Chapter 152 35. In front of the real master of engineering, Mason felt his own insignificance
“Of course, anyone who wants to help is welcome.”
Mason punched the rear weapon slot of Fenrir's battle armor, and the rear armor slightly modified by Judy bounced to the sides in a V shape in a very cool way.
While pulling out the telescoping connector with the thickness of the inner forearm of the mechanical tentacles to connect with the reserved weapon slot of the control system of the armor, he turned his head and looked at Peter Parker, who came over actively beside him.
Mason was not surprised that Peter offered to join the operation.
If it is said that the success rate of the previous plan with Mary Jane was only 60%, then after Dr. Otto told the truth about the gravitonium, Mason is 100% sure of the current result.
It was just a "personal grievance" before, but now it has risen to the point of "survival of the world".
Mason kept paralleling the mechanical tentacles with the replacement set of military mechanical control modules from Night City on the armor, while watching the program that automatically cracked and connected the weapon plug-in on the data screen in front of him.
He sighed in his heart that Judy is indeed a technical expert, and he took care of himself not being very proficient in high-precision technology, so he made a "fool version" interface for himself.
Although the silver-gray majestic armor in front of me still lacks a sufficiently powerful power source, its mechanical brain is ready, and Mason Cooper has been bound as the first driver with the highest priority.
The captain of Team K leaned against his four-meter-high battle armor, looked at the silent Peter Parker beside him, and said softly:
"Is it because of the gravitonium that made you make up your mind?"
"Roughly the same."
Peter looked at the spider hood rolled up in his hand, he was silent for a few seconds before speaking:
“Just now, when I heard Dr. Otto say that the world’s gravity changes will cause catastrophic consequences, I have a feeling of returning to the past in a trance.
It's like standing in the mission hall of S.H.I.E.L.D. and listening to the captain explain the mission to us.
Although I haven't acted with them many times, I really didn't expect to be able to recall things I thought I had forgotten.
The only difference is that I can trust the people around me at that time, they are all the top righteous heroes.
But now, I can only be forced to join forces with a group of outsiders who don't know the details. "
Responding to this answer, Mason shrugged his shoulders and exchanged glances with the second barrel next to him. He said in a drawn out voice:
“I had a former psychiatrist and psychiatrist who was raised in my home once tell me in casual conversation that the more obsessive someone is about some grand goal, the easier it is for a person to jump right into another when they encounter a major setback. extreme.
Peter, I regret not being able to be friends with you while your world is still alive.
But I guess Ni must have been much friendlier then than now.
Look at you.
Putting distrust almost on your face and repeating it in every sentence, do you think we are responsible for all the **** in your life right now? "
Mason curled his lips, glanced at the weapon plug-in connection program that was stuck after advancing to 80% of the progress, he frowned and tried to restart.
It is said that this can solve 80% of the program freezing problem.
Then he said:
"But as far as I know, your life has already started to be unsatisfactory a few years before the bloodhound of the Constellation Society entered the world. The death of Aunt May and your divorce from Mary Jane can't be blamed on us people, right? ?”
"Confused people need a direction."
When Mason turned around to deal with the stuck program, Er Tong, who never liked to talk very much, said quietly:
"Compared with positive emotions that come and go quickly and are difficult to capture, hatred is obviously more able to find a 'direction' for a person who is at a loss.
I see this kind of thing a lot in places where I train and reshape me. As long as you hate something strong enough, all the losses and dissatisfaction in your life seem to have an excuse to vent.
But we didn't make you lose Spider-Man. "
Ertong grinned and said in a low voice:
"Ms. Mary Jane told us that it was you who gave up on Spider-Man, you did it before disaster struck, and you yourself got tired of the life you loved.
Even, our presence in the post-apocalypse gives you a reason to start over. "
Peter fell silent.
The words of the two outsiders were harsh, but he had to admit they were right.
After the death of Aunt Mei, his life suddenly lost its focus. The spider boy who thought he would never stop was finally tired.
As he got older, the conflict between ideals and reality became more and more intense. In the end, he divorced his beloved one, and Spider-Man, who roamed the streets of New York and soared into the sky, died completely.
He killed him with his own hands.
He kept telling others that it was because of his old age that the spider sense that he depended on for a living disappeared.
But it's not.
"Why are you trying to connect my mechanical tentacles with an automated cracking program?"
