Chapter 139: The Ring: The Gold of Inclusion [4K5]
"Emotional awareness is becoming more and more obvious."
With the increase of the energy essence, the blank consciousness that Luke had perceived before also grew stronger and stronger as more and more energy essence, as if absorbing nutrients.
It cannot be said that they have the ability to think of intelligent beings, etc., for the time being, they are more like the embodiment of some kind of emotion, and can only be regarded as some kind of instinct of intelligent beings. If I had to give a definition, it could only be a beast, not a man.
Luke looked at the first Mind Ring he had made. As a later piece of equipment, Luke named it the Ring of Discernment. It is unconscious and blank before it is worn, but after it has its owner, it will be infected by the deepest and strongest feelings in the wearer's heart, and transformed into a spiritual ring with some kind of spiritual and emotional power.
During this phase of transformation, the ring will also outline the corresponding imprint of psychic power. Since then, the ring has had a certain emotional attribute. It will only absorb the energy of this emotional attribute.
The main thing is that until the wearer dies or reverses his emotions, the ring can only be used by the wearer, like a soul bond, or a DNA bond.
Sounds a bit like the characteristics of a symbiote?
The material from which this ring was made is the latest generation of symbiote materials! Under Luke's technical manipulation, this material retains some of the advantages and characteristics of the symbiont to the greatest extent.
To put it mildly, the ring can even be seen as a powerful support creature. It is loyal, powerful, and able to provide the wearer with the perks of most technological equipment.
Like communication?
The ring borrows the mysterious network of communication between symbiotes, allowing the wearer to communicate with the wearer of another ring through the ring.
Of course, if you have a lot of technical experience with rings, and you are skilled and proficient in the construction of some instruments, then you can also use the energy of the ring to create a communication device that can communicate with other communicators, etc.
To this end, Luke asked the White Empress to write a thick manual to teach future users how to properly use the power of the ring; how to care for your ring; how to recharge the ring; How to dig deeper into the usefulness of the ring; And how to protect your spirit healthily under the emotional erosion of the ring.
The A4-sized paper area and more than 900 pages of dry content are still very sketchy in Luke's opinion. But the production version for castration at the moment should be enough.
Luke didn't bring the prototype Mind Ring, this is just a prototype, the only advantage is that Luke doesn't set too many restrictions on it, and has a certain limit of self-growth in materials and technology.
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"Half a month, the speed of your research is really unexpected. I thought it would take you a little bit longer to come up with the finished product. In the Hebleen Industrial Park, in an enclosed training ground, Nick Fury, who had arrived in a hurry with someone, looked at Luke with some amazement.
If the researchers under him could have Luke's research efficiency and strength, why did he bother to bow his head and eyes outside with a shy old face and throw a lot of money around?
Although Nick is well aware that the researchers he has collected and cultivated have created a lot of eye-watering black technologies for S.H.I.E.L.D. But everything is afraid of comparison, isn't it?
People are always greedy and do not know how to be satisfied.
"Fury told me about you, Luke Field, and your Heberen, the most important equipment provider for S.H.I.E.L.D. right now." Steve Rogers, who was next to Nick, also reached out.
"I've heard him talk about you, a sign of the times." Luke shook Steve's hand.
"You said that in addition to ordinary testers, you also need a person who is strong-willed, and has a bottom line and conscience in his heart, I think about it, the only one who can be trusted and meet your requirements is Rogers." Nick didn't speak until the two of them had shaken hands.
"You know yourself." Luke smiled. This proves that Nick knows exactly who he is, and who the agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. are in charge.
They may be the guardians of order and peace in Nick's eyes, but they definitely don't have much to do with Luke's requirements. Out of prudence and safety, Nick invited Steve Rogers, a representative figure, at the beginning of the test, when everything was blind.
At least the will and morality of the other party are much more convincing than those of the agents under his command.
"Can I take a look at your product?" Nick's intact one-eyed fell on Snoke, who was standing behind Luke with a suitcase.
Luke snapped his fingers and stepped out of the way. Snooker, who received the look of his boss, immediately put the suitcase in his hand on the ground, and then squatted down to open it.
The box was heavy and thick, and Nick thought that the new equipment would be some larger ones, but he didn't expect that after opening it, the first thing that caught his eyes was a thick book.
