Flames
"Oh, you mean this little thing..."
John sat in the hover chair, head down, glancing expressionlessly at the ring on his finger.
"Where... did this come from?"
Jor- El's phantom stared intently at the eerie light emanating from the ring's face.
Theoretically speaking... it fell down on its own.
"I had just flown down from the atmosphere when I saw a green alien spaceship falling down."
A purple-skinned alien fell out, its chest riddled with a large hole by some kind of yellow parasite.
At this point, John shrugged and casually pointed to the ring on his hand:
He said his Abin Sue, the guard of this sector, and that before he died he took this thing out and said he was going to choose the next Inheritors.
It twitched a few times in mid-air and then fell directly into my hand.
Joe El was stunned.
"You mean Abin Su... the senior guardian of Sector 2814, who fell to his death in Antarctica?"
Joe El muttered to himself.
But after a while, he seemed to realize something, and the phantom's eyes suddenly widened.
"Wait! According to the Green Lantern Corps ' selection logic, you should be..."
Jor- El directly accessed the archives related to the Green Lantern Corps system on the star map:
"The underlying algorithm of the Green Lantern Ring was personally set by the Guardians of the Universe, and it will only automatically lock onto compatible targets."
If it is not approved, it will initiate the escape procedure immediately.
Once approved, one will be forcibly transported back to Oa to undergo assessment and trials.
"But it neither escaped nor reconnected..."
Furthermore, you are directly extracting its energy circuit, which is completely illogical.
John simply raised an eyebrow indifferently.
"Relax."
He then slightly raised his hand, a thought forming in his mind.
"Buzz."
Immediately afterwards, the ring on my index finger trembled slightly.
The next second, a deep, dark, jade-like green particle energy flowed out from his fingertips.
Then they quickly converged, coalesced, and combined in mid-air to form a thick-bottomed stemmed glass that emitted a faint glow.
The inner wall of the cup is as smooth as a mirror, and even under the refraction of white light, it reflects a clear image.
John twirled the wine glass in his hand twice, then his mind wandered.
"Smack!"
The cup instantly transformed into a shower of green dust, which then returned to the ring as energy.
"Actually... I don't know why either, but it is indeed unusually obedient."
As Joe El watched this scene, a chill suddenly crept into his emotionally charged code.
Nothing more.
This so-called "biological son," who has only just come of age, is self-consistent in his thinking and cunning in his methods...
It seems to require absolutely no protection or guidance.
The potential he demonstrated far exceeded all the assessment models he had initially prepared.
However, a dangerous alarm quickly drew Joe El's attention back to him.
"Buzz--!!"
Just as the scanning probe swept across John's body...
Suddenly, a large number of glaring red warning messages popped up on the main control screen.
[WARNING! WARNING!]
[Residual secondary psychological pollution detected!]
[ Spectrum Analysis: Yellow, Fear Band]
" Yellow Spectrum?!"
Joe El's expression changed, immediately becoming serious and tense.
He then suddenly stepped forward and blocked John's path:
" Carl, didn't you just mention that yellow... parasite-like thing?"
"Yes, it's disgusting, like a lump of mud."
John gestured with his hand.
"No, that's Parallax Energy, it comes from the Yellow Spectrum of emotions!"
"Yellow energy represents fear and has a strong spiritual polluting effect."
If your will wavers even slightly, it will follow your brain and dig into your deepest fears.
It will devour your self-awareness, turning you completely into an unconscious product of fear.
Then Joe El pointed at John:
"Your skin has residual Yellow Spectrum, most likely from a polluting light source emitted by the Parallax."
John merely raised an eyebrow slightly upon hearing this.
That little yellow blob of slime did indeed "visit" me, but it was bounced out before it could "contaminate" me.
"I was indeed pounced on by that thing just now."
John stroked his chin.
"But it seems to have fallen apart completely, it didn't affect me at all."
"We must nip the risk in the bud, Carl."
Joe El interrupted him abruptly.
"After absorbing the Starlight, the Kryptonian experienced a significant enhancement in their physical abilities..."
This could lead to blind confidence.
