Chapter 6

Chapter 6: Despair.

In the test room of the Paladin Corporation, there is a young man wearing a grey coloured super suit and doing demonstration. He jumped over a three-meter artificial wall and calmly held up a test car. Two security auto-bot pointed with small machine guns at the young man wearing suit and fired.

The first few rounds hit the main body Armour and the lights went on, but one bullet hit the tube next to the kneecap and the gas came out.

After that, the boy quickly threw the car down and began to lose his balance.

The young man is Min Lwin. They are now in a test room of Metal Paladin's R&D. Their manager, Freya looked uneasily at the sketch of the super suit on the transparent tablet and said.

"C-rank in strength, C-rank in resistance and finally D-rank in speed. The suit performant is almost the same with ordinary C rank Heroes."

Freya said to the young man and nodded.

Another technical expert, Mr

Reagan doesn't seem too happy with the current outcome. Young man

Lwin is more dissatisfied than others.

"It's a suit with an average C-rank. But

a small bullet can break the steam pipelines and it loses ability to attack. Also, too heavy and hard to move.

Needless to say, it's easy to rising heat and can't bear the high pressure, in the following conditions the suit have a chance of explode. It will be a bug target for fire mutants. And Void string? What is it?..."

"Sir, it's Void Stream tech..."

"Ah, that technology is too energy intensive. The reactor you installed

used up 80% of the power within only five minutes. How to use this suit in battle? it's not passed the qualification."

Mr Reagan don't have a good impression upon, Min Lwin. Even time he makes a small mistake or big, he laughed and mocked aloud till his tears spread all over the room. Mr Reagan is a thirty-five-year-old veteran technician in Autobots, and he doesn't want to see Min Lwin's suits replaced his auto-bots.

And that bastard is always Lewd about Miss Freya. Min Lwin has always been treated like a big rival for love by Mr Reagan since he started working, and he always look for a problem.

"Mr Reagan, isn't this just an alpha test? At least this suit is on the C-rank, and we just to fix the weaknesses."

Freya helped Min Lwin to take off the suit and said casually. Min Lwin's super suit is based on Metal Paladin's suits. Freya would be a person who most like to see her grandfather return to the world of heroes. So, since Min Lwin said that he would test the suit last year, she showed him everything she knew about the metal paladin suits. Unfortunately, the Berry Green family did not allow Min Lwin to take a closer look at the metal paladin suit displayed in the Hall of Heroes museum.

"I know our manager expect him too much. But this guy did the alpha test again and again, It's already more than twelve times. He always makes new test suits every time. Now, the cost of testing per month is already more than our company's profit."

The head of the research department and the general manager are still arguing about Min Lwin. But, he didn't say anything. A year had passed, but he was still a student and had not yet progressed from being a part-time worker.

Although Freya could send him to the R&D department, he couldn't be a full employed without a degree.

So he can only be patient before paradise (No pain No gain) like an old saying of Suvana people.

He really wants to punch Mr. Reagan's face while wearing his suit. Even though the company said they paid for the test, they just allowed items he needs to remove from Auto bots that were sent back because they were of poor quality.

As for new item that cannot get from old auto bots, he has to pay his expenses himself. Even the people in the neighborhood start thinking he's a Custom car fanatic, because he has to find things at an ​abandoned car zone outside the city.

He once had to sneak into the world's largest home robot company Tesla's abandoned robot warehouse to find something to use.

The crazed domestic robots that had been abandoned there almost tore him into pieces.

'Fu×k, Son of bit×h Reagan. Don't the expenses you mentioned all went to the bars you go to? You should die quickly."

Of course, Freya knew about Mr Reagan's corruption. But Reagan

It is the brother of the board member who owns the second most shares, so Freya can't handle him. Freya and Berry Green's situation is also bad, after all.

"Well...as of now, it costs about four hundred thousand dollars for a suit. I still remembered, a old suit made by a B-level tech hero sold out with 350,000 dollars last year . That suit can only be used by the owner and It is also impossible to reproduce, but the production costs are still really high in comparison. D rank Auto bot only costs twenty thousand dollars. If the government calls for tenders, they will not choose your suit."

Tech heroes are tech heroes. They don't share or let leaking their suit technologies even after they died. Even if you give Hundreds of billions dollars to buy their technologies, there is no one to sell.

Even if you can buy a technology of their, mass reproducing is almost impossible.

Tech Heroes' Suits have high production costs. The Rank B suit that Freya said us already damaged and unusable. The were auctioned off price is quite high, but the production cost of this suit is at least ten million dollars.

That is why Intelligence and technology-type heroes are not powerful in this world. If you are not a billionaire like Tony Stark, It is almost impossible to become powerful hero.

400,000 dollars might be cheap for hero suit, but they are creating police suits. it's already twenty times of auto bots price. The police and army departments will not use their suit if the cost is too high. If this is the case, the Paladin company will be bankrupt by the production cost of their suit that can never be sold out.

"I know it's not you're false. You already the best inventor in the world by invented the Hero supporting radar, right?" Freya said to Min Lwin and patted on his shoulder and left from the room.

Compared to the previous year, their beauty manager looks a lot thinner.

Paladin's stock prices are falling with the fastest way.

Even on the TV program, an Economic specialist said that if they don't make some changes, they can only have to survive for the next three years before liquidate.

"Radar is not a new technology. You just do it a little better than before. oh."

Reagan snorted and left the room. Min Lwin quietly raised his middle finger to the head of the department and muttering.

