Chapter 120

The morning in New York was sunny, the roads were bustling with traffic, and the sunlight shone on the floor-to-ceiling windows of Stark Tower. Schiller took a sip of steaming coffee.

Stark at the experimental bench opposite was organizing data. After a while, he pulled one out from a pile of data, shook the paper, and said, "Alright, I have to admit, this friend you know has some skills. Is he interested in working at Stark Group? I will give him a salary that satisfies him."

"That's probably difficult, and he is still in college."

"What does that have to do with anything? Isn't Peter also in high school? By the way, which university is he from? Harvard? MIT? Don't tell me it's Princeton?"

"That's not important. What's important is, is this technology helpful to you?"

Stark held one of the design drawings and said, "Liquid colonization is indeed a good idea, but it is mostly constrained by materials science. Our basic materials haven't developed to this level yet. The gel you gave me is very strange, making me feel a bit familiar..."

"You don't need to know the principle, just know that it works well."

"But what I want to study is the principle," Stark said. "You can't just conjure up a strange material out of thin air and then demand I use it with my eyes closed."

"This is a bit troublesome. You know, none of us are doing charity; everyone needs to make a living..."

Stark spread his hands and said, "Fine, fine, I know. Let him name his price. You don't need to go in such a big circle with me; just quote the price directly."

Schiller put down his coffee cup, turned his chair around, and said to Stark, "The problem is, he doesn't want money; he is very rich."

"Then what does he want?"

"He needs a technology. Of course, don't misunderstand, not your mecha technology. He needs a satellite navigation technology that can be popularized for civilian use, and more importantly, civilian communication equipment that can carry this technology."

Stark put one hand on his hip and the other on the experimental bench, saying somewhat confusedly, "Civilian communication equipment? This is a bit strange. In my opinion... fine, I said it, I admit he is a genius. At his level, he shouldn't be unable to even do civilianization. Is making a portable GPS that hard?"

"He also requires more functions, including an intuitive display system, input and output systems, an interactive interface, communication functions, and some leisure and entertainment functions."

"Isn't that just a mobile phone?" Stark took out his mobile phone. Of course, it was still that kind of button phone at the moment.

"It needs to be better than this. Use your genius creativity, exhaust your imagination, and conceive the peak of functions a mobile device can achieve."

"What does he want this for? Isn't a mobile phone just for answering calls? Installing a navigation system on it is fine too. As for games and entertainment, can't you just go to a computer?"

"Just tell me whether you can make it or not."

Stark opened his mouth, the words turned a corner when they reached his lips, and he said, "Of course I can make it. What can stump the genius Stark?"

Then he snapped his fingers and said, "You give me a detailed list of product requirements, then I'll give you a plan, and then you give me all the data on liquid colonization and raw materials."

"Deal."

20 minutes later, Stark looked at Schiller, who was still writing furiously, and began to feel a bit uneasy, but he still had to pretend to be confident. He could only stretch his neck to see what Schiller was still writing. Isn't it just requirements for a mobile phone? How could he write for so long?

After a long while, he really couldn't help it anymore. He tapped the table with his finger and said, "You don't want me to invent a spaceship, do you? What kind of mobile phone functions could make you write here for 20 minutes?"

"No, no, no, this is just a small part..." Schiller put down his pen and handed those sheets of paper to Stark. After Stark looked at them, he said confusedly, "Tablet phone, full screen, 8-core processor, portable charging, open-source system, UI interactive interface..."

"Are you sure this is a mobile phone? Isn't this just a microcomputer?"

"Now is the time to test your genius level. You indeed have to condense almost all the functions of a computer into a handheld mobile phone, and not only must you ensure the perfect operation of the functions, but in terms of display and appearance, it also requires smoothness and aesthetics."

Stark covered his forehead and said, "This requirement is a bit high. I feel the data you gave me can't fully compensate. Let him bring out some hard goods."

"Don't think about raising the price on the spot. I know you just lack an idea. With your technical level, doing these is absolutely no problem."

"Can you really not let him come to Stark Group to work directly? I'm even willing to share my laboratory with him. We could completely develop these things together..."

Stark paused, and then he said somewhat hesitantly, "Fine, I'll only tell you, you must not tell anyone else, your friend has the ability to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the great Stark."

"Of course, he is ultimately a little bit worse than me, but only a little bit. I feel we could become good friends, especially in terms of research; we would have a lot to talk about. So, can I really not meet him?"

