That afternoon.
In the secret laboratory on the ground floor of Watt Tower.
Fault Insurance and the Anti-Superman Armor were disassembled into individual modules and displayed on the wall.
"Sir, the protection upgrade for the secret database has been completed. All related records have been deleted, and all data has been sealed and is now stored only by Watos Mark II."
Watos's mechanical electronic voice came from the speakers installed in the wall.
"Excellent. Has the AI cracking of Fault Insurance been completed?"
"Not yet. The surface data of the intelligent chip has been parsed, but the core data is inaccessible. The key is currently being cracked using a brute-force method. Computing power: 1 PFLOPS. Estimated time: Unknown."
"Try the password, Martha. M-a-r-t-h-a."
"Incorrect key."
"Another one, Thomas."
"Incorrect key."
"Alright, keep up the brute-force attack then."
Qingshui turned his head helplessly to look at Mr. Freeze, who was disassembling a part of Fault Insurance.
"Any results, Victor?"
"Somewhat."
Mr. Freeze rubbed his head, which was as intelligent and bald as Lex Luthor's, and said, "Batman used this Promethium battery as a reserve energy source. If I'm not mistaken, he must have first used this Arc Reactor to charge the Promethium with a large amount of energy storage, and then replaced the Arc Reactor's hydrogen-filled palladium. When the reactor is damaged, the machine releases specific variable-frequency electromagnetic waves to the Promethium to release energy, completing a new energy cycle."
Victor removed a piece of Promethium about the size of a palm and three centimeters thick.
"This guy is ridiculously extravagant."
Qingshui clicked his tongue.
His own foundation was still a bit shallow.
Whether it was Deathstroke, Batman, or Lex Luthor, they all had access to Promethium.
Ninja Master also had a small reserve, but he wouldn't give it up.
When Qingshui asked how he got it, he said he stole it and had no other means of acquiring it himself.
A small amount of information obtained from Ninja Master indicated that Promethium was first discovered decades ago by an old superhero, Steve Dayton, who had participated in World War II.
He was a scientist, and a teammate of the original Star-Spangled Kid and original Shining Star Kid. They once fought the Nazis together. His ability was to use a high-tech helmet he created to launch mental attacks on others; his strength wasn't particularly great.
He claimed that this metal was an artificial metal he invented and manufactured, but Steve Dayton had long since gone missing.
Ninja Master suspected that Promethium might be related to aliens.
But it was all just speculation.
Regardless, the reserves of Promethium on Earth are limited, and extremely limited at that. It's something you can't get your hands on just by having money.
"Did you record the frequency of the electromagnetic waves?"
"I had Watos record it. You can try to activate the Speed Force Dagger with this method. If it works, it means it's feasible, and perhaps the energy activation efficiency will be even higher."
Victor then used tweezers to remove the palladium metal strip from the damaged Arc Reactor, placed it on the super-thin slicer nearby, took a sample, and then transferred it to a transmission electron microscope, passing an accelerated electron beam through the sample.
The imaging resolution displayed by this transmission electron microscope could reach a few tenths of an angstrom.
An angstrom is not an international standard unit, but it has gradually become a common unit of length used by many scientists; 10 angstroms is equivalent to 1 nanometer.
This level of resolution can quite intuitively show the atomic structure inside a crystal lattice.
"It's slightly different from the hydrogen-saturated palladium crystal lattice structure diagram you provided, but the conformity is over 90%, close to saturation. This interatomic spacing can significantly lower the requirements for nuclear fusion. Perhaps just a beam of high-energy laser shining on it could cause cold fusion, and it could be stopped at any time, making it safe and controllable."
Victor looked at the transmission electron microscope image displayed on the computer with a hint of fascination.
Cold nuclear fusion.
Even though Victor was not a scientist specializing in energy, this kind of thing was still extremely appealing to a physicist.
"Before Batman… left, he said he combined nanorobots with PEALD technology to build a molecular-level processing plant, which allowed him to roughly fill hydrogen atoms into predetermined unknown positions."
Qingshui rested his chin on his hand and said to Victor.
"I haven't deeply researched nanotechnology."
Victor shook his head regretfully.
"Perhaps Lex Luthor also has the capability, but we are currently in competition with him."
"First, investigate laboratories and companies worldwide that are researching related technologies, then invest in and acquire them. Let's build up our preliminary technological reserves first."
Qingshui shrugged.
At least he had a direction.
At worst, he could find ways to get the relevant technology from Wayne Enterprises.
It's just that Bruce Wayne has just been sent to a parallel universe, which is temporarily indistinguishable from being dead. Is it a bit inappropriate for him to do this?
But then again.
Once Batman returns, there won't be such a good opportunity.
It's just that Alfred and Lucius aren't easy to deal with either.
Just as Qingshui was thinking this, Watos's voice suddenly rang out again.
"Sir, Mr. Dugan is calling."
"Connect."
With a chime, Watos connected the call for Qingshui.
"Speak."
"Boss, Mr. Lucius Fox, CEO of Wayne Enterprises, and Mr. Alfred Pennyworth, the Wayne family's butler, are here to see you."
"Have them wait in my office. I'll be right there."
Speak of the devil.
"Victor, you watch things here. I'm going up to check."
Qingshui stood up, bade Victor farewell, then left the lab, took a suit from the rack, put it on, and stepped into the elevator.
Two minutes later.
On the top floor of Watt Tower, in the office with the best lighting.
"Dugan, you can go now. I'll entertain the two from Wayne Enterprises."
Qingshui walked into the office, nodded at Dugan, who was instructing a secretary to pour tea, then looked at the two energetic white-haired old men sitting on the leather sofa.
These two were considered family by Bruce Wayne, the most important logistical and technical support for the Bat-Family.
"I believe I made it quite clear to you both this morning about Bruce going to a parallel universe and the research plan for that Teleportation Gun."
Qingshui sat on the other side of the sofa and poured himself a cup of tea.
These two aren't here to ask him for Fault Insurance and the Anti-Superman Armor, are they?
He'd better come up with some excuses to fob them off.
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