By the time Peter came back to his senses, Dr. Otto, who had put on an interstellar gangster coat, had appeared next to Fenrir's armor. The suit should belong to Star-Lord, with his signature on it.
Dr. Octopus is looking at the mighty war machine in front of him with a very interested expression.
He took a dedicated programming keyboard from Barbara's hand and connected it to the military control module of Fenrir's battle armor, reset the parameters deftly, gave up automatic decoding and manually programmed the connection for two machines from different worlds program.
Voila! The real boss even wrote the driver framework on the spot.
Although at the beginning I was a little uncomfortable with the technology from the future, but after only a few minutes of analysis, Dr. Otto found the data interface left by Judy and started to get busy.
"Barbara, replace the connector of the third tentacle with the alpha radio frequency mode, and restart the physical hardware of the second tentacle. The driver software of the fourth tentacle seems to be offline due to long-term inactivity.
You can find a way to activate it. No, rewrite a better one.
You can do this with the technical ability I just saw, just use the encryption writing mode I taught you a few minutes ago. "
"Yes, Dr. Otto!"
Barbara connected her microcomputer to the split database of the mechanical octopus tentacles, and she had a satisfied smile of "I learned a lot today".
Although this Dr. Otto looked mediocre or even a little old-fashioned and unable to keep up with the trend, she realized that this one was the real genius during the ten minutes of contact.
It only needs to share a little bit of other people's knowledge to make Batgirl feel that the trip is worthwhile.
She also secretly tried to crack the deep data structure on the computer that Judy gave her, but the "cyber space" encryption mode made it impossible for her to do it, it was like dismantling an airplane with a small wrench .
It's not that it can't be done, but the workload is so daunting.
But it only took Dr. Otto ten minutes just now to fully demonstrate to her how to use low-level technological capabilities to complete the "smuggling" penetration of the underlying data structure of advanced technological products in a clever way.
It's a stroke of genius!
"Did you complete the rearrangement of the internal weapon system of this armor? Mason"
Dr. Otto asked curiously while connecting the new weapon system for the Fenrir armor with his fingers flying. Mason pushed the glasses frame on the bridge of his nose and said very modestly:
“It took me a few days to design it with two friends, and it was the first time I tried this kind of large-scale project.”
"Well, it can be seen that it is indeed very ordinary.
It can be seen that you want to come up with something 'new', but your actions obviously cannot keep up with your ideas.
As far as I can see, the current weapon architecture and even the reserved power system are full of a parody of the original design and small-scale improvements.
Young man, do you know what that means? "
Dr. Octopus gave a pertinent and even pungent evaluation.
He pushed his brown glasses and glanced at Mason.
The young man didn’t feel any displeasure and annoyance at being criticized at all. He even had a high gold content in the slightly bald short fat man in front of him, so he answered very humbly like an apprentice:
“This means that my knowledge reserve is seriously insufficient, so all good ideas can only stay at the macro design level and cannot go deep into the specific architecture.”
Dr. Octopus grinned, and pressed his fingers on the keyboard with a snap.
The next moment, under Mason's gaze, the mechanical tentacles of the octopus, which was stuck in the analysis part and could not be connected, vibrated strangely, and then a pleasant electronic sound sounded in the Fenrir armor without an energy system:
"It was detected that the foreign weapon plug-in was incorporated into the fire control system, temporarily named 'Octopus', and the weapon debugging program was started. The energy module was missing, and the command system failed to start.
Ask the first passenger, Mason Cooper, to detect the energy module of the armor codenamed 'Fenrir'. "
"It lacks a mechanical heart."
Dr. Otto took off his glasses, reached out and groped on the mighty Fenrir armor, relying on his sensitivity to mechanical creations, he quickly found the opening slot of the second outer armor without Mason's prompt.
As the heavy armor bounced to the sides, what came into view was an empty place for energy batteries.
"A combat mecha with such a high degree of completion must at least use a nuclear battery, or even a cold fusion type super battery, if it wants to fight with all its strength."
Dr. Octopus looked back at Mason and said:
"What are you going to use instead? I don't have any plans for the rest of the day. If you want, Mason, I can help you with the staff."
"Of course I wish for it!"
Your Excellency the captain was overjoyed.
He didn't expect that there would be such a good thing on this trip. To be able to get free guidance from a technical tycoon like Dr. Octopus for nothing is simply a piece of pie in the sky.
Mason immediately took out the alchemy engine he had just finished halfway.
