Jessica knew that if she said it out of nowhere, Zod probably wouldn't believe her, so she quickly added, "It's true, Mr. Heath! I can prove it to you!"
Zod nodded and brought Jessica over to the testing facilities inside the secret room.
This was the place Zod usually used for training. Now, it was perfect for testing Jessica's abilities.
After the tests, Zod obtained Jessica's detailed data.
In terms of strength, she had reached 2525 tons. She still wasn't as strong as little Spidey, but she was already powerful.
Her top speed could reach 700700 miles per hour, but her physical defense was relatively weak. She wasn't bulletproof, though her recovery ability was pretty good.
Jessica stared at her own detailed results and was stunned. Am I really this strong now?
"Congratulations. You're a superpowered individual now," Zod said with a smile, even though Jessica probably couldn't beat even one of his Beast Soldiers.
After all, compared to the first-generation Beast Soldiers, the second-generation Beast Soldiers had already been fully upgraded and completely surpassed the first generation.
Because Zod didn't follow that Kronos-style, multi-role Beast Soldier route, the Beast Soldiers he developed leaned toward close combat.
Their strength basically stabilized at 5050 tons. Their bodies could withstand most physical attacks, even a tank's main cannon would only cause light injuries. At the same time, they had ultra-fast regeneration like the Lizard Doctor.
They could also use the Extremis Virus inside their bodies to produce liquid explosives, then load that explosive into ejectable bursting rounds and mount them on the swollen protrusions on both shoulders. When they fired guided bombs, they could use brainwaves to perform a certain degree of guidance. They could also launch them from firing tubes in both arms.
Their mouths had a biological heat-vision laser cannon, fired using the Extremis Virus and internal heat energy, with an extremely high temperature.
It could be said that the Extremis Virus and the genes of heat-resistant tardigrades had made the Beast Soldiers' combat power jump dramatically.
On Earth, these 1,000+1,000+ Beast Soldiers would be enough to sweep everything aside, but for the kind of cosmic warfare Zod needed, they were still far from enough.
Not to mention, they were too fragile against the Hulk. Superheroes close to Green Hulk's level could probably handle them too.
And there was still Tony Stark, that unstable variable…
"Then, Mr. Heath, can I become a superhero with you?" Jessica asked quickly, her voice filled with nervous anticipation.
The superhero Dark Knight Zod had long since become the idol of many young people, and plenty of grown men too.
Compared to Captain America Steve, who was still sitting in a museum, the fashionable Dark Knight Zod, wearing high-tech armor, was far more eye-catching. Especially that Dark Knight armor that could fly and escape anywhere, it had made countless people apply for America's War Machine pilot qualification exam, even if it might take them 1010 years before it was ever their turn.
Jessica was no exception. She was exactly the kind of teenager who loved fantasies, and who also held deep distrust and dissatisfaction toward the American government.
To become a superhero like Dark Knight Zod, to strike down crime and uphold justice!
"Of course you can, but first you need to go through superhero training," Zod said with a smile.
He didn't reject Jessica right away, and he didn't use the excuse that someone her age should focus on studying instead of fighting crime.
After all, she was probably in a rebellious phase. Saying that would only make Jessica feel unhappy, like he didn't trust her ability or her attitude. It was better to start with training and let her back down when she realized how hard it was. But if she actually passed the training, that was fine too. With Zod watching, even if she died… as long as he could use electromagnetic force to activate her brainwaves, he could bring her back.
As the saying went, when Yu the Great controlled floods, blocking wasn't as good as guiding.
Jessica left happily, ready to begin the training plan Black Queen had arranged for her tomorrow.
Wake up at 66 a.m. and do a weighted long-distance run of 100100 kilometers on an empty stomach. Only after finishing could she eat, and then came all kinds of physical training. Even for superhumans, that didn't mean there was no room to improve.
Jessica was definitely going to be very happy tomorrow. After all, this was the superhero path she wanted most. Zod planned to have her take a leave of absence for a while and undergo superhero training for half a year. He hoped that by then, Jessica wouldn't be crying and begging to go back to school.
Zod had achieved a new breakthrough in the electromagnetic field. A twisted magnetic field gathered in his palm, condensing matter out of the air. Very quickly, hydrogen atoms were extracted from the air. Then came oxygen atoms. With a tiny electromagnetic spark, flames rose in Zod's hand, the churning fire bound inside the magnetic field as he toyed with it as if it were nothing.
On his other hand, lightning flickered across his fingertips. With the flexing of his five fingers, it shifted constantly, from current state to photon state, to radiation state, to electromagnetic wave state. He handled the manipulation of energy forms with effortless ease.
A powerful magnetic field accelerated the motion of molecules in the air. A scorching plasma-like flow shot out along his fingers, destroying the molecular structure of everything in its path.
"Accelerate molecular motion, and you can directly vaporize the target."
The Molecular Acceleration Cannon had been recreated by Zod through the power of magnetic fields. It was a method extremely effective against both matter and energy, whether for offense or defense. After all, everything in the universe was made of molecules, and molecules were made of smaller atoms and subatomic components.
"Temperature is just the visible form of molecular motion. With motion and temperature, you can destroy everything. With metal and current, you can create everything."
Between atoms, the influence of magnetism was undoubtedly the strongest, more than 10,00010,000 times stronger than the next strongest, the strong interaction. Gravity was the weakest, even 10,00010,000 times weaker than the weak interaction.
Zod laughed out loud. Electromagnetism, which had unified the three major fundamental forces, was the absolute king at the microscopic level, holding the strongest control over atoms.
At his current level, even the Dark Phoenix who wielded the Phoenix Force would be easily crushed. Of course, that was the movie version. As for the comics version, if she didn't possess the complete Phoenix Force, Zod still had the ability to fight her.
At the same time, brainwaves were also a type of electromagnetic wave. Aside from mystical mind abilities, even mind-control users at Professor X's level could no longer affect Zod. They would even be counterattacked by Zod instead.
"The more you learn, the more you realize how ignorant you are. Science is a three-dimensional and complex system."
Zod didn't feel superior at all. Right now, he had only mastered the electromagnetic domain at the atomic level. Deeper layers like subatomic particles, fundamental particles, quarks, and Planck-scale phenomena were still far beyond him, not to mention realms even smaller than Planck.
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