Chapter 571: Lex's Journey to Gotham (Part 1)

After leaving Schiller's office, Lex began to think about how to complete this project.

To be honest, he had no educational experience, and all the knowledge he had mastered before was self-taught during the time away from Lionel.

When his father was still alive and still giving him medicine, he would pretend to hire some tutors for him, but those tutors knew that they were just tools for Lionel to show his fatherly love. Who would concentrate on teaching such advanced knowledge to an autistic child? No one would think that Lex could learn it.

So, he didn't know how to carry out the research of a project, but, putting aside the prescribed procedures, as long as the goal of this project was achieved, then Lex felt that he could still do it.

First, he had approximately unlimited wealth, which had solved most of the problems. He was no longer restricted by cost investment, but only devoted himself to solving problems. Lex could use all his wisdom. A 16-year-old genius boy believed that in this situation, there was nothing he couldn't do.

Before conducting his experiment, he needed to make some preparations. First, he had to find an experimental site. Lex thought that since he was a student at Gotham University, it should be okay to borrow the laboratory of Gotham University.

Then he found that the laboratory of Gotham University could no longer be called a laboratory. To put it in a high-emotional-quotient way, the laboratory of Gotham University should be just right for Galileo to do experiments.

Gotham University has a total of two old laboratory buildings, located behind the Academic Affairs Building. On the surface, both buildings are very large, one is 6 stories high and the other is 7 stories high, with more than 20 laboratories.

But after walking in, Lex found that there was no modern experimental equipment available here, and there were almost no teachers and students doing experiments there.

Everyone crowded in the new laboratory building on the westernmost side to do experiments, but that laboratory building was relatively small, and only 5 floors were available, and there were only 7 laboratories. So far, each one corresponds to a department, and there is no spare laboratory for Lex to do experiments.

In this case, Lex was not limited to Gotham University. He thought that a megacity should have several research institutes or institutes, right?

Just like Metropolis, in addition to the central institute, there are also many private institutes in Metropolis, which will also accept some individual researchers. Borrowing equipment only requires payment, and Lex is not short of money.

Then he found that he really underestimated Gotham. He bought various maps and asked various people, and then confirmed that there was no research institute here. The last research institute that appeared in this city was a seminary opened by Europeans.

Gotham is not a city with technology as its pillar industry, or in other words, the technological pillars of the entire city all rely on Batman alone. He alone can take on a city. Now, most of the technological equipment in Gotham is made by him.

Of course, Lex could not ask Bruce to borrow a laboratory, so he could only think of another way.

With his financial resources, it is not difficult to build a new laboratory building or to start a research institute independently, but it takes time. Even if he donates a laboratory building to Gotham University, it will take at least a year to build it. Lex can't wait that long.

After searching for a long time, he finally found a place that might be used, that is Victor's cryogenic laboratory.

Victor has been here for a long time. His cryogenic laboratory was renovated by himself. It is located in the basement, 1st floor and 2nd floor of the second old laboratory building, which can meet all his experimental needs.

As another super genius, Victor has built his base very well. Although he is not the super villain Mr. Freeze now, he has all the necessary freezers, cold storages, and weapons depots, as well as most of the equipment that can be used for physical and chemical experiments.

Victor has a good relationship with Bruce, so many advanced equipment are obtained from Bruce, at the cost of some cryogenic technology.

In addition, Victor earned extra money working for the gang in his spare time, and his cryogenic patent technology was monetized. Now he was very rich, so his cryogenic laboratory was even developing in the direction of a bat cave. The equipment for various subjects was very complete, and occasionally teachers from other departments would come to borrow it, so the reputation of this laboratory spread.

After hearing about it, Lex also wanted to borrow this laboratory, so he went to Victor, but was rejected by Victor.

In Victor's eyes, Lex was just a freshman, he hadn't even taken basic courses, what was the need to do experiments? Moreover, experiments were not a joke, and there were still many dangerous things in Victor's laboratory.

When he heard that Lex was only 16 years old, Victor refused without thinking. Any responsible teacher and researcher would not let an underage child run to his professional laboratory. This was not only irresponsible for his own laboratory equipment, but also for the other party's life safety.

Will Lex give up? Of course not. He is not Batman, not a superhero, and has no moral burden. He wants to achieve his goal and will do whatever it takes.

So, on the second night after being rejected by Victor, Lex went directly into the laboratory building.

