Chapter 222 20. Those who can only play tricks are not careerists

  The monster lizard chariot that had fallen into the sea finally got rid of the impact of the ice and began to float up.

  Batgirl clutched her scalding head, which was astonishingly hot as if it was boiling, and weakly jumped out of the driver's seat and hit the flying claws towards the tide ahead, pulling Jason to her side with difficulty.

  But she, who was suffering terrible pain in her brain, couldn't even complete this action. With a flick of her wrist, she lay on the armor of the Demon Lizard Tank, and the healing injection drawn out of her hand also slipped into the seawater floating up and down beside her.

"No."

  Barbara looked at the second barrel floating on the water in the distance, and she moaned in pain:

   "Who will help me"

Perhaps Batgirl's prayers were really heard by something. The moment she tried to get up, the healing injection that had sunk into the sea was pulled from the water by a weird tentacle hand covered with white horniness and barnacles. I lifted it up.

  A distorted shadow moved quickly in the water, and the other hand pushed Jason Todd, who was submerged in the water, onto the armor of the Demon Lizard Tank floating on the sea.

  Barbara looks into the water.

A familiar weather-beaten face with a few gold teeth in his mouth and an old hat on his head can be vaguely seen across the water, but his body has been twisted into a half-monster just like his current captain look.

   "Captain Barbossa"

  Barbara called out.

  The twisted shadow underwater didn't look back but waved goodbye to her before disappearing into the cold, murky water.

Batgirl pulled over the second barrel whose body temperature was frighteningly low, grabbed the injection made from the life-saving potion mixed with unicorn blood that Mason had given her, and stuck it into Jason's neck, and put him in the magic hole again. In the driver's seat of the lizard chariot.

  The propeller of this chariot is undergoing self-inspection and repair. As a technological weapon of the future, it has a complete biological monitoring and protection system, and the seriously injured second barrel will be treated and maintained in it.

  With Mason's magical potion, as long as his head is not chopped off, he can still be saved. At worst, send the second barrel to Judy, put some prosthetic body on him, and he will be a good man again in a short time.

   "Old Germany, we have to go back, send us there. The sea water is heating up, and this world can't hold it anymore."

  Barbara struggled to climb back into the cockpit.

She grabbed a pack of ice cubes and put them on her hot forehead to physically cool down the frontal lobe. In this case, she dared not connect to the consciousness console of the monster lizard. Fortunately, this car was dismantled by Bizarro There is also an old driver AI in the tank.

   And at the moment when this thing was hard to start, a hand covered with cracks snapped on the scandium alloy reactive armor of the Demon Lizard Tank.

   Then a guy with a knife stuck in his back climbed up the roof with difficulty.

  The movement was immediately captured by the tank's external surveillance, and Barbara grabbed the Mox shotgun at her hand the moment she saw the miserable zombie superman climbing up.

  She glanced at the unconscious Erduan beside her, gritted her teeth, and shouted to the on-board AI:

  "The self-explosion process is activated! Delaman, eject both of us and blow up this guy by the way!"

   "Calm down! Passenger No. 4, the target seems to be talking!"

  The intelligent AI Delaman prevented Barbara from overreacting. It activated the sound collection module, allowing the weak voice of the zombie superman lying behind the tank to enter the cockpit.

   What the guy said was:

   "Help. Weak enemies brought monsters. I'm asleep. Kill me"

   "Is this provocative? So stubborn?"

  Barbara's teeth are sparkling, but Delamain explained:

   "Passenger No. 1 said before that all the behaviors of this living body, including thinking, are upside down, so this program guesses that what he really wants to express is that he wants us to save him?"

  —

   "Your team members are very powerful. All the guys who ranked fourth in the Cleaner sequence were defeated by you. It seems that the K team is really not just a C-level team.

  I probably understand why old Norman insisted that I drop by and talk to you. "

  In the ruins of the highest city hall in Virginia City, which was completely covered by the uncontrolled tide, Tony Stark, sitting on a lame chair in the dim area, stared at the Fenrir armor in front of him.

  To be precise, it was Mason who was staring at him in the control cabin where the armor bounced off.

   In front of this guy, the fists of the giant power armor raised.

  The left arm is a freezing gun with an enlarged caliber, and the right arm is an EMP jammer composed of electromagnetic coils. Four high-energy particle shoulder cannons shoot out from the shoulders of the silver-gray armor, constantly moving back and forth to aim at various important positions on his body.

  As long as he moves a little bit, Mason will turn the last 5% of his energy into a fatal attack on him.

   And at the foot of Fenrir's armor, there is a storage box of a dismantled red nano blood edge armor with only wreckage left. It is like a high-tech suitcase, with a very classic red-gold painting.

   This thing is Mason's "trophy".

  He didn't intend to return or give this thing to anyone.

   "Are you going to keep silent like this? Stare me to death with your eyes?"

  Mason's silence quickly upset Tony Stark in front of him. He raised his legs on the lame chair, raised a watch-like instrument on his left arm, looked in front of him, and said very bluntly:

   "The impact is accelerating, and the world is only fifteen minutes away from the final collapse. It is conservatively estimated that we both need to set aside ten minutes to deal with each other's private affairs, so there are only five minutes left to chat.

