Chapter 432: Sampling Superman
Clark struggled in a black and white world resembling an ink painting for an unknown amount of time, yet he couldn't escape this mysterious black and white space.
During this time, he tried every method imaginable to leave this strange place. However, whether he flew at super high speed approaching the speed of light or used heat ray that could cut through anything, it was all useless. The feeling was like punching with full force into the air, or hitting cotton – no, it was even more unbearable. With his strength, even punching the air could cause a sonic boom... His super high-speed flight could even stir up a storm sweeping across the Pacific Ocean in the sky... But the surrounding space felt like the void, like a bottomless vortex in water. His entire strength couldn't exert any effect at all; no matter how much strength he used, it would be devoured by this vortex. After an unknown amount of time, just as Clark gave up on solving the problem with his strength, hovering in this black and white world, closing his eyes in meditation, his super brain rapidly operating, thinking about how to leave this strange world.
Clark, possessing super senses, was completely unaware that the two black and white cloud qi forming this world, stretching for tens of thousands of miles, had changed. As the yin-yang fish rotated clockwise, a palm-sized black and white talismanic seal drifted down from high altitude, landing directly on Superman's head.
The taiji talismanic seal, light and thin as a sheet of paper, landed on Clark's head. Immediately, a golden light sealed his niwan acupoint. Clark, situated in the world within the painting, only felt his head grow dizzy, and with a thud, he fell directly onto the ground.
In a daze, Clark felt himself being lifted up, and it seemed someone was speaking in his ear. At the Svartalfheim Hive Base, Professor Connors, the Person in Charge of the Experimental Base, wore a white cleanroom suit. Accompanied by four or five professor-level experts from the laboratory, he directed two sentinel robots under Lane's gaze, carefully lifting Superman onto the experiment table.
*Click click click click click—*
As the most strictly secured laboratory in the entire Hive Base, the entire laboratory was built from Adamantium. The cold experiment table was a product crafted from Vibranium Ore supplemented with Adamantium. Its sturdiness was enough to withstand a full-force strike from Mjolnir... After the two sentinel robots placed the naked Clark on the experiment table, accompanied by the sounds of mechanical parts opening and closing, the experiment table automatically fitted him with leg shackles and handcuffs. These handcuffs and leg shackles, integrated with the experiment table, were inscribed with various tiny runes the size of ants.
Not only were these Adamantium metal shackles inscribed with Soul Suppressing Talisman and Spirit Calming Incantation... even the experiment table beneath Clark's body was covered in binding runes... As an aside, this alloy experiment table was also a structure integrated with the entire laboratory. Due to the special material properties of Adamantium, this laboratory was constructed using a liquid casting method.
In the corner of the laboratory wall, there was also a Taishan Stone Tablet magic tool stone stele, used to bear weight. Once the magic tool was activated, the entire laboratory would experience a gravity space like Mount Tai pressing down... If this laboratory were to be damaged, this stone stele would act as a cornerstone, limiting the experiment subject's actions.
According to the initial security assessment, once locked onto this experiment table, unless the experiment subject could forcibly drag a weight of hundreds of millions of tons and withstand the attack of hundreds of sentinel robots to rush out of the Hive Base within two minutes and thirty seconds, the experiment subject would face a focused fire attack from the entire experimental base's thirty-plus defense system. This included tens of thousands of Dragon Wing Gold Attendants in the underground floor dormancy space of the experimental base, twenty thousand alien embryos, hundreds of sentinel robots, thousands of Iron Soldiers, and thousands of armed personnel holding alien high-tech weapons and simultaneously injected with various Lizard Serum, Hulk Serum, and Perfect Serum, who would surround and suppress them... Even if someone could escape the Hive Base within two minutes and thirty seconds, if they couldn't escape Svartalfheim within three minutes,
the entire Svartalfheim would be sealed by the Heaven-Earth Net Great Formation. Thousands of spaceships would simultaneously ascend, and an artificial sun would appear every hundred meters above Svartalfheim, which would be directly taken over by Skynet, becoming Skynet's eyes. These artificial suns were inscribed with various eye technique restriction formations like Form Peeking, Far Sight, and Illusion Breaking. The light they emitted was enough to see through most stealth and transformation magical techniques, leaving enemies nowhere to hide.
In the weapon reserve at the Svartalfheim Military Factory, hundreds of thousands of Iron Soldiers and thousands of sentinel robots would activate simultaneously within three minutes of receiving the alarm... heading to surround and intercept the escaping experiment subject. Hundreds of thousands of Dark Races living in Svartalfheim would also receive the conscription order within twenty minutes and join this war... If an experiment subject could overcome this heavy blockade, then congratulations, a certain black-hearted Boss Tang would personally descend with his group of enforcers. They would launch a brutal group beating against you by hitting you from behind one's back, smashing bricks, firing black guns, and setting up various vicious formations.
