The soldiers had already assembled at the Delta Research Base. After arranging their work for the next two months, Duncan boarded the Quinjet with Alice and headed there.
He took the elevator underground and went straight to the only completed Valkyrie Shuttle.
The shuttle's deck was crowded with bundled supplies. Industrial robots and humanoid robots moved among them, making their final preparations for departure.
Guided by a humanoid robot, Duncan and Alice made their way to the shuttle's command room, located at the bottom of the vessel beside the engine room.
At that moment, there was only one person there...
Ultron could probably be considered a person. He had intelligence and emotions. Sometimes he even held a book and made himself think deeply instead of simply copying answers from the database.
It was a strange habit. He could scan the text with a glance, yet Ultron took pleasure in reading it carefully while also controlling countless robots involved in construction.
"Ultron, are you ready?"
Ultron was looking forward to this trip, and so was Duncan.
They had been conducting preliminary explorations of the other world for several days. A makeshift probe had even analyzed the air there.
The air was full of ammonia, methane, and chlorine. Humans could survive in that world quite easily by wearing a simple respirator.
To prepare, they had temporarily modified the Valkyrie Shuttle's air circulation system and made a large number of breathing masks. They had also retrieved the robots left behind in that world.
The drones they had sent out earlier had disappeared. The area where they would arrive was riddled with magnetic vortices. Wireless devices only worked over short distances, and the vortices could interfere with some unmanned equipment.
Reclining on the sofa, Ultron continued flipping through the pages of the Bible. He