Chapter 181 What If—A Zombie Universe
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Jesse did not end up getting beaten up in the end; Caitlin Snow managed to suppress the frost after all.
That big girl was really wild.
Next, Lucas hung around Central City for another month. During this period, he also bought the property rights of S.T.A.R. Labs from Barry.
Barry initially disagreed, but when he saw the long string of zeros at the end of the bill, he called a simple family meeting with Joe and his daughter, as well as Wally West, and they finally reached a unanimous result.
"Sell!"
Not only did he have to sell, but he also had to wait on Lucas like a great benefactor.
Just the conditions offered were enough for the Allen and West families to prosper for a dozen generations.
What is there even to consider about that!
Thus, Lucas transformed overnight into the big boss behind the scenes of the superhero group.
Double-capped in both economy and strength.
Next, in order to make these people more devoted, Lucas directly raised the salaries of HR, Cisco Ramon, and Caitlin Snow to industry-leading levels. After that, as long as Caitlin Snow produced a little cutting-edge research, Lucas would directly pull out his senior qualifications to back her up.
He directly pushed Caitlin Snow to become a rising star in the biochemical field!
Of course, not on the level of Umbrella...
[Ding! Current World Conquest progress: 70%]
[Notice: Host has obtained partial permissions of the World, including manipulating time flow rate. Start adjusting?]
"Adjust!"
"Must adjust!"
The departure was chosen before the battle between Barry and Savitar. Lucas paused time and began to get down to business.
"Brother System, let us roll!"
The World spun.
When his feet touched solid ground again, a stench of corruption and dead silence rushed towards him. It was an extremely thick smell of blood, as substantial as reality, falling into his super senses and almost making Lucas vomit from the stench.
"Damn it, who smeared crap all over my body?"
Lucas opened his eyes and looked, and there was no doubt that what was before him was New York.
After all, there was the classic Statue of Liberty landmark.
But this was no longer the neon-flashing Manhattan, having turned into a living hell instead.
Looking into the distance, skyscrapers collapsed in patches, and the streets were covered with the wreckage of burnt cars.
Countless zombies with ulcerated skin and white-rolled eyes were tracking survivors by sound. They converged into a human tide, writhing wildly in the ruins, exuding a foul stench all over their bodies.
The smell Lucas smelled came from these zombies.
However, zombies from just one or two streets were not enough to make him feel morning-sickness-like nausea.
The entire Earth exuded a foul stench.
Even the entire Universe.
"Marvel zombie Universe? The comic version or the animated version?"
Lucas had his hands in his pockets, floating flatly a hundred meters in the air.
If he wanted to figure out what happened here, he would know by finding a few locals.
But looking at this tragic state, he did not know if any lucky survivors were still alive.
He mobilized his super senses, his sight piercing through the city ruins. Bio-perception and Super Hearing were triggered additively, instantly capturing the sound of fighting coming from an abandoned subway station a few kilometers away.
"Help! Firepower suppression! Suppress them!"
"Fuck! Wasp, on the left! There is a zombie Hawkeye shooting arrows on the left!"
"Phew! That was close! The third-rate hero missed!"
More than a dozen surviving Earth survivors, including Spider-Man Peter Parker, Wasp Hope, Winter Soldier Bucky... these remaining guys were tightly besieged by hundreds of thousands of zombies.
"Roar!!!"
A Mutant zombie standing more than a dozen meters tall was opening its bloody mouth, tearing towards the desperate little spider.
"Tsk, it looks like a What If zombie Universe! That seems pretty decent?"
Lucas thought about it briefly, then opened his Bio-field and, like a smashing meteorite, bombarded straight towards the core position of the zombies.
The combat power of the What If Universe collapsed.
But if it was just a zombie Universe, the problem was not big. The only one on Earth who could be considered a strong person was Ultron.
The combat power of the remaining zombie-fied superheroes was less than one-tenth of their prime.
Boom, boom, boom!!
The moment he landed, Lucas gently stamped his feet on the asphalt ground.
Bang!!!
Layers of field fluctuations swept out like a tsunami. With him as the center, the ground within a radius of several kilometers directly collapsed. With this kick down, hundreds of thousands of zombies were directly and forcibly destroyed.
The bones and rotting flesh of their entire bodies were shattered into atomic ash.
An advanced usage method of the Bio-field.
"What the fuck?!" Bucky almost could not hold his pistol steady.
"Did I hallucinate, or is it all a dream? How does that guy look like Superman next door?"
The little spider came up with a divine roast.
Before being torn apart by the Mutant zombie, he was rescued by Wasp.
Before he could dive back into battle, he saw a person fall from the sky, instantly shattering several streets along with the zombies in the subway station into dust.
"Seriously, at this moment, I am willing to temporarily abandon my belief in science and throw myself into the embrace of God!"
The mask of Wasp opened automatically.
However, the roaring sounds were still approaching.
Hundreds of thousands of zombies, benchmarked against the entire Earth or even the entire New York, were merely a drop in the bucket.
Soon, patches and patches of zombie dogs and mutated infected individuals poured out again from the surrounding ruined alleys.
"Annoying!"
Lucas snorted coldly, standing in the center of the ruins with his hands behind his back.
But red light lit up in his eyes.
Hiss, hiss, hiss!!!
His Omega Beams, as thick as water buckets, exploded outward with a roar, drawing countless eerie bends in the void, completely violating any geometry and physics refraction lines.
Omega Effect, absolute tracking! Molecular reconstruction! Causality obliteration!
Wherever the beams passed, whether ordinary zombies or zombie-fied superheroes hidden in the dark, as long as they were swept by a tiny bit of the beam’s afterglow, they directly disintegrated at the molecular level.
As for the causality level, Lucas still used it cautiously.
That thing involved the timeline of this World, which easily attracted the attention of big shots.
In just five minutes.
The zombie black tide that originally filled the entire New York, numbering at least several millions, was all thoroughly cleaned up by Lucas. The entire city turned into a dead city in the blink of an eye, without any sound.
Utter silence!
The surviving superheroes stood frozen in place dazedly, watching Lucas float with his hands behind his back, without a single drop of blood on his body. Their World view shattered into tiny pieces.
What the fuck... Thor looked like a little brother in front of him!
No, a son!
Still no, a microorganism!
"Brother, are you God?"
The little spider collapsed on the ground, his voice slightly trembling.
"If you are God, save this World!"
Lucas looked around. There were only a few big cats and small kittens left in the entire Manhattan, and there were basically no other survivors.
"Hmm, then I will mercifully tell you that I am the Savior. Since there are not many people left on this Earth, I can reluctantly agree to you, with only one premise!"
Lucas raised a finger and slowly drifted towards Spider-Man.
Peter, who had always been sunny and cheerful, was filled with despair at this moment. As long as he saw Hope exist, even a tiny spark of fire, he was willing to grab onto it and not let go.
"You say!"
"As long as we can do it, we will definitely agree to you!"