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Ben and Johnny still harbored doubts about Kahn.

After all, Kahn had appeared suddenly, and they knew nothing about him. If Kahn hadn't slain the King Cobra, Ben might not have even spoken to him for so long.

However, Kahn's subsequent cruel actions had somewhat frightened Ben and Johnny. Beheading was an extremely brutal act in any era, and probably no one would have a good impression of someone who started by severing heads.

Just as Ben and Johnny were hesitating about whether to take Kahn to see Reed, Susan's voice rang out behind them, interrupting their thoughts.

"Ben! Johnny! Come quickly! Reed's condition isn't good!"

Susan's voice sounded anxious. Without hesitation, the two turned and ran towards the direction of the sound. Fortunately, the distance wasn't too far, and they didn't take long to arrive.

"What's wrong, Susan?" Johnny reached Susan's side first, looking at Reed in his sister's arms. He could tell something was wrong at first glance.

At this moment, Reed's right hand looked like a ball of yarn. Johnny stared intently and realized it was because Reed was constantly stretching his right hand. It was so thin, yet it could make such a large ball. He wondered how long Reed had stretched his hand.

"The venom is spreading faster than I thought," Reed said, leaning in Susan's arms, forcing himself to speak.

"I wanted to slow the venom's spread throughout my body by constantly stretching the poisoned area, but the truth is that the effect is minimal. If it weren't for Tandy's ability, I might have died already."

Johnny's gaze shifted to Tandy, and he found that her condition didn't look good either. Her face was covered in sweat, and it seemed that she was exhausted from overusing her ability.

"I'm sorry," Tandy said, panting. "My ability has reached its limit. I couldn't force out all the venom."

"It's okay, Tandy," Susan comforted Tandy. "You've done your best. Like Reed said, he would have died without you."

"Let's talk about that later, girls," Reed struggled to sit up. "If possible, I still want to live. Johnny?"

"What do you need me to do?" Johnny responded quickly. Even he didn't dare to joke around at this time.

"I'll have Susan cut off the affected area in a moment. I need you to cauterize my wound with a certain temperature of fire after the cut to prevent infection. Remember, the temperature shouldn't be too high, or I'll melt."

Slowly manipulating the ball of right hand, unwinding them little by little. With Tandy's help, the venom had been squeezed to the very end, allowing Reed to avoid cutting off his entire arm to save his life.

In addition to the constant stretching, Reed estimated that he might only need to cut off a finger, at most no more than a hand. It could be considered a blessing in disguise.

"I will," Johnny nodded seriously. The last time he was this serious was when he bought his chick-magnet car. That showed how serious he was.

Ben, who arrived a little later, looked at his good buddy with a complex expression. Unfortunately, the stone hid his expression, but his unchanged pupils couldn't be faked.

"Reed…"

"It's okay, it's just a hand," Reed forced a smile.

Everyone's mood was low, and no one even noticed Kahn walking to their side. By the time Ben noticed Kahn, the latter had already bypassed him and Johnny and approached Reed.

"You are?" Susan looked at the stranger who suddenly appeared before her eyes, and her heart skipped a beat.

Kahn ignored everyone's expressions, took out a small glass bottle from his pocket, which contained a ball of green mist, looking fantastical and strange.

"Antidote." Kahn handed the glass bottle to Reed, stuffed it into his arms while the latter was still stunned, then stood up and turned to leave without saying anything more.

"Hey! You…" Johnny was about to stop Kahn, but Reed stopped him.

"Are you really going to take it?" Susan glanced at Kahn standing not far away. "We don't even know what he looks like. What if he has bad intentions?"

"There's no reason," Reed looked at the glass bottle lying in his palm. "If he wanted to kill me, he wouldn't have gone to so much trouble. He even had time to stab me a few times just now, and Reed Richards is just an unknown nobody. I don't think anyone would go to great lengths to harm me."

"But…" Susan wanted to persuade him further, but Reed had already opened the lid. Before she could finish speaking, the latter had already inhaled the contents of the bottle into his nose.

"This taste…" Reed sneezed after inhaling, then shivered. "It feels like inhaling vaporized mint chewing gum through your nose."

"How do you feel, Reed?" Ben asked quickly.

"I don't know," Reed stretched his head and scanned his entire body. "I don't feel anything special. Let me change my hand back and see."

With that, Reed not only released his intertwined right hand, but also slowly restored it to a normal human hand, and then he saw an amazing scene.

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"My hand." Reed held up his right hand in the sunlight. Under the sunlight, an ordinary hand appeared before everyone.

"It's back to normal! It's no longer purple or swollen like a pig's trotter!"

"That's great," Susan breathed a sigh of relief. Behind her, Johnny and Ben also happily high-fived each other. Tandy and Tyrone smiled at each other, and then everyone unanimously turned their attention to Kahn not far away.

At this time, Kahn was leaning against a half-collapsed stone wall. Although his eyes couldn't be seen, everyone could tell that he was looking at the necklace in his hand, a necklace that could store photos.

The owner of the photo in the necklace was a charming black-haired woman, who was also his wife.

Before being summoned by Yang Le, Kahn had been staying at his home in Universe 001.

In fact, apart from his dimensional demon clone occasionally sending Kahn to do some things, Yang Le himself hadn't contacted Kahn for a long time.

Yang Le's memory of Kahn was still when he was rebuilding the collapsed Inheritor's castle. The original historical castle had long been destroyed in the Family Happiness War.

When Yang Le saw Kahn again, the original Inheritor's castle was gone, replaced by a smaller Western-style house. Not only that, but besides the male owner Kahn, there was also a female owner in this Western-style house.