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Chapter 209 Twelve scattered superpowers

When Saul woke up again, he was lying in the ward.

Lorraine was sitting beside the hospital bed, peeling an apple.

"you're awake?"

Seeing Saul wake up, Lorraine put the peeled apple on his bedside.

"What's wrong with me?"

Sol wanted to sit up, but with just a slight exertion on his arms, a sense of numbness instantly spread throughout his body, causing his body that had just lifted a little to fall onto the bed again.

"I don't know where to start explaining it to you."

Lorraine stood up and opened the door of the ward slightly, allowing Saul to see the scene outside.

Countless stretcher trolleys were shuttled through the corridors. Doctors and nurses wore masks, and their exposed eyes looked serious and anxious.

The injured people who were pushed to the operating room and lying on the carts had their bodies all blackened and their skin was torn.

Saul was all too familiar with the state of these people.

This is what it looks like after being struck by lightning.

By the way, he remembered.

Today I went to the skies above Rikers Island Prison to deal with an energy aggregate that exceeded the standard, but in the end I was sucked into it and became a victim as well.

In his memory before coma, the entire prison was destroyed and countless people died.

Thor watched all this happen, but no one could do anything to stop it.

"I'm not protecting anything, am I?"

Thor's mood suddenly became extremely low, "If I had been more cautious and not underestimated the enemy, maybe things would have been completely different."

"No, no, no, this has nothing to do with whether you underestimate the enemy or not."

Lorraine quickly calmed Sol's mood, "You are being plotted!"

It’s impossible not to comfort him. If Sol can’t bear this bit of news, what will he do later?

There is even worse news waiting for him!

"Am I being plotted against?"

Thor opened his eyes wide, and although his pupils still showed doubts about such remarks, he couldn't help but believe it in his heart.

What a good explanation. It not only saves one's own face, but also puts the responsibility on others.

As long as he nodded and agreed with Lorraine's point of view, he would no longer have to suffer so much in his heart.

There is no need to blame yourself anymore. Although he is a thunder god, he is controlled by lightning, causing irreparable harm to ordinary people.

He no longer has to face his own incompetence.

But after thinking for a moment, Thor still shook his head firmly.

"Lorraine, you don't have to comfort me. This is my fault and has nothing to do with anyone else."

"I'm not trying to comfort you."

Lorraine smiled bitterly, "The losses you suffered in this disaster are much greater than you imagined!"

"what?"

Sol tilted his head and looked at Lorraine doubtfully, not knowing what he meant.

Lorraine hesitated for a moment, but decided to put the facts in front of Saul.

They are all 1500-year-old boys, so they should be able to bear this.

Lorraine pointed his finger in the void, tearing a small opening in the space, and countless silver-white fragments with thunderous light fell out of the crack in the space.

Looking at these fragments, Thor suddenly felt his breath tightening.

He had seen these fragments in the movie Lorraine showed him.

The name seems to be "Thor III".

In that movie, his own Thor's Hammer was crushed to pieces by his sister Hela, and what fell on the grass were the fragments like this.

"This is……"

Thor asked tremblingly, "Fragments of Mjolnir!?"

His words were full of disbelief, coupled with a hint of expectation struggling in despair.

I look forward to Lorraine telling him that he misunderstood and that there is nothing wrong with Mjolnir.

However, even a small amount of hope cannot be saved.

Lorraine nodded heavily and said, "I'm sorry to tell you this, but your guess is correct. These fragments are Mjolnir."

With a bang, Thor felt completely desperate.

Once again he lost his hammer.

Does this also mean that he has lost his divine power again? !

But unexpectedly, Thor was not as excited as he had imagined. It was not like he was when he first came to Earth, as if he could not survive without the hammer.

The reason may be because he has seen his future and still remembers what Odin said to him.

He is the God of Thunder, not the God of Hammers.

Or maybe it's because Lorraine is still here.

In Saul's impression, Lorraine is an omnipotent existence.

