Dazzling incandescent lights lit up one after another, and extremely regular footsteps echoed in the cold metal corridor. The title plate on the chest of a blond middle-aged woman wearing a suit read "Experimental Area Supervisor".
She entered the elevator with a heavy face, and asked her subordinates behind her in the elevator: "Why did Experimental Subject B1263 escape from prison? I have to give an explanation to my superiors!"
"Sorry, supervisor, our agents are still investigating. It is initially suspected that a low-security hibernation chamber may be used, resulting in incomplete hibernation..."
"Don't let me remind you again!" The female supervisor gritted her teeth and said fiercely: "We must ensure that this kind of thing does not enter the public eye, otherwise everyone's career here will be over!"
As soon as they got out of the elevator, a younger female secretary came over. She handed a report sheet to the female supervisor, and walked quickly behind her and said: "The director is coming to inspect, and he told us to come in advance."
Be prepared and box everything up."
"When will he come?" the supervisor asked without looking back.
"Now."
"ah!!!!!"
Screams came from the ground, and the security personnel behind them rushed toward the stairs. The supervisor stopped, and the pattern of the wheel hub gradually appeared in his dark pupils.
The wheels stopped turning, bringing up fine dust. The black S.H.I.E.L.D. office vehicle parked in front of the base, and Schiller and Nick stepped out of the vehicle on both sides.
The security personnel got out of another car and followed them. Nick pushed up his sunglasses and said, "There are some high-risk experimental products stacked here. I hope they haven't made this too complicated."
"High-risk experimental subjects? You didn't release them to fight with the heroes?"
"This can't be released." Nick gently lowered his sunglasses a little, looked at Schiller from above and said, "High risk means that even for Captain America, this thing is very dangerous."
They quickly walked through the gate, and Nick explained as he strode forward.
"We need to give superheroes jobs so that they can get logistical funds, but we can't really let them suffer any serious injuries or endanger their spirits, so their opponents must be carefully selected."
"Of course it can't be too difficult. The military and Congress are not stupid. They can still tell whether a battle is tragic or not, but it can't be too difficult. It's okay to get a little physical injury. If your confidence is damaged, you won't be able to do it."
alright."
"All superheroes, including members of the Avengers, actually have their strengths and weaknesses. Some monsters created are too targeted at their weaknesses. If the time is right, they may cause serious harm to them. This
It will also be classified as a failure and then destroyed."
"We will label the successful experiments into different categories according to the different strengths of the superheroes, so that they can enter their field of vision in a reasonable way during their free time. This not only provides financial guarantee for SHIELD, but also trains them.
Their martial arts skills prevent them from losing their vigilance."
"There is no classification for failed experiments, but all experiments that are not destroyed immediately have their own troubles. At least they will be a threat to superheroes, and when they are stored in a crowded manner
When in a warehouse, the risk is greatly increased."
"That's why I need you to help me solve this problem. You know, if it wasn't very urgent, I wouldn't be willing to tolerate you talking like a lion."
As soon as he entered the elevator, Nick heard a slight sizzling sound, and with a "pop", the lights in the elevator went out.
Schiller suddenly raised his head and looked at the top of the elevator. A black shadow flashed away, and a thick gray mist enveloped the elevator. When the power was cut off and the protection device did not work, the elevator did not fall immediately, but slowly stopped.
Four floors underground.
"Something ran out." Nick tentatively stepped out of the elevator, looked around in the dark corridor and said, "I hope it's not the group of things whose numbers begin with B."
"What's so special about that?" Schiller also walked out of the elevator and asked.
"The experimental items starting with B are very special. Most of them have no physical body, but they can affect humans in a special way. In short, they are ghosts."
Schiller opened his eyes slightly, and Nick looked at him in the darkness and said: "Don't make such a fuss, people have souls, why can't they have ghosts?"
"And Tony did in-depth research on this, and then he discovered that from a scientific perspective, ghosts are a kind of radio waves, and so are human souls."
"Usually we create a strong electromagnetic field to crush failed ghost experiments, but for some with special wavelengths, we temporarily trap them and then use the power of the sun to destroy them."
"In other words, it is very possible that an evil ghost has escaped?"
"It depends on who it is." Although Nick didn't show any nervousness, he still took out a gun from behind and said: "This thing is a special attack for superheroes who are only good at physical combat, and it is for those who are timid.
Yes, but for you...are you afraid of ghosts?"
Schiller turned and walked towards the end of the corridor and said: "The only ghost I am afraid of in this world is the poor."
"You can just say you're afraid of me."
Nick followed Schiller slowly towards the end of the corridor. As soon as he turned a corner, Schiller saw the female supervisor and security personnel who were unconscious on the ground.
Schiller walked over and took a breath and found that the person was still alive. He turned to look at Nick and said, "Don't ghosts kill people?"
