Marvel: Starting with the Glint-Glint Fruit

"Reality is harsh, Stryker. Good luck."

The phone hangs up.

Stryker froze on the spot, not only because he had heard the despairing news, but also because someone had appeared in front of him.

An Eastern European.

Black, gold-plated, form-fitting armor, along with an exquisite hooded coat; although there was no helmet, a badge was engraved on the breastplate.

The silver-grey holy flame cross, with a six-pointed star in the center, is enclosed within a shield-shaped outline.

The iconic armor, the iconic emblem.

Grey Knight!

Stryker felt a chill run down his spine; he had never imagined that Terra would be able to find him so quickly.

why?

This is his most secret base, one that even the X-Men can't find. How did Terra manage to do it?

"Found you~~"

English with a slight accent rang in his ears.

All he saw was the grey knight reaching out his hand towards Stryker, and in his desperate trembling, he saw a golden light emerge from that palm.

Then everything went black and he lost consciousness.

Everything is over.

......

Stryker was taken back to Terra by Chiwetel, along with his most trusted and controlled assistant, an Asian mutant woman.

He possesses abilities similar to Logan's, including a super-strong self-healing ability and has been implanted with adamantium.

Besides her, there's also Stryker's son, Jason.

Jason's mutant ability is to manipulate illusions, but Stryker hates his son for awakening his mutant abilities and causing the death of his wife.

He removed Jason's prefrontal lobe, turning Jason into a complete puppet without any independent consciousness or personality.

The Boeing captain was controlled by his fantasies, as well as by the control drugs developed using Jason's spinal fluid.

The combination of these two factors led that unfortunate captain to commit such a crime.

William Stryker ultimately died during his trial in court.

Magneto and the X-Men all came to watch.

The crimes committed by William Stryker are too numerous to list.

Magneto, the X-Men, and even Professor X all hate him.

The mutants all grinned with glee as they watched the man being put on trial.

In fact, William Stryker's execution was not simply a matter of physical annihilation.

It was an extremely cruel form of punishment.

That is, through a magical means, William Stryker's consciousness was slowed down, slowed down countless times, during his execution.

Stryker's thinking was like falling into a space without a concept of time.

It could be a hundred years, a thousand years, or ten thousand years.

During this time, Stryker felt an unprecedented loneliness, solitude, and fear of impending death.

All his senses were shut down; he could not feel the wind, nature, or anything around him.

This would be an extremely cruel torment for an ordinary person before death.

As Stryker faced death, his eyes were already completely empty.

In those years when time had no concept, Stryker's personality had been dissolved. Even without death, he, like his son Jason, had become an empty shell without a personality.

This is the punishment Terra has prepared for those criminals whose crimes are beyond description.

Death is merely a release.

Physical torment can never compare to mental torment.

Those who commit crimes must pay an equal or even excessive price.

Treat good people better and bad people worse—this is the tone set by Matthew.

This is the order of Terra.

Fairness~

Matthew hates those so-called human rights sentencing rules the most. Some minor crimes are fine, they can be imprisoned or reformed.

But bullying, forced torture of women, trafficking, etc., must be serious crimes. In Terra, there is no such thing as death penalty being converted into life imprisonment.

If a person has good behavior, their life sentence can be reduced to a fixed term and then further reduced.

That's utter bullshit to Matthew.

Wantonly harming others, causing irreparable physical and psychological trauma.

What the victims need is for the perpetrators to pay an equal and excessive price.

Only in this way can we find the best medicine to heal and comfort the victims.

William Stryker became the first criminal in Terran history to be publicly executed and tried.

And his crimes will be made public, making him despised by everyone.

Chapter 269 The Birth of the MK Armor (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

"How could this guy named William Stryker be so wicked?"

On the private beach of a Long Island estate in New York.

While having a BBQ at noon, Gwen was personally skewering meat with bamboo sticks, watching a tablet on the table in front of her showing footage of William Stryker's trial, along with a line of information about the numerous crimes Stryker had committed. Her expression was extremely angry.

The young high school girl never imagined that there could be such a dark side to the world.

Or rather, she and many other students in the ivory tower hadn't even considered it.

The darkness of human nature is fully revealed in Stryker's crimes and the numerous inhumane experiments conducted in laboratories.

