer today.

For those subspecies that were hijacked, the new populations did alter the activity of their genes. If their gene expression array data were compared with previous groups of bees of the same kind, the changes were striking: hundreds of genes in the array were all colored differently.

The transfer between hives not only caused the bees to behave differently [but also changed their genes to work on a large scale.

This shows that the super-Ability source X genes in Mutant tend to be consistent to some extent, and the differences in Mutant individual Ability are more due to the different levels of gene expression.

In other words, Ross can not only obtain her shapeshifting ability through a very small amount of Mystique gene, but theoretically speaking, she can also obtain the unique abilities of other Mutants through the same method.

Think about how powerful that person will be when Magneto's field control, Professor X's mind control, Ororo's weather manipulation, or Nightcrawler's teleportation ability are combined in one body.

Such a guy will no longer be an ordinary Mutant, but a King of Mutants, a Super Mutant with any kind of Super Ability perfectly!

Thinking that such a powerful power seemed within reach, even Ross felt his heart skip a beat for a while.

Since he came to this world, he has been constantly striving for his own career, but in terms of personal abilities, he did not fully use the existing templates, but combined multiple abilities to form his own extreme speed ability.

In the world Ross came to, there was a power that struck him most.

That force called the Speed ​​Force can defy almost all laws of physics, even the law of time. In addition to the characteristics of super fast speed, derived abilities such as high-speed metabolism, fast healing, and high-speed vision derived from the speed force are not uncommon. In Ross's mind, there may be many ways to enhance one's own strength, but the only ones who can truly have a lasting impact on the material world are the extremely fast ones.

So for a long time, he has always regarded this as his own direction. Now that huge amounts of temptation are in sight, Ross began to feel a little confused.

On the one hand, the power is almost at your fingertips, and on the other is the pursuit of almost nothingness - which one should you choose?

To become a Super Mutant capable of confronting the strongest in the world?

Or become a speedster who can break through any constraints?

Time passed quietly, and the sun outside the window gradually moved westward. When the last ray of sunlight was swallowed by the horizon, Ross finally made a decision.

Sighing slightly regretfully, he still decided to choose the latter.

Many memories of previous lives have been blurred, but there is a story that Ross never forgets.

(Well done) The protagonist of the story wants to be the strongest swordsman in the world, but he has no self-confidence. Because there is no standard for ".~the strongest". As time passed day by day, a belief was formed in this person's mind. He felt that if he could collect a thousand famous swords, he could prove that he was indeed the strongest.

Since then, he has been collecting and collecting. In order to seize the famous sword, he did not hesitate to use the most despicable means, until one day, he finally collected nine hundred and ninety-nine swords. At that moment, he was very excited and also a little scared. In order to collect the last sword, he gave up everything, his humanity, his wife, everything about him... Finally he finally got what he wanted.

Just when the owner of the story was ecstatically celebrating his achievement of his goal, a very cheap sword ended his short-lived success.

Swords are for killing, not for collecting.

No matter how cheap a sword is, it can kill.

The same is true for Ross.

His goal has never been to become a super mutant, and everything he has now is just a certain stage in his life.

You might as well broaden your horizons, and you can use a variety of methods, but the real foundation only needs to be strong and stable enough to support the superstructure, and there is no need for excessively decorated ornate carvings.

"Yes, I am a speedster."

Said softly, Ross walked out of the research room without looking back. .