Marvel: The Imposter Inventor

Chapter 330 Acting
"Luca, we've run into a big problem. Could you come over?"

During the communication, Luca was slightly surprised to see Gwen's serious and tense appearance.

Although I've been busy preparing for the dimensional war and have neglected Gwen a bit, the last time we contacted each other was only two days ago. How come the Avengers are suddenly in big trouble again?

'Besides, isn't Little Vision still helping out over there? Why hasn't he sent me any news?'

With his questions in mind, Luca perked up and listened attentively to Gwen's explanation.

However, as Gwen continued her story, Luca's expression became increasingly strange.

"You mean, Dr. Otto of Osborn developed a new type of virus serum that affected Dr. Banner? And then Dr. Banner injured Tony, kidnapped Natasha and Harry, and was preparing to release the virus serum to turn all the New York refugees into monsters?"

“That’s right, this viral serum can affect the mind of the infected! We suspect that Natasha and Harry have probably already been affected by what Dr. Otto has created.”

As Gwen spoke, Norman Osborn entered the frame, and behind him, Tony Stark, looking somewhat pale, appeared to be fiddling with some bottles and jars at the lab bench.

"I'm sorry, actually we secretly obtained some of Hulk's blood to conduct research, but we never expected that Otto would be affected by this serum in the end."

As he said this, Norman Osborne's face was full of guilt, as if he deeply regretted the consequences of his actions.

Even Tony, who looked rather unwell in the background, nodded at the camera, seemingly to confirm the truth of their words.

However, seeing the three of them like this, Luca's strange feeling grew stronger.

'This sounds a bit like a scene from Dr. Lizard. Are you sure you're talking about Dr. Otto, and not Dr. Connors?'

'And why do these three people not seem really nervous?'

Just as Luca was thinking this, Norman Osborne chimed in, saying he wanted Luca to come over as soon as possible to help capture Dr. Otto and research how to crack the serum, and so on.

However, Luca only gave a perfunctory response, while subtly shifting the communication screen aside and contacting Vision, who was also on the other side, via text message.

However, the answer he received was that Vision had been asked by Tony a few days earlier to take Orange’s engineering robots to New York to oversee the reconstruction project.

Although there are other robots remaining on standby at the refugee camp, all they know is that there was an explosion and a large-scale power outage at Stark's temporary laboratory last night.

'They really were attacked?'

Luca naturally had no doubt about Vision's answer, but even so, it didn't seem to prove anything.

Just then, Hawkeye suddenly appeared on the other end of the communication screen.

The other party didn't seem to notice the call taking place and was speaking hurriedly to the other three.

“Gwen, we just received news that the Stacy family, including your counterpart and Chief George Stacy, have all disappeared. We now suspect that they were also kidnapped by Dr. Otto, but the reason is not yet clear.”

Upon hearing this, Gwen's expression immediately changed drastically. She was about to rush to Hawkeye's side in a few steps, but after only two steps, she stopped and turned to look at Luca on the communicator, her face even showing a hint of sorrow.

"Luca, help me!"

Although Luca still felt a bit strange upon seeing this, he didn't delay any longer.

After all, any problems can be discussed in person later.

He immediately activated the 'Spotted Express,' and the next moment, a dark portal appeared before him. Stepping through it, Luca was instantly standing in front of them. "Tell me, do you need me?"

Luca had just opened his mouth after appearing, but before he could finish a sentence, his expression changed slightly.

There was no other reason than that the inside of the metal ring with green patterns engraved on Luca's left hand was now faintly glowing red.

"What the hell is going on? Nick Fury isn't here either?!"

This green ring was originally a detection device that Luca specially created after he discovered the existence of Skrulls within S.H.I.E.L.D.

Although he couldn't clearly tell who the Skrull was disguised as, he could at least be alerted to the presence of Skrull soul fluctuations in the vicinity.

At this moment, Luca is quite certain that the ring's sensing range is limited to Gwen and her group of four, which means...
'Someone has been replaced by a Skrull! Was it one, or...'

Thinking of this, Luca had a bad feeling.

However, perhaps because he suddenly paused halfway through his sentence, the other four people all looked at him with suspicion.

Seeing this, Luca was about to speak casually when his phone rang again.

Slightly embarrassed, Luca pulled out his phone from his pocket, only to discover that the caller ID showed Gwen standing right in front of him.

What's even more frustrating is that, since the two weren't far apart, Gwen was just staring at the incoming call notification on Luca's phone.

In that instant, an eerie silence fell over the entire laboratory.

Even the three people who were farther away from Luca and couldn't see the phone screen immediately realized what had happened.

"It's fake! Dr. Otto just kidnapped Stacy; he must have drugged her to impersonate me!"

Seeing this 'Gwen' in front of her, she couldn't wait to start explaining.

Suddenly, the awkward expression on Luca's face vanished, leaving only a calm tinged with mockery.

Then, without even answering the phone, he simply asked in a flat tone.

"Gwen, where are the glasses I gave you?"

“I’ve been staying at Stacy’s house lately, and I left my glasses there.”

Faced with Luca's question, the 'Gwen' in front of him still gave an answer. However, for some reason, her expression, like Luca's, quickly changed from tense to calm.

Not only Gwen, but the other three people present also put down what they were holding and slowly approached Luca with indifferent expressions.

"Huh? All of them? That saves me a lot of trouble~"

He spoke incoherently, but his tone was full of undisguised sarcasm.

The next moment, time seemed to stand still, and Luca transformed into a silver streak of light.

(End of this chapter)