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Chapter 167 Vibration Ability Successfully Activated

The metal on the surface of the obelisk served as insurance for the Kree, possessing not only extremely high strength but also intense heavy particle radiation, enough to kill any human who dared to touch it.

Xia Zuo was certainly not afraid of mere heavy particles, and he was absolutely confident in peeling off this layer of metal, but he was not confident in ensuring that the crystal inside would not be damaged.

So, Xia Zuo called Skye: "Dear Skye, let's go on a trip to Puerto Rico."

The correct way to use the obelisk is to place it in a Kree temple, open its metal casing through a ritual, and then access the Terrigen crystal inside.

When Skye received Xia Zuo's call, she knew that her boss had succeeded.

Suppressing her excitement, she jokingly replied, "Oh, boss, I can ask the professor for leave, but can you ask the police station for leave?"

"I remember you used up all your vacation days this year, boss."

Xia Zuo laughed heartily: "My dear Skye, this is Mi Li Jian. As long as the money's right, there's no time off you can't take!"

Xia Zuo's boss is a shareholder of his charitable foundation and is very understanding. Taking leave is a small matter that can be resolved with just one phone call.

Skye's professor was also well-fed by Xia Zuo, and he didn't even ask Skye the reason for her leave before readily approving a two-week vacation.

The next day, the two boarded a plane and, after a four-hour flight, arrived safely at San Juan International Airport in Puerto Rico.

Upon arriving in Puerto Rico, Chazo didn't rush into anything but instead took Skye on a three-day blast of fun.

Like true tourists, the two of them explored various attractions in Puerto Rico and sampled all sorts of Puerto Rican cuisine in the narrow alleys of the old town.

Xia Zuo didn't sit idle during his trip.

By observing the electromagnetic waves and the resulting geomagnetic feedback, he probed the underground of the area he visited, confirming that the location beneath the San Cristóbal Castle was their destination.

If S.H.I.E.L.D. finds this location, they will set up all sorts of large machinery and excavate it in the style of a tomb raider.

Xia Zuo, however, did not have the authority to make such a big fuss, nor did he need to go to such lengths.

By observing the feedback from the geomagnetic field caused by the emitted electromagnetic waves, he quickly figured out the structure of the underground city and found eight hidden passages leading to the surface.

After eliminating the four passages that have collapsed to the point of being impassable, and further eliminating the one leading to the seaside lighthouse, which seems to be an escape route from the underground city, only three passages remain to choose from.

Xia Zuo first checked the exit in the underground passage of the city hall, but soon gave up on it.

The building above ground at the entrance to this passageway has been renovated and is now Puerto Rico's national treasury, making it heavily guarded.

Even if Xia Zuo could persuade people to be his good Samaritans, the numerous guards here make the process far too complicated.

Next, Xia Zuo hesitated for a long time between the entrance to the San Jose Church and the entrance to the St. Paul's Lutheran Church.

Ultimately, he chose to enter the underground city through the underground passage of San Jose Church by flipping a coin.

On the evening of the fourth day, Xia Zuo brought Skye to the Church of San Jose.

After his strong persuasion, the priest who was in charge of the church "friendly" led them into the basement and opened the stone door that had been sealed for a hundred years.

After passing through a 200-meter passage behind the door, the two entered a magnificent circular underground city.

Shazo held Skye in his arms and quickly followed the straight passage through layers of ruins, arriving at the city center in just 22 minutes.

It was an altar built on a high platform, with six huge stone gates arranged in a ring around the outside, and equally huge stone pillars supporting the inner stone chamber.

Just as the two stepped onto the altar, a hazy beam of light suddenly appeared, illuminating the half-person-high stone platform in the center.

Xia Zuo and Skye glanced at their watches simultaneously and blurted out, "Noon, the perfect time for the ceremony?"

They both nodded at the same time.

As Xia Zuo backed away, he said, "Skye, don't be nervous, you will definitely succeed."

"Believe me, you are destined to be royalty among the Inhumans!"

Skye put on thick rubber gloves and took the obelisk out of her backpack.

She casually tossed aside her backpack, picked up the obelisk, and scrambled up the platform, placing it in the center of the altar so that it would be illuminated by the beam of light.