They might even see your strength is formidable and not show up directly, but instead use malicious curse technique, taking you down with the remote voodoo doll curse method!
From the above, one can see how high the security level of this laboratory is, and how much the Hive Base values Superman Clark, this temporarily sent experiment subject.
As is well known, Superman's magic resistance is almost zero. First, his spiritual aperture was sealed by the Taiji True Form Diagram with a taiji talismanic seal, and then a Soul Suppressing Talisman was attached. At this moment, Clark directly entered a deep sleep (coma state). Several leading professors looked at the naked Superman Clark lying before them, their eyes revealing extreme joy and a look as if they couldn't wait to pounce on him. If they weren't holding scalpels in their hands, they would definitely be seen as perverts who liked men. However, their current appearance wasn't much better, more like the pervert doctors and murder demons from horror films.
Of course, this group of experts in biological science and gene studies were not coveting Clark's physical beauty; they coveted Clark's physical body. This was the legendary Superman... They had thought that getting to research the experiment subject suspected to be Doomsday was already exciting enough, but they never expected that one day they would be able to personally dissect Superman.
One professor holding an Adamantium scalpel was so excited that he directly reached out to touch Clark's chest and abdomen, measuring where to make the incision.
"Ahem, Professor Sterns, don't be in such a hurry. We have two and a half hours, which is enough to complete this sampling. We need to first measure this Superman's body data..."
Professor Connors stopped the fanatical professor's actions and instructed a research assistant nearby. The experimenter nearby had already opened the laboratory's auxiliary computer. With his operation, several green lasers were quickly projected from the instrument above the experiment table, beginning to measure around Clark.
"Height, 195 centimeters, 6 feet 4 inches, weight 102 kilograms, 225 pounds."
The research assistant reported the data measured by the instrument to the professors. The reason for having two units of measurement was to prevent errors. Soon, Superman Clark's body data was recorded. "Professor Connors, can we start sampling now?" Samuel Sterns rubbed his hands impatiently.
Samuel Sterns, the villain who would later become the "Leader," was recruited into the Hive Laboratory. Relying on his outstanding ability and extraordinary wisdom, he successfully became the director of the Hulk Project. Samuel Sterns once used the alias Mr. Blue and was a network close friend with Bruce Banner for a period, remotely helping Bruce Banner solve the Hulk on his body. It was precisely because of this that Samuel Sterns was very familiar with the Hulk Gene... Under his direction, the Hulk Project quickly achieved a qualitative breakthrough. With Perfect Serum, a universal fusion agent, as a stabilizer, this project quickly completed the mass production of Hulk Serum.
In fact, the Hulk Serum researched by the Military back then was a nearly successful finished product, but its compatibility was too low, the casualties rate was too high, coupled with the uncontrollability shown by the only successful experiment subject, Abomination, this project was shut down by the Military. Afterwards, Tang Group's Biotech Company took over this project from the Military at a very low price. Based on this, and with Samuel Sterns' research, the mass production of Hulk Serum was finally completed.
Currently, the Hulk Serum produced by the Hive Laboratory allows the injector to transform into a large physique like Hulk after injection. Unlike Dr. Banner, this transformation is controllable. However, once transformed into the Hulk form, the injector becomes irritable and violent, but this problem was quickly solved after Heavenly Soldier Valley mass-produced a magic tool called the Ice Heart Pendant.
After completing the mass production of Hulk Serum, Samuel Sterns was transferred to the Titan Serum project for two years, responsible for the optimization and modification of various Titan Serums such as King Ghidorah, Yamata no Orochi, Rodan, and Godzilla.
The experiment projects within the Hive Base are roughly divided into five levels, and biological agent research is the same. Projects like Lizard Serum, which are nearly 100% developed, approaching saturation, and have little research value, are at the bottom of the experimental agents and are classified as D-Level. Werewolf Serum, Vampire Potion, Shapeshifter Magic Powder, Invisibility Potion, these projects also have a high degree of development, but these experimental agents have significant room for improvement. For example, with Werewolf Serum, due to Hell discovering a blood sample of a demonic wolf, the ninth generation Werewolf Serum project has already been initiated, so these agents are classified as C-Level.
Perfect Serum, Hulk Serum, Divine Serum, these projects are classified as B-Level. The development of Perfect Serum is quite mature, but its effect is more inclined towards being a neutralize agent. Even many A-Level projects also require it to fuse different gene fragments, and thus its practical value is very high. Hulk Serum goes without saying; this serum can greatly enhance Tang Group's armed forces.
