In the main control room of the starship, now renamed the Family, the Mothership of the Second Sequence of the Conquerors, everyone in the Mason family sat at the mechanical round table, each with a different expression but they all knew what it was going to do.

Just like every time they did something big before, Mason must have had a lot of manufacturing tasks for them to do before heading to the dangerous Dou Realm this time.

This is naturally overtime, but don't expect the captain to pay overtime on time.

Everyone is a brother, and you still ask me for overtime pay, isn't this an outlet?

"There are still three days to prepare, and this time it's all big work, so you probably won't have much time to rest."

In front of the mechanical round table, Mason flipped through the plan he had written last night, and the Masons below made rotten expressions one by one, and some of them had already fallen asleep on the table, in this way they launched a silent protest against Mason's oppressive behavior, but they were all gorgeously ignored by the captain.

He knocked on the table, assigned the task and said:

"Doom aside, I've already made arrangements for his tactics, and I don't need to use special weapons or equipment that go beyond conventional armaments, but Doom is just a gatekeeper boss, and according to what we've gathered so far, the real heavyweight is obviously Dr. Blue Bird, who never appeared in Rorschach's diary but is intertwined with it.

I wonder if something has been deleted from Rorschach's brain, and he wouldn't normally ignore that powerful and sane guy.

But there is not the slightest information in the whole article to prove that Dr. Manhattan is deliberately erasing his clues throughout the Calamity Era, which is the standard behavior of the big boss behind the scenes. ”

"It's okay to figure out who is him."

The engineer leaned back in his chair and said helplessly:

"If it's a guy of Dr. Manhattan's level, don't expect the weapons in our hands to hurt him, he's conceptually immortal and omnipotent, and can see through the past and the future, and any plan against him won't work, I even suspect that guy was 'watching the whole thing' when we had a meeting here."

As he spoke, the bastard also stretched out his hand and waved it behind him, and said in a long voice:

"Hello, Doctor, are you listening? We're planning to kill you, but it's just an arrogant attempt, so don't blow us up to the wall, okay? ”

"Don't be afraid, it's not that mysterious."

Mason shook his head and threw the plan in his hand on the table, and said to the others:

"According to my guess, there may have been a problem with that guy's observation of the future, otherwise his character would not have allowed the crisis in his eyes to ruin his plans to develop to this point.

And I have a feeling that the all-powerful guy can't see us.

Do you understand what I mean?

It's like a blind spot in your vision.

He may be aware of our presence, but he can't accurately capture our plan of action, which is why he allows us to advance the cause of the Council of Resistance to where it is now.

And that Rorschach diary!

The thing that revealed the mysteries of the Fighting World was theoretically undeserved, but it fell into our hands, and Tony Zero said he played some role in helping in it.

So I think the Manhattan Dr. we're going to be dealing with isn't as omnipotent as we think."

"You're too optimistic, aren't you?"

The inscriptionist raised his hand and grumbled:

"These five shocks came ahead of schedule, and I suspect it might be Dr. Blue Bird's doing, if he can connect with the origin of the universe, he is fully capable of doing such a thing.

Isn't that a response to the collapse of the Council? ”

"So we can't wait any longer."

Mason said in a deep voice:

If this is what he intends to do to flip the table, then it will definitely not end well if he waits any longer, and the action after three days will be the final adventure.

Everything that Dr. Blue Bird manipulated behind the scenes must be bulldozed!

As I said, we can't just challenge him head-on, because we have no chance of winning, we have to solve this problem in a way that we are good at.

Engineer, how is the assembly of the miracle machine going? ”

"Ah, I knew you were going to hit that thing."

The engineer let out a scream, got up and knocked on the table, and said to the others:

"Come with me, and I'll show you just how much trouble this mess I'm trying to fix is."

The group got up and followed him to the Engineer Deck of the "Family", which was the domain assigned to him, and the Miracle Machine was placed in the mechanical workshop at the core.

Because the area is being rebuilt, the fast shuttle is no longer usable, and in the scene of the diligent cleaning and transformation of the Mark armor, the Masons can only go to the place where the miracle machine is placed.

The captain walked at the back, and without the others noticing, he glanced at the jeweler beside him.