When faced with the erosion of higher-dimensional spiritual Spectrum, the physical body alone is hardly able to resist!
Moreover, it has a certain incubation period.
Once the entity of fear takes root in your mind, it's too late to get rid of it.
With that, Joe El turned abruptly and floated toward another corridor inside the cabin.
"Come with me! For your safety, we must immediately conduct a deep genetic scan and detoxification."
The blood control room is located at the lowest level of the ship's hull.
Dozens of translucent crystal tubes meander down from the circular dome.
In the very center of the hall, a suspended platform constructed of black fluid floats silently.
Several slender robotic arms are attached around the scanning stage, each with a shimmering blue crystal probe embedded at its end.
"Lie down, Carl."
Joe El's projection penetrated the gate and landed in front of the central light screen:
"Take a deep breath and relax. Otherwise, the laser emitted by the scanning probe will be deflected directly by your Bioelectric Field."
John then walked to the scanning table and lay down on his back.
The next second.
The cool, fluid metal flowed naturally down his body like living water, perfectly conforming to his spine, shoulder blades, and waistline.
"Scan started."
Joe El's fingers flew across the light screen.
"Buzz--"
Six robotic arms slid down and hovered half a foot above John's torso.
Soon, a pure white laser beam swept out from the probe, slowly sliding from top to bottom, from head to toe.
[ Yellow Spectrum parasite investigation in progress... Initiated]
[Neural synapse test... begins]
Joe El stood in front of the light screen, staring intently at the mental waveform diagram.
If fear energy lies dormant within the body, it will inevitably manifest as intense, dark yellow noise under the stimulation of a full -Spectrum laser.
However.
One second... ten seconds passed.
The waveform is simply a straight line that slides smoothly across the graph.
"How is this possible..."
Joe El muttered to himself, even increasing the probe's power:
"Not even the faintest trace of erosion? That ball of terrifying energy... did it simply evaporate into thin air?!"
However, before Joe El could recover from his fall,
"Beep! Beep! Beep!!"
The main controller suddenly emitted a piercing, high-pitched whistle.
[WARNING! Data overflow from the quantum computer!]
[An unrecognizable high-order mutation structure has been detected!]
[Comparison with Krypton library... Comparison failed! Deviation: 740%]
[Calibration in progress... Parsing failed!]
"What happened?!"
Joe El's expression changed as he tried to stabilize the mainframe's operations:
"Is the scanner overloaded? Or is the spaceship running out of power?"
But he soon discovered that it didn't matter at all.
"Buzz!"
Suddenly, a high-magnification perspective view of the cells inside John's body was projected onto the holographic screen.
But... that's not a standard Kryptonian cell model at all.
In the Krypton gene pool.
Under normal conditions, pure Krypton cells are arranged in hexagonal crystals. When they come into contact with Starlight from ecliptic stars, they slowly store energy like a sponge.
But now, those cells on the screen...
It exhibits an extremely irregular arrangement and a remarkably dense structure.
On the surface of those cells, where deep blue and pure gold intertwine, some unknown foreign protein is clearly visible.
Moreover, the negative embedding structure left by these exogenous proteins appears to have been completely eliminated.
The remaining main target protein is firmly embedded in the cell nucleus surface, fused together as one.
[Protein assay: Exceeds the peak value limit by 46 times]
[Myofibrillary resistance: Unmeasurable, exceeding sensor limits]
"This..."
"Did the gene cluster produce an undetermined high-order mutation?"
Even though Joe El had long been used to the abnormalities in this "son".
At this moment, they were also plunged into utter horror.
Since the birth of the Krypton civilization tens of millions of years ago, a thorough search of the entire empire's archives has revealed no case of such a sudden mutation.
Because it is evolving.
(To add here, the Soldier Boy eliminated all the side effects of Compound V and the V1 First-Generation Compound in John's body.)
(In other words, they became completely integrated with Krypton cells, becoming the only individuals on Krypton capable of autonomous evolution.)
(Pay attention, it's autonomous evolution, not passive evolution!)
(This is related to the next world, and the next world won't be very long; it's just a very brief transition.)