Grand Plan

"Hiss~~ It hurts, it hurts, it hurts~~"

Wang Khan pulled off his leather suit with a pained expression. When he got to the sleeves, he directly tore off several pieces of skin!

"Guardian, Shockwave's ability is causing too much damage to your body. I recommend taking remedial measures. Otherwise, I advise against using it again."

Protecting Wang Khan's personal safety was the highest priority in Red Queen's core source code.

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

"How bad is it this time?"

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

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

"Everything was going smoothly. I never expected S.H.I.E.L.D. to interfere. How did they find me?"

"Guardian, I estimate that they identified my network DNA. Although my network attack capabilities are very strong, my attack methods still leave traces. They must have analyzed my attack methods and then monitored the network around the clock."

After Red Queen said this, Wang Khan also realized the flaw.

"Looks like I really can't underestimate this bunch of sewer rats."

"At this stage, S.H.I.E.L.D. is still a behemoth. We can't fight them head-on. But since they've already started targeting us, we naturally can't let this go. I'll make them suffer. For now, we should first solve the problem of the superpower backlash."

By this time, Red Queen had already controlled the medical robotic arms and finished treating both of Wang Khan's arms.

"Guardian, I have a plan. The reason Shockwave injures you is that your body isn't strong enough. Therefore, developing a more powerful Green Goblin Serum, or a Super Soldier Serum like Captain America's, should be a good solution. As it happens, when we hacked into the S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy's servers earlier, we found information about the Super Soldier Serum."

A virtual display appeared in front of Wang Khan. The content on it was precisely information about the Super Soldier Serum.

Wang Khan had naturally read it long ago, so he wasn't surprised that S.H.I.E.L.D. possessed information about the Super Soldier Serum.

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

He reached out and swiped across the virtual display. There was a great deal of information, including the S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy's research results from the past several decades. There were even numerical values from Captain America Steve Rogers's blood samples.

"With my accumulated knowledge of biology, along with this data, recreating the original Super Soldier Serum won't be difficult. But the serum's effects are actually not much different from the Green Goblin Serum."

The reason Wang Khan wasn't interested in the Super Soldier Serum was entirely because the current world was most likely the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the Super Soldier Serum in this universe was a severely weakened version.

The comic-book version of the Super Soldier Serum could not only improve Captain America's physical attributes in every aspect, but also greatly extend his lifespan. Even if he hadn't been frozen for decades, Captain America wouldn't have aged. In theory, living for several hundred years would have been easy.

But the movie version had clearly removed this function, making it rather useless. Without the ability to extend one's lifespan, the Super Soldier Serum was barely any different from the Green Goblin Serum. Wang Khan couldn't exactly use it to make money, so he had never been particularly interested in it.

"Guardian, if the Super Soldier Serum won't work, then we can only solve the problem through equipment. You could develop a piece of equipment that effectively protects your hands. The difficult part is protecting your hands without affecting Shockwave's power."

Red Queen possessed powerful computational abilities, but she lacked creativity. In other words, she could quickly gather the technology she needed from existing knowledge, but she couldn't innovate based on that technology.

In Red Queen's view, protecting Wang Khan's hands meant weakening Shockwave's power. But if Shockwave's power was weakened, it would no longer be able to harm enemies. These were completely opposing conditions that couldn't be solved simultaneously.

"Haha, Red Queen, you've really reminded me. There is something that can solve this problem, and it's also our harvest from tonight."

"Guardian, do you mean vibranium?"

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

The Black Panther's suit later possessed a similar function. However, his suit stored external energy and reflected it all at once, making it somewhat like a "damage-reflecting armor"—and one that could control the power of the reflected damage at that.

The suit's functions were excellent. Unfortunately, Black Panther himself was too weak. Aside from having a physique stronger than an ordinary person's, he had no real superpowers.

If he had possessed an offensive superpower, such as Shockwave or heat vision, then combined with the damage-reflecting Black Panther suit, he would have had perfect offense and defense with no weaknesses.

Wang Khan immediately told Red Queen about his concept for the Black Panther suit. After analyzing it, Red Queen gave him some feasible suggestions.

"Guardian, vibranium can indeed solve your problem. In particular, a full-body Vibranium suit would also solve your other weakness of insufficient defensive power. But the problem is that we don't have enough vibranium."

An infrared beam scanned the vibranium hammerhead Wang Khan had brought back.

"According to my calculations, this piece of vibranium can produce at most two gloves and a helmet. We need to continue searching for more vibranium."

Wang Khan picked up the vibranium hammerhead and shook his head slightly.

"No. What we need to do now isn't make vibranium equipment, but study vibranium itself and find a way to synthesize new vibranium artificially. That's the reason I went to such lengths, even 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's clearly an extraterrestrial substance."

"Heh heh, in my dictionary, the words 'impossible' don't exist."

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

Even Howard Stark back then had been constrained by the industrial capabilities of his era and had been unable to manufacture isotopes of the Space Stone. This showed that what restricted a country's technological level wasn't a genius's theories, but its industrial capabilities—or, more specifically, its materials-processing technology.

Because Wakanda possessed vibranium, Marvel's universal metal, it was equivalent to having materials-processing technology thousands of years ahead of every other country. Any theoretical breakthrough could immediately be put into practice, which was why it became the most technologically advanced country on Earth.

What Wang Khan needed 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 chance to show their true worth!

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