"What is this?" Nick watched as Snooker took the book, which should have been nearly ten centimeters thick, out of the box, and handed it to Luke's outstretched hand, and then passed it through Luke's hand. He only felt a sinking in his hands, a little dazed.
You can't say that the equipment that Luke promised is such a book, right?
"You're taking it the other way around." Luke kindly reminded him. At this time, snooker had already turned the box around, and the one that opened it was facing Nick's direction.
Nick turned the book in his hand over and looked at the words on it with some silence.
"Psychic Ring Instruction Manual?" Steve, who was beside Nick, glanced sideways at the cover and couldn't help but chant aloud.
"Is this the Soul Ring?" Nick calmly tucked the thick instruction manual to the right side of his arm, took two steps forward, and crouched down to look at the six rings in the box in a ring.
He wanted to reach for it, but suddenly, as if he remembered something, he glanced up at Luke next to him and asked, "I should be able to take them out and take a look, right?" ”
"As long as you don't wear it." Luke nodded. Then his gaze fell on Steve, who was on the side, and took out the prototype ring from his coat pocket, and threw it out under Steve's stunned gaze. "And then."
Steve grabbed the ring that was thrown at him in mid-air with his hands and feet, and after glancing at Luke, he opened his clenched palm and looked at the ring lying in his palm with a silver-gray body and a very simple style.
"That's what you told me, that particular ring?" Seeing this scene, Nick didn't bother to look at the rings placed in the box, stood up, picked up the prototype ring from Steve's palm and put it in front of his one-eye, looked at it over and over again, and glanced at Luke next to him.
"The first Mind Ring on the planet. As the creator of it, I felt the need to find a good owner for it. Luke said.
"What's the use of it?" After Nick finished speaking, he seemed to feel that his words were ambiguous, and changed his words: "I mean, what can it do?" ”
"You can ask the captain to put it on and try it out. Isn't that what we're here for? Luke stepped out of the way and motioned for Nick to return the ring to Steve.
Nick re-placed the archetypal ring back on Steve's body, and then took Agent Natasha behind him, followed Luke, and then withdrew some distance.
Steve looked at the silver-gray ring lying quietly in his palm, took a breath, picked it up with his other hand, and after two flips in his hand, put it on the index finger of his right hand.
Two or three seconds after putting it on, Steve suddenly felt that his spirit sensed the existence of some kind of energy, which seemed to emerge from the depths of his body, and seemed to be surging from the outside.
He closed his eyes and carefully sensed the power that appeared in his body, and everything in the outside world was blocked by him now.
What Steve Rogers didn't know was that Nick, who was not far away at this moment, had already opened his one-eyed eye wide because of his unbearable surprise. In his eyes, Steve was wrapped in a layer of golden energy, rendering him a layer of slightly dazzling brilliance standing in the sun.
What surprised him even more was that Steve's toes were slightly off the ground under the effect of that energy. Looking at each other, Nick suddenly felt an inexplicable mixture of trust and serenity in his heart.
This emotion did not awaken Nick until the golden energy on Steve's body dissipated and his whole body was suspended a little on his toes and re-grounded.
He frowned and began to examine his heart, what was the reason for the urge to be willing to fight side by side with Steve just now? After thinking about it, he set his eyes on the ring on Steve's right index finger.
At this moment, the ring, which was previously silver-gray and plain in style, has changed visibly with the naked eye. First of all, its original silver-gray color has been replaced by a transparent jade gold, which is a metal ring to the touch and visual, and it is also like jadeite, with a sense of transparency.
On the face of the ring, there was a mark that was not there before, because of the angle problem, Nick couldn't see it really, and could only roughly judge from the part he saw that the mark on the ring face should be a sun-like light cluster, exuding golden lines outward.
"What's it like, Captain?" Seeing that Steve opened his eyes, Nick couldn't help but step forward and ask while looking eagerly at the ring on his hand.
"Feelings?" Steve frowned and thought about it for a moment, and gave a very vague answer: "Great." It's like taking a hot bath, and the whole person seems to have been cleaned from the inside out. The anxiety, restlessness, hesitation, and loneliness in my heart since I woke up seem to have been dispelled. I've never felt so easy as I am now. ”
"More specifically? Aside from the mental aspect, like, what changes have occurred in your body? "Nick has more focus.
