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In a factory warehouse in New York, five or six cars, a mix of luxury sedans and RVs, were parked side by side. Gangsters with dyed hair and tattoos waited anxiously, but they didn't dare to leave.
At that moment, Lorna walked in through the warehouse door, carrying the comatose Wanda on her back.
"The boss is back!"
"The big sister is finally here!"
"We can finally leave this ghost place!"
The gangsters exclaimed ecstatically. One of them stepped forward and reported to Lorna in awe, "Boss, the cars are all ready, filled with gas, guns and cash are available. The license plates are official, so no one will dare to stop us."
Lorna nodded calmly. She put Wanda on a bed in one of the RVs, then walked out and leaned against the door, her arms folded. All the gangsters looked at her, confused.
She took out a pack of cigarettes and a metal lighter, lit a cigarette, and spit out a circle of white smoke. "We're not going."
"Boss, what are you talking about?!"
Everyone was stunned.
"We'll wait a little longer. There's no need to rush," she said, raising her pale green eyes and looking up toward the city.
In a retro building that looked like an ordinary church, on the top roof, a bald woman in a spotless yellow robe stood, her face calm. With one hand behind her back, she created a golden circular mark with the other.
She watched as the alien machinery, a dense swarm of locusts, tried to invade. She waved her right hand, and the alien mechanical bodies were shattered by a powerful, invisible force, turning into countless iron filings that scattered in the wind.
She guarded the church building alone, easily. Even as she watched the fall of New York City, she did not frown. For her, there were more terrifying potential enemies to guard against than the current alien invasion.
But at that moment, she seemed to perceive something. A subtle sway in her expression, and she raised her eyes to a certain direction outside the city.
"Alien," she frowned, then muttered to herself, "Variable…"
Above the ruins, Leo, now possessing two extraordinary gene abilities, stood up. He looked down at his hands, a sense of wonder he had never felt before. He still didn't fully understand it, but he looked at the war raging in the city center. In his current state, he might be able to reverse the situation, to stop the fall of New York.
Thinking of this, he walked toward the center of the battle.
He entered the ten-kilometer warzone, the junction of the inner and outer areas. The city had been completely blacked out, the humans long since evacuated, leaving only empty buildings and abandoned vehicles. No part of the street was intact. Heavy gunpowder smoke rose everywhere.
In addition to the alien robots driving small flight machines, there were also alien mechanical creatures crawling on all fours, hunting for surviving humans.
Suddenly, some of the creatures searching inside a broken building raised their metal heads, their red electronic pupils looking toward the road outside.
On the empty, messy pedestrian street, a human teenager with black hair and blue eyes was pacing forward, deep in thought, as if he hadn't noticed the terrifying aliens lurking nearby.
BOOM!
From a high-rise building on the side, a crawling alien mechanical creature violently broke through the glass and rushed toward him. Its sharp metal front paws were about to pierce through his stomach, its big metal fangs about to crush his head.
The teenager walked forward, seemingly unaware.
When the creature was within three meters of him, it suddenly stopped, frozen in mid-air, as if held by an invisible hand.
The alien mechanical creature stayed motionless in the air for five seconds, and then it was suddenly swept through the air at a very fast speed, crashing into another pouncing creature. The metal heads passed through each other's metal chests, and the two alien mechanical creatures were scrapped into a pile of scrap copper and rotten iron, losing their intelligence and falling to the ground.
"So that's it," Leo muttered to herself. He finally understood the powerful root of Lorna's ability—metal control.
"And…" he raised his head and looked at the other three or four creatures that were now surrounding him.
He didn't move, just a thought.
A huge green energy tide swept outwards from him. The energy tide rushed on the oncoming alien mechanical creatures, immediately causing their bodies to burst into electricity, disintegrate and shatter, and smash back on abandoned cars and buildings.
This was magnetic field manipulation.
Metal control, magnetic field manipulation. This was the extraordinary ability that Lorna possessed, an ability that came from the control of one of the four fundamental forces of magnetism. However, the ability that he now possessed was an integration of the abilities held by both Lorna and Nami. It was not as simple as holding two kinds of extraordinary abilities at the same time. The two abilities had been integrated and superimposed, each enhancing and optimizing the other's performance.
He tried to extend an index finger forward, and suddenly, a metal web shot out from his fingertip. The almost invisible metal web passed a hundred meters in a flash, and directly pierced through a small flight machine, along with two alien robots driving on it.
"Is this the spider ability after the metal control gain?" he thought, and took back the metal web. As he was still thinking about it, several orange stream flames abruptly launched at him.
He tilted his head instinctively and easily avoided one of the flames, but because he did not move, he was still covered by the others.
BOOM!
Everything in a ten-meter radius was shrouded by a powerful explosion.
Before the flames and smoke from the explosion had dissipated, a slender figure paced out from the three-to-four-meter-deep crater.
A silver spider pattern reflected the cold light of the metal in the sun. He was wearing a spider hood battle suit that was almost the same style as the Spider-Woman's, except that it was made of highly tough web-like metal, like a silver exoskeleton covering his entire body.
This was the ultimate form of holding both metal control and super spider ability at the same time.