American comics: Starting with mutants

the next day.

In the guest rooms on the second floor of the farmhouse.

Ethan had changed into a pair of jeans left at home by the farmer's eldest son, along with a T-shirt that fit him perfectly.

Yesterday, he had planned to say goodbye to the farmer and leave this place with Qin.

But the hospitable ranchers invited them to stay for dinner. If Jean hadn't confirmed yesterday that the ranchers were just ordinary people, Ethan would have suspected that they might be William Stryker's men.

After all, this place isn't too far from the X11 base located in the canyon. What if this farm was specially arranged by William Stryker on the outskirts of the base?

That's hard to say.

As the old saying goes, caution is the best policy.

But with Qin's real name as his guarantor, and since he didn't know which way to go for the time being, he accepted the invitation of the hospitable farmer and stayed overnight.

Ethan was wearing a plain black T-shirt and jeans, standing in front of the bathroom mirror in the guest room, looking at himself in the mirror.

He carefully examined himself today and himself yesterday, looking for subtle differences.

after awhile.

Ethan breathed a sigh of relief.

Okay.

I haven't gotten old.

After all, he only received half of the growth-inhibiting drug yesterday. Theoretically, he should look about 0.5 years older today than he did yesterday.

The work is done on the top of the list.

The reason is also very simple.

Black Emperor can use a variant of the "energy absorption" ability to strengthen himself while maintaining his youthful appearance.

From this perspective alone, Black Emperor could theoretically achieve immortality.

Unfortunately, this guy didn't understand the importance of "wearing a helmet and fastening a seatbelt," and Magneto pierced his forehead with a coin.

As Ethan thought about how Black King died, fragments of memories of Black King's death involuntarily surfaced in his mind, and he subconsciously reached out to touch his forehead.

Learn from the mistakes of the past to guide the actions of the future.

Once he finds the helmet, the first thing he'll do is have someone weld a safety harness onto it.

Off topic.

In short.

The Black Emperor was able to use energy to enhance himself while maintaining his appearance for over fifty years, and Ethan could do the same.

Since breaking the seal yesterday, he has been using the absorbed energy to continuously repair his current body.

This body is a clone, not a natural one.

The flaws in this body are numerous, if not many.

again……

This body is cloned, and no matter how you look at it, it cannot be compared to a natural body.

but!

Even though the repair progress is slow, he is confident that if he persists in strengthening this body, sooner or later he will be able to use the "Energy World" to transform this body into a superhuman steel body, just like he did yesterday when he used the "Energy World" to bring good fortune and use thermal vision.

Ethan thought to himself, looking at his appearance which was exactly the same as yesterday, and breathed a sigh of relief before walking out of the bathroom.

Qin was already dressed, but she still wore the same scarlet trench coat and leather boots as yesterday, which made her look slightly different from yesterday.

If yesterday's zither was twenty years old, then today's zither is twenty-one years old.

"Didn't you get your growth-suppressing injection yesterday?"

"I usually get my injections at night."

"Why didn't you say so last night?"

"You're in such a hurry to drag me along..."

"Ahem!"

Ethan coughed quickly, sat down next to Qin, took the insulated bag from the bedside, took out a bottle of growth-inhibiting medicine, tore open a brand-new syringe, and drew the growth-inhibiting medicine into the syringe.

Sitting to the side, Jean watched Ethan's actions, gathered her long, fiery red hair, turned her head to the side, and revealed her smooth neck to Ethan.

Ethan flicked his right hand, injecting the growth-inhibiting drug from the syringe into Jean's body, while explaining to himself.

"I thought you didn't need the injection."

"need."

Jean tilted her head and looked at Ethan, who was carefully pushing the potion with a serious expression, and explained, "William Stryker rewrote the growth genes of clones, and mine is no exception. My healing power can only work on the physical body and cannot reach deeper."

The body is the body, and the soul is the soul.

Jean's Phoenix Force is spiritual, ensuring the immortality of her soul, but it cannot affect her physical body like Ethan's!

Upon hearing this, Ethan nodded and removed the needle.

next second.

He watched as the needle hole disappeared visibly after it was withdrawn, removed the used needle, destroyed it with energy between his two fingers, and said with a smile, "Don't worry, there will be a way to solve this. If all else fails, there's always the option of changing bodies."

This idea might not be possible in other worlds.

But this is the Marvel Universe.

This idea is not only feasible, but it is also not difficult to implement at all.

Ethan said this, then put the syringe back into the insulated bag and glanced at the amount of medicine left inside: "And there are still more than sixty syringes here, enough for two months."

two months.

enough.

Even if he couldn't find William Stryker within a month, he could ensure he found another of William Stryker's bases to obtain the new growth-inhibiting agent.

Upon hearing this, Qin looked at Ethan.

"Don't you need it?"

"Need not."

Ethan laughed, "Your ability makes your soul immortal, and my ability makes my body immortal. We really are a match made in heaven."

He originally thought he also needed the growth-suppressing drug. If that was the case, then he and Qin would only have one month left.

In fact, without the external power to integrate and enhance his mutant abilities, he would indeed need growth-suppressing drugs.

Because he had secretly conducted tests while still at the base.

The external power did not activate the previous variant ability and could not repair the flaws in his cloned body.

Of course.

It's also possible that he only used a small portion of his energy at the time, which is why it wasn't noticeable.

But none of that matters anymore.

As long as he persists in maintaining his energy to repair himself, once he is fully repaired, he can strengthen his body and push it towards true physical immortality.

Just then.

The entire farmhouse seemed to tremble at that moment, accompanied by a buzzing sound, the chandelier swayed, and even the ornaments on the wooden cabinets shook.

"Boom!"

"earthquake……"

"wrong."

"The sound of fighter jets!"

Ethan was taken aback at first, then realized what was happening, and then he heard a loud rumble coming from the ceiling above him.

next second.

A missile bearing the inscription "Stark Hellfire" shattered the ceiling, unleashing a powerful and destructive explosion the moment it came into Ethan's view.

"boom!"

"suck!"

Ethan reacted quickly, his 'Energy World' began to operate wildly, and he transformed into a black hole, swallowing the explosive energy of the Hellfire cruise missile, which was equivalent to 4.2 tons of TNT, into his own Energy World.

In the world of energy, with the intake of energy, the great sun in the sky... the sun with its dark edges, shines even more brightly.

but!

There was more than just one Hellfire Cycle Missile that fell.

To be precise, there are four.