The Death Knell

S.H.I.E.L.D., the Helicarrier.

Reed Richards was temporarily placed under house arrest in a small bedroom, surrounded by walls made of alloy and not even a window.

The wall facing the corridor is made of transparent material, but it is a special nanomaterial, Tony's invention. The shell of the Ark reactor is made of this material. It is actually stronger than the alloy wall.

Mr. Fantastic is just a little crazy, he is not stupid. After the excitement of discovering another dimension passed, he felt that something was not good.

The Baxter Building will need to be restored, and there will be a series of car accidents in the streets around the building that will require a lot of money and possibly charges.

At the same time, even if S.H.I.E.L.D. can help itself suppress the failure of the experiment and say it was a natural gas pipeline explosion or something like that, the space rift next to Mars will not disappear because of this.

That's the trouble. I don't know what Tony's progress is now. Can he close the rift? What is his train of thought? Will it be successful?

Thinking of this, even though the single bed in the solitary room was very soft, Reed couldn't lie still. He stood up and walked around the room like an ant on a hot pot.

"Quantum systems are in a superposition of 'decayed' and 'undecayed' when unobserved. If the universe is viewed as a whole, when we find a way to observe both sides of the space rift at the same time, it should undergo wave function collapse... ..."

As he walked, he lowered his head and muttered to himself. Various numbers and symbols were arranged and combined in his mind, deducing theoretically possible solutions.

Reed prefers quantum theory to solve current problems. Although human beings have terrible knowledge of quantum, he feels that it can be put to use.

Just give it a try, and if it doesn’t work, let’s talk about it. If it fails, that’s fine. Then doesn’t that just rule out a wrong answer?

As for what impact it will have on the earth?

This is not within the scope of his thinking, because scientific research is always accompanied by sacrifices. There is an old Eastern saying that "hearing the Tao in the morning will lead to death in the evening." It means that on the way to pursue the truth, any sacrifice is worth it.

As I thought about it, my mind was filled with ideas that I couldn't implement, which made me feel like a cat scratching my head. My eyes couldn't help but turn to the small holes in the transparent wall of the confinement room.

In order to allow people outside to communicate with those inside the room, there are several air holes on the wall, which are as thick as an adult's little finger and are arranged in a honeycomb pattern.

As a rubber man with superpowers, Reed's body has super elasticity and can also change his volume and shape through elasticity. In other words, he can actually drill out of a certain air hole and squeeze it like a sausage. .

Reed, like Tony, is a science advisor to SHIELD and is considered a non-staff member.

So this time after Reed caused a cosmic crisis, Fury didn't really imprison him as a super-powered criminal, but just put him in solitary confinement. After all, Lu Dan is also an old acquaintance of Nathaniel. Don't want to do things too badly.

The difference between a solitary cell and a high-tech prison is huge. The former is a monitored bedroom, while the latter is a high-energy particle field with no gaps.

"Why hasn't Fury come back? He said he wanted to talk but didn't come to me. How long should I wait?" Reed rubbed his hands, and the white hair on his temples shook as he walked. He said to himself: "And Susan, what's going on with her now? No, I have to go out and take a look."

Just as he was told, he pressed his head against the transparent wall and squeezed hard towards one of the small holes.

The soft and elastic body deformed, and the whole person was like plasticine, passing through the small hole, squeezing into a noodle shape and falling outward.

But just when he was looking at the ground in front of him and preparing to make contact, a red circle of light suddenly appeared in front of him. Instead of touching the cold corridor deck, he fell directly into the circle and began an endless free fall. .

No one could be seen at the end of the corridor, but there were whispers in the air, and it was two women there.

"Originally, I was thinking of helping him escape without arousing suspicion. This would be easier." The person who spoke was a very magnetic young female voice, and there was some pleasantness in her slightly hoarse tone.

"Then my mission is over for the time being and I will continue diving." This was an equally young female voice, but in comparison, this voice was completely cold when performing the mission.

The woman who spoke in front didn't know what she had done. After chattering for a while, the light circle on the floor disappeared, and she was heard saying mischievously in German: "Long live Hydra!"

The latter smiled and gave the same answer in German, and then all fell silent.

Judging from any surveillance method, no one has been here. It seems that Reed himself escaped from prison and disappeared through the floor through magical means.

............

Darkness, falling, seems to have no end.

There wasn't much Reed could do. He turned himself into a thin membrane and grabbed his hands and feet together to form a parachute, hoping to slow down the impact when he hit the ground somewhere.

However, he failed. This is not the earth's environment at all. There is no air, only downward gravity. Parachutes do not work in a vacuum environment.

There is no light or sound here, as if everything belongs to nothingness.

After Reed's whole body is rubberized, he no longer has blood vessels or anything like that. He can survive without food, water, or oxygen, because after undergoing mutation, his cells have turned into small elastic balls, and he no longer needs ordinary carbon-based organisms. energy required by cells.

If Ben is like a stone, De is more like a ball of mud.

The time in the darkness seemed to be extremely long. Although Reed calmly recorded the time of his fall by counting the seconds in his mind, he had no good way to deal with it when he was in a completely unfamiliar environment with no help.

He is a scientist, and his best weapon is his brain. He relies on various technological equipment for exploration. Fighting is actually not his strong point.

In this dark falling space, there is none of that. This is the so-called skillful woman who cannot make a meal without rice. Science's rigid demand for matter and energy greatly limits his current strength.

In the long darkness, he suddenly felt envious of Tony for no reason. If he came in wearing an exoskeleton suit, at least he could fly, right?

But at this moment, he saw a red light spot not far away, and the shining light like a will-o'-the-wisp was floating towards him.

He immediately thought that it might be Deathstroke's one-eyed goggles, but that was the wrong answer.

It was a blond woman wearing a brown leather jacket with a ruby ​​necklace hanging around her neck. She didn't know where to use her strength, so she flew over so lightly.