Since Mason joined the Stars Club, he has also walked in many worlds, and he has done all kinds of big things to be praised by others, and he is already considered the number one person, but today he was fucking robbed in this wasteland.

It's really a big world.

However, as a party to the "Gobi Robbery", Mason said that he was emotionally stable, and he didn't seem to hear the shouts of the strange guy who appeared on the bridge next to him, surrounded by dense mechanical ant colonies.

He's going to be thinking about a problem.

If he was begging for a living in this wasteland, and he could control it so strongly, according to the blue beetle, he could gnaw away a city's mechanical ant colony in a few minutes, what kind of approach would he take if he wanted to live a better life?

Rob?

No!

Robbing in this ghost place where no one necessarily passes by for days is the most unimaginative and time-wasting "way to get rich", but the guy in front of him did just that.

So either he's got something wrong with his brain, or the mechanical ant colonies aren't as powerful as they seem.

At least not so powerful that it could be driven to attack the city of New Babylon, which was not far away.

Mason blinked, his Isu senses eyeing its delicately crafted individuals in the dense colony in front of him.

These mechanical flying ants are the same size as normal ants, their craftsmanship is very high, and it is impossible to make them in large quantities in the wasteland era, and Mason has found many damaged individuals in them.

They have not been well repaired, so they can only drag their carcasses and continue to fly through the colony.

"He can't control the colony."

Mason narrowed his eyes and instantly came up with an answer:

"At most, it is to guide and not to enforce orders, this thief who robs the road is just a fox and a fake tiger!"

"Barbara!"

Mason reminded the K-Team Hacker Master:

"Electromagnetic jammer preparation."

"It's already being prepared, it's being activated, the target sky."

In the newsletter, the Bat Maiden said:

"You found out too, right? Mason, these colonies are not well manipulated at all, they are just mimicking the behavior patterns of ants predatoring.

It's a scare-scare scam. ”

"We'll find out in a moment."

Mason sneered, and after waiting in place for a few seconds, the electromagnetic interference wave shot from the spider car behind smashed into the sky like an invisible cannonball.

The mechanical flying ants flying around Mason and the others seemed to smell something terrible, and suddenly dispersed, as if a black cloud in the sky had been torn apart.

This made it easy for Blue Beetle and Bizaro, who were ready for a hard fight, to escape with Mason and Hallie.

"Right here, landing."

Mason kept calculating the distance, and after leaving the ravine thirty meters, he let the blue beetle land on the ground.

I took a few steps forward and looked at the ant colony rolling on the ground in front of me.

Even if it was less than two meters away from Mason, it was like an invisible line stuck in front of him, so that those ferocious mechanical ant colonies could not take a step beyond the thunder pool.

He shook his head and stood up to look at the bridge ahead.

Among the thousands of ants stood an emaciated young man, dressed in tattered but very religious clothes, with a silver helmet buckled around his head, rusted on it, but the two antennas on his forehead made it recognizable.

"Where did you pick up this Ant-Man's helmet?"

Mason shouted to the young man who was robbing on the bridge:

"You're the 'Ant King' of the Ant Gang? It's a lot of fun, kids, I've scared a lot of people with this method over the years, right? I ask you! Did you make the corpse in the ditch? ”

"What about me?"

The young man wearing the Ant-Man helmet and using this thing to control the surrounding mechanical ant colony saw that his trick was exposed, but he was not afraid, so he stood on the bridge with his waist crossed and threatened Mason and said:

"These people are as smart as you are! They all saw that my 'little brothers' weren't going to leave the area, and they all guessed that I couldn't force them.

So they're going to kill me and steal the helmet, and you're going to do the same?

You can try it. ”

"Hey, if I didn't have an 'Emergency Rage Mode' or something, I'd laugh at Dr. Pym's poor skills, it's not that easy to fool me, kid."

Mason waved his hand and gestured to Hallie, saying:

"It's so vicious at a young age, this wasteland is really a Hidden Dragon, but I'm not here to discuss this with you today, we don't have any money on us, I can give you food and water.

Anyway, you're going to go to the nearby black market to buy these things when you take the money, but I won't give it to you for nothing.

Do you have Pym particles in your hand? ”

Seeing that Hallie took out a bottle of pure water and threw it on the bridge, the vigilant young man picked up the water and tested it with a strange instrument, confirmed that there was no toxin, turned his back and took a big sip, wiped his mouth happily, and then turned back to Mason and said:

"What did you just say about Pym? What's that? ”

"A liquid like a drink, purplish-red, encapsulated in a small test tube that cannot be broken."

