The Comprehensive Evolution of American Comics.

Chapter 1063

After joining the Young Justice League, Garfield's first task was to take a test of his abilities.

Whether for safety reasons or for future mission arrangements, the league has an obligation to conduct a series of tests on Garfield.

The first thing to determine is Garfield's upper and lower limits.

Experiments have shown that Garfield could easily transform into the largest known animal on Earth—the blue whale—and the smallest known animal—the protozoan H39.

However, this is far from Garfield's limit. As long as he knows the general information or simply the appearance, Garfield can become that individual. The only prerequisite is that the individual he becomes must be a carbon-based life form.

Moreover, Garfield could not only become a single biological individual; tests revealed that he could even become an entire bee colony.

This greatly exceeded everyone's expectations. When Garfield was asked about it afterward, he learned that in his mind, bees usually appeared in swarms, so when he transformed, he imagined an entire swarm of bees.

This may be why Garfield was able to transform into an entire swarm after using his ability.

However, in subsequent tests, Garfield could not transform into a pod of whales or a pack of hyenas, but he could transform into a swarm of sardines or a swarm of ants.

Based on this, Yang Le speculated that the group animal Garfield transformed into must be the kind that is highly unified, where the entire team listens to only one idea.

Of course, the problem might not be that complicated; it could simply be a matter of whether Garfield wants to or not. If he can convince himself, he might be able to conjure up a whole bunch of any kind of animal.

Yang Le then trained Garfield based on his second guess, and it seems that the facts are quite similar to what he thought. In terms of bees alone, Garfield can choose to become a bee colony or a single bee.

Just like now, Garfield's choice is a single bee. He is like Sun Wukong in "Journey to the West", turning into a bee and flying to the front and back of the tightly sealed door, then turning into a tiny enough H39 to crawl inside.

After squeezing through the door crack, Garfield, considering the excessive buzzing of bees in flight, switched to midges, the quietest flying insects on Earth.

However, upon seeing the long, dark corridor, Garfield silently enlarged his body slightly, which was one of his abilities.

Garfield can transform into animals that are no smaller than the original animal; for example, he can transform into a spider the size of a blue whale.

Because of this, Yang Le's assessment of Garfield was that the latter possessed power far beyond his own imagination. Although he couldn't do it now, Garfield might be able to conjure up a giant tiger the size of a building in the future.

Therefore, Yang Le placed high expectations on Garfield, who not only did not feel the pressure, but even took pride in it. However, this also led to him becoming arrogant and being reprimanded by Yang Le.

Quietly flying to the end of the tunnel, Garfield followed the same method and slipped through the tightly closed doors. This time, the view opened up, and he found himself in a large hall.

The size of this hall is estimated to be similar to that of the people Garfield and others who were previously imprisoned, except that there are no covers of varying sizes here, making it look more like a botanical garden on Earth.

After a brief inspection, Garfield discovered that this was not just a botanical garden, but more like a small ecosystem, with various plants, flowing streams, and clear lakes.

The only thing missing from this ecosystem is life, Garfield speculated that it might be because the ecosystem was not properly constructed.

Garfield transformed into a ferocious tiger, using his exceptional sense of smell to locate the scent of the canned king, and then followed the scent all the way to the edge of the ecosystem. He slipped through the tightly closed gate for the third time, and this time, what appeared before Garfield was no longer anything related to plants or animals.

Before him stood a squad of heavily armed robotic guards, lined up neatly in front of the gate through which Garfield had passed, as if waiting for him to walk right into their trap.

Garfield immediately realized he had fallen into a trap. Considering the midge's defensive capabilities, he transformed into a thunderbolt.

When the heavy thunderbolts landed, the machine guards spontaneously parted to make way for the Canned King, who had been hiding among them.

“I knew you wouldn’t be so obedient, but I didn’t expect my carefully crafted display case wouldn’t be able to hold you for even ten minutes.”

The canned food king frowned, clearly very unhappy.

“I’m now considering my friend’s suggestion, which is to turn you opinionated animals into taxidermy specimens so that you’ll never run away again.”

As an animal rights activist, Garfield was certainly familiar with the process of taxidermy. Although he didn't know if alien technology would be different from that of humans, he knew that he would definitely die once he became a specimen.

Yang Le once told Garfield that it was better to slap a villain than to reason with him.

Once he knows whose fist is bigger, he won't be able to go crazy anymore.

Garfield followed Yang Le's advice, immediately curled into a ball, and after a brief acceleration in place, crashed into the direction of the Canned Food King.

Seeing this, the Canned King remained silent, simply raising its height to easily dodge Garfield's attack, but the other robot guards were not so lucky.

"Bang!"

The mechanical guard, which was standing still, was sent flying into the air with a loud bang, looking like a bowling ball hitting a pin.

After smashing all the machine guards to pieces, Garfield stopped rolling and looked up at the Canned King floating in the air.

“An unknown creature. I have traveled in the universe for so long and have never seen a creature like this.”

The look of infatuation in the King of Canned Goods' large eyes sent chills down Garfield's spine.

“I’ve changed my mind. It would be such a waste to turn a creature like you into a specimen. I want to completely tame you, even though it will make you lose your natural beauty. But it’s the only way I can think of right now.”

As soon as the Canned Food King finished speaking, all the doors around the room opened simultaneously, and countless mechanical guards filed in from outside, soon surrounding Garfield.

"I'm warning you one last time, it's not too late to switch sides now."

Garfield dismissed Canned King's barking as mere barking and ignored his words, once again curling up into a ball and charging towards the machine guards as before.

(End of this chapter)