The girl moved swiftly, knowing how rare it was for this beam of light to penetrate the thick earth's crust, and how short its duration would be.

If they missed it, she and Xia Zuo would have to wait in this dark underground city for at least 24 hours.

If we're lucky, the sun will shine in again tomorrow at noon.

If they are unlucky and it turns cloudy, or if the sun is blocked by clouds at a crucial moment, they can only wait day by day.

Therefore, we should not let any opportunity slip by.

As the obelisk was illuminated, the light was magnified hundreds of times, illuminating the underground city as if it were daytime.

Suddenly, accompanied by a rumbling sound, the six stone gates began to move along their predetermined path, quickly fitting together and completely sealing the altar.

The obelisk then emitted a crisp "crackling" sound, and layers of cracks appeared on its metal outer skin before peeling off and revealing pale blue crystals inside.

When the crystal was illuminated by the sunlight, it emitted an even stronger light. It sprouted many branches as if it were alive, and in the blink of an eye, it transformed from a single crystal into a cluster of crystals.

Suddenly, the altar stopped rotating, and the crystal cluster began to spew out pale blue mist, completely engulfing Skye's figure.

When Skye came into contact with the crystal mist, a layer of black stone shell quickly appeared on her skin, just like the myth of Medusa turning to stone after seeing it.

Although she knew this was a necessary step to unlocking her potential, Skye was overwhelmed by instinctive fear, which caused her to scream involuntarily.

As the stone shell spread throughout Skye's body, her screams abruptly ceased.

Just then, the sunlight shining on the crystal cluster disappeared, and the dungeon returned to darkness.

But Xia Zuo could sense that Skye's life had not weakened in the silence, and that a powerful force was brewing and accumulating within her.

This powerful force originates from fragments of genetic information. Once it clumps together, it continuously drains Skye's physical strength and consumes her life force, leaving complex and inexplicable marks on her soul and body.

Xia Zuo waited anxiously for several minutes until the extraction of power stopped and the core of power began to bloom.

The shockwave surged from Skye's body, instantly shattering the stone shell covering her body. The echoes reflected from the shattered shell instantly altered her body structure.

Fortunately, Skye's body was not affected at the large scale; all the changes occurred at the microscopic level, which is smaller than a cell.

Nanoscale new structures have appeared in most of the cells in Skye's body.

Xia Zuo confirmed from the feedback of electromagnetic waves that the new structure was a silicon-based nanocrystal, and the crystallization mode was a multi-layered nested ring-shaped long-chain silicon molecule.

The distribution of oscillating nuclei in cells is not uniform. For example, they are absent in brain cells, nerve cells, and organ cells, but hundreds of crystals are present in skeletal muscle cells.

Hundreds of oscillating cores in muscle cells are distributed in an orderly manner, forming a resonant structure on a larger scale.

Cells without an oscillating core are slowly generating a second cell membrane, and a viscous cell fluid is filling the space between the two cell membranes, which should be some kind of highly efficient shock-absorbing structure.

Upon reaching this point, Shazo confirmed that the rumors that the Inhumans were the result of Kree weapons experiments were true.

After coming into contact with the Terrigen Crystal Mist, Skye's body structure changed too quickly, too simply, and too directly.

The entire process is driven by industrial efficiency and lacks the massive redundancy inherent in natural living organisms.

No wonder the Inhumans often suffer physical disabilities when they awaken.

This artificial creation is exquisite and powerful, but without any redundancy. A single mistake or simply bad luck can cause irreparable damage to the entire organism.

Xia Zuo suddenly felt a wave of fear.

It turns out that Skye's successful awakening was not inevitable; she might mutate into some kind of disability, or even become a non-human monster.

Her success was not predetermined.

Just as Xia Zuo breathed a sigh of relief, he sensed Skye's brainwaves strengthening, indicating that she was about to emerge from her coma.

He took a sudden step forward and, with a Spartan kick, blasted open the massive stone door of the sealed altar, bursting into the altar.

Xia Zuo hugged Skye, his eyes shining with a dreamy light. Staring into the girl's bewildered eyes, he said in a gentle tone, "Skye, you feel very tired and exhausted right now. You need to get a good night's sleep."

