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"You call this evolution?" Johnny, who was surrounded by flames, looked at Doom opposite him who obviously looked like some kind of deformed form, and complained subconsciously.
This mutation is even more drastic than Ben Grimm's.
At least he looked human. Doom's current form was terrifying and horrifying! It was even more outrageous than those bizarre aliens in the comics.
Boom!
Johnny had just finished speaking when he was suddenly blown away by a force that popped out of the air. The flames on his body scattered all the way, like a flame in the wind, swaying.
"You should be in awe! Johnny!" The mutated Doom retracted his palm covered with furry tentacles, and his voice became sharp, rushing straight into people's minds, and slowly sounded.
"Reed!" Ben Grimm's bulky body suddenly turned around uncontrollably and punched Reed, but Susan, who was on high alert, blocked it with a telekinetic shield.
An invisible barrier stood between her and Ben, his football-sized fist pressing against it.
"Are you okay, Ben?" Susan looked at Ben with panic in his eyes, and asked quickly while strengthening her telekinetic shield.
"I'm in bad shape! The anger inside me is boiling!" Benda's face showed a struggle. While letting the two men move out of the way, he jumped high, then clenched his fists and smashed down heavily on the two men.
Under Ben's power, the barrier, which had expanded into a hemispherical shape, began to ripple and sway. Susan, who was supporting the shield, felt a sharp pain in her head and a slight ache in her body. Although she quickly recovered, her consciousness was still a little dazed. The fist felt like a blow to her forehead, causing her brain to buzz.
"Reed!" Susan yelled.
"I'm thinking of a way!" Reed's body instantly became soft, and his arms shot forward like ropes, like two horizontal bars, sandwiching Ben who had just landed in the middle. Then his arms rebounded, like a rope with stones tied at both ends hitting an upright railing, and under inertia, they whizzed around the pole again and again.
Ben was now wrapped in three layers of Reed's rubberized arms.
"He's struggling so hard. What did you do to Ben, Victor?" The rubberized skin still had some touch, and he could feel that Ben was struggling very hard.
"What did I do? I just aroused his deep-seated dissatisfaction with you. The boiling rage dominated him, and now he is just a beast called anger." Hearing Reed's words, Doom's iron mask, which was still embedded in his face, came alive and showed a satisfied smile.
"Can you make Ben pass out, or wake him up?" Reed's heart sank when he heard that, and he subconsciously glanced at his girlfriend.
"I can try, but I can't guarantee it will work," Susan gritted her teeth. She concentrated her telekinesis and stabbed Ben Grimm like a spike. Ben was stunned by the impact and his struggles instantly weakened.
"It works!" Reed said in surprise.
Susan once again controlled her telekinesis and carefully attacked Ben, trying to make him faint while distracting him from possible obstruction and attack from Doom.
However, what surprised her was that Doom remained very quiet throughout the entire process, as if he were a passerby, admiring their actions. If it weren't for the frightening and unsettling smile on his iron mask, perhaps Susan would feel more at ease.
"Damn it!"
However, Susan soon understood why Doom did not come to stop them, because under her stimulation, Ben suddenly became more violent after a moment of weakness and quiet.
If the previous Ben still had his own will and was aware of what he was doing, then the current Ben gave people the feeling of a beast that had completely fallen into animality and had lost his reason and thinking.
Susan only felt a melting flame of anger, which almost invaded her brain through her mental power. Even if it was only a momentary contact, the flame of dissatisfaction that burned directly into the deepest part of her heart almost made her turn around and use all her mental power to hit her boyfriend Reed hard, venting her inner dissatisfaction and anger towards him.
"Ohhhh!"
Reed cried out repeatedly, his extended arm snapping back. He slapped a part of his arm desperately, as if it were burned. There was a red burn there, expanding from nothing.
Burns emanated from Ben's body. His rocky form turned a crimson red. Beneath his skin, in the cracks between the stones, a faint, molten-hot color and temperature, like magma, flowed. Clusters of crimson flames, like a prairie fire, erupted from beneath Ben's rocky skin, coating his body in a layer of crimson flames, resembling a magnified version of the Human Torch.
"Don't touch the flames." Reed shouted anxiously to his girlfriend Susan.
"I have to thank you, Susan. It was your attack that completely derailed Ben's will. He could have held out longer. Perhaps he could have held out until clever Reed figured out a way to calm him down.
"But what I didn't expect was that, instead of rescuing Ben, you gave him a ticket to hell. This saved me a lot of trouble." Doom's voice sounded leisurely, with a strong appeal that could easily stir up the deepest emotions in people.
At least for now, Doom's words instantly made Susan and Reed's faces pale, and they couldn't help but fall into deep self-blame and regret. Especially after seeing the serious erosion of alienation, this self-blame and regret became even more severe, almost to the point where they could hardly extricate themselves.
Susan even became discouraged and blamed herself so much that she stopped resisting Ben's attacks.
"Hey, what are you doing!" When Ben's attack was about to fall on Susan, a flash of fire came roaring from a distance and collided directly with Ben, who was emitting red flames.
The intense heat caused Susan to instinctively deploy a barrier in front of her, also shielding her boyfriend, Reed, behind her. Raging flames exploded in the collision, spreading in all directions. Upon striking the semicircular barrier, they split in two, like a pair of outstretched flaming wings.
Johnny, who had hurried back, steadied himself precariously in mid-air, frowning as he dropped the tiny sliver of red flame that had stained his flaming body. The blood-like color made him feel unsafe.
What made him feel numb next was that the red lights that he had cut off from his flaming body actually came over and ate the flames he dropped. After growing a little stronger, they spontaneously gathered together on the ground, grunting like slime. Although seemingly slow, they moved very quickly and merged into Ben's body.
At the same time, Johnny felt a slight loss of strength in his body. Although the lost strength was insignificant and extremely weak, this loss was permanent.
"What the hell is going on! Ben can actually swallow my power!" Johnny fell from mid-air to the ground, stood next to his sister, and complained angrily.
This behavior is simply unethical! If anyone who attacks you loses some of their strength, then if the fight lasts a little longer, won't you end up helpless, unable to even lift your hands, and lying on the ground waiting to die?
If you think about it more horribly, if Ben mutates again, won't he be able to not only absorb their power, but also plunder their spirits and lives?
This enemy is like a combination of a hedgehog and a turtle!
"It's obviously Victor's doing. We have to bring Ben back to consciousness." Reed finally shook off the guilt and uneasiness he felt deep in his heart towards Ben. He warned Johnny, "Don't listen to Victor. His voice is highly persuasive and can easily stir up deep emotions in people, which in turn suppresses reason and thinking, achieving a hypnotic effect. Ben has been bewitched and influenced by him, becoming his puppet."
"Is he a magician or a devil? Isn't he a technician like you?" Johnny looked at Reed in astonishment who reminded him, and then quickly glanced at Victor von Doom, who seemed to pollute his eyes with just one look, and he had the urge to curse.
"Maybe he thought he could never beat me in terms of technology, so he changed his career." Reed was able to force a smile and tell a cold joke in this crisis-ridden environment.
"This isn't funny at all." Johnny tilted his head as he watched Ben's fists leave red afterimages and madly smash into Susan's barrier one after another.
"You two have too much time to chat, why don't you help me figure out how to calm Ben down? I can't hold on any longer!" Susan frantically tried to patch things up, her mental energy rapidly depleting. She felt dizzy, but she didn't dare to let up. Hearing the two men behind her, both of whom she had intimate relationships with, still had the leisure to tell jokes, her temper inevitably flared. Of course, it could also be because the blood-red flames stained her barrier were from Ben's own body. Although she handled it quickly and effectively, she was still inevitably affected.
"Right away!" Reed and Johnny said in unison.
However, the addition of the two people could not effectively curb Ben, because the layer of red flame burning on the surface of the body had become a thorny thing that gave the three people a headache.
Either stay out of it, or go crazy with them. But staying out of it was impossible, facing Ben, who was only targeting them in his madness. After long-range attacks proved ineffective, Reed realized that if he wanted to help Ben recover, he had to get past Victor Doom, the man who had caused all this.
However, Doom's strength was far beyond their imagination. After Susan tried her best to entangle and restrain the violent Ben, Johnny and Reed launched an attack on Doom who was watching the show on the side.
The result was a crushing and one-sided defeat.
Doom was far more dangerous than Ben, possessing far greater power and potential danger! He stood still, his resurrected shadows alone giving Reed and his two companions a good lesson.
Even though Johnny had done his utmost to amplify his light, Doom's shadow remained unaffected. If both of them were not normal people, this sudden attack alone would have reduced them to a pile of minced meat under the ravages of the shadow.
"What a shame, Reed! I thought you'd give me a little surprise with your skills now that you knew about psionics, but it seems I overestimated you." Doom's chaotic, sinister voice pierced Reed and the others' minds like a needle, causing them mental pain. Susan, with her exceptionally powerful telekinesis, was least affected, but she relaxed for a moment, giving Ben, a furious opportunity to break free.
"It seems that you have run out of ideas, but there is good news, your reinforcements are coming. And there is bad news, your reinforcements may not be your reinforcements." Doom looked up at the night sky in the distance, and a faint sound of a propeller stirring the air came.
"What do you want to do, Victor? You weren't like this before!" Reed asked with a sigh, looking at Doom, who was no longer in human form.
"Perhaps you've never understood me! My ambition is greater than you imagine! I want to become the master of this world, even a god! I can change the world at will according to my own will." Doom's voice was filled with strong arrogance and conceit: "Now, I have mastered the power to change the world and even wield the sword against the gods.
No one can resist the evolution of psychic power!"
"You're degenerating!" Johnny said angrily. "Look at you now. You look more like a failed Deviant! If this is your evolution, I'd rather die. It's not handsome, let alone cool!"
"You're still so shallow, Johnny. Who determines the success and failure of evolution? Who can define failure and success? Do you think that you've successfully evolved by mastering powers greater than ordinary people and possessing a mutated body?
Look at me, look at this body of mine that makes you feel ugly and scared. It is powerful, perfect, and has incredible strength that can easily play with and manipulate you perfect evolvers. It is not good-looking, but it is very practical.
Only the victors can dominate and define, while the losers will become only dust in the grave of time. "Doom was not affected by Johnny's words at all. He now truly felt that his form was quite good. Every part of him had its use, and every extra organ had its own ability.
Even subconsciously, he believed that his own form was the correct one, the one with real beauty, and the evolutionary form that was closer to the truth.
Spotlights descended from the sky, covering the area.
The military personnel stationed in the surrounding area finally noticed the movement.