In particular, you can see children who are only a few years old among them.

That scene broke the heart of kind-hearted Gwen.

Furious, she skewered the meat forcefully, as if she were treating the lamb in her hand like Stryker and then stabbing him to death herself.

“Yeah, that bastard deserves to die,” Carrie chimed in angrily as she helped Gwen skewer meat.

"Hey, didn't I tell you not to see it? If you did, would you still be able to eat?"

Not far away, in front of the grill, Matthew, who rarely comes out to relax after a long period of rigorous training, was fiddling with the meat being grilled over charcoal while saying something in an annoyed tone.

Footage of Terra's public trial has already circulated on social media around the world.

And its popularity exploded.

After all, many things in Terra are already attracting a lot of attention, and even the slightest movement can generate a lot of interest.

Terra's public execution of Stryker served not only as a deterrent but also as a source of comfort for mutants and a way to foster empathy for them.

It's just too tragic.

Anyone with a modicum of compassion would surely sympathize with mutants as a vulnerable group.

Many young children were particularly harmed.

Children are an absolute taboo, no matter which country they live in.

Even if those perverts in the West do things like cannibal islands, they usually do it in secret, not openly.

Once it's made public, this will be a huge event.

The kind of thing that even the lower classes would never allow.

Because of the deliberate propaganda of certain interest groups, they are ostracized and hated, but when they actually see the scenes of those children being harmed and dismembered, they will definitely feel anger.

Matthew used this method to minimize the conflict between ordinary people and mutants.

This will contribute to internal harmony as Terra's population continues to grow.

It was clearly a great success.

Judging from the online public opinion on social media, the vast majority of people are on the side of mutants.

They all expressed their opinion that this was a crime against humanity.

At the same time, it's terrifying to think about. William Stryker, a former U.S. military colonel, actually committed such an atrocity. Who else but Stryker could have done this?

Are there other undisclosed individuals within the military?

Are there many more people like Stryker around the world?

Angry public opinion has turned to demanding that the Terran government investigate whether there are any experimental sites around the world that use mutants for experiments.

They clamored for Terra to arrest those who committed crimes against humanity and publicly execute them.

Meanwhile, a small group of people hoped that the Terra Empire could send people to their country to arrest those serial killers, rapists, and the like who had not yet been investigated, and to investigate, arrest, and execute all those criminals together.

This public opinion has even intensified, with people in many countries around the world sharing online how many people in their cities have committed countless heinous crimes.

This terrified some people.

Many criminals consider themselves exceptionally intelligent and believe that they will not be caught by the police for their crimes.

Many of these crimes have been committed and remain hidden for over a decade or even decades.

But if Terra were to actually investigate, they would genuinely believe they might not be able to escape.

After all, Terra really does have gods.

Can the wisdom of mere humankind compare to the omnipotent divine power of a great god?

If we can kill demons, finding them will be a piece of cake, right?

As a result, those people were on tenterhooks, and many were so frightened that they were at a loss for what to do, and ultimately chose to turn themselves in.

Even if they are arrested, they might still escape the death penalty.

Many countries have abolished the death penalty, and with money and lawyers, one can often have their sentence reduced significantly.

But if Terra catches you, you'll be in big trouble.

In public executions, the court announces the sentencing standards, and anyone who meets those standards will be executed without any delay.

There is no such thing as a legal procedure or process.

With sufficient evidence, the court convicted the defendant on the spot and carried out the death penalty immediately.

human rights?

The government of Terra does not discuss human rights with serious offenders.

Because those people are not human.

They also announced what the treatment would be for those executed.

Listen to what the judge in that court said, what it means to slow down one's thoughts and consciousness, and what it means to make someone experience a hundred, a thousand, or even ten thousand years of loneliness and torment during that period.

Is that something a person can withstand?

Many clever netizens, upon learning of this incident, turned into frame-by-frame observers, capturing Stryker's micro-expressions and eyes in the fractions of a second before his death.

After detailed magnification and rendering, one can clearly see the numbness in William Stryker's final expression and the emptiness in his eyes.

It clearly matches the judge's description perfectly.

Who isn't afraid?

The execution alone serves as a deterrent to those who intend to commit crimes, making potential criminals consider whether they might be caught by Terra.