Chapter 1801: Journey of a Madman (Part 14)

"What is this?"

Helen stood on the seat in the Wakanda spaceship hall, poking her head toward the observation window of the cockpit. She seemed to have seen something next to the pilot's seat, but couldn't be sure.

Spider-Man walked to the window, stretched his neck to look inside, and then said, "Why do I feel like that thing looks like a fish tank? Does Wakanda have this custom?"

Helen passed him and walked to the door of the cockpit to pull the handle, saying, "No, the door is locked. I don't dare to use force; I'm afraid I'll jump out directly."

"Let me." Spider-Man walked back, grabbed the door handle, and pulled hard. The alloy containing vibranium material made a tooth-aching creaking sound, but it was finally pulled open by Spider-Man's immense strength.

The moment Spider-Man opened the door, he froze there. When Helen walked over, she also gasped. Because the thing hidden under the main pilot's seat was indeed a tank, only what was inside was a brain.

Spider-Man walked in cautiously and was about to reach out to take it when Helen grabbed him and said, "You stay away first. I'll test the depth with divine power. It'll be troublesome if this thing brainwashes people."

Spider-Man knew he didn't have high mental resistance, so he obediently backed away two steps. Helen pointed her glowing hand toward that side, and the divine power lifted the fish tank.

Helen exhaled and said, "It's fine. Although the brain is still alive, it has no autonomous consciousness and won't attack others."

Spider-Man took the sealed fish tank and looked at it left and right, but couldn't see any clues. So he asked Helen, "Can you still use that method of backtracking time? I want to see how this thing came to be."

Helen checked the fish tank and shook her head, saying, "At most, I can only backtrack things that happened two hours ago, but I'm afraid this thing was made a long time ago."

Spider-Man remembered the Spider-Man suit he saw in the backtracking image, but he couldn't figure out why Spider-Man ran here and left them such an eerie line of words.

Helen thought for a while and said, "Do you know? Brain waves are also a kind of radio wave. Reading brain waves isn't actually as difficult as imagined. As long as the frequencies are in sync, we might be able to see the memories of this brain."

"Don't waste divine power anymore." Spider-Man looked left and right and said, "I remember that although Wakanda's spaceship uses energy unique to Wakanda, some unimportant parts also use electricity. We can try radio wave synchronization."

"Then do you know the frequency and wavelength of this brain?"

Spider-Man shook his head.

In Stark Tower, Stark was resting to recover his physical strength while in a daze. Schiller turned his head to look at him without speaking, but Stark knew he was asking what he was thinking.

"It's not that simple." Stark said softly, "No, no... perhaps I guessed wrong."

"What?"

"That noise." Stark stood up suddenly and said, "That noise Black Panther sent us isn't just a distress signal. I have to go listen to it again."

Stark rushed to the emergency communication equipment, played the communication with only slight noise again, turned the volume to the maximum, listened for a long time, and then said with slight uncertainty, "These noises don't sound like they were recorded."

"If as we speculated, Black Panther was asking for help or didn't have the strength to speak, then at least there should be breathing sounds. He wouldn't be stupid enough to want to ask for help without providing us with any environmental sound. Even if he pressed the wrong button, he should at least have recorded some environmental noise."

"But this isn't. This is just noise made by current." Stark frowned deeply and said, "It's more like it was synthesized by a computer, and that's not right either. This is like a kind of... wave."

Stark turned around immediately, started looking for paper and pen on the table and in the cabinet, and then, while leaning close to the communication equipment listening to that noise, started to sketch on the paper with a pen.

Soon a slightly crude radio wave diagram appeared on the paper. Stark muttered, "Wavelength... frequency... this has a pattern, this has a pattern, then what on earth is this?"

"We don't have much time left." Schiller suddenly spoke.

Stark turned his head and looked at him blankly.

In an instant, violent wind whistled by his ear, and everything within his field of vision started to move further and further away from him.

Suddenly, as if Stark had realized something, he turned his head to look at the paper in his hand, staring tightly at the pattern on it, as if wanting to imprint it in his brain.

In the Wakanda spaceship, Helen looked with a complex expression at the brain that started to tremble violently due to the current passing through.

Spider-Man took two steps back in shock and said, "Did we get it wrong?"

"Guessing without an answer, of course, will be wrong."

Spider-Man turned his head to look at Helen and asked urgently, "You know something, don't you? You've been a bit wrong since some time ago."

Before the whistling wind sounded by Spider-Man's ear, Helen stared straight at him and said, "THISISNOTTHEFIRSTTIME."

At the same time, Eddie found several logs at the lowest level of Stark Tower's system. The time showed it was a few days before the UFO fell. It looked like Iron Man's diary.

"Peter has been a bit strange lately. I don't know if it's because he quarreled with Mary Jane again. What makes me feel worried is that he seems very interested in brain science lately.

Usually, he is very disgusted with these. The arbitrary compilation of human genes and brains is a blasphemy, but I actually saw experimental data about brain-in-a-jar in the materials he was flipping through while eating breakfast that day.

I think he might be under a bit too much pressure, so I suggested he go back and rest well, but this still makes me feel a bit uneasy..."

Seeing this, Eddie scrambled to flip out the previous surveillance footage. After zooming in, he discovered that in the picture where zombie Iron Man found Spider-Man, a brain was quietly floating in the fish tank Spider-Man was holding.

