Chapter 163 Deduction
With Yang Le and Franklin's frantic efforts to stop her, they finally managed to prevent Valeria's dangerous idea.
Yang Le wiped the fine sweat from his forehead, let out a long breath, and slumped onto the bed.
"Looks like you know too."
Valeria, buttoning her shirt, lowered her head and remained silent, seemingly understanding what Yang Le meant.
"Know what?" Franklin asked curiously, looking at the two of them, unaware of any secret between them.
"Know that there's no way to convince me with language," Yang Le said irritably.
"Admit it, you two little geniuses, you also know that what you're saying is an Incredible Tale, and you don't even believe it yourselves, otherwise, little Va wouldn't have tried to convince me with her body."
Franklin's eyes flickered, his corner of mouth twitched, unsure how to speak. After struggling for a while, his shrugged shoulders finally slumped.
"I know."
Valeria's sound came, her voice trembling. She lowered her head, hiding her face in her scattered hair. Her shoulders shook, her body trembled slightly, and anyone could see that she was crying.
"I've always known, but there's no other way. If I don't do this, I won't be able to live!"
Valeria raised her head, large tears flowed from her eyes, rolling down her face, gradually forming a line. Her blue eyes, set off by the tears, were like lakes, making Yang Le almost hallucinate a certain Spider-Woman.
Patting his forehead, driving the thoughts out of his head, Yang Le bent down, clasped his hands together, and stared expressionlessly at the girl who was crying her eyes out.
"I originally placed all my hope on Franklin, but he told me he had lost his ability. Although I was a bit resentful, I wasn't defeated, because I am Mr. Fantastic's child. I made up my mind to rely on my own strength to research a cure, just like my parents have always done. I want to rely on my own strength to save everyone."
Valeria raised her hands to cover her face. She seemed to have lost her strength, slowly taking a few steps back, and finally leaned against the wall, supporting her body. Franklin wanted to step forward several times, but somehow, he couldn't take a step.
"But the deeper I delved into the research, the more I realized that it was simply impossible! They are already dead! There is no activity at all. Their hearts no longer beat, their brains are no longer active, and the blood in their blood vessels has long since TMD solidified!"
"But what else can I do?" Valeria slowly slid down, finally sitting on the ground, painfully clutching her head. "I've been living on the belief of saving them all this time. Without these, I'll go crazy."
"Little Va..." Franklin murmured softly. He knew he should step forward to comfort his younger sister at this time, but he couldn't, because tears had long since flowed from his eyes as well. Don't look at their world-shocking wisdom; in the end, they are just two children. Experiencing such terrible things at an age when they should be playing and not collapsing is already quite good.
"Valeria, Franklin."
Yang Le, who had been silent until just now, suddenly called out the Fantastic Twins' names.
Even though the twins were sobbing uncontrollably, they had to look up, because Yang Le was their hope at this moment. All their hopes were pinned on Yang Le. Although they didn't say it, it was estimated that if Yang Le refused them, these two children might really collapse.
"You still haven't seen the essence of the matter," Yang Le said slowly.
"Hiss~" Seeing that Yang Le hadn't directly refused them, Valeria knew that there was still a turning point. She quickly sniffled and asked in a hoarse voice, "What do you mean?"
"Your thought is fixed. This should be Peter's influence on you. Do you think the main body of this crisis is really just a tiny virus?"
Valeria and Franklin looked at each other, no longer speaking, waiting for Yang Le's explanation.
"These guys obviously have a clear purposefulness. They are a Hive Mind Entity, with a unified name. Do you remember what they call themselves?"
"I've heard it," Valeria said. "They call themselves Endless Hunger."
"That's right, it sounds quite grand. They have a very clear purpose: to find and infect superhumans, not just mongrels who only know how to eat. This is very clear."
"You mean they are not a virus?" Franklin said in disbelief.
"Obviously, ordinary viruses couldn't be like this. Occupying the high ground of intelligence, and then eating and eating is what they should do." Reminded by Yang Le, Valeria immediately strung together the information she knew.
"Superhumans infect superhumans, ordinary people are only worthy of being eaten. They are accumulating strength, but why? The entire universe has already been eaten by them."
Valeria muttered to herself, raised her head to look at Yang Le, and suddenly her eyes shook, as if she understood everything. "They are sending signals to other universes, they want to occupy other universes?!"
"Looks like you've thought of it too." Yang Le snapped his fingers. This was also what he thought of after analyzing Vulcan's words. Vulcan had said he wanted to infect him too after seeing him, plus what Storm and the others had said at the beginning.
Putting it all together, Yang Le, who had read a lot of comics, quickly guessed their purpose. Valeria and the others were just not focused on this, and had been busy researching a cure, otherwise, they probably would have thought of it long ago.
"In other words, there is a controller in this matter!" Valeria suddenly became excited. Coupled with her just having cried, her red eyes, and pink cheeks, she looked very cute.
"As long as we find the controller, maybe we can save everyone," Franklin also cheered up.
Looking at the two excited children, Yang Le couldn't bear to pour cold water on them. Although he wanted to advise them to prepare for the worst, it was best not to discourage them at this time.
"Then will you help us?" Franklin looked at Yang Le hopefully. The topic returned to the starting point again. No matter how excited Franklin and Valeria were, it was useless. If Yang Le didn't help them, it would all be empty talk.
"Why not?" Yang Le shrugged his shoulders.
"But you weren't going to help us just now?" Franklin looked at Yang Le in puzzlement, not understanding why Yang Le suddenly agreed again. Valeria secretly punched her older brother, people are already helping, why are you asking so much, what if he changes his mind again?
"Because what you said at the beginning was futile. Capturing the Fantastic Four cannot solve this crisis, I certainly couldn't agree," Yang Le explained. "But now it's different, you've found the key point. I don't want you two running to find Mom when we're solving the problem."
(End of Chapter)