"Physical changes?" Steve closed his eyes again and felt it seriously, and quickly opened his eyes and said, "I feel that there is an inexhaustible strength in my body, and it seems that my strength has become greater, and at the same time, I can feel some kind of energy." ”
"How did you just feel?" Nick turned to look at Agent Natasha behind him.
"Feelings? Feel as if he is trustworthy and will have more courage by his side? It's a strange feeling, and I don't usually trust someone I don't know easily. Natasha spoke earnestly about her feelings. She did have a sense of trust in Steve just now, even as if as long as he was around, no matter who the enemy was, who the opponent was, she was fearless.
"Do you know how to use and control that power, Captain?" Nick nodded, turned back to Steve's direction, and asked again.
"It's just a simple way to use it, and it's like someone taught me to do it, and it's an instinct. But I feel like there's a lot more to dig into it. Steve was honest with his answer.
"Looks like you don't need a manual to get started?" Nick subconsciously glanced at Luke, who was observing Steve with interest.
"That's a special edition, and it's unique at the moment. Don't compare it to these production versions. Luke said, his eyes glancing over the rings in the box. If you want to be proficient in using the ring, ask your agents to memorize the manual. ”
Nick looked at Steve's changed ring, "It looks like it's made from something special." ”
"Very rare material." Luke nodded.
"Are these rings made of the same material?" Nick looked at the rings in the box and asked with interest.
Luke gave him a blank look: "Don't fantasize, these rings are made of a generation of symbiote metal. ”
"How did I hear that this material has been eliminated within Heblelen?" Nick looked at Luke with a strange look.
"Who said that? Where did you hear that? Utter nonsense! It hasn't been released yet, so how can it be eliminated? Luke retorted eloquently.
"What kind of emotional power does the captain have in possession?" Nick raised his hand and made a surrender motion.
"Trust, courage, you can think of it as a unique ring of leadership. It can greatly increase the strength of the wearer and influence those around them, giving them courage and strength.
This refers to the situation where the captain is able to use the ring proficiently. As long as the other party can do this, he alone can form a super team. The more you believe and worship, the more power you will be able to distribute.
If you reach the level of a believer, you may be able to obtain a disembodied energy ring. This is just my speculation, and the conditions to be met are harsh. Luke answered bluntly.
Because it is a prototype ring, Luke subconsciously couldn't help but add a lot of functions to it in a state of inspiration, and as for the subsequent production version, it is not as bells and whistles as the prototype ring function, at most it is a symbiote-like suit.
The difference is that the symbiote is parasitic and has entities, and the amplification of the ring is the energy coat, the energy body.
"Once you've mastered this power, you can shape them into any weapon you have at your disposal. And if you have a weapon at hand, you can also plate this layer of power on it.
The Gold of Inclusion!
The stronger your will, the stronger the kick you attach to your weapon. You can think of it as a mage's enchantment of an object with magic. Regularly using this power to accommodate one's own weapons will cause the weapon's materials to be optimized and grown.
It can form an energy cloak to protect you, and it can also be used as a ranged weapon that can be fired as an energy beam strike. As long as you don't have any earth-shaking changes in your personality and your will is always firm, then it will never betray and will be your most solid backing. ”
Luke said a few more words under Steve's implicated eyes.
"Do these rings have the same qualities?" Nick couldn't help but look at the rings in the box again. Although he knew, it was unlikely.
"The quality of the production version is that it doesn't pick the owner, and it can be used regardless of the personality. Although the power has been weakened a lot, the same various hidden dangers and threshold restrictions have also been weakened a lot. Like the kind of ring in the captain's hand, it is not strictly a dead thing, and after the first owner wears it, it has a template for choosing the successor owner.
My advice is, don't think about this ring in the captain's hand, the production version is more suitable for you. Even if I'm willing to sell, you won't have the money to buy a few. Sure enough, Luke gave Nick an answer that was not surprising.
PS: This chapter is difficult to break down. Moreover, they have all been set to an integer threshold, and I look very uncomfortable, so I can pull up and lower the average order and break this integer threshold.
PS: Thank you for the summary of Sky Wings.
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