In Lex's view, Victor was just an ordinary scholar. It was useless for him to disagree. Anyway, Lex had many ways to open the door and sneak in. At that time, he could use the equipment here at will.

After entering the first floor of the laboratory building, as Lex expected, there was no special equipment here. It looked like an ordinary laboratory building. After opening the first room, the preparation room looked ordinary. Lex went in to change clothes and found the catalog of equipment storage.

He flipped through the catalog and found that the cold storage for some special chemical preparations was on the underground floor, so he came to the stairs leading to the underground on the first floor.

Just after walking down a few steps, the biting cold came from below, and Lex shivered.

But he thought that it was normal for the temperature to be lower than other places in a cold storage. He just went down to get something and couldn't stay for a while. He would come back soon.

An hour later, Victor sighed as he looked at the ice sculpture of Lex frozen at the door of the cold storage on the underground floor.

Lex in the huge ice block was still alive. Not only that, his eyeballs could still move. He stared at Victor, obviously realizing that the elegant and kind professor in front of him was not the ordinary scholar he thought.

"My cold storage is different from other places. You must wear special protective clothing to enter, especially you must wear special gloves to touch the door handle, otherwise you will be frozen in the ice like you." Victor put on a pair of gloves and turned the door handle in front of Lex.

Lex's eyes fell on the door handle. He fell here. He went down the stairs and found the cold storage all the way. He turned the door handle without thinking and planned to open the door, and then he was frozen instantly.

Lex had never seen or heard of such a technology that could freeze a person into a huge block of ice in an instant. Moreover, he did not feel any signs of discomfort, not even cold. His physiological activities and thinking were normal, but he could not move at all.

This technology was a miracle in his eyes. It was because he had learned about this knowledge that he knew how powerful it was.

But Victor did not care. He changed into protective clothing, walked into the cold storage, took a gun from it, and with a "swoosh", a beam of light was emitted and hit the ice block where Lex was.

With a "snap", the ice broke. Lex staggered twice when he landed, but he managed to stand.

"How did this happen?" Lex turned left and right, looking at the ice blocks on the ground. In his opinion, it was not like ice blocks, but more like a high-density crystal similar to diamonds.

"You should answer my question first. What are you doing here? Your name should be Lex, right? Freshman, has no one told you that this is a restricted area of ​​Gotham University?"

"I want to borrow the laboratory to complete a project assigned by Professor Schiller." Lex replied.

Hearing Schiller's name, Victor frowned. He stepped back a few steps and looked at Lex. He found that although Lex looked very thin and his face was a little pale, there was a different light in his eyes.

The last person who was assigned homework by Schiller himself was Bruce, and Victor knew very well how talented Bruce was. Did Schiller think that the boy in front of him was similar to Bruce?

Victor suddenly became interested. He turned around and walked back to the operating table, took a set of protective clothing from it, threw it to Lex, and said: "Come in with me, I will ask you a few questions. If you can answer them, I can lend you the laboratory."

Lex didn't say anything, but just put on the protective clothing silently and walked in. After that, the scene in the laboratory opened his eyes.

Gotham is a very strange place. The gap between the rich and the poor here is not only reflected in the city's buildings and the ecology of the citizens, but also in technology.

The other laboratory building next to this building is in tatters, as if it were a dream back to the Middle Ages, but the laboratory used by Victor here looks like an alien laboratory moved intact from a flying saucer.

The overall wall is gray-blue, made of a metal that Lex can't tell the source of. The connection between the walls is made of the same high-density crystals as before. Every two metal plates have a light strip emitting cold light.

There are four rows of laboratory tables in total, in the same direction as the four walls, and a huge machine is placed in the center of the room. It breaks through the floor between the two floors and is fixed between the ground on the first floor and the ceiling on the second floor. Blue liquid surges in the middle, emitting a dreamy light.

Next to the huge machine are two operating tables with dizzy buttons on them. In addition, there are several rows of file cabinets near the window, and operating tables for test tube racks. On the test tube racks, various reagents emit a faint light.

In short, if you wake up in such a laboratory one day, you should be thankful that the creatures you come in to check don't have six legs.

Just as Lex was looking around the entire laboratory, the door of the laboratory suddenly opened, and another thin figure walked in with a pile of documents in his hand, saying:

"Professor Victor, I have sorted out all the information I took back yesterday. Should I still put it in the No. 2 file cabinet?"

Lex turned around, and he and the person who came were stunned at the same time. Lex saw that it was a thin boy who looked younger than him, with a pale face and gloomy eyes under his eyebrows.