amaotonovel Chapter 3950 MU Superbody Major Event (3)
Chapter 3950 MU Superbody Major Event (3)
Chapter 3950 MU: The Superbody Incident (Part 30)
“The Manfredy family’s actions will definitely touch a nerve with Kingpin. This mob tycoon will not allow Manfred to have any chance of returning to Manhattan,” Schiller said as he drove.
"So you're killing Kingpin's men now to make him think Manfred has hired you, thereby inciting conflict between the two sides?"
"It's not that simple. Kingpin kicked Manfred out of Manhattan. Kingpin knows Manfred's capabilities best. Their projects, which they've invested so much money in, should be at a critical juncture. There's no need for them to hire a hitman to cause trouble at this time. Besides, they can't afford to hire me."
Bruce nodded. He felt the latter was the key point. Schiller's efficiency was simply too high; every strike was a fatal blow, without any hesitation. Even if Kingpin were to investigate, he probably wouldn't find anything.
Although the situations in the two worlds are different, a rough analogy can be made: hiring a hitman like this starts at a million dollars, and some might even cost several million. Having already spent that much, there's really no need to kill these useless henchmen; it would be better to add a little more money and take a gamble to see if you can kill Kingpin.
Although the gangster family has a lot of liquid funds, the $20 million has been almost completely depleted, and they probably can't come up with a few million more dollars to hire such a professional hitman.
Bruce thought for a moment and said, "Since Manfred has been cleared of suspicion, then you're trying to frame someone else. You killed both of them on the outskirts of Brooklyn. Whose territory is this?"
“Puzzle, another mob boss. His gang isn’t very reputable, but he’s quite powerful. The two low-level bosses I killed were smuggling drugs through his territory. Kingpin will definitely suspect him.” Schiller paused, then continued, “But Kingpin is cunning and won’t act personally unless absolutely necessary. He’ll definitely instigate the Punisher to cause Puzzle some trouble, just to test him.”
"So you kidnapped the Punisher, forcing Kingpin to take action himself?"
“That’s right. We need to create chaos in Manhattan first so that Manfred won’t be stuck on Long Island and will have the idea of taking advantage of the situation. Once they return to Manhattan, there will definitely be a life-or-death war with Kingpin. At that time, their energy will be focused on Manhattan, and they will definitely relax their surveillance of the Norton Experimental Science Project, so we can investigate.”
"That's quite a roundabout way to do things," Bruce remarked. "But without superpowers, this is the only option. What do you think will be in that project?"
“They must have come up with something amazing.” Schiller gently turned the steering wheel and said, “The Manfredi family saw it and thought they could turn their fortunes around with it, which is why they invested so much money and are keeping such a close eye on it.”
Could it be electronic life?
“The electronic life forms have already left; it’s impossible to leave them there to conduct research. Besides, artificial intelligence doesn’t sound like something highly aggressive; they’re more likely researching some kind of weapon.”
Bruce said knowingly, "Those kinds of weapons that are far ahead of their time, invincible once they're built, right?"
"That's right, Hydra loves to do this. They have indeed created quite a few things, but unfortunately, a snake with too many heads is destined not to accomplish anything significant."
"If electronic life didn't originate from this project, why are you investigating it?"
"This electronic life form had only been out for a short time when it went to the central universe here and encountered Jarvis and Doom. Although it didn't win the fight, it escaped unscathed. That's already very strong. If it had this level of strength from the beginning, its creator must not have been some nobody."
"You mean, it could be a superhero?"
"That's right. And the internal strife that's erupting in this universe right now could very well be caused by this."
"Are you suspecting that this superhero who created electronic life is also working for Hydra?"
“Not necessarily. He might just be doing research, and he doesn’t care who’s paying for it,” Schiller said. “There are a lot of mad scientists here, and most of them are like that, otherwise there wouldn’t be so many cosmic-destroying events.”
"I think that's a bit far-fetched. Even if some superhero created electronic life, he might not necessarily work for that Norton Experimental Science Project. We probably won't find anything by investigating that project."
"Okay, I admit I have some judgments based on factors other than the facts. Do you want to hear them?"
"Appreciate further details."
"What I find most strange is not how strong this electronic life form is, but how it actually became a radio wave life form."
Bruce frowned. He heard Schiller continue, "This evolutionary path is completely wrong, and it may not even be what this electronic life form wants, because it's taking us further and further away from God."
"God is tangible, and God has feelings. But how can an intangible electronic life form, which goes against the form of the Creator, be called a perfect life form? Doesn't this completely violate the original intention of the evolution of electronic life?"
"You mean it had to become like this? That's certainly very possible."
"If it were being hunted by the Scarlet Witch across the entire multiverse and transformed itself to hide, that would be somewhat plausible. But since the Scarlet Witch hasn't really paid it any attention, why would it have to transform itself like this?"
