Chapter 266 The bully feared by zombies finds the source of the zombies!
Chapter 266 The bully feared by zombies finds the source of the zombies!
Upon arriving at the royal palace in Wakanda's capital, Toby discovered that the palace was in no better condition than the city.
Because Wakanda had previously sent out most of the Dora Guard, which was responsible for protecting the royal family, to clear out the Skrulls, not only was the defense of Wakanda's capital city weak, but the royal palace was also vulnerable.
The palace is almost completely overrun; roaming zombies can be seen everywhere...
It's likely that Wakanda themselves never imagined that one day disaster would strike from within their own ranks...
And coincidentally, it happened on the very day that Wakanda sent out most of its forces...
Otherwise, Wakanda could have avoided most of the dangers simply by relying on the protection of the dome's position.
Unfortunately, it's not the ten thousand that's scary, but the one in ten thousand.
Now that "what if" has happened.
Shaking his head, Toby continued deeper into the palace.
Along the way, Toby also discovered something very interesting.
That is, these zombies don't seem to feel any hunger for themselves; in fact, they seem to loathe themselves!
Upon landing, instead of feeling excited about the flesh and blood, the zombies reacted as if they were encountering excrement, avoiding it at all costs!
This piqued Toby's interest, and he slowed down, wanting to figure out which part of his power these zombies were afraid of.
After all, he possesses far too many different kinds of powers now; without understanding them, he can't effectively address the problem...
So, as Toby walked through the palace, he began to block out each of the powers within his body.
First, there's the symbiote; Toby deliberately put the riots into a dormant state.
Without the protection of the symbiote suit, Toby's "delicious" true form was immediately exposed to the air.
But the zombies still showed the same disgust and fear towards him, showing no sign of wanting to attack him.
Then the problem isn't with the symbiote...
Next, Toby blocked the power of the other gods' bloodlines within his own bloodline.
For example, the Aesir, the Olympian gods, the Frost Giants, the Titans, the Hulk gene, Captain Marvel's abilities... and so on, a series of bloodline abilities that do not belong to Toby's own spider abilities.
But even after he completely blocked out all these bloodline powers, the zombies still had that disgusted expression as if they were looking at excrement.
This left Toby speechless.
He has blocked all the external forces that have entered his body, so these zombies are still afraid. They're not afraid of his own spider abilities, are they?
After all, all the external forces that had entered his body were blocked, leaving only... wait!
Toby suddenly stopped in his tracks, realizing something...
That's it!
Besides the power that has been completely integrated into his genes and become his own, there is another type of power in his body that is only temporarily present in his body and has not been truly integrated!
That is...
With a thought, three dazzling gems—green, yellow, and blue—floated out of Toby's body and surrounded him!
As expected, the zombies around him reacted even more strongly when the three Infinity Stones appeared. They were no longer disgusted or afraid; instead, they ran away as fast as they could!
Upon seeing this, Toby had a sudden flash of inspiration and thought of something.
The next moment, he retrieved the Time and Space Infinity Stones, leaving only the Mind Stone in the air.
Then, Toby's eyes glazed over, and his Spider-Sense ability to perceive emotions activated automatically.
Sure enough, after activating his emotional perception ability, he immediately saw a special frequency fluctuation on the Mind Gem, and the fear emanating from those zombies came from this special frequency fluctuation of the Mind Gem!
So, the case is solved. What these zombies feared was not any of his bloodline abilities, but the Mind Gem residing within him!
This plot seems familiar...
Toby's Super Brain revisits the plot, but only a second later, the scene freezes on a specific scene!
I've figured it out. Isn't it the same principle as in the Marvel "what if" scenario where Vision could use the Mind Stone to drive away zombies?
So... the universe next to his is actually the Marvel Zombie Universe from the hypothetical scenario?
Thinking of this, Toby actually felt relieved.
Thank goodness, it's not the zombie virus from the comics, just a hypothetical zombie virus...
In the story, the source of the zombie virus infection might be the quantum virus that Dr. Pym brought back after crossing the quantum realm to save his wife.
Although this zombie virus is also troublesome, it can even infect powerful beings such as Thanos with five Infinity Stones, Scarlet Witch in the later stages, and Thor, the God King...
But for Toby, it's not entirely unsolvable.
The most troublesome would be the zombie viruses that cause infection due to various superdimensional reasons, like those in comics!
Even for Toby now, those zombie viruses are deadly!
After all, in the comics, some zombie viruses can even infect Galactus, one of the five great gods!
Some sources of infection even come from worlds similar to the Cthulhu Old Gods, which are conceptual sources of infection and cannot be cured at all. In such universes, there is only despair!
If Toby himself were in that kind of universe, let alone protecting everything he owned, he might not even be able to guarantee his own safety...
However, if it's just a zombie virus infection in the quantum realm, Toby is confident he can solve the problem.
Even if he can't eradicate the zombie virus and restore the infected to normal, he's confident he can still crush all the infected!
At worst, we can just use a point in time to wipe out all the infected in the neighboring universe!
Slaughtering the Marvel Universe—to be honest, Tobey Maslow is actually quite interested!
Now that the source of the infection has been identified, Toby feels much more relaxed. A relaxed smile spreads across his face, and with his hands behind his back, he strolls leisurely towards the depths of the palace as if he were wandering in his own backyard.
As for why he drifted deeper into the palace, it was because after he activated his emotional perception ability, he clearly saw a huge surge of emotional fluctuations rising into the sky deep within the palace!
In addition to the inherent ferocity and bloodlust of zombies, there is also fear and despair!
Clearly, those emotions couldn't have come from a zombie; they could only have come from a survivor of Wakanda.
"Dad... Dad! No! Dad!!!"
Deep within the palace, in the royal laboratory.
With tears streaming down his face, Shuri was shielded behind Queen Ramonda of Wakanda, who herself held a vibranium spear, desperately trying to fend off the figure in the black panther suit in front of her.
The figure in the Black Panther suit could not possibly be T'Challa, but rather the current Black Panther, and also the current King of Wakanda, King T'Chaka!
After the zombie virus broke out in Wakanda, in order to rescue his youngest daughter, Shuri, who was trapped in a laboratory by a large number of zombies, T'Chaka put on the Black Panther suit that he hadn't worn in a long time and personally entered the laboratory to save his daughter Shuri.
With the full protection of the vibranium suit, King T'Chaka himself was not easily infected.
But superheroes in American comics all have one thing in common: no matter what kind of emergency they're in, they all like to take off their masks or helmets when they talk.
And clearly, King T'Chaka made this fatal mistake...
harleyscars