World Destroyer

With the Super Brain and Meditation Experiment abilities, Wang Khan was like a computer with top-tier hardware. It could run any AAA game smoothly, but a computer was still just a computer—it needed software to function properly. Hardware alone was useless without software.

For Wang Khan, that so-called software was the foundational knowledge of various fields.

For example, when he had created Red Queen, he had crammed a great deal of computer programming knowledge. Otherwise, he would have had no way to create something from nothing.

There was another point: the ocean of science and technology was vast, and not every research path led anywhere. Just like in reality, many obscure scientists spent their entire lives without producing any notable achievements. Was it because they did not work hard enough? Not necessarily.

Was it because they were not smart enough? That was even more absurd. The gap in intelligence between people was not that great to begin with, especially among outstanding scientists. How much weaker could one be than another?

The reason they remained unknown throughout their lives was, more often than not, that they had chosen the wrong research direction. One wrong step led to another, and by the time they wanted to turn back, it was already too late.

Therefore, when Wang Khan conducted research, he used a shortcut: he relied on the foresight of a transmigrator to study the black technologies that already existed in the Marvel world, or would appear in the future.

Take Ant-Man's Pym Particles, for example. It was a black technology Hank Pym had developed decades ago, yet after all these years, only he knew how to manufacture it. Even Howard Stark, Tony Stark's father, had failed to crack it.

But if Wang Khan started with quantum mechanics and retraced the path Hank Pym had taken, it would not take long for him to develop Pym Particles. That was Wang Khan's shortcut.

He would never research black technologies that did not exist in Marvel. At the very least, he would not waste time on that at this stage.

For the current Wang Khan, his most comprehensive foundation of knowledge lay in biology. After all, he held a master's degree in biology and had spent two years as Osborn's lab assistant. In the field of human enhancement, his abilities were enough to stand at the peak of Marvel Earth's pyramid.

Looking at Skye's DNA sequence, Wang Khan showed an astonished expression.

"No wonder they're an alien civilization. The Inhumans may be terrible at governing a nation, but when it comes to genetic modification, they really are unfathomable."

After organizing all the data, Wang Khan activated the Meditation Experiment. His stamina began draining rapidly, while his hands moved as though electrified, rapidly recording all kinds of experimental data on his laptop.

Half an hour later, Wang Khan's stamina fell to the warning line, forcing him to stop.

Moreover, unlike before, this half-hour Meditation Experiment had failed to fully decipher the Inhumans' genetic modification technology.

"1,524 experiments, and all of them failed. Looks like this will be a long-term project."

Turning to look at Skye, who was still unconscious, Wang Khan considered how to deal with her.

"Based on the plot of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., S.H.I.E.L.D. had been secretly monitoring her all along. It's even possible that her tragic childhood was arranged by S.H.I.E.L.D. from start to finish."

In an instant, Wang Khan thought of Naruto from Naruto.

Naruto's childhood had been thoroughly manipulated by the Third Hokage. He had never gone berserk even once, yet everyone in the village knew he was the Nine-Tailed Jinchuriki.

He was clearly the Fourth Hokage's only son, yet only the village higher-ups knew that. As a result, Naruto grew up surrounded by hostile gazes. The Third Hokage was his only source of warmth. It was completely insane.

Yet the results were quite good. From childhood to adulthood, Naruto worshipped the Third Hokage deeply, and becoming Hokage became the obsession of his life.

If Naruto had lived a happy childhood, would he still have worshipped the Third Hokage that much? He probably would have merely respected him, nowhere near the level of treating him like family.

Skye was much the same. Taken away by S.H.I.E.L.D. as a child, she spent her life being adopted, rejected, adopted again, and rejected again until adulthood.

After she became an adult, S.H.I.E.L.D. suddenly appeared like a savior and took her in, giving her a family for the first time. How could Skye not become utterly devoted to S.H.I.E.L.D.?

The later plot proved it as well. Even after S.H.I.E.L.D. collapsed following Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Skye still firmly stood with S.H.I.E.L.D. Even when her biological parents appeared later, she still chose S.H.I.E.L.D.'s side. In the end, Skye came to blows with her own mother, and her father killed her mother with his own hands to save her. It was an absolute human tragedy.

"If Skye's first half of life was a farce, then the second half was definitely a tragedy. Since S.H.I.E.L.D. could use her as a weapon, why couldn't I? At least I won't make her kill her own mother."

"Looks like I need to make some arrangements."

In the blink of an eye, half a month passed. During that time, Umbrella Corporation received two major orders from the FBI and CIA, with a total value of 200 million dollars.

Europe's intelligence agencies had also sent people to inspect the products, and they would most likely place orders as well.

It could be said that Umbrella Corporation had rapidly become a rising technological powerhouse in the United States. Its foundation was still far inferior to Osborn and Stark Industries, but its potential was enormous.

However, the company attracting the most attention was still Stark Industries. The reason was simple: Tony Stark had personally admitted to being Iron Man in front of a crowd of reporters.

That declaration—"I am Iron Man"—shocked the entire United States and even the whole world.

Riding that wave of influence, Stark Industries' stock price stopped falling and began to rebound. Within half a month, it broke through its all-time high, leaving every investor dumbfounded.

Inside Wang Khan's secret laboratory, after half a month of research and one Meditation Experiment per day, Wang Khan finally reverse-engineered the Inhumans' genetic modification method after more than a hundred thousand failures. Although this method was only tailored to Skye, as long as Wang Khan wished, he could now create hundreds or thousands of Quakes.

"For the Inhumans to complete their transformation, they must rely on the Obelisk, the power of the Terrigen Crystal. But the Terrigen Crystal is merely a key. As long as the right method to unlock the lock is found, it can be unlocked without a Terrigen Crystal. The Terrigen Crystal's advantage is that every Inhuman can use it to unlock themselves, while my method is like crafting a custom key for each individual Inhuman."

Turning to look at Skye, who remained unconscious, Wang Khan rapidly devised a plan.

He placed Skye into a sealed chamber, then took out the improved Super Serum—the Green Goblin Serum without side effects—and pumped it into the chamber in gaseous form.

Unconscious, Skye instinctively absorbed the green mist formed from the Green Goblin Serum into her body. Then her body began displaying stress reactions such as convulsions and violent thrashing. As the reaction intensified, the entire sealed chamber, and even the whole laboratory, began shaking violently.

"Replacing the Terrigen Crystal with a finely adjusted Green Goblin Serum can indeed trigger Inhuman transformation. And Quake, with greatly enhanced physical abilities, will be even stronger than in the original story. Maybe she really could become a World Destroyer."

Watching the laboratory shake more and more violently, Wang Khan packed up all the experimental data. At this point, he could reproduce the same Inhuman Ability in himself, so there was no reason to stay. He turned and left without looking back.