Turning a Natural Disaster into a Personal Power Bank
Thundercloud Core.
Here, there is no wind or rain, only a viscous, unyielding liquid black plasma. This is the underlying logical core of the "Thor" meteorological disaster.
Jiang Li, in his avatar [Ultimate Feedback], hovered in this black swamp.
The twelve conductive tendrils on his head and hands suddenly swelled up, their golden plugs resembling twelve armor-piercing missiles, plunging deep into the densest primordial region of the thundercloud.
[WARNING! Core has been fatally compromised!]
[System logic is crashing!]
[Initiating Final Protocol: Forced Exclusion!]
The entity "Thor" issued an extremely sharp garbled alarm. The entire thundercloud space began to compress violently, attempting to use the repulsive force of the cosmic dimension to forcibly "kick" this unreasonable intruder out of the server.
"Trying to kick someone now? Too late!"
"As long as the plug is connected, your electricity is my electricity!"
Buzz--!
A blinding green light erupted from the Omnitrix on Jiang Li's chest. He was no longer passively absorbing, but had directly activated [Full-Power Consumption Mode].
The twelve tentacles that had pierced deep into the thunderclouds suddenly seemed to come alive, and began to split and extend wildly!
One becomes ten, ten become a hundred, a hundred becomes a thousand!
Within seconds, tens of thousands of green conductive tendrils, like a vast and intricate neural network, instantly spread to every corner of the thundercloud that covered the entire city of New York!
"Suck it!"
Jiang Li let out a deafening roar.
Glug! Glug!
The terrifying devouring began.
Looking up from the ground, the surviving NPC citizens of New York City witnessed an apocalyptic spectacle.
The thick, oppressive black clouds that had been blotting out the sky suddenly had a huge green vortex at their center.
The vortex was like a black hole, violently tearing and devouring the surrounding black lightning.
The lightning bolts that were originally poised to unleash the "carbonization punishment" were now unable to strike even a spark. They were like black snakes whose vital points had been seized, their power forcibly drained.
The heavy rain has stopped.
The gale has stopped.
The area of the thundercloud is shrinking rapidly at a rate visible to the naked eye.
It covered the entire city—covered Manhattan —shrank to a single block—and finally collapsed into a black fog only a few dozen meters in size.
But at the center of the black fog.
[No... I am a natural disaster... I am the absolute rule...]
Thor's emotionless electronic voice now revealed a sense of despair and weakness, as if it were on the verge of crashing.
"You're nothing but a natural disaster."
Jiang Li hovered in mid-air, the once boundless magma around him completely absorbed by him. The green circuits on his body were so bright they were almost blinding, and his body was filled with terrifying energy enough to shatter the moon.
Jiang Li slammed his hands together.
The tens of thousands of green tentacles that had spread throughout the void instantly closed in, tightly binding and frantically compressing the last remaining wisp of black mist of Thor's entity!
Pfft!
Under the combined crushing force of Galvan Prime's top-tier technology and the Phoenix Essence.
The last vestige of will from the meteorological disaster was forcibly extinguished by the data stream from the Omnitrix.
The massive rules governing thunderstorms were forcibly reduced and compressed from a gaseous state.
Clatter
In mid-air, the black mist completely disappeared. A pure, round bead, only the size of a glass bead, entirely black, with countless tiny black lightning bolts swirling wildly inside, quietly fell into Jiang Li's palm.
Sunlight, after a long absence, shone on New York City.
Although the eerie green sky remained, the catastrophic thunderstorm that had hung over everyone's heads had been completely cleared away.
[Ding! Forced analysis of the anomaly source complete!]
[Successfully squeezed every last drop of Thunder code at the environment level!]
[Congratulations, host! Successfully contained: the third fragment of the rules— Absolute Carbonizing Thunderstorm (incomplete)!]
[The dial's antivirus database has been updated. Resistance to anomalous rules in this universe has been increased to 90%!]
[Ding! Host's current energy reserves have been detected as overflowing and have been automatically converted into backup battery reserves for the watch face.]
Jiang Li held the warm "Lightning Orb" in his hand and nodded in satisfaction.
A flash of green light.
Jiang Li deactivated his [Ultimate Feedback] form and reverted to his old self as a young man in a black trench coat. He free-fell from a height of several hundred meters and landed steadily on the roof of a dilapidated apartment building.
Three major sources of anomalies: Stark Tower, Spider Clock Tower, and Thor Thunderstorm.
All levels cleared.
"The progress is quite fast."
Jiang Li found a clean cement block to sit on, took out a cigarette from his pocket, and lit it.
He reached out his left hand and took out the other two fragments that he had previously contained.
A small patch of dark red "Iron Gray" representing Iron Man.
A pale white "Causality Core" representing Spider-Man.
In addition, there's the black "Lightning Orb" in his hand, representing Thor.
Jiang Li casually placed three fragments of the abnormal rules of the ERROR-404 universe in his palm.
But just as these three fragments came within a centimeter of each other!
Buzz--!!!
A sudden change has occurred!
Before Jiang Li could even react, the Iron Gray, white core, and Lightning Orb in his palm suddenly erupted with an extremely dazzling scarlet light!
It exudes an extreme malice that distorts reality and alters everything.
[WARNING! Hidden links detected at the underlying level of the fragment!]
[Highest level error code detected!]
The watch face emitted an extremely piercing alarm.
To Jiang Li's astonishment, the three fragments floated up uncontrollably, spinning and piecing themselves together at high speed in mid-air.
Sizzle sizzle...
Accompanied by a static-like noise similar to that of an old-fashioned dial-up internet connection, the three fragments resonated forcefully, projecting an extremely complex holographic city map in front of Jiang Li!
That's a 3D map of the entire New York City.
At the very center of the map, deep beneath Manhattan, there is a constantly flashing, glaring red dot.
The depth of that location far surpasses that of any subway line or sewer, reaching directly into the Earth's crust.
Beside the holographic map, a line of blood-red text, pieced together from gibberish, slowly appeared:
[SHIELD (S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarters)].
"S.H.I.E.L.D.." Jiang Li raised an eyebrow.
He has been in this universe for some time now, and even used his Grey Matter to read the underlying logic, but he has never discovered the existence of S.H.I.E.L.D.. In this strange universe, the organization seems to have been completely wiped out.
However, what truly made Jiang Li's eyes narrow slightly was the extremely glaring red warning message below the map coordinates:
Do not go underground.
[It's watching you.]
It altered reality.
Jiang Li exhaled a puff of smoke, staring intently at the four words "modify reality".
All mechanical assimilation, causal nightmares, and natural disasters are merely superficial derivative defense mechanisms.
The culprit that twisted the entire Marvel Universe into this bizarre spectacle, the true core virus, has always been hidden deep within the Earth.
"Modify reality?"
"No wonder the rules of this universe are so idealistic. It turns out that 'that stone' has mutated."
Jiang Li stood up and stomped on the cement slab on the ground, crushing it.