Taking over the Baxter Building, Reed's humiliation

Lynn put on his black trench coat, but didn't immediately head for the elevator leading to the ground. He turned his head to look at Susan was still kneeling in the rubble, her eyes filled with fervor.

"The factory matter isn't urgent, it won't take more than a few minutes." Lynn's tone was calm, carrying an undeniable air of control. "Before killing the dog, go collect your 'dowry' first. Open the direct access to the Baxter Building."

Upon hearing this, Susan's blue pupils suddenly burst with a morbid ecstasy. Far from feeling humiliated by the word "dowry," she felt as if she had received an unparalleled blessing and quickly scrambled to her feet.

"Yes, Lynn!" Susan's voice trembled with excitement. Without hesitation, she raised her right hand, and the Invisible Force Field in her palm spun rapidly, tearing open a Negative Zone portal to Manhattan in the void of the basement.

Wanda snorted coldly, Scarlet magic dancing at her fingertips, clearly extremely displeased with Susan's blatant attempt to woo her. Gwen Stacy stood silently behind Lynn, like a loyal shadow, her eyes, hidden behind her mask, fixed on Susan's back, ready to face any possible betrayal.

Ignoring the subtle rivalry between the two women, Lynn calmly stepped into the dark blue portal with her hands in her pockets.

Top-floor laboratory of the Baxter Building, Manhattan.

The piercing red alarm lights flashed wildly, illuminating the entire space intermittently. The air was thick with the acrid smell of Ozone and burning cables.

Reed Richards, hailed as the smartest man on Earth, was currently sprawled across the Control Console like a madman. His arms stretched out like rubber, reaching over ten meters in length, and his ten fingers split into dozens of tentacles, blurring through the seven or eight Virtual Keyboard as he frantically typed out cracking code.

"Damn it! The Underlying Logic has been completely locked down!" Reed's eyes were bloodshot, and large beads of sweat dripped from his forehead.

Not far behind him, Ben Green (The Thing) leaned painfully against a pillar, his indestructible rock body covered in horrific cracks, his left arm twisted in a bizarre way. Inside the medical bay, Johnny Storm (The Human Torch) was wrapped in bandages and in a deep coma.

Just half an hour ago, Susan suddenly returned to the building like a different person. Not only did she unilaterally announce the disbandment of the Fantastic Four, but she also used a violent and Invisible Force Field that they had never seen before to instantly kill Ben and Johnny Storm who tried to stop her, and then forcibly seized control of the building.

"Reed... give up..." Ben coughed up a mouthful of blood mixed with stone fragments, his voice rough, "Susan's condition is not right, that power... is simply not something she can control."

"Shut up! I'm the smartest person on Earth! There's no firewall I can't crack!" Reed gritted his teeth, his rubber arm stretching out again, attempting to forcefully connect to the backup power.

"Buzz--"

The air in the center of the laboratory suddenly twisted violently, and a dark blue spatial vortex exploded out of thin air.

Reed whirled around, his rubber arm snapping back into a defensive stance.

Lynn stepped out of the portal first, her black trench coat fluttering in the energy currents. Following her, Wanda, Gwen Stacy, and the blonde, cold-eyed Susan emerged one after the other.

"Susan!" Reed's eyes flashed with wild joy upon seeing his fiancée, which quickly replaced with a look of utter despair. "Do you even know what you're doing? Stop it! You're being controlled by some kind of Psychic Power, aren't you? I can forgive you for injuring Ben and Johnny Storm, as long as you hand over the access right now, we'll conduct a brain scan immediately..."

"Smack!"

Before Reed could finish speaking, an invisible Force Field suddenly materialized and slapped him hard across the face.

The immense Impact sent Reed flying like a rag doll, slamming him against the bulletproof glass with a dull thud. A deep gash ran down his rubber cheek, and teeth spurted out mixed with blood.

"Forgive?" Susan slowly lowered her right hand, looking down at Reed lying on the ground, her blue eyes filled with undisguised disgust and contempt. "Reed, what are you? How dare you shout at your master?"

These words struck Reed like a bolt from the blue, exploding directly in his mind.

He stared in disbelief at his fiancée, who had once been so obedient and gentle to him. Now, Susan was obediently taking a half step back, standing meekly beside the strange dark-haired man, her posture extremely humble.

"Master...?" Reed's gaze darted back and forth between Susan and Lynn, his rational Defense Line beginning to crumble. "Susan, are you crazy! I'm your fiancé! We're getting married soon! How could you call this unknown agent..."

