r18novel Chapter 406 Zombie Hero
Chapter 406 Zombie Hero
Chapter 406 Zombie Hero
Johnny, who was still bickering with the stone man, finally decided to take matters into his own hands and go check out the place that was suddenly emitting a foul stench.
After all, the Stone Man was right. Once he entered his Flame form, he could effectively filter out the stench that was like that of a dead person, and he could fly incredibly fast, so fast that few people on Earth could catch up with him.
"Let me see what it is—"
Johnny Thunderbolt leaned closer for a look and just happened to see a vampire with festering skin and sharp claws pry open the door of a cultivation chamber in the corner. This scene, resembling a vampire lifting a coffin, sent a chill down his spine from head to toe.
Seemingly sensing Johnny's approach, the coffin lid was suddenly flung off from the inside with a bang and embedded itself in the ceiling.
Then that thing that was inside the coffin crawled out —
It is a spin-off project derived from the Super Soldier Serum program. In order to replicate Captain America's success, S.H.I.E.L.D. has invested massive resources in various legal and illegal experiments.
At the same time, many similar experimental projects were carried out in parallel, but 99% of the projects failed to perfectly replicate the serum, and Project Sentinel was one of the many projects listed as failures.
The ultimate product of Project Sentinel is envisioned to be a super soldier far more perfect than Captain America, a superhero more capable of upholding truth, justice, and the American way.
For this project, countless volunteers (guinea pigs) were recruited (or tricked) around the world to experiment on with more radical drug strategies.
In the end, without exception, almost all the experimental subjects died directly. Only one surviving but uncontrollable dormant individual was sealed in a hibernation pod until today when he was awakened by the energy reaction of the Human Torch and the Stone Golem.
Since the Human Torch, who came from the previous universe, was able to recognize Reed's old classmate Victor at the State University of New York, he must know the Sentinels.
Robert Bob Reynolds, to put it simply in the language of the Human Torch, was a drug addict in the first half of his life, and later became a Sentinel after his drug use got too high.
But the Sentinel in Thunderfire's mind should be considered a good person. At most, he might have made a mistake occasionally due to his inner weaknesses and endless entanglement with the Void. He shouldn't be in this state—
By this time, the sentry's face was rotting, and most of his orange outer armor was broken, with the exposed skin underneath largely peeling off.
The rising sentry stretched out his hands toward Johnny, his fingernails growing to an alarming length. His red-glowing eyes looked up and stared intently at the latter, his Adam's apple bobbing as he uttered a word whose meaning was completely incomprehensible: "Flesh!"
"Hey Bob, what's wrong with you? Are you doing Halloween costumes?" The Human Torch forced a conversation with the Sentry: "This isn't fun at all! Okay—"
The other party's response remained consistent: "Meat! Fresh meat!"
The scenes from those cheap, third-rate splatter movies he used to watch with girls were now playing out in real life, right before his eyes. Even though Thunderbolt's entire body was made of high-energy flames, he could still feel a chill creeping into his brain from the inside out.
"This can't be true!"
If you asked Thunderbolt to describe it briefly, he thinks he's probably having a zombie-themed nightmare right now.
He even dreamed of a zombie version of the Sentinel.
Thinking of this, Thunderbolt reached out and slapped himself hard across the face—smack!
After a sharp crack, sparks flew from where his palm touched his face, but the zombie sentinel still staggered toward him with its arms outstretched.
"Okay, I know it's not Halloween, and it's not a dream, which means—we're really in deep trouble this time!"
The stone man in the distance stared blankly at the Thunderbolt suspended in mid-air. With his view obstructed, he had no idea what was happening in that area except for the increasingly strong stench.
All he could do was shout and ask, "Johnny, what's in there?"
Then he saw Johnny turn and shoot outwards at such speed that he left a bright trail of flames in the middle of the base.
"Holy shit!!!" "F**k! F**k! F**k!"
The Human Torch's tirade of forbidden words came even later than his actual movements; by the time the Stone Golem heard him, the Human Torch was practically out of sight: "Run, Ben! Run!"
"What happened?"
The two-legged stone golem shouted incredulously at Thunderbolt, "You told me to run! How am I supposed to run?!"