Even if Mjolnir breaks, he can probably fix it.

If it really can't be repaired, Thor can also imitate his future self and go to Nidave to build a storm axe.

Things are not that desperate yet.

However, Thor still couldn't figure it out.

Mjolnir is an artifact, forged in a dying star using Uru metal as raw material.

How could it be broken into pieces?

After a long silence, Thor finally spoke with difficulty. His throat was dry and his tone seemed a little dry.

"Mjolnir...how did it break?"

"This is exactly what I am going to tell you next."

Lorraine sighed, took back the pieces of Mjolnir, and then sat beside Thor's bed.

"Remember what I told you? You were set up."

Thor nodded. This time he did not immediately refute, but listened carefully, hoping that his inner doubts could be answered.

"When I rushed to Rikers Island Prison, I saw a scene of devastation and you in a coma among the ruins."

Lorraine said calmly, "I took you away in advance. Otherwise, as the God of Thunder, if you were found to have appeared in the disaster caused by this thunderstorm, I'm afraid all the blame would be thrown on your head." .”

Sol showed a hint of emotion and expressed his gratitude to Lorraine from the bottom of his heart.

Just hearing Lorraine's description made him feel a little scared.

He almost became a public enemy.

Lorraine continued: "After sending you to the hospital, I went back to Rikers Island Prison to investigate and found several unusual signs."

Sol quickly asked: "What is it?"

"Dark energy."

Lorraine said the term and then began to explain.

He didn't think that with Sol's knowledge, he could understand what this word meant.

"Dark energy is a kind of energy that is diffused in every corner of the universe but cannot be observed by any existing means."

Lorraine explained to Saul in as short a word as possible, "It doesn't matter if you don't understand, you just need to know that this is a cosmic energy that humans cannot use!"

"It doesn't matter, I can understand it!"

Saul listened carefully to Lorraine's words. As he listened, he found that he had forgotten an important thing.

He forgot to think.

But when I look back and think about what Lorraine just said, I can't remember it at all.

So there is no need for Lorraine to worry about Saul now.

Because he couldn't understand it from the first sentence.

Now I'm just waiting for Lorraine to come to a conclusion. "The existence of dark energy still has many unsolved mysteries."

Lorraine continued to explain, "In fact, the source of many existing superpowers can be traced back to dark energy."

Dark energy is the foundation for the rational existence of the superhero world.

The entire universe is composed of about two-thirds dark energy and one-third matter. Those superheroes’ seemingly unscientific source of energy is dark energy.

For example, why does Wanda's combat power surge sharply when she is emotional? There is no upper limit in sight.

It was because she was able to control more dark energy than usual at that time, so of course she was stronger than usual.

This is all very scientific and not idealistic at all.

"superpower……"

Thor murmured this word, and in his mind, dark energy had been equated with superpowers.

Where there is dark energy, there are people with super powers.

Then Lorraine just said that he discovered dark energy in the ruins of the prison. Doesn't this indicate...

"I think you probably guessed it."

Lorraine didn't hold back and gave the answer directly, "That thundercloud is a trap specially arranged by someone to lure you into it. When you enter it, Mjolnir will become the key to unlocking dark energy, and Thor's hammer will be out of control." , your divine power at that time naturally went out of control.

"As for why the other party wants to turn on dark energy, if my guess is correct, he wants to create a group of special superpowers.

"And now it seems that the other party has succeeded."

Create special superpowers...

Thor couldn't understand why he would bother creating superpowers when there were mutants everywhere.

What is the picture?

"But having said that, although the other party's plan was successful, there should still be some minor deviations."

Lorraine showed a smile and looked at Saul, "This is also thanks to you."

"I?"

Saul couldn't help but ask, "What went wrong?"

"The other party's original plan was to use all the prisoners in the prison to create superpowers. I don't know what he planned. Let a group of death row prisoners gain superpowers. This is simply a disaster."

After Lorraine finished saying this in a heavy tone, her tone became lighter.

