Chapter 1308

The next morning, Stark, who had finally gotten a night's rest, woke up from the lounge beside the laboratory, looking out at the bright sunshine and the constant flow of shuttles through the floor-to-ceiling windows, stretched, let out a long sigh, and prepared to begin work.

To find that universe's Spider-Man, he first needed to gather information, checking news from around the world for any abnormal crash reports or traces of black flames.

More importantly, when Stark first landed, he had seen the symbol of the Ten Rings again, indicating that his initial suspicion might indeed be correct, and my lord was absolutely preparing some conspiracy.

Even if it had nothing to do with Peter Parker, my lord stabbing the Avengers in the back during their battle with Thanos would be absolutely unacceptable behavior.

Stark did not want to interfere too much with other universes' progress, because overall, Iron Man was actually a pessimist; he did not believe that relying on his own foresight to warn others could avoid tragedy, quite the opposite—he had a sense of insecurity, feeling that his warnings might very well backfire.

He thought it would be better, instead of warning the Avengers, to follow this universe's current situation and create some practical inventions, so that when Thanos arrived, these targeted measures might actually come in handy.

"Jarvis, Jarvis, are you there?" Stark shouted.

"I am here, sir." Jarvis responded to Stark's call as always, while Stark changed his clothes and walked out of the lounge, saying: "Help me gather recent abnormal news from around the world, by the way, focus on the supernatural section, see if there are any reports of ghost fire sightings in various regions, and compile the most suspicious news items to send to me."

"Also, push the highest-priority experimental project currently underway in the laboratory to the intelligent system of my life-support armor, and for all visiting communications this week, help me decline them, saying I am busy with experiments."

"Yes, sir, news gathering……Your requested experimental project materials have been pushed to your personal terminal; please go to the laboratory control hub to view them."

"What about the life-support armor?"

"Sorry, sir, I did not understand your meaning." Jarvis said in a very formulaic, flat tone: "If you are referring to the life support and mobility protection device of model c204, you destroyed the latest version of that device two years ago; if you forgot, I can send you the final command confirmation process of the destruction procedure."

"Oh, I forgot!" Stark deliberately put on an act of sudden realization, then furrowed his brow and said: "Doctor Shiler said I bumped my head during a lab accident, have a slight concussion, which of course does not affect my genius intellect at all, just a bit of memory confusion."

"If you need to conduct a week-long closed trial, I suggest you replace the energy core of your chest-mounted arc reactor, using the No. 27 arc reactor energy core."

"No. 27?" Stark muttered doubtfully under his breath, he lowered his head to glance at his chest, opened his mouth, and again did not know how to ask.

"If you still do not remember your arc reactor energy core model number, please go to the core storage warehouse on your right to check." Jarvis said, as if he had dealt with this situation many times before, in a very steady tone.

Stark had no choice but to follow his instructions to the so-called energy core storage warehouse; as soon as he opened the door, he was stunned—shelves inside the warehouse were densely packed with several hundred arc reactor energy cores.

Stark again lowered his head to look at his chest; even though there were clothes there, he could see through the layers of fabric that there was only a faint scar, and there was actually no arc reactor at all.

Perhaps those who have seen the movie know that Iron Man in Iron Man 3 had already removed the arc reactor from his chest and was using the energy core in the armor's chest to provide power.

Could it be that this universe's Iron Man has not yet taken out that thing from his chest?

Standing at the warehouse door, Stark felt a bit confused—what kind of Iron Man was this in this world? Not only had he not taken out that thing from his chest, but he had actually made so many energy cores, turning his chest's arc reactor into a removable slot?

Stark really could not understand—he was also Tony Stark, and he knew how insecure he was; the key was not whether the arc reactor was still in his chest, but if the energy core was external, then if one day an enemy found this place and destroyed all the cores, he would just be unable to move, wouldn't he?

Stark knew he was just this kind of worrisome personality; he hated all uncontrollable forces and absolutely could not imagine someone tying their life safety to the warehouse's security level.

But standing at the warehouse door, he was in a dilemma—if he took off his clothes and there was no reactor in his chest, Jarvis would definitely notice he had a problem, but this Iron Man had already destroyed the life-support armor used for experiments, relying entirely on different cores to boost his energy, so what should this outsider with no reactor in his chest do?

Stark sighed, waved his hand to let Jarvis close the warehouse door, and as he walked toward the laboratory, said: "I haven't experienced ordinary people's lives in a long time, alright, just like an ordinary researcher—eat when hungry, drink when thirsty, that's it."

Stark walked back to the laboratory, pulled out a pair of glasses from the drawer beside him, put them on, braced his hands on the lab table, and stared at the control hub's light screen, saying: "Alright, where did the previous project leave off?"