   Shall I tell you some details about the Doomsday War more than three years ago to prove my identity? "

   "No need! I believe you are from Norman's side, otherwise I would definitely not be the one who was unlucky first."

  Mason squinted his eyes and asked:

   "What position do you hold in the higher organization of the Confederation of Stars? Why did you enter here as a conqueror, etc. There is no need to answer the second question.

  Are you here to pick up Old J?

   You and Quint will be on the line? It's pretty fast. "

   "Two mistakes!"

   Tony Stark in front of Mason touched his coquettish beard, raised **** and said:

   "First of all, I am not in the higher-level organization of the Stars Club, I work in their brother organization, a place called 'Fox Nest', which is the gathering place for the best and most talented researchers in the parallel world.

  'Fox's Nest' is responsible for collecting various conjectures about the doomsday impact in various parallel worlds, perfecting and verifying them, in order to try to restore the principle and truth of this impact.

   This also leads to your second error.

  I didn't come here as a 'conqueror', Mason.

  I'm here as a frontline researcher.

  The subject I am in charge of at this time is to collect the laws of the imbalance of various cosmological constants caused by the collision of two parallel planes when the impact occurs, so as to inversely deduce whether it is possible to manufacture an instrument that can withstand this impact.

  I selected 248 target objects to collect experimental data for this impact event. At this moment, my 24 probes are rotating around the two colliding worlds to collect various data.

  So in theory, I didn't enter your battlefield, but you broke into my proving ground. "

   "Sounds amazing."

  Mason believed the guy in front of him a little bit, he raised his eyebrows and said:

   "So, is this really possible?"

"sure!

  With the help of the advanced or peculiar technologies recovered from various worlds by the good dogs of the Stars Club, I am completely sure to collect all kinds of data when the worlds collide.

   It's not difficult at all. "

  Tony Stark snapped his fingers and said:

   "Even you can do it, you only need to be familiar with it for a period of time to design a similar instrument. In fact, I think this can be done with a dog on a leash next to the computer."

   "No, no, I'm not talking about your act of collecting data."

   Mason corrected:

   "I'm talking about your experimental idea, designing an instrument to resist the collision of two worlds, can this really be realized?"

   "Uh, this one."

  Iron Man pouted, spread his hands frankly, and said:

   "Of course not."

"ha?"

  Mason was stunned, and then he heard the guy in front of him say in a drawn out voice:

   "If I could do this kind of thing, I would have solved the shock incident from the root cause, so would I still have free time to come here to chat with you little guy?

  This research topic was set up in the first place to facilitate the concealment of my identity and defraud funds, so as to support the old Norman's actions to stay in his hometown.

  This project is very popular and will not be suspected. A brick fell in the entire fox den and killed ten scientific research dogs. At least six of them were engaged in similar projects.

   Of the remaining four, there are still three or pretending magicians trying to use magical means to achieve this goal.

   That last one is downright insane. "

  Iron Man snorted, shook his head and said:

   "But it's not that simple, this matter is more troublesome than you imagined, the Fox Nest was established before the Stars Association and swallowed countless resources, but so far it hasn't even come out.

  I have to admit tragically that the result of our work at this time is a pile of defenses. "

"No way?"

  Mason said in surprise:

   "Countless geniuses in countless worlds have gathered together for more than 20 years to study, it is impossible to come up with an answer?"

   "No, on the plus side, we do have the answers at hand."

  Tony rubbed his forehead and explained:

   "On the downside, we **** have too many answers.

  There are no less than 150 conjectures in the mathematical model of the impact event in the fox's nest database, and the worst thing is that each of them can be confirmed from certain directions.

  This means that every one of those wild, even contradictory ideas is correct”

"This is impossible!"

  Mason immediately shook his head and said:

   "I can understand that there are multiple solutions to a question, but this kind of thing"

   "The simpler the problem, the more solutions."

  Tony Stark stood up and walked out of the shadow area with his hands behind his back, raised his head and looked at Mason amidst the tremors of the earth, and said:

  "This shows that the truth of the impact incident is not as complicated as we thought, there is no conspiracy, no terrible villain, maybe it is a self-destruction of the entire parallel world system because it is too old.

   Just like every universe will eventually go into heat death, just like every life will usher in death.

  Too old to die once.

   Of course, this is not something I want to discuss with you in the remaining two minutes. Frankly speaking, it is a bit too difficult for you to consider this matter at the moment with your research rank.

  I'm really just bringing you a word for Norman, Mason. "

   "click"

   The control cabin of Fenrir's armor bounced outwards, and Mason, wearing the Isu armor, jumped out of it, facing Tony Stark in front of him, and said:

  "I just met him before, less than 24 hours ago, since he asked you to bring me a message, it means that there are some things he can't say in front of me.

  He has a watcher by his side? "

   "Not yet, but he doesn't want to arouse the suspicion of the 'new friends'."

  Iron Man shrugged and said:

  "Although it sounds troublesome, Norman was able to hide under the eyes of the Stars Club for three years because of this kind of caution and skillful dancing. You Quint Club, it is really not simple.

