Unable to eat for two full days because of the nauseating scene he had witnessed, Xu Dan decided to drop by Tony's place for a visit.
After all, that man was the most entertaining person in the world.
When Xu Dan arrived, he discovered that Tony had actually projected StarCraft onto the giant screen in his underground workshop!
From the looks of it, Tony's faction had already left the planet and made initial contact with outer space!
Just this single spaceflight alone had set players across all servers spamming their horns nonstop, transforming one after another into shameless sycophants—crying, kneeling, and begging in every imaginable posture for tips on how to ascend to the heavens!
Tony stared at the small speaker window on the left side of the screen with an expression of utter disdain.
In fact, over this period of time, many players had already conquered the planet. But the moment they attempted to officially enter space, they ran headlong into technical bottlenecks.
No matter how they developed, the result was always the same—frequent launch failures, destroyed spacecraft, and total annihilation.
Each failure meant a loss of at least hundreds of millions of resource units!
Who could possibly endure that?!
Just as Tony's spacecraft on the giant screen was preparing to turn back, Xu Dan suddenly spoke up:
"Don't rush back. Fly at a constant speed in the one o'clock direction for a while."
"Huh?!" Tony was startled by the sudden voice. The revolting grin on his face vanished instantly. He turned around, saw it was Xu Dan, and snapped irritably,"Man, appearing out of nowhere like that seriously increases my risk of heart disease! Jarvis—why didn't you warn me?! Huh?!"
"Sir, I detected that you were fully immersed in gameplay, so I automatically activated Do Not Disturb mode. Incidentally, your phone has blocked seventeen—oh no, eighteen incoming calls," Jarvis replied honestly.
Panicking, Tony grabbed the phone from the desk.
Sure enough, there were eighteen missed calls—all from Pepper!
Ever since he had solved the palladium poisoning issue, his entire outlook on life had changed.
With a healthy body, he could finally pursue his true love.
Otherwise, he'd have been nothing but a walking disaster!
So after replacing the Ark reactor, he had immediately confessed to Pepper.
These eighteen missed calls were far more terrifying than losing 1.8 billion in resources!
However, all of that discomfort vanished instantly with Xu Dan's next words.
"Keep going. There's a small easter egg ahead—you'll get a fragment of a space battleship. Take it back and research it, and you can increase battleship development speed by twenty percent."
Space battleship!!
That was the whole reason to play this game!
Tony's eyes lit up instantly. He completely forgot about the eighteen missed calls, tossed the phone aside, and continued piloting the spacecraft forward.
Sure enough, after flying for a while, the spacecraft seemed to collide with something, causing the screen to tremble slightly.
Under normal circumstances, he would have panicked, fearing meteorites or debris.
But now, he wasn't afraid at all—because this was treasure!
Sure enough, the very next second, the game displayed a notification that a fragment had been acquired.
"YES!!!"
Tony jumped three feet into the air with excitement, as if his favorite team had just scored a decisive goal!
He had now earned the title of First Ascender of the Entire Server.
Next, with a twenty percent boost to space battleship production speed, he was guaranteed to become the first player to build a space battleship!
And once that happened, everything would change!
Building the first space battleship meant seizing the initiative!
It meant occupying an entire star system!
"Xu Dan! Is there more? Is there still more?!"
"No."
"Please, brother—just tell me! I'm begging you, okay?!"
"No."
"Really none?"
"Telling you one doesn't affect game balance. Telling you two would be my sin."
"So there is more!"
Xu Dan smiled. Looking at Tony's pleading expression, he said,"Seal warning—only this once."
"I'm sorry!!!"
...
"How does your new power source feel?" Xu Dan casually flipped through items on the workshop table and asked offhandedly.
Tony was still playing, treating that tiny fragment like a captain who had discovered buried treasure.
"Power source? Man, stop strangling words! I'll correct you one more time—it's called the Ark Reactor! The new version is fantastic. It completely eliminates palladium poisoning, and the energy output is several times higher than before."
Hearing this, Xu Dan smiled."Looks like your father really was a genius. He left you a backup plan so long ago."
"Yes… my father really was a genius. It's just a shame he died ten years too early…"
Hearing Tony's words, Xu Dan hesitated—wondering whether he should reveal the truth about his parents' deaths.
But after thinking it over, he decided to hold back.
Loki's whereabouts were still unknown, and that man was guaranteed to be plotting something nasty. Xu Dan would likely be needed on the front lines as cannon fodder—it would be unreasonable to stir up conflict at a time like this.
Suddenly, Tony spoke again.
"Actually, my father's generation had a lot of geniuses. You could say they proposed many ideas back then that no one has surpassed even today."
"Then when future generations look at me, will they classify me as your father's generation? I'm your father's generation, you're your father's son—so I'm your father?"
"Please, stop choking the conversation! I mean physics! For example, one of my father's friends—you might not know him—developed a particle that can shrink or enlarge any object…"
At that moment, a flash of realization struck Xu Dan!
"You mean… Pym particles?"
"Whoa! You know about that? I thought only S.H.I.E.L.D. did."
"Hank Pym… Ant-Man."
"Ant-Man?"
Xu Dan shot Tony a look, then turned around and walked out without another word.
He clearly remembered that in Ant-Man's story, helmets were also mentioned.
When Ant-Man shrank or grew in size, he had to wear a helmet to reduce pressure—otherwise, his brain would literally burst!
Dr. Pym was an absolute genius!
Anyone capable of developing Pym particles and conducting top-tier research in the quantum realm was on an entirely different level from Stark's arms dealing.
So if Old Pym already had experience designing helmets, then inviting him to help improve virtual game helmets—
Two of the world's greatest minds working together—
Wouldn't that dramatically shorten the development time?!
The long-awaited virtual game—the one hoped for day and night—was finally nearing true "release"!
Xu Dan headed straight for Pym Technologies, the company founded by Pym himself.
Even though it was now run by his students, at least his daughter still worked there.
Old Pym had a strange temperament.
This would require patience.
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