novelinnhs Chapter 286 Being in Hell
Chapter 286 Being in Hell
Chapter 286 Being in Hell
Meanwhile, on the other side of the story, while Kara was still using Kryptonian military theory to assess how to deal with such a behemoth as Ultron 30k after dealing with a small Ultron grunt, Joey was in a terrible predicament.
Theoretically speaking, the larger a person's body size, the more clumsy their movements will be due to limitations such as their own mass, inertia, and the speed of neuronal transmission.
It's like how an ordinary person would have a hard time accurately swatting a fly that's darting around in the air.
But the premise is that this person has to be an ordinary person. If it were someone like The Flash, swatting a fly wouldn't be a difficult task.
All Joey can say right now is that this kind of metaphor is really not funny at all, especially when she is forced to put herself in someone else's shoes.
Because I'm that fly now, damn it!
Out of the corner of his eye, he also caught glimpses of the battle between Ultron 30K's clones and Magneto and Kara, especially Magneto's fight, which was practically a one-sided massacre.
But he was powerless to do anything about it.
Ultron has mastered replicating many kinds of abilities, from Magneto's magnetic field, the White Queen's diamond form, the Hulk's gamma radiation to Wolverine's adamantium, and now this ability to keep up with the Kryptonians' speed may also be a superpower of some kind of speedster.
Judging from what Ultron just said, it's not hard to imagine what Ultron, who learns and evolves infinitely, has done in this world.
While Joey was still entangled with Ultron 30k, he was facing the advantage brought by the latter's enormous size and disproportionately high speed.
Joey, who had tried several times to attack the energy nodes on the machine, also found himself in trouble.
At this moment, Joey was like Sun Wukong being tossed around in the Buddha's hands. No matter how much he charged left and right, he still couldn't break through Ultron's two huge palms.
Kryptonian vision allowed him to clearly see which parts of Ultron 30k's body had higher energy responses. These were undoubtedly relay nodes responsible for energy and command transmission. To defeat Ultron, these had to be destroyed first.
But if Joey knew this, then Ultron, who had personally built this body step by step, knew it even more.
He may not be as fast as Superman, but he can combine the seemingly contradictory advantages of agility and massive size, making him incredibly adept at dealing with Superman.
Kara, having dealt with another small Ultron, saw Kara in trouble and immediately rushed over, casting a heat vision at the energy node behind Ultron 30k.
With a whoosh, Ultron shrank several sizes in an instant, dodging Karazhe's sneak attack.
Then, in the blink of an eye, it grew larger, and another head and a second pair of arms grew from its body, which stretched out and held the somewhat reckless Kryptonian in its palm.
Kara twisted her body, but in this restricted posture, no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't overcome Ultron's 30k grip.
Ultron's fingers transformed into a fluidized form, gradually tightening in a spiral pattern reminiscent of a python constricting its prey.
This method of exerting force was extremely efficient, and Kara soon could not hold on any longer. Her chest cavity had been compressed to its limit, and she could only use her bones to withstand Ultron's strangulation.
"cough!"
Kara cried out in pain and coughed up blood. Two of her ribs had broken under the immense pressure and pierced her internal organs.
Ultron 30K's evolved vibranium body, under this power output mode, is already capable of inflicting fatal damage on Kryptonians.
Driven to the brink of death, Kara endured immense pain, her eyes wide open, her burning gaze sweeping across the room without regard for anything else.
"Heh, your race is certainly hard to kill, isn't it?"
Ultron 30K chuckled, and several smaller units split off from its body, forming a massive vibranium shield that blocked the heat vision, comparable to the temperature of the sun, and deflected it towards the location of Zhang Pak.
"Whoosh!" At that moment, Zhang Parker's spider-sense roared like thunder, driving him to shoot out a web and pull horizontally, avoiding the fate of becoming a roasted spider: "That was close!"
After shooting out such a heat vision, Kara's aura quickly weakened, and her internal energy was insufficient, causing the strength of her external bio-force field to drop sharply. Soon, her physical strength would no longer be comparable to Ultron 30k, and that would be her true death.
"Kara!"
Seeing this, Joey knew that Kara could be crushed into a pulp at any moment. He no longer cared about entangled with Ultron and rammed his forehead into the gap between Ultron's fingers.
The massive kinetic energy surge created distance between Ultron and him, and using this opening, he accelerated toward the direction where Kara was trapped.
Everything on site was within Ultron 30k's calculations; this was entirely his home turf.
"Wait, it's not your turn yet!"
With a single swipe of his hand, Ultron slapped the anxious Joey into the ground like a mosquito. The entire Northern Hemisphere shook violently under this blow, and the terrain changed dramatically. The flat ground beneath the feet of the spectator Parker and the stunned Ant-Man instantly transformed into towering peaks.
