[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer":3,"chapter-cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-713":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Cyberpunk: Cross-dimensional Science and Engineering",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},1152512,1495,"Chapter 707 - 679 Death (5)","cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-713",713,"\u003Cp>Lille had heard this sentence many times—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He now believes that this Tony Stark is nothing short of a complete bastard by nature, much like the most well-known version—a millionaire with his own brand of kindness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But before the bloody reality he witnessed, his kindness had layers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for his very life...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Someone responsible for so much death, if he turns over a new leaf, should he be forgiven?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is a complex proposition; if you measure it by his future potential contributions, it seems too sycophantic; if it’s an eye for an eye, it’s too merciless...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In any case, Tony Stark didn’t throw this dilemma at Lille; it was his own choice—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The degeneration of the gamma serum is completely different from the lizard serum. The gamma rays have already transformed the cells at a molecular level into something that, in some sense, transcends biology. If degenerated, the human structural system will never be repairable again...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In other words, Tony Stark is already dead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Tony...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This was already the best ending for him.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pepper was utterly devastated: they came to save him, and this is the outcome?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One of Lille’s Octopus Arms blocked Happy and Pepper, sending this gradually necrotic and decaying human shell to the outer floor, then took a piece of radiation-proof material in the workshop to wrap his remains...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, his body would become unrecognizable even to those closest to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lille sighed inwardly: At least in the end, Tony saved himself—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A loud explosion sounded in the sky outside!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s the refining explosion from the Houston oil refining industrial cluster!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If they failed to stop Rocksen, this tremendous roar would spread worldwide and even to other realms of infinite possibilities—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lille walked up to the fabricator; the machine fully deployed upon his intervention:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fabricator is used for manufacturing and upgrading equipment, and now Lille himself was an intricate machine!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Octopus Arm picked up Tony’s final designs, those he dreamed of realizing on himself—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lille slowly walked into the fully controlled fabricator, a massive composite machine containing all the equipment that genius Tony Stark needed. Its interior space was cramped yet highly flexible, like a moving metal maze, a masterpiece of precise and beautiful modern industrial technology.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under Lille’s control, the equipment slowly opened a metallic path, and hundreds of flexible mechanical tools and precision instruments awoke as if bestowed with life!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With every step he took, the equipment, with astounding accuracy, locked onto every joint and module of the high-precision prosthetics, the space filled with varying low and high-pitched hums of machinery and electrical currents...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Welding beams flickered, arc sparks burst forth, cutting lasers removing old parts, as mechanical arms assembled the new designs onto his body:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ion thruster, aerodynamic gliding wings, micro missiles, super high-temperature blade....\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All the technologies and equipment Lille knew, everything Tony Stark dreamed an Iron Man should possess—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, a gleaming \"heart.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lille sent all the Vibranium Fragments stored within his body into the ark reactor, creating a peculiar high-frequency vibration that depleted the last backup power from Stark Tower, making the Vibranium melt and reforge in the vibrations...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eventually emitting a bright blue glow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Charging complete.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Stark Tower had turned into a dead silent structure of pure concrete and steel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Lille’s body was entirely remade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A blue path shot into the sky!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Unbelievable! Just now, President Ellis announced the usage of a presidential order, and Congress passed the ’Long Journey’ act to amend his term!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He outright vetoed President Barnes’ inauguration ceremony...what is that?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We have just received shocking news, multiple Space Carriers have suddenly appeared at key locations all over the U.S.—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is no joke; these are gigantic combat units we’ve never seen before, we don’t know to whom they belong, whom they obey, or what they are going to do!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is an unprecedented attack, they’re...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Our network is down!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What is that...is it a fighter jet! They’re attacking the New Future District!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The President is under attack—I said the President is under attack!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Our network is down!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The massive water curtain resulting from the Space Carrier’s underwater takeoff astounded everyone!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet the collapse of the internet bizarrely left this huge combat unit hovering in the sky for a long time, people looking on in terror, even thinking they’re extraterrestrial!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Barnes recognized it immediately—It’s the airborne command center once envisioned by the Strategic Science Corps!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mr. President! We should...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Barnes hurriedly walked toward the parking lot under the protection of his bodyguards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whoosh—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Several Quinjets took off from the carrier, generating massive sonic boom clouds in the air:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Despite losing Zola’s Insight Program assistance, they had an aim they must eliminate no matter what!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A missile accurately hit the site where Barnes was speaking five minutes ago!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The explosion tore through the constructed stage, the blast wave sweeping everything, lifting dust, rubble, flames, and thick smoke into the air over the ruins...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were corpses and screams everywhere!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Barnes, supported by his bodyguard, got off the ground, everything in front of him suddenly resembling decades ago:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Bucky...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mr. President! Mr. President!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bodyguard, bleeding from his head, roused him; Barnes appeared confused: his mind seemed to shuttle between two completely different worlds, unsure of what to believe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bodyguard pointed at the presidential limousine: \"We should get in the car!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet another missile hit the other end of the parking lot!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That side was beyond the security barricade, large sections of cars were flipped over, causing secondary explosions in the impact!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Barnes got a start, pointing to another vehicle in the parking lot, it was a pickup—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Get in that one!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Alright!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Barnes felt like he’d instantly returned to his younger self when he was still at war!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bam!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inexplicably harnessing energy, the old man nearly caught up with his bodyguard’s pace, leapt into the truck as the bodyguard pulled the door open—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Get in, we need to...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He instinctively turned back to look at his bodyguards, those young men, as he once looked at comrades...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He saw the bodyguard opening the car door pulling out an explosive and throwing it inside, while the other bodyguards merely watched.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their eyes were so cold, just like those enemies he had defeated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Goodbye, Mr. President—long live Hydra.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But just before that Hydra closed the car door, a loud noise resonated in the air:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whoosh—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bam!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A vehicle fell from the sky, directly smashing them into meat pancakes on the ground, grinding vehemently!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bam!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The second sound came from someone landing on the car’s rooftop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next second, Barnes truly felt he was dreaming:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Carter clung to the roof and climbed in, with a face that hadn’t changed in decades.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sergeant Barnes...no, you’re Mr. President now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Cap...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another missile struck a nearby building, that attack directly penetrated the building from the outer surface, snapping the supporting columns!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Half the building collapsed like a giant falling tower, plummeting toward the car...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Carter leaped into the driver’s seat, all the while not forgetting to hand Barnes a gun: \"We have to go!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Barnes gripping the gun...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He truly returned to the past!\u003C\u002Fp>",1192,"2026-06-03T12:33:34.348Z","2026-06-03T12:33:41.179Z",1,"novelbin.me","3b5ca9fcc84e192e474e2f88a71d51e8fe880dbda6ad22756334b93e7dedfd66","cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-559","cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-558",1068,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fcyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-cover.jpg"]