Volume 3: The Nameless Chapter 34 Osborne Enterprises has only one goal! Dig through the center of the earth!
Mason wanted to discuss the issue of the enhancement potion with Dr. Lizard, a real "professional". He believed that Dr. Connors would be able to provide some very useful help to his alchemy skills.
However, now is not a good time to discuss techniques, as another tremor occurred while everyone was talking to Dr. Lizard.
This thing was like a heavy burden weighing on everyone, and even Barbara, who had always been the most optimistic, lost her smile. Under the guidance of Dr. Connors, they continued to move towards the other side of the empty underground cave.
This is not a comfortable journey, especially when the "Lizard People" who are accustomed to living underground are hiding in the dark and peeking.
The thought that these guys were once living people who became like this in order to survive the apocalypse makes a kind girl like Barbara shudder.
After ten minutes of walking, a small strange hut appeared in front of everyone.
It was built at the fork of a cave, surrounded by light strips and a generator set that was running but without much noise.
Its appearance is full of wasteland punk feeling. The outer outline of the house is an abandoned large vehicle, which looks like a modified iron shell of a large troop carrier.
Next to the house where the light was coming from, there was a pile of iron shells of a strange robot that had been transformed into something like a barbecue grill.
A lot of debris was placed around in a disorderly manner.
A picked-up refrigerator was half open, filled with discarded cans of home-brewed beer, and as the four people approached with strange expressions, they could even hear the sound of music coming from the house.
It was pre-war music, soft blues accompanied by a poorly performed violin solo that turned what was otherwise pleasant music into a form of torture.
"Dudududu"
In order to avoid hurting everyone's ears, the old spider immediately went forward and knocked on the door politely.
"Hold on."
A slow voice sounded from inside.
The sound made Spider-Man's face change drastically, but it was too late to leave. The welded door was opened the next second.
A sloppy fat man who looked to be in his fifties or sixties poked his head out and took a look. He had a pair of coquettish black sunglasses on his round face, and his messy hair was showing signs of slight baldness.
He was wearing a half-worn loose-fitting long gown with the famous anti-war slogan "Make Love Not War" written on it.
He looks like an old hippie.
Even the slow expression on his face was exactly the same.
"Ah! Peter!"
The guy opened his arms in surprise towards Spider-Man, who had taken a few steps back, like a welcoming acquaintance, but Spider-Man took a few steps back warily, crossing his hands as if to say "stay away".
He said suspiciously:
"Dr. Otto? What are you doing?"
"Ah, I'm glad you remembered my name instead of calling me 'Doctor Octopus'."
The owner of the cabin nodded with satisfaction, not hiding his identity at all. He stood at the door wearing furry octopus-decorated slippers, patted empty shoulders and said to the four visitors in front of him:
"Don't worry, everyone. I have dismantled and discarded the mechanical assistant that affected my thinking. I haven't touched it for three years. Now, look!
That's where the bad stuff is!
In the past few years, I have taught myself spiritual practice and meditation to adjust my thoughts and get my life back on track.
My only regret is that by the time I realized the value of peace, the world had already ended.
But it doesn't matter.
Even in the apocalypse, we have to take care of ourselves, right?
Come, come quickly, the cake I made is almost done. If you don’t mind the extra sugar, I’d be happy to share this delicious treat with you.”
Mason turned his head and looked in the direction of the chubby finger of Doctor Octopus, who seemed to be mentally unstable.
Sure enough, in the garbage pile next to the barbecue grill that seemed to be built with Ultron's rusty and abandoned body, there were four hideous silver-gray mechanical tentacles.
Because it had not been maintained for a long time, the thing looked gray and terrible, just like a dead steel snake coiled up.
There is no trace of the glory of high-tech destructive creations.
"Glad to see you've found yourself again, Dr. Otto. "
After figuring out the truth of the matter, Spider-Man breathed a sigh of relief and congratulated.
Even though the world is ending, it's always a good thing to have one less annoying enemy.
Moreover, this chubby and kind professor in front of him, like Dr. Connors just now, was a person who brought great inspiration and encouragement to Peter Parker when he was young.
Although a series of events later made them his enemies, in Peter's heart, these two have always been "teachers".
But he was not in the mood to eat octopus cake right now.
He took off his mask and walked into the punk-style room in front of him, and said to Dr. Otto, who was humming a song and busy opening a weird oven modified with a particle cannon:
"Doctor, I'm here because of the increasingly intense vibrations in recent times. I already know that this is related to what Osborne Tower is excavating. Dr. Connors told me that you can give me an answer.
That tower is exactly where…"
"Gravity Hammer."
Dr. Otto smelled the cake he had baked, touched the cream with his finger and put it in his mouth to taste it, then nodded with satisfaction, put it on the table and replied casually:
"What the tower is mining is gravitonium. You may not have heard of it, which is normal, after all, your research direction in student days did not involve high-energy physics.