"Sir, do you need me to report the latest submitted experimental progress?"

"Alright, I happen to have some visual fatigue, so just tell me directly."

Stark did not expect what he thought; he placed his hands behind his head, rested his head on the chair's headrest, put his feet on the footrest in front, and half-reclined in the chair like sunbathing on a beach.

"Yes, sir, first is the Mercury base construction report you are most concerned about; according to the latest experimental progress report sent back, construction in Area A62 is fully completed, approximately 220 solar particle capture devices have all entered their designated orbits, and currently 216 are operating normally."

"Robots numbered 197~200 have had minor collisions with the 'Houyi' series robots developed by the Chinese laboratory, currently undergoing factory repairs, and will be relaunched into solar gravity orbit in about three days."

"Wait a minute!" Stark shouted loudly, jumping directly up from the chair: "What I am most concerned about……What base report???"

"Mercury base report." Jarvis's tone remained as steady as ever, he emphasized again: "Mercury, one of the inner planets of the solar system, the A62 area solar energy mining base construction report."

Stark slowly widened his eyes, but Jarvis then said: "Detecting your pupil changes, analyzing behavioral patterns……"

"If you are surprised by the collision accident involving four robots, I suggest you call the corresponding Chinese laboratory contact number to learn the detailed accident report; need me to connect the call for you?"

Stark's genius brain began to race; he mentally replayed the report Jarvis had just read, extracting several extremely key terms—Mercury base, solar particle capture devices, 220 robots, among which four had collided with robots from other countries.

After these terms appeared in his mind, Stark immediately made an instinctive judgment: this world's Iron Man was building a base on Mercury, launching hundreds of robots to absorb solar energy,

but that was not the most terrifying part; the most terrifying was that other countries were also doing the same!

Because of Stark's existence as a super genius, Stark Industries' technology had always been ahead of the world, so in a future technology background, being able to mine solar energy was not strange.

What shocked Stark was, if this was other countries' basic technology, then how advanced had Stark Industries' technology become?

Thinking this, Stark immediately could not sit still; he said to Jarvis: "Read the experimental report later, first show me the latest results, I need to confirm something."

"Yes, sir, which district's latest project results would you like?"

Stark was stunned.

Are project results still divided by district?

He remembered, Stark Industries' main projects were just those few—aside from his own Iron Man armor technology, there was weapons research, medical security, and logistical resource supply, etc.

Before Stark could ask, Jarvis said: "This week, 196 project teams have provided latest project results on display on the solar system development platform; if you want to hear them all, I will read from back to front."

"Alright, you read." Stark could only say that.

"First, the project team led by Lady Arileli, the Holy Sword Mage, reported good news from the Kamar-Taj Alchemical Tool Materials Upgrade project; after two months of research, they found that the cotyledons of the magic sword lily seeds cultivated in greenhouse No. 68 of the Himalayas, after processing, can be used for magical rune conduction at the crucible base; reportedly, this discovery will increase crucible heating efficiency by about 68%."

"The Astrophysics Research Group of the Andromeda Galaxy system reported frequent good news; the team led by Doctor Beast, observing the Andromeda binary star system, discovered the latest gravitational regularity of binary star systems."

"In the latest survey report returned, Magneto Erik declared that mutants would achieve gravitational stability of the binary star system within three years, and would further expand the application scope of solar energy development technology, making it usable for more complex stellar systems."

"The near-Earth space station technology research team led by Peter Parker also returned the latest scientific expedition report; Parker stated in the report that this scientific expedition had abundant harvests, the construction of space obstacle ecosystems and habitable systems had made new progress, and would conduct field research and development within three months."

"Doctor Rodriguez is writing the third part of the second chapter of Interstellar Sociology; a splendid paper has already been published in the American Sociology Journal, with strong response, and the industry has already launched fierce discussion on interstellar social relations……"

"Stop!" Stark supported his forehead, stretched out one hand and shouted.

What is a magic crucible? What is binary star gravity? How did Peter go about building a space station? And where did this interstellar sociology come from?

Stark felt his head spinning; he had calculated and calculated a thousand times, never expecting that chasing that demon kidnappers into this universe would turn out to be this style.

He had thought that in the unknown universe, what awaited him was Dragon Quest, but instead it was the Interstellar Grand Stage.

"I mean, Jarvis, show me my latest research results." Stark gritted his teeth and said: "My, Iron Man's, Stark's latest research results."

"Yes, sir……Data transmission complete."

Stark saw the screen before him flicker once, a large amount of data that ordinary people could not possibly read displayed on the screen; Stark took a deep breath, focused his attention, and directed his genius brain toward the screen.

After a few seconds, a sound echoed in the laboratory.

What is this?!!!!