"Stark Industries Expo really is something." After leaving Stark, Shen Fei did not immediately leave the expo. Instead, he wandered around for a while.
Seeing it online and experiencing it in person were completely different feelings.
There was plenty of technology Shen Fei would not have believed existed if he had not seen it with his own eyes. No wonder people said high-tech companies made money. That was certainly true.
"Howard really left quite a clue here back then. Amazing." The entire Stark industrial park was actually a gift Howard had left for Tony: a brand-new energy particle, an isotope of the Tesseract.
"So this is the Arc Reactor." Besides looking at all kinds of technology—and beautiful women—Shen Fei also saw the giant Arc Reactor displayed by Stark Group.
Stark Group's entire power supply came from this giant reactor. They had put it on display to showcase their technological prowess.
It was also one of Stark Group's major sources of income. Even without miniaturization, plenty of people would buy Arc Reactors, such as the Department of Defense, S.H.I.E.L.D., and certain large corporations.
Thanks to all sorts of black-tech energy sources, New York's electricity bills were not particularly high.
New, efficient energy had always been a focus of research for every side. Any company with the means would not give up on this field. Stark Group was researching the Arc Reactor, while Oscorp was also researching tritium energy. If successful, it would be known as an artificial sun.
But compared with the Arc Reactor, everyone else's research either lagged behind by an absolute order of magnitude in energy output or was extremely unstable. Oscorp's tritium research, for example, seemed to have not only failed but also produced a Doctor Octopus.
"I can't understand most of this. Maybe I should study physics. Then perhaps I could create a miniature Arc Reactor before Stark does."
Beside the giant Arc Reactor, Shen Fei used the Op-Op Fruit to inspect its structure. Still, it was only a passing thought.
Given the current situation, knowledge related to biochemistry could better bring out the Op-Op Fruit's power.
The most straightforward manifestation of the Op-Op Fruit's power was damage-free cutting. It was practically unbeatable in surgery. Even if he casually cut open someone's brain, nothing would happen to them. Heart-transplant surgery was child's play for Shen Fei. Forget replacing a heart—even swapping consciousnesses was possible.
The thought alone was terrifying. What defined a person's individuality? Their body? Of course not. It was their consciousness, their soul. Being able to freely switch consciousnesses meant being able to freely exchange souls. That meant transferring the consciousness of someone on the verge of death into a young body.
It practically meant that a person could keep living until their soul itself decayed.
As long as Shen Fei dared reveal this ability, the rich people of the entire world would kneel before him. Everyone feared death, especially those wealthy and powerful people whose bodies had grown old.
That nonsense about living too long being painful after all your family and friends had died was merely self-consolation from people who could not achieve immortality.
Perhaps someone might think that way after experiencing the long bloom of life, but before experiencing it, ninety-nine point nine percent of people would not want a short life.
He did not say one hundred percent because there were always some people who were different.
The Ancient One had lived enough. And just as Shen Fei had previously guessed, she might not truly die. She was powerful enough that even if she did die and her soul went to Hell, the demon kings there presumably would not dare do anything to her.
To the Ancient One, Hell was merely a special Dimension Space. Hell was terrifying to ordinary people and average sorcerers, but for her, going to Hell simply meant going to another dimension.
Many people doubted the Ancient One's strength because her death at Kaecilius's hands had seemed far too casual. But Shen Fei had no such doubts. Earth—or rather, Midgard—held its current special status entirely because the Ancient One existed.
Did Asgard, ruler of the Nine Realms, really forget Midgard? Was Odin really that easygoing? The Frost Giants invaded Midgard, Asgard brought people over and defeated the invaders, then left without saying anything. Was that possible?
Look at the other realms. Whenever anything happened, Asgard directly sent troops. But Midgard did not even know Asgard existed and simply regarded it as mythology.
And even so, Asgard still protected Midgard as one of the Nine Realms.
The Ancient One mainly defended against monsters from Dimension Space. As for problems in the real world, unless someone blew up Earth, she would not interfere. Asgard primarily handled that side of things.
This was a world filled with aliens. Star-Lord had been taken off Earth by the Ravagers, which showed that Earth's coordinates were no secret in the universe.
For planets that had not ventured beyond their own world, they were the Ravagers' favorite targets. Never mind the various resources—the population alone was enough to make the Ravagers come plundering. The underground slave trade was rampant in the universe.
Even someone like Yondu had once been sold as a slave, and his planet had already entered the interstellar age.
Earth had been protected too well. Not only was there constant infighting, but idiot scientists kept sending Earth's coordinates out into space.
Little did they know that Earth's coordinates had long ceased to be a secret beyond the planet. It was only because of its powerful guardians that no one dared come cause trouble.
Of course, Asgard was not Earth's only guardian. There was also Captain Marvel.
"Forget it. When the sky falls, the tall ones will hold it up. I should take care of myself first. Still, the Op-Op Fruit is worth only five billion? That makes no sense. Five hundred billion or even five trillion would be fine."
Shen Fei shook his head slightly. Law used the Op-Op Fruit quite well, but he had not developed its full potential at all. Of course, that might also be because Law had not learned the relevant knowledge.
"If things go smoothly with Stark, I can proceed to the next step. Too bad Ada didn't leave any contact information. Otherwise, I could use her abilities to get some things done."
Ada was an ace agent and definitely had her own intelligence network. That was what Shen Fei lacked most right now. There were things that even he, as a hacker, could not investigate completely.
"Where exactly is that Berserker Staff hidden? It seems like it's in a book." That was Shen Fei's next target. Fortunately, he still remembered some events from S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. Even though this world had Umbrella Corporation, it should not affect that.
"And was that Asgardian a Doctor or a professor? If I'd known I was coming to this world, I would've watched it a few more times." Shen Fei wanted the Berserker Staff not because it was particularly powerful, but because he wanted to use the opportunity to study Asgardian technology—or rather, magic.
Once technology reached a certain level, there was little difference between it and magic. Likewise, magic could be considered technology to a certain extent.
"New York really is a mess." Hearing sirens in the distance, seeing three police cars speeding past, and listening to intermittent gunfire, Shen Fei helplessly shook his head as he rode his motorcycle.
Queens, New York sounded like an upscale name, but it was actually a poor district. Its public safety was perhaps only slightly better than Hell's Kitchen. No wonder Spider-Man was so busy every day. There were simply too many criminals here. Daytime was better, but once night fell—especially after eight o'clock—aside from a few main streets, nowhere else was safe.
Robbery, rape, and murder happened constantly.
After glancing into an alley where something was happening, Shen Fei left directly. From what he had seen, it seemed several people were robbing someone. He was not Spider-Man, so naturally he would not concern himself with such matters.
"The latest Hollywood blockbuster. Who says you can't watch pirated movies in America?" After returning home, Shen Fei skillfully logged into a website and projected the movie onto the large-screen television beside him.
America's copyright protections were indeed thorough, but that only applied to ordinary people. Some people were not troubled by such measures at all—hackers. Especially hackers who used sharing as an excuse; practically any movie could be found on hacker websites.
It was not that Shen Fei looked down on legitimate releases. Going to the cinema alone was simply too boring, so he had bought a luxurious home theater system.
It was rather pitiful, really. Shen Fei had been in the Marvel Universe for several years, yet strictly speaking, he had only two friends: Rebecca and Sherry.
Through Rebecca, Shen Fei had met Sherry over video several times.
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