Chapter 152 35 In Front of the True Master of Engineering, Mason Felt His Insignificance

Chapter 152 35. Mason felt insignificant in front of the real master of engineering

"Of course, we welcome anyone who wants to help."

Mason punched the rear weapon slot of Fenrir's armor, and the rear armor slightly modified by Judy bounced upward in a V-shape to both sides in a very cool way.

While he pulled out the forearm-thick retractable connector of the mechanical tentacle and connected it to the reserved weapon slot of the armor's control system, he looked back at Peter Parker, who came over on his own initiative.

It was actually not surprising that Peter volunteered to join Operation Mason.

If the success rate of the previous plan on Mary Jane's side was only 60%, then after Dr. Otto told the whole story about gravity, Mason was 100% sure of the current result.

It was just a "personal grudge" before, but now it has risen to the level of "the survival of the world."

While Mason continued to connect the mechanical tentacles in parallel with the military mechanical control module from Night City that was replaced on the armor, he looked at the program that automatically cracked and connected the weapon plug-in on the data screen in front of him.

He felt in his heart that Judy was indeed a technical master, and he took care that he was not very proficient in high-precision technology, so he made a "fool's version" of the operation interface for himself.

Although the silver-gray majestic armor in front of him still lacks a powerful enough power source, its mechanical brain is ready and has bound Mason Cooper as the first driver with the highest priority.

The captain of Team K leaned against his four-meter-high armor and looked at the silent Peter Parker beside him. He said softly:

"Is it because of the gravity issue that you made up your mind?"

"Roughly the same."

Peter looked at the spider hood rolled into a ball in his hand. He was silent for a few seconds before speaking:

“Just now, when I heard Dr. Otto talking about the catastrophic consequences that would be caused by changes in the world’s gravity, I felt like I was going back in time.

It's like standing in the mission hall of SHIELD and listening to the captain explaining the mission to us.

Although I didn't act with them that much, I really didn't expect to be able to recall things that I thought I had forgotten.

The only difference is that at that time I could trust the people around me, and they were all righteous heroes.

But now, I can only be forced to join forces with a group of outsiders who don't know the details. "

In response to this answer, Mason shrugged and looked at Ergong next to him. He said in a long voice:

“A former psychiatrist and psychiatrist who stayed with me once told me in casual conversation that the more stubborn a person is about some ambitious goal, the easier it is for him to suddenly fall into another world when he encounters a major setback. extreme.

Peter, I regret not being able to be your friend while your world was still around.

But I guess you were a lot friendlier back then than you are now.

Look at you.

The distrust is almost written on your face and reiterated in every sentence. Do you think that all the bad things in your life now are caused by us? "

Mason curled his lips and glanced at the weapon plug-in connection program that got stuck after reaching 80% progress. He frowned and tried to restart.

It is said that this can solve 80% of program stuck problems.

Then he said:

"But as far as I know, your life had already begun to go wrong a few years before the Hounds of the Star Society entered this world. We are not to blame for Aunt May's death and your divorce from Mary Jane. ?”

"Confused people need a direction."

When Mason turned around to deal with the stuck program, Ertong, who never liked to talk, said quietly:

“Compared to positive emotions that come and go quickly and are difficult to capture, hatred is obviously more able to help a person who is at a loss find ‘direction’.

I saw this kind of thing a lot in the place where I was trained and reshaped. As long as you hate something strongly enough, all the losses and dissatisfactions in your life seem to have an excuse to vent.

But we didn't make you lose your identity as Spider-Man. "

Er Tong grinned and whispered:

"Ms. Mary Jane told us that it was you who gave up on Spider-Man, you did it before the disaster, and you were tired of the life you once loved.

Even, our appearance after the apocalypse gives you a reason to start over. "

Peter fell silent.

The words of these two outsiders were very harsh, but he had to admit that they were right.

After Aunt Mei died, his life suddenly lost focus. The spider boy who once thought he would never stop finally got tired.

As he got older, the conflict between ideals and reality became more and more intense. In the end, he ended up divorcing his beloved, and Spider-Man, who was wandering the streets of New York and soaring in the sky, died completely.

He killed him with his own hands.

He kept telling people that his spider sense, which he relied on for a living, had disappeared as he got older.

But no.

"Why are you trying to connect to my mechanical tentacles with an automated hack?"

When Peter came to his senses, Dr. Otto, wearing an interstellar gangster's coat, had appeared next to Fenrir's suit. This suit should belong to Star-Lord and had his signature on it.

Doctor Octopus was looking at the powerful war machine in front of him with a very interested expression.

