[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-marvel-a-lazy-ass-superman":3,"chapter-marvel-a-lazy-ass-superman-marvel-a-lazy-ass-superman-chapter-508":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Marvel: A Lazy-Ass Superman",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1722014,2198,"Chapter 508 508: Private Communication Line","marvel-a-lazy-ass-superman-chapter-508",508,"\u003Cp>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For 40 advanced chapters, visit my Patreon:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Patreon - Twilight_scribe1\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason Henry had brought Jack Reacher to the Goat Valley Laboratory was partly due to poor planning—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And partly because he was gambling on Reacher's character.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was betting that Reacher was like the protagonist from the film adaptation Henry remembered before transmigrating: not the sort of man obsessed with power, status, or advancement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those earlier warnings had only been part of the performance, so Reacher wouldn't think Henry was inexplicably offering unconditional trust.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What Henry hadn't expected was this:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The laboratory's location remained hidden—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he himself had been exposed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And all of this was Kitty's fault.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once he got back to Los Angeles, that striped cat's weight-loss program needed to be intensified.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, since his identity was already compromised, Henry simply said through Little Duck:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How about this—you eat first. Once you're done, if you don't mind not speaking face to face, you can tell me directly why you wanted to meet me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Reacher asked, \"Is your communication line secure?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kree and Skrull communication technology—along with their interception and jamming capabilities—came in different grades.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the highest level was quantum entanglement communication, which could ignore distance entirely and allow synchronized communication across star systems.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to records from the Kree scientist Mar-Vell, the Supreme Intelligence of the Kree Empire used that very method to communicate with all imperial citizens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, the receiving party needed a beacon signal on their person so the Supreme Intelligence could locate and identify them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was still technology, not magic that locked onto souls or species.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These beacons could also have secondary uses depending on design.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, the device once used on Captain Marvel to suppress her power belonged to this category.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Mar-Vell discarded her beacon, even though she was still a blue-blooded, pink-skinned Kree, it effectively meant abandoning her Kree identity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was no longer monitored by the Supreme Intelligence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And no longer protected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But despite how tiny a beacon was, the receiving equipment on the Supreme Intelligence's side was building-sized.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if Henry coveted that technology, he had no intention of doing anything so conspicuous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So instead, he used another system—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One that even visiting Kree or Skrull technical officers would have difficulty cracking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Quantum encryption.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The data was transmitted in fragmented frequency-hopping bursts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even reconstructing the message required overcoming decoding barriers similar to the Enigma machine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sometimes block encryption was used.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sometimes stream encryption.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sometimes both in mixed layers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That ensured that even if a segment were intercepted, brute-force decryption using current computing power would take thousands of years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And even then, the result would only be fragmented nonsense with no meaning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since he only needed to operate within Earth's range, Henry didn't particularly care about transmission distance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rather than miniaturize a quantum entanglement communicator, it was easier to build a monstrously complex encryption system.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For someone like Henry—whose technological reserves weren't yet systematic and who had to focus resources on solving one field at a time—that was the more practical route.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So when facing Reacher's question, Henry could guarantee this much:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if the greatest minds on Earth gathered together, they'd still need several generations of upgraded tools before they could intercept and crack his system.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pure technological domination.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It felt amazing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A quantum computer had already been completed in the undersea laboratory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though only an early-stage model, it was paired with topological chips.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to Moore's Law, Earth's science would need at least another thirty years before laboratories could begin approaching Henry's current level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Commercial products would take even longer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, it was still possible that some outrageous genius somewhere would invent a shortcut.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But as Henry continued mastering Kree and Skrull technology, his growth rate would only outpace Earth's Moore's Law progress further.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had no obsession with squeezing maximum profit from every stage before advancing to the next.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was the logic of businessmen trapped in market economics.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Intel's habit of incremental upgrades was a perfect example.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Henry wasn't in a hurry to establish his own original scientific framework.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First, he would fully digest the knowledge of two great alien empires.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Study the proper roads.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Study the shortcuts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watch others walk them first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then build something of his own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was the truly practical path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Forget nonsense like:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Only forging a path no one else has walked is the pride of Kryptonians!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First of all—how do you walk a different road unless you know what roads others already built?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And unlike Earth, there was no patent law issue here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn't need to avoid seeing other people's designs out of fear of accidentally copying them and getting sued.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Explaining all this to Jack Reacher would probably be like playing music to a cow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And much of it couldn't be spoken aloud anyway.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had already revealed enough today.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No need to expose his final cards too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So after suppressing his urge to brag for a long while, Henry finally answered through Little Duck:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The line is secure. But you should still choose your information carefully. Eat first—I'm not in a hurry.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Reacher picked up his knife and fork again and resumed cutting into the steak prepared by a robot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To his own surprise, it was excellent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nothing like the chemical-lab food he had imagined.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Reacher also ate quickly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But unlike many people, he focused entirely on eating while doing so. He didn't talk with food in his mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During that time, Henry temporarily disconnected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He removed his glasses and rubbed the bridge of his nose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This rescue operation had been both a success and a failure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The success:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had extracted the target unharmed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Well… mostly unharmed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few scrapes and bruises, but Reacher himself didn't care, so Henry saw no need to fuss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The failure:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had accidentally leaked personal intelligence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Part of that was Reacher's terrifying observational ability.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But part of it was Henry himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had grown complacent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pride in mastering alien technology far beyond Earth's visible science.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The prestige brought by the Titanic project.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though the biggest beneficiary of that was James Cameron, the producer-director.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, Henry's old reputation of:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The idiot investor who knows nothing about movies\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>had transformed into:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The lucky bastard who still knows nothing about movies.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then there was having one of the world's great beauties as his girlfriend.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Honestly, if that didn't send a man's ego sky-high, what would?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But reality had proven something important:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A smooth winning streak did not guarantee freedom from mistakes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just a little carelessness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A plan overtaken by events.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And suddenly several secrets he never intended to reveal had slipped out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He called over a flight attendant and requested an alcoholic drink.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alcohol did nothing to a Kryptonian body—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But at least it could sting his tongue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Henry judged enough time had passed, he put his glasses back on and reconnected with Little Duck at Goat Valley Laboratory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He came back online just in time to see Jack Reacher asking for the first-aid kit and cleaning his wounds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>🎉 Power Stone Goal Announcement! 🎉\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I'll release one bonus chapter for every 500 Power Stones we hit!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Let me know what should I do\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Your support means everything—let's crush these goals together! Keep voting, and let the stones pile up! 🚀\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\u003C\u002Fp>",1219,"2026-06-06T15:31:35.574Z",1,"novelbin.me","76d32538abc0968d0f1eaa5db47c8db70702d824aa8fc65769a223a178006a47","marvel-a-lazy-ass-superman-chapter-509","marvel-a-lazy-ass-superman-chapter-507",556,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmarvel-a-lazy-ass-superman-cover.jpg"]