Captain Cold, being a man of loyalty, knew that Watt was currently their best bet for rescuing their comrades. After proposing some conditions that wouldn't overly restrict their freedom or methods, he agreed to the arrangement.
With the addition of Heat Wave, Golden Glider, the Trickster, and Mirror Master, the remaining members of the Rogues successfully joined IPEAC.
The only one who didn't join was The Atom, Ray Palmer.
He also ran a sizable tech company and, like Green Arrow, was worth tens of billions, thriving in his prime. Naturally, he wasn't willing to take a subordinate role.
However, he did agree to become a scientific advisor for Watt Group and IPEAC, fostering some technological cooperation between the two companies and offering help when needed. He also joined the Justice League at the invitation of Qingshui, Green Arrow, and The Flash.
This significantly boosted the overall power and influence of the forces under Qingshui's command and the organizations he belonged to within that world, thereby increasing his Fortune.
"Mr. Watt?"
A pretty young woman in a white lab coat waved a hand in front of Qingshui, interrupting his thoughts as he organized his memories of his DC Universe Avatar.
"Oh, sorry, Ms. Zhao, I got lost in thought."
Qingshui waved his hand apologetically.
"Lost in thought? I can't imagine anything here being more captivating than the Regeneration Cradle. It might not surpass Dr. Connors's Regeneration Serum in solving some genetic-level problems, but its applicability in other fields and its cost-effectiveness are unmatched by the Regeneration Serum."
Helen Cho tilted her head slightly, patting a large, coffin-like object beside her.
This was the Regeneration Cradle, invented by this brilliant female doctor. It was a top-tier medical black technology that integrated bio-cloning and nanotechnology.
Most physical injuries could be repaired by the Regeneration Cradle, and in a very short amount of time.
"Of course, otherwise I wouldn't be here. Nanotechnology, AI, and new energy represent the future of humanity."
Qingshui said to Helen Cho.
Connors's Regeneration Serum was gene-based, while the Regeneration Cradle cloned the patient's cells, using biological 3D printing to repair damaged tissue cells.
During this process, nanotechnology ensured seamless repair, perfectly integrating with the original cells.
And now, he would become the new owner of Helen Cho's lab—the Seoul Biopharmaceutical Company, where the lab was located, had been acquired by Qingshui personally.
It's worth noting that Qingshui's net worth in the Marvel Universe had also significantly increased.
Osborn now couldn't do without Qingshui, and if Qingshui wanted to, with the technology and capabilities he possessed, along with his current wealth, he could create another enterprise the size of Osborn within one or two years.
To retain Qingshui, and to preserve their own wealth, Osborn's shareholders convinced Harry Osborn to pass a resolution for an equity award.
As long as Qingshui could generate a certain amount of profit for Osborn, the shareholders' meeting would dilute a proportional amount of shares as a reward.
The reason for their anxiety was, naturally, that Qingshui had started several other companies outside of Osborn, leveraging some of the technology he acquired in the DC Universe, and their performance was quite good.
So, although he started relatively late, thanks to his inherent identity advantage in the Marvel Universe, Qingshui's assets in this world were not much different from those in the DC Universe, placing his personal wealth among the top forty in the United States and the top hundred globally.
"I agree with what you said, but what were you just zoning out thinking about?"
Helen Cho asked Qingshui again.
"I was thinking if it's possible to use nanobots to construct a molecular-level nanofactory for some interesting little experiments."
"That wouldn't be easy. My nanobots, which work with the Regeneration Cradle, are over a hundred nanometers in diameter. They can perform extremely precise operations on human cells, which are an order of magnitude larger than them. But to create a molecular-level nanofactory, frankly, I can't imagine how to build such a nanobot."
Helen Cho shook her head slightly.
Qingshui's reaction seemed quite normal to her.
A scientist, upon seeing the various technologies represented by a particular innovation, often wonders if these technologies can be applied in other fields, especially their own area of research.
"How are your nanobots manufactured?"
Qingshui asked again.
"We use the same method as lithography machines for etching chips, but with current precision, the smallest nanobots we can make are still in the tens of nanometers."
Helen Cho replied.
The precision of a lithography machine doesn't dictate the size of the nanobots.
For example, a knife can be used to carve things, but the size of the carved object can never be the same as the thickness of the blade.
No matter how superb the carving skill, it would at least have to be one or two orders of magnitude larger to be barely processed.
—If it were genuinely smaller than the blade's thickness, then who knows who would be carving whom.
Tens of nanometers…
Qingshui exhaled slightly.
That was still two orders of magnitude away from the molecular level, or 0.1 nanometers.
Fortunately, his DC Universe Avatar had already acquired the method from Wayne Enterprises.
This technology was perfected by Lucius leading Wayne Enterprises' tech lab, after Bruce Wayne proposed the concept and research direction.
It sounded pretty absurd.
They first manufactured nanobots, and then had those nanobots create smaller synthetic units…
But upon closer examination, it actually made a lot of sense.
If it didn't make sense, Wayne Enterprises wouldn't have been able to achieve it.
In fact, the nanotechnology Wayne Enterprises initially used, while more advanced than what Helen Cho had, wasn't significantly ahead.
...until an upgrade.
In the lab, they upgraded traditional photolithography to electron beam lithography, which allowed for direct sculpting according to programmed designs without the need for a mask.
The electrons orbiting the atomic nucleus are much smaller than atoms. Though their mass is very light, they are much easier to manipulate than light.
Light has no rest mass, but it does have momentum when in motion—light itself is never static, always traveling at the speed of light.
Using the intelligent equation E=mc² can calculate light's equivalent mass.
But photons are massless.
Compared to light, electron beams, which can participate in chemical reactions and are relatively susceptible to force, are much more reliable in this situation.
Despite the high cost, difficulty, and failure rate, and extremely low output, Wayne Enterprises still managed to produce nanobots smaller than ten nanometers.
And Bruce Wayne, building on this, proposed a brilliant concept.
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