The two slowed down, and after some distance from the other Masons, Mason took a box from his bag and handed it to the jeweler, who opened it in his hand and looked at it in horror.

Inside the box was a crystal key.

It doesn't look surprising on the outside, it's just an ordinary old-fashioned door lock key, and if I have to say it, I can only praise this thing for its superb shaping skills, and it doesn't have a physical substance in the conventional sense in the case of a single piece.

The jeweler can confirm that this is an energy substance shaped by pure magic in the case of high concentration, and the essence is a mass of magic arranged according to a special law.

The jeweler knows what this thing is for.

He looked left and right, and whispered:

"Isn't this the key prop that the guy who calls himself your 'brother' gave you to leave this universe? What are you giving me this for? ”

"I've studied it, and this key doesn't have a particularly clever structure, it just hides a coordinate to the outside world, and once used, it can open a door.

That's the only use it can be. ”

Mason whispered:

"Since it's not a complicated creation, I don't think it's too much of a problem for you to copy one, right?"

"What are you going to do?"

The jeweler's eyes widened immediately, and he exclaimed, in a low voice:

"Is this one of your plans against Dr. Manhattan?"

"Just to be on the safe side."

Mason replied briefly:

"I'm actually very skeptical that even if the engineers assembled the Miracle Machine, it was unknown if it would work against Dr. Manhattan, and it could theoretically grant all wishes, but Dr. Bluebird was not an adversary that could be summed up under normal circumstances.

I had to make a plan in place.

If it is determined that he cannot be defeated, then banishment is also an option, although he can definitely come back, but as long as the time is delayed until after the end of the epoch change, even if he returns, it will not affect the overall situation.

You know what I mean? ”

"I know, but it's too risky."

The jeweler looked at the crystal key in his hand, he pursed his lips, and said with a rare lack of confidence:

"Although the structure of this thing is very simple, and I am sure that with the help of the inscription master, I can extract that coordinate and then replicate the same magic condensation, but I think there are still some things that I want to simulate this level with my current level of craftsmanship. How so?

This is no ordinary fake!

Who knows what's going on out there? Once we leave this universe and go to the outside world, we have to rely on this 'compass' to navigate to the right place.

If there is something wrong with the copy, our brothers will be doomed. ”

"You do your best."

Mason, too, knew where the jeweler's concerns were coming from, and he reached out and patted his brother on the shoulder, encouraging:

"If those guys can get us here, they'll definitely have a way to get us back again, and even if something goes wrong, they'll be able to take care of it."

"Okay."

The jeweler nodded, put away the box in his hand, and said:

"I'll get a blueprint out as soon as I can, but it takes time to polish it to perfection, and I can't do it in three days, so if it does fall to that point, you'll have to use up the real thing."

"What are you two talking about?"

The alchemist shouted back, Mason shrugged his shoulders and the jeweler stepped forward quickly.

They soon arrived at the place where the engineer had stored the miracle machine, and saw a pile of assembled parts that were almost formed, like a complex mechanical system without a casing that was already functioning, but the problem was that there was a small pile of unused parts left nearby.

"Are you a fucking aircraft engineer from Stan Aeronautics? How can you fix something and have an extra handful of parts after repairing it? ”

Seeing this scene, the other Masons couldn't hold back, and the tailor complained to the engineer very viciously:

"I'm not talking about you, who would dare to use this thing like this! Isn't this a matter of sending your own people to the West Heaven as soon as it is activated? ”

"Yes, yes."

The other Masons were also very vicious and said:

"You should at least put all the parts on, it's a bit outrageous that there are so many left."

"You know what a!"

The engineer, who was ridiculed by others, immediately grabbed his big wrench and scolded:

"This thing doesn't have the right assembly drawings at all, right? It's already my ingenuity to get this step, and if it's not good, it can already work, right?

I'm telling you, it's a high-end thing, you can't understand it.

According to my understanding of the law of cause and effect, this thing is already complete when it is assembled as it is, and it definitely works, although the effect is certainly much worse than the complete combination.

It's an internally self-consistent system, you know? Even if I just put two gears together, it could theoretically be called a miracle machine.

