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One word.
Wanda's brain didn't have time to process this information.
Her body reacted before her consciousness did; a stress response.
She let out a scream and pushed her hands forward.
A pillar of dark red Chaos Magic energy erupted from her palms, heading straight for Lynn's chest.
This pillar of light was no simple energy attack.
It carried the effect of "Reality Warping"; the molecular structure of any matter it hit would be randomly rewritten into another substance.
If a human body were hit, blood might turn into mercury, bones into stone, and muscles into sponge.
The pillar of light struck Lynn's chest.
Lynn didn't dodge.
The dark red light hit his white lab coat, splashing out a circle of ripples.
Then it dissipated.
The energy-form immunity of the Immortal Divine Body automatically activated the moment the light touched his body, directly neutralizing over ninety-five percent of the Chaos Magic's "Reality Warping" effect.
The remaining five percent seeped into the fibers of the lab coat—a small patch of fabric on the chest changed from cotton to silk.
That was the extent of the effect.
Wanda saw her strongest attack hit this man, and the only result was changing the material of a small piece of his clothing.
Her pupils constricted to the limit.
Lynn looked down at the patch of silk on his chest.
"This lab coat cost twelve hundred." He looked up.
Then he moved.
Lynn's speed wasn't fast. It could even be described as slow; he just walked at a normal pace.
But Wanda didn't even have time to react.
His right hand was already gripping her neck.
Lynn's five fingers were hooked on both sides of Wanda's neck.
The force was terrifyingly precise; it didn't hinder her breathing or press on her trachea, but her carotid arteries were completely under control.
At that moment, Wanda's Chaos Magic fought back frantically.
Dark red light surged from every pore of her body, attempting to rewrite the molecular structure of Lynn's fingers.
But Lynn's other hand rose.
He didn't use any ability to "confront" the Chaos Magic.
He used Matter Reconstruction.
Wanda's Chaos Magic was essentially rewriting the Probability Wave Functions of matter at the atomic level.
Lynn's Atomic Interference happened to perform the reverse operation on the same level.
His left hand pressed against Wanda's forehead.
On a microscopic level, Lynn's consciousness dived into the atomic structures around Wanda that were being "rewritten."
One by one, he "smoothed out" the distorted Probability Wave Functions, anchoring them back to their normal states.
Wanda's Chaos Magic was suppressed at its source.
The dark red light began to recede.
The rewritten matter in the hall was also slowly returning to its original state.
Wood turned back into concrete, rubber back into plastic, the liquid teacup... didn't turn back, because it had already flowed onto the floor.
Wanda hung from Lynn's hand, her feet off the ground.
Her eyes were wide.
Her brownish-green pupils were filled with terror.
From the moment she awakened her powers until now, no one had ever been able to withstand her Chaos Magic unscathed.
No one had ever been able to suppress her power with one hand.
The man in the white lab coat before her had done it.
"Turning my floor into wood?" Lynn's voice was soft, but every word was nailed into Wanda's eardrums.
"How do you plan to compensate for this, Miss Witch?"
Wanda opened her mouth, but no sound came out.
Lynn released his grip.
Wanda fell to the floor. She knelt there, gasping for air.
"I..." Her voice was incredibly hoarse.
"My brother... please..."
She looked up at Lynn.
Tears welled up in her eyes and poured out.
Lynn looked down at Wanda kneeling on the floor.
She was crying messily.
Tears mixed with rainwater and snot covered her face. Her lips were trembling, and her hands were shaking, like a stray cat soaked to the bone.
Lynn's expression didn't change.
He turned and walked to the treatment bed, glancing at Pietro lying on it.
The All-Seeing Eye activated automatically.
【Automatic Diagnosis Initiated...】
【Patient: Pietro Maximoff (Codename: Quicksilver)】
【Injury Assessment:】
【1. Extensive rupture of the vascular system below the knee joints of both legs, with 87% tissue necrosis; early signs of infection have appeared in the necrotic areas;】
【2. Speed Force genes and residual Mind Stone energy are causing a rejection reaction, inhibiting the cell regeneration system and completely disabling normal self-healing functions;】
【3. Microscopic-level demyelination has occurred in the L3-S1 spinal nerve pathways due to long-term overloading; sensory nerves in both legs have lost function;】
【4. High concentrations of Space Stone Isotope residues detected in the bone marrow, continuously damaging stem cell activity.】
【Comprehensive Fatality Rate: 12.7% (Non-fatal, but if untreated, both legs will be completely necrotic within 48 hours, requiring amputation)】
【Healing this target is expected to allow copying an A+ rank talent!】
A+ rank.
Speed Force.
Although it wasn't the top-tier version directly connected to the source of the Speed Force like the The Flash, Pietro's supersonic ability was itself excellent enough.
It was worth treating.
Lynn turned to Wanda.
"His legs can still be saved. But first, you must answer one question."
Wanda nodded frantically. "Any question."
"Who injected him? With what? And how many times?"
Wanda quickly recounted everything about Strucker's experiments, the Mind Scepter scepter, and the increased dosages.
She spoke very fast, some words even carrying the rolled 'r' of a Sokovian accent, but Lynn understood it all.
The Mind Scepter scepter, Space Stone Isotopes.
Overload experiments.
Quite a bit of information.
Lynn fell silent for three seconds after listening.
"Lie down," he said to Pietro.
Pietro was still unconscious.
"I'm talking to him, but you do the work," Lynn said to Wanda.
"Lay him flat. Straighten his legs."
Wanda hurriedly adjusted Pietro's position.
Lynn walked to the instrument tray and took out a pair of gloves.
While he was putting on the gloves, the system had already formulated a treatment plan.
"Surgery begins," Lynn said.
He didn't make Wanda leave.
Firstly, because Wanda's current mental state wasn't suitable for being alone, and secondly, because he needed an "audience."
Letting Wanda see the process of him healing Pietro with her own eyes would be beneficial for subsequent negotiations.
The All-Seeing Eye displayed a complete three-dimensional microscopic image of Pietro's legs.
Every blood vessel, every bundle of muscle fiber, and every cluster of necrotic cells was presented in Lynn's field of vision in 3D.
Step one: clear the necrotic tissue.
Lynn's left hand pressed against Pietro's right knee.
Perfect Extremis activated—not for high-temperature output, but for precise temperature control.
He adjusted his palm temperature to 600 degrees.
This temperature was enough to vaporize the necrotic tissue cells without damaging the living healthy cells nearby.
Heat seeped from Lynn's palm into Pietro's knee, spreading precisely along the boundaries of the necrotic tissue.
Standing nearby, Wanda saw something she would never forget for the rest of her life.
Pietro's grayish-black necrotic skin turned into fine white powder bit by bit under Lynn's palm.
