It's July 2008.

As we approach the Independence Day holiday, the festive atmosphere in major cities in the United States is getting stronger, and New York is no exception.

Laura has been living a rare life for more than a month.

Of course, calm doesn't mean idleness, she's actually quite busy, mainly preparing for admission to MIT's graduate school in mechanical engineering.

Originally, he was still thinking about Caltech, hemp rope technology, and Stanford, but Tony knew Laura's plan and flew directly to her villa in a freshly assembled MK3 armor, and was almost beaten down by Rachel as an intruder.

After seeing Laura, he directly said that if he wanted to go, he would go to the best, just MIT, and he didn't need to think about anything else.

With Tony Stark's introduction, coupled with the large financial support of the Crawford Group for several important projects in the school, Laura has become an MIT student who she never dared to think of in her previous life.

Of course, after Stark went back, he asked Jarvis to package and send Rachel a lot of professional knowledge such as mechanical drawing, mechanical principles, mechanical design, mechanical manufacturing basics, engineering materials, electrical engineering, material mechanics, mechanical optimization design, blah blah, etc., and specially named the folder 'Introduction to Kindergarten Iron Making'.

Laura's quiet month is to frantically digest this 'kindergarten' level knowledge with Rachel's help.

Every day is full of schedules, and the company's affairs have long been lost to her distant cousin Roxanne.

During the day, I was frantically learning all kinds of knowledge, and at night, my ability development and training became like 'fun time'.

Laura felt like she was back in her senior year of high school in her previous life. I am a hard-working student, and my ability training is a physical education class, and I have to be occupied by the 'homeroom teacher' Rachel at every turn.

After gradually getting used to this rhythm, Laura also began to have fun.

Because Rachel arranges a course with almost equal amount of theory and practice, and occasionally more practice.

So, the day before the Independence Day holiday, Laura, the 'kindergarten fitter', stumbled all the way to design and manufacture the armor.

This is a full-coverage armor, and she doesn't believe in 'the more you show it, the harder you fight'.

The exterior is a reference to the Arkham Knight's appearance.

But I don't know if it's because this is a female armor, and the two sharp horns on her head look like cat ears.

This armor does not use the Ark Reactor, but is powered by Laura's own energy.

Because after the calculations of Tony, Jarvis, Rachel and Rau (paddling) and pulling (fishing), Laura who is full of energy is about equal to ten palladium chips.

After putting on the armor, Laura and Tony, who was wearing MK3, found a place where no one was around, and finally won by running out of MK3's energy.

Tony took off his armor and trembled as he replaced the drained palladium chip, and then the blood on his face began to gradually recover.

Laura, who had been staying on the sidelines, saw the gray line extending outwards on his chest as he lifted his shirt and changed the chip, so she walked over and took out a dark green injection from her belt and pointed it at Tony's neck.

"Whew! What did you call me? ”

Tony jumped in pain, then noticed that he was feeling a little lighter, and quickly put on his armor and let Jarvis check it out.

"Sir, the concentration of palladium in your blood has dropped by 80 percent, and Miss Crawford's potion is effective."

After listening to Jarvis's report, Tony hurriedly opened his mask and looked at Laura.

Taking out a box from her belt and handing it over, Laura said, "Here, there are three more in it, our company's medical team cooperated with a Chinese expert to develop them, and I also asked Rachel to send you the data." ”

Looking at the data displayed by Jarvis on the virtual light curtain in front of him, Tony raised his right hand and dotted it in the air a few times.

Soon, Rachel reminds Laura that she has just received an encrypted copy of Tony's data.

Before Laura could click on it and take a closer look, Tony's voice rang out: "This is the data of the Ark Reactor, it's not like me to put it on my chest if it's a clean and efficient energy source, you can use it yourself, let Rachel help you do a good job of encryption, don't spread it." ”

Laura nodded and said, "Tony, the Chinese herbal extract reagent I gave you can only temporarily delay the symptoms of your palladium poisoning, and due to the limitations of Chinese herbal materials, even if you use an AIDS-like 'cocktail therapy', it won't last long." For the sake of your life, from now on, until you find a new element that can replace palladium, wear as little armor as you can. ”

Tony was silent for a while after hearing this, and then controlled MK3 to play a rock song and flew away.

Laura listened to the stirring music that drifted away, shook her head and sighed, muttering to herself, "AC/DC's high way to hell? I really can't figure out if you're optimistic or pessimistic, Tony. ”

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Half an hour later, Laura returned to her lab, took off her armor, and stood aside to think.

In the battle just now, the battle armor raised Laura's strength, speed, and defense to a higher level.

The attack is slightly less than Tony's. In addition to hand-to-hand combat, the hands, feet, and chest can be used for energy attacks like Tony's Mark series, and the special lenses of the head armor can also shoot out thermal vision.

His dependence on the armor is not as high as Tony's, so it is not necessary to update it so quickly, but how to increase the temperature and energy storage limit of his 'Sun Body' is more important.

After a while, Rachel's voice rang out: "Laura, it's time for you to continue studying. ”

Laura, who came back to her senses, said "um" and was about to go upstairs, when she suddenly remembered that her armor did not have a name, so she asked casually:

"Rachel, what do you want to name my armor? I gave you a name before, and now you're here to help me think about it. ”

The light curtain flickered slightly for a second, as if Rachel was looking for data, and then her voice rang out:

"Bastet, the cat goddess of ancient Egyptian mythology, began to be worshipped around the Second Dynasty of Egypt, before the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt, she used to be the goddess of war in Lower Egypt, as opposed to the lion goddess Sekhmet in Upper Egypt."

After listening to popular science, Laura thought it was very good, so she decided on the name of the series of Best Warframes.

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A small country in Eastern Europe.

Rose spent months exploring, searching.

The footprints have traveled almost all over Europe, and the clues in the notebook have been crossed one by one, and finally only the last one remains.

Following this last clue, he came to this small country that seemed to live in the last century, and after spending thousands of dollars, he finally found Ivan Vanke's current address.

But Ross was still a step too late, the place was already empty, and after asking the apartment administrator, he learned that Anton Vanke had died of illness two days earlier, and Ivan Vanke had disappeared soon after burying his father.

Rose called and Laura explained the situation.

With the Self-Driven Best Generation Warframe, Tony also shared the Ark Reactor with himself. Laura's need for the skills of the two fathers and sons is not so strong, and since Ross and they missed it, they missed it.

Knowing that Laura was not going to continue looking for this person, and that his girlfriend's birthday was approaching, Rose informed Laura and left Eastern Europe for Africa to find his girlfriend who was volunteering there.