He took a special programming keyboard from Barbara's hand and connected it to the military control module of the Fenrir armor. He reset the parameters skillfully, giving up automatic decoding and manually writing connections for the two machines from different worlds. program.

Look! They are really big guys and even the driver framework is written on the spot.

Although he was a little uncomfortable with the technology from the future at first, after only a few minutes of analysis, Dr. Otto found the data interface left by Judy and started to get busy.

"Barbara, change the connector of the third tentacle to Alpha RF mode, and then restart the physical hardware of the second tentacle. The driver software of the fourth tentacle seems to have been offline due to long-term inactivity.

You can find a way to activate it. No, rewrite it to be more useful.

With the technical skills I just saw, you can do this, using the encryption writing mode I taught you a few minutes ago. "

"Okay, Dr. Otto!"

Barbara connected her microcomputer to the split database in the mechanical octopus's tentacles, and she had a satisfied smile on her face that said, "I learned a lot today."

Although this Dr. Otto seemed ordinary and even a bit old-fashioned and could not keep up with the trend, she realized that this man was a real genius after just ten minutes of contact.

Just sharing a little bit of their knowledge can make Batgirl feel like her trip is worthwhile.

She also secretly tried to crack the deep data structure on Judy's computer, but the "cyberspace" encryption mode made it impossible for her to start. It was like using a small wrench to dismantle an airplane. .

It’s not that it’s impossible, it’s that the workload is daunting.

But it only took Dr. Otto ten minutes to give her a complete demonstration on how to use low-level technological capabilities to "smuggle" and penetrate the underlying data architecture of high-level technological products in a tricky way.

What a stroke of genius!

"Did you complete the rearrangement of the internal weapon system of this armor? Mason"

Dr. Otto asked curiously while connecting new weapon systems to the Fenrir armor with his fingers. Mason pushed up the glasses frame on the bridge of his nose and said humbly:

"I spent a few days designing it with two friends. It was also my first time to try such a large-scale project."

"Well, I can see that it is indeed very average.

It's obvious that you want to come up with something 'new', but your actions clearly don't keep up with your ideas.

From what I've seen, the current layout of the weapon architecture and even the reserved energy systems are full of parodies and minor improvements to the original design.

Young man, do you know what this means? "

Doctor Octopus gave a pertinent and even somewhat spicy assessment.

He pushed up his brown glasses and glanced at Mason.

The young man didn't feel any discomfort or irritation at being criticized at all. He didn't even know how valuable the bald and fat man in front of him was, so he answered very humbly like an apprentice:

"This means that my knowledge reserve is seriously insufficient, resulting in all the good ideas that can only stay at the macro design level and cannot go deep into the specific architecture."

"Very good. You clearly understand where your problems lie. You will definitely do great things in the future, just like Peter once did."

Doctor Octopus grinned and pressed his fingers on the keyboard with a snap.

The next moment, under Mason's gaze, the octopus mechanical tentacles that had been stuck in the analysis part and unable to connect life and death vibrated strangely, and then a pleasant electronic sound sounded in the Fenrir armor without an energy system:

"It was detected that the alien weapon plug-in was integrated into the fire control system, tentatively named 'Octopus', the weapon debugging program was started. The energy module was missing, and the command system failed to open.

Ask the first passenger, Mason Cooper, to examine the energy module of the suit codenamed 'Fenrir'. "

"It lacks a mechanical heart."

Dr. Otto took off his glasses and reached out to fumble around on the mighty Fenrir armor. Relying on his sensitivity to mechanical creations, he quickly found the second outer armor opening slot without any prompting from Mason.

As the thick armor bounced to both sides, what came into view was an empty place where energy batteries were placed.

"If a combat mecha with such a high degree of completion wants to fight at full strength, it must at least use a nuclear battery, or even a cold fusion type super battery."

Doctor Octopus looked back at Mason and said:

"What are you going to use instead? I don't have anything planned for the rest of the day. If you'd like, Mason, I can give you some advice."

"Of course it's a wish!"

The captain was overjoyed.

He didn't expect that there would be such a good thing in this trip. Being able to get free guidance from a technical master like Doctor Octopus was like pie in the sky.

Mason immediately took out the alchemy engine that he had just finished halfway through.

As soon as this thing was taken out, Dr. Otto's eyes widened. He was not surprised when he saw the Fenrir armor, because although this thing was unusual, he had never seen similar products before.

Although the design style and internal structure are different, Doctor Octopus's mechanical knowledge basically falls into the category of "you can tell it at a glance".

But this thing Mason took out was different.

Even if it's just a semi-finished product.

But it still almost challenges Doctor Octopus's understanding of mechanics and physical science.

