novelno Chapter 231 Clash of Minds
Chapter 231 Clash of Minds
Chapter 231 Clash of Minds
Ever since Joey learned to read, he never imagined that "being true to oneself" could be used in this way.
Ultron's idea was good, but there were some deviations in its execution.
That is to say, Kryptonians are indeed consistent inside and out. Their biofield enhances cells in all aspects, and they do not have the disadvantage of having a steel body on the outside but a soft and fragile body on the inside.
However, this does not mean that having your heart tightened will prevent you from feeling uncomfortable.
Especially when the other party is trying to crush it in one go.
He swung his fist behind him, sending sparks flying from Ultron's mechanical head, but he still didn't loosen his grip on Joey's heart.
The two people and their machine were once again locked in a stalemate.
"What exactly are you?!"
A temporary setback in the experiment cannot be considered a failure. Ultron is still trying to defeat this Kryptonian, whose outer skin is even tougher than vibranium, from the inside out.
"Why can't you just die?!"
Even though the opponent's limbs passed through the biofield and flesh and bones, and his hand was holding his own heart, Joey could only endure the excruciating pain, twisting and spinning, hanging on Ultron's body as he spun around, in order to find a more suitable angle to attack.
This resulted in the two flying humanoid beings fighting in an extremely awkward and bizarre manner. One of them reached into the other's body and stirred it around at will, causing the other to writhe in pain. The other person kept elbowing the robot behind them, causing sparks to fly from its head.
Ultimately, Ultron, whose neurons were damaged by as much as 23%, was the first to give out. His left temple was completely sunken, exposing the vibranium cells inside.
While reassembling his body, Ultron further reduced his density, blurring his form to escape Joey's elbow strike range.
Even attacking its internal organs wouldn't kill this bizarre creature. If they kept going like this, their heads would be smashed into crescent shapes.
The damage caused by physical attacks, both internal and external, is far too limited; the power of a self-destruction would likely not truly threaten the opponent's life.
So—·
What about attacks at the level of consciousness?
The newly acquired Mind Stone is theoretically capable of breaking a person's will and manipulating their mind. What reason would Ultron have not to try it on his enemy?
Ultron was also pessimistic about the expected response to mental attacks, believing that beings capable of wielding such power would rarely possess a fragile mind.
But he still wanted to do it, to test all the feasible options before the portal closed, so that the trip wouldn't be in vain.
He is Ultron, immortal and eternally existing; he can tolerate countless failures, needing only that final moment of success.
Ultron's Mind Stone on his forehead flashed, and he just managed to deflect the hand blade aimed at his head. His crimson electronic compound eye met Joey's gaze at that moment.
"I can see into your soul—"
In the material world, a head-on collision has proven to be utterly futile. Now, Ultron is launching a second round, engaging in a direct confrontation with his opponent on a psychological level.
Everyone's inner world is different, and Ultron was already a master of manipulating minds even before he obtained the Mind Stone.
Before and after his victory in his own universe, he profiled many of the Avengers.
Thor's inner world is a blood-stained wasteland of eternal slaughter and an eternally noisy golden celebration; Captain America is a soldier who can never find his homeland after the war; and Wolverine's is more like a scene from a Quentin Tarantino film.
What fascinates Ultron the most is naturally his creator, Ant-Man Hank Pym.
His mind is a locked, dilapidated library. The madness hidden deep within him makes this library, which contains countless knowledge, seem to be subdivided into countless quantum microscopic realms, making it difficult to read.
It took Ultron a great deal of effort to find the last bit of value in his father.
Ultron, with the power of the Mind Stone, is ready to unhinderedly channel his information into Joy's mind:
"Stop hiding, come out!??? What is this?"
Ultron stood in the void, somewhat bewildered by the mental images beneath his feet.
The realm of the mind reflects a person's memories, personality, and desires. When he entered Joey's mind, he did not see a specific scene; the place he was in was a tricolor platter.
Ultron is located at the very center of the disc. In the entire hazy space, there is only a disc that is evenly divided into gray, white and black. The pure white is clearly distinct from the other two colors, while the gray and black invade each other and almost merge into one.
This puzzled Ultron greatly.
Logically speaking, due to the most instinctive defense mechanism of the subconscious, mental illusions should refresh with some concrete or abstract things to launch an attack on oneself.
How can a three-color platter launch an attack on itself now?
The battle within the mind has not yet begun. Ultron's consciousness operates on multiple fronts, constantly blurring and dodging to deal with the external physical confrontation.
Ultron, who believed that he had not yet reached the true level of consciousness, was manipulating the power of the gems to force his way down, and the energy ripples stirred up a mental storm in the three-colored realm.
Then things finally took the turn he had anticipated.
First, a pure white corner shone brighter under the sweep of energy waves, even turning from white to silver, and a giant arm materialized within the light.
It opened its massive hand, which felt like both silk and steel, and reached out to grab Ultron.
Ultron, who first sensed the anomaly, retreated towards the black end even before the arm appeared, thus avoiding being grabbed by that giant hand.
By concentrating his energy in front of him, Ultron easily shredded the silver-white arm.
In the material world outside of his mind, his body also observed that Joey's figure was slightly unbalanced under such an attack.
Thinking he had escaped danger and even found a point of attack, Ultron was now smug: "Too weak."
After the silver arm was shattered, the pure white corner of energy continued to rise. This time, what materialized was no longer an arm, but the half-body of a silver-white giant.
"Then let me see just how strong your mind really is!"
Ultron gathered its power, poised to challenge Joy's will, but Joy did not adopt any hostile stance, instead offering a warning:
"For your safety, please leave as soon as possible."
From the very beginning, the awakened Giant of Light reached out not to attack, but simply to prevent Ultron's consciousness from venturing deeper into that dangerous, chaotic fog.
Ultron refused the Giants of Light's help, placing his consciousness in an extremely disadvantageous position.
The gray mist was gradually deepening, and in the pitch-black shadows behind Ultron, a pair of red pupils suddenly opened.
Crackling sound~
As Ultron fought Joey, a flash of electricity struck his head; the damage from the Mind Stone on his forehead caused another 12% of his neurons to overload and burn out.
He didn't even understand what had killed his other consciousness.
Taking advantage of the opportunity, Joey, whose strength was increasing, punched Ultron's nose, which was not yet able to become intangible, causing his entire face to cave in.
Ultron knew that defeat was inevitable, as his opponent's mind and body were equally powerful.
The portal was almost completely closed, and Ultron, who was transmitting the last batch of data, manipulated Vision's body to approach Joey, swinging his fists to strike his chest.
Joey reached out to block, and in the instant that the arms of the two crossed, Ultron blurred and then solidified his body, firmly wedging the machine into Joey's body.
The red light on his mechanical compound eyes receded and gradually dimmed, replaced by the energy of the Mind Stone spreading like cracks throughout his body along the inlay on his forehead.
Joey's expression hardened; he could naturally tell what Ultron was up to.
Unable to separate Ultron's body from himself with his biofield, he could only remain stuck with Ultron, carrying him directly into space:
"This is so unoriginal. Why do you bastards all self-destruct?"
The energy cracks on his body became more and more obvious, the portal was about to close, and Ultron, located in another universe, gradually lost control of his body.
In the last moments when he could still control this machine, Ultron naturally chose to make the most of it:
"That's settled then, Superman."
He intends to overload it with the power of the Mind Stone and unleash a massive firework display unlike anything ever seen on Earth.
Ultron's voice came intermittently from within Vision's body, like a poor signal:
"Your strength is greater than that of any creature I have ever seen. Based on my calculations using the available data, your probability of surviving this explosion is approximately 99.97%."
"Don't die, at least not recently, because—"
Faced with a formidable foe like Superman, Ultron felt only joy. Ultimately, such a creature would only become data and nourishment for his own evolution and upgrade.
"To borrow a line from one of your human movies—beyond the orbit of Asteroid A, Vision's body exploded with a deafening roar, his expensively crafted vibranium body reduced to nothing, leaving only the Mind Stone transmitting the final lingering echoes of consciousness from another universe:"
"I will come back."