Chapter 207
Chapter 204 Future Competitor
With the release of Eddie Bullock’s press release and the evidence he gave in the media, the reputation of Thunderbolt suddenly fell to the bottom.
If there were some fans who admired him because of his powerful Ability and public personality, then after knowing that his ability was deprived of Kraft, these “power fans” have also abandoned them.
The current Johnny Stone can be said to be disgusting and can’t find a supporter.
Not only that, but those who had been bullied by Johnny in the past also stood up and spoke out in the media, denouncing the bully superhero of Thunderbolt.
Among them, there are definitely some people who fish in troubled waters, but many media have no intention to verify, so the heat is not white or white. Anyway, in their opinion, the former superhero of Thunderbolt has been abandoned, and it is better to use waste to let them make a profit. Wave fast money.
And the former superhero who was criticized by the media and cast aside by the people, now just an ordinary person Johnny Stone, At the moment he was staying in his home, he collapsed on the sofa, staring blankly. The ceiling was decadent.
Being deprived of the ability of pride, this was a big blow to Johnny Stone, not to mention that because of his own recklessness, it also caused Reid and the others to lose the ability.
Since waking up, Johnny has been hiding in the house alone, constantly numbing himself with alcohol.
Johnny now has a face full of beard and a sour odor, just like a tramp on the street.
He reached out and fumbled on the coffee table next to him, grabbed a can of unfinished beer and poured it into his mouth, then grabbed a bag of corn flakes and poured some in his mouth at random, after chewing mechanically for a few times. Swallowed it.
During this process, Johnny Stone had no expression on his face, and his eyes were kept out of focus, as if the soul of the whole person had been taken away, and he was eating entirely on the instinct of the body.
“Click.”
The door of the room was opened, and a slim figure walked in.
Susan Stone looked at her humiliated brother on the sofa, sighed softly, and walked to the window to open the curtains and windows.
The fresh air blowing from outside made the smell of the house a little better, and the sun’s rays also made Johnny, who had no visions, narrowed his eyes.
“Huh? Susan, you’re here.”
Under the stimulation of the sun, Johnny’s eyes returned to focus, and then he found his sister standing by the sofa.
“Are you going to keep going like this?”
Susan frowned and looked down at the decadent Johnny. She had persuaded him to scold him before, but it was a pity that Johnny became sober after she woke up, she only knew how to live and die.
However, Susan didn’t want to give up her brother, she still came to persuade him every day and help him clean up the room.
Facing his sister’s question, Johnny lay on the sofa, his eyes lowered and said nothing.
Susan sighed helplessly, shook her head and began to clean up the messy room in front of her.
Johnny glanced blankly at his busy sister, then struggled to get up from the sofa and staggered towards the bathroom.
“vomit–”
Listening to Johnny’s vomiting from the bathroom, Susan bit her lip. Even if she knew it was Johnny’s fault, she still hated Kraft who was interviewed.
After cleaning up the garbage in the room, Susan walked to the bathroom door and knocked on the door lightly.
“I’m leaving first, don’t drink so much alcohol.”
There was a vague answer from the bathroom, and Susan sighed again, then left Johnny’s house.
“Click.”
As Susan’s footsteps faded away, it wasn’t until the door closed that Johnny’s remorseful dull cries sounded in the bathroom.
Susan, who didn’t know that her brother was crying bitterly, walked out of Johnny’s house. At this time, she had covered her appearance with sunglasses, scarf and hat, and walked quickly to the parking lot not far away.
With the outbreak of public opinion, Johnny’s original residence was quickly exposed, and the following protest crowd forced Susan to find Johnny a new, remote and quiet residence.
And every time she came to clean up the house for Johnny, she had to be careful not to reveal her whereabouts.
In fact, Reed Richards was harassed by some “just people” at the beginning, but they didn’t hold on for long.
The main reason is that Reid’s experiments run wild from time to time, so in order not to affect others as much as possible, he arranged his laboratory and residence in the outskirts away from the crowd.
Those who ran to protest came several times and found that this place was far and remote, and no one came to watch their “just acts”, and gradually they didn’t bother to waste time on Reed’s side.
Driving the car to Reed’s laboratory, Susan found her busy fiancé.
“Reid, is there any result of the research?”
