#456 - Omega Red and Adamantium

“Look at my memory, I actually forgot to introduce my new invention to you.”

MODOK manipulated the aircraft under his butt and floated to the red-clothed strong man, just like a car salesman preparing to introduce this strong man to everyone present.

However, Howard had no intention of listening to the enemy's nonsense. He immediately manipulated the machine gun on his left shoulder, aimed at MODOK, and opened fire without any warning.

Tongues of fire kept spewing out of the muzzle. MODOK just smiled slightly. He didn't dodge. All the bullets hit the purple translucent shield five meters away from MODOK.

“Don't be impatient, Howard. Believe me, I'm even more anxious for you to die than you are, but I still hope you can listen to my current masterpiece, otherwise how can I surpass you.”

MODOK snapped his fingers, and another team of A.I.M. soldiers walked in from outside. Not only that…

“Wait! What are you doing, David!” “What does this mean!”

A commotion broke out in the crowd. Howard turned his head and saw several guests in suits and leather shoes holding guns, which they had taken out from nowhere, and挟持ing the people closest to them. Howard even knew one or two of these people. He didn't expect these people to be related to terrorist organizations.

“Can you listen to me now?” MODOK grinned, with a condescending tone. Seeing that Howard didn't speak or move, he immediately understood that the other party had defaulted.

“Very good!”

Although MODOK wanted to hear Howard say it himself, he couldn't push too hard right now. Both MODOK and Howard understood that these hostages were only useful within a very delicate range. Once MODOK crossed the line, Howard would definitely not care about the lives of these passersby.

Howard is not a real superhero after all. The reason why he became Iron Patriot was just because of the requirements from above, to beautify weapons, plus some personal reasons. It is impossible to make him make more concessions for these people.

But as long as he doesn't cross the line, Howard will still be patient, at least he will listen to MODOK's nonsense.

“When I woke up in the laboratory, I felt that my life was ruined. After all, humans can't even tolerate mutants who are so similar to themselves, so how can they allow the existence of a big-headed monster.”

MODOK patted his chin. This action looked like he was patting his belly, but his head was too big, so he could only pat his chin.

“But then I discovered some different things. That group of people transformed me into a human computer. My thinking is more agile than before. Many problems that I couldn't understand before can be easily solved in front of me now. It only took me a few minutes to realize the stupidity of the original leader of A.I.M., so I bloodbathed the entire leadership.”

“Finally, I firmly grasped the entire A.I.M. in my hands.” MODOK stretched out his right hand and made a fist. “And the first invention I made after taking office was this killing machine in front of me.”

MODOK pointed his hand at the strong man. Howard manipulated the helmet and ordered the intelligent AI to check the condition of Falcon in the strong man's hand. The result was that he should be dead, but because there was no direct contact with the target, the accuracy of the speculation should be less than 70%.

Howard didn't care about this. Rather, he hoped that Falcon would die quickly. Acting as a hostage in the other party's hands also affected his output. There were still so many business tycoons here, some of whom even Howard had to care about. It would be bad if they ran out and spread some rumors that were unfavorable to him.

Although Howard hoped that MODOK would be cruel and kill all the hostages, this was obviously impossible. If these people died here, not only the United States but even the world would be greatly affected. Even if Howard was unwilling, he would still protect them as long as it didn't endanger his life.

“I call him Red Omega.” MODOK showed a cruel smile. “I created this perfect creation after ruining six materials. To be honest, if it wasn't for perfection, I would have succeeded with the first one.”

“Those mutants are all good materials, but I wanted a little of this and a little of that, and in the end, only the Red Omega in front of me survived.”

“He has the abilities of six mutants.” MODOK spread his arms and declared his inhuman experiment.

“What?” Howard's eyes widened under the mask. Based on the fact that the government was also secretly researching mutants, Howard, who also participated in these plans, had a certain understanding of the source of mutants' power.

That is, there is a special gene in the bodies of mutants. They call this gene the X gene. This gene is not possessed by the human body, or it may be possessed, but current humans cannot detect it.

The ability of mutants is actually brought about by the activity of the X gene. Normally, a mutant may be born with multiple abilities, but there will be a certain connection between these abilities, or even a relationship of one ability assisting another.

But it is almost impossible to bestow a mutant's ability to another mutant. Just like different A blood types cannot use B blood types, the X genes of mutants will also appear to have rejection phenomena.

If the rejection is serious, mutants belonging to other X genes will die directly, and even if they are injected into the bodies of ordinary people, it is not much different.

In short, in Howard's opinion, what MODOK said was simply a fantasy, because this was the experience he accumulated from the blood of other mutants.

“I knew you wouldn't believe it.” MODOK chuckled. He felt that he had finally surpassed Howard.

“Go, Red Omega, let that tin can see your strength!”

The gem on MODOK's forehead flashed a strange purple light, but Howard didn't have time to pay attention, because Red Omega had already killed him.

The same unknown material tentacles probed the way. After being reminded by the intelligent AI, Howard learned that it might be a metal material. Howard decided to start with the ability that seemed to be the other party's main attack method.

“Swish!”

A scarlet energy sword extended from Howard's right arm armor. Howard raised his hand and slashed down at the tentacle that stretched out in front of him.

However, the result disappointed him greatly. The energy blade that cut iron like mud was indeed unable to make any progress against this unremarkable tentacle at this time. At this time, the intelligent AI on the battle armor also deduced the raw material of this tentacle based on the brief fight between the two sides.

In fact, without the AI ​​reminding him, Howard already had a rough guess in his mind. There may be many metals that can block the laser knife he was carrying, but there are very few that are unscathed.

And Howard's guess was indeed consistent with the AI. The raw material of the other party's tentacles was actually…

Adamantium!

Originally, Red Omega's tentacles should be carbonadium. Here, in order to increase the strength and subsequent plot, it was strengthened to adamantium, but it is still not as pure as Wolverine's.