As for Divine Serum, it has currently iterated to the sixth generation. An Ordinary Person injecting a dose of Divine Serum can slow down the division speed of terminal cells. One dose is enough to extend an Ordinary Person's lifespan to one hundred and eighty years. Of course, so far, the second-generation version of Divine Serum sold by Tang Group on the market only extends a person's natural lifespan to 140 years.
Even so, the second-generation Divine Serum, priced at one hundred thousand US dollars, is currently still in short supply. It's important to know that Tang Group's subsidiary Biotech Company, in pursuit of greater interests, sells one dose of the agent in five installments. This means that to naturally extend one's lifespan to 140 years, it costs at least five hundred thousand US dollars... The price is even higher through Black Market channels. At its most expensive, a set of Divine Serum on the market was even speculated up to ten million US dollars. Ordinary People simply cannot afford this agent, or rather, this agent was never intended for the General Public from the start.
Ordinary People who want to obtain Divine Serum have two ways besides spending money. One is to join Tang Group. Divine Serum is now an internal benefit for every Tang Group employee. As long as they have been employed for a year, they can use their contribution points to exchange for a set of Divine Serum for themselves and their immediate relatives. The other way is through Church, believing in Pope Hyde's revised New Testament, devout followers who believe in the Heavenly Emperor will receive divine blessing and bathe in holy water. As for the composition of this holy water, it goes without saying.
Therefore, in the past two years, The Church's influence has grown from large groups of believers demonstrating against the New Testament to having believers spread across the Five Continents. Even in areas where evangelize has always been difficult, large numbers of old men and old women queue up punctually at the Church Gate every morning, waiting to bathe in holy water. This is all thanks to Divine Serum.
According to the analysis of Tang Group's Think Tank team, the true popularization of Divine Serum can only happen when the Earth's Alien Planet immigration plan is implemented. Otherwise, Earth's current resources cannot support the population explosion caused by severely unbalanced birth and death rates.
Regarding resources, Boss Tang doesn't care. With Tang Group's current revenue in the Milky Way Galaxy plus that portion of Universal Bank shares, let alone one Earth, buying hundreds or even thousands of Habitable Planets is a piece of cake. However, firstly, Boss Tang considers himself not the Earth's babysitter, and secondly, Hill pleaded with Tang Song on the ** wanting to popularize Divine Serum as one of her bargaining chips for running for president and facilitating the Earth Federation.
Boss Tang naturally supports his little lover's authority game, so the progress of Divine Serum popularization has been delayed. Perhaps only when Ms. Maria Hill is truly elected Federal President of the Earth Federation will Divine Serum truly enter thousands of households.
A-Level biological agents are naturally various Titan Serums! King Ghidorah, Godzilla, Rodan, Yamata no Orochi, these are the four agents currently with stable technology, appearing on Tang Group's internal contribution points list.
As for the development of S-Level biological agents, so far, only three projects have been planned. Among them, the project to cultivate Demon Warriors using the heart blood of a Hell Lord was forced to be shelved because it involved a large amount of unknown territory on the magic side. Currently, the only official S-Level experiment project in the entire Hive Base is the Doomsday Project led by Rocket Raccoon... Samuel Sterns and over a dozen top biological science, gene, and internal/external medicine experts, as well as dozens of experimenters, are assisting this Rocket Raccoon. Sometimes even Professor Connors, the Person in Charge of the Experimental Base, has to make way for this project.
This shows the importance of this project. Samuel Sterns was initially very puzzled as to why such an important project was handed over to a raccoon.
However, when he truly witnessed Rocket's extraordinary understanding and analytical ability in the field of biological science, he realized how formidable this Rocket Raccoon was.
The High Evolutionary's Pinnacle Laboratory Spaceship has already returned to the Solar System and is currently docked at Svartalfheim. Red Queen is summarizing the High Evolutionary's research data. Later, everyone in the Hive Base, from Professor Connors down to ordinary researchers, will undergo another internal group training to absorb this biological science knowledge.
The third S-Level project within the Hive Base is the one before them. What Samuel Sterns and the others need to do now is to collect as many biological samples as possible within two and a half hours, in order to carry out the research on the "God Among Men" clone later.
However, collecting Superman samples was not as easy as they imagined. After breaking two pairs of scissors, they urgently retrieved several pairs of magic tool scissors and scalpels made from Adamantium material from the Hive Laboratory before successfully collecting Superman's hair. As for blood samples, it took tremendous effort, bending several needles, to collect only 600CC of blood sample.