  Under your matchmaking, we have contacted them in various aspects, and they have initially taken over our system and incorporated our intelligence network into them.

  They are efficient, seem to execute well, and welcome new friends.

  The only problem is that they have taken over our intelligence system and demanded that we cease all spying and sabotage of the Constellation.

  The reason is that we are afraid that we will be exposed.

   But to be honest, this kind of behavior makes me very suspicious of their motives. "

  Hearing this, Mason raised his eyes and said faintly:

   "We really can't check everything, what if we find something embarrassing? I probably understand what old Norman meant, and he also began to suspect that Quint would.

  It's the same as my idea.

  I feel more and more now that maybe Quint will just be a group of "reformists" rather than the "opposition" we originally thought. They want to take over and reform the Stellaris, not the complete overthrow and disbandment I want. "

   "Yes, that's what it means, you are indeed a smart person."

  Tony nodded happily, looked at Mason, and said:

   "This is what Norman wants me to tell you.

  He's not happy with the situation, so he's going to keep befriending you.

  Because he knows that you really want to turn upside down the dark age that the stars will shape, and that's what he and us are aiming for.

  Norman Osborn knew that you doubted his sincerity. He didn't intend to prove it. He just guessed the difficulty of your operation, so he entrusted me to help you when your entire army was about to be wiped out.

   His meaning is obvious.

  He neither expects nor expects you to trust us, but when you fall into despair, you can at least count on us to pull you out of the quagmire. In many cases, this is actually the basis for in-depth cooperation between the two parties. "

   "No, I don't know what you guys think, but I know old Norman did all this just to get power."

  Mason bluntly exposed this statement, he said:

  "The ambitious person couldn't get ahead in the previous Stars Club, so he pinned his hopes on the Quint Club, and now he finds that the Quint Club is also a bird of a feather, but he is not willing to be just an executor.

  He wants him to take over the Stellaris instead of someone else, he thinks he can do a better job than the current bugs.

  Tony, do you trust Norman Osborn? Or let me ask you a question I asked Norman, why have you been lurking in the fox's den for more than three years? "

   "A lot of people died, but I'm still alive."

  Tony Stark moved his neck and said:

   "So the unfinished business of those who died should be fulfilled by those of us who are still alive. I lost a lot that night three years ago. Almost all of my best friends were gone.

   I don't like Steve, he's pretty much the opposite of me, but I'm sorry and angry that he died.

listen!

   I'm not interested in what Norman really thinks, I don't give a **** what he wants to do! I just know that working with him will bring me one step closer to my goal.

  I might as well tell you the truth, Mason.

  My friends and I are about to find the coordinates of the world where the 'superior organization' is located, and the layer-by-layer encryption of the 'evil heart' is about to be exposed in front of us.

Then"

  The iron man in front of him showed a ferocious smile, which was fleeting, and then adjusted his collar in a gentle tone, winking at Mason and saying:

   "You know, my friends and I will deal with them the same way they treat other worlds! Now give me an answer, Mason, are you going to follow your superiors and continue to hang out with Quint?

  Still standing with Norman and us? "

   Facing this question, Mason shrugged and said:

   "Why do I have to choose one? Why can't I have both?"

"Um?"

  Tony Stark glanced at him in surprise, and Mason didn't hide, he said:

   "The foundation for the existence of the Stars Association is the door to the world. If you want to destroy this organization, you must first smash the door and kill the devil guarding the door.

   So, you see, we both have things to do.

  You are going to secretly search for the world where the 'superior institution' is located, and I am here to handle the package of the World Gate. Everyone needs a place where we can meet and give us temporary shelter.

  Why do you have to choose to stand on your own at this time?

   and my superior

He is also a target that can be fought for. Let me do this. Besides, when you take your friends to ignite the world where the "superior institution" is located and burn all the initiators to ashes, don't forget to call me . "

   Mason shrugged and said:

   "I really don't want to miss that good show."

   "Okay, I'll treat you as our friend for the time being, Mason."

  Tony Stark took a deep look at the young man in front of him, he reached out and patted Mason on the shoulder, saying:

"But to join our 'party', you and your people have to be a little bit stronger, the little **** your team has the data sense of manipulating Bizarro trapped in a component in her head, which is not a safe option.

  Anim Zola, who regards Bizarro as a perfect body and has been hiding in that brainless superhuman mind to manipulate him, is a dangerous opponent. You'd better put his data consciousness body in a stricter prison.

   Now, turn away with your men, Mason, there is nothing to see in this world that will be sacrificed to the dark stars.

   My experiment has to continue.

  Although it is cheating funds, the end of not being able to produce anything is very miserable. I don't want to be executed by those guys in the name of 'wasting resources'.

  Especially when I know they can actually do something like this. "

  Iron Man snapped his fingers, and a new suit quickly appeared on his body. This inconspicuous guy admired the surprised expression on Mason's face at this time.

  He squeezed his eyes in a pleasant tone and said:

   "Also, you don't really think that defeating a suit of armor means you have defeated the famous Iron Man, do you? To achieve this goal, you have to work harder, C-level personnel."

  (end of this chapter)