"You need to adjust the wavelength." Nick explained briefly and said: "To put it simply, the more scared you are, the more similar the brain waves will be to the wavelength of ghosts, and the easier it will be for ghosts to control people's brain waves."
"But if you don't believe it or fear it at all, unless the ghost is so strong that it can collapse the ceiling and kill someone, it can't kill people."
Nick glanced down at his subordinates and said: "Everyone who works here knows the details of these monsters. They are just experimental subjects. If they are not very afraid, they are not easy to control, so they just fainted."
Schiller understood, stood up again and said: "But ghosts can control people and kill them, right?"
Nico nodded and said: "So don't be friends with those who are timid but willing to die. And if you don't believe it, then firmly don't believe it, then you will be immune to all ghosts."
Suddenly, Schiller looked back at the end of the dark corridor, where a small black figure appeared, like a little boy holding something.
Nick looked back and said, "Is there something there? I'm not afraid of it at all so I can't see clearly."
"There is a little boy." Schiller frowned and said, "You want to arrest such a young boy? It's simply a loss of morals."
"Please, they are ghosts. If SHIELD hadn't captured them and recharged them, they would have dissipated long ago."
"How did you confine them?"
"Magical energy, or radio waves of a specific wavelength."
Schiller instantly dispersed into a cloud of gray mist. Seeing that the situation was bad, the child ghost ran away, but was finally caught by Schiller.
Nick took off his sunglasses and said: "Ghosts and souls are completely different things. Although most ghosts are caused by souls staying for some reason, you can understand that they deteriorate the moment they become ghosts.
So hell doesn’t want this stuff.”
"Normally, ghosts will dissipate when they run out of energy, and then go to the kingdom of death. But when we catch them back and fully charge them, or even overcharge them, some of them will undergo further mutations and become more powerful.
Powerful, some can even affect the real world."
Schiller looked at the ghost trapped between the energy shields created by the gray mist. It was a little boy with bleeding eyes. He was holding a man's head in his hand. The whole body was translucent. It was not very bloody, but
A little weird.
Nick then explained: "When some humans die, their brain waves will become abnormal, which will turn their souls into ghosts. There are many factors that cause brain waves to become abnormal, such as intense emotions and the earth's magnetic field.
, the influence of surrounding brain waves, etc., anyway, that’s how Tony explained it.”
"So how do I carry these things across the universe?" Schiller asked a very practical question. He said: "It's impossible to use a rope to lead them through the portal one by one, right?"
"Of course not. Come with me. There are cans and bottles underground specially for storing them." Nick led the way underground, while Schiller followed him with the ghost of the little boy caught in the gray mist.
Soon they arrived at the bottom level. In this huge underground space called the experimental product storage warehouse, Schiller saw thousands of cylindrical cans and bottles, which stored all kinds of monsters. Obviously, although Nick
The purpose of this move was to defraud funds, but even if it was just for window dressing, he was serious about it.
"You can use that mysterious mist to store everything here. As long as the properties and structure are not changed, it will be fine. Then you can go through the portal and throw everything into that universe, and it will be fine."
"Are you sure zombies will eat these things?" Schiller looked up at the monsters floating in cans and bottles placed one after another on the high shelves.
"Otherwise, let them eat the zombies." Nick turned around, walked backwards, looked at Schiller and said: "We just put another group of monsters into a world full of monsters, and none of them deserves sympathy."
"No, at least there is one more." Schiller looked at Nick and said.
Nick paused and saw Schiller's expression. He scratched his head and said, "Is it your mysterious prophetic ability again?"
"Have you not seen the specific conditions of those two worlds?"
"I've only seen a little bit, but it looks so much like the plasma tablets on the Midnight Channel. To be honest, once you see how they eat, you won't have any interest in them."
"You don't want to save anyone in there?"
"Is there any point in saving them?" Nick shook his head and said: "It is indeed a pity to be infected by the zombie virus, but there are too many tragedies that have happened in the multiverse, and we cannot save everyone."
"Although I know that you hope to create more possibilities for other universes, we should save those that are easy to save first, and wait until we have gathered more strength to deal with the difficult ones, which can save some energy."
"And where's your little lamb?"
"I'm pretty sure that Spider-Man in this universe has also turned into a zombie." Nick shook his head and sighed: "I just didn't want to watch it when I saw him eating his aunt and girlfriend. This is not
It's his fault, but even if I bring him back and bring him back to his senses, he will be completely shattered by this incident."
"Rather than letting him face the truth and feel self-blame and pain, it would be better to let him continue to be crazy." Nick pursed his lips and said: "There is no responsibility that Spider-Man must bear, but he always thinks so."
"It's rare for you to say a few human words." Schiller shook his head and said: "But recently I understand a truth. Spider-Man is much stronger than you think. Facing the dark truth will not defeat them, it will only
Make them stronger."
"Are you going to save him?"
"He will save himself, and the world, once again."