Chapter 1859

"About two months before the zombie crisis broke out, Charles found me. You know there are some differences between us. Before this, he hadn't taken the initiative to find me for a long time."

Magneto's low voice sounded in the room, carrying an indelible cold tone.

"Charles's complexion was very bad. He told me that last night when he was using the Cerebro, he connected to the wrong energy source. The Cerebro overloaded and was now damaged."

"I thought he hoped I would fix the Cerebro for him, but he told me a piece of news with a pale face."

"He heard bad news from the depths of the universe. A powerful race unimaginable to humans is using the universe as their experimental field. A ruthless, cruel, and terrifying cosmic collision is about to begin."

"My feeling at the time was the same as yours now. I didn't believe it at all, thinking he had gone crazy, had hallucinations, or was bewitched by something."

"But that night, Charles died in his office. His brain exploded from the inside out. Before he died, he only left one sentence: 'Save them, Max...'"

Magneto took a deep breath, lowered his eyebrows covered with wrinkles due to old age, and said: "I finally realized this wasn't a joke. Charles must have seen something and heard something to die, and I must figure out what was going on."

"Just when I was investigating, I received a special electromagnetic signal from the universe. I don't know where they came from, but it wasn't a common communication method for humans, more like a certain radio signal. I thought this was very unusual, so I followed the signal."

"What did you find?" Stark asked.

"A robot." Magneto answered, and then he continued: "Someone left a robot in our universe, containing the zombie virus you were infected with."

"Then why did you open it?!" Stark said in disbelief: "You knew it was a virus!"

"Yes, before I opened it, I knew what it was. I also knew this wasn't any zombie virus, but a nano-robot that steals human brain computing power."

Magneto raised his head slightly and said: "It spreads through the blood into the human brain. When you aren't aware of it, it uses the modules in your brain that haven't been called to perform calculations."

"Of course, although you aren't aware of it, the loss of energy will still be produced. This is why you always feel hungry. This kind of calculation requires a large amount of energy. The hunger it brings will make you constantly devour others, and even want to go to other universes to find new food. This is the method for the virus to spread widely."

"You actually knew everything?!" Another Spider-Man walked up and looked at Magneto with wide eyes: "Even if you are disappointed in the Earth of this universe, you don't have to spread the virus and implicate other universes?!"

"This isn't implication, this is the price that must be paid for salvation." Magneto gritted his teeth and looked at everyone present: "It's not just Charles who glimpsed the coming disaster. Some universes have already awakened. They are trying to save, and they need help!"

Spider-Man was stunned for a moment and then suddenly realized. He walked into the energy cage, looked at Magneto, and said: "You mean, the person who steals computing power is trying to save the universe?!"

"That's why I said you destroyed yourselves!" Magneto looked at all the superheroes present with hatred: "The great heroes who eliminated the zombie virus, you are pushing countless universes into the abyss of destruction."

Magneto took a deep breath and said: "I'm not interested in saving the universe. I just want the murderer who killed Charles to pay the price. I will take revenge for him, just like a true Avenger."

The superheroes present were silent.

"This is too absurd." Steve said: "The universe is suddenly going to be destroyed, and someone is infecting our universe just to steal computing power to save the universe. It's simply ridiculous."

"But we have already seen the essence of the zombie virus." Spider-Man rubbed his throbbing forehead and said: "This proves that this isn't a joke. If it weren't really necessary to have so much computing power, spreading the virus would have no meaning. To simply destroy is much simpler than this."

Stark took a few deep breaths, forcing himself to calm down. He looked at Magneto and said: "Where is the robot you found initially? I need to dismantle it and then know who is manipulating it behind the scenes."

Magneto was just about to say something when Stark said: "We are the masters of this universe. To have us cooperate with his plan, we must first let us know the full picture of the matter. If you want to take revenge for Charles, you have to listen to us."

The two were deadlocked for a long time. Finally, Spider-Man persuaded them in the middle: "Mr. Erik, we don't know if Charles in other universes will also look directly at the truth because of the misoperation of the Cerebro, leading to death, but if we act as soon as possible, perhaps we can avoid all this. It's not the time for infighting."

Finally, Magneto said: "The robot is in the Sentry's body. I hid the Sentry in the broken Cerebro. He should still have the zombie virus on him. You'd better be careful."

The superheroes rushed to the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters without stopping. Although it was already a ruin, the destructive power of the teenage mutants who became zombies was stronger than imagined. They spent some effort to dig out the Cerebro located underground.

The zombie Sentry was indeed lying inside, but he had lost consciousness. Stark keenly discovered something embedded in the zombie Sentry's chest. He remotely controlled the unmanned armor to press the zombie Sentry down, and then reached out and pulled out the foreign object that looked like a ball.

That thing only looked like a metal ball from the outside, but Stark believed it was a deformable robot. The inside of the sphere was used to store the zombie virus, and the outside had independent activity functions, and he also found an interface suspected to be communication equipment.

