American comics: Starting with mutants

Ethan's words were undoubtedly a blatant sarcasm.

but……

Albert Laurent, with his dark skin and bald head, was not ashamed of it, but rather proud of it.

"At least I have an owner, what about you?"

"..."

Ethan stared at Albert Laurent, who spoke with a face full of pride and even arrogance, and his mind went blank for a moment.

Just then.

Albert Laurent rushed toward Ethan.

"Thermal vision!"

"boom!"

Albert Laurent was sent flying again, his entire body instantly smashing a cloning incubation chamber containing a fully formed embryo. The nutrient solution that flowed out of the chamber and the fully formed embryo crashed heavily to the ground.

They're definitely dead now.

Ethan looked at Albert Laurent, who was lying motionless on the ground in the nutrient solution, with another thermal penetrating wound on his chest, and thought to himself.

but……

Albert Laurent's penetrating chest wound throbbed visibly. Soon, Albert Laurent once again appeared unharmed as he climbed out of the nutrient solution scattered on the ground. After stretching his neck, he looked at Ethan again and grinned.

"I can play with you..."

"Thermal vision!"

"boom!"

Before he could finish speaking, Ethan's heat vision struck again, instantly piercing through his chest and sending him flying.

but……

Thirty seconds later, Albert Laurent, completely unharmed, got up from the ground again and continued to look at Ethan with a mocking expression.

"My master gave me two cloning abilities."

"Immortality and self-healing."

"The mutant ability of immortality grants me that no matter how severe my injuries are, even if my head explodes, I will only fall into a state of suspended animation and will not actually die."

"My self-healing mutant ability grants me the ability to quickly repair my injuries as long as I am alive, and the more severe my injuries are, the faster I will recover."

"And you!"

"You've only cloned one variant ability."

"Moreover, it is a variant ability with extremely obvious flaws. You cannot generate energy on your own; you need to absorb energy before you can release it."

"Although the master doesn't know how you acquired your laser-eye mutant ability."

"but……"

At this point, Albert Laurent looked at Ethan smugly: "From the moment you came in until you killed me so many times, your energy is almost depleted, isn't it?"

Ethan neither confirmed nor denied the statement.

He looked at Albert Laurent, who had a smug look on his face, as if he were the most intelligent man in the world.

"So, what's your plan? To exhaust my energy, and then what? Kill me?"

"No, no, no."

Albert Laurent looked at Ethan, who did not deny it, and felt that he had guessed correctly.

Ethan doesn't have much energy left to release.

He said smugly, "Killing you? That's impossible. As long as I attack you, you can reabsorb energy. I won't do something so stupid."

Ethan chuckled upon hearing this.

"So what do you plan to do?"

"Do you know what the self-destruct mechanism is in this base?"

"What?"

"You're thinking that even if you run out of energy, you can still absorb energy after the base's self-destruct device activates and explodes, right?"

Albert Laurent, now resembling a seemingly foolish but actually wise detective, stared confidently at Ethan, then clicked his tongue and smacked his thick lips: "You're in for a bad time. The self-destruct device in this base doesn't explode; it releases a dissolving venom. Once activated, the dissolving venom, capable of instantly melting clones, will cover the entire cloning base within thirty seconds."

Ethan raised an eyebrow upon hearing this.

So that's how it dissolves venom.

If his energy is truly exhausted, he will indeed be no different from an ordinary person, and may even be weaker than an ordinary person because of this leaky clone.

Once he runs out of energy and comes into contact with the dissolving venom, there is indeed no chance of survival.

but!

"You are a clone too."

"But I have an owner."

Albert Laurent's face once again lit up with pride: "My master injected me with a dissolving vaccine, making me immune to dissolving venom. And do you know what else my master gave me?"

Ethan smiled as he looked at Albert Laurent, who seemed to have everything under control, and played the role of a perfect straight man.

"What?"

"My mind, a mind that belongs only to me, a power that allows me to feel that I have complete control over my body and that there is no barrier between us."

As Albert Laurent spoke, he raised his right hand in front of Ethan, looking at it with a disgusted expression. He clenched his fist tightly and then relaxed it, before looking at Ethan, who was frowning, and said sarcastically, "You, a clone who attempted to kill your master, wouldn't understand this feeling."

No, I understand.

It's just about the spirit being one with the body.

If the soul and body of a natural person are perfectly matched, then the soul and body of a clone are not.

Ethan felt this feeling particularly acutely.

Because he was a natural person in his previous life, he was even more able to feel this inexplicable difference after becoming a clone in this life.

Well, how should I put it?

He felt a barrier between himself and his body; he could sense the existence of his physical body, but sometimes he couldn't.

The zither felt the same way.

Ethan had planned to wait until he used his energy to repair the leaky body, which William Stryker had left with many backdoors, and if the barrier still existed, then he would find a way to resolve it.

Unexpectedly...

An unexpected gain.

William Stryker somehow managed to resolve this inexplicable estrangement.

This is amazing.

This gives us another reason to kill William Stryker.

Ethan thought to himself, then looked at Albert Laurent, who seemed to have victory in his grasp, and nodded with a smile.

"When I first came in, I absorbed a lot of energy, but now I don't have much left."

"but……"

"I still have enough energy to kill you."

Ethan spoke with a smile, but the moment his words fell, the crimson in his eyes reappeared instantly.

Albert Laurent watched this scene with a smile, neither dodging nor avoiding it, even opening his arms and tilting his head back.

"Come on, don't pity me, I promise I won't..."

"boom!"

Albert Laurent was sent flying backwards once again.

But this time, Ethan followed as well, arriving in front of Albert Laurent, whose chest had been ripped open once again, and who had instantly fallen into a state of suspended animation, his healing mutant ability rapidly taking over and repairing his body.

The crimson energy in his eyes surged forth once more.

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

……