The Comprehensive Evolution of American Comics.

Chapter 759: The Origin of Fear - Sky Hammer Venerable

"Cough cough!"

Bruce struggled to get up from the debris. He had been conducting experiments until just now, but a sudden loud noise and the subsequent vibration scared him.

Just as the wording meant, Bruce was frightened and jumped up, and the beaker in his hand fell on the laboratory table without being able to hold it firmly. He fell backwards and was pressed under a pile of documents.

Ignoring the pain in his body, Bruce hurriedly looked up at his experimental results. Sure enough, the laboratory table had been overturned, not to mention the sophisticated instruments and chemicals on it.

The pain in Bruce's heart at this moment exceeded the pain in his body. The most precious material here was not the chemicals or instruments, but the blood of the green giant that he had secretly preserved.

Was it some strange coincidence, or was it simply a case of not giving up? When the military commissioned him and Howard to analyze the giant, he secretly drew a vial of blood and kept it. In the days that followed, he had been secretly studying this power in his spare time.

Bruce really wanted to know why the Superman potion had exceeded his expectations and turned into such a horrible appearance, but now it seems that all this has come to nothing, and the contaminated blood is no longer worth studying.

"Cough cough!" Bruce covered his mouth. He then realized that he seemed to have coughed too much. Could it be that his injury was actually very serious? It seemed that he had to go to the hospital tomorrow.

Bruce wanted to open the window to get some fresh air, so he walked to the window, but found a smoking hole in the open space outside the window. It seemed that this was the true appearance of an earthquake.

"What is that?" Bruce didn't think much about it and ran out of the house in a hurry. Maybe because he was too anxious, Bruce didn't notice that he was walking very fast at this time and didn't look like a wounded person at all.

The strange Bruce quickly ran out of the house and came to the edge of the pothole in just a few steps. Because the team was moving too fast, Bruce, who had not had time to get used to it, was unable to brake and rolled into the pothole.

"Ouch!" Bruce cried out in pain and stood up while rubbing his head. He felt that he had hit something particularly hard, and even the protective suit and helmet on his head was cracked.

Bruce's face suddenly changed when he looked at the thing he hit, because this thing was completely different from what he thought. It was not a meteor or satellite fragment, but a strangely shaped hammer.

There is a hollow ring at the end of the metal hammer handle. The hammer handle, which is as long as a person, is inserted into a strange-shaped hammer head. The hammer head looks like a combination of a triangle and a trapezoid, which looks strange no matter how you look at it.

"What is this?" Bruce muttered to himself. Just as he was about to think about it, he was stunned because he heard an unfamiliar voice.

"Take up the hammer, and I will grant you the power you deserve."

As if possessed by a ghost, Bruce actually reached out for the hammer handle, and when he came to his senses, his right hand had already grasped the hammer handle.

"What? Ugh!"

A surge of power burst out from the hammer and quickly swept through Bruce's body. This energy violently poured into his slender body, causing him to feel great pain.

"Oh?" The voice sounded again, and the big snake thousands of miles away showed a look of surprise.

"You have a miraculous power within your body, but it's only a seed. It looks like you've just acquired it. In that case, let me help you."

"Ah ah ah ah ah!"

Bruce screamed, and at the same time his body began to swell rapidly, like a balloon filled with water, and his body gradually turned green.

There were six more such incidents tonight.

...

Howard, working overtime in Stark Tower, watched warily as a falling object landed not far in front of him. It was a hammer that looked like it was made of stone, but Howard wasn't so naive. The AI ​​on his suit told him it couldn't determine the hammer's material, and he didn't think stone could penetrate Stark Tower's defenses.

Howard scanned for a long time but couldn't get an answer, so he took advantage of the armor's ability to block radiation and flew to the hammer. He wanted to move the hammer to his laboratory, where he could find a way to analyze it.

So he reached for the hammer.

...

Magneto looked at the pit in front of him vigilantly. A chain hammer was lying quietly in the center of the pit, but this chain hammer was too huge for humans. It looked more like a specially made work of art.

Just watching like this is not a solution. It is better to take the chain hammer back to Hank for inspection.

Thinking of this, Magneto raised his hand, aimed at the chain hammer, and then grabbed it...

...

"What's going on?" Murdoc asked his men. "What was that vibration just now?"

"Reporting to Lord Murdoc, according to the information received, the vibration just now came from area B1. Something fell from the sky and hit there."

Murdoc's eyes widened as he asked, "What is that? Is it an enemy attack?"

The subordinate reported: "What came down was something like a hammer. It is not clear whether it was an enemy attack."

"What?" Murdoc suspected he had misheard. "A hammer? Breaking through the base's defenses?"

Before his men could answer, the communicator in his hand rang. At Murdoc's instruction, his men connected the communicator, and screams and gunshots came out of the communicator all at once.

"Requesting support! Requesting support! Test subject γ1 has breached containment! Test subject γ1 is out of control!"

...

"Whoo~"

The big snake exhaled lightly. The Sky Hammer had been lifted up one after another by the qualified people, and fear began to spread. He believed that it would not take long for him to recover to his peak state.

"Father." Loki stood behind the snake, holding the Sky Hammer. "You look much better than you did at the beginning."

"Fear is beginning to spread, and my strength is beginning to return." The big snake lowered his head and observed his current appearance through the reflection in the tree.

His hair has begun to turn from white to black, the wrinkles on his face have become fewer, and the hand holding the crutches has regained some strength. Although it cannot be compared with his peak, at least he no longer feels pain.

"It's painful to see your strength drain away bit by bit, Skadi," Orochi said with a dark look in his eyes. "I wish my brother could experience this, too. After all, good things should be shared, right?"

"Your will, father." Loki knelt on one knee and submitted to the snake.

(End of this chapter)