"With me here, you can sleep soundly without worrying about anything."

Hearing Xia Zuo's words, and under the influence of the illusion, Skye, who had just woken up from her coma, fell into a deep sleep.

Shazo hypnotized Skye because he discovered that as Skye regained consciousness, the growth rate of the double cell membrane of her vital cells decreased accordingly.

After resuming dormancy, the growth rate of the cell's double cell membrane resumes, and even accelerates considerably.

Shazo held the soft girl's body and sighed, "The Kree's quality control is just too poor. What's the difference between this and the anesthesia wearing off halfway through heart surgery?"

"No, the Kree's technology is so advanced, their industrial production would never be this crude."

"Perhaps when they personally control the Inhumans' awakening, there will be a larger life system to support it, such as putting the Inhumans into large tanks and regularly supplying them with anesthetics and nutrient solutions."

Xia Zuo used Wood Release to create a rubber tree sapling. The sapling quickly secreted rubber sap and reached towards the obelisk that had been restored from the crystal cluster, preparing to reclaim it.

The moment the branch touched the obelisk, as if some balance had been broken, a terrifying energy surge spread out along the branch.

Xia Zuo didn't have time to make any more moves. He could only turn around and spin Skye, whom he was holding, half a circle around, using his back to receive the impact of this energy.

At that moment, due to Xia Zuo's resistance, the obelisk's energy erupted even further.

The burst of energy triggered the material structure on the surface of the obelisk, causing it to resonate with incomprehensible information that poured into Xia Zuo's body, making him feel dizzy.

But Xia Zuo quickly used his chakra to capture this information flow and sealed it on the back of his left hand, forming a dotted radial tattoo pattern.

He looked at the tattoo on the back of his hand, felt his body's condition, and then summoned a banana sapling again, which secreted a large amount of rubber liquid. He then took the obelisk off the altar and put it into Skye's backpack.

Xia Zuo slung his backpack over his shoulder, picked up Skye, and left the dungeon.

After Xia Zuo left, as the distant waves surged, the gate on the dungeon altar slowly returned to its place and closed, then slowly rotated, returning to its original loose and separated state.

Apart from the significant reduction in dust, everything on the altar was restored to its original state.

Shazor noticed the changes in the underground city and gained a more accurate assessment of the Kree technology.

He carried Skye back to the hotel, and thanks to his strong communication skills, no one was puzzled by Skye's unconscious state.

Under Xia Zuo's continuous hypnosis, Skye slept for a full nine days before slowly waking up.

In fact, Skye's cellular changes ended on the third day.

However, after careful examination, Xia Zuo discovered that the changes in the girl's body were not limited to somatic cells, but also involved bone cells.

Changes in bone cells lead to changes in bone structure, not only increasing bone strength but also transforming invisible cavities in the bone into resonant cavities.

Xia Zuo could only continue to wait.

During this time, he also visited the best local hospital, had in-depth exchanges with the hospital director, and "purchased" a sufficient amount of globulin and glucose.

With these expensive nutritional supplements used in cancer treatment, Skye was able to survive for nine days without food or water.

Even so, when Skye woke up, her voice was hoarse, her lips were chapped, and she had lost a full 12 kilograms of weight.

She looked like she had just had a severe bout of pneumonia.

But the result was excellent.

With Shazo's help, Skye not only activated her vibration ability but also completed her entire physical transformation.

Although Skye is only 16 years old this year, her body has not yet fully developed.

There was a huge difference in physical abilities between her and Daisy, who had joined S.H.I.E.L.D. and undergone special agent training.

However, Skye's superpower has no problem of going out of control. She can activate and control shockwaves as if they were her own arms, and accurately attack targets within 50 meters.

Skye's cells can resonate with vibrations at different frequencies and can also resist vibrations with their double cell membranes; bones are the most effective vibration amplifiers.

The 206 bones form a giant resonant structure, with the skull as the central coordinating mechanism, which allows Skye to even shred soft silk.

This kind of vibration ability may be far from the Vibration Girl in the comic book version, who can tear the earth apart, but it is far stronger than Daisy Jensen in the TV series version.

At the very least, Skye wouldn't be harmed by the vibrations she caused.

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