How am I going to explain that to you?
Let my rusty brain think about it. "
As the former Doctor Octopus spoke, he picked up a table knife that was modified from a half-samurai sword marked "Hawkeye" and cut the cake, then enthusiastically gave it to Barbara and Ertong who walked into the room.
Batgirl glanced at the cake in her hand and then at Mason, who nodded at her.
So Barbara smiled sweetly, thanked Doctor Octopus, and then sat in a chair to taste this rare delicacy in the doomsday.
Ertong refused the food.
He didn't like such sweet things, he felt that enjoying them would make him let down his guard.
His eyes now fell on the "violin" that Dr. Otto placed on the shabby sofa. The thing was welded together with a silver-gray thing similar to a motorcycle helmet and a section of a gun barrel that looked incredible.
It has a doom-punk feel.
“Gravity iron, a rare natural mineral or magnetite hidden deep in the earth’s core, is a special aggregate of chemical elements that has never appeared on the periodic table.
Its biggest feature is that when high voltage current is passed through these elements, their physical properties will change and can affect gravity. "
Mason stood at the door and whispered to the people in the room:
“But gravity hammers are very difficult to mine. As part of the Earth’s gravity system, they are always hidden deep near the Earth’s center… No wonder the Green Goblin built such a large mechanical tower to complete the mining.
No wonder the gravity of this world is weaker than normal.
It all makes sense.”
"Very accurate, this learned young man!"
Mason's explanation made Dr. Otto clap his hands, and he said in appreciation as if he was praising his own student:
"It's great to know so much at your age. It reminds me of Peter who was as knowledgeable as you. Unfortunately, he has become an alcoholic now.
Look at his belly, my God, how long has it been since he had a good exercise?
But you are outsiders, right?"
Dr. Otto pushed up his brown sunglasses. He ate his cake in big mouthfuls while looking at Mason and the other two. He said:
"The knowledge about the gravity hammer was passed down to this world from your peers. Even the cause of this war and doomsday is related to it.
This rare element that can artificially change gravity is not available in every world. In fact, it is also a very rare resource in parallel worlds.
Unfortunately, our world has an excess of gravitron stored in the core of the earth.
It has been more than three years since the apocalypse, and Osborn Enterprises has built mining towers around the world, which have transferred too many valuable resources to your organization.
Their excavation caused Oceania to sink to the bottom of the sea, caused terrible landslides in Asia, and Neon Island was torn apart by a major earthquake several months ago.
The gravity guns there have been fully developed!
And now, Osborne has set his sights on North America...
Their excavation has clearly exceeded the safety limit, and the change in the world's gravity is only the beginning. If it is not stopped, the world 's rotation will be affected in at most half a year.
In fact, if you have observed the moon, you will find that changes in gravity have begun to affect the Earth-Moon system.
The tremors in New York City are the side effects of the Osborne Tower extracting gravity hammers from the Earth's core every time, but it is clear that the Green Goblin has strictly defined the gravity influence zone. "
Doctor Octopus shrugged, put the last bite of cake into his mouth, and said to the three stunned people in front of him:
“He wants to destroy this zombie city and bury all of us survivors hiding underground alive! Unless Peter and Connors give him what he wants.
Yes.
Even though I have been living in seclusion here for so long, I have never stopped observing the outside world."
"Dr. Otto! Why do you know so much?"
Peter looked at this unusually peaceful "old friend" with some suspicion. Under his questioning, the fat doctor wiped the cream from the corner of his mouth and put it into his mouth, saying vaguely:
"Because Osborne Tower... well, I mean, I designed the excavation device they used to find the Gravitonium. They approached Tony Stark, but the guy who left with a bunch of people didn't want to take it over.
Wakanda was destroyed in the Doomsday War, and Banner was taken away as a beast. Looking around the world, I am the only one who can complete this design."
At this point, Dr. Otto showed a very complicated and ambiguous smile.
He turned back to switch the blues music on the radio to a softer serenade, and with his back to the four people, he said:
“This world is doomed to be destroyed, Peter, and our friends from outside. The reason we can live for three more years after the end of the world is not because we are lucky.
Simply because they need the resources produced in our world.
This is both a blessing and a misfortune.
It's like you escaped death but were sentenced to suspended execution."
At this point, Dr. Otto looked back at his student Peter Parker and said earnestly:
"Everyone who survived has lost a lot, so we should cherish everything we have now. I don't want you to understand this when you are my age, Peter.
I heard from your shelter's private radio broadcast that you kicked Gwen out...
You made a wrong choice.”
"That's between Gwen and me, Professor. Let's not talk about it, okay?"
Spider-Man obviously didn't want to discuss this issue, so he changed the subject:
"The problem now is that Osborn intends to bury us, and I don't want to lose again. I failed to protect my city, and the people in that shelter are the last of my family.
