Chapter 20

"We have already occupied two colonies, although they are not yet connected. However, I believe that once the Boss awakens, we can obtain technology from other dimensions to achieve the connection. Oh, and we also need a plan. After all, without the help of the main god in the infinite reincarnation, we cannot rely on it." Tang Xing muttered to himself in the Imperial Building of the colony.

Ever since Tang Tian underwent virus enhancement, Tang Xing had been thinking about how to achieve the scale of the Steel Empire that was once established. Although they now possessed advanced technologies such as biotechnology, energy weapons, space warships, maglev technology, and more, progress was still too slow. Therefore, Tang Xing pondered about the dimensions they could plunder in his mind.

In the redesigned Steel Empire of Tang Tian and Tang Xing, they incorporated various dimensions from the Terminator, Mechanical Archenemy, and The Matrix series. The main system was prepared to combine the entities of the Red Queen, Mechanical Emperor, Transcendent Hacker, Wiki, and Skynet. Due to limitations in high-tech technology and resources, they could only produce a large number of bioweapons, clone armies, laser weapons, electromagnetic weapons, and other powerful weapons.

Tang Xing and Tang Tian planned to traverse other worlds to obtain knowledge and resources. For example, the first dimension Tang Tian would visit after awakening was the Mechanical Archenemy, which featured intelligent multifunctional civilian robots, emotionally endowed Sonny, the genius Wiki, and more.

Next, there were the super artificial intelligence Skynet and versatile military robots from the Terminator series, including the T-1 battlefield robot, T-X humanoid robot, colossal five-meter-tall Harvesters, and Exoskeleton Harvesters, along with time machines, hydrogen cells, and ion weapons.

The Matrix movie introduced virtual reality technology, the Matrix itself, and squid-like robots.

The Men in Black movie featured numerous extraterrestrial weapons, spaceships, the Milky Way galaxy, super-fast aircraft, and small-scale time machines. The movie Elysium showcased artificial space stations, military robots, and medical machines. The Naruto anime brought multiple shadow clones, Tailed Beasts, various ninja arts, chakra, seals, Sharingan, Rinnegan, various kekkei genkai, and a multitude of forbidden techniques and resurrection jutsu.

Inuyasha featured the Shikon Jewel and the genes of various immortal demons.

The Starship Troopers movie presented superluminal spaceships, smart bullets, and the Arachnid species.

Lucy introduced the CPH4 drug, Limitless showcased NZT-48, Push presented psychic crystals, Mobile Suit Gundam, Back to the Future, The Time Machine, The Fifth Element, the game Left 4 Dead, Pacific Rim, Judge Dredd, The Mummy, Artificial Intelligence, The Thirteenth Floor, War of the Worlds, Underworld, Blade, Transformers, and countless other movies or games with endless weapons and resources, as well as various knowledge and useful genes—all of which Tang Tian could plunder.

"Indeed, the Empire is lacking in everything now. Tang Tian, when will you awaken? Hurry up and rise to plunder resources for me." Tang Xing said without any sense of decorum right after having the Red Queen download his plan to plunder dimensions directly from his mind.

Currently, we need to establish the initial infrastructure, requiring 10 million tons of steel, 5.5 million tons of oil, and over 5 million tons of copper, zinc, lead, aluminum, and mercury. Of course, if we have the Mechanical Octopus, we can obtain the necessary steel resources and various metals within a few days. Although the Apestar colony already has a population of tens of millions, it's definitely not as efficient as the Mechanical Octopus in mining. However, resource extraction in colonies is not something we would control.

All of Umberella's scientists and technicians have already been moved to the colony, leaving behind clones of these individuals in the real world. The end of World War II accelerated the pace of the Marvel world. Just as the plot of "The Wolverine 2" was beginning, the world was approaching the end of the war in 1945, and Tang Tian's return coincided with the Cold War period of the X-Men. During the time when the First Battle started, Tang Tian understood the genes of those mutants with unique abilities. To have more powerful subordinates, continuous plundering is necessary.

Tang Tian's comprehensive abilities in the continuous development of scientific paths are incredibly strong. With the ability to traverse time and space, Tang Tian can wreak havoc without restraint and acquire powerful henchmen and scientific technologies in different dimensions. After plundering a large amount of high-tech technology, selling them to the US government during the Cold War period made Umberella's influence even stronger, allowing for more arrangements to be made.

Tang Xing was speechless for a while when he thought about the various abnormalities in the future Marvel world, such as Sentinels and Superman being superheroes, while Thanos and planet-devourers were villains. Furthermore, to become stronger, they would need to continuously trade arms to achieve better development.

Meanwhile, in the real world, the development has progressed from December 1943 to 1945, and this day holds significant meaning as well. First, the US President, Roosevelt, who helped the country overcome the economic crisis, is about to step down after serving four terms, and it can be determined that Harry S. Truman, a representative figure of the future Cold War period, will become the new president.

The US Army began implementing the Manhattan Project in June 1942. The project's main leader, Howard Stark, had already researched and developed atomic bombs before Nazi Germany, and one was dropped on an island to expedite its collapse. Under the covert push from the spokesperson of the Umbrella faction and the right-wing military, Roosevelt decided to carry out a nuclear explosion on the island once again, this time to ensure its destruction.

The chess pieces were deployed in order to strike certain countries and collect various metals. As a result, over the course of several years, from World War II to the present, they have successfully collected over 50 billion tons of metal resources. Once they have obtained advanced high-tech technology, they can begin the Steel Empire Plan.

I have to say that the president's call was quickly answered. A relaxed voice came through the phone, saying, "Mr. Tang Tian, this is Roosevelt. We can agree to your request, but we need some of your company's technology."

Tang Xing, the clone, paused for a moment and quickly responded, "So, Mr. President, what specific technology of our company do you need?" Tang Tian pretended to think for a moment and calmly spoke.

"We need supersonic warship technology and cross-magnetic levitation technology," Roosevelt said straightforwardly. What he didn't know was that Tang Tian intentionally had the spokesperson provide this information. In addition, Roosevelt wanted Howard Stark to form the Department of National Resources and Strategic Affairs, which required a secure place to command, namely the future sky battleships. Therefore, they needed the confidential technology of Umbrella.

"No problem. In addition to that, we also need a large amount of metal resources. The price can be negotiated," Tang Tian said with ease upon hearing Roosevelt's agreement.

"Very well, Mr. Tang Tian. It's a pleasure to cooperate with you," Roosevelt said happily over the phone as if he had finally taken advantage of Umbrella Corporation. In reality, it wasn't so easy to take advantage of Umbrella. Tang Tian's principle when selling things was that the majority of what he sold to the other party was castrated or inferior versions, far from the original quality.

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