American comics: Starting with Luke the Maker

"Can they still return to normal?" Nick asked.

Indeed, after realizing that he couldn't restore those agents to normal in a short period, Nick had to seek help from Luke. After all, the Reversal Crystal was indeed very useful, and Luke could always give him a satisfactory answer.

Who could refuse a partner who could help you solve any trouble?

"I've already reviewed the data you transmitted to me. There are two methods," Luke said from his lab, where he was tinkering with experiments related to the Brood.

"Two methods?" Even though Nick had complete trust in Luke's talent and technology, he was still taken aback by the fact that Luke gave two solutions without hesitation, seemingly without even thinking.

"Yes, one is a temporary solution, but it works quickly. The other is a permanent solution, but it may cause some trauma," Luke explained unhurriedly.

"Let's hear them," Nick said after a moment of silence, urging him on.

"For a temporary solution, you only need to create a targeted drug that will put the parasites into a dormant state. It's not difficult to develop this drug, it just takes a little time. However, this method requires regular injections and has a certain risk of accidental omission. The benefit is that it works very quickly. It can be injected on the spot and they'll recover on the spot. During the period when the drug is effective, they are completely normal people with independent personalities, unaffected by any parasites. It's kind of like a vaccine.

For a permanent solution, the most direct method is to perform surgery to remove the parasites. For safety reasons, it is best to first inject a drug that can make the parasites dormant and quiet, so that they cannot struggle or resist. However, this surgery is very demanding and depends on the location of the parasite."

Luke stated the solutions one by one, without any embellishment or bias.

"So, no matter which method is chosen, the drug is necessary?" Nick picked up on the key point in Luke's words.

"You can understand it that way," Luke replied.

"How long will it take to develop the drug?" Nick obviously had made a decision and asked Luke.

"Give me two days," Luke didn't give a shocking answer of directly telling Nick to come and get the drug, but gave a time limit.

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"Do you also want to cultivate the Brood?"

In the laboratory, Anwen, who had been watching Luke's experiments with some boredom, asked him after seeing Luke hang up the phone and noticing the silence, while looking at the high-level vampire bound tightly in the closed area of the laboratory displayed on the huge projection. Gwen had gone to work, leaving only her with Luke in the lab.

Anwen wasn't exactly a research-oriented symbiote, but her knowledge and insight were enough for her to see what Luke was doing at the moment.

"I'm afraid it's still far from the Brood. It can only be regarded as some kind of new subspecies," Luke shook his head. To cultivate the original Brood with the existing materials and data, he would need to put aside his previously arranged research and affairs, and spend a lot of energy and time. This was somewhat not worth the loss. Luke was also unwilling to disrupt his original research plan because of this.

However, Luke didn't find it difficult to create and research a subspecies with some of the characteristics of the Brood based on the existing data and materials. With the assistance of the data dimension, Luke's research and manufacturing efficiency could be described as incredible.

"Can it be eaten?" Anwen asked the key question.

"I'm afraid you won't have much of an appetite," Luke stared intently at the vampire on the screen and the real-time updated body data on the instruments. From time to time, robots in the laboratory injected needles of medicine into the vampire's body according to Luke's needs.

The vampire was a slightly old-looking man. Although his skin was a little shriveled, the energy index detected on the instrument was frighteningly high. This was an elite high-level vampire! Once the powerful energy contained within him erupted, no one would doubt its destructive power. But at this moment, he was bound to an experimental platform with a terrified expression, unable to move, and could only helplessly and weakly watch as one syringe after another pierced into and pulled out of his body.

What was even more terrifying was that he had clearly felt that a terrifying life form was rapidly forming and growing within his body! Using his life and body as nourishment!

He felt that the monster was greedily absorbing everything from him within his body. He could feel himself becoming weak and old in this greedy and crazy absorption. However, every time at this moment, a well-timed longevity potion would turn into new energy and replenish his body, filling the emptiness after he was plundered.

And every time at this time, he could feel a kind of joy emerging in his heart. The monster being conceived in his body accepted the replenished energy without rejection, and even showed more greed and desire.

He even had a clear understanding that the moment the monster burst out of his body would be the moment his life ended! From the moment he was brought out and lay down on this experimental platform, his life had already entered a countdown!

Time passed by every minute and every second. The vampire's stomach on the experimental platform was bulging high like a pregnant woman in October, and the vampire's expression was full of helpless horror and distortion. He felt that his skin was so tight that it was about to explode at any time, and the shriveled skin was even stretched a little transparent, vaguely seeing the mass of dark green shadows that contracted like breathing below.

Poof!

The vampire's skin was finally torn open. One after another, dark green tentacles probed out from the position of his chest. The tentacles swelled against the wind and continued to expand in the air. In just a few seconds, the diameter of one of the tentacles that protruded had exceeded the vampire's torso, and the tentacles were still extending outward.

In this process, the vampire's vital signs and skin were rapidly declining. Gray hair, a hunched body, shriveled and wrinkled skin, and a body shape that had shrunk by nearly half all indicated how greedy and terrifying the monster in his body was.

Finally, an octopus-like monster was completely revealed.

It was a monster with a streamlined spindle-shaped head with a diameter of two meters. Its torso had six tentacles about six or seven meters long. The opponent's huge body occupied most of the closed area of the laboratory. The previously very empty closed area now seemed a bit crowded, looking like a strange octopus stuffed into a small box.