I'm going to stop him!
Doctor, I need your help."
"Of course, of course, I'm willing to help you, Peter, as compensation for all the trouble I caused you while I was mad."
Dr. Otto very kindly opened his metal drawer, took out a black USB flash drive, handed it to Spider-Man, and said:
"These are some 'gadgets' I took with me when I left Osborne Tower. Plug them into any socket of the tower's defense system and they can temporarily disable their internal security system.
I also have a diagram of the interior structure of Osborne Tower.
But I can't go in there with you and beat up those guys who are getting too aggressive. It didn't come without a price when I dismantled my mechanical tentacles.
I can’t put them back together.”
"That's enough."
Barbara wiped the cream from the corners of her mouth and said:
"With this thing I can hack into Osborne Tower's systems and shut it down remotely."
"Wow, this microcomputer technology is amazing."
Dr. Otto immediately noticed the strange computer on Barbara's wrist. He rubbed his hands and said:
"Can you let me take a look? I promise I won't damage it, little girl. This thing looks at least one generation ahead of my technology. It's really rare.
When those people tried to take me away before, they showed me something similar and told me I could get it if I left with them.
I regretted it for a long time when I rejected them.”
"Talk to Dr. Otto about technology, Barbara."
Mason pushed his teammate and said:
"He's one of the smartest people in the world."
"clever?"
The affable fat doctor grinned and said:
"I have to reduce my IQ by 99 points to be classified as 'smart', but since I have helped you this far, I might as well help you complete the task of hacking into the Osborne Tower system.
There's an electric guy over there who's in trouble.
He is like a 'living firewall', and ordinary hacking techniques cannot deal with him.
Come with me, little girl, let me see how powerful you, a little hacker from another world, are."
Dr. Otto walked to the other end of his confined room. Next to the sofa where he slept was an old computer with the Avengers logo printed on it.
Mason glanced at the garbage dump outside the door and said to Doctor Octopus, who had become incredibly calm:
"Mr. Otto, if you don't want the mechanical tentacle anymore, can you sell it to me at a low price? I happen to have a combat mech that lacks an intelligent weapon system.
I can pay for it.”
"Take it. It's free for you."
Dr. Otto waved his hand and said:
"It means I am saying goodbye to the past, just like a harmful relationship that needs to be ended cleanly."
With permission, Mason pulled two buckets out and moved the four tentacles, which were as heavy as dead snakes, out of the garbage dump. Mason cleaned them first, then squatted down and examined them carefully.
Soon an information tag pops up:
Mind-interactive multifunctional mechanical tentacles
Quality: Epic Engineering Item, Supreme Craftsmanship (Quality declines due to long-term disuse)
Weapon characteristics: Super strength, mental adaptation, self-disciplined weapons, autonomous upgrades
Weapon status: abandoned, needs repair, lack of energy
Weapon Effects:
1. Universal plug-in:
The mechanical tentacles designed by Dr. Otto Gunther Octavius can perfectly adapt to various combat and production scenarios, and can be adapted to the systems of most technological combat suits and combat weapons.
It can also be regarded as a "special prosthetic plug-in" implanted into a mechanically enhanced individual.
However, to perfectly use the mechanical tentacle it must be mentally connected to the user, as the mechanical intelligence of the item will interfere with and affect the user's thinking.
2. Intelligent weapons:
The mechanical tentacles have powerful intelligent AI. In most cases, they can perform combat, reconnaissance and assist in production without the need for users to issue commands.
Dr. Otto designed a set of self-upgrade logic for his mechanical tentacles. When they come into contact with any technological items that can be used for self-enhancement, the mechanical tentacles will try to analyze the technology and transform themselves.
Notice!
This self-transformation program will make the mechanical tentacle's AI more intelligent, and the impact on the user's mind will be more serious.
In certain situations, AI will attempt to replace the user's thinking in order to better accomplish the mission it was designed for, which is to help and protect the user in any situation.
The current AI intelligence level of the mechanical tentacle is assistant-level weak artificial intelligence.
Producer: Otto Gunther Octavius
Item Description: Once this thing grabs onto something long and hard, it will treat it as a screw to tighten it, and its minimum output is five tons! Therefore, I warn you not to use it to do something weird!
"That's enough of this obscene explanation!"
Mason complained.
Then he threw out the Fenrir Armor. He planned to install it into his own Fenrir Armor and turn it into a part of the weapon system to replace the master's non-lethal weapons.
But before Mason could start the transformation, Spider-Man came out, holding a cigarette and said to him:
"When are you going to leave for Osborne Tower?"
As smoke rose, the burning cigarette butt was thrown on the ground and stomped out. The middle-aged man with a fat belly whispered:
"Count me in if you can!"