"Come on, boy, this thing is very interesting, tell me how it works."

He squatted in front of the silver-gray semi-finished product and called Mason over. Then the status of the two people seemed to have been exchanged. Mason became the instructor explaining the alchemical engine, while Dr. Otto became the student who listened carefully.

"Well, it's done."

A few minutes later, Barbara pulled out the data cable of the microcomputer on her arm from the socket of the octopus's mechanical tentacles, feeling filled with a sense of accomplishment.

Writing a driver program for such an exotic weapon would have taken her at least several days before, but with Doctor Octopus's words and deeds, it only took her twenty minutes to complete it using a brand-new way of thinking.

Even Bruce’s Bat-Network!

Barbara is now confident that she can get it done in ten minutes without a security access code!

"Is that guy very powerful?"

Er Tong kicked the iron knot under his feet, feeling a little depressed.

He doesn't think he's stupid either.

But Mason and Dr. Otto chatted in endlessly and became more and more excited, almost asking for help, but he couldn't understand a word beside him.

This was the first time he had seen Mason look so excited, which was completely different from his usual calm demeanor.

"Dr. Otto is not great, Jason."

Barbara wiped the sweat from her forehead and said to Er Tong seriously:

"He is very, very powerful. Let's put it this way, if he goes to our place, Mr. Lucius will definitely resign as the chief designer of Wayne Industries, and then invite the doctor to be the new design director.

The technology of Judy's time is at least three generations different from what we use now, but the future technology is not difficult to understand in Dr. Otto's eyes.

Do you know what this means? "

Bat Girl shook her head and sighed:

"This means that Dr. Otto is still an incredible technical master even in the world of 2077, the kind that Judy would worship whenever she sees him.

God, his thinking is at least 100 years ahead of this era! I doubt that even Lex Luthor is as smart as him. The two of them are at least the same level of genius! "

Having said this, Barbara said to Ertong with bright eyes:

"Jason, let's find a way to kidnap Dr. Otto! Tie him to our side. A genius like him deserves a better world!"

Faced with this wild idea, Jason Todd immediately shook his head and said:

"If we do this, what difference will there be between us and the stars? We can invite him, but it is up to him to decide whether he wants to come with us or not.

And if he is really as talented as you say, then I believe he can live well even in such an apocalyptic world. "

On the other side, Mason looked at the design drawings of the new armor's internal structure and weapon system that Dr. Otto and he had completed together, and a sense of accomplishment arose spontaneously.

Like Barbara, he felt like he had learned something powerful.

"Perhaps this request is a bit excessive, but please help me take a look at this suit of armor."

Mason took out the Anti-Superman suit with its outer armor repaired and said to Dr. Otto:

“Compared to the Fenrir armor, which is completely unable to modify its main design due to my current ability, I am more interested in this set of Anti-Superman armor.

As you can probably tell, the Fenrir Armor was developed for special occasions and I can't just walk around with it on the street.

In comparison, this personal multi-purpose armor is more important to me.

But there are still many immature aspects in my design, so..."

"I'd like to spend some time helping you perfect it, Mason. I've been pretty busy anyway."

Doctor Octopus put on his brown glasses again and stopped Mason with a gentle smile that should not have appeared on his face. He took a deep breath and said:

"But this time I have to make a little request. Outsiders, I hope Team K can do us a little favor. Osborne Tower contains a large amount of gravitonium excavated from all over the world.

The loss of those things has made the world less stable.

When I designed that excavation device for them, I left a re-injection secret door. I need you to give them back what they took from this world!

All it takes is reinjecting those gravitational chromium into the Earth's core, and the destabilizing earthquakes around the world will gradually subside over the next few months. "

Dr. Otto said seriously:

"This world may be destroyed in the future, and we may not be able to prevent that ending. But there are things we can do, and I don't want to see it destroyed at the hands of a bunch of assholes.

Even though I was once one of those assholes. "

"If I can, I will try my best."

Mason nodded and said:

"This is not inconsistent with my main purpose."

"Beware of the Green Goblin."

Doctor Octopus carefully observed Mason's expression, and after confirming that he was not prevaricating, he reminded:

"I worked with Norman and I know a lot of people said he was crazy, but he wasn't! He knew exactly what he was doing and why he was doing it.

He is more determined than anyone in this apocalypse.

Therefore he is more dangerous than before. "

"It doesn't matter! I will take action."

A voice sounded from behind. Mason and Dr. Otto turned around and saw the middle-aged version of Spider-Man standing up and putting the hood on his head. He said:

"Just like in the past, I will deal with the Green Goblin. I know why he hates this world, and I will find a way to solve it. This is Spider-Man's responsibility!"