X-Kryonaut No. 1

And so, for the next few months, Harry practically welded himself into the laboratory.

As for the affairs of the Osborn Group, a mature team of professional managers handled them, leaving him only to steer the ship in the right direction.

All of his energy was now poured into a brand-new project that made his blood boil with excitement.

Their next project was, naturally, Unit G.

This thing was the standard equipment of the "Creators" who visited Earth billions of years ago in the Guyver universe.

Simply put, it was a piece of high-tech space gear, or more accurately, a bio-boosted armor for individual soldiers.

Its core components could be clearly divided into two parts.

The first was the "Kryo-Cell" used to construct the bio-armor itself.

The second was the "Control Unit," which would appear on the forehead as the core processor once the armor was activated.

This Guyver armor was not worn directly under normal circumstances; instead, it was stored in another mysterious phase space.

Once it read the specific brainwave signals of the wearer, the Guyver armor would instantly tear through the spatial barrier and deeply fuse with the wearer's body.

This fusion was not a simple matter of covering the body surface with a layer of cold metal or biological material.

It was a thorough transformation and reinforcement directly at the physical and cellular levels!

It was precisely because of this overbearing characteristic that the "weapons" created by the "Creators" for combat—that is, the humans of that world—could unleash unimaginable power after equipping the Guyver armor, even rivaling the Zoanthropes or even Zoalords created by the "Creators" themselves.

In the words of his counterpart from that world, the feeling of wearing this thing was just like wearing nothing at all.

This description alone was enough to make one's curiosity explode, wanting to experience that fluid sensation of power and body becoming one immediately.

And just as Harry had vaguely sensed before, the core of the Guyver armor—the "Kryo-Cell"—overlapped with the Symbiote sent by S.H.I.E.L.D. in quite a few characteristics.

For example, its astonishing biological activity, its ability to physically transform a host, its terrifying regeneration and adaptability, and that potential for growth and deformation that seemed to break the laws of physics.

With the precious Symbiote sample provided by S.H.I.E.L.D. as a key research subject, combined with the in-depth research data and analytical data on Unit G that "he" had obtained through the Chronos organization in the Guyver world, Harry's project soon made progress.

He spent his days and nights in the laboratory, his eyes bloodshot, yet his spirit was exceptionally high.

After countless rounds of cell culture, gene editing, biological assembly, and simulation testing, the first generation of the "X-Kryonaut" finally turned from blueprints into reality.

The core body of this "X-Kryonaut" was primarily composed of hybrid cells that merged the powerful adaptability and regenerative ability of the Symbiote with the monstrous growth and physical resistance of the Guyver's "Kryo-Cell."

Then, Harry cleverly integrated the cellular structure of Mystique into it.

As for why he chose Mystique's cells, it was naturally because of their potential.

In X-Men, William Stryker had mastered Mystique's cells to create Sentinels capable of replicating mutant abilities at will.

This was also the foundation for his X-Kryonaut to utilize multiple mutant abilities...

Finally, he used the small biological computer he developed as the control unit for the entire system.

This control unit acted like the conductor of an orchestra, coordinating the proliferation, differentiation, and deformation of the hybrid cells, and most importantly—the mobilization and use of the implanted X-Gene abilities.

It was precisely because of the existence of this control unit that the "X-Kryonaut" could use multiple mutant abilities simultaneously without causing rejection or chaos.

This was the huge advantage brought by biotechnology.

He didn't need to be like those traditional scientists, racking his brains to study the physical principles and energy conversion methods of superpowers, only to replicate them with mechanical structures.

He only needed to know that a certain cellular structure or a certain gene sequence could manifest a specific "superpower" phenomenon.

Then, all he had to do was replicate the same cells or effectively integrate that gene sequence into his own hybrid cell system.

And the reproduction and growth of cells? That was simple enough; it only required providing sufficient nutrients. It was just like farming—water and fertilize, then wait for the harvest.

The only difficulty was controlling the expression of these gene sequences to use the corresponding superpowers.

But for him, with the technical support of both the Guyver armor and the EVA, this was not a problem at all...

Another advantage was that driving this armor didn't require a powerful energy source like Iron Man's Arc Reactor; he just needed to eat a couple more bowls of rice than usual.

This armor wouldn't be worn on the body like ordinary clothes.

Instead, it would hide within Harry's body in a dormant or symbiotic state, much like a Symbiote.

Through that small biological computer, it could maintain a connection with the massive "Prometheus I" in the underground laboratory.

Only when Harry sensed intense danger, or when he actively issued the command to equip it in his mind, would the "X-Kryonaut" cells within his body instantly activate, proliferate, and deform, completing the coverage and arming of his entire body in a very short time.

Of course, as a first-generation product, it was not yet perfect.

Some of the heaven-defying weapons originally possessed by the Guyver armor, such as the particle cannon on the chest and the gravity control unit on the waist, had not yet been fully analyzed and integrated into this bio-armor.

Correspondingly, he selectively implanted several mutant abilities to compensate.

Everything was proceeding smoothly according to plan, even faster than he had anticipated.

Harry was just planning to find a place to properly test the actual combat performance of this first-generation "X-Kryonaut."

However, before he could even step out of the laboratory door, the synthetic voice of [Prometheus I] rang out in his mind.

"SIR, a reminder: according to your schedule, you are due to head to Las Vegas this afternoon to attend the Global Excellence Award ceremony."

Hearing this, Harry was taken aback, a flash of surprise crossing his eyes.

He had been immersed in his research for too long, almost forgetting the passage of time in the outside world.

"Is it already this late?"

He muttered to himself.

The Global Excellence Award... Las Vegas...

Familiar images instantly surfaced in his mind.

This award ceremony was the one from Iron Man, the one where Tony Stark didn't attend, leaving Obadiah to go up and accept the award instead.

In other words, the plot of Iron Man was about to begin...