I Thought This Was Scientific
Chapter 37

One Dares to Speak, One Dares to Believe

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"…Another child prodigy!"

Kraft opened his eyes and sat up on the bed, rubbing his temples with some annoyance.

He had dreamed again, and this time the protagonist of the dream seemed even more exaggerated than Dr. Dongyun.

Although he was two years older than Dr. Dongyun, this little boy named Child Emperor created things that were much more practical than Dr. Dongyun's inventions.

Or rather, much more powerful in combat.

In that regard, Kraft was quite satisfied to have dreamed of him.

It was just a bit disheartening for himself.

And compared to the unreasonable genius of the little girl Dongyun, Child Emperor's genius at least had some logic – he had created a learning helmet for himself that could directly inject knowledge into his brain…

Well, the learning helmet itself was already quite illogical.

But it was of great help to Kraft.

Although he had learned so many strange inventions from his dreams, Kraft could only copy many of them by rote, understanding their principles only partially, or not at all. With this learning helmet invented by Child Emperor, Kraft could at least quickly understand the principles of those inventions, no longer just blindly copying, but able to modify them to suit himself better.

For example, there was an invention he had dreamed of called the Dragon Radar. As the name suggested, it was used to find something called Dragon Balls, but there were no Dragon Balls in Kraft's world. After he made the Dragon Radar, its brightness was too low even for illumination, completely useless.

But after understanding the manufacturing principles of the Dragon Radar, he could change its function of searching for Dragon Balls and apply the radar's function to other aspects.

There were many similar inventions. Previously, Kraft could only spend time continuously flipping through the books and notes of the characters in his dreams. For scenes where there were no books, he could only understand them by repeatedly replaying the manufacturing process.

Now, with this learning helmet, it was different. Kraft could gradually inject that knowledge directly into his brain.

Yes, it was indeed injected bit by bit…

After finishing the learning helmet, Kraft tried using it and discovered that it also had requirements for the user. Geniuses like Child Emperor could inject a large amount of knowledge into their brains without any reservations.

But the brain of an ordinary human like Kraft couldn't receive too much knowledge at once. It wouldn't explode, but if too much content was injected, his head would become like mush, his entire consciousness would begin to blur, and his thoughts would fall into chaos. By the time he finally regained consciousness, the relevant knowledge would have been largely forgotten, and he wouldn't even know what he had done during the period of mental confusion.

It was somewhat similar to his early dream states, or the feeling exhibited by those hooligans who were crazy about drinking and smoking.

However, even so, Kraft's learning progress had improved significantly, especially in dreams where relevant scientific knowledge books were placed in laboratories or rooms, making it much easier to understand the principles of their inventions.

After absorbing knowledge from several different worlds, Kraft also discovered that there were some rule differences existing in various worlds, but he himself could ignore these differences and make the rules of a certain world take effect when he was creating items.

"So, is this… a superpower?"

Kraft looked down at his hands and muttered to himself in confusion.

However, this also explained why he could master the bizarre Bronze Pipe Hand-Crafting technique of engineering. It was probably some rule from the Azeroth world.

Kraft's dreams didn't come with an instruction manual, so he could only infer little by little based on his own usage experience.

Of course, for Kraft, the principle behind why he could use the rules of the dream worlds wasn't that important. He was more interested in the manufacturing principles of those inventions and creations in his dreams.

"Kraft, Bruce Banner has entered New York."

Countless light rays converged in front of Kraft, forming Angela's phantom.

This was a new function that Kraft had added for Angela after mastering a certain projection technology in a dream. She didn't even need to install special projection devices; as long as there was enough light source, Angela could control the lights herself and adjust them to the wavelength that could project her virtual image.

In short, it was another piece of… technology that refused to reason with science.

"Bruce Banner? Didn't that guy hide in the remote jungle? What's he doing back in New York?"

Kraft had always asked Angela to keep an eye on the Hulk, a walking disaster. The information he had received earlier was that Bruce Banner no longer wanted the Hulk to cause destruction and had voluntarily hidden himself, also evading the American military forces that were relentlessly pursuing him.

It was also interesting that General Ross, who was chasing Bruce Banner, was actually his girlfriend's father. And his girlfriend, Betty Ross, was also someone who prioritized love over family, or rather, someone who would risk everything for love. She had resolutely fallen out with her own father for Bruce Banner.

However, from Kraft's perspective, what General Ross had done was indeed not proper. Being betrayed by his own daughter, he could only blame himself.

"Bruce Banner seems to have found a solution for the Hulk."

Angela didn't know that Kraft was currently mentally complaining about the powerful general of America. She remained in her usual cold demeanor, mechanically answering Kraft's questions. Only when sparring with Jarvis online could a hint of excitement be seen on her face.

"I tracked Bruce Banner's recent emails and found that he has been using 'Mr. Green' as his online alias, communicating with someone named 'Mr. Blue' online and sending some of his blood to ask Mr. Blue for help in solving the Hulk problem. Now it seems he has succeeded."

"Mr. Blue, Mr. Green… did they know each other before?"

"No, judging from the chat records, they only seemed to communicate online."

Angela extracted several snippets of email content. The content indeed indicated that the two had never met.

"WTF… Bruce Banner dares to send his blood to someone he's never even met? And he's actively coming to meet him. Isn't he afraid this is a military trap?"

Kraft was dumbfounded. Why did this uncle seem even more naive than himself, a child? Perhaps he had been influenced by the Hulk and his brain had gone bad?

"But he succeeded, and Samuel Stern, who is Mr. Blue, is indeed not part of the military."

Angela refuted Kraft's complaint mercilessly and then added.

"However, the military has indeed discovered Bruce Banner's whereabouts. They are mobilizing troops and intend to apprehend Bruce Banner. But according to my calculations, by the time the military arrives, Bruce Banner should have already finished his treatment, so the Hulk is unlikely to appear."

Kraft shook his head, "Tsk tsk, General Ross's luck, who knows if it's good or bad."

Regarding Child Emperor's learning helmet, I forgot whether it was an original setting or from a fanfiction. I skimmed through the manga briefly before but couldn't find it. I was too lazy to look for other similar inventions, so I just used it. Anyway, with Child Emperor's abilities, creating something like this wouldn't be difficult. ╮(╯▽╰)╭

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