"Noisy." Lynn uttered two words coldly.

Lynn didn't even need to lift a finger. A Scarlet flashed in Wanda's eyes, and Chaos Magic instantly emanated from her body.

"Ugh!" Reed let out a piercing scream.

His prized rubber body, twisted uncontrollably into a pretzel shape under the forced distortion of Chaos Magic, was clearly audible in the empty laboratory. With a single thought, Wanda pinned this exceptional genius to the floor like a crumpled piece of paper.

"If you dare look him in the eye again, I'll gouge your eyes out." Wanda looked down at Reed with a chilling murderous intent in her voice.

Lynn ignored Reed wriggling on the ground and walked straight to the Control Console.

Susan immediately stepped forward, her slender fingers swiftly tracing patterns on the virtual screen.

"Lynn, the defense matrix of Baxter Building has been completely shut down." Susan's voice became incredibly gentle, even carrying a hint of obsequious praise. "The Fantastic Four's 7,600 top-tier technology patents, 13 billion US dollars in liquid assets, and all the exploration data from the Negative Zone Lab have all been packaged up."

Susan handed a black hard drive, about the size of a thumb, to Lynn with both hands.

"Now, all of these are yours."

Lying on the ground, Reed watched this scene with eyes that seemed to spit fire, his heart aching as if it were being stabbed.

That was his life's work! It was the wealth he had accumulated through countless days and nights, and through countless life-or-death crises! Now, the woman he loved so deeply was offering it all up as a tribute, begging and pleading, to the man who had taken her away!

"Robbers... you bunch of robbers!" Reed roared, his rubber arms struggling desperately to grab the hard drive. "Susan! You'll regret this! He's just using you!"

Lynn took the hard drive and tossed it into his pocket. He turned around, walked slowly to Reed, and looked down at the distorted face.

"A robber?" Lynn's lips curled into a mocking sneer. "Reed Richards, you seem to have misunderstood one thing. I've never stolen anything from you."

Lynn leaned down slightly, his voice low, like a devil's whisper, "It was your woman who willingly handed all this over to me, begging me to accept it."

Reed's pupils contracted violently, and his breathing stopped completely. Lynn's words were more lethal than any physical attack, crushing his manly dignity underfoot.

"In the ruins of Latveria, when you abandoned her to save your life for your ridiculous 'tactical optimal solution,' you lost everything." Lynn straightened up, his eyes as cold as ice. "Now, take your crippled brothers and get out of my building. If you're still here in ten minutes, I'll have Wanda take you and the trash cans downstairs out."

Reed trembled, tears of humiliation mingling with blood streaming down his face. Looking at Susan's indifferent profile, he finally understood that the woman who once loved him was truly dead in Latveria.

Lynn stopped looking at him and turned to walk towards the Supercomputer Terminal at the Control Console.

"Susan, retrieve all the underlying data for Nick Fury's ' Blind Spot Program '," Lynn ordered.

"Yes." Susan immediately switched to S.H.I.E.L.D..'s Dark Web interface.

A giant Holographic Projection screen unfolded in mid-air, and a global map instantly lit up. On the map, countless red dots were flashing wildly, each dot representing a high-risk Mutants had been released.

Lynn's gaze quickly locked onto a coordinate on the Outskirts of New York. It was a partner factory of Stark Industries, and also the core stronghold he used to launder Hydra funds.

On the screen, the green band representing Natasha's vital signs was fluctuating violently and was visibly falling toward the dangerous red line.

Around the coordinates representing Natasha, there were more than a dozen high-intensity energy sources. The most dazzling of them all exuded a ferocious, Beast aura.

"Sabretooth, and Magneto's old henchmen..." Lynn's eyes instantly turned extremely dangerous, and the surrounding air temperature plummeted.

Nick Fury, that old fox, after losing control of S.H.I.E.L.D.., went so far as to open up the military's Mutants containment facility, attempting to use these out-of-control monsters to tear Lynn's business apart.

"Lynn, Natasha is about to collapse." Gwen Stacy watched the rapidly decreasing health bars on the screen, and her Spider-Sense detected the terrifying killing intent emanating from Lynn.

Let's go.

Lynn snatched the Negative Zone portal that Susan had just opened and forcibly changed its coordinates to a factory Outskirts of New York.

"Go see Fury's mad dog."

Lynn strode into the deep blue vortex, followed closely by Wanda, Gwen Stacy, and Susan.

The portal slammed shut in the laboratory, leaving behind only a mess and Reed Richards weeping silently in humiliation and despair.