"Whose is that..."

Before Eddie finished speaking, the whistling wind sounded. Eddie, as if he had realized something, shouted Venom's name frantically, but his voice was still blurred by the violent wind.

In the Time Variance Authority's office, it was discovered that the light had a slight change. Mobius turned his head to look at the desk.

The two universes represented by the binary star system exchanged positions again. Mobius frowned and said, "Why does the cycle seem to be getting faster?"

"Who is going to fish it out this time?"

In Schiller's Tower of Thought, several Schillers gathered around the railing of the tower's patio, looking at each other.

Looking at several pairs of eyes staring at him, Greed raised his hands and backed away a few steps, saying, "I've already been down once, this isn't fair."

"Who told you to bring us here?" Arrogance said impatiently, "Knowing it's a time-loop universe, yet not preparing early."

"I thought it was just going out to take out the trash." Greed smiled indifferently and said, "Who knew this place was so evil? Every cycle resets the entire universe and memories."

"Fortunately, it's just a reset, not a backtrack." Sloth supported his face with his hand and said, "Memories just sank into the subconscious, just fish them out."

"I suspect it might be because the Spider-Man of this universe was affected by my butterfly effect, so the time anomaly of this universe isn't completely unaffected by me as Nick said." Greed crossed his arms and speculated, "But since a reset has no harm, then let it reset."

"Do you have an idea?"

Greed touched his chin, thinking while narrating.

"This is already the fifth time we've been reset. Every time we reset, we are born in a certain location in New York at a certain time.

The birth location is completely random, but the birth time has some patterns to follow.

The first time I was born, I crossed the portal with Stark and arrived a few dozen seconds before the zombie Sentry fell from the sky. Stark didn't know why, and we watched the Avengers turn into zombies with our own eyes.

Stark felt very angry, but soon we discovered that Black Panther wasn't turned into a zombie, but was kidnapped and locked up by Ant-Man. Stark wanted to save his friends, so we rescued Black Panther.

When Black Panther was rescued, Wakanda hadn't fallen yet, so we returned to Wakanda with him, took weapons and the spaceship to New York, intending to suppress the zombie Avengers.

I know they might be hard to beat, but there was no reason not to let them fight. But the Wakanda army that suddenly appeared in the sky over New York caught the attention of Spider-Man, who had always remained sober.

I'm afraid before this, he had already cycled like this thousands of times, but everything he did didn't produce any big changes, and our arrival made a big commotion, which I'm afraid made him realize that outsiders had come.

The second time I was born, we arrived three days after the zombie crisis broke out. New York had fallen in a large area, but there was no sign of Spider-Man in any reports or cameras. He hid and didn't try to save his companions again.

I think this might be because he felt our arrival was a turning point, and he should try his best to stay sober to find us, and then discuss countermeasures.

Stark wanted to go to Stark Tower to use technical means to forcibly seize control, but at this time news came that Stark Tower had been destroyed. Clearly, someone else had thought of this method and broke in a step ahead of us.

I think that might be Venom, because he had also parasitized Stark, and he also took a fancy to the lethal force in Stark Tower, thinking it was a good means to fight zombies.

With Eddie's personality, he might choose to sneak in, but perhaps there was some accident, and they were discovered by zombie Iron Man, and the two sides started fighting.

This misled Spider-Man, who wanted to find teammates. He thought outsiders had broken into Stark Tower, so he searched for them, but was bitten by zombie Captain America who came to support.

The third time I was born, New York had fallen completely, and the zombie crisis broke out everywhere in the United States. Spider-Man, who retained his memory, perhaps felt that notifying the Avengers in advance was a good method, so he tried every means to convince others in the Avengers that disaster might be coming, let them wait at the place where Sentry landed in advance, and join forces to lock Sentry up.

The operation failed as a matter of course, but the ambush in advance did make the Avengers not as helpless as before. They caused fatal wounds to zombie Sentry, but still didn't escape the fate of being infected.

Spider-Man repeated the previous operation, wanting to find the outsiders, but was still inevitably bitten. At this time, he might have realized that becoming a zombie was his predetermined fate, and no matter what, it would happen in some way. Therefore, he had to do more things before losing his sanity due to hunger.

The fourth time I was born, the zombie virus descended on the whole world completely. Spider-Man still notified the Avengers to ambush Sentry in advance, but this time he told the Avengers the weakness of zombie Sentry, and Captain America's shield cut off zombie Sentry's head.

The Avengers members still didn't escape the fate of being infected, but this time, Spider-Man got zombie Sentry's head and made it into a brain-in-a-jar.

At that time, I guessed that he might want to get the truth of how he came here from zombie Sentry's brain, and develop an antidote after understanding the origin of the zombie virus, but I didn't expect his ambition to be much bigger than I thought."

Greed sighed softly and said: "The fifth time I was born, the Avengers ambushed in advance, and Spider-Man also got zombie Sentry's brain. This time he didn't rashly look for outsiders, but left clues for us."

"The noise Tony heard in the emergency communication equipment is very likely to contain the usage method of the brain-in-a-jar created by Spider-Man, and if I'm not mistaken, Spider-Man wants to use the brain-in-a-jar to completely break the time loop." ===== CHAPTER 1802 =====