Schiller heard the urgency in Stark's tone. He could also understand Stark. If one had to find a close friend for Stark, someone whose intelligence was on par with his and who was a worthy opponent, then besides Batman, who else could it be?

Although Schiller could indeed bring living beings across the two worlds, the risk was too high, especially since they were both protagonists.

So he could only very reluctantly travel between these two worlds to carry out a wave of arbitrage operations.

Although there is now an era gap between Cat Getan and New York—the DC side is still in the 1980s, while the New York side has already entered the 21st century—Batman and Iron Man also have their own strengths, and in some aspects, they can complement each other.

Batman is good at being comprehensive; whether it is various individual equipment, base construction, or strategic planning, he is very proficient. Stark, on the other hand, has reached an unprecedented height in mechanics; any invention related to mechanics is a piece of cake for him.

Bruce is good at being result-oriented. Once the goal is clear, his R&D speed is extremely fast, and the result completion rate is no less than 200%. Just like this time, the liquid colonization technology Schiller brought to Stark was the result of his research on Venom. He extracted a gel substance from Venom's body, and this active gel could be completely controlled by bioelectricity, and the entire R&D process took less than a month.

Stark's advantage is being unrestrained and creative, good at using various advanced methods to solve problems. Plus, he occupies an era advantage, able to bring more cutting-edge methods and technologies than the last century.

Then what else is there to say? Arbitrage!

After receiving a negative answer from Schiller again, Stark indeed appeared a bit disappointed. He really needed a partner who could have common topics with him.

Obadiah was still in a coma, Peter was too young and would disappear if left alone, Pepper could give him emotional comfort but knew nothing about scientific research, and Schiller, although he could give him life advice, only knew how to change light bulbs. Stark had finally met someone who might have common topics with him in a professional field, but the other party unilaterally refused communication. It's no wonder he was disappointed.

If there were this opportunity, Schiller actually wouldn't mind building a bridge of communication between Bruce and Stark, but the biggest problem is that the time flow of the two worlds is different, so even remote communication cannot be realized.

But soon, Stark regained his vitality, because Schiller promised him that this cooperation would be lasting, and the two sides could completely carry out long-term technology exchange.

Being able to continuously see the research results of another genius made Stark full of R&D enthusiasm. He said, "Watch, although I admit the other side is also strong, it will never be more genius than Stark. I will prove it to you."

After speaking, he shook the paper Schiller wrote in his hand and said, "Let's start with this. You just need to go back and tell him now, he'd better bring out more genius results, otherwise I will definitely make him shocked and ashamed."

Unfortunately, Schiller thought, Batman's personality is different from Iron Man's; he doesn't fall for that kind of provocation. If Schiller were to tell Batman "someone is more genius than you," Batman would probably just nod and admit it, absolutely not jumping up like Stark with his butt on fire, immediately wanting to prove he is stronger.

If both sides had Stark's personality, Schiller would be overjoyed. By then, he would pass messages between the two sides, provoke one side, then go provoke the other, directly launching an arms race between DC and Marvel.

Two super geniuses start rolling against each other, until the technological level of the entire world is rolled to the point where Thanos is sad to see it and Barbatos is moved to tears.

According to the upper limits of these two characters, this is not impossible.

Soon, in the research institute of Cat Getan University, Victor held a stack of data and said, "... His use of energy is very interesting. I feel he gave me some inspiration. This energy conversion method can indeed also be applied to weapons."

Victor spun his pen and said to Schiller, "Wait a moment, I'll get you a design drawing... Where is it? Oh! Here... Originally, I did intend to develop a freeze weapon, but I was too busy some time ago and didn't have time to start this project."

"Look at this, I call it a freeze gun. What do you think? It can freeze people into ice cubes, but it maintains the activity of the other party's body. It can be used to subdue opponents without harming them. I think it must be very good in some police and civilian fields."

"This was actually originally applied in medicine; this is a part of the extension of my cryogenic storage technology."

"The reason why I made it into a weapon is actually considering that the lethality of current weapons is too great. I am a pacifist. You know, if there is such a weapon that can completely subdue the other party without harming them, then subduing the enemy in war would be much more likely than killing them."

On the other side, Stark, seeing the cryogenic technology data, said, "A bit interesting. Is this your other friend?"

"His cryogenic technology is indeed very advanced, but I think it should be applied more in the ecological field, such as large-scale weather generation devices, and it can also solve environmental problems like glacier melting."