Chapter 549: I Don’t Like the Gemstone Purple Potato Spirit (Part 2)

In the base on Mercury, Stark looked at the three-dimensional map and marked different spaceships with different colors. He pointed to the spaceships at the side and said, "These spaceships look like chemical fuels, which can just be connected with human technology now..."

"S.H.I.A. will select five ships after preliminary investigation, and Russia will also select five ships. Europe actually wants seven ships in total? No, at most give them five ships, Africa, Australia, and the Middle East..."

"Specify two more ships for joint research, Nick! Nick! Remember to arrange security personnel, don't let them fight..."

Seeing that many spaceships have been marked with colors, Stark took two steps back, and then what appeared in his eyes were more spaceships that had not been marked.

He rested his hands on the experimental table in front of him, looking at the spaceships that had not been divided out, and felt a kind of happy trouble.

In the past, there were many people and few spaceships, or there were no spaceships at all. The frigates of the Kree were not something that the current human civilization could study. Even if scientists could go up to investigate, it was just an investigation, and no parts could be removed.

After that, with the Chitauri and Dark Elves' spaceships, there was more space, but there were still too many people and too little porridge.

In the past few days, there was a fierce dispute in the UN conference room. At first, they wanted to persuade each other with reason, but later, they found that physical persuasion was more realistic. Now, the requirement for Congress to send people to the UN is to undergo combat training, otherwise it is difficult to gain an advantage.

Since Loki expanded the scope of fraud to the entire universe, humans have harvested a lot of low-end and medium-end spaceships, some of which are relatively complete, and some are broken into parts. Some are piled near Mercury and some are piled near Pluto. Where they are piled depends mainly on where they are closer when they are chopped.

With a creak, the door opened, and Schiller in a white coat walked in with a medical record in his hand. Stark looked up and asked him: "You are done, why do you suddenly want to do psychological examinations for the employees of the Sanctuary of the Holy of Holies?"

"Anyway, the cost is reimbursed by the United Nations, so it would be a waste if I don't do it." After Schiller walked over, he put the medical record aside and said: "More importantly, our new alien employee named Black Dwarf has a big psychological problem. If I can solve his psychological problem, Thanos may have to thank me."

Stark snorted coldly and said: "If his psychological problem is really solved, Thanos will not have to pay him a salary, and of course he will have to thank you."

"Let's not talk about me, how about you?" Schiller asked.

Stark looked at the three-dimensional map and said, "The United Nations asked me to give my opinion on the distribution. I have distributed all the spaceships. Everyone has a share, and there are still so many left."

"Can't we distribute them all? Each person gets more than ten ships."

Stark rolled his eyes and said, "I've said before that people who can only screw light bulbs should not enter my laboratory."

Stark began to explain, "Scientific research is not about the more materials the better. Many projects need to be carried out step by step. If the initial projects are not completed, they cannot be carried out later. Sufficient materials can speed up the research, but there is a limit to how fast it can be accelerated. It's not that one person can complete the research tomorrow with ten spaceships. If that's the case, why would I have a headache?"

But in the end, Stark still conveyed his proposal to the United Nations.

After several rounds of arguments in the conference room, it was finally determined that the top three permanent members of the five permanent members would each get five ships, and Europe would have a total of three ships, but they had the right of first choice. The other continents basically got one or two ships, but Africa, where Wakanda is located, got one more ship because Wakanda has a strong technological advantage.

Knowing that the result has been determined, Stark slapped the table and said: "Call all researchers to a meeting!"

After Jarvis sent out Stark's meeting invitation, he did not receive a reply for a long time.

Connors called and said that he was busy dismantling the first spaceship. Banner had already boarded the Chitauri spaceship for an inspection. Reed terminated his near-earth research project in order to study the spaceship and was handing over the data at this time.

And Jarvis also sent back a worse news. He said: "There is news from the S.H.I.E. that their five groups of scientific researchers are all ready and will be escorted to the spaceship by the S.H.I.E.."

Stark looked up at the watch. Now it was only three hours before the result was released. Others had already boarded the ship, while he was still scattered and fighting on his own. Even if he was divided into five groups, each leading one, the team members were not determined at this time, and there was no time arrangement or research plan.

Stark sighed deeply, he opened the Avengers' communication, and then said: "Avengers, assemble!"

"What? Why assemble? What's wrong?" Steve responded to him first.

"Now, everyone, go and invite all the scientists you can find here. No matter what they are doing, no matter what their reasons are, try to reason with them, but you can also use physics when necessary."

Stark stood up straight, lowered his eyes, looked at the map and said, "Obviously, a game has begun, and I don't want to lose."

Just as Stark said, a game has begun.

This competition is not only about the scientific research capabilities of various countries, but also about organizational ability and speed.

