Beast hurried away. Not long after, a pitch-black portal appeared above the airport, completely different from the pristine white portals Loki opened. This was Magneto's wormhole.
Beast's departure drew everyone else's attention. It was nearly lunchtime anyway, so everyone gathered in the lounge, discussing the biological riot in the Andromeda galaxy.
Both Stark and Reed believed it was most likely a genetic virus, one that acted only on certain genes. Changes at the genetic level would not affect a creature's blood, bodily fluids, or even physical structure.
For example, if human genes were modified to give them three hands, and from a certain point onward all children were born with three arms, testing that child's blood and bodily fluids would reveal no abnormalities. The data would be no different from that of an ordinary person.
Likewise, if the altered genes affected brain structure, people might go mad from birth or upon reaching a certain stage of development. Routine tests would still be useless then, and even brain scans might reveal nothing abnormal. The problem could lie in the neurons, and humanity's testing methods were not precise enough to detect that.
According to the information provided by the Mutants, some creatures had undergone limb mutations, but the changes were not dramatic. It was not as if an eight-legged crab had suddenly become a two-legged human. Rather, they had grown sharper teeth, keener claws, or hind limbs capable of granting greater speed.
But without exception, every rioting creature had become extremely aggressive. Even some plants that had originally possessed no intelligence whatsoever had grown whip-like thorns that would tear apart anyone passing by.
Thus, both Stark and Reed believed the rioting creatures' genes had been precisely modified. That meant it had definitely been man-made, not a natural disaster.
If it had been