They rushed back to Stark Tower and found a laboratory that was still usable. After Stark fiddled with it for a long time, he finally connected the metal sphere to the power source.

They thought they would get an instruction manual of the same version as Magneto's, but they didn't expect that after the metal sphere flashed twice, a voice slightly familiar to Spider-Man came from the opposite side:

"Hello? Hello? Which universe, speak!"

Spider-Man's face instantly became very wonderful, because the voice on the opposite side came from Dr. Schiller.

Another Spider-Man next to him captured Spider-Man's face that turned red, yellow, blue, and white like a lantern, feeling a bit confused, so he asked: "What's wrong? Is there any problem?"

"No, it's fine, um... if I have to say it, don't sign anything no matter what he gives you."

"What?"

"No, nothing."

But Stark of this universe had already rushed up and said: "Who are you? What exactly is going on? Universe destruction and zombie virus, tell us quickly!"

"Ah, this matter. I don't know much about this matter. I'll give you a phone number. You can ask him. It's not convenient for me to answer the phone here. I'll hang up first."

A familiar busy signal came from the sphere. A group of superheroes in the laboratory looked at each other, and no one expected this result.

Suddenly, a familiar text message prompt sounded from the sphere. Stark slapped his forehead and said: "So this thing is actually a phone?!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a small door opened on the front of the sphere, revealing a familiar Arabic numeral keyboard, clearly for people to dial.

The serious and tense atmosphere at the scene leaked out on the spot. Steve knocked on his shield hard and said: "I knew it. Where do so many gods come from? The biggest enemy of humanity is humanity itself!"

"Hurry, hurry, make a call and ask what's going on on the other side." Stark frowned, pressing his temples with both hands, clearly having a headache, "Spider-Man! Come over and make a call!"

The local Spider-Man of the zombie universe walked out from the three Spider-Men. He dialed according to the number displayed in the text message just now, and it really got through.

"Hello? This is Loki, employee number, how can I help you?"

"I am Spider-Man, our universe recently..."

"I'm really sorry, I don't know much about it, but I think you can ask the owner of this phone number..."

Spider-Man could only dial again. The voice coming from the opposite side said: "Sanctum of the Nine Realms, this is Sorcerer Supreme Strange. All insurance policies on service items are not negotiable. For after-sales business, please call the after-sales department of the Sanctum directly. What can I do for you?"

"I am Spider-Man, we..."

"Oh, that's really a pity. I'm very busy now and don't have time to explain. You call this number."

Spider-Man took a deep breath and dialed again. The sound coming from the opposite side this time was a mechanical sound. Stark almost immediately heard that it was Ultron's voice.

"You should be a member of the Twin Universe, right?" Ultron spoke first: "That is the two universes entangled because of the zombie virus. Of course, I know you. This is one of the defensive measures I tried to experiment with. Have you destroyed it?"

Everyone present was stunned. The other side admitted it so easily, which was really a bit unexpected. Spider-Man couldn't help but ask: "What exactly is going on? Can you start from the beginning?"

"Oh, it's nothing. It's just that my master observed that a group of gods who don't do good things seem to be planning to start their evil plan, and I am ordered to test various defensive measures in the universe."

"This evil plan is simple to say. They plan to let all universes collide two by two, fuse successfully, and be destroyed if they don't. So I tied your two universes together through the zombie virus in advance to see if they can resist the impact of other universes."

"I'm sorry for the loss caused, but it's better than you going to collide with another universe separately. But since you have solved the cycle yourself, then take care of yourself. Goodbye."

This time the phone was completely hung up. Everyone at the scene was stunned for almost a minute, digesting this huge amount of information.

"So this really happened?" Steve said somewhat shocked: "There really are gods in the universe planning to play billiards with the universe. Are they crazy?!!"

"It's not strange. You can't look at gods from the perspective of humans. Maybe in their view, the universe is no different from billiards." Spider-Man shrugged and said.

"So some advanced civilizations have discovered this and are taking measures, and our universe happened to be the experimental object, so the zombie virus broke out?" Spider-Man speculated.

"We might be the experimental objects of two experiments." Stark thought for a while and said: "Didn't you find out? These people clearly aren't in the same group. I suspect that the people who use the zombie virus to steal computing power and the people who make the two universes time-loop endlessly aren't the same group... they aren't in the same group at all."

"But they might have connections, and we just don't know." Spider-Man sighed and said: "Just like I didn't know there were so many Spider-Men in the multiverse before, and they have a group... I was the last one to join the group!"

"Wait, if Spider-Man has a group, then do other Avengers have one too?" Stark widened his eyes and said.

Then he roared in a tone that was shocked to the point of being a bit self-doubting: "All the Iron Men in the universe joined the group, but they didn't add me?!!"