Chapter 326 25. Shocked! Old Peter, who is far away in Gotham, probably doesn't know that he has an extra son-in-law!
The lazy old man in the black death sword battle suit obviously caught a small "bug" in the agreement between it and Mason.
This kind of behavior makes it difficult for Mason to complain.
But the matter has come to this point, facing the black death sword suit who is full of food and drink and starts to pretend to be dead, the captain has nothing to do.
After all, the poor wasteland venom in front of him can't be said to be a bad thing, but how to use it makes Mason a little worried.
He really doesn't need this thing.
Because he doesn't like being parasitized and doesn't lack the suit system.
He is not Selena, he likes the wonderful feeling of "unconstrained" in the battle
Uh, it seems that the catwoman is quite open about this aspect, tsk tsk, no wonder the master is so fascinated by that goblin.
"Barbara, do you want it?"
Mason handed the wasteland venom in his hand to the Batgirl, who looked at him like an idiot and said:
"I have an interface in my brain, and my left arm is a full-sensing prosthetic body. With such a sophisticated mechanism, you let me use a symbiote? You want my brain to short-circuit, right?"
"Uh, how many of you."
Mason looked at his other team members again, then shook his head and said:
"Forget it, let it destroy instantly, but if it needs to live together for a long time, it is estimated that even the immune system of the Kryptonians will not be able to defeat it. If another Kryptonian cytokine storm is triggered, it is estimated that the first Kryptonian who died of illness will be killed. It's in my hand."
"Mr. K! I want it!"
Harry had already noticed the Wasteland Venom in Mason's hand.
She is also very interested in the strange suit of Catwoman that can "change size anywhere". It comes from the very big brain hole of the psychopath, and she has even made up many wonderful usages in her brain.
Especially when playing with Mr. K.
yeah!
You don’t need to buy all kinds of expensive and cumbersome cosplay clothes, you can let your sweetheart enjoy better “care”!
"It's not impossible, it's just that your physical fitness is not up to standard."
Mason doesn't mind handing over the symbiote to Harley, but he can't give it yet. Harley's physical fitness hasn't crossed the limit of superhumanity. The symbiote will change her body shape in order to exert its maximum power.
So I can only say in the tone of a mother helping her son save New Year's money:
"Wait until you become stronger. Don't drink the green potion! I'll make you a super soldier serum when I go back. Uh, why wait until I go back?"
He shook his head, handed the biological tank to Harry, and while taking out various materials to prepare the medicine on the spot, he said:
"Sleep well tonight, and you will have your own Venom suit tomorrow morning."
"ah!"
Harry pursed her mouth in frustration and said:
"I had prepared a very interesting trick tonight. But I know that Selena used venom to turn her cat into a witch! Can I also use symbiosis to turn my dog into a werewolf?"
Facing her question that was very flawed in various senses, Mason sighed and answered very tiredly:
"No, you will only harvest two venom dogs, which will not increase the combat effectiveness of the Amazon war dogs at all, but will increase Bud and Luke's weakness of being afraid of fire and sound.
So, please, don't do weird things to your pets. "
"Hmm, that's a pity."
Harry knelt down, stroked her two loyal circus dogs, and said:
"Your monotonous life has lost a possibility forever."
While Mason was busy, the old wolf, who was frightened by the unexpected situation just now, walked up to him and whispered:
"Mason, why do you and your team members seem to be accustomed to this kind of thing? Has your life outside been so thrilling?"
"This is far from our real life."
Mason said to the old wolf:
"Imagine that countless worlds, known and unimaginable, are dying one by one, and you know this, but you can't change it. You can choose to give up on yourself, or enjoy yourself before the end.
This is probably the true portrayal of our life. "
"Then which one did you choose?"
Old Logan asked, and Mason whispered:
"I chose the hardest third hidden option, the ones I just made."
These words made the old wolf turn his head, looking at the wastelanders in the factory who were being identified by Zod and the blue beetle, turned over their weapons and sent them to the magic suitcase.
At this moment, he understood what Mason meant.
"You want to fight against the doomsday?"
Logan said hoarsely:
"What a bold idea."
"I'm going to save it."
Mason seriously corrected:
"It's harder than confrontation, crazier than indulgence, and harder than playing bad. But that's life, isn't it? It's like a boxing fight that never ends abruptly.
No matter how many times you knock it down, it will come back in a different way.
But once you shrink, it wins. "
"I feel that there is something in your words."
Logan stretched out his hand and pressed down the broken cowboy hat on his head. He said:
"I'll tell you, Mason, but not right now, I swear! When we get there, I'll reveal all the secrets.
But I think, if Charles had met you seventeen years earlier, he would have been very happy, and Eric would have desperately wanted to get you. He admired your character. "
"Clint! I'm here! Clint come here!"
A woman's scream interrupted the conversation between Mason and Logan.
The two looked up, and saw a woman in a wasteland skirt rushing out of the crowd lined up to enter the suitcase factory. She called Eagle Eye's name sadly.