It's complicated, and I can now confirm that there's no proper assembly method at all, and it's all based on the completion of the combination to achieve performance.

And I didn't say I'm done, didn't I ask you to come and watch and give some advice?

Trying new combinations every day makes my head explode, but the combination card can't go up here, so I desperately need your craftsman wisdom, brothers. ”

"Wait, I'll see."

Mason pushed the frame on the bridge of his nose and crouched down in front of the miracle machine that had been reluctantly assembled by the engineers, looking at the strange set of machines in front of him that was assembled and working in a way that he couldn't understand at all, and reached out to it.

The other Masons also quieted down, they knew that this was the subject who was going to use the golden finger, although everyone could enjoy the process improvement brought by the proficiency system, but the identification of this kind of thing still had to be done by the subject himself.

The captain stared at the miracle machine in front of him, and soon a message label popped up in front of him:

Miracle Machine

Quality: Engineering Cosmic Artifact

Combo: 65% Medium Performance

Wish Fulfillment: 65%

Prompt!

Try more combinations to further increase the Wonder Machine combo so that the item can fulfill your wish in a more efficient way.

Maker: Enjiniel Mason

Item description: Are you so stupid that you can't play with the blocks? Come and see me put on a show for you, first this, then that, and finally this and you're done, understand?

"It's not going to work!"

Mason didn't even bother to complain about the damn item, he got up with a frown and said to the other Masons:

"The 65% combo makes every wish come true only 65%, which means that if I were going to kill Dr. Bluebird with this thing, I would only be able to beat him to 65% death.

For a guy like that, isn't that the same as no injury?

If you want it to be put into practice, you need to get at least 85% of the combination, and 90% of it is better. We have three more days to gather all the wisdom of the Mason family and put it together. ”

"Don't just say it, who doesn't know about the emergency, the problem now is that you have to come up with a solution."

The engineer sighed, stepped forward and took the miracle machine he had assembled again, and with the help of the robotic arm, arranged all the parts on the mechanical plate in front of him.

He turned on the quantum computer next to him, projected all the assembly drawings he had obtained from this thing so far, and said to the other Masons:

"So now it's time to brainstorm ideas, brothers, and use your skills in other fields to give me some inspiration.

It's a strange thing, and it's hard to put it together any further with the mind of an engineer.

Just like those weird and nasty exam questions, you need to think about it from a new perspective, and you may be able to arrive at a relatively correct answer in a rather strange way. ”

"Alas"

Mason sighed, and he took a shovel from his bag and put it in his hand with a clatter.

This action made the other Masons look at him in surprise, and thought that this was Mason's plan to use this thing to open a scoop for waste engineers, and let the engineers who had already drilled into the tip of the bull's horns realize the result of brains opening up at the thinking level through the way of opening their brains at the physical level.

A few guys who had long seen Enjiniel unpleasant had already rolled up their sleeves, intending to help hold down the engineer and let Mason come to a scene to execute everyone and have fun.

But that's not the case.

The captain threw the shovel to the engineer and said:

"Go dig up the grave of Tyrant Tony and get that wisdom gem back, that thing will definitely help, but it's a burial item and we're not tomb robbers, so we'll have to put it back when it's done!"

"Hey, good idea!"

The Engineer's eyes widened, then he gave a thumbs up with a smile.

The power of the Wisdom Gem is unknown, but it's certain that it can be a great help in this kind of brain-wielding problem.

This guy didn't have any psychological burden about digging graves, he whistled and rushed out with a shovel, and ran back with a box after ten minutes.

A bunch of Masons were already gathering there chattering to start a combined discussion of the Miracle Machine, refuting the engineer's drawings from all angles, and occasionally arguing.

The captain was relieved to see that this was on the right track, he looked at the time of his watch, glanced at the jeweler, signaled him not to forget his business, and then retreated behind the group and quietly left.

It's always reassuring to have this group of guys around, and Mason hummed a song as he left the "Family" starship, thinking that it was a stroke of genius to pinch them out in the first place.

Look, he doesn't have to use his brain to do these difficult things now, well, of course, he's very busy today, and he'll have to go shopping with Harley and Quinn later.

Alas, it's not easy for anyone.

(End of chapter)