Chapter 793 "Centipede" Stitched Monster, Unstable Time Bomb (1/2)
"The audio will be transmitted in a while. It's not compressed yet, so it will probably take a while."
Skye's voice came from the headset, and Fitz immediately replied: "Okay, okay, I'm receiving it.
When you come back, I'll show you my thing. It's a thing, not me... It's my hardware, my equipment.
Let's... forget it, hang up!"
"Isn't alien metal explosive?" Coulson asked Simmons.
"I thought it was explosive based on the fracture pattern and dispersion! But it's just full of gamma radiation." As Simmons spoke, the 'alien metal' on the experimental table began to melt and drip.
"It's really starting. It's interesting."
"We got some clues." Ward strode in and saw Aaron sitting on a chair and stroking his dragon. "Who are you?"
"Aaron Gaius."
"Oh! I've heard of you. I've heard of you for a long time."
"I hope you haven't heard of you."
"Skye is sending us her other encrypted files about centipedes, but we have her audio, and I've loaded it."
"Excuse me, what is this centipede you're talking about?"
"You'll know soon." Fitz excitedly held the monitoring equipment, "Use motion estimation, Bayesian reasoning, a beam splitter, and a little diffraction theory.
Our mysterious man has appeared."
As soon as the voice fell, several projectors emitted crimson light at the same time, weaving the picture in the monitor.
"This operation... is pretty cool, although I don't understand anything."
"This is science."
"Is the explosive in the suitcase?" Ward watched the anxious man in the picture put a suitcase in front of the white coat.
"Please calm down and let me check your vital signs." The white coat said.
"I feel good, I want to feel better.
Where is the doctor? Where is she?"
"If you don't calm down, I will give you a sedative."
"Where is she?" The anxious man picked up a chair and slammed it on the laboratory table.
"Wait, do you see what's on his arm?" Fitz played the video in reverse and pressed the pause button when the man picked up the chair.
I saw a thick tube on his arm, which looked like a centipede.
"This... is the so-called centipede?" Aaron stepped forward and took a closer look. "It's a bit too rough."
"That's an intravenous blood filter, sir." Simmons said, "This sticky substance is very similar to the serum invented by Dr. Erskine in the 1940s, used for..."
"Super soldier."
"I detected alien metals, gamma radiation, serum, all known sources of superpowers mixed together."
"Stitched monster?" Aaron sneered, "It's just a weird thing, and the risk of losing control is still high. This... experiment should have lost control."
"We have to look at the source of the explosion." Coulson looked at Fitz, "Go to the last point of the recording."
Boom!
A fierce flame suddenly exploded and spread in all directions.
The flame quickly gathered and turned into an 'experimental subject', but at this moment his face was full of red lines, and hot lava seemed to flow under his skin.
"Okay! I take back what I said just now. The risk is extremely high.
Human bomb, and it's quite powerful."
"This is the Extremis virus, a new variety, very unstable." Coulson said.
"This poor man may not have any explosives. Mike has the same substance in his body." Simmons said.
"And judging from how strong he is, he has more in his body." Ward added.
"That means Mike may..." Fitz didn't finish his words, but everyone present could understand what he meant. The unstable bomb could explode at any time.
"Everyone within a radius of two blocks will be killed by him." Simmons said. This was her conclusion from studying the remains of the explosives.
"Ward, don't you like to defuse bombs?" Coulson said meaningfully, "Be prepared!"
"Aaron, you..."
"I don't want to get involved in such a dangerous thing, and I have no interest in this kind of bomb defusing mission..."
Before he finished speaking, the system prompt sound rang in Aaron's mind for the first time in a long time.
"Host triggers a new system task."
[Stop Mike Peterson from exploding;
Complete the task and get 200 magic points; no penalty for failed task: Do you accept? ]
Aaron paused for a moment and decided to accept it. Even a small amount is still worth a lot!
"But it's not like I can't help you this time."
