Tony rubbed his sore hand. Seeing that Lin Feng didn't want to discuss the magic book, he gave up.
Magic… Tony had never understood it, nor did he want to study it.
However, when it came to why he was looking for Lin Feng, his expression instantly became serious.
Lin Feng noticed Tony's nervousness, shook his head, and calmly took a sip of tea, "No rush, take your time."
Tony in 2028, with a grown daughter, something that could make Iron Man nervous was likely something even the Avengers couldn't handle.
Tony took a deep breath and slowly said, "I… for the past few days, I've had this unsettling feeling."
"It feels like something is about to be lost, and there's also a sense of restlessness."
"Friday has checked me, and there are no physical issues…"
Lin Feng slowly formed a question mark, what kind of nonsense was this?
"Wait, you're saying you came to me because you're feeling restless?"
Lin Feng's expression was incredibly odd, "I'm not a psychiatrist, Tony…"
Tony raised his hand to interrupt, appearing even more agitated.
"Listen to me first, Lin Feng. The last time I felt this way was because of Thanos…"
Tony's words stunned Lin Feng.
Thanos?
He had killed at least three Thanoses himself…
Tony's words reminded Lin Feng that Tony had been anxious about Thanos for years, until Thanos actually descended upon Blue Star…
Now, the Tony of this universe was saying he had this feeling again?
"Are there any omens?" Lin Feng put down his teacup, his fingers lightly tapping the table.
Tony seemed like a disaster detector.
Ever since the first Avengers movie, Tony, who had flown into space, knew that not only the Chitauri, but Blue Star would surely face even more powerful enemies in the future.
Thinking carefully, Lin Feng also felt that it wasn't Tony's style to come to him just because of a feeling of restlessness.
Moreover, he wasn't very familiar with this Tony.
"I saw aliens again…" Tony said, rubbing his hands.
Lin Feng raised an eyebrow, "Aliens coming to Blue Star doesn't necessarily mean disaster, Tony."
"No, no, no, I trust my instincts."
"That alien appeared two days ago."
"He took a lot of data about Blue Star's geography and resources, and I sensed that things were not simple."
"This is an image Friday captured."
Tony played a video of the alien he mentioned.
He had a human-like appearance, but his behavior was somewhat strange and abnormal, likely a disguise.
"How do you know he's an alien? Just because his behavior is unusual?"
Tony shook his head and pulled out a small vial from his pocket.
Lin Feng saw that the bottle contained some purple viscous fluid.
"He left a little bit of purple viscous fluid where he walked."
"I've analyzed it, and it doesn't belong to any species on Blue Star!"
Lin Feng looked at the bottle with great interest and then took it.
The purple viscous fluid looked a bit disgusting.
After observing for a while, Lin Feng directly used his super vision.
Like a microscope, the fluid magnified in Lin Feng's eyes until he could see the cells that composed it.
The characteristics of the cells made Lin Feng's brow furrow.
"How long has it been?" Lin Feng squinted at the cells and asked.
"Close to a hundred hours…" Tony replied with a grim expression.
"Amazing, a hundred hours, and still so active?"
"And these cells seem extremely aggressive?"
In Lin Feng's sight, the cells were like the round spiked ends of a mace, and they were very active.
Generally, cells would not survive more than ten minutes after leaving the body.
Even in a specially manufactured culture medium, they would only live for a few hours.
And Tony was right, Blue Star had never discovered such cells…
Tony nodded, the longer these cells lived, the more extraordinary the alien was, and the more serious the situation.
"How much of this cell fluid is there?"
"There are two more bottles, the same amount." Tony replied.
"But I experimented with one of them."
"Various drugs, even strong acids, could not effectively damage it. The fastest method found so far to kill these cells is electricity or temperatures above 1000 degrees Celsius."
"And ordinary current requires ten minutes of continuous electric shock to completely kill them…"
"Even more terrifying is their rate of division. After being electrified and reducing the number of cells, the remaining cells split furiously and rapidly…"
At this point, Lin Feng understood why Tony was feeling restless.
The abnormally fast division rate, heat resistance, coupled with the fact that it was almost certainly bodily fluid from an alien creature.
And the Blue Star data that alien took away, it all seemed like a prelude to disaster.
Lin Feng stroked his chin, an idea popped into his mind, and his eyes suddenly glowed red, startling Tony.
"What are you doing?"
Before he could finish speaking, Lin Feng's heat ray struck the purple viscous fluid through the bottle.
The purple fluid instantly writhed as if in extreme pain. Lin Feng gradually increased the energy of the heat ray.
As expected, just as Tony had said, as the cells in the purple fluid suffered more and more casualties, the remaining cells began to divide frantically.
The fluid, which was originally only the size of a fingernail, swelled to half the bottle in a matter of seconds.
However, there was a limit to the number of divisions, and it was likely constrained by nutrients. The dividing cells became smaller and smaller.
Lin Feng didn't give it a chance and immediately increased the energy by another level, completely killing the purple fluid in the bottle.
The purple fluid had now turned into a pile of black ash…
Lin Feng shook the bottle, and the entire bottle, as if by magic, rapidly disappeared into the air, leaving no trace.
"This thing is indeed very dangerous for Blue Star…"
"Keep the remaining bottle, don't research it, Tony."
"And, absolutely do not let it come into contact with any living things!" Lin Feng warned sternly.
Although Lin Feng had never seen anything like this, based on its properties, if it came into contact with living organisms and had more nutrients to divide and grow, it would be catastrophic.
This viscous fluid gave Lin Feng the feeling of a combination of a symbiote and a zombie virus.
His intuition was usually quite accurate, it seemed Tony's premonition was about to come true, Blue Star here would face new enemies…