I stepped forward and pressed down on the red medical kit. A pale blue panel popped up instantly.
[Baymax] [Big Hero 6 World 1/5] [Creator: Tadashi Hamada] [Core Component: Red Medical Kit] [Synthesis Materials: 1 smart chip containing medical records, 1 carbon-fiber robot frame, 1 humanoid inflatable toy, 1 can of medical spray, 1 lithium-ion battery, 1 small scanner, 1 small projector] [Item Description: Inflatable medical robot. A high-tech medical robot that can be packed away in a medical kit anytime, anywhere. It stores tens of thousands of medical references and has an AI with an exceptional ability to learn. In addition to monitoring health and providing emergency treatment, it also has the advantages of being lightweight, sturdy, and strong. It is a highly qualified professional medical aide.] [Helpful Tip: Of course, if your mechanical engineering skills were a little more reliable, it might be capable of far more than just being a medical robot~]
Yes, the new "Core Component" Luca had found this time could be used to synthesize Baymax from Big Hero 6.
The only unfortunate thing was that this wasn't the combat robot Baymax, upgraded by the protagonist Hiro Hamada. It was the original medical Baymax built by his brother, Tadashi Hamada.
And calling it a "Core Component" he'd found wasn't exactly wrong.
While taking care of his mother in the hospital, Luca had already considered the possibility.
Perhaps he could use his golden finger to synthesize some kind of high-tech medical device and cure his mother, Gina.
And if he wanted a high-tech medical device, a hospital would naturally be the likeliest place to find its base "Core Component."
It was just that Luca had originally focused on the hospital's existing equipment or some kind of medicine in bottles and jars.
Who could have guessed that, by a twist of fate, this ordinary medical kit someone had thrown away would be the one to trigger his golden finger's detection?
"This works, too. The technology in Big Hero 6 seems to be quite a bit more advanced than the real world of 2012. Maybe there really is something in Baymax's tens of thousands of medical references that could cure Gina."
"Even if not, having another combat unit that's easy to modify would be nice."
That was right. Although the "Helpful Tip" on the panel seemed to be poking fun at Luca's research skills,
in reality, while he couldn't upgrade Baymax into a low-budget version of the Mark Armor the way Hiro Hamada did in the movie, adding some armor or programming in some combat data was well within Luca's abilities.
His original father had taught him a lot while he was growing up, and Luca had entered plenty of robot competitions and built weapons and machines himself. He wasn't a complete beginner.
Maybe he couldn't compare to those monstrous geniuses in the Marvel Universe who built armor by hand or invented high-tech wonders while still in their teens, but in an ordinary world, he'd definitely count as a young genius.
Having inherited everything from the original Luca, he was now something of an entry-level electronics and mechanical engineer.
Luca took his hand off the medical kit and didn't bother looking for a box cutter. He simply used his keys to slice open the large box the company had sent.
Inside were all sorts of materials he needed.
And since he didn't know exactly what materials his golden finger would require, they'd prepared a variety of types and sizes for each item.
After drawing a circle on the floor with chalk, he carefully placed the red medical kit in the center.
For the next step, Luca didn't take out the custom carbon-fiber mechanical frame from the box, or the inflatable toy modeled after the Baymax design he'd drawn by hand.
Instead, he pulled out a robot frame about the size of his palm, along with an ordinary Greninja inflatable toy that was barely any bigger and looked incredibly cheap.
The tiny robot frame was one of the simplest robot toys Luca had made as a child, according to the original owner's memories. He'd used the family's 3D printer to print it in carbon fiber.
Luca had gone out of his way to make these two completely unrelated things because he wanted to test the limits of his golden finger.
Expectant but nervous, Luca first placed the robot frame—which might not even have been able to take two steps—inside a separate circle at the center of the formation.
The next moment, the crude, ordinary mechanical frame lit up with white light, which slowly connected to the light shining from the red medical kit.
"Wait, this really works?!"
At the sight, even Luca could hardly believe it.
Never mind how complex Baymax's original mechanical frame was. It was at least about the height of an ordinary person.
And yet this crude frame the size of his palm could be used as a material, too?
"So as long as the size isn't specified, anything that matches the name can pass the test, no matter how big or small?"
"What about the quantity of materials? What about conservation of mass?"
As soon as he said that, Luca slapped himself across the mouth.
"I'm such an idiot. Why am I talking about conservation of mass to a golden finger? Isn't the more outrageous, the better?!"
Well, getting slapped still hurt, so in the end he only tapped himself lightly to make a point. It didn't even make a sound.
His gaze returned to the circular formation.
After confirming that the mechanical frame had passed the test, Luca placed the Greninja inflatable toy into another circle in the formation.
But this time, the Greninja toy didn't light up like the mechanical frame had.
"???"
"What's going on? Do you have something against Greninja? It's clearly a humanoid Pokémon with arms and legs!"
Unconvinced, Luca took Greninja out and put an Ultraman figure of about the same size into the formation.
This time, the inflatable toy finally lit up, and the white light connected once more.
"What... kind of bizarre test is this?"
"Never mind. It lit up, so that's good."
Although there were still plenty of mysteries about how his golden finger worked, at least he'd made some progress.
Luca jotted down the information, then placed the rest of the custom-made materials in the formation one by one.
A smart chip containing only a medical textbook, ordinary medical spray in an aluminum can, a half-finished lithium battery from the lab, a crude scanner with absurdly low precision, and a miniature projector with laughably terrible resolution.
This time, nothing went wrong. Every item passed the formation's test.
The white light completely filled the enormous circular formation.
Luca slapped both hands against the edge of the formation and silently said, "Synthesize."
The white light flared, then contracted sharply.
In the end, only a completely transformed red box remained in the center of the formation.
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