Hawkeye, who was resting on the spider car, jumped up in a jerk, quickly got off the car and came to the woman to support her.
"Who is that?"
Mason asked curiously, Logan shook his head.
He and Hawkeye actually didn’t have much contact after the end of the day. The reason why the two of them joined forces to become the “Doomsday courier” was more because of their fighting friendship as colleagues before.
The friendship between men is always very simple. If you see each other right, let alone running a long distance and working hard together, it is no different even if you are fighting for your life together.
But he still guessed and said:
"It might be Clint's ex-wife. May seems to live near Hammerfall. The car you helped Clint fix is May's dowry.
That was the only relic her father left her. "
"Is that so?"
Mason nodded.
But a few seconds later, he suddenly raised his head to look at the woman hugging Hawkeye in front of him, and said:
"Is the spider car a relic left to her by her father? Is this woman Little May Parker? Peter Parker's daughter? Spiderman's daughter?"
"right."
Logan shook his head and sighed:
"The boy who always talked a lot, it is said that he also died on the streets of New York that night, leaving only his daughter who had just grown up at that time, and Clint saved her.
And within a few years they were together.
That's not a good story. It is said that May has been unable to let go of her father's death, and Clint is also immersed in the feelings of losing everything, which caused their marriage to not last long. "
"No, that's not the point!"
Mason paused the action of making the improved version of the super soldier serum, he got up and walked to Eagle Eye, the dark-haired woman who was crying with Clint quickly noticed Mason.
She bowed to Mason with thanks.
But when she stood up straight, Mason took out a photo and held it in front of her eyes.
The photo is a group photo of Team K 1.0 in the morning light of Osborne Tower. Most importantly, in the arms of Mason in the photo, only eight-year-old May Parker is smiling happily with one missing front tooth.
"Know her?"
Mason pointed to Xiaomei in the photo, and said to the stunned middle-aged May Parker in front of his eyes:
"This is a photo of us in another world with another you, Xiaomei, although I know you are not her, maybe you should also call me Brother Mason.
All right.
I know you're not in the mood to listen to jokes now, what happened? "
"my daughter."
May Parker looked at the guy in front of him who could be her son at this age but called himself "Brother Mason". The previous rescue and the photo in front of him undoubtedly brought their relationship closer.
"My Ashley! She left me to join a local gang in the desert, she said she wants to prove that Spider-Man's power is still strong in the wasteland, she is eager to prove herself.
But she did something stupid.
She went to assassinate the leader and was caught, they said they would execute her tomorrow, I came to Hammerfall to ask mercenaries to help."
"Why didn't you notify me!"
As the father, Eagle Eyes said angrily at this moment:
"That's my daughter too! When I got divorced, I said you can't spoil her like that! Look! Is something wrong with getting used to it?"
"Just shut up."
Mason said to Eagle Eye angrily:
"You were almost forty when you fooled Xiaomei, and you are almost twenty years younger. You really dare, aren't you afraid that Peter will crawl out of the soil and kill you?"
"Mason, Clint also lost family members in the apocalypse."
Logan who rushed over pulled La Mason's arm, and he whispered:
"It's not as sneaky as you think. If you want to survive in this hell, everyone has to hug each other for warmth. And the point now is not to discuss their failed marriage, Ashley, what about that girl?"
"What else can I do?"
Mason rubbed his forehead and said:
"Old Peter just helped me. Can I just sit back and watch his granddaughter be chopped off by a group of wasteland savages? Barbara, take the others and go first. I'll come back after I get someone."
—
Captain Mason is going to save people, and the colleagues of Team K are of course willing to help, but it doesn't take much time to destroy a nearby wasteland gang.
But in the end, he just let Halle accompany him, and handed over the rest to Barbara to lead them to move on to the next campsite and wait.
Mason has his own considerations.
The wasteland venom that just appeared has already reminded everyone that this post-apocalyptic land is not safe, so it can save a lot of time for the attackers to gather together to search for threats forward.
The next journey Mason does not intend to take a leisurely walk, he has to rush to New Babylon as soon as possible to find out the truth seventeen years ago.
However, Mason, who was heading towards the wasteland and Gobi, failed to notice certain changes outside this world due to his appearance, such as a near-abandoned Aegis that was in disrepair that Barbara had been complaining about in the orbit of the earth. The bureau satellite suddenly started.
The command originating from the surface made its search module restart with difficulty, and then locked on the Nevada area where a nuclear explosion had just occurred before through constant adjustments.
And in the city of New Babylon, which is quite far away from here, in that crunchy palace covered with black and red guns, the ruler of this world, Mr. Red Skull, known as "President Doomsday", is standing upright. Legs, admiring the poor quality satellite photos in front of me, but I can barely make out the terrain.
He has captured the movement of Mason and his party.
Logically speaking, for a ruler who is proficient in strategy and tactics, this would send elite forces straight to Huanglong, and a wave of thunderous blows would be sent before the K team realized that they had been exposed.
However, Red Skull does nothing.