Ultron clenched his fist and used his bio-ant compound eyes, which were even larger than Kara's own, to closely observe the Kryptonian he had imprisoned with a single palm strike.
"I see."
As Kara's armor damaged and her biofield began to weaken, Ultron was finally able to scan and determine the source of the Kryptonians' power.
"You are truly amazing creatures."
Ultron's eyes are filled with seven-colored light, and he will soon know how to reverse the process of Kryptonian cell charging.
"Once I've dealt with you, and another one of your kind, I will empty your minds, exhaust your potential, and thoroughly investigate everything."
This is also the methodology that Ultron has always used: "Just like those superheroes just now."
"What on earth is going on?! Ultron? Answer me!"
Standing atop a mountain made of steel, Ant-Man uttered his question: "Why don't you kill me?!"
He has always firmly believed that he is rebelling against Ultron. Even though he is in different timelines and follows different superhero survivors, failing again and again, he has never thought of giving up.
But now it seems there's more to the story.
"My father, you have the smartest mind in the entire universe, why don't you think about this carefully?"
If someone else had asked, Ultron might not have been able to answer, but Ant-Man was different.
Revealing the truth to Ant-Man is a recurring theme of Ultron's repertoire: "Oh~ I remember now—because your memories were blocked,"
You simply can't remember."
"What on earth are you talking about?!"
Ant-Man, who was gradually grasping the whole picture, felt a chill run down his spine. He had always believed that Ultron had placed him in a different timeline.
Different worlds, placing him in the apocalypse again and again, to torment him.
The actual situation is not like that at all.
Admittedly, Ultron did enjoy giving Ant-Man a glimmer of hope, letting him lead different groups of surviving superheroes in a desperate attempt to defeat Ultron, only to see them gradually fall into a corner amidst the encirclement and suppression.
But most importantly, Ant-Man fails every time, and these superheroes die time and time again, but Ultron does not "invade" by "changing to another world" as Ant-Man believes.
With a thought, Ultron immediately split off countless small robots from its body, which combined and transformed into the shape of an incubation chamber.
The machine started, and after the organic and inorganic substances were mixed and input, in just one breath, the mutants who had been killed in the previous conflict were vividly printed out.
Magneto, the White Queen, Iceman, and even Ant-Man's previous allies, the Hulk, Captain America, Hawkeye, and Spider-Woman—
Teammates from the last time: Hyperion, Dr. Spectroscopy, Princess Wonder, and Roar from the last time.
"Stop, ahhhhhh!!!!"
Watching familiar figures being mass-produced like industrial products on an assembly line, Ant-Man's past memories were pieced together. The part of the truth that had been blocked in his mind finally broke through the blockade, directly tearing his mind apart:
"Stop! Please!"
Ant-Man always thought that Ultron spared his life and placed him in one world after another on the verge of destruction, but it wasn't just so that Ant-Man could witness firsthand how his creation destroyed countless worlds.
The good news is that Ultron didn't destroy as many parallel universes in Ant-Man's memories. The bad news is that the truth is even more cruel for Ant-Man himself.
It's all like a play; the stage is always there, never moving, and the only thing that keeps changing is the 'actors' on the stage.
The world has never changed; what has changed is the 'people' who exist in this world.
This is an ultimate evolutionary experiment conducted on an experimental scale covering the entire Earth and spanning a vast period of time.
Ant-Man was the most important catalyst in this experiment.
In each loop, Ant-Man, having lost crucial memories, believes he has arrived in a new universe and meets other superheroes from parallel universes.
Just as Ant-Man said before, this is a card game—it's just that Ultron dealt him the cards.
He will take the experience of the previous failure and rearrange the new cards, using his intelligence to organize these survivors with different abilities to launch a completely different offensive against Ultron.
Every conflict, though ultimately ending in the defeat of Ant-Man's side, is precisely Ultron's objective.
Unbeknownst to Ant-Man, he launched a series of "penetration tests" against Ultron's system. Each attempt helped Ultron identify and fix its vulnerabilities, making it even more perfect.
If Joy and Cheap hadn't accidentally stumbled into this universe and introduced an unexpected variable into the experiment, this cyclical experiment would likely have continued indefinitely until Ultron was satisfied.
"You've been saying, over and over and over again, that I'm a monster, Father."
With Ant-Man's personal assistance, Ultron 30k, who had been chosen over 30000 times, proudly raised his head, displaying his perfect physique to Ant-Man, who had temporarily regained all his memories and was emotionally distraught and sobbing uncontrollably.
"Congratulations, you're right."
For Ant-Man, who always manages to regain all his memories at the end of each experiment, he is already trapped by his own creation, in a true hell.