And just like that, over the next few months, Harry practically welded himself inside his laboratory.
With a mature team of professional managers handling Osborn Group's affairs, he only needed to steer the macro direction.
All his energy was now poured into a brand-new project that made his blood boil.
Their next project was naturally Unit G.
This gadget was standard equipment for the Creators who had visited Earth tens of millions of years ago in the Guyver Armor world.
Simply put, it was a high-tech space suit, or more accurately, an individual bio-armor.
Its core components could be clearly divided into two parts.
First was the Kryo-Cell used to build that bio-armor.
Second was the Control Unit that would appear on the forehead area as the core processor once the bio-armor was activated.
This bio-armor was not worn directly under normal circumstances, but rather stored in another mysterious phase space.
Once it read the wearer's specific brainwave signal, the Guyver Armor would instantly break through spatial barriers and deeply integrate with the wearer's body.
This integration was not a simple matter of covering the body surface with a layer of cold metal or biological material.
It was a thorough modification and enhancement directly from the physical level and cellular level!
Precisely because of this extraordinarily domineering characteristic, the weapons created by the Creators for combat—namely, the humans of that world.
After equipping the Guyver Armor, they could unleash unimaginable power, even rivaling the Zoanthropes or even Zoalords personally created by those Creators.
To put it in the words of his counterpart from that world, wearing this thing felt just like wearing nothing at all.
This description alone made his curiosity skyrocket, making him want to instantly and personally experience that fluent feeling of power merging as one.
And just as Harry had vaguely foreseen earlier, the core of the Guyver Armor—the Kryo-Cell—overlapped in quite a few characteristics with the Symbiote sent by S.H.I.E.L.D.
For example, astonishing biological activity, the ability to modify the host's physique, terrifying regeneration and adaptability, and that growth and transformation potential that seemed to break physical laws.
With the precious Symbiote samples provided by S.H.I.E.L.D. as critical research subjects, coupled with the in-depth research materials and analytical data regarding Unit G that his "self" from the Guyver Armor world had acquired through Cronos's technology, Harry's project soon made progress.
He immersed himself in the lab day and night, his eyes bloodshot, yet his mental state was exceptionally high-strung.
After countless rounds of cell cultivation, gene editing, biological assembly, and simulation testing, the first-generation X-Kryonaut finally turned from blueprints into reality.
The core main body of this X-Kryonaut was primarily built from mixed cells that fused the Symbiote's powerful adaptability and regenerative capacity with the abnormal growth and physical resistance traits of the Guyver Armor's Kryo-Cell.
Then, Harry cleverly blended Mystique's cellular structure into it.
As for why he chose Mystique's cells, it was naturally because of her potential.
In the X-Men, William Stryker had mastered Mystique's cells to manufacture Sentinels capable of arbitrarily copying mutant abilities.
This was also the foundation that allowed his X-Kryonaut to use multiple mutant abilities...
Finally, he used a small bio-computer he developed himself as the control unit for the entire system.
This control unit acted like an orchestra conductor, coordinating the proliferation, differentiation, and transformation of the mixed cells, as well as the most crucial part—the mobilization and use of implanted X-Gene abilities.
Precisely because of this control unit's existence, the X-Kryonaut was able to simultaneously use multiple mutants' abilities without producing rejection or chaos.
This was the enormous advantage brought by biotechnology.
He did not need to rack his brains like traditional scientists to study the physics principles and energy conversion methods of superpowers, only to replicate them using mechanical structures.
He only needed to know that a certain cellular structure or gene sequence could manifest a specific superpower phenomenon.
Then, what he had to do was replicate those same cells or effectively integrate that gene sequence into his own mixed cell system.
As for cell reproduction and growth? That was simple enough; he just needed to provide sufficient nutrients. It was just like growing crops—watering, fertilizing, and waiting for the harvest.
The only difficulty was controlling the expression of these gene sequences and then executing the corresponding superpowers.
Yet this did not count as any sort of difficulty for someone with the technological support of both the Guyver Armor and EVA...
Another advantage was that driving this suit of armor did not require an energy source as powerful as Iron Man's Arc Reactor—he just needed to eat two extra bowls of rice at ordinary meals.
This armor would not be worn on the body like ordinary clothes normally.
Instead, like a Symbiote, it would hide inside Harry's body in a dormant or symbiotic state.
Through that small bio-computer, it could maintain a connection with the massive Prometheus I in the underground laboratory.
Only when Harry felt intense danger or actively issued the command to armor up in his mind would the X-Kryonaut cells within his body instantly activate, proliferate, and transform, completing full-body coverage and arming in an extremely short time.
Naturally, as a first-generation product, it was still imperfect.
Some of the heaven-defying weapons originally possessed by the Guyver Armor, such as the mega-smasher on the chest and the Gravity Control Unit on the waist, had not yet been fully analyzed and integrated into this bio-armor.
Accordingly, he selectively implanted a few mutant abilities as compensation.
Everything was proceeding smoothly according to plan, even faster than he anticipated.
Harry was planning to find a place to thoroughly test the actual combat performance of this first-generation X-Kryonaut.
However, before he could even step out of the laboratory door, the synthesized voice of Prometheus I rang out in his mind.
SIR, a reminder that according to your schedule, you are supposed to head to Las Vegas this afternoon to attend the Global Excellence Award ceremony.
Hearing this, Harry was instead taken aback, a flash of surprise crossing his eyes.
He had been immersed in research for too long, almost forgetting the passage of outside time.
"It's already this late?"
He muttered to himself.
The Global Excellence Award... Las Vegas...
Some familiar scenes instantly surfaced in his mind.
This award ceremony was the one from Iron Man that Tony Stark didn't attend, subsequently letting Obadiah go up to accept the award.
In other words, Iron Man's plot was about to begin...
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