American Comics: The Matrix

Chapter 449 Another World

Inside the cave.

Stark's armor was stripped off, and his twisted limbs were soaked in a green liquid by Dong Wu.

"Your healing potion works quite well. Who invented it?"

Dong Wu took down the somewhat old monocular microscope, carefully placed it aside, and wrapped it with an alcohol swab.

"With some of the medicines I invented, he'll be fine soon."

"It's Ben and Dr. Connorson."

Peter's skull had healed, but he still couldn't believe that Dr. Dong Wu, who had once caused a ruckus in New York, was actually a good person in this world.

"They drew inspiration from lizard stem cells."

"Genius idea!"

Dong Wu exclaimed, "I knew my animal friends would come in very handy!"

He stood up excitedly, then belatedly realized:
"Wait, you have the Omnitrix, but you're not Ben Tennyson?"

Tian Xiaowen also stood up and looked at him with a puzzled expression.

“Me? I’m not,” Peter said dejectedly, still wearing his Spider-Man suit, sitting on a small chair with his toes pointed inward, his hands tucked between his thighs.

“I wish I were him… Little Ben is different from me. I always mess everything up, but he can succeed at everything he does.”

"But your watch?"

“It’s a replica made by the small group,” Peter said, scratching his head.

“Copying the Omnitrix?” Dong Wu was greatly shocked. He quickly walked to Peter’s side, and with his withered hand, like that of an old witch, swept across Peter’s wrist and pulled the watch off his wrist, examining it repeatedly.

"That's true. Limited capacity, simple functions... and it can be easily removed."

He confirmed that it was indeed a counterfeit.

Because he had once owned the outer ring of a watch, and even just that ring possessed technology that was beyond his comprehension and ahead of its time.

Even so, being able to replicate a watch requires at least the genius of Abedo's caliber.

Furthermore, considering the healing potion developed by the other party, Dong Wu felt that if the two of them could cooperate, they might be able to invent a cure for the zombie virus!
He forcefully shoved the watch back into Peter's arms and then said, "Where is the real Tennyson?"

“Not Tennyson Tennyson, it’s Bent Parker.” Peter shook his head. “He’s in another world.”

“The entire Tianhe Society can help with the research on the potion,” Eunice said. “We have territories in dozens of star systems, countless scientists, and the artificial intelligence Azmith. Doctor, you just need to synchronize the data to Azmith’s cloud, and all the hydroelectric researchers will immediately begin their research.”

"This is not okay!"

Dong Wu shook his head.

"Having too many researchers isn't a good thing. Once I synchronize the zombie virus data, who knows if there might be some crazy guys among those countless scientists? What if they secretly replicate the virus?"

There are now less than six hours left.

Developing an antidote may not be possible, but replicating the zombie virus is easy.

Peter was deeply moved by Dong Wu's speech.

At a time like this, he can still think about the safety of other worlds. Dr. Dong Wu is truly a good person.

"In that case, we can only notify Xiaoban separately. Hopefully, he will have time."

Peter sent a message to Bant.

While waiting, I was also a little curious, feeling itchy inside: "Perhaps we can learn something from the source. Can you tell me what happened in your world?"

Tian Xiaowen glanced at Dong Wu, who impatiently picked up the lenses again, put them on, and started fiddling with the medicine.

"I don't have that kind of free time!"

“Then let me speak.” Tian Xiaowen leaned against the hard stone wall. She looked to be around thirty years old, but the Tian Xiaoban they saw today looked no more than eleven or twelve years old.

But she was the other person's cousin.

"I remember it was a summer vacation, and Grandpa took me and Xiaoban on a trip in his old, beat-up car..."

Tian Xiaowen spoke slowly.

The Mark she mentioned sounded just like Uncle Ben. When she talked about how she and Ben couldn't stand each other and were constantly bickering and teasing each other, her expression was clearly happy.

family.

Peter thought to himself.

"He obtained that watch from outer space and went around fighting evil forces, also taking care of Dr. Dong Wu, who wanted to turn Washington into a prehistoric world..."

"Just as I expected..." Peter was right.

He has been to the multiverse, so he knows a lot of things, and many people live similar lives in different universes.

"Later, Mojath came... I never imagined that my grandfather was a plumber."

Peter nodded in agreement: "Uncle Ben is a plumber too."

But Uncle Ben really is a plumber.

Harry listened with great interest as Ben Tennyson recounted the enemies they encountered during their summer vacation, how Ben used alien heroes to defeat villains, or how they got into trouble.

But he was also confused.

"It should have been a happy story, so why did it turn out like this?"

Tian Xiaowen's face darkened: "Until one day, everything changed."

"A virus of unknown origin swept across the world, and all those infected turned into cannibals as if they had gone mad."

"So, Tian Xiaoban was also infected?"

“Yes, but at the same time as he was infected with the zombie virus, another virus also invaded his body,” Tian Xiaowen said. “That thing is called the torment pathogen. It changed part of the structure of the zombie virus, turning Xiaoban into a half-human, half-zombie living dead with self-awareness.”

"No wonder he didn't seem to be constantly yelling 'hungry' like the other zombies."

Peter recalled.

The zombie Tian Xiaoban was fully capable of communicating with them and had no thirst for blood.

On the contrary, the other side's goal also seems to be to end the zombie universe, but they have chosen a different method.

"He wanted to end the spread of the zombie virus by eliminating all the infected, even my grandfather was..."

Tian Xiaowen's voice grew softer and softer until she finally buried her face in her knees.

Pietro opened his dry lips, as if to say: Based on his many years of experience watching zombie movies, Tennyson's approach was probably the right one.

But he wasn't foolish enough to say it out loud.

Besides, what if Wanda were the one turned into a zombie? Could he bring himself to kill his beloved sister?
No one knew how to comfort Tian Xiaowen, but at that moment Eunice's eyes suddenly flickered, as if she had received some kind of signal.

She had actually been keeping Bant informed about the situation here.

In another universe.

Bant listened to Tian Xiaowen's story from beginning to end and grasped a key point.

"Has Tian Xiaoban become a living dead?"

“Eunice, I can’t help you right now, but if everything Xiaowen just said is true, then you have a chance to defeat the zombie Ben Tennyson.”

Zombie Universe.

Eunice's eyes lit up, and her face lit up with joy.

"I know what to do!"

"We can steal his watch!"

"It's no use, that watch can't be taken off," Dong Wu replied in a moment of free time.

This was something he knew before Tian Xiaoban was even infected.

"But the Omnitrix's locking mechanism and various protection mechanisms are based on the wearer's genes. The zombie Tian Xiaoban is half-dead, and his cells have deteriorated."

"We can take his watch!"

(End of this chapter)