"Mr Reagan I blessed your to have B virus, C virus, gonorrhea, HIV, AIDS and everything you can from unsafe sex!..."

When he was about to get off work, the Chinese boy, who used to sit next to his illegal office gave a thumbs up.

His name is Thomas Zhang. He is a Chinese American youth. He is an IT specialist. he want to be a hacker but what he got is to fixes the bugs of paladin auto bots for daily.

Fortunately, Min Lwin did not inform the company that he is also an IT specialist. Otherwise, he also may need to fix a bug like Zhang.

"Hey, what about you? Have you tested your super suits and are you okay?"

Min Lwin shook his head and pointed to the huge wreckage of the suit on his desk and spread out. The gas-powered muscle support tube was hit by a bullet and damaged. It must be said that it is a design weakness.

He doesn't put these pipes under the bulletproof plate. That is way it's easy to get hit by a bullet. He removed the old pipe to change the new pipe.

His Co-worker is still talking.

"Reagan, the head of the department, is scold you again? Have you? There were only twelve failed attempts. Even Thomas Edison have failed five thousand times. Do you know what he said after this? He didn't fail five thousand times. He found five thousand ways that cannot make bulb. Even after success, his factory burned down. Do you remember what he said?..."

"I'm 67 years old, but I have to go back to work tomorrow..."

Min Lwin replied to the Chinese boy. This guy is always active. Zhang is older than him, Next year he will be 24 years old.

Although he was went to Harvard, he failed the exam and got a technical diploma from a small private university. And he always said like this "I'm not failing exams, I just like the Bills Gate who leaving school to study himself.' His excuses are really horrible.

If Zhang know Min Lwin is a famous Hacker, He will start worshiping him as a master. Min Lwin really wanted to go and beat his mother, who had given the name of Thomas to his son

. Because of his name is same with

Thomas Edison, Zhang always said the invention of the light bulb and other stories daily again and again.

Even Min Lwin, who doesn't read much except hero comics, now he knowing too much about that shi*t. What he say before is not because he knows about Edison, The guy said so much that be got bored and auto-replied what he remembered.

(Zhang's last name is Chinese so, his father must be a Chinese. So the first name Thomas was given by his American mother.)

In other words, this guy is also a loser at work. As a full-time worker, it's even worse than Min Lwin.

If he doesn't have to fix bugs, he become a triviality boy for the girls in their quality control department. If the girls said they want to eat something, he will be run down from the office on the 15th floor and take the elevator down and went to the fast food store at it's two streets away to buy something.

"Zhang, I want to eat cheese Burgers"

"Zhang, we run out of toilet paper."

"Zhang, there is no more hand sanitizer spray." and so on. Despite this, he is still happy with himself.

If Min Lwin is a crazy who went to be a hero without ability, Zhang will be a crazy who want to be inventor without innovation. He knows everything about any inventors, but he cannot invent anything.

After fixing suit, he started to left from the office. He need to finish his homework from university after he go home. Otherwise, he will fail exam and without even getting a chance to get a diploma like Zhang

"Why don't we go out tomorrow?

When we have done the working hours, we can go to the cinema together. The new movie 'The Great Elon Musk' is now show on cinema."

"..... See you in the morning." Min Lwin waved his hands to bye Zhang and left the office. He muttered on the way back.

"Damn it, I almost destroy my ears."

...

Today, as usual, at the heroes' association's clinic, he went to the doctor to test ability awaken. Unlike usual, he was kicked out of the medical center. The doctor who is about to retire has retired now.

The doctor in charge current was angry aunt. Her power is calories

Because of this, she need to eat constantly burgers.

She is a fat lady and it appeared to be at least three hundred pounds and often use purple eye shadow to make up her face.

And this time he went to her for ability checkup is 5th time. Even though retired doctor explained that the power cannot be awakened every time, Min Lwin did not give up.

In the end, Min Lwin's questions, whose chance of energy awakening was less than 15%, dragged him out of the room. She didn't give false hope like the old retired doctor. She even wrote the note 'Normal person, non ability' on Min Lwin's citizenship card. With this note, he cannot do a ability test again in Heroes Association.

Min Lwin walked down the road with broken heart. He still walked to the grocery store he used to buy. Now the shop staff become someone else. The first one is lost his life due to recklessness youths.

After the CCTV records came out, employee's parents blamed Min Lwin.

If the staff give the money, there is no life threat. But he interfered in the matter and that cost the staff life.

"Is it right to stop injustice?"

Or is it wrong to want to fight injustice without being strong enough?"

Min Lwin was confused. Now he is used to be being bullied and used by others people.

So called, the best friend in his high school is just want to get a high score in his report by relying on him.

Also, that beauty manager who treat him friendly is just want to use his inventions to run her company again.

Zhang just wanted to learn hacking from him. No one was treating him sincerely. He couldn't imagine that there was someone he wanted to love and talk to. All of them want something from him, Or they come closer to him because he is too easy to bully.

Min Lwin bought the cheapest pack of cigarettes from the grocery store. Cigarettes are expensive in New York because of taxes. Even the cheapest is fifteen dollars a box. If it wasn't because he was under too much pressure, he would have listened to his mother.

The boy would not have tried such a thing before. After taking a puff or two of the cigarette, he coughed.

"In my life there is only those who want to use me or only those who want to bully. Expect of mother." The small phone in his hand rang aloud.

When he looked, he saw his mother's name.

"T...T...T..." After a few seconds he picked up, a voice came out from the other side.

Min Lwin's tone softened a lot.

"Hello...mom..."