Chapter 12: Poking a hornet's nest
Underground, private laboratory.
With years of studying in the Land of Light, Shen You built a simple laboratory in the basement with the limited resources he could buy. This is the main place of his research.
At this time, he was deleting and modifying a set of freshly completed design drawings displayed from the projection screen, preparing to do the final test before running the simulation on the computer.
It's a project he's been working on since a month ago. He named it "Ultraman".
That's right, it's the same name as the famous spin-off anime work of the Ultraman series, and it's something similar.
To put it simply, it's to create an exoskeleton similar to Iron Man next door. A life-size armor with the appearance of Ultraman, powered by light technology, has strength and performance far beyond conventional Earth technology, and can even carry Spice weapons.
Although he had just received an Apollo power bank from the wizard Shazam, he had more time to transform. But there is still a time limit, and a lot of times a mobile warframe can be very helpful.
The design of the drawings and the programming of the built-in programs are basically completed. Shen You ran the simulation twice, and then hesitated again on the issue of weapon materials.
There are indeed a lot of black technologies on DC Earth, such as what Batman and Lex Luthor used to make armor, and the strength of the materials must be very unheavenly. But those black technologies don't know whether they were born or not in DC at this stage, and Shen You has no way to get in touch with them at present.
However, as soon as his mind moved, he quickly thought of a way to get his hands on top-notch materials.
It's in the kitchen of my own café.
The great wizard Shazam was battling with a new electric oven in his kitchen.
I don't know if it was because it was too slow or because the heat was too difficult to control, the old wizard peeked left and right, and seeing that no one should be paying attention, silently chanted the spell and secretly cast an acceleration spell on the oven.
The roast chicken immediately accelerates under the influence of the spell...... It became a dark brown charred chicken with cracked skin.
Realizing that the acceleration was too much, the wizard's pupils shrank, and he hurriedly flipped his palm and added a backward charm. I saw that the charred roast chicken seemed to go back in time, and quickly changed back to the ...... before it was burnt
...... A round white-shelled egg?
Gan, there is a lot of retreat.
At this moment, I suddenly heard footsteps outside the kitchen door, followed by the voice of the young boss: "Senior wizard? ”
The old wizard chuckled in his heart, and in his haste recited the levitation spell, and with a movement of his fingertips, the poor egg was suddenly launched from the open window.
So as soon as Shen You entered the door, he saw the old wizard in a daze in the middle of the kitchen.
"Uh, what are you doing?"
The old wizard coughed and touched his beard calmly: "A wise wizard should spare a little time to think about life every day. ”
"Uh...... Okay. That hope didn't bother your thoughts...... I have a question. ”
"Well, let's talk about it." The wizard touches his beard and maintains the image of a master.
So Shen You briefly explained his intentions and thoughts.
The old wizard thought for a moment, touched his beard and said, "What are the materials...... In that case, there may still be a small amount of Ninth Metal left in the Temple......"
Shen You perked up when he heard this.
Ninth Metal ...... Mo is not the legendary N metal?
That's the top-tier material you can get in DC. It has been described as a metal with "the potential to subvert all physical and magical rules", and has extraordinary properties even without any processing.
For example, anti-gravity, people wearing N metal can fly freely. And it strengthens the user's strength, gives it super self-healing ability, and has the best resistance to magic. The higher the purity, the more powerful it is, and although rare, the purest N metal can make people immortal and even resurrect the dead.
And then this thing says rare and rare, but it's not that rare. The Senagon Empire, the home of the DC superhero Hawkman, is basically everywhere, similar to Vibranium in Marvel to Wakanda.
"Not much, just a little." The old wizard shook his head, "I got it by accident many years ago. Most of them have already been used by me, and the few that remain have been left on hold for thousands of years, so they are of little use to me. If you want it, take it. ”
Shen You thanked him. The god-level material of N metal is extraordinary even if it has only a little effect, and there are very few people who can be rich enough to make weapons out of pure N metal, most of which are mixed with other materials.
It was outside this meeting that there was a commotion in the café.
......
"Don't be so cold."
A teenager-like thug gathered around a table in a café, winking at a pretty girl.
Three companions gathered around him, each smiling maliciously. They were dressed in casual attire, mostly with holes, hanging Hideyoshi's cow cry and short-sleeved T-shirts printed with patterns or letters, and they were dirty and exuded a decadent and wild temperament.
The girl apparently didn't want to get in trouble, but moved her position away from him.
"Don't be so cold, you just want to make friends."
"That's it, let's just talk and talk together." His companions were heckling on the sidelines.
"It's boring to be embarrassed."
The boy slapped the table hard, and the silver skeleton hanging from his neck rattled.
The girl's face turned pale with fright, and she shrank to the side again: "I'm sorry, but I'm really busy......"
"Really? Then let me help you make time......"
The boy snorted, and actually raised his fist to make a gesture to fight, and the girl was so frightened that she hugged her head.
But he swung it with all his might...... I couldn't swing it down.
The young man turned his head in astonishment, and at a glance saw Shen You, who appeared beside him at some point, and with a kind smile on his face, he reached out and grabbed his wrist.
"Excuse me, guest, but violence is forbidden in our shop."
The young man narrowed his eyes: "You are the shopkeeper?" It's none of your business here. We are from the Cross Gang, so if you know each other, get out of the way of me, don't get in the way. ”
"The Crusades?" Shen You thought hard for a moment.
Not impressed.
The main reason is that there are too many large and small gangs in Gotham, and he can't even remember all the big gangs, let alone those little-known little ones.
"We're in the 19th Street area, and today we're here to do things for our boss Elliot...... That's right, it's the Elliot who is known as 'Crazy Eliot'! ”
"Oh, that's right." Shen You was stunned.
I said so. It's no wonder that there are still fools who don't have long eyes to come to their stores to make trouble, and their feelings come from other people's neighborhoods.
It's normal for outsiders to not understand the situation.
And his sudden expression seemed to be understood by the young man as having heard the prestige of his own boss, and he couldn't help but become more rampant.
"So now let go of my hand and apologize, you can still open your shop here, I can act as if nothing happened......"
Bang bang.
A series of four muffled sounds.
The four thugs were facing the sky on their backs, their nosebleeds prolonged, and it was not until the pain of the beating when they fell to the ground that it was too late.
It's too fast.
The last second was still arrogant, and the boy didn't even understand the situation when he was lying on the cold floor.
I'm ...... Hit the streets?
How?
Confused, he lay down on the ground and saw the young boss drag a chair and sit on the side.
"Now, about what...... 'Crazy Elliot'?" Shen You smiled, "Expand and elaborate." ”
A few bastards shuddered.
I vaguely began to realize that this time I might have stabbed the hornet's nest......