Chapter 1851: The Madman's Journey (Twenty-Nine)
When Venom squatted in the corner with his mouth covered pitifully, Stark looked at the two children brought by Schiller with some surprise. He looked up and down at Harley and Barry, and said, "I thought the rescuer you went to call was Batman, but it turned out to be two children. How can they help?"
"You will know when the time comes." Schiller gave a universal answer. He looked up at the navigation map inside the Devouring Engine and said, "Go back to the Time Management Bureau first, we need to discuss the battle plan."
The Devouring Engine was once a weapon made by the Vendetta Alliance of the Metaverse to invade other universes, but Stark felt that it was a bit too wasteful to change a god's head into a weapon.
The so-called weapon is either large enough in equivalent or high in precision, but the Devouring Engine has neither of these. How powerful the light wave can be emitted depends on how much energy is charged, and the strike accuracy also needs to be manually controlled. From the perspective of cost, it is completely cost-effective. Any of the three empires can come up with a lot of substitutes, but it is nothing more than not so bluffing.
But if the regular characteristics brought by the body of the god itself are used, it will be a completely unique and irreplaceable weapon.
Under normal circumstances, creatures in the universe need dimensional jump devices to cross dimensions, and to cross the cosmic barrier, they need to build a portal, but this alone is not enough, the most difficult thing is navigation.
A civilization cannot travel to a certain universe without coordinates, but if you want to know the cosmic coordinates, you must first go to that universe, but if you want to go to that universe, you must first have the coordinates, which is another typical snow mountain wolf skin dilemma.
But the bodies of the five gods have a natural advantage. They exist in every universe. They are the universal coordinates of each universe, so as long as they want, they can travel to various universes at any time.
Then the Star Devouring Engine is actually a perfect cosmic family car. Although it is more fuel-consuming to drive, it is equipped with a full multiverse positioning system, and can lock a universe at any time and drive directly to it.
However, there are exceptions. For example, the two stuck zombie universes cannot be driven into by cars, because it is very likely to cause the destruction of the universe. However, after the observer no longer maintains the cosmic cycle, the delicate symbiotic relationship between the two universes is broken, so Stark can directly drive the Devourer engine away.
Stark has done in-depth research on the Devourer engine, so he turned the universal cosmic positioning contained in the Devourer into a visual navigation. With just a click, it can automatically drive to a certain universe, or it can manually turn on the jump function and jump directly to a certain point.
However, this convenient family car also has disadvantages. For example, it inherits the good appetite of the Devourer, it is very fuel-consuming, and it has to swallow a galaxy in one trip. In addition, Stark did not specifically develop its weapon function. Although it has strong self-protection capabilities, it has no powerful means of attack except hitting people.
On the way back, Helen, Eddie, Spider-Man and others who had been wandering around the zombie universe went back to their rooms to sleep. Schiller and Stark took turns staring at the navigation map to avoid accidents, while Barry and Harley chased each other in the hall.
Soon, Schiller also fell asleep, followed by Stark. The two children quieted down and lay on the experimental table to read the experimental data out of boredom.
The engine ran very smoothly and arrived at the destination in a short while. The employees of the Time Administration had never seen such a big guy, and they all ran outside the base to watch.
Schiller stretched out and hugged Nick who came to greet him. He said, "Your good days are coming, One-eyed Dragon. I'm afraid the Time Administration needs a bigger port. You know who to collect taxes from."
"Don't say that. I'm not a vampire like the tax bureau. But if any of the three empires in the universe are willing to donate some resources for the construction of the Time Administration's base, then of course we are also happy to give them a little help when they encounter time problems. It is absolutely legal and within a reasonable range. You know."
Schiller gave Nick a thumbs up. Stark walked up and said unhappily, "You must have known that Schiller wanted to trick me into another universe. You didn't even call me in advance! I'll go back. Let Pepper cancel the donation to SHIELD next quarter!"
"Stop talking, Dad." Helen stretched and yawned, and walked out sleepily and said, "Even if you cancel the donation, the expenditure will not decrease next quarter, and you have to pay Dr. Schiller 20% more for the consultation fee."
Stark turned around and hugged her, pinched her face, and said unhappily, "Then who is to blame? Do you know that this will be your property in the future?"
Helen rolled her eyes slightly and said, "Jarvis is right. You are not good at business at all. Tony, is there a possibility that the less property, the less tax, I invest 20% of the consultation fee at the end of each quarter, and Dr. Schiller donates 15% of it to me at the beginning of the quarter. This money can reduce the tax by at least 175% every year?"