Mason described the shape of the Pym particle to him, and then asked:

"If you can find the Ant-Man helmet, you must have found Dr. Pym's lab nearby, there should be something like this, why don't you change it to me if you don't need it?"

The price I have given you is sure to satisfy you.

Don't worry, the place you've chosen is really wonderful, it's stuck in the road to Neo-Babylon, and we can't deal with a raging mechanical ant colony.

You see, I'm a smart guy.

I'm not going to try to snatch your helmet, I'm just Pym particles. ”

Mason's offer made the young man on the bridge hesitate, and after nearly half a minute of silence, he shouted:

"If I had, what were you going to trade it for?"

"I just said, food and water."

Mason snapped his fingers, and with a shrug of Harley's shoulders and a wave of the magic pocket on his waist, a small warehouse of purified water and emergency food, as well as a large pile of snacks, appeared in front of him, piled up like a hill.

These things are absolute hard currency in the wasteland, and even more so that money can't buy them in this situation.

Mason took a few packets of "samples", and was not afraid of the mechanical ants that gathered around him, and threw it on the bridge to be "inspected" by the vigilant young man.

After confirming that they were all edible and that they tasted good, the young man with the Ant-Man helmet gestured and said:

"Well, you said Pymp, I did find a small box. That thing almost killed me, ahem, anyway, we didn't really have much use holding it.

I can exchange it for you.

But I'm going to pay five times as much for this food and water! ”

This is obviously the lion's mouth.

The old wolf on the spider cart frowned frequently, and he said to Mason in the communication:

"You've given him so much food enough to eat for a force of dozens of people for a month, he's deliberately embarrassing us, Dr. Pym has been dead for seventeen years, and what he left behind may have been damaged long ago.

Beware of deception. ”

"It's okay, we don't lack food and water."

Barbara, who was next to her, explained while debugging something strange:

"But the Pym particles are very precious, and although I don't know what they are, I've heard Mason say several times that if we can get samples with just food and water, then we can make a lot of money no matter how much we pay."

The old wolf apparently knew what the Pym particle was, and he didn't try to persuade him any further, and after Mason agreed, the "Ant King" on the bridge used his helmet to activate certain functions.

A few minutes later, a swarm of ants arrived on the bridge carrying a small, shabby box with the Pym Tech logo on it, causing Mason to raise an eyebrow.

He also had food and water ready on his side.

Zod, who took the initiative to ask for help, as a trader, completed the payment with one hand and the delivery with the other hand surrounded by mechanical ants.

"Alright, you can go."

The Ant King, who got food and water and learned to use a magic bag, grins.

With a wave of his hand, a red glow on his helmet, he drove the mechanical ant colony back underground, then pointed in the direction behind him and threatened Mason and his gang:

"Don't come to us, smart man, I'll only say it once, if you dare to come, you will bear the consequences!"

With that, he quickly disappeared into the hills behind the bridge with his bags in his hand.

Mason opened the small worn box in his hand, which contained only a small bottle of fuchsia liquid, and Harley was furious and shouted that she had been deceived.

But for Mason, the physical object of the small tube of Pym particles in front of him was enough.

He picked it up and put it in front of his eyes to look at it, and the information label popped up:

Pym particles

Quality: Legendary Engineering/Alchemical Creation, Perfect Craftsmanship

Effects: Used to drive a series of quantum combat devices and scientific instruments developed by Dr. Pym, and can also be used to rudely destabilize the existence of the target object, inflicting [Quantum Destruction] on it.

Warn!

The item is to only be stored in a specific container, and the consequences of a leak would be dire.

Maker: Hank Pym

Item description: All the bits and pieces of your trip don't add up to this cute little thing, and the most ridiculous thing is that you actually got it with a pile of bread and water, good luck, Mason.

Prompt!

This item's recipe analysis requires Engineering Lv8 and Alchemy Lv8.

"It's worth it."

He calmed the grumpy Harley and put the small tube of Pym particles in his special safe, which was worth a lot of money or material things.

What's more, how could such a cunning guy as Mason not leave a hand?

"Have you found his whereabouts?"

Back on the spider car, after nearly five kilometers of the bridge, Mason asked, and the red light in Barbara's eyes, who was sitting next to him, kept beating, and she said in a dumb voice:

"If it weren't for the fact that I just strengthened my brain with the Super Soldier Serum, just supporting the operation of this nano-level tracker would have taken up two-thirds of my RAM cache.

The bad news is that the little guy is cunning, and the area where he is hiding is blocking the signal.

The good news is that we're a cut at the top.

He's hiding underground!

The tracking line has been sent out, and the signal simulation of the mechanical ant colony has been completed. ”

Barbara popped a detached chip from the PC she was running, put it into a USB stick-like device, and handed it to Zod, who was ready to go, with a blank face.

