American comics: Starting with Luke the Maker

“Don't you think it's very similar to the technology Luke used during the Chitauri War?” Tony Stark had to spell it out directly.

“You mean, Luke's programmable material technology?” Dr. Banner immediately understood what Tony was trying to express and realized the meaning behind the embarrassed and annoyed look on his face. He had communicated with Luke about that technology, and Luke had generously not concealed anything from him, answering every question.

Although Dr. Banner was sober enough not to delve into the real core of the technology, those questions and answers alone were enough for Dr. Banner to deeply recognize what kind of technology it was and grasp some of the technical principles.

“Programmable material technology? That's a very apt name.” Tony straightened up and grabbed a high-compression energy bar to munch on. Having just successfully awakened, his body still needed some energy replenishment.

“You are two different technologies.” Dr. Banner advised, “Luke's is material programming and construction technology, while you, although it seems that your technology is similar in performance to his, strictly speaking, you are more inclined towards awakened superpowers.

Luke's programming and construction technology can be replicated on other people, but you, without more experimental results, we cannot be sure whether it can be replicated. After all, the core of our technology is the integration and improvement of AIM's mechanical virus and the Extremis virus. Just like those infected with mechanical viruses in big cities, their abilities are also strange and different.”

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“Don't compare me to those losers, it makes me feel frustrated.” Tony muttered unhappily. However, he only had a bit of a psychological barrier; he was still very satisfied with the abilities he had mastered. This ability might not be very useful on a fool, but on a genius inventor like him, it was a bit terrifying.

“After all, compared to them, you should be considered a perfect and controllable evolutionist.” Dr. Banner had a subtle smile on his face, “How do you feel physically now? Is there anything, I mean, that needs to be explained?”

“My body? Feels a bit hollowed out. But it can be restored with a little energy replenishment. There is no situation like the mechanical virus infected people having a short lifespan, or the ability being out of control and draining their own lifespan. Just now, inside the new Mark suit, I already had Jarvis help me do a physical examination, and everything is normal.” Tony replied.

“Do you need to notify Nick and the others?” Dr. Banner walked towards the elevator with Tony. “Also, what name do you plan to give this potion?”

“Stark Equation?” Tony looked at Dr. Banner's frozen face and burst out laughing triumphantly. “Mark Potion, or Mechanical Potion, I'm fine with either. Compared to the military's so-called super-soldier serums, mechanical potions are more inclined to combine the human body with technology. It has to be said that the mechanical virus has played a significant role in this. That Dr. Aldrich really wasted the potential of this 'virus'.

Notify Nick? Of course, we have to notify them! We can hold a cocktail party. Hmm, invite the same group of people that Luke invited back then! Especially that Norman Osborn, I will let him understand that his replicated technologies are not worth mentioning compared to our technological achievements.”

“Whatever makes you happy.” Dr. Banner looked helplessly at Tony, who had suddenly become highly excited.

“Our next step is to consider reducing its cost and then carry out targeted mass production! For those infected with mechanical viruses, this is both an antidote and an evolutionary drug! The next generation of mass-produced drugs should be able to cover and improve the mechanical viruses in their bodies, so that those people can get rid of the predicament of barely surviving by drinking 'medicine'. We have solved hundreds of thousands of potential big troubles for this world!” Tony had already begun planning for the future.

Thinking that if Luke came over at that time, he could also tease him a few words. After all, the trouble that the other party found difficult to solve now had a glimmer of hope for a solution in his hands.

……

The S.H.I.E.L.D. Quinjet slowly landed on the Stark Tower helipad. The hatch opened, and Nick Fury led his men down the steps formed by the hatch. Among the crowd were two conspicuous mutants, parts of their limbs showing metallization.

“Can the potion be mass-produced?”

Nick Fury looked at Tony Stark and Dr. Banner, who were standing upright in place waiting for him, wearing sunglasses. He squeezed out a smile on his face, took the initiative to step forward with his men, and asked anxiously when he came to them.

This was the second time he had come to see Tony. The last time was at the Stark cocktail party half a month ago. At that time, Tony had sent invitations to many people, inviting them to come over to relax and exchange their research results.

Although not everyone who received the invitation came happily, with Stark's connections and popularity, there were still many people who responded to him. Norman Osborn was also among them. And undoubtedly, as the first giant company to come up with technical products, Norman attracted the attention of many people at the party as soon as he appeared. There were even many people who came up to ask him for advice.

At that moment, Norman was infinitely glorious and was the focus of the audience.

Until the shocking appearance of the host of the cocktail party, Tony Stark.

At that time, the lights in the cocktail party hall suddenly went out, and particles of light, like fireflies, swarmed from the dark surroundings towards the high platform of the cocktail party like moths to a flame.

The light from the tiny gathering illuminated Tony, who slowly walked onto the high platform. He was like a light-absorbing body, absorbing the light points that emerged around him, and finally, when he walked to the podium on the high platform, he was wrapped in a glowing Mark suit!

