Different Now

Back in the walled city, Lin Feng landed on the wall. The robots guarding it didn't attack him.

Lin Feng opened the Eyes of the Universe, finally seeing Tony's condition clearly this time.

The guy was actually encased in a giant machine, his eyes slightly closed, his body in a glass pod filled with a strange liquid.

"What the hell happened?"

Lin Feng walked to a black iron door, looking at a small, camera-like light on it.

He leaned in, directly seeing the scene behind the door.

Behind the door was an elevator shaft. As soon as Lin Feng's face got close, a heavy thud came from inside.

Then, several thick cables began to move up and down, pulling the elevator up from below.

"What's wrong with you?"

Tony hadn't said anything yet, but Lin Feng felt that this guy was controlling everything since he stood on the wall.

He was a little confused.

Thud!!!

With a heavy thud, the elevator reached the top.

The door in front of Lin Feng slowly opened.

He looked at the surrounding robots, then walked in.

Thud!

The iron door closed again, and Lin Feng went down with the elevator. After going down about thirty or forty meters, it stopped.

Lin Feng watched as the iron door in front of him turned into a silver alloy gate, slowly opening with a click.

A faint white light squeezed out from the crack in the door. He looked at the opening door, revealing the scene inside.

What came into view was a silver-white hall, somewhat similar to Lin Feng's base.

However, in the center of this hall, there was a strange machine.

The machine extended several black tubes that plugged into the ceiling. In the middle, inside a glass pod filled with an unknown liquid, Tony was immersed, his life or death unknown.

As Lin Feng stepped inside, Tony's voice immediately sounded around him.

"Lin Feng, you're back."

Tony's voice was flat and without emotion. Lin Feng looked around strangely, then his gaze fell on the seemingly unconscious Tony in front of him.

Lin Feng could feel that the Tony in the glass pod still had vital signs.

That meant he wasn't dead yet.

But what was with this state?

"What's with you... what happened?"

Lin Feng walked to the glass pod, curiously looking it over.

This machine looked a bit like the recovery chamber in Dragon Ball.

"I opened Pandora's Box. Now I know why you didn't let me study your abilities back then."

Tony's voice, tinged with regret, came from the room, while Tony in the glass pod didn't move at all, only a few bubbles floated out of his mouth.

"What happened to you?"

After a moment of silence, Lin Feng didn't want to say anything about himself.

Tony should probably know a little about his secret.

The secret of the Blacklight Virus.

"How should I put this... sigh..."

There was an indescribable feeling in Tony's voice coming from around him. After a long sigh, he was silent for a while, then changed the subject: "Where have you been all this time? You should have appeared in New York back then, right?"

Although it was a question, Tony used a tone of certainty.

Lin Feng smiled slightly after hearing this.

"Such a big thing, aliens descending, everyone would be curious, right?"

He looked at Tony in the glass pod, slowly stroking his chin with one hand, and suddenly asked playfully, "You can't get hard like this, can you?"

Clang!!!!

Lin Feng rubbed his head, resentfully being pressed into a chair by several robots, with his back to Tony in the glass pod.

These robots stood beside him, as if monitoring him.

"Sigh..."

He lazily sighed, looking at the white wall in front of him, and said again, "I won't look at you, okay? At least give me another place to look, seeing the scenery outside the city would be nice, this is like facing a wall."

Lin Feng crossed his legs, and the robots beside him pushed his chair, moving him to the other side.

Then, the wall in front of Lin Feng suddenly became transparent, revealing the scene outside the city.

Below the city, a tide of zombies, oblivious to pain, surged towards it, attacking.

Among them were zombies with mutated limbs and zombie-controlled animals, relying on their mutated abilities to fiercely attack the walls.

But at the base of the wall, many small openings appeared on the surface close to the ground.

These small openings spewed out countless bullet-like metal projectiles, which, after penetrating the nearest zombie monsters, suddenly deformed, turning into small robots. These robots then assembled together, becoming larger ones and fighting alongside them against the zombies.

It seemed endless, as Lin Feng had noticed when he flew out of the walled city.

When he returned, these robots were still fighting, without a moment's rest.

"Can they not be killed off?"

Lin Feng asked after watching for a while.

"They can't be killed off. These zombies can corrode inorganic matter to transform. At this rate, the Earth will be devoured by them," Tony said with concern.

Lin Feng's eyes flickered; he hadn't thought of that.

The Blacklight Virus was capable of devouring inorganic matter, and now that the virus was fused with a bunch of miscellaneous things, it had almost lost its original form.

Although Lin Feng had modified part of the virus's structure, the earliest virus released had come from Sharon.

The virus in that woman's body had complete devouring properties. Since losing contact with Sharon, Lin Feng had suspected that the origin of these viruses should be from Sharon.

Although he had later released a portion of the Blacklight Virus, it was weakened, and the strongest devouring and evolutionary characteristics had been removed, leaving only an ordinary zombie virus.

"Can you still access S.H.I.E.L.D. member data here? I want to look up someone, Sharon Carter."

Lin Feng realized now that he should have investigated Sharon Carter, feeling it was somewhat late.

"Yes, she was lost in contact during a mission. Later, Peggy Carter, one of the founders of S.H.I.E.L.D., asked Steve, that is, Captain America, to investigate the matter. He found Sharon in Australia, but the woman had been turned into an experimental subject by Hydra to study a virus, the one you have.

After Sharon Carter was rescued, she stayed in a quiet town for psychological treatment, but Sharon's psychological condition remained poor. Combined with the brutal modifications her body had undergone by Hydra, one day, her body self-destructed and she died. Afterward, a strange virus erupted from her self-destruction, infecting the entire town and turning it into zombies."