A Journey of American Comics Starting from the Zombie Universe

Chapter 23 Burning
Reid sat on a chair in the laboratory and stretched his palms into a huge cattail leaf.As he waved, he tried to fan the air and bring himself a bit of coolness.

"Huh, why is it so hot?"

Reed kept fanning, hoping to bring some light wind.

His hands moved quickly, fanning the air around him.Despite his efforts, the temperature inside the lab still seemed to be rising.Reed felt sweat dripping from his brow, and the scorching heat unnerved him.

Is the temperature control system broken?No, S.H.I.E.L.D. shouldn't make such low-level mistakes.

The temperature in the laboratory continued to rise, and the intense heat wave permeated the air, making the oxygen in the air seem to become thinner.

Reed felt his clothes clinging to his body, wet, and letting out a hint of heat steam.

The heat was like an invisible flame, burning every inch of his skin, making his breathing rapid and difficult.He felt thirsty, a fire burning in his throat.

The temperature in the laboratory has far exceeded the normal limit, as if being in a furnace.Instruments and equipment whimpered, unable to withstand such a high temperature.

"What happened! Fury?! Sue?! This joke is not funny, not funny at all!"

Reed rushed towards the door of the laboratory angrily. He slapped the door button hard, hoping to escape from this scorching place.

"Open the door! I'm Mr. Fantastic, Reed Richards, open the door!" he shouted, hoping that the access control system would recognize his identity and unlock the door.

However, the access control system only issued two beeps in response, displaying the warning message "Unidentified, this person is not found in the database."

"It's impossible! I'm a registered hero, and I have a record in S.H.I.E.L.D.!" He roared angrily, and slammed his fist on the door.

However, the access control system still did not respond, and the door to the laboratory remained closed.

Reed cursed under his breath, rolled his eyes, and quickly compressed his body like a spring, then slammed into the ventilation duct on the ceiling in the corner of the room.

However, when he tried to grab the louvers of the ventilation duct, his hands just slid over the smooth metal.His mood instantly fell into despair, and anger burst out.

Just after Reed landed in despair, he realized that things seemed to have gotten worse, because there was a strange movement on the wall beside him.

His eyes widened, looking in horror at a gun barrel protruding from the wall.Before his eyes, flames and fuel spurted from the barrel, coming at him in a terrible tongue of flame.

Damn, who is going to kill me!

Reed's body began to become soft and elastic, and he stretched like rubber, using his ability to quickly bounce in multiple flames.

His body contracted like a spring, then suddenly expanded, catapulting him out of range of the flames.With every bounce, he flew like a flexible projectile through the burning flames.

"What the hell is going on? Fury! Are you watching the surveillance? Help me!"

Fury didn't respond, and the only response Reed got was that more gun barrels continued to protrude from the wall, spraying flames at him as he dodged and moved.

The flames raged in the laboratory, and Reed kept avoiding the attack of the flames, but the muzzle on the wall kept spraying crimson flames, forming a sea of ​​flames.Almost the entire room was engulfed in flames, and the fierce fire filled the air with thick smoke.

White coats, chairs, instruments, everything was burning in the flames, making a crackling sound.The white coat on the chair was swallowed by the flames and quickly burned to ashes, leaving only sparks flying in the sky.

Equipment in the laboratory was not immune, as chemical bottles burst, making loud explosions and releasing devastating flames and smoke.The flames turned the walls into black coals and began to melt, dripping hot liquid.

The whole scene became chaotic, and the rampage of flames turned the laboratory into a hellish scene.Reed felt the intense heat, his skin was burning, and he could feel his clothes begin to melt.

why.

why?
why!
Reed fell down next to the experimental table in the middle of the room, looking desperately at the flames that were rushing towards him.

Suddenly, Reed noticed that the skin of the corpse on the stage began to melt under the burning of the flames, exposing the broken bones. His eyes stared at this scene, and an idea suddenly appeared in his mind, and he seemed to understand something.

He looked up at the ceiling, laughed maniacally, and roared, "Fry! You blind son of a bitch! I know what you're afraid of! You're afraid of the future!"

His voice echoed through the burning laboratory, like the angry roar of a wounded beast.There was something crazy and desperate about his laughter.

"You idiot, can't you see clearly with one eye? Our resistance is in vain! Why don't you join those evolved creatures? Don't you understand the beauty of eternal life!"

Feeling the heat of the flames, his body began to be irreversibly melted.The burning flames eroded his elastic muscles and soft skin, and the rubbery muscles gradually lost their original elasticity.His skin began to melt, turning into a pool of scalding liquid that smelled of burning.

The flames licked his body, making him feel extremely painful.

His body was like a piece of melting rubber, with deep depressions and signs of dissolution beginning to appear on the surface.The elastic properties gradually disappear, becoming soft and brittle.

"Ah-it hurts! It fucking hurts!"

"Just a few more minutes, just a few more minutes... I will be able to evolve Susan and the others into new humans! We will—"

Reed's limbs gradually deformed and fell to the ground in a heap.

His nose had dropped to the level of his mouth, one eye had softened into a puddle, the other stuck out of its socket like a stick, and his ears had flowed down his legs. He had lost his human features and gradually blurred into a twisted mass.

No one would think that this thing is still a living human being, but he is still roaring, but he is still howling.

"Do you think you can run away from the mouth of the zombies if you kill me? Impossible! It's only a matter of time before you are eaten!"

"Ahhhhh! My hand!"

The flames finally enveloped Reed's body, and his voice gradually disappeared in the raging flames.His last words echoed in the air.

"Wobu. Gan."

As time passed, the flames gradually receded, and the raging flames dissipated into the air.The room gradually returned to tranquility, and charcoal and ash covered everything.

At the same time, the muzzle on the wall retracted to its original position and disappeared into the wall, as if it had never existed.

Everything was burnt away except for the black mass in the middle of the room, which was once part of Reed's body, vaguely recognizable from the charred shape.

Although it has now completely lost its original elasticity and vitality and has become stiff and fragile, it still retains some residual outlines.

At the moment before his death, the remains stretched out his hand, or part of his body, towards another mass of charcoal on the table.

Everything that happened in the surveillance was clearly visible to Bai Ye. He smiled with satisfaction as he watched the ball of charcoal crack into several pieces.

"Your wife is raised by S.H.I.E.L.D., so don't worry about it."

(End of this chapter)