“It’s done,” Reid stopped his work. “Based on the data when I observed the cosmic storm, I have successfully simulated the energy of the same wavelength as the cosmic storm, and I am now doing the final debugging.”
Ben, who was lowering his head to adjust the mechanism on the side, raised his head, glanced at Reed and Susan, and then lowered his head silently to continue working.
For Ben, who cannot restore the human appearance after mutation, it is actually inappropriate superhero, and it is good to continue to do research silently at a glance.
It’s just that his friend Reid wanted to restore the identity of MR.Fantastic, so he had no choice but to help, but he also made up his mind that he would not become a stone man again.
“Reid, you can start.”
Ben Grim closed the lid, turned on the switch, and said after taking a look at the stable reading on the meter.
“I see.”
Reed Roar sighed, opened the door of the instrument in front of him, and walked in.
“Start it.”
Ben, who was next to the controller through the glass, nodded, Reed Richards said.
It was not the first time that Ben didn’t say a word to cooperate with Reid, and reached out and pressed the button to release the simulated cosmic storm.
Inside the instrument, Reid’s body began to mutate again under the energy wash of his own production. His body was stretched and twisted at will like rubber, posing a variety of strange shapes in the cabin.
But as the instrument turned off, Reid found that the cosmic energy in his body was rapidly dissipating, and his power disappeared again in a short while.
“What’s wrong? Reid.”
Susan asked Reid with a solemn expression after she came out, and asked with concern.
“My Ability has disappeared again.” Reid pursed his lips. “I still underestimated Kraft. I am worthy of being a genius boy whom Tony Stark values.”
“How come? Isn’t your body restored to the state of a rubber man just now?”
Susan covered her mouth with her hand and surprised Roar.
“Craft should have injected something that can neutralize or dissipate cosmic energy in our body.”
As a genius scientist, Reid quickly figured out the methods used by Kraft based on the information given by S.H.I.E.L.D.
“We need to have a comprehensive physical examination first.”
Reid still had nothing to say about his technology. After finding the right direction, he quickly found the nanomachines that Kraft had put in their bodies.
“What a great kid…”
Although hostile to each other, Reid still praised Kraft.
Compared with the use of other energy or medicine to neutralize the cosmic energy, this kind of nanomachinery that can dissipate the cosmic energy has a longer onset time and is more troublesome to solve.
“Craft recently developed a virtual helmet, right?”
Reed Richards suddenly aroused the thought of using technology to compete with Kraft.
“After we take out the nanomachines in the body, we will also develop a virtual reality product to compete with Dreamland.”
Unlike those companies that can only watch Dreamland make a big profit with “Dreamland World”, Reid has the Ability to create a virtual world that can’t lose to “Dreamland World”.
As for the other businesses of Dreamland, he has no interest. The technology is too low and not challenging.
The only interesting mechanical prosthesis has now gradually withdrawn from the mainstream market and has become a high-end customized product for the wealthy. There is no point in competing with Kraft on this.
What Reed Richards didn’t know was that he did exactly what Nick Fury did.
S.H.I.E.L.D actually didn’t intend to actually do anything to Kraft, and even the plan to eat two ends was not their main purpose.
The real purpose of Nick Fury is to formulate a defensive plan against Kraft. Because Kraft is very strong and not under the control of SHIELD, he has never had a good attitude towards American officials, so Nick Fury feels that he needs to plan ahead. Something.
It’s just that Kraft usually reveals too few things, and he doesn’t like to be a superhero like Peter Parker, S.H.I.E.L.D has no place to collect more information.
That’s why Nick Fury “helped” him find a few opponents, let them get a little friction from time to time, and then their S.H.I.E.L.D could take advantage of this opportunity to rub some black technology or something.
In fact, in Nick Fury’s opinion, Tony Stark should be the best superhero to compete with Kraft.
It’s a pity that before S.H.I.E.L.D paid attention to Kraft, he already had friendship with Stark, which made Nick Fury have to find Thor Thor, an alien.
But now Reed Richards is not bad. Although Tony Stark is a lot worse in terms of funding, he will not lose to Stark in terms of invention and creation.
In addition to Fantastic Four and Thor Thor, Nick Fury also prepared other opponents for Kraft.