In the projection screen, the opponent's initial dark green color was turning into some kind of gray-black after being exposed to the air for a while. The monster that burst out of the body ignored the vampire mother who had been drained of all life energy and died on the experimental platform, and did not destroy the surrounding instruments and walls. The dark green eyes on both sides of the spindle-shaped head scanned around and met a camera at the top. From the screen, it looked like it had discovered Luke and was looking at Luke.

"Looks like the other party isn't a bestial idiot," Anwen, who saw this scene, wowed and showed considerable calmness in the face of the frightening monster. After all, as a cosmic gourmet, she had seen all kinds of creatures, beautiful, ugly, weak, and powerful. She had already trained herself.

Luke understood Anwen's words. After coming out, the other party did not destroy the surroundings at the first time, but cautiously observed the surroundings and stared at the camera. This showed that the other party was intelligent! And its intelligence was not low from birth! Judging from the other party's actions of staring at the camera, the other party also clearly knew what it was, at least it knew what it was in its memory.

Did it even absorb the vampire's memory along with it?

Luke stared at the octopus-like monster in the projection and thought. The Brood indeed had this parasitic characteristic, and Luke did consider this aspect when making the new subspecies embryo.

"The subspecies is not a parasite, but uses the host as food, absorbing the host's life genes and body energy to supply its own growth. When the embryo absorbs enough energy, the subspecies will drain the host's last bit of energy and burst out of the body.

Different from the symbiote that coexists with the host, and different from the Brood that merges with the host after parasitism, the subspecies is a way to reproduce and evolve by plundering everything from the host."

Luke made a judgment based on the data. This way of survival was a bit similar to Alien. However, the other party's life form was inevitably affected by the genes of the root body hive.

Ten seconds later, in the projection screen, the subspecies stretched out a tentacle towards the camera. A black energy magic arrow directly destroyed the camera on the tentacle.

One, one, and another.

Finally turning the projection into a darkness.

Great, even the vampire's internal energy and magic were completely inherited. It's more like the characteristics of Alien.

"Do you want me to solve it? Just give me a tentacle to taste," Anwen looked at the disappeared projection and eagerly offered conditions to Luke. With the intelligence it possessed, destroying the camera was obviously planning to escape.

"Yes," A piece of radiant azure brilliance flashed behind Luke. The brilliance overflowed and enveloped Luke. When it disappeared, Anwen also jumped into the afterglow and disappeared together.

The same azure brilliance appeared in the closed area of the laboratory where the subspecies was located. The figures of Luke and Anwen suddenly appeared, and their life aura instantly alarmed the subspecies that was destroying this [cage].

A huge gray-black tentacle with immense power swung towards Luke nimbly and quickly. Anwen suddenly turned into a hemispherical shield and stood in front of Luke.

The tentacle collided with the hemispherical shield that Anwen turned into, like a huge wave hitting a reef. The wave receded, and the reef stood still.

For a bite to eat, Anwen had experienced a lot of Luke's research and transformation. It was okay in the past, most of them were research-based, and the transformation was mostly on clones, such as unfortunate children like Hub. But after a certain short period, after obtaining the soul crystal and emotional original solution from Luke, Anwen had completely sold herself. You can transform me however you want, as long as you don't cut off my food.

To this day, Anwen is a little unclear whether she is still the original symbiote. At least under Luke's transformation, her resistance to fire has greatly increased, and she also has ways to deal with and defend against strong sonic waves. These two natural weaknesses for symbiotes can no longer be said to be weaknesses for Anwen at this moment.

And she also has the ability to transform. She feels that she has been transformed into an almost omnipotent equipment that combines magic, biology, and technology. She can now even do it, without possessing a host, she can exert the power of a symbiote. Just need to have enough energy supply.

For example, now, after being mentally connected with Luke, she can cooperate and transform in various ways closely and tacitly according to Luke's wishes, just like possessing a host.

"Data · Sandbox Space!"

Luke threw a black card towards the front. When it flew out, the card began to expand, from flat to cube, and then the volume began to expand again. Almost in an instant, the black box had enveloped the entire laboratory.

Data dimension descended.

"Now you can test it," Luke, who opened the sandbox space, was like the Supreme lineage mage who opened the mirror space. In the sandbox, as long as Luke didn't want to end it, everything would be an endless cycle.

This was a skill used to obtain more data.

"I think I have completely become some kind of equipment or material," Anwen split into rotating gears under Luke's control, with the destructive energy applied by Anwen attached to them. While she was saying this, she rushed up with great interest and directly collided with the more tentacles that the subspecies swung over.

Chih!

Chih!

Chih!

Anwen completely submerged into the muscles of the subspecies, and then the next moment she hurriedly scratched out with a splash of spraying blood, while shaking the blood off her body at high speed, she returned to Luke's side while cursing.

The blood fell around, and the area in contact made a hissing corrosion sound.

"What did you create?" Anwen complained to Luke.

"Hurry up, I'll give you extra meals after you finish it today!" Luke crossed his arms and smiled, encouraging Anwen with extra chips.

"Then I want to take a bath in the original solution!" Anwen's eyes lit up instantly, while dividing her limbs and colliding with those tentacles, she turned her head and bargained with Luke.

"Yes. It doesn't matter if you take a bath and eat in the original solution," Luke issued a generous check. After hearing his words, Anwen's silver-white eyes were faintly turning green.

PS: Thank you for the rewards from the two students, Silent Peak and Divine Face Qian!