Marvel: The Imposter Inventor

Chapter 223 Red and Blue Rebirth
Gwen's reminder immediately brought the two people who had been discussing the magic of time to the quantum realm back to their senses, and they both looked in the direction Gwen was pointing.

There, the Hell Gate stone tablet, which had been closed again after Ghost Rider's inexplicable intrusion, began to flash red once more.

More importantly, this time, as soon as the red crack lit up, Luca could already smell the stench that belonged only to hell, a mixture of decay, sulfur, and burning.

Upon seeing this, both Luca and Tony showed a hint of surprise and uncertainty in their eyes.

Today's experiment was certainly not the first time the two of them had opened the gates of hell.

But in all those previous experiments, each one required a continuous energy supply of tens of minutes, as well as anchoring dimensional nodes and stabilizing the spatial structure, before they could barely open the gates of hell.

The speed at which this door is opening again is clearly abnormal.

"Hakimi, cut off the Ark Matrix's energy supply. We don't need to open the Gates of Hell now!"

Although Luca and Tony have lured, captured, and killed quite a few demons from the other side of the Gates of Hell over the past few days.

But a Ghost Rider just appeared out of nowhere, who knows what other strange things might pass by the gates of hell next?
Moreover, in Hell, relatively positive characters like Ghost Rider are truly few and far between.

At this point, he naturally wanted to close the gates of hell first, deal with the troubles in the laboratory, and then start the research again.

However, after Luka gave the order, Hakimi's response was...

"Sir, the energy system has been shut down, but the fluctuations at the Gates of Hell are still increasing, suggesting that the energy supply is not coming from the laboratory."

Upon hearing this, both Luca and Tony's expressions changed.

"Hakimi! Isolation Stone Module! Pop out the Crimson Cloak!"

"Jarvis, activate the energy barrier! Initiate the dispersal isolation procedure!"

The two gave the order at the same time, and the emergency measures that had been prepared in advance were immediately activated.

The cables and auxiliary modules that were originally connected to the bottom of the black stone tablet were all disconnected and ejected amidst a series of 'click-click' sounds from the air valves.

Then, Tony parked his armor to the side, and seven or eight small devices flew out, shooting out beams of blue energy that completely isolated and sealed off the area around the stone tablet.

However, before Luca and the other man could even breathe a sigh of relief...

The black stone tablet before us, which serves as the vessel for the Gates of Hell, has clearly lost the support of its most crucial spatial artifact, the 'Crimson Cloak,' cutting off its energy supply.

But it remained steadily floating in the air, and even the crimson rift of the Gate of Hell above it continued to expand and lengthen.

"Damn it! Sibei, cast the sealing spell!"

Actually, Luca didn't need to remind him.

The moment he saw that the emergency isolation measures had failed, Sibei knew it was time for his 'magic side' safeguards to come into play.

As Luca spoke, the three pre-drawn sealing scrolls were already unfolded and spread out on the ground in front of the cup.

One in each of the three directions: directly in front, left and right.

Even at the end, he had a sealed scroll in his mouth.

As he rapidly formed hand seals.

The black runes on the four sealing scrolls seemed to come alive and flew out rapidly.

It flowed and climbed up the black stone tablet floating in the center of the laboratory.

These sealing runes, resembling countless tadpoles, rapidly connected the two sides of the scarlet crack and continued to press inward.

However, just as the four runes were about to connect and close the open crack...

The stone tablet, which had already dimmed again, suddenly began to shake and tremble violently in the air. Then, with a 'poof' sound, four slender, dark red fingers suddenly pierced out from the nearly closed crack.

After these four hideous fingers with sharp, jet-black nails appeared, it was as if they were reaching out to lift a curtain, gently slicing across the scarlet crack.

The cracks that had just partially closed suddenly expanded again.

Even when the sealing runes released by the cup tried to cover these fingers, they were instantly melted away, like snowflakes touching blazing red metal.

The so-called energy isolation barrier released by Tony shattered like glass after being lightly touched by the tip of the second outstretched strange finger.

"What the hell is this?!"

Tony had already donned his armor, but faced with this strange scene, he hesitated, unsure whether to fire his fully charged palm cannon.

"I can smell the earth!!"

From within the crack, a hoarse, sinister voice suddenly rang out.

"Idiot, if your dog's nose is that sensitive, then go back to hell and smell shit!"

next moment.

A beam of blue light suddenly shot out.

The speaker was Luca, who was holding the [dehydration gun].

As the pale blue compressed beam of light struck the black stone tablet, the Gates of Hell, which had been bulging, immediately shone brightly red.

However, the ever-expanding red light was completely enveloped by the blue light, and finally shrank and condensed into a blue energy cube no bigger than a thumb. With a 'ding', it crashed to the ground, rolled twice, and then completely subsided.

'Phew~ As expected, the dehydration gun is still the most reliable; after all, it's dimensional energy.'

The thought had barely crossed Luca's mind when suddenly, crimson cracks appeared in the blue energy cubes on the ground that had calmed down.

As the cracks multiplied, red and blue energy beams instantly filled the entire laboratory.

"Be careful!!"

Immediately afterwards, there was a loud 'boom'.

The red and blue energy smoke exploded instantly, and the shockwave from the explosion sent everything around it flying.

Fortunately, none of the people present were ordinary people.

Tony is protected by his armor, and Gwen's physical abilities far surpass those of ordinary people.

Luca, well, Luca had a quick-reacting shield protecting him.

In short, apart from another small explosion inside the laboratory, there doesn't seem to be much damage.

But after the red and blue smoke from the explosion completely dissipated.

Only then did everyone realize that a new crack, formed by interwoven red and blue energy, had appeared out of nowhere in the place where the black stone tablet had originally been.

The reason this crack is said to exist out of thin air is that the black stone tablet that originally served as the vessel for the Gates of Hell has now been shattered into countless tiny fragments, floating and swirling around this new crack like a chaotic yet orderly miniature meteorite belt.

The fissures, interwoven with red and blue hues and interspersed with black pebbles, possessed a touch of magnificent and fantastical color compared to the purely evil gates of hell.

"What is this?"

(End of this chapter)