Chapter 123: The Bat Event (5)

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Chapter 123: The Bat Event (5) In the laboratory of Stark Tower, Dr. Connors is leading a group of researchers who are working tirelessly. Soon, his phone rings, and Dr. Connors answers, saying, "Hello, I'm busy right now, can it wait?" "I'm Nick. How is the serum research going?" "We don't have enough research samples. You must provide me with at least three more vampire specimens. I am researching a serum, you can't expect me to create it out of thin air without any blood samples, can you?" "I will contact the battlefield commander." Nick's voice sounds composed as he says, "How confident are you in being able to break the vampires' self-healing ability?" Dr. Connors, while organizing research materials, says over the phone, "It's still uncertain at the moment, but it's more likely that even if it does work, the effect won't be permanent." "This is a completely new field for me. I've never dealt with monsters like these before. There is a mysterious factor in their blood that I haven't been able to fully decipher yet. I can only tell you that the effect you imagine is unlikely to occur." "But we must find a way to break their self-healing ability, otherwise this battle will be almost impossible to win." "Initially, the group of vampires that controlled the streets of Brooklyn and Queens had over 300 people. We inflicted serious injuries on half of them, but soon they recovered to over 200 people again. As for us, the armed police force has decreased from over 300 people to only 60 people, most of whom are only slightly injured and unable to continue fighting. We can only retreat and wait for reinforcements." "With such a disparity in casualties, the longer we drag this out, the harder it will be to win." Connor speaks very fast and explains to Nick, "They are magical products, and you should know more about them than I do. Using scientific means, I may not be able to fully decipher their abilities. As for making their self-healing ability disappear completely, I can only tell you that it is impossible." "But I have a better idea. If successful, it may not only decipher one of their abilities but even make them completely lose their combat effectiveness." "What are you waiting for? What do you need? Research samples? I'll contact Spider-Man right now and have him catch a few and send them to you." After a while, Dr. Connors heard a loud noise on the window. Spider-Man crashed into the glass of the Stark Tower, and then he used a spider web to stick to the nearby window to avoid falling off. He dragged a large black net with two or three struggling bats inside. He opened the window with great difficulty and dragged the net inside. Dr. Connors stood in front of him with his arms crossed and said, "Couldn't you knock them out before bringing them in?" "Sorry, Doctor. I didn't know if you wanted them completely alive. If I punched them, their heads might not be usable." Connor thought he made sense, and then he said, "Are you planning to go to the battlefield again? Let me tell you, it's not happening! Stay here and help me finish the first phase of the research before you can leave." "But we have a big plan. We're going to..." "Listen, I don't care what you plan to do. I only know that with the current situation, whether or not you're here doesn't make much of a difference. But if you stay in the laboratory, we may be able to solve this problem fundamentally." The responsibility of dealing with vampires has always fallen on SHIELD, but dealing with these creatures is thankless and challenging. If it weren't for Nick's conscience, others might not even bother to deal with them. These creatures are very troublesome. They have two forms and can use magic. Moreover, their self-healing ability is extremely strong. As long as they are not completely shot in the head or pierced through the heart, they will quickly recover. Even advanced agents may be at risk when facing them. But it's SHIELD's duty to deal with these creatures, so they have to do it. Nick really hates the high cost, low return, and unreimbursed bills. So he naturally wants to take this opportunity to solve the problem once and for all. He also knows very well that machine guns and cannons alone cannot completely eliminate these creatures. He hopes to approach it from a biological perspective and have genius Stark create a biological weapon for him, preferably one that can transform vampires into humans. If that's not possible, then abolish their special abilities. So genius Stark directly handed this task to Connors, while Iron Man had other things to do. Since the day Stark was inspired by Schiller, he has been full of inspiration and doing all sorts of things in the laboratory. Coulson and Hill were scared that Stark would accidentally create a wave of steel and a crisis of artificial intelligence if they weren't careful. But the ones who were even more scared were the politicians who watched Stark's speech video. Hill shot the video really well and didn't capture Schiller's warning to Stark. Instead, she began recording from the climax of Stark's speech. Throughout the video, Stark was like a crazy genius scientist, passionately describing his dangerous thoughts that could destroy the world at any moment. When he talks about his field of expertise, he becomes crazy and neurotic, which is a common trait among geniuses. He rambles on about his crazy ideas, muttering a bunch of professional terms that normal people can't understand, occasionally mentioning things like "mechanical domination of the world," "inorganic entities conquering everything," and "carbon-based organisms are all rubbish." Just by watching this video, the politicians were scared out of their wits because they knew very well that Stark was capable of doing these things. Everyone knew that Stark was now facing various difficulties because he set himself a bottom line and was unwilling to use unconventional means to deal with his opponents. Otherwise, not even the military, let alone all the power on Capitol Hill combined, could stop Stark's Mech armor army. In fact, they had no way to completely resist Stark. Everything depended on Stark's own moral bottom line. The military and the congress had considered what to do if Stark went crazy one day, but the answer was that there was no way, they could only pray that he wouldn't go insane. They all knew that even if Stark Industries went bankrupt and Tony Stark became a homeless person, if you gave him a junkyard, he would still be able to give you an army of high-tech weapons within a few days. Even in the terrible situation in Afghanistan, Stark was able to come out on top in the end. Therefore, they almost lifted all restrictions on SHIELD and gave Nick full authority, demanding that he immediately and ruthlessly deal with the vampire invasion without giving Stark any excuse to interfere. In their view, Stark's speech was not just about the vampire problem. These politicians like to imagine things. In their view, it was because the military had oppressed Stark too harshly recently that he warned them like this, to tell them that he had the power to destroy the world. The congressmen chose to face the problem of vampires and eliminate these creatures by any means necessary, which was also a statement to Stark. As long as you are willing to maintain your moral bottom line, we can help you maintain it too. You don't need to use your abilities beyond this line, and then everyone can live peacefully. Of course, Stark was too lazy to think about these twisted thoughts. He was currently on the battlefield, commanding his army of Mech armor to kill.

Chapter 123: The Bat Event (5)

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