Herta folded her arms and glanced at the chubby Earthling, snorting coldly. "Hey, for complex equipment involving the analysis of highly intelligent extraterrestrial lifeforms, instead of asking a genius like me to make it, you went to an ordinary researcher who hasn't even fully left his home star system or entered interstellar civilization? Do you really think that's appropriate?"
Faced with Herta's question, Qianyi did not argue. Instead, he calmly posed a question. "Herta, if you were put in charge of researching Sphere's energy structure and developing specialized equipment to counter it, how long would it take you?"
Herta lifted her chin. After her brain rapidly performed a rigorous computational deduction, she confidently gave what she considered an absurdly fast limit. "From analyzing its underlying logic and studying its material composition, to building models for all kinds of high-risk environmental experiments, and finally producing absolutely stable and reliable specialized weapons and containment tools... even if I did it myself, it would take about three days at the fastest."
Qianyi nodded, then turned toward Captain Horii, who was staring blankly at Sphere nearby, and asked casually, "What about you, Horii? How long would it take?"
Horii looked up and gave an answer brimming with the miraculous spirit of a tokusatsu defense team. "If I have a complete Sphere specimen... I'll do my best to finish it within five hours."
Herta: "???"
Five hours?!
That was not even enough time to slice up the specimen for study and build a basic energy analysis model!
And you were telling her that in that little time, you could make a finished product from scratch?
Could it be that research in your world relied entirely on some kind of greenskin power of "I reckon this'll work" and sheer power of belief?!!
It was difficult to