Then the lights came on brightly, and Stark's face mask suddenly turned into a ball of light points, drifted away diagonally, and disappeared into the air. The glowing light points on his body also became a set of red and gold intertwined, metal-textured Mark suit in front of the crowd under the lights.

With one appearance, Tony snatched the attention of the entire audience from Norman back to himself. After he announced his latest technological achievements and future technological prospects, everyone in the audience was stunned into silence.

Nick Fury, who was also in the audience at that time, had his one eye almost glowing. He was worried about the lack of overall combat power on Earth's side, and Stark timely came up with a technology that could solve the problem. This simply made him ecstatic.

If Osborn Industries' achievements were a prelude, then the technology that Stark came up with could be regarded as a mainstay. Especially in the second half of the cocktail party, after seeing Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D. approaching and enthusiastically exchanging something with Tony, everyone on the scene couldn't help but feel a strong sense of urgency!

There was no doubt that after Osborn Industries, Stark Industries also scrambled for a piece of the pie, and it seemed that this piece of the pie was bigger and more. This meant that the resources in the hands of S.H.I.E.L.D. were reduced again, and it also meant that if they could not come up with practical results again, the share of the pie they could allocate in the future would be less, or even directly eliminated.

Shameful falling behind, this was unacceptable to everyone on the scene!

That conversation with Stark went very smoothly. Although the other party still maintained his arrogance and venomous tongue, he was very cooperative in many places and did not reject Nick Fury's request. Correspondingly, Nick Fury also met Stark's request to replenish resources.

“I can do small-scale mass production myself, but for large-scale mass production, I still need to borrow the manufacturing factory of the Dataverse. But this requires spending new currency.” Tony took off his sunglasses and shook hands with Nick Fury perfunctorily. His gaze fell on the two mutants behind him.

“These two are the experimental personnel this time, the Nurman brothers. Of course, they are voluntary.” Nick Fury turned around and introduced them to Tony.

“How are their grades?” Tony glanced at the two of them, turned around, and walked towards the inside of Stark Tower with Nick Fury.

“What grades are you referring to?” Nick Fury frowned slightly.

Tony gestured in the air with his fingers: “That is, in research and technology. For example, what technology is he good at? What has he achieved in which scientific field? How are the grades? How is the brain? I remember I mentioned the requirements to you.”

“You didn't mention this kind of requirement to me.” Nick Fury recalled seriously and denied affirmatively: “You just said that for experimental personnel, it is best to have professionals in the early stage.”

“Professional people.”

“Elite agents.” Nick Fury shook his head towards the two brothers. He looked at Tony and asked: “Of course, if necessary, I can replace people temporarily.”

“That's not necessary, the demonstration effect may be a little worse, but I will solve it.” Tony shook his head.

The group took the elevator to his laboratory under Tony's lead. After tying the two people to the chairs, Tony instilled some experience to the two people, explained some situations, and then stepped aside, and let Jarvis start injecting the potion according to the procedure.

“According to what you told me before, after this potion is injected, it will awaken a unique ability to control metal, right?” While watching the two people accepting the injection on the experimental chair, Nick Fury whispered to Tony to confirm.

“Accurately speaking, it is the manufacturing ability!” Tony corrected Nick Fury's words: “It can allow you to avoid some technological products that can only be manufactured by instruments, and allow you to become an omnipotent manufacturing factory alone. If you just understand it as simply controlling metal, this understanding is too superficial. Of course, to what extent this ability can be brought into play in the end also depends on the individual's intelligence and the technical knowledge they have mastered.

Ordinary people may only be able to manufacture unqualified cold weapons or firearms, but people who have blueprints for various tools and weapons manufacturing techniques in their minds can use the materials around them to manufacture finished products. They are masters of manufacturing machinery! In the future, this may become a new profession.”

“Mechanic?” The name flashed in Nick Fury's head for no reason.

“Call it whatever you want.” Tony adjusted and controlled the experimental injection process according to the real-time monitoring data of the two people's bodies, and perfunctorily talked to Nick Fury. Dr. Banner was sitting on the sofa not far away, silent, with his hand on his cheek, looking like a thinker.

“That is to say, if you want to make this profession play the greatest role, you must first make him a knowledgeable person?” Nick Fury widened his eyes, which was a bit difficult for him. Although S.H.I.E.L.D. can recruit all kinds of smart people to serve them, but let them go to the battlefield... , looked at Stark next to him, and then looked at Dr. Banner sitting on the other side, and then thought about a bunch of messy people such as Luke, Otto, and Killian, Nick Fury suddenly felt that this didn't seem impossible?

“That's not necessary, we can encapsulate the technology, upload it to the Dataverse, and then those who want to learn and master the technology can download it from the Dataverse. If you are confident in your brain, you can learn the technology. If you are not confident in your brain, you can directly download the finished product blueprints. I have to say that the birth of the Dataverse has expanded the prospects of this profession.” Tony shook his head. But in the future, in this new profession, those with higher status, greater potential, and able to go further will be destined to be those who have mastered cutting-edge technology!

Of course, now those giants who have their own exclusive technology and can connect to the Dataverse, even ordinary researchers, can become technology providers.