American comics: Starting with mutants

"Dog, dog!"

"Hurry up, hurry up!"

"hurry up!"

At this very moment, on the ground of the X11 base, a military transport plane, already prepared, is parked on a runway that appears to be built between two canyons.

A row of soldiers armed with heavy weapons stood at the cargo door of the transport plane, shouting angrily at the crowd that seemed to have fled from a cave.

The underground entrance to the X11 base is built into the mountainside of a canyon in Palo Duro Canyon National Park, Texas.

Countless staff members rushed out of the base, their faces tense, and even though they were panting heavily, they ran without stopping towards the transport planes that had already begun to rumble.

"Hurry, hurry, hurry!"

"Everyone on alert."

As the last staff member ran out of the cave, the captain of the soldiers roared, and all the soldiers carrying heavy weapons, including one carrying a shoulder-mounted rocket launcher, pointed their guns at the base's only entrance.

Just then.

A worker who had just lost something and was bent down to pick it up, which caused a delay, had just rushed out of the cave.

Gunfire erupted instantly!

In the blink of an eye, the staff member who was perfectly fine one second was shot into a swarm of wasps the next!

But the soldier captain and his team members remained expressionless.

Their orders were to shoot anyone who came out of the cave.

and so……

This is not their fault.

at the same time.

Ethan, who had already seen the staff running ahead while playing his violin, laughed out loud when he heard the loud gunshots outside.

next second.

He handed the insulated bag to Qin, who was standing next to him: "Take this and wait for me here. I'll be right back."

That's all.

Ethan turned his head and walked straight out of the cave.

"Fire!"

"Fire!"

"Bang bang bang bang!"

"boom!"

The soldier carrying the rocket launcher looked at Ethan, who was braving a hail of bullets, and without hesitation, pulled the trigger.

moment.

The rocket, trailing a burning tail, roared toward Ethan.

boom!

The rocket exploded in front of Ethan, the energy of the explosion shooting out with a violent burst of flames.

Ethan spread his arms wide, as if he were making a Rasengan, and swallowed the energy from the rocket explosion, instantly transferring the energy that could not be absorbed at the moment into his own energy world.

Above the energy world, that sliver of light seemed to appear even brighter than before.

But to others, Ethan absorbed the energy of the explosion.

The soldier captain listened to his commander's instructions over his earpiece on how to deal with the Black King clone.

Since poison gas won't work, let him inhale it to his heart's content.

Let him suck until he's stuffed, let him suck until his belly is bloated, until he sucks until he explodes and dies!

"Fire! Keep firing!"

"I'd like to see just how far he can go with this!"

"clear."

The soldiers roared and relentlessly unleashed a hail of heavy weapon bullets at Ethan, who stood at the cave entrance, seemingly unable to advance due to their suppression.

Because they know it very well.

Their plane hadn't completed takeoff checks yet, and if they couldn't subdue the clone before takeoff, there was only one fate awaiting them.

dead!

Therefore, all the soldiers were unleashing their full force against Ethan.

As they had hoped, Ethan's veins, now exposed and bulging, began to shimmer with an eerie crimson hue.

It seemed, as if, if Ethan held on a little longer, he would explode and die because he couldn't absorb enough energy.

Except for one thing.

He was faking it.

Ethan recalled a scene from the time he was mocked by these guys.

That was when he was attacked by poison gas and was extremely weak; it was also the closest he ever came to death.

He wanted a drink of water, but the soldier conducting the test held the water bottle in front of him, only to kick it to the next person's feet when he reached for it.

He was treated like a dog, being teased and played with by those soldiers.

One of them laughed the loudest.

He remembered it clearly; it was the soldier captain in front of him who smiled when he saw that he seemed about to explode and die.

Times change, and fortunes shift.

Now it's his turn to make fun of these people.

but……

Before he could even get into character, the soldier captain seemed to have heard something and began directing his soldiers to maintain firepower against him while methodically retreating into the cabin.

obviously.

The transport plane is about to take off.

"Captain, we're about to kill him."

"withdraw!"

"But we feel he can't hold on any longer."

"That's an order!"

The soldier captain roared, even though he also felt that the clone in front of him was about to explode and die, but he still felt that something was wrong, so he listened to his intuition, because he had saved himself countless times by relying on this intuition.

Unfortunately, the soldier captain's intuition did not tell him that boarding the plane might be the most dangerous time.

Ethan did not stop the soldiers from entering the cabin in an orderly manner. Instead, he strolled around as if taking a walk, shirtless, and walked over the mountain of bullets in front of him, watching the transport plane begin to taxi and the cabin door slowly close.

He sensed the energy world within him, and the energy sphere that had just swallowed a massive amount of energy, hanging high in the sky like a sun, slowly closed his eyes.

In an instant.

In the energy world, the sun's light dimmed at a visible speed, and the energy it had just swallowed seemed to converge in Ethan's pupils through some mysterious passageway.

His pupils were surrounded by a crimson glow.

next second.

Ethan abruptly opened his eyes, and in that instant, two crimson energy beams surged from them, catching up with the transport plane, which was already halfway up the runway, in the blink of an eye.

This is not Black Emperor Xiao's ability.

It was his own.

Thermal vision!

It originates from the energy stored in the energy world and is released through one's own eyes.

The more energy he has, the stronger his thermal vision becomes!

boom!

Boom!

The transport plane, which was maintaining an upright posture, was split into three pieces and exploded violently the instant it came into contact with the two crimson energy pillars.

Inside the cabin, the base staff, who thought they had escaped by sheer luck, were instantly engulfed in flames by the explosion amidst endless panic.

With a huge explosion, the transport plane crashed into the runway again, creating a large crater, and the wreckage, still burning, sprayed in all directions.

Ethan's bloodshot eyes gradually cooled down and slowly returned to normal at a visible speed.

He stared at the transport plane engulfed in flames on the runway, his eyes reflecting the burning flames, though it was unclear whether they were flickering or simply mirroring them.

……