He just stared at the satellite photos refreshed every minute on the screen in front of him, and sat on his swivel chair with his chin propped up, as if admiring the actions of the "guests" who smuggled into his territory without reporting in advance.
After watching this for nearly ten minutes, the picture on the screen suddenly went out.
This is not a problem with the screen itself. President Doom looked up at the window regretfully. He shook his head and said:
"Oh, it was destroyed, it seems that the arrival of these guests has not only attracted my attention, those mice who have been hiding their heads and showing their tails for seventeen years are also planning to jump out to exercise their muscles.
Awesome.
It has always been a pity in my heart that I didn't completely level you that night. I thought that I would never have the chance to make up for that small mistake in my life.
But now it seems that fate is really generous to me, a sad prisoner. "
He snorted.
Stands up and puts the blurry printout into a very sci-fi device that sends it somewhere out of this world like a fax machine.
Then the guy in a black Hydra uniform stood in front of the window with his hands behind his back, as if admiring the city he ruled.
New Babylon, a place full of irony in every sense.
It has many names, the holy city of doomsday, the land of order, the capital of the new world, the wasteland paradise, etc., but the fact is that this city is run by a group of scum and abandoned people who even outsiders look down on. It was built under the leadership of Lord Red Skull.
The only reason it was established was to cover up the last secret hidden under this world that was destroyed seventeen years ago.
President Doom just calls himself.
The Red Skull has always been very clear that he is just a "jailor" who left this world and stayed in his hometown, just like in the World War of Destruction seventeen years ago, what he played was not just the superficially beautiful Incomparable evil commander.
Well, the truth is much bleaker than that.
It's like a tool that has been drained of all value. Regarding those dark pasts, maybe he should thank those guys for not killing him?
"Ding"
The instrument behind him made a crisp sound, representing a communication request.
Red Skull waved his hand, and has been standing in the corner of the office. The man in black armor stepped forward to activate the communication, and then opened the door and left in a sensible way.
Then, Warlock's gloomy voice sounded in the office:
"Did you take the photo with the door lock? It's hard for me to tell them apart due to the blurry picture quality, but I used some 'relationships' to confirm the identities of the guests.
It is indeed a 'distinguished guest'.
Red Skull, you have to 'entertain' them well. "
"Is there any reason for me to do this? Why do you order me? Because you put a curse on me and left me in this slowly rotting boon?"
The Doomsday President said sarcastically:
"Although I do occupy a seat in your twelve-member council, please recognize your identity, I am now serving the Cleaner Legion.
Theoretically speaking, we are just a cooperative relationship, Mr. Warlock, I have no reason to satisfy some of your 'personal demands'. "
"This is not my personal appeal."
Warlock's tone became even colder.
Obviously displeased with Red Skull's lack of cooperation, but he explained:
"I never thought that Mr. Mason Cooper, who has become famous in the Stars Club recently, has such an identity. He didn't sneak into this world.
He is homecoming!
He is a part of this world, and now he just wants to get back what belongs to him in the wasteland, and his destination is under your control.
He will definitely deal with you.
But Mr. Mason doesn't know the harsh truth, and doesn't know that in a sense, he was 'our man' from the beginning.
This wonderful turning point made me feel that the world is impermanent. "
"oh?"
The Red Skull, who has always been very uninterested in this matter, also made a curious nasal sound, and he turned back and said:
"You're saying that this lord Mason Cooper is a creation of the 'Weapon X Project'? Tsk tsk, that's one of our own. Well, for the sake of this fascinating truth, I'm going to think Find a way.
But 'knight'.
Don't let him come over.
I hate that unruly guy who messes up the 'dog crate' you left me. "
"Are you still angry about the past, Red Skull."
Warlock was silent for a few seconds, then whispered:
"However, you are very clear that you are too ambitious and have done wrong things, and you have a bright future ahead of you.
It's you who dropped it yourself.
The curse I put on you is to protect you, but you regard it as a kind of bondage, the secret of that year should be buried and you are the last insider.
You know what they do with things that are worthless and dangerous?
You should thank me for saving your life, stop complaining!
Get ready for the ceremony.
From what I know about Mason Cooper, he will definitely give you some big surprises, so the Cavaliers will also be a good help when necessary.
Of course, if you do well, it’s not that I can’t consider lifting the spell on you. You, who seemed extremely dangerous back then, are not too much of a hidden danger in today’s situation.
You want to get out of your crate, do something good.
I'll see. "
"Hmph, then I really want to thank you for your generosity, my lord."
Red Skull snorted angrily, but did not deny it again. He just stroked his smooth red forehead and asked with interest:
"About Mason, what are you going to do with him?"
"Well, of course I won't hurt him. Of course such a creative and determined talent must be placed in a suitable position to shine."
Warlock said with a sullen laugh:
"The people who work with him don't know how to use him properly, but fortunately, we are very good at it, just as we found you to do evil things in the past.
Mason will start a more brilliant life here, and you will be free, which is the freedom you long for.
I hope you can seize this opportunity this time, old friend. "
(end of this chapter)