Chapter: 25

"Assessing threat level?! And what was that sound just now? It was like it was ringing in my ears. What kind of technology is this?"

Once Tony, a super genius and weapons design expert, had the Dominator-Enforcer in his hands, he immediately realized its extraordinary nature.

"The identification of threats and the sound you heard are both applications of my brain-machine interface technology. By collecting subconscious brainwave information emitted by the targets, the graphene-integrated core inside the Dominator can assess their threat levels and unlock different attack modes.

As for the application of the prompt sound, it converts information into ideation waves that can be directly received by the brain, stimulating the auditory center for effective information transmission.

Furthermore, there is another application, the targeting system. It also stimulates the visual center of the brain through ideation waves, projecting the aiming reticle directly onto the retina. It can be said that it is a foolproof operation where hitting the target is as simple as pulling the trigger.

Moreover, you can connect J.A.R.V.I.S. as a combat assistance system to the Dominator. I have already granted J.A.R.V.I.S. the necessary permissions. Now, you can aim the gun at me and give it a try, but please don't pull the trigger. As I mentioned before, it hasn't undergone safety testing yet."

Tony nodded, aimed the gun at Mark, and removed his finger from the trigger position. As Mark had described, when Tony attempted to aim at Mark, an auxiliary aiming reticle immediately appeared before his eyes, as if it were a holographic projection.

With the help of the blue reticle, Tony effortlessly locked onto Mark. Then something changed—the entire auxiliary aiming interface turned red, and a new prompt sound reached his ears: "Target threat level determined as 37. No hostile intent, no weapons detected. Threat level below 100. Dominator safety engaged."

When Tony looked back at the Dominator in his hand, the blue glow on the gun's body had dimmed. Obviously, as notified in the prompt sound, the gun's safety was now engaged. However, due to safety considerations, Tony had no intention of pulling the trigger and testing it out.

"The design is flawless, from the auxiliary aiming to threat assessment. It surpasses the currently deployed weapons of all nations and can even be said to be a weapon ahead of its time. But since the Dominator lacks a loaded magazine and conductive copper wires, the only thing that makes it a dangerous weapon, as you said, must be its method of attack, right?"

From design to user experience, the Dominator could be considered a perfect product, but the most important and critical aspect was its method of attack. As a weapon, the only evaluation criterion was its killing power.

"Indeed, you guessed it right." Mark nodded and tapped a few times on the screen of his smartphone, projecting the design diagram of the Dominator as a hologram.

"When designing the Dominator, I incorporated multiple execution modes. Under different modes, the firearm can transform into various forms, with the selection of the mode determined by the system based on the target's level of danger.

When the threat assessment of the target does not reach the baseline or the user is not authorized, the trigger will be locked by the system and unable to be fired.

If the threat assessment of the target exceeds the specified value (above 100), the safety will automatically disengage. At that stage, the system's selection and the effect of the shot can be modified.

After disengaging the safety, the Dominator enters its primary mode, the Stun Gun. If the threat assessment of the target exceeds 100 but remains below 300, being hit by the Dominator will immediately render them unconscious and defenseless, except for individuals under the influence of high doses of stimulants or psychoactive drugs.

If the threat assessment of the target exceeds 300 and they are deemed highly dangerous with hostile intent, it can transition to the second execution mode, the Lethal Gun. When hit, the targeted body parts and the surrounding tissues instantly swell and eventually burst, resulting in a lethal outcome.

The third execution mode is the Molecular Disintegration Gun. It requires approximately 3 seconds to accumulate the corresponding energy and, upon firing, a large energy sphere is released from the muzzle, directly disintegrating the target at a molecular level, leaving no traces behind. It is highly effective against humans and can cause massive cavern-like damage to machines.

Under normal circumstances, the Molecular Disintegration Gun mode will not activate. Only users with the highest system privileges can forcefully activate this mode when the threat value of the target exceeds 500.

The firearm is powered by an internal miniaturized Arc Reactor and adjusts the power of the high-energy microwave generator within the gun body to achieve the desired lethality in the three different modes."

"Speaking of the Stun gun, you should be quite impressed. I improved it based on the ultrasound version when I was six years old. Compared to the previous version that only temporarily immobilized people, this time it can truly make them faint.

However, I haven't tested the power range of each mode yet, and the safety of the safety devices and system hasn't been verified. So its danger might be higher than what I described.

But since you requested it, and since you're going to play the hero anyway, why not help me conduct a field test on the Dominator? Collect some parameters for me so that I can make adjustments and improvements."

"This is indeed a terrifying weapon—" Tony looked at the Dominator in his hand and even he felt a chill. As a master weapon designer, he had seen countless powerful weapons and had even designed individual combat suits like the Mark series, but the Dominator gave him a sense of fear.

Especially the design logic that there would be no survivors if it hit in the lethal mode made Tony feel that even if he wore the Iron Man armor, he wouldn't stand a chance against the Dominator's attack.

After a moment of fear, Tony shook his head and smiled bitterly, "If I hadn't shut down the weapons division of Stark Industries, I believe the Dominator would have become the best-selling weapon in history. But now it seems that only a few people will ever get to see it."

Mark shrugged nonchalantly, "I never intended to mass-produce the Dominator anyway. Making the Dominator was just a way for me to prove if the ideas in my head could really be realized.

After all, no matter how high the threat level determined by the system is for the targets it aims at, we can't use that as a basis for pulling the trigger. If the Dominator were to circulate widely, it might truly become the dominator of human society, just like its name suggests."