Chapter 103: Research Results

Once the software, the scientist, was established, the hardware naturally had to follow suit.

Just after sending Barton away, Eric had Jennifer urgently order all kinds of instruments and equipment, covering such a wide range of disciplines that the outside world thought he was about to make some big move again.

The most expensive of these devices is a particle collider.

It's not something that the average person can afford to get into, that's just burning money. To modify a particle collider in one's own home and create new elements in minutes, as Stark did, would only occur in a fantasy.

Experimenting with a particle collider is similar to buying a lottery ticket, you might win one day, but the odds are there for everyone to understand. Eric does not need to win the lottery, all he needs is the huge amount of data generated during the lottery, take the money and burn it, there is always something to gain.

Under normal circumstances, the construction time of the particle collider is at least measured in years, but with Eric's psychic powers and advanced technological reserves, the particle collider was built within a month.

It was also a month later that Barton returned to New York with some of the biggest names in science.

Unfortunately, only four men came back with him, and Miss Maya Hansen, whose experiments had reached a critical juncture, had locked herself away in her lab for months, missing Barton's invitation perfectly.

Eric patted Barton's shoulder sympathetically, it's not that Boss doesn't want to give you enhancements, it's just that fate don't give a damn about your.

"Four Doctors, welcome to New York! Oh, sorry, Dr. Otto seems to be from New York." Facing the four geniuses, Eric put a Coulson-style smile on his face and raised his glass in greeting.

"We are also honoured to be invited by Mr. Eric! Your room temperature superconducting material is truly a genius invention, it has helped me a lot!" The future Dr. Octopus raised his glass in response, and the other three also paid compliments to Eric.

All four were top scientists in their respective fields, each with their own pride, and were so polite to Eric purely because he had invented the room-temperature superconducting material and had turned down the Nobel Prize, which was recognition of his technological prowess.

After the reception, Eric told the four in detail about the research dilemma he had encountered, with the lure of things like gravitonium. Except for Chen Lu, who was a bit hesitant, the other three immediately accepted the offer and signed their big names on the contract.

After that, Eric showed them the world's first artificial intelligence, and this time, the four were even more ecstatic, even Chen Lu immediately grabbed the contract and signed his name.

Looking at the four deeds of sale in his hands, Eric couldn't help but smile like a landlord, and then took the four men to devote themselves to research.

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Research is always tedious, and since the five of them entered the lab, they put all their energy into their research, spending 90% of their time in experiments, with Eric even achieving the feat of not taking a shower for four months straight ...

This has greatly delayed Skye's progress in completing her mission.

In order to help her with her problem, Eric set her a task of ten words a day in exchange for a clue about her biological parents.

The task was easy enough to complete, but after Eric entered the lab, he was often absent for ten days and half a month, and as she watched the numbers accumulate in her notebook, Skye finally became restless.

One day, she held up her notebook and stopped Eric who wanted to go back to the lab, puffing out her cheeks and demanding that he must help her complete her task before she could leave.

He had adopted Skye for three years and, thanks to this odd task and Eric's tireless efforts, Skye had long since overcome her autism and even saw Eric as her own family, so this task was no longer necessary.

But Skye is very stubborn, saying that she must do what she has promised, and must not give up halfway.

The first time Skye encountered A.I Future was when he brought her into the lab.

This opened the door to a new world for Skye, who had never thought that computer programs, like humans, could actually give birth to intelligence and humanity.

The future parted with a sliver of computing power and played the role of a big sister for Skye, becoming an NPC for her missions and likewise her computer tutor, allowing her computer programming skills to advance by leaps and bounds.

In this way, the five people in the lab became six, five big men, plus a little loli, all hovering around the future and various equipment, a busy and fulfilling day.

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(Time Skip no Jutsu)

In the blink of an eye, two years have passed and the twentieth century has finally come to an end, soon to enter the new twenty-first century.

Erik finally emerged from the laboratory.

Two years of research had been fruitful, but there were also many problems.

Firstly, there was the fact that he was one step closer to understanding his own electromagnetic force. At his current stage, every step forward in his psychic powers was very difficult, and more than two years of research had only made his powers slightly stronger.

Next was the study of gravity. With two treasures that ranked high in the universe and two genius minds, gravitational psychic power, finally, was no longer a newly emerged little brother, but had reached the same height as magnetism, and the two were on a par with each other.

Of course, the world-wide problem of the unification of the magnetic and gravitational fields is still unsolved, and this is the only direction the two doctors are now researching.

Finally, there are the strong force and the weak force, both microscopic forces with many sensational results, but they are still in experimental data, and Eric has not made the slightest progress on how to translate them into his own abilities.

He came out this time because after several years, Skye Industries was holding another product launch, scheduled for the first day of the 21st century.

This time, the product that Eric thought would piss off Tony Stark was the Ark Reactor.

After hiding it for so long, this treasure could not be hidden after all.

The Stark family has a very deep background in the military, and despite the deliberate concealment of many military bigwigs, Stark got his hands on a sample and came and smashed the glass of Eric's house the same day.

According to him, it was his father's perfect invention, and Eric was a thief for doing so.

But when Erik called Ivan Vanko to confront him and brought in Fury to testify, Stark had no choice but to leave in a huff.

Of course, the Ark reactor wasn't the star of the event, it was just a little piggyback, and along with it, the recently developed graphene battery.

The real star of the event was the Skye Industries Aerospace Division. After years of research, Skye Industries finally launched its first indigenously developed satellite in 1998 and, as the technology matured, developed space-based weapons!

That's right, space-based weapons, that's the star of this launch.

Energy harvesters carried by satellites continuously collect the sun's energy, store it in graphene batteries and then release it as a high-energy energy beam when needed, capable of striking targets on the ground or in outer space with precision, with a centre temperature of even hundreds of millions of degrees and a range as far as the moon.

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