Nick spread his hands before Stark's murderous eyes glared at him and said, "Don't look at me, I didn't teach her... Come here, baby, is there any law in New Jersey that prohibits the employment of child labor?"
At this time, Schiller came to Eddie. Eddie smiled at him and said, "The helpers you found are really powerful. Venom said his tongue was almost pulled off."
"Didn't he learn not to scare people during his time in Gotham?" Schiller shook his head and said, "Let's not talk about this for now. I have a plan that needs your help..."
A group of people came to the office of the Time Management Bureau. Spider-Man said goodbye to everyone. His universe, which was resurrected by Thanos' snap of his fingers, still had a lot of messes waiting for him to deal with. He was really worried and hurriedly left through the portal of the Time Management Bureau.
While Stark was resting, three of the evil fourth powers got together again sneakily. Obviously, a new plan was about to be launched.
After Stark woke up, he found that many people had come to the Time Management Bureau.
Natasha was bored and braiding Harley's hair. Thor and Loki were surrounding Barry and listening to him talk about the situation in another universe. Captain America and the Winter Soldier were visiting the meeting room of the Time Administration under the guidance of Schiller. Black Panther, Spider-Man and Dr. Banner were taking pictures of the huge devouring engine parked in the port of the Time Administration.
"Hey, Tony, long time no see." T'Challa walked over with a smile and bumped Tony's shoulder with his fist. Tony yawned, moved his shoulders left and right and said, "What's going on? How come so many people are here?"
"Nick said he had a plan, so he brought us all here. Originally, Reed and Pym were going to come, but the experiment was too late to finish, so it was just a few of us."
"Mr. Stark, I sent you a message on the Spider APP, why didn't you reply to me?" Spider-Man also came over, and Stark realized at a glance that this was Peter from his universe, so he said, "Maybe I made a mistake, I thought you were another Peter."
"Okay, don't be sad, kid, I will set you as my special follow Spider-Man. Of course, it's not that I didn't want to do this before, I can't use your APP."
"What's going on?" Stark spread his hands and walked in front of Nick and said, "Avengers gathering?"
"Speaking of which, how long have you not had your annual vacation?" Nick looked around at the people around him, and everyone else looked at Nick with a look of "How dare you ask?"
"SHIELD has decided to organize a group trip for employees to visit several parallel universes. The main purpose is to visit, and the secondary purpose is to experience. Does anyone want to join?"
Everyone walked out.
"Hey, don't do that!" Nick knocked on the table and said, "Give me some face and say you can't wait!"
Loki stretched out a hand and looked back and said, "God knows where you want to sell us. This trick is enough once."
"Okay, superheroes, several parallel universes are in trouble now. You need to save them with great mercy. Who is willing to come?"
Everyone paused.
"No, Nick, you can't do this." Schiller stood up and said to Nick, "Tomorrow is the day for the psychological evaluation of superheroes. If they go on a long trip, they will miss this evaluation. I believe they are all very concerned about their mental health..."
"Whoosh", a black shadow flashed behind Nick, pressed his shoulder and turned him around, holding one of Nick's hands with both hands, shaking it up and down vigorously.
Natasha looked at Nick and said, "Traveling is the best way to relax and stretch your muscles. I can't wait to travel long distances with so many good friends. Let's get going, Director. I can't wait!"
"Yes, Nick, we urgently need such a team-building activity to enhance cohesion." Dr. Banner's head almost left an afterimage. He said, "All of you here are the hope of mankind. More interaction and communication will be of great benefit."
Thor looked at Schiller, then at Nick, then at Schiller again, and took a step slightly to the left in unison with Loki, and stood behind Nick.
Nick turned to Schiller and said, "How can the Avengers team building be without a doctor? Come with us, Schiller, and we'll talk about psychological evaluation when we get back."
"But there was no evaluation last month, and it can't be done this time..."
"I'm the director of SHIELD, I have the final say, and it's not a good thing to undergo psychological examinations every day. Come on, friends, let's have fun! Tony, step on the accelerator to the bottom, let's go!"
The carnival dance music sounded, and the shining light ball above the Devourer Engine Hall kept flashing. When the superheroes raised their glasses and clinked them together, the foam was reflected in colorful colors under the light.
In the empty universe, the huge engine transformed from the head of the Planet Devourer was at its maximum output, flashing towards one of the vast universes.