In the Fantastic Four, Susan can create a force field for flight, and Reed can move freely with his elastic body. Only the Thing moves entirely on his own. If he wants high mobility, he basically has to rely on the Human Torch to lift him up for takeoff.
"Damn it!"
Johnny, terrified by the zombie sentinels, realized he had left his older brother behind. He frantically sped back, picked up the stone golem, and used its stone head as a drill to drill straight into the thick underground rock and soil towards the surface!
Johnny, who was using the Thing as a tunnel boring machine, started rambling again to relieve the tension: "Ben, speaking of Sentinels, don't you think that besides the gold color scheme, the other elements of his uniform are a bit like Superman's? Like that 'S'—do you think it's possible that Superman is a 'Sentinel' from another parallel universe?"
"A generous gift of crabs! Is this the time to talk about that?!"
The stone man ducked and lifted his heels, narrowly dodging a lunge from the blond monster in a gold bodysuit and indigo cloak.
This caused cold sweat to pour down his forehead, the kind that wouldn't evaporate even when he was so close to Thunderbolt!
He could guarantee that the zombie sentry's rotten teeth were less than three centimeters from his heel!
If you were bitten by one, that would be really disgusting!
So at this moment, the Thing was far more agitated than the Human Torch: "Stop talking nonsense, just fly, Johnny! Hurry up!"
"Flying! Flying!" Thunderbolt was completely enveloped in flames; otherwise, anyone would have seen him covered in sweat.
"Shut up, Ben! Don't disrupt my train of thought, or I'll do what they do in those movies and throw you down to feed the zombies!"
Of course, this is just a saying. The Fantastic Four have always been a big family. Who would abandon their family?
After his leap, the zombie sentinel began to fall. Having just woken up, he was probably not quite clear-headed and didn't even remember that he could fly.
But this state did not last long. The stone man, with the Human Torch hanging on his body, would occasionally look down and observe the delirious zombie sentinel until he could clearly see that the other's cloudy and dazed eyes were gradually becoming clear.
Then the Sentinel finally took off and flew, revealing a cruel smile to the two who were fleeing towards the surface: "Meat!"
"That guy seems to be sober, but why is he still muttering about meat?"
"And what do you think? We don't have Peashooters right now, do you want him to eat your brains?"
The upward-flying Thunderbolt used every ounce of strength it had ever mustered, not forgetting to continue its verbal sparring with the Stone Man: "Besides, you'd need to have that thing first!"
The Human Torch, who was determined to help the Stone Golem escape perfectly, was also under immense pressure. He had just been confident that few people on Earth could catch him, but unexpectedly, he had run into one.
What is the strength of the Sentinels? Rumor has it that when they go all out, their power is comparable to the explosion of a million stars. Anyone who hears this would be terrified.
If the Sentry and the Human Torch were to fight, the Human Torch felt it was roughly a 1:9 split; he could be killed by the Sentry nine times per second.
The Sentinels' speed was already on par with the Human Torch's, not to mention that the Human Torch was now carrying the giant Stone Golem, so if he didn't fly like crazy, he would be caught up by the zombie Sentinels behind him sooner or later.
If he had a choice, Thunderbolt felt that he would rather be killed by a punch from the force of "a million stars exploding" than die cleanly and neatly.
But if the way to die is to be devoured alive by that unknown creature behind you, who can withstand that?
The situation is now beyond the capabilities of the Human Torch and the Thing. The only option now is to evacuate, find Mr. Fantastic Reed, and then make further plans.
Boom!
Just as Pilu Huo was about to quickly inform his amazing brother-in-law to handle these troubles, he suddenly felt a lightness all over his body.
He was originally burrowing upwards through the rock and soil, but now there was no pressure around him. The entire rock layer he was in was lifted up in pieces by the huge impact. A red and blue phantom was intercepting him from the opposite direction and punched the zombie sentinel, which had just started to accelerate, into the ground.
"Firefighter" Joey quickly arrived at the scene and got into a fight with the zombie-like sentinels.
All of this is thanks to the two "Superman" references that Thunderbolt mentioned while he was rambling on, which made Joey, who was always passively catching keywords, hear and notice what was happening here.
Otherwise, I'm afraid that once the crisis escalates and everything worsens, it will be too late to do anything!