American comics: Starting with Luke the Maker
#375 - pollute
Pustules swelled across Doom's body, bursting open to spew forth fine tendrils mixed with internal organs, which turned to ash upon contact with the air.
Blood holes appeared one after another on Doom's body, the wounds constantly expanding outwards, making it seem as if Doom was being dissolved.
"Impossible!" Doom exclaimed, his voice filled with disbelief as he felt the disintegration within his body. He could feel his body disappearing, and he knew it all stemmed from the cube Reed had implanted within him.
It was a weapon specifically designed to target psionic life forms.
Or rather, a weapon capable of disrupting psionic structures. This was a battle between [contamination] and [contamination].
The psionic mechanical life forms and psionic elemental summons all collapsed to the ground in that instant, the dispersed power, carrying the devouring new vitality and energy, flowing back into Doom's body, repairing his riddled form under his control.
His will was more focused than ever before, filled with extreme determination. This will, in turn, influenced the direction of his renewed and violent evolution. The mental will and lives of the absorbed soldiers also brought Doom their strongest desire before death: the desire for life and the rejection of death.
Self-healing began to manifest in Doom's body. The psionic energy within him and the energy transmitted from the doorway were all transformed into self-healing power, irrigating and repairing his body, driving out the force within that originated from the same source as his own power, yet was incompatible with it.
Doom had mutated once again. His body became even more massive, several arms of varying lengths hung limply at his sides, and numerous tentacles, some tens of meters long, covered his body, dripping with alluring mucus and mucus-secreting tendrils.
The night wind blew across Doom's distorted body, which no longer resembled a human, and a peculiar pheromone rapidly spread to the surrounding area as the mucus evaporated.
Ten meters, a hundred meters, a thousand meters.
The soldiers in this area suddenly froze in place, then picked up their weapons and charged towards them, launching a direct attack on Reed and the others.
"Have they gone mad!" Susan, who had just recovered and gained some breathing room, had to once again deploy her psychic shield to protect herself. The hail of bullets struck her shield, creating ripples of fine light.
"They're being controlled," Reed said, watching the fanatical soldiers, feeling a headache over Doom's mastery of psionic energy. He had used almost all of the means he had prepared, but Doom, who had been severely injured, seemed to be evolving again!
Reed now had no idea how to end this. Even if everything ended now, facing the heavy casualties among the soldiers, they who had appeared here would probably have to bear a lot of the associated responsibility. They might even become scapegoats.
Not to mention that Doom showed no signs of restraint and was instead becoming even more insane.
Snap.
Just as Reed was racking his brains about how to end things and deal with the out-of-control soldiers, two dark figures descended from the sky. A can of blue liquid was thrown down from high altitude, shattering upon impact and splashing everywhere. The liquid quickly dried in the wind, spreading far and wide.
Reed's anxious heart suddenly jolted, and he instantly became much more clear-headed and calm. Even Ben, still raging, had a glimmer of clarity in his anger-filled eyes, and his movements slowed, standing there in a daze.
The charging soldiers fell in droves, then wondered what they had been doing just now after falling to the ground.
Doom's mutation slowed down, and his mask displayed a mixture of struggling, annoyance, gloom, and mania.
Two similarly deformed humanoid creatures appeared beside Reed. Under the wary gazes of Reed and Susan, the black monster faces were torn open by hand, revealing two faces that shocked Reed and the others amidst the lingering black filaments.
They were two highly similar faces, like twins. One looked younger, while the other looked more mature.
"Harry?" Reed called out the name of the person who came. At the same time, his calmed-down brain instantly connected to what Doom had said earlier. He was here to find someone from this timeline.
Previously, Reed had been surprised by how Harry had suddenly turned things around after taking over Oscorp, coming up with many technologies that not only allowed Oscorp to fall back into his control, but also led Oscorp on a wild run.
Harry Osborn, who had never proven how much inventing ability he had before, suddenly came up with one technology after another that could affect the world, even change it.
Originally, Reed thought Harry was a genius inventor like him, and he became convinced of this after discussing technology with Harry many times. But now, there was a more reasonable answer.
That was that those technologies of Oscorp were very likely from the hands of another Harry Osborn. This older-looking Harry might be the real behind-the-scenes technology provider.
"It's me," Little Harry waved his hand. He and Big Harry looked at the mutated being at the same time. A look of surprise flashed in Little Harry's eyes: "What happened to him?"
"Psionic contamination," Big Harry gave the answer directly, looking at Doom with a hint of satisfaction and a little pity.
"What is psionic contamination? He calls this change evolution!" Reed and Susan, who were behind the two, heard their words and asked while recovering the large amount of energy they had consumed in the previous outburst.
"He said it was evolution? That's right. The Time Variance Authority's information should say so. Psionic energy can allow life to evolve and even change, but this evolution and change must be carried out with caution.
The line between genius and madman is sometimes very thin.
The difference between evolution and distortion is actually not that big.
The other party chose the right path, but he failed to withstand the psionic erosion and influence. His consciousness has been dominated and controlled by some kind of emotion. But he doesn't think so himself."
It was Big Harry who spoke. He was very familiar with the changes happening to Doom. This scene had been seen too many times in the Time Variance Authority's video archives. Those civilizations that were still unrestrained after being eroded by psionic energy would eventually head towards [destruction] in the process of erosion crossing over into contamination.