"However, because you resisted desperately in the thundercloud, this emotion was conveyed to Mjolnir, so that it was not at the mercy of the other party.

"At the moment the dark energy exploded, it worked hard to repel part of the dark energy and scattered it all over New York."

Saul understood what Lorraine meant.

Does this mean that not all people who have gained superpowers this time are bad people?

"So do you know how many people have gained superpowers?"

Saul couldn't help but ask, "Who are those other people?"

"Unfortunately, I don't know that either."

Lorraine shook his head and said, "I have just said that dark energy cannot be observed using human beings' current methods. Only the moment it explodes, a trace can be barely captured.

"After a while, they disappeared again.

"I can only roughly judge based on the residue at the scene that the dark energy that exploded at that time should have been divided into twelve parts. As for who it was divided into, I can't track it.

“And there is another news to tell you. Due to thunderstorms, many prisoners at the scene were chopped into coke, and it will take a long time to identify them one by one.

"If a prisoner escaped when the accident occurred, we would not find out until it would be a long time later."

Lorraine's tone was extremely serious, and he was clearly telling Thor.

Now there are twelve superpowers, but none can be found.

We can only wait for them to show up.

Moreover, among these twelve people, the majority are criminals and will eventually become a hidden danger to society.

Thor lowered his head, thinking hard about the possible consequences of this matter.

It’s really not optimistic.

But Lorraine suddenly said: "Okay, don't be so gloomy, it's no big deal if the soldiers come to cover up the water and the earth.

"What we should discuss now is what to do with your hammer!"

……

New York, after a thunderstorm at Rikers Island Prison.

In an ice cream shop.

Scott Lang wore pink overalls, smiled on his face, and entertained every guest with a slightly stiff enthusiasm.

He is an employee here.

Or rather, for the time being.

Scott is a top student with an IQ and degree far beyond the average person. He should have been sitting in the office, drinking coffee, reading the newspaper, and enjoying the treatment of the elite.

But for some reasons, he ruined it all with his own hands.

Now, he's just a thief fresh out of prison, trying to pay child support to his ex-wife and gain visitation rights to his daughter, Cathy Long.

But his criminal record prevented him from finding a profitable job.

I can only work as a waiter to eke out a living.

Even so, he must hide his past.

"Hello, I would like a double ball of ice cream, strawberry flavor and matcha flavor."

A little girl came to the counter and tried to order her meal with her feet on her feet.

Scott immediately showed a professional smile and replied enthusiastically: "Okay, strawberry matcha flavored double ball ice cream, I will make it for you right away!"

Scott took the ten-dollar bill from the little girl's hand, issued the change in one go, and handed the order to the colleague behind him who was making ice cream.

However, the other party did not follow the procedure to take it over.

Scott turned around and found that the other person was frowning and looking at the ice cream machine motionless.

"What's wrong?"

Scott asked concerned.

Instead of caring about his colleagues, he cares about the machine.

If something goes wrong with the ice cream machine, you don’t have to do anything for the rest of the day.

"I always feel like there's something wrong with the machine."

The colleague put his hands on his hips and said doubtfully, "It feels like there is something wrong with the refrigeration. The butter is a little melted."

This is a big deal!

Scott quickly said: "Then have you checked?"

"I checked!"

The colleague said, "There are no problems elsewhere. Maybe the wire at the back is broken. I want to move it and have a look, but this machine is too heavy and I can't move it."

"Then let's move together."

Scott immediately said, this is related to his salary today, so he can't be careless!

He approached the machine, stretched out his hand, and pressed it on it.

He knew the machine was heavy, but he had to try it now or he might not get paid today.

No matter what, I'm going to move this machine.

This thought kept repeating in his mind.

Then, at the moment when his idea appeared, a change suddenly occurred.

The machine he was holding on instantly became extremely light, and he could completely push it away with just the force of his fingers.

"This……"

Scott's eyes suddenly opened wide.

Is his hand so powerful now?

He must have mastered it!

(End of this chapter)