Grand Plan

"Hisss... It hurts, it hurts, it hurts..."

Wang Khan grimaced as he took off his leather jacket. When he reached the sleeves, he directly tore off several patches of skin!

"Guardian, Shockwave's ability is causing excessive damage to your body. I recommend taking remedial measures. Otherwise, I do not recommend that you use it again."

In Red Queen's core programming, protecting Wang Khan's personal safety was the highest priority.

Wang Khan sat on a nearby operating table while Red Queen immediately controlled the medical robotic arms to treat the wounds on his arms.

"How bad is it this time?"

"Your nerves, muscle fibers, and blood vessels have all suffered varying degrees of damage. Even your bones have developed microscopic cracks. Your injuries are more severe than when you attacked S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy last time."

Wang Khan sighed, then began cursing S.H.I.E.L.D.

"Everything had been going so smoothly. I didn't expect S.H.I.E.L.D. to interfere. How did they find me?"

"Guardian, I estimate that they identified my network DNA. Although my cyberattack capabilities are powerful, my methods still leave traces. They must have analyzed my attack patterns and then begun monitoring the network around the clock."

At Red Queen's words, Wang Khan also realized the flaw.

"Looks like I really can't underestimate those sewer rats."

"At this stage, S.H.I.E.L.D. is still a massive force. We can't confront them head-on. But since they've already started targeting us, we can't just let this go. I'll make them pay dearly. For now, we should solve the backlash from your superpower first."

By then, Red Queen had already controlled the medical arms to finish treating Wang Khan's arms.

"Guardian, I have a plan. Shockwave injures you because your body is not strong enough. Developing a more powerful Green Goblin Serum, or a Super Soldier Serum like Captain America's, should be a good solution. Conveniently, when we hacked into S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy's servers before, we found information on the Super Soldier Serum."

A virtual display appeared before Wang Khan, showing information related to the Super Soldier Serum.

Wang Khan had naturally read it long ago, and he was not surprised that S.H.I.E.L.D. possessed information on the Super Soldier Serum.

"The Super Soldier Program back then was created through cooperation between the military and the Scientific Strategic Bureau, S.H.I.E.L.D.'s predecessor. And Howard Stark, one of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s founding elders, was also one of the creators of the Super Soldier Serum and Abraham Erskine's assistant. Even if he didn't know the exact formula, he should have known the general details."

He swiped across the virtual display. There was plenty of information on it, including S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy's research findings from the past several decades. There were even data records from Captain America Steve Rogers's blood samples.

"With my accumulated knowledge of biology and this data, recreating the original Super Soldier Serum would not be difficult. But its effects are actually not much different from the Green Goblin Serum."

The reason Wang Khan was not interested in the Super Soldier Serum was entirely because this world was, in all likelihood, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the Super Soldier Serum in this universe was a severely weakened version.

The comic version of the Super Soldier Serum could not only enhance every aspect of Captain America's physical abilities, but also greatly extend his lifespan. Even if Captain America had not been frozen for decades, he would not have aged. In theory, living for several hundred years would have been effortless.

But the movie version had clearly removed that function, making it rather useless. Without life-extending effects, the Super Soldier Serum was no different from the Green Goblin Serum. Wang Khan could not exactly sell it for money, so he had never cared much about it.

"Guardian, if the Super Soldier Serum will not work, then we can only address the problem through equipment. You could develop equipment that effectively protects your hands. The difficulty lies in protecting your hands without reducing Shockwave's power."

Red Queen possessed immense computational ability, but no creativity. In other words, she could swiftly gather the technology she needed from known knowledge, but she could not innovate based on it.

In Red Queen's view, protecting Wang Khan's hands would weaken Shockwave's power. But if Shockwave's power was weakened, it could no longer effectively harm enemies. The two were completely opposed conditions that could not be solved at the same time.

"Haha, Red Queen, you really did remind me. There actually is something that can solve this problem, and it was tonight's gain."

"Guardian, are you referring to Vibranium?"

"That's right. Vibranium is also known as sound-absorbing metal and has the ability to absorb energy. I only need to make two gloves out of Vibranium to solve the problem of protecting my hands. As for releasing the energy, that won't be difficult either."

The later Black Panther suit possessed a similar function, except it stored external energy before releasing it all at once, somewhat like a retaliatory armor, and one that could even control the strength of its retaliation.

The suit's function was quite good, but unfortunately, Black Panther himself was too weak. Aside from having physical abilities stronger than an ordinary person's, he had no superpowers at all.

If he had possessed offensive superpowers of his own, such as Shockwave or heat vision, then paired with the retaliatory Black Panther suit, he would have had perfectly balanced offense and defense, with no weaknesses at all.

Wang Khan immediately told Red Queen about the concept for the Black Panther suit. After analyzing it, Red Queen offered a feasible suggestion.

"Guardian, Vibranium can indeed solve your problem. A full-body Vibranium suit could also resolve your other weakness: insufficient defense. But the problem is that we do not have enough Vibranium."

An infrared scan passed over the Vibranium hammerhead Wang Khan had brought back.

"According to my calculations, this piece of Vibranium can make at most two gloves and one helmet. We need to continue searching for more Vibranium."

Wang Khan reached out, picked up the Vibranium hammerhead, and shook his head slightly.

"No. What we need to do now is not make Vibranium equipment, but study Vibranium itself and find a way to artificially synthesize new Vibranium. That is why I went to such lengths and even risked offending S.H.I.E.L.D."

"Artificially synthesize Vibranium? Is that possible? I just analyzed it. This metal is unlike any element on Earth. It is completely extraterrestrial."

"Heh. The word impossible does not exist in my dictionary."

Did they really think a single genius could support an entire nation's level of scientific research? Dream on.

Even Howard Stark had been limited by the industrial standards of his era and had been unable to create the isotopes of the Space Stone. It was clear that what constrained a nation's technological level was not a genius's theories, but its industrial capacity—more specifically, its materials processing capabilities.

Because Wakanda possessed Vibranium, Marvel's all-purpose metal, it was equivalent to having materials processing technology thousands of years ahead of other nations. Any theoretical breakthrough could be immediately put into practice, which was why it had become the most technologically advanced nation on Earth.

What Wang Khan intended to do now was forcibly raise his own materials processing capabilities to Wakanda's level. Once he succeeded, his Super Brain and Meditation Experiment would finally have a true place to shine!

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