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 is unusual, it's not like he hasn't seen the same type of product before.
Although the design style and internal structure are different, Dr. Octopus's mechanical knowledge basically belongs to the situation of "know it at a glance".
But the thing Mason took out was different.
Even if it is only a semi-finished product.
But it still almost challenges Dr. 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 beckoned Mason to come over. Then the two people seemed to have exchanged positions just now. Mason became the instructor explaining the alchemy engine, while Dr. Otto became the student who listened carefully.
"Well, it's over."
A few minutes later, Barbara pulled out the data cable of the microcomputer on her arm from the socket of the mechanical tentacles of the octopus, feeling a sense of accomplishment in her heart.
Writing the driver for such an exotic weapon used to be at least a few days for her, but with Dr. Octopus's words and deeds, it only took her 20 minutes to complete it with a brand new way of thinking.
Even Bruce's Bat Network!
Barbara is now also confident that she can get it in ten minutes without a security access code!
"That guy is amazing?"
Er Tong kicked the iron lump under his foot, feeling a little depressed.
He doesn't think he's stupid.
But Mason and Dr. Otto chatted more and more excitedly, almost to the point, but he couldn't understand a word beside him.
It was the first time he had seen Mason so excited, which was completely different from his usual calm posture.
"Dr. Otto is not very good, Jason."
Barbara wiped the sweat from her forehead, and said to Ertong seriously:
"He is very, very powerful. Let's put it this way, if he goes to our side, Mr. Lucius will definitely resign the position of chief designer of Wayne Industries, and then invite Dr. to be the new design director.
The technology of Judy’s era is at least three generations behind what we use now, but the future technology is not difficult to understand in the eyes of Dr. Otto.
Do you know what that means? "
Batgirl shook her head, sighed and said:
"This means that even in the world of 2077, Dr. Otto is still an incredible technical leader, the kind that Judy will worship when he sees it.
God, his thinking is at least 100 years ahead of this era! I suspect that Lex Luthor is not as smart as him, the two of them are at least one level of genius! "
Speaking of this, Barbara said to Ertong with bright eyes:
"Jason, let's find a way to kidnap Dr. Otto! Bind him to our side, a genius like him deserves a better world!"
Facing 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, but it is up to him whether he wants to go with us or not.
And if he is really as talented as you say, then I believe he can survive even in such an apocalypse. "
On the other side, Mason looked at the design drawings of the new armor's internal structure and weapon system that Dr. Otto had completed with him, feeling a sense of accomplishment spontaneously.
Like Barbara, he feels like he has learned something powerful.
"Perhaps this request is a bit too much, but please help me take a look at this armor."
Mason took out the anti-superman armor whose outer armor had been repaired, and said to Dr. Otto:
"Compared to the Fenrir armor whose main design cannot be modified at all with my current ability, I am more interested in this set of anti-Superman armor.
You should be able to tell that Fenrir's armor was specially developed for special occasions, and I can't walk around the street with this thing.
In comparison, this set of personal multi-purpose armor is more important to me.
But my design is still a lot immature, so."
"I'd like to spend some time helping you perfect it, Mason, I've been busy anyway."
Dr. Octopus put on his brown glasses again, and stopped Mason with a gentle smile that shouldn't have appeared on his face. He let out a long breath and said:
"But this time I'm going to make a little request. Outsiders, I hope Team K can do us a little favor. The Osborn Tower stores a large number of gravitonium that has been excavated from all over the world.
The loss of those things has destabilized the world.
When I designed that excavation device for them, I left a refill trap door, and I need you to give back what they took from this world!
Just re-inject those gravitonium into the core of the earth, and the unstable earthquakes all over the world will gradually die down in the next few months. "
Dr. Otto said seriously:
"This world may end in the future, and we may not be able to prevent that ending. But we also have things we can do, and I don't want to see it destroyed by a bunch of jerks.
Although I was one of those jerks too. "
"I will try my best to do it if I can."
Mason nodded and said:
"This is not inconsistent with my main purpose."
"Beware of the Green Goblin."
Dr. 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 is more determined than everyone in this doomsday world.
So he is more dangerous than ever. "
"It doesn't matter! I will shoot."
A voice sounded from behind. Mason and Dr. Otto turned around and saw the middle-aged version of Spider-Man stand up and put the hood on his head. He said:
"Just like in the past, let me 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!"
(end of this chapter)