The term "technology tree" is very vivid to some extent. Technology must be developed step by step. You must first click on the previous skills and then the next skills. This is to avoid technology gaps and the embarrassing situation of not being able to repair a broken ship.

In this case, whoever clicks on the first skill first can click on the second skill faster, and then the third skill faster. In other words, one step ahead, every step ahead.

The level of research is certainly important, but if everyone is scattered and doing their own things, on the technology tree, one person clicks on the left, one person clicks on the right, and someone clicks on what others have already clicked, without communicating with each other, knowing nothing, and messing around, then just wait to be left behind by others.

However, most research institutes and researchers that receive private investment do this. Even if they are official research institutes on the surface, they represent different capitals behind them. What capital sees is not getting a bigger cake after going out of the universe together, but the one who grabs the cake crumbs first wins.

Therefore, the focus of their research on technology is to make profits for themselves. They are more willing to develop technologies that they think are more beneficial, hoping to get greater returns with less investment.

But if everyone thinks this way, there will definitely be many contradictions in the cooperation. Therefore, at the beginning, the research development of most countries in the world is a mess.

Many private research institutes believe that the recovery period of this matter is too long, and the benefits that can be recovered are unknown. It is not a high-quality investment. Many research institutes also feel that stopping their current projects on Earth and turning to the development of space travel will cause them a lot of losses.

In short, the chaos at the beginning screened out many research organizations that had no long-term goals, insufficient funds, or even simply no brains. Most of the remaining ones were research institutes backed by the country.

The only special one is the research organization composed of superheroes. Now, the Avengers and the heroes related to it are relatively independent and are not subject to the jurisdiction of SHIELD and the government, so their research is also independent.

The Avengers Research Institute, composed of three super geniuses, Stark, Connors, and Banner, has monopolized three spacecraft for research.

Among them, Stark does not need to divide these three spaceships. He has more materials for research and has even begun to crack the secrets of the Kree frigate.

If Connors and Banner each lead a research team, then there is still one spaceship that is empty. Stark wants to find an equally talented scientist to take over this spaceship.

Hearing this news, Nick can't wait to introduce someone to Stark.

After arriving at Stark's office, Nick clapped his hands, attracting the attention of Stark who was concentrating on reading the information.

"You are here." Stark said while lowering his head to cover the pen cap.

Stark just raised his head and found that there was nothing behind Nick. He looked around and found that there was no one else. Stark asked a little puzzled: "Where is the person, where is the scientist I want?"

"He is here, can you find him?" Nick smiled and said.

"Don't play that on me, Jarvis, scan."

"Scanning... Found special life reaction... Projected."

With a "swish", the projection screen opened, and a man in a strange uniform appeared on the screen, and his background was even stranger, it turned out to be the texture of Nick's clothes.

Stark raised his eyebrows, turned up his eyelids, and looked up and down at Nick. At this time, a very, very small figure appeared in Nick's pocket.

After he jumped onto the table, he waved to Stark and said, "Hello, I'm Hank Pym, you can also call me by my code name, Ant-Man."

Stark frowned, squinted his eyes, bent down hard, and put his face close to the table, and finally saw the small figure clearly. It was not an ant, but a person as big as an ant.

As Stark's face moved closer, Pym crossed his arms and said, "You should be Tony Jr., right? When I left SHIELD, you were probably still young, so you don't remember me. I was a colleague of your father Howard..."

Nick hurried over, but he didn't know how to cover Pym's mouth. He could only knock on the table to remind Pym to shut up, but at this time, Stark had already raised his head and shouted, "JARVIS, fly swatter!"

With a "swoosh", a fly swatter was thrown over by the mechanical arm, and Stark caught it and took advantage of the situation. Pym quickly rose up and dodged in the air, shouting: "What are you doing? I'm not a fly!"

Stark scratched his ears and said: "Really? But I just heard someone buzzing..."

Pym glanced at Stark's face, "whoosh" flew to Nick's ear, and said to him: "What's going on? Are they not on good terms?"

"Of course, they have exactly the same personalities, do you think they will have a good relationship?"

"Okay, I understand."

Pym immediately flew to Stark and said:

"I admit that Howard is a genius. His flying car is quite interesting, but compared to me, it's far behind, especially in artificial intelligence. I'm studying this recently..."

"What are you studying?" Another voice sounded at the door. Schiller pushed the door open and walked in, staring at Ant-Man in the air, and repeated his question: "What are you studying recently?"

"Artificial intelligence, what's wrong?" Pym asked puzzled.

"Are there any results?"

"Oh, not yet, but..."

"Really?" Schiller narrowed his eyes, walked over, lowered his head and looked straight into Pym's eyes, and asked: "No, or did you forget?"

"Or... someone made you forget?"

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