American comics: Starting with Luke the Maker

“Emotional awareness is becoming more and more obvious.”

With the increase of the energy original fluid, the blank consciousness that Luke had previously perceived was also growing more and more vigorously, like absorbing nutrients, with the increasing amount of energy original fluid.

It cannot be said that they possess the thinking ability of intelligent life, etc. As far as the current situation is concerned, they are more like a manifestation of some kind of emotion, and can only be regarded as a kind of instinct of intelligent creatures. If you have to give a definition, it can only be a beast, not a person.

Luke looked at the first mind ring he made. As an equipment that can be referred to in the future, Luke named it the Ring of Discernment. It is unconscious and blank before being worn, but after it has a master, it will be infected by the wearer's deepest and strongest emotions, and transformed into a mind ring with some kind of spiritual and emotional power.

During this transformation stage, the ring face of the ring will also outline and emerge the corresponding spiritual power imprint. From then on, this ring will have a certain emotional attribute. It will only absorb energy of this emotional attribute.

The most important thing is that before the wearer dies or reverses his emotions, the ring will be like a soul binding, or a DNA binding, and can only be used by the wearer.

Sounds a bit like the characteristics of a symbiote?

The material for making this ring is the latest generation of symbiote material! Under Luke's technical operation, this material retains some of the advantages and characteristics of the symbiote to the greatest extent.

To put it bluntly, this ring can even be regarded as a powerful auxiliary creature. It is loyal, powerful, and can provide the wearer with most of the auxiliary effects of technological equipment.

For example, communication?

The ring borrows the mysterious communication network between symbiotes, allowing the wearer to communicate with the wearer of another ring through the ring.

Of course, if you have very high technical experience in using the ring, and are skilled and proficient in the construction of some instruments, then you can also use the energy of the ring to create a communication device that can connect to other communicators, etc.

To this end, Luke had Bai Hou write a thick instruction manual to teach future users how to correctly use the power of the ring; how to maintain the ring; how to charge the ring; how to deeply explore the uses of the ring; and how to protect your spirit healthily under the emotional erosion of the ring.

The A4-sized paper area, with more than 900 pages of dry content, is still very brief in Luke's opinion. But for the current castrated mass-produced version, it should be enough.

Luke didn't bring the prototype mind ring. This is just a trial product. The only advantage is that Luke didn't set too many restrictions on it, and it has a certain degree of self-growth in terms of materials and technology.

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“Half a month, your research speed is really surprising. I thought it would take you longer to come up with a finished product.” In the Heberon Industrial Park, in a closed training ground, Nick Fury, who rushed over with his men, looked at Luke in amazement.

If the researchers under his command could have Luke's research efficiency and strength, why would he have to lower his head and lower his eyes to the outside world and spend a lot of money?

Although Nick knew very well that the research personnel he had collected and trained had already created a lot of black technology for S.H.I.E.L.