Wanderer had meant for the twins to take a look at Ultron's masterpiece and, ideally, throw in a few sarcastic remarks. By any normal person's standards, the thing really was ugly.
But Wanderer hadn't expected the twins to actually discover something and cause Ultron quite a bit of trouble.
"It'll take a few more hours for the cells to coalesce, but we can start transferring your consciousness."
Helen Cho connected one end of an extra-thick data cable to the back of Ultron's head and the other to the body inside the cradle.
"Beginning the upload of your brain's programming now."
While Ultron was busy, Lin Ze's group wasn't sitting idle either.
Nahida relayed the progress of Ultron's data transfer in real time, while Lin Ze's companions once again found themselves torn between letting it continue and interrupting it.
"If we let Ultron finish transferring his brain's programming, this experiment really will have failed."
Steve addressed the others worriedly. "I suggest we go down there and stop Ultron. After all, the purpose of our experiment was to find out what he really intended to do with the Scepter. We have our answer now, don't we?"
Tony strongly disagreed with Steve.
"Ultron was right. Humans always back down when they have a chance to take another step forward. That's exactly what you're doing now, Old Popsicle."
His position was clear: since they'd already come this far, why not see how it turned out? There was no denying that Ultron's idea of using vibranium and the Regeneration Cradle to create a biomechanical body was pioneering.
Besides, Tony glanced at Lin Ze, then turned his attention to Nahida, whose eyes were closed as green motes of light shone around her hands. He trusted Aether and Nahida to keep the situation under control.
"All right.