The scene on the screen was familiar to all of them. It showed the interior of a blast-proof chamber, filmed through reinforced bulletproof glass windows.
A white laboratory mouse was secured to a frame inside a specially made iron cage, with an injection tube connected to its body. As orange liquid was slowly injected into it, magma-like light continuously erupted across its body.
The mouse, which had been sitting quietly in the cage, began to convulse and struggle violently. However, with its limbs secured to the frame, it could not break free. Its body could only twist helplessly in midair, unable to stop the continued injection of the orange liquid.
Once the Extremis Virus injection was complete, the light on the mouse's body grew brighter and brighter. Not only did it not stop struggling, it became even more frenzied.
Two almost tangible beams of fire shot from its bloodshot eyes. The parts of its limbs held by the specially made frame grew increasingly bright, as though its limbs had turned into magma, and the heat-resistant ceramic material securing them gradually began to glow red.
At the same time, its mouth suddenly opened, spewing a blast of scorching flame that struck the front of the cage. The area touched by the flames quickly turned red-hot.
Soon afterward, the heat-resistant ceramic material holding it to the frame began to melt, and its suspended body dropped into the cage.
The instant it landed, the mouse, glowing with dazzling red light and continuing to grow redder, seemed to enter a berserk acceleration mode. At tremendous speed, it began crazily ramming and gnawing at the iron cage imprisoning it.
The cage had been specially reinforced. Beyond its sturdy alloy structure, it was coated in a layer of high-temperature-resistant ceramic material. Although the laboratory mouse's impacts