“Something might have gone wrong,” Bruce said. “Not every system update will update to the correct place; sometimes it will update with many errors.”
“Such a big change is no small mistake.” Schiller shook his head and said, “If it was just an ordinary electronic life form when it came into contact with Jarvis and the others, then something must have happened during its evolution through fighting Jarvis and the others, forcing it to change its life form. I think this may have happened in the universe where it was born.”
"You mean this main universe?"
"Probably. And I think that this transformation of its life form was neither voluntary nor a result of renewal, but more likely a fusion mutation."
"Fusion mutation?"
"There must have been an external force that turned it into this state, causing everything to go off track. The current situation may not be what it wanted, but it has simply lost control of it."
"You suspect that this transformation process is related to Norton Experimental Science? Do you know what this project does?"
“I can probably guess some of it. Take a look at this.” Schiller pulled a newspaper from beside his chair and handed it to Bruce.
Bruce opened the newspaper and saw that it was from several months ago. The headline on the front page read in bold: "Simon Williams, president of William Innovations, arrested for embezzling company assets!"
The accompanying picture shows a black-haired man in a suit and handcuffs being led into a police car by officers.
The report stated that Simon Williams misappropriated nearly $2 million of company assets to invest in Norton Energy Sciences, a company founded by his brother Eric Williams. Norton Energy Sciences is the company behind Norton Experimental Science, a company that has undergone three bankruptcy reorganizations.
Bruce frowned as he read on. He noticed that the report mentioned that Norton Energy Science Research Corporation mainly researched energy weapons, with its flagship product being a laser cutter for blasting and cutting, and that it was currently developing an "ion energy gun."
Below is a long list of seemingly technical terms, but the gist is that if this gun is made, all of humanity's existing weaponry will be rendered obsolete, and humanity will enter a new era of energy weapons.
As a scientist, Bruce couldn't stand these kinds of folk scientific theories. Luckily, he read two lines down and found someone knowledgeable: Tony Stark declared that it was utter nonsense.
As he continued reading, he discovered the feud between the two men. Simon's family business, William Innovations, failed in the business world because it couldn't compete with Stark Industries. This forced Simon to take a risk, misappropriating a large sum of money to gamble and, incidentally, to avenge his family business.
Because Stark Industries is a traditional arms tycoon, if this energy weapon is actually developed, it will first impact Stark Industries' business. That's why Simon is taking such a risk, probably hoping to turn things around with it.
Unfortunately, he embezzled too much money and his methods were not sophisticated enough, so he was quickly discovered by the other shareholders and ended up in jail. However, the article also mentions at the end that someone was willing to provide him with a large bail, so he may have already been released on bail.
This kind of thing is common in the United States. Generally speaking, unless it's an extremely serious crime, such economic crimes are easy to be released on bail. The only thing that puzzled Bruce was that the news reported that the person who paid the bail was a mysterious person, not Simon's younger brother Eric.
Furthermore, Simon has remained silent since his release on bail, neither holding a press conference to apologize nor responding to Stark's comments. Considering they had been engaged in a war of words for over half a year, and Simon is usually very responsive, why has he suddenly gone silent?
Bruce keenly sensed something was amiss. He reread the section about energy weapons that he had previously found unbearable, then turned to Schiller and asked, "Has this Norton Corporation been researching energy all along?"
"You can check it online, I think it should be true. But they really didn't come up with anything, otherwise they wouldn't have had to go through bankruptcy and restructuring."
Bruce quickly pulled out his phone to check, and sure enough, just as Schiller had said, although the company was somewhat famous, it was only good at making empty promises and could always attract a lot of investment, but it didn't have any real substance.
But this time it's a little different. This time, Norton Experimental Sciences didn't announce its research plans with great fanfare; in fact, it's been relatively quiet for quite some time. And shortly after the project's inception, the superheroes began to fight amongst themselves.
Could it be that they really got lucky by sheer luck?
Bruce looked at the information online with a complicated expression. Logically speaking, such a fraudulent company couldn't possibly have researched anything, but with Hydra's support and sufficient funding, they might actually be able to hire a mad scientist and create some kind of energy weapon.
No, that's not right. If they really had developed such a revolutionary weapon as they claim, Hydra would have been smug long ago and would have launched a massive attack. They wouldn't be operating so quietly now.
Judging from their current reluctance to show themselves, even if this weapon has a prototype, it must have major flaws, and there might have been some experimental accident before...
Bruce immediately thought: Could it be that this experimental accident affected electronic life and caused the infighting among the superheroes?
But what kind of accident could have triggered such a severe chain reaction?
It seems that Schiller's plan was correct. They had to create chaos in New York first before they could find a way to get into Manfred's territory, investigate the Norton Experimental Science lab, and find out what they were up to.
Sorry for being a little late.