They eventually became strange creatures, comparable to dimensional life forms. For example, merging into the mother star, connecting their mental consciousness with the mother star, making their own lives equivalent to the planet. And they can easily stir up hurricanes, tsunamis, and earthquakes within the planet.
Others completely abandoned all physical and material bodies, becoming illusory creatures like ghosts, wandering in the universe.
As the spiritual collective of all life in a civilization, they are crazy and chaotic, they may be good at one moment, and evil the next.
Another major commonality between the former and the latter is that they have a strong sense of hunger, an extraordinary greed for intelligent species and energy. They will wander around the universe, hunting life planets and civilizations one by one.
Erosion, contamination, assimilation, and then growth.
The Time Variance Authority even collects and imprisons several of these civilization ghosts that have been severely contaminated by psionic energy. If they are lucky enough, they may be repelled out of the universe over time and become a small dimensional world.
This is indeed a path of evolution.
But in the eyes of Harry and others in the Time Administration Bureau, this is a wrong path of evolution. Their time management technology was originally a castrated version of Hebo Lun, a weapon used to trade with or conquer other universes.
"This is a trap! Isn't it?" Doom's voice rang out. He no longer had the previous madness and arrogance. Although his body was still in a distorted state, he was trying to restore his human appearance.
"What trap?" Big Harry frowned.
"Everything, including how I learned about the Time Variance Authority, how to enter it, what was there, how to escape your lock, etc. Was all of this arranged?" Doom's voice was calm with a hint of fatigue.
"You're back to normal?" Reed subconsciously looked at Doom and asked.
"I just suppressed the domination of some kind of emotion and restored my thinking in a calm state. Psionic technology is indeed incomplete, or rather, imperfect." Doom's gaze shifted from Reed to Big Harry. He wanted to get a definite answer from Big Harry.
"Psionic technology is of course perfect, but it belongs to the Energy Bank and Hebo Lun! The Time Variance Authority's technology is missing many important procedures. These may not matter to some dimensional gods, but for ordinary people like us, it is [life-saving poison]," Big Harry replied.
"I don't know where you learned about the Time Variance Authority, and the information and maps of the Time Variance Authority. But when you made the act of attacking the Time Variance Authority, you already had no way out. The director of the Time Variance Authority, my boss, has a very small mind."
"The power that made me wake up from arrogance and self-confidence and calm down is a link in the missing procedure?" Doom was now in a state of wanting nothing. He knew this state was wrong, but he didn't hate it now. At least it could give his heart a moment of peace.
"It's just a relationship of psionic restraint," Big Harry patiently explained to Doom under Little Harry's unbelievable gaze. "I can't extract much, the purity is not enough, let alone condense it into crystals. It is also full of other psionic impurities. It can't last long, and it evaporates quickly in open places."
"In other words, I will soon return to that arrogant state again?" Doom wanted to have other emotions, but at the moment, all emotions were suppressed by a kind of inert sobriety.
"In fact, I'm very surprised that you can still maintain your main consciousness in this distorted form. In the records, the psionic contaminators in this form have become purely dominated, just like hunting beasts," Big Harry said. He didn't expect Doom to go this far, and he really dared to go this far.
Absorbing and utilizing unfiltered psionic energy, even the mages of Kama Taj mostly can't do it, and can't completely eliminate its influence and danger. This can be seen from the fact that Kama Taj is now showing signs of splitting into multiple psionic magic schools. The current Supreme Mage Stephen Strange has completely accepted this change, just like all the mages.
In the distant future, perhaps the mages of Kama Taj will also part ways due to factions. But as long as Gu Yi, who is only one step away from entering the ranks of the ancient gods, is still there, it doesn't matter whether the mages of Kama Taj split or not, anyway, they all come from the same source and rely on Luke and Gu Yi for food.
As for the agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., the energy used in their equipment is psionic energy that has been filtered. The harm has been reduced to the lightest. As long as it is not used frequently for a short period of time with high intensity, it can usually be restored to normal by doing some psychological counseling and sorting out, and getting rid of those slight influences.
From the fact that the other party can still maintain his mental consciousness and thinking ability to this extent after being contaminated to this point, the other party's will and soul are both tenacious and excellent. This will allow them to resist the pollution for longer. And from the fact that the other party is still trying to shrink the distorted limbs and gradually restore the human form, the other party's talent in the mystical magic is also very excellent.
At least the other party's pollution resistance is very strong. When facing the polluting dimensional power, with preparation, it will not be directly affected and then controlled as a puppet.
Unfortunately, the other party's degree of pollution is already very deep. Without the help of Hebo Lun or Kama Taj mages, the possibility of the other party wanting to fight against this degree of madness and pollution by his own strength is infinitely low. This is still based on the fact that the other party's psionic energy will not increase.
And as time goes by, the various psionic energies accumulated on the other party will become more and more. The only way the polluted person can use is to constantly use some kind of emotion as the pillar and dominator to maintain his own thinking will, but doing so is only a temporary solution, and will only make people become more and more biased and extreme under the domination of this emotion. Eventually enter the next stage of self-destruction and self-help.
If possible, Big Harry didn't want to confront Doom, and he didn't even want Doom to have problems here. With the other party's current form, once out of control, it would be a disaster for civilization. He didn't want to be buried with this world.
So if possible, before being able to go back, he might have to find ways to help Doom maintain the deteriorating pollution.
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