With the opening and closing of the umbrella, after traversing many times, the time in the real world had passed for a long time.
During this period, Li Xiu had personally experienced many abilities, ranging from weak abilities such as X-ray vision, spikes, and super-strong reflexes, to medium abilities such as teleportation, flight, and mind reading, or strong abilities such as metal control, laser eyes, and wind control, among many others.
However, Li Xiu was never satisfied with the first thought that came to mind, until he himself began to question if he was being too greedy. Finally, after another space journey, Li Xiu's genes mutated due to cosmic storm radiation and he gained an ability that was initially not very useful, but had unlimited potential in the future.
In space, everyone knew that they had been impacted by the cosmic storm, and even though there were no immediate symptoms, a blood test was inevitable.
In the suburbs of Manhattan, in the luxurious rehab clinic that Victor had arranged for himself, the beautiful nurse who had already taken blood from the unconscious Ben and Susan was now preparing to take blood from Reed, after first taking blood from and flirting with Johnny.
Li Xiu, who was now fully awake, couldn't help but notice the blood from Johnny in the cart, and felt a deep longing for it, not just for the blood itself, but something more subtle.
As the nurse was about to take his blood, Li Xiu came back to his senses and found an excuse to leave, while Victor impatiently told the nurse not to wait for Li Xiu and to take his blood first, as he had to go to the company's board of directors to explain the failure of the investment project.
After all three of them had their blood taken and left, Li Xiu returned and found the nurse preparing to send the three blood samples for testing. However, as she turned a corner in the hallway, she was suddenly knocked unconscious and the cart was dragged into a room.
Li Xiu carelessly left the nurse on the side and examined the three blood samples in front of him. The one labeled with Victor's name was the most attractive to him, followed by Johnny's, and finally Reed's.
After a moment of silence, Li Xiu vaguely guessed what kind of ability he had mutated into, so he gave up Victor's blood, picked up the blood from Johnny, and took a small sip.
Soon after, Li Xiu felt a sensation of itching and warmth spreading throughout his body, and his desire for the other two blood samples temporarily disappeared. He put everything back as it was, left the rehab clinic and headed home.
On the way home, Li Xiu's temperature kept rising, although it appeared to be the same, but he could feel that his body temperature was already over sixty degrees.
When Li Xiu returned to his home, his temperature had risen to over a hundred degrees, and his clothes began to twist and shrink from the heat, and within seconds, the clothes could no longer withstand the heat and began to burn.
After practicing to the fifth layer of the Azure Jade Sutra, his skin could naturally withstand flames, but Li Xiu knew that he wasn't injured because of this; it was likely that this temperature could not harm him even if it rose to thousands of degrees.
Li Xiu had taken a drop of blood from Johnny, his genes were evolving by consuming the superior genes in Johnny's blood, in other words, he would soon possess Johnny's abilities.
He could continuously consume superior genes or bloodlines to evolve, Li Xiu was very satisfied with this ability, maybe he couldn't reach the top in one step, but he has infinite possibilities!
A few seconds later, Li Xiu's entire body became red as coal, like a living being in fire. The stone ground he stepped on began to deform and melt, and in the end, Li Xiu's whole body was engulfed in orange flames, reaching almost 6,000 degrees, the temperature of the sun's surface.
Li Xiu tried to pick up a steel cup from the table, but as soon as his fingertips touched it, the cup melted into a puddle of iron, and the wooden table was reduced to ashes.
Li Xiu began to control the high temperature on his body, and in an instant, the terrifying heat disappeared. He regained his normal appearance and walked into the house, putting on his clothes.
Looking at the mess inside the house, Li Xiu didn't feel sorry at all and began to plan for everything next.
Besides Johnny, there are four other ability holders. Li Xiu can clearly feel that his genes have just evolved and are somewhat unstable. In a short period of time, he can probably only absorb one more time, otherwise, there is a danger of genetic collapse, so he has to be careful in his choice.
Victor was the first to be eliminated by Li Xiu, as he can store a huge amount of electricity in his body, while being physically stronger than others, but he needs to change his whole body into metal, cannot reverse it at will, and has low potential.
Reed's rubber body can twist and even stretch into any shape, which is not only of little help to Li Xiu's strength but also has low potential.
The stone man ( Ben Grimm ) has a strength of 100 tons, but has a stone body, which is also irreversible at will, and has little potential in the future.
Susan can become invisible but cannot hide her sound, breath, etc. It is quite weak, but she has a very strong force fields which is more attractive to Li Xiu.
The next day, Li Xiu sat on the floor in the living room with a big hole in it, watching TV. Inside was a news report, a shaking camera was showing a stone monster on the Brooklyn Bridge, rushing and colliding, seemingly protecting a middle-aged man who was in despair, but causing the entire bridge to be chaotic and panicked.
Li Xiu drove to the Brooklyn Bridge, racing the car at the fastest speed all the way. He had made plans to leave this world, so he was not afraid of the sirens behind him.
Soon, Li Xiu arrived at the Brooklyn Bridge, which was already congested, he opened the car door, stepped out and jumped several dozen meters to the middle of the bridge.
After a few jumps, Li Xiu had already seen his goal, a blonde beauty, who was controlling the mess created by the stone man with a force field, keeping several cars' explosion flames trapped in the field and finally eliminating them. It was clearly Susan who had just awakened her force field ability.
Li Xiu walked over, knocked her out from behind to prevent her from using her force field.
Li Xiu then slashed Susan's neck with his finger, using his true energy to absorb a few drops of her blood, and then Li Xiu felt the sensation of evolutionary euphoria again.
"Hey, Li! What did you do to her!"
Reed saw the situation here and shouted as he rushed over, using his ability to stretch his arm over a dozen meters to try to rescue Susan who was unconscious.
Li Xiu had a calm expression on his face, he killed Susan by crushing her neck with one hand and threw her body aside carelessly.
Then, he stepped on the spot and pulled out a phantom to rush towards Reed.
Reed felt a sudden gust of wind and there was an extra person in front of him, he was startled and tried to retreat but was caught by a giant hand-like iron claw that grabbed his neck and made him unable to move.
Reed tried to use his ability to escape, but he felt a sudden severe pain, then he lost his life, his neck which was soft like mud was burned out with a big hole, almost separating his body and head.