Marvel’s Speedsters

After entering the last gene array map into the system, Ross began compiling records of his recent work.

It’s been a week since he returned to New York from the Pentagon, and he’s been studying the changes that have taken place in himself—- both tangible and intangible.

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

After reading the record data from the beginning, Ross thought while slowly collecting his experimental tools.

The manipulator used to perform various precision operations must be maintained in time, and old documents and reports must be destroyed or sealed, especially those dangerous experimental items, which may contain highly toxic substances, may lead to species invasion, and may produce a variety of strange mutations.

After processing the things in the private laboratory, Ross checked the system again, and the artificial intelligence Pallas was methodically executing instructions, incorporating a large amount of data into its own database, and it would generate detailed experimental models based on this data, and would not have to rely on human manual manual operations when performing similar operations in the future.

After checking it all, Ross walked to the other side of the research room, and behind a transparent glass wall was a biological culture room, which was divided into several separate compartments, one of which contained more than a dozen boxes assembled from inorganic materials.

The box is sealed with transparent glass, only some small ventilation holes on the top, it looks like a beehive, and there are indeed some bees in it, and thousands of colorful insects are divided into groups by Ross, and they are lying densely on the inner wall of the box and squirming slightly.

These are not ordinary insects, their ancestors once belonged to a milder Italian subspecies of Western bees, as early as when they were nascent larvae, they began to be selected and bred by Ross in a planned way, and now these adult experimental subjects have Ross himself and some mutant genes, from the ordinary state to the mutant state after cell fusion, which can be used to simulate the change process of Ross’s own stages.

In appearance, these subspecies are almost indistinguishable, but as the composition of the mutant gene gradually increases, the latter is far more dangerous than the former when provoked. Kick a lair with only common genes, and a hundred bees may fly out to attack the intruder; However, if you kick into the nest of a mutant bee, you may have a variety of unexpected attacks.

Ross watched for a while, reached | into the operation hole, and directly picked up a mutant bee from a hive without wearing protective gloves.

The mutant bee flapped its wings violently in Ross’s hands, immediately attracting a large number of aggressive companions to attack the main crowd.

Countless shining sparks burst out from the swarm, Ross’s expression did not change, nor did he withdraw his arm, and on the surface of his skin, countless tiny black scales automatically emerged, blocking the crazy attack of the honey swarm.

This scale is an accidental product of evolution and comes from Magneto’s right-hand man, the Witch.

The mutant covered in blue scales was known for her ability to change, and Ross originally wanted to borrow her ability to control deformation to smoothly manipulate a large number of spoilers on the outer surface of the Extreme Type III, but as the cells continued to fuse in the high-temperature and high-pressure environment, these marginal abilities were also fused into his body.

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

But this change seemed incredible to Ross, because the use of witch cells was extremely slight, almost the length of a few strands of hair, and Ross used it instead of nerves to complete the interface network between the body and the battle suit.

According to previous experience, it is impossible to use superpowers without a sufficient number of mutant cells, just like Ross used the cells of the Red Tank, but he did not become as invincible as Cousin Marcoin, because unless he turned himself into a strong man of the size of the Red Tank, he simply could not afford too much pressure.

It was for this reason that Ross made some assumptions about his newly acquired shape-shifting ability.

Looking at the bee in his hand for a while, Ross smiled and casually threw it back to the hive, his assumption was confirmed.

In fact, what he was holding just now was not a breed that had received the Burning Man John gene, but an adult worm cultivated using the Iceman gene.

The original genetically modified subspecies were indeed placed by source of ability, but as the experiment progressed, Ross extracted some of these individuals, marked their tiny backs, and then placed the newborn young bees into the hives of other subspecies.

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

He does expect the young bees to be transformed by their new home: he hopes that the Burning Man bees will learn the self-preservation skills of the Iceman bees, and the bees with the Bobby gene will inherit the Berserk talent of the John-gene-carrying bee—- like the phenomenon he found in himself, and he wants to understand how this happened.

Ross suspects the answer lies in the mutant’s genes.

He doesn’t expect actual changes in mutant DNA. Except for random mutations, genes usually do not change during an organism’s lifetime. What he really doubts is whether the genes of mutant bees will behave differently in their new homes — and very differently.

Just like the pharaoh fish that has lost its leader, once the burly and gorgeous “pharaoh” is found leaving, the male fish who was originally ranked second will react. It will experience a large-scale burst of gene expression within a few hours, and the genes themselves have not changed, but the male’s original blue-gray body color will be immediately decorated with vulgar red and blue stripes, and within a few hours, the body size will grow by 20%.

It is this change that Ross wants to see.

These cultivations and trials began four months ago, and after he discovered the changes in his body at S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters, he deliberately increased his research efforts and finally reaped the answers today.

For those subspecies of bees that have been “hijacked,” the new population does change the activity of their genes. If you compare their gene expression arrays with previous groups of similar bees, a significant change can be seen at a glance: hundreds of genes in the array are different colors.

The transfer between hives not only makes bees behave differently, but also makes their genes change their working status on a large scale.

This shows that the X gene, the source of superpower in the mutant human body, tends to be consistent to some extent, and the difference in the individual ability of the mutant is more due to the different levels of gene expression.

In other words, not only can Ross obtain her shape-shifting ability through a very small amount of witch genes, but theoretically, she can also obtain the unique talents of other mutants in the same way.

Think about how powerful that person would be when Magneto’s magnetic field control, Professor X’s mind control, Ororo’s weather manipulation, or Nightstalker’s teleportation ability were combined.

That guy will no longer be an ordinary mutant, but the king of mutants, a super mutant with any kind of superpower!

Thinking that such a powerful force seemed to be within reach, even Ross was a little thrilled for a while.

Since coming to this world, he has been constantly striving for his career, but in terms of personal ability, he does not fully use the existing template, but combines multiple talents to form his own extreme speed ability.

In the world where Ross came, there was a power that impressed him the most.

That kind of power, called the Godspeed Force, can ignore almost all laws of physics, even the laws of time. In addition to the characteristics of ultra-fast speed, it is not uncommon to derive high-speed metabolism, rapid healing, high-speed vision and other derived abilities derived from the divine speed force. In Ross’s mind, there may be many ways to increase his power, but the only ones who can really have a lasting impact on the material world | the last ones are the speeders.

So for a long time, he had taken this as his direction, and now that the huge temptation | was close at hand, Ross began to be a little confused.

On one side is almost the power available in the palm of the hand, on the other side is an almost ethereal pursuit—- which one to choose?

Is it to become a super mutant who can take on the strongest in the world?

Or become a speedster who can break through any constraints?

Time passed quietly, the sun outside the window gradually moved west, and when the last rays of sunlight were engulfed by the horizon, Ross finally made a decision.

Sighing with a little regret, he decided to choose the latter.

Many memories of past lives have been blurred, but there is a story that Ross has always remembered.

The protagonist of the story wants to become the strongest swordsman in the world, but he does not have the confidence. Because there is no standard for “strongest”. As time passed, a belief formed in the man’s mind, and 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, and at that moment he was very excited and a little afraid. In order to collect the last sword, he gave up everything, his humanity, his wife, everything he had… In the end he finally got what he wanted.

Just as the owner of the story is ecstatic to celebrate his goal, a very cheap sword ends his short-lived success.

Swords are for killing, not for collecting.

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

The same is true for Ross.

His goal was never to become some super mutant, and everything he had now was just a certain stage in his life.

The horizon may be broadened, and the means can be varied, but the real foundation only needs to be strong and stable enough to support the superstructure, and there is no need for over-embellishment and ornate carving.

“That’s right, I’m a speedster.”

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