In the Rocky Mountains, Li Jie met the last person he wanted to visit on his trip, former astronaut Ben Graham.

The place where the two met was in a small cabin at the entrance of the mountains. Now Ben Graeme is suffering from a strange disease of skin sclerosis. His weird appearance is the same as a monster in the eyes of ordinary people, so he has to retreat.

In the mountains and forests, they can barely survive by hunting.

Li Jie's arrival did not make any more waves appear on the man's face. After stating his intention, Li Jie took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and handed it to Ben. The latter thanked him and took one out for himself.

I lit it, then blew out the smoke ring comfortably, and then slowly began to recall the aviation disaster.

"Many years ago, I participated in a manned spaceflight engineering project in Cape Town and served as a visiting professor at a local university. It was also at the university that I met them."

"who?"

Ben took a puff of cigarette and said, "Genius scientist Reed Richards, and the Storm siblings. Now that I think about it, I finally understand the meaning of the saying that scientists are all madmen."

Li Jie was silent, but quickly jotted down everything he said in his diary with his right hand.

"Reed is extremely fascinated by an orbiting space capsule named Lady Justice. He wants to ride on it and go to space to conduct some research that will never be accessible in fixed orbits."

"For example, cosmic ray activity."

"I know about this. The Lady Justice failed." Li Jie interrupted. In this universe, the failure of the Lady Justice spacecraft caused quite a stir.

"Yes." Ben nodded, "Although the spaceship has been built and filled with fuel, the Lady of Justice is actually just a transitional product. At least within five or six years of its completion, the Lady of Justice is not ready to be upgraded.

Set sail empty."

"But Reed didn't want to wait that long. He knocked on my door one night. He acted like a madman that day." Ben looked at Li Jie and said, "He wanted to steal the Lady of Justice, and

I hope I will be the pilot of the spaceship."

"You refused." Li Jie said calmly.

"Yes, I refused." Ben nodded, "I told Reed that I would need at least three months to install a lateral booster on the spacecraft. Boarding the ship now is simply a joke with human lives."

"I thought that as long as I put the facts in front of Reed, the scientist's mind would make him calm down and think about my warning carefully, but that lunatic didn't give up at all."

"Reed found a classmate named Von Doom to take my place, and the Lady Justice took them and the Storm siblings into the radiation storm of cosmic rays."

The two of them fell into a short silence. After lighting a second cigarette, Ben took out a stack of photos from the drawer and spread them out in front of Li Jie. He picked out the photos and pushed one of them away.

Arriving in front of Li Jie.

In the photo was a body that had been burnt to black and seemed to have been carbonized. Ben pointed at the photo and said slowly, "This is Johnny Storm, the first one we found after the Lady Justice crashed."

A victim, this child’s body and cells were all burnt.”

Ben took out the second photo. The corpse in the photo looked very strange, as if it was an invisible person.

"This woman is Johnny's sister Susan. Cosmic rays made her reflect light, even her eyes, so she was blind." There was a sadness in Ben's tone, "The search and rescue team didn't find it at first.

She, until she fell on her brother's body, if not for this fall, she might have been the only survivor."

"As for Von Doom, I couldn't get a photo of his body. Some people said it looked like moving ore, but when he fell it turned into a ball of mud, and his internal organs were turned outside the body. It looked like

They are the undead from hell."

"As for Reed, he was finally discovered by the Russians last month. His limbs were pulled into rubber bands by a strange force, leaving only a skeleton with weirdly twisted bones."

At this point, Ben suddenly took a long puff of cigarette and sighed, "If that guy Reed could be more patient and wait for the spacecraft engine to be installed before setting off, maybe none of this would have happened."

"If, if I was the driver at that time..."

Li Jie closed the diary, thanked me, left a word of comfort and left.

【53/50】

[The main mission has been completed]

"The mission is completed, you won't stop me anymore, right?" Li Jie suddenly said to himself.

【certainly】

The next second, the scenery in front of Li Jie changed. He came to the White House and broke into the room that symbolized power.

"Charles Francis Xavier."

Behind the table, the bald man sitting in the wheelchair slowly turned around, seemingly not surprised at all by Li Jie's arrival.

"what do you?"

"A reporter passing by." Li Jie exploded, and the transcendent energy in his body boiled like boiling water.
Chapter completed!