"What's the next step?" Samuel Sterns looked at Superman Clark's lower body, then at Professor Connors... Professor Connors glanced at the research assistant next to him. The research assistant, with a bitter expression, retrieved a large size adult toy from under the experiment table. Under the gaze of the professors, he stepped forward to collect the sample.
Compared to Superman, who was highly valued and placed in the most heavily guarded area, Dr. Banner's treatment was much worse. In the Raccoon City Police Station's detention room, Dr. Banner sat on the bench with his head in his hands. A few thieves who had been arrested for theft huddled timidly in the corner nearby, occasionally stealing a glance at the large green figure beside them.
Sometimes, Dr. Banner would just adjust his glasses, which would scare these Thugs into trembling. There was nothing they could do; the psychological pressure that Hulk's body size put on Ordinary People was not ordinary.
It wasn't until the sky gradually darkened that two Black-clothed Bodyguards wearing Bluetooth headsets arrived at the Police Station to bail out Dr. Banner. Only after Dr. Banner walked out of the detention room gate did the Thugs inside dare to breathe heavily. As the last ray of red sunset disappeared from the Raccoon City sky... a Space Gate sparking with fire flashed in Boss Tang's Study at Lake Heart Island Manor. Lane, holding the Taiji True Form Diagram, stepped out of the Space Gate.
At this moment, Tang Song was holding a White Jade Talisman Brush, leaning over a rosewood long table, writing and drawing on a document. Scattered on the long table beside him were already seven or eight pages of documents... Tang Song's brushstrokes were clearly drawing Bird Seal Script Talismans, but when the ink landed on the paper, it turned into printed text, which was very strange... Lane walked up and picked up one document. At the top, it clearly read "Employment Agreement." "Boss, you want to hire them to work for us? With their personalities, I'm afraid they won't agree!" Lane said after quickly scanning the contract in his hand.
Tang Song finished the last stroke of the rune in his hand, casually placed the Jade Talisman Brush on the brush holder next to him, picked up the contract in front of him, blew on it, and shook his head at Lane with a smile. "Do you think I would use them to do harmful things? No, no, I told you long ago, don't cast us as villains. Aren't they worried that I will start a god war and cause calamity in the Multiverse? Alright, I'll take their opinion!"
Tang Song sighed deeply: "Alas, but as a righteous deity, with my kind heart, I cannot bear to see Evil Gods like Darkseid endanger the safety of the Universe. Since they won't let me handle it, then these Demons and Evil Gods who endanger the safety of the Universe will be left to these righteous Superheroes!"
Lane blinked his eyes, looking at the familiar sly smile on Boss Tang's face.
"So, Boss, you want to reap the fisherman's benefit and watch the tigers fight from the mountain?" Lane suddenly understood.
Tang Song spread his hands: "Lane, don't think of your Boss as so despicable. How could I do something like reaping the fisherman's benefit? Of course, I will be the man behind the Superheroes!"
"Sign the contract, and whether it's the Justice League or the Avengers, they will become my agents, letting them spread my faith and eliminate evil villains for me."
"But, Boss, I don't think they will agree!"
"Aren't they claiming to be Superheroes? Compared to me starting a god war in the Multiverse and spreading the flames of war to dozens of Parallel Universes, I just want them to replace me in striking down evil in these universes. Will they refuse to do that?! Letting the evil of the Multiverse spread, that's not the action of Superheroes. If they don't do it, and they don't let us take action, won't their consciences hurt?"
Lane said thoughtfully: "No wonder Boss you let them go. So that was your plan. However, even if they sign this agreement, based on the terms of the agreement, it won't give us much benefit, right!"
Tang Song smiled: "Besides the Forbidden Technique on the agreement, it also contains the Contract Magic of Hell Devils and the Hidden Spell of Dark Magic found in the Kamar-Taj library. As long as they sign the contract, some matters will not be up to them!"
"Besides, I didn't really intend to use them for anything major. It's nothing more than using their hands to eliminate some Rivals and save some trouble!"
"When we want to enter a certain Parallel Universe, we'll send people in beforehand to scout and gather intelligence on the evil forces in that universe, and then assign the mission of eliminating evil to them..."
Lane immediately understood: "After they finish dealing with it, our people will go in to fill the void left by those forces."
Understanding Boss Tang's thoughts, Lane echoed Tang Song's smile:
"Boss, let's see how Thor resolves this misunderstanding later. Then we'll make a big deal out of this matter, which will make it easier for us to apply pressure!"
Tang Song gave Lane a look of approval. Both of them smiled slyly at the same time, creating an atmosphere reminiscent of Old Master Huang being tall and hard.
(end of chapter)