Hearing this, Coulson looked at him in surprise and asked hesitantly, "How much do you plan to charge?"
"Uh... don't think I'm so snobbish. It's free this time."
Coulson raised his eyebrows and then looked at Simmons, "How much time do we have?"
"A few hours, sir." Simmons said, "Also, he didn't explode because he was angry, but there is a certain relationship. It's a chemical reaction. Letting him calm down can buy some time."
"Is there a solution?"
"Isolate him and keep him away from people."
"Or what?"
"Shoot him in the head." Fitz added weakly.
"If he dies, the radiation metabolism process will stop."
"I like the second one." Aaron said bluntly, "Be more straightforward, I promise to leave him an intact body."
"No." Coulson said immediately, "We need to find a third way, a way that will not let Mike's son lose his father."
"Agent Coulson, what I admire most is your good character. You will not give up any life easily.
But from the moment Mike became a test subject, he was on a dead end and there was no turning back.
He only had two choices: waiting to die in agony and leaving the world happily, but he would not choose either, but we can help him choose.
You just take his son away and don't let him see his father's death with his own eyes.
As for the rest... I can donate 500,000 yuan to his ex-wife privately so that she can take care of her son. This is also the most righteous."
"There is a third option. You can help him. I know you can."
"I can't." Aaron denied it without thinking. He did have more than one way to solve the problem, but he was not familiar with this Mike Peterson. Why should he help him?
Coulson said nothing, just looked at him quietly.
After a few seconds, Aaron couldn't help laughing, "Agent Coulson, you really overestimate me. The serum, virus, gamma rays, and alien metals are all in his body.
I'm not a magician, and I can't extract these things from his body."
Coulson was also a little unconfident, "You really have no way?"
"It can help for a while, but not for a lifetime." Aaron said hesitantly, "The tranquilizer I configured should be able to suppress those messy things, but the cost of treatment is too high.
He is penniless and has a baby, so he can't afford it at all."
"Does the tranquilizer work?" Coulson looked at Fitz and Simmons and asked.
"It should be useful!" Simmons said uncertainly, "but there are not many in stock on the plane."
"Use one first to buy time, and you two can come up with a solution as soon as possible."
"Okay."
"Coulson." May's voice suddenly appeared in Coulson's headset, "Mike kidnapped Skye."
"Are you okay?"
"We'll talk about this topic in detail later. Now we need to know where they went."
......
Union Station.
A lavender van was parked on the busy street.
Mike was sitting in the car with his son Ace anxiously, while Skye was helping him process his identity information.
"How long will it take?"
"It's already very fast, believe me.
This is not as simple as deleting a Facebook page. I'm overwriting the high-level encrypted information of the Licensing Administration. Be patient."
"How do I know you can really do it?"
"Because I've done it before." Skye hit the Enter key, and all the information about Mike Peterson on the computer became blank, but Mike didn't realize that she also sent the location coordinates of the van at the same time.
At the same time, Fitz and Simmons, who were struggling with the Centipede in the lab, suddenly discovered a serious security hole in the computer.
"What is this? How did you come up with this?"
"It's not me, it's interference, someone is invading our security channel."
"It's the longitude and latitude." Coulson said, "Mike has taken Skye away, and she is telling us the location.
Ward, it's time to go.
Aaron, are you going to take my car, or?"
Aaron shrugged and got in the car directly.
When they arrived at the station, Mike was patiently calming his son's emotions, "We will take this lady with us. We can't go to the airport, so we take the train. She will help us start over and start a new life.
A better life, as I always say..."
Coulson walked towards the truck with a loudspeaker. Ward looked around and said worriedly: "Look at this place. You are risking thousands of lives for a nobody."
"No one is nobody, Ward.
Fitz and Simmons will find a solution. Before that, we have to control him."
"Mr. Peterson, good morning.
We don't mean to hurt you. We are just here to help.
But you are in danger, we have to take you away."
