Super Brain

New York's outskirts, an abandoned industrial district.

Xiao Han stood in a desolate clearing, surrounded by collapsed walls and rusted machinery.

This place had once been the site of a chemical plant. Now, only concrete ruins and overgrown weeds remained.

"System, display my ability panel." He silently recited the words in his mind.

[Beep! Host's ability panel generated]

[Host: Xiao Han]

[Current Ability: Complete Steel Body (Growth Potential)]

[Strength Level: Can easily lift objects weighing one million tons (Growth Potential)]

[Defense Level: Immune to conventional physical attacks; can withstand the impact at the center of a nuclear explosion without injury. Magic resistance is relatively weaker than physical defense. Except for high-level mages such as The Ancient One, ordinary mages can be ignored.]

[Speed Level: Up to 0.3c in space; Mach 200 within the atmosphere]

[Energy Reserves: Continuously charging from Yellow Solar Radiation; current energy level 97%]

[Special Abilities: Heat Vision (maximum temperature: the surface of the sun), Freeze Breath (approaching absolute zero), Biofield (can protect or control objects in contact), X-Ray Vision (can penetrate all substances except lead), Super Hearing (can directionally monitor the entire globe)]

[Weakness: Kryptonite can weaken the host and cause death in severe cases. However, the host can disregard this weakness. As long as you do not want to die, no one can attack you with Kryptonite—not even in the form of smoke. The Biofield can block it.]

Xiao Han nodded slightly, his gaze sweeping across the surroundings.

He needed to test his abilities, but he could not attract the attention of S.H.I.E.L.D. or Hydra.

"First, test my strength."

He walked up to an abandoned concrete building and placed one hand against the wall.

His Biofield spread out, enveloping the structure of the entire building. Then, he gently lifted his hand.

Boom!

He raised the entire building with one hand. The steel bars gave off a grating screech as they twisted, but under his precise control of the Biofield, not a single piece of rubble fell.

"About eight thousand tons. No pressure at all." Xiao Han muttered to himself. Although the system had already clearly stated his strength, he could not put his mind at ease without testing it personally.

[Strength test complete. Current lifting limit: Not reached]

He gently returned the building to its original position. The ground did not even visibly tremble.

"Next is speed."

Xiao Han took a deep breath and slightly bent his legs. Then—

Bang!

A sonic boom cloud exploded, and his figure vanished in an instant.

Nineteen seconds later, he was already standing high above the Atlantic Ocean, looking down at the sea below.

"Too fast." Xiao Han was dazed. "System, calculate my speed just now."

[Speed test result: Approximately Mach 180.]

[Warning: High-speed movement produces sonic booms and thermal radiation, which may be detected by satellites. However, the host need not worry. The Biofield can control the movement so that no sound is produced.]

Xiao Han nodded and adjusted his posture before swiftly returning to New York's outskirts.

"Time to test Heat Vision and Freeze Breath."

He looked toward a small mountain in the distance and slightly focused his eyes.

Sizzle!

Two hair-thin beams of red light shot out, precisely cutting through the mountainside. The rocks silently melted into lava.

Immediately afterward, he drew in a deep breath and slowly exhaled.

Whoosh!

An icy current swept across the area, instantly freezing the lava into black, glass-like crystals.

"Pretty good control." Xiao Han nodded in satisfaction. "System, display the energy consumption data."

[Heat Vision (Low Power): Energy consumption 0.01%]

[Freeze Breath (Single Use): Energy consumption 0.005%]

"Almost negligible." Xiao Han smiled. "Then what about Super Hearing?"

He closed his eyes and concentrated.

In an instant, countless sounds poured into his ears.

Sirens in downtown New York, the clamor of crowds, the roar of subways.

Farther away, political debates in Washington, D.C., and radio communications from military bases.

Even a secret meeting somewhere on the opposite side of the Earth.

Xiao Han's Super Brain automatically filtered out communications related to S.H.I.E.L.D.

He began searching for a target. Soon, he caught a fragment of an encrypted conversation.

"The Hydra base was destroyed. The energy readings are abnormal."

"There were no witnesses. All surveillance systems failed."

"Director Fury has ordered us to continue investigating, but there are too few clues."

Xiao Han smiled.

It seemed that S.H.I.E.L.D. was indeed looking for him, but they had no idea where to start.

He tried listening in on Hydra's communications as well, but their encryption technology was stronger. He could only catch fragmented information:

"The Winter Soldier is standing by."

"The target may possess Super Speed."

"Prepare the plan ahead of schedule."

"As expected, Hydra is more cautious than S.H.I.E.L.D." Xiao Han opened his eyes. "But they still haven't found me."