She advised:

"Keep this thing close to you, the mechanical ant colony won't attack you, follow the route to get in, fast in and out, and don't touch anything in the way."

"Hmm."

Zod nodded, got up from the speeding spider car, and sped into the sky and towards the rear.

Want to run after taking Mason's stuff?

Although the 'Ant King' was vicious and cunning trained by this wasteland, he was obviously a little too naïve.

"Mr. K! How did you put the tracker on that guy? ”

Harley asked in surprise:

"You obviously haven't been in contact with him! Can the bat cubs' skill of placing trackers be done by mind now? ”

"Stupid Harley!"

The blue beetle flying next to him was about to laugh out loud while clutching his stomach, and he reminded:

"That bottle of water! The greedy guy took a sip of water, remember? The nanoscale tracker is hidden in the water, and I just realized it. ”

"That's not right!"

Still frowning, Hallie said:

"All that water was made in our Osborne Tower, and it wasn't opened halfway through! Mr. K didn't have a chance to put a tracker in it, did he? ”

"Well, is that a possibility?"

Barbara glanced at Mason, who had closed his eyes and was recuperating, and whispered:

"When the water is filled, it's already in the tracker? It's not a problem with any one bottle of water, Hallie, it's in all bottles.

You all have it in your body at the moment, you just don't need to activate it. ”

The atmosphere on the whole spider car suddenly became weird, Harley rubbed her flat lower abdomen, she glanced at Mason, her Mr. K shrugged his shoulders, and said in a long voice:

"It's just a proper 'protection', lest I can't find you if you go missing, don't think about it, and you can see it, it's never a loss to prepare early, right?"

And in the car pulled by the back of the spider car, the silent Hawkeye took a sip of wine and said in a dumb voice to the strange daughter rubbing her stomach beside her:

"This is the new boss you've chosen for yourself! Now, Ashley, do you still have the confidence to think that you have played with him yourself? ”

"Pym Cross has arrived! Ladies and gentlemen. ”

The only old wolf who had not participated in the discussion, and had been driving silently, suddenly said something to make everyone's eyes look ahead.

They had been curious as to why the crossroads, which were closest to Neo-Babylon, were marked with the surname "Pym", but when the spider cart crossed a col, everyone understood why.

This crossroads, which lead in different directions, are just at the foot of the hill ahead.

It wasn't born out of nowhere, but a huge skeleton nearly a hundred feet tall lay there.

Its pale arms point north and south, while its head and mutilated legs point east and west, and from a high vantage point it looks like a man with his hands outstretched and falling.

This is where the Pym Cross comes from.

During the nuclear war, he single-handedly blocked the Red Skull's pursuers, buying time for the evacuation of more than 100,000 people in New York City. The mechanical ant controlled by the 'Ant King' just now is likely to be the ultimate weapon that Dr. Pym unleashed in his last stand. ”

The old wolf said in a hoarse tone:

"After that night, the place became known as 'Pym Cross,' and the people who survive the wasteland are the same people and their descendants who were evacuated in the first place.

It can be said that this place is a holy place that everyone knows.

Clint stubbornly wanted to go to Neobabylon and had to go in the direction of Pym's thigh, and we had to go straight in the direction of his left hand to get to the former site of Xavier College.

The two places are separated by almost a hundred kilometers and must be separated. ”

"I'm going all the way with Mr. K!"

Hallie raised her hand and shouted, and no one objected.

Mason looked at the huge Pym Cross in front of him, and he turned to Barbara and said:

"Follow Clint to Neobabylon, stay in touch at all times, and do things according to plan."

"Hmm."

The Batgirl nodded.

Apparently she and Mason had already made some plans before they set off.

However, everyone can't leave yet, because the black-clad superman Zod's capture and tracking of the "Ant King" is not over yet, and Mason has a lot of thoughts about the power of the mechanical ant colony he saw with his own eyes just now.

He has always felt that Barbara, who is walking the route of a master hacker, has a bit of a weak ability to protect herself, and he also dedicates a person to protect her in each action.

Obviously, such a model will not last, so it is better to take this opportunity to "upgrade" Barbara Gordon.

"I think you should have a new title, sis."

Mason rubbed his chin and said to Barbara, who was tracking Zod's whereabouts and performing a prosthetic self-examination beside him:

"What do you think of the nickname 'Queen of Ants'?"

"It's not good, it sucks."

Barbara moved her shoulders uncomfortably and said:

"Growing up, I never liked ants."

"Oh?"

Mason pouted and said:

"Then you probably have to learn to like it from now on."

(End of chapter)