Bang!
The door of the car suddenly flew out, and the agents surrounding it hurriedly dodged.
Taking advantage of these few seconds, Mike pulled his son with one hand and Skye out of the car with the other hand, and walked quickly towards the entrance.
Although he was just an ordinary worker, he knew that he had to run to a crowded place in this situation.
Puff!
He had just taken a few steps when an anesthetic needle shot into Ace's neck.
"Ace." Mike was shocked, and red veins appeared on his body in anger.
However, the sound of breaking air sounded again, and Mike was not prepared at all. He just felt dizzy and drowsy.
He half-squatted on the ground, trying hard not to fall down, and the red veins on his face became more prominent.
"You..." Mike's eyelids trembled, and he raised his head with difficulty to look at the figure in front of him.
"Why bother!" Aaron shrugged, picked up the acupuncture gun and gave him another shot, which made him completely unconscious.
Then he took out the sedative in front of Skye and completed the intravenous injection for him, and the red veins on his body surface slowly faded.
"It's done, Coulson, come and get him!"
"What did you do?" Skye asked in surprise.
"Save you!" Aaron joked, "It's best to be polite to your savior."
"I'm asking what you did to Mike, what did you inject him with?"
"Tranquilizer." Coulson explained, "Aaron's special sedative can suppress the unstable substances in his body.
You really have to thank him, Mike will explode in a few hours, and it will affect at least two blocks."
"And I anesthetized his son first, so he didn't see his father's violent side."
"It's quite humane." Skye smiled far-fetchedly, "Then how are you going to deal with him?"
"That depends on Coulson."
"Fitz and Simmons will cure him, but he may not be able to live a normal life. I will report to the director and train him to be an agent."
"I still don't recommend you to leave a time bomb." Aaron said meaningfully, "The things in his body are a hidden danger after all.
Even if you cut the fuse, it can't change the nature of the bomb."
Coulson shrugged, "He is a good man, and he doesn't want to explode."
"Okay! If you must think so."
"Ward, take him away for isolation.
Also, notify Fitz and Simmons, let them..."
Bang!
With a bang, the bullet broke a big hole in front of the wheel.
Then the four heard the sound of fierce fighting, turned their heads and saw that May, who came late, was fighting with a man with a gun.
However, her fighting skills were obviously much better than the man's. She swept the man with a whip kick, took the gun, and then threw him over her shoulder, knocking him over. Finally, she added a right hook to end the fight. The whole process took no more than five seconds.
"Tsk tsk tsk!" Aaron couldn't help smacking his lips and looked at Coulson with a strange look, "Are you sure she's just a pilot?"
"Don't worry about these details. Don't Natasha and Barton often fly planes?"
"That's not our man." Ward said to the man who was knocked unconscious by May.
"He's here to kill and silence him." Aaron said firmly, "Since Mike participated in the centipede experiment, he must know some relevant personnel, such as the doctor mentioned by the last bomber."
Coulson nodded thoughtfully, and then arranged for someone to settle Mike and his son.
Before Fitz and Simmons developed a substance that could stabilize Mike's body, he had to convince him to face reality and not make trouble.
As for the attacker, he was taken away for interrogation by a special person, and maybe some information about the centipede could be pried out.
"Experimental subject." Aaron sighed with emotion, "Coulson, I have to remind you that you are laying hidden dangers for the future."
"What do you mean?"
"If I were the mastermind, I would pay attention to the status of every experimental subject.
If Mike died, it would be all over, but if he survived and could stably control the power brought to him by the 'centipede', it would mean that the experiment... succeeded.
Even if it didn't succeed, Mike himself would promote the progress of the experiment. Do you think the mastermind would give up on him easily?"
"Definitely not, but he can't snatch people from SHIELD."
Aaron was stunned for a moment, and then gave him a thumbs up, "It makes sense (I hope you can still think so after you know that SHIELD has been infiltrated by Hydra)."