Superman from the comics: Starting with the Black Robe

Chapter 446 The Observer's Big Event

Chapter 446 The Observer's Big Event

The development of the antidote is proceeding in an orderly manner.

This wasn't the first time Joey had used the Infinity Stones, but unlike the Sorcerer Supreme and others who used tricks, he only used the Infinity Stones to highlight one thing: "I think."

Fortunately, the Time Stone could understand such a simple request. After saving the patient during the initial time travel, Joey also extended the time of Tony, Reed, and himself in the test area.

Just as a miser might say he'd stretch a penny to two and a half, they can now obviously treat a month as if it were two and a half years.

At least for now, time is no longer an issue.

Having just finished setting up his little cabin on the moon, Observer Frog dusted off his robes and refocused his gaze on Earth.

While seeing Superman and Iron Man stretching out their time to develop a cure for the zombie virus, Frog also observed time distortion throughout the entire spacetime.

#Oh dear~#

Frog Tu couldn't help but sigh.

Time is relative. Superman and his crew do gain time, but they also lose some time in other areas.

As laws and forces that existed since the beginning of the universe, the power of the Infinity Stones remains terrifying, so terrifying that sometimes even the users are completely unaware of the extraordinary things they have done.

It's like the hammer theory: if you let the observer grab the hammer, he can at most knock out a tiny spark on the steel plate of the universe.

But if someone like Superman tries to steal it, he can mold the steel plate into any shape he wants, like a piece of clay.

Superman may be the most powerful user of the Infinity Stones in history, but the disastrous thing is that Superman himself is always completely unaware of it.

In Superman's eyes, he merely used the Time Stone to extend his own time, making the three of them more efficient, with negligible impact on the entire universe.

If we take the three of them as a frame of reference, their one second can be used as half an hour, which means that the Time Stone actually slows down the time of everyone else in the universe.

Anyone else who dared to so arrogantly influence the time of the entire universe would have been reduced to ashes by the backlash of the Time Stone long ago.

As for the pressure from the Time Stone's backlash, Superman, having previously been affected by the Ultimate Eraser, treated it as normal erosion from touching the stone with his bare hands and stubbornly endured it without taking it seriously.

And after a while, Joey even found that she didn't have to force herself to stay awake anymore—probably because her resistance was high enough that she no longer felt anything.

Not only that, he also had the time to use his super-sensory abilities to inspect the process, pointing and commenting to the two people conducting the experiment: "The reagent concentration is 0.0042% lower~"

"Holy crap!" Tony, who had been working non-stop for over ten hours, including the effects of the Time Stone, was practically kicking Joey, who had been standing there for hours doing absolutely nothing: "Can you please shut up? Even your breathing is interfering with my train of thought, as an expert!!"

"I haven't breathed at all for the past half day!" Joy, finally relieved that she no longer had to strain herself to withstand the corrosive effects of the Time Stone, could focus her energy elsewhere: "Kryptonians can survive on photosynthesis alone!"

Tony didn't even turn his head, continuing to pour the reagent into the catalyst container: "Then next Christmas present will be a super-sized flowerpot!"

Now that they have enough time, the two of them have started to bicker.

Reed continued to silently calculate data, occasionally having to soothe the emotions of the patient who had just been transported back in time by the Time Stone.

The patient was extremely agitated: "Dr. Reed, tell me the truth—what disease do I have? Do I not have much time left to live?"

The time travel didn't cause the other party much confusion. As for why the other party was becoming more and more afraid, it was probably because Tony and Superman were present.

If anyone were to suddenly find themselves lying in a hospital bed and wake up to find Superman and Iron Man right next to them, they would probably think they'd entered the end-of-life care phase, right?

Patients infected with the virus think the same way: "Do you have paper and pen? I still have so much to say to my family and children—"

"What are you talking about! I told you—you're one hundred percent guaranteed to survive!"

Hearing this, Tony gave the patient a thumbs-up through his suit: "Good luck!"

Although the patient didn't see Iron Man's expression as he resumed his research, he could still roughly guess the formulaic smile hidden beneath the armor.

Even Superman flew over and gently patted the patient's shoulder: "Don't give up hope."

To be honest, the other party had indeed died once in a physical sense, but the Time Stone had rewound them back to before everything happened.

Seeing the elusive Superman standing by his bedside, offering words of comfort, this "Patient Zero," handpicked by Reed and Tony, lay motionless in bed, utterly defeated: "Oh God, I'm definitely going to die this time!"

With tears welling in the patient's eyes, she tightly grasped Joey's hand: "Superman, please remember to tell my family that I love them!"

Joey's expression was quite something: "Calm down, it's not what you think at all—"

Reed and Tony exchanged a glance and decided to just watch as Superman and the patient got caught up in an endless struggle. For the sake of a peaceful experimental atmosphere, neither of them chose to rescue Superman.

After Joey patiently explained to the patient that it was just a minor cold, definitely not cancer or a super-deadly virus, and after providing "end-of-life care" for a long time, Tony finally slammed his hand on the table: "Success!"

The finished product performed perfectly in testing patient blood samples, effectively neutralizing the presence of this strain in the human body.

The person in the most hurry right now isn't Tony, but Joey: "Then let's hurry!"

Joey recounted many things from his superhero career, most of which he couldn't tell the patient in front of him and could only listen to him talk.

During this half-day of casual conversation, he had almost gotten all the stories of this New York City resident's grandfather from him.

If Tony doesn't come up with the antidote soon, Joey, the farm boy who grew up on a Kansas farm, might really only be able to talk to his patients about "postpartum care for sows" for the rest of his life.

Once the antidote was verified, Tony loaded it into a nanobot and delivered the drug into the patient's body without their knowledge.

All three held their breath at the same time, and Joey also focused his senses to the maximum, making sure everything went smoothly.

Thirty seconds later————

How long must we remain silent?

The three of them were being cautious, but the patient was so frightened by the sudden silence that he dared not speak: "Can I breathe?"

"Ha~ Of course!"

Superman, Tony, and Reed smiled with relief, their tense nerves finally relaxing at this moment.

It worked!

Tony is programming the nanobots so that once the antidote is mass-produced, he can have Superman distribute these nanobots evenly throughout every corner of New York City to neutralize all the effects of the previous virus.

"See, what did I tell you?"

Having just pulled New York out of danger, Tony was now radiant, a far cry from the suffocating pressure he'd been under just moments before: "There's always a way out; we can save everyone!"

Joey thought so too—now it seems that as long as you don't give up, there are always more solutions than problems.

Just over ten hours ago, he was seriously weighing the options and considering the possibility of sacrificing the smaller to save the larger.

And now they have found a glimmer of hope in the impossible, and everyone in New York can be safe and sound!

I don't think so.

The observer's face appears and disappears from the cosmic starry sky, surveying the entire Earth without sorrow or joy.

He no longer resides on the moon, but hides behind the material world, because he knows that some major events are about to happen.