He decided to test one more ability: Super Brain.

"System, retrieve the technology tree of the current world. Focus: energy technology and materials science."

[Beep! Analyzing...]

[Marvel Universe technological level: Far beyond the real world in certain fields]

[Key Technologies: Arc Reactor (Tony Stark), Vibranium (Wakanda), Pym Particles (Hank Pym), Super-Soldier Serum (left behind by Doctor Erskine)]

Xiao Han narrowed his eyes.

"If I can master these technologies and combine them with my abilities..."

After thinking for a moment, he decided to make contact with this world's core technologies.

Xiao Han stood in the center of the dilapidated chemical plant. The surroundings were silent, save for the mournful whine of wind passing through rusted metal.

He closed his eyes and felt the surging power within his body.

Steel Body granted him nearly invincible defense, while Super Brain gave him almost unlimited learning potential.

But at that moment, he realized a problem.

He did not truly understand the knowledge behind these technologies.

"Super Brain? I want to see the real knowledge."

Then, the first step: basic science!

He drew in a deep breath, slightly focused his eyes, and activated Super-Sight.

New York Public Library.

His gaze pierced through dozens of kilometers and locked onto the library's book collection.

The words on the bookshelves were perfectly clear to him. Even the tiniest printed text could be magnified and analyzed by his Super-Sight.

"University Physics," "Introduction to Quantum Mechanics," "Fundamentals of Biochemistry."

His pupils contracted slightly. His optic nerves scanned each page at a speed far beyond that of ordinary humans, while his Super Brain absorbed the information like a sponge.

Molecular structures, electromagnetic theory, the laws of thermodynamics, DNA coding...

The knowledge surged into his consciousness like a flood, yet he did not feel confused.

Instead, his mind integrated the information with astonishing efficiency, building a complete system of scientific understanding.

A few minutes later, he had mastered the entire framework of humanity's basic sciences.

Then, the second step: advanced technology and reverse engineering.

Now, he needed something deeper.

Target: the Massachusetts Institute of Technology laboratory.

His Super-Sight pierced through the walls and locked onto an advanced laboratory that was still operating late at night.

Graduate students were tuning a miniature nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer, while complex quantum computing models scrolled across a computer screen.

Xiao Han's gaze swept over every line of code and every experimental parameter, and his brain automatically deduced the principles behind them.

"So that's how it works. This is how the confinement field for controlled nuclear fusion is constructed."

He did not need experimental equipment, because his Super Brain itself was the most powerful simulator.

He could construct a virtual laboratory in his consciousness and deduce the results of any possible experiment.

Next, the third step: the Marvel World's advanced technology.

Now, he was prepared to make contact with the technologies unique to this world.

The Arc Reactor of Stark Industries.

His gaze crossed the city and locked onto the private laboratory on the top floor of Stark Tower.

Tony Stark was adjusting the output of a new-generation reactor.

Xiao Han's Super-Sight delved into the core, observing the flow of the plasma and the arrangement of the energy-conversion matrix.

His brain automatically analyzed the physical laws within it and deduced an even more optimized structure.

"Palladium is only a transitional solution. The true breakthrough should be..."

His thoughts raced as he constructed an entirely new reactor model in his mind—more efficient and more stable than Stark's version.

The molecular structure of Vibranium.

His gaze shifted toward the United Nations Headquarters, where a small piece of Vibranium was hidden inside a Wakandan diplomat's suitcase.

His Super-Sight adjusted to atomic-level resolution, revealing Vibranium's unique lattice structure in its entirety.

"The vibration frequency of this metal can absorb kinetic energy?"

He tried simulating Vibranium's properties in his mind, deducing its performance under different conditions.

Before long, he understood its operating principles and even began devising a method to artificially synthesize a similar material.

The quantum effects of Pym Particles.

Finally, his gaze locked onto Hank Pym's old warehouse.

The records of the Pym Particles experiments were locked inside a safe, but they posed no obstacle to Xiao Han's X-Ray Vision.

He observed the particles' quantum tunneling effect as his brain automatically calculated the mathematical principles behind their spatial compression.

"So shrinking doesn't reduce mass. It folds dimensions..."

He began deducing independently,

When dawn arrived, Xiao Han opened his eyes, a confident smile appearing at the corners of his mouth.

He had not relied on the system or left behind any trace of intrusion. Using only his Super Brain and Super-Sight, he had completed comprehensive learning ranging from basic science to cutting-edge technology.

Now, he possessed not only the strength of Steel Body, but also enough knowledge to change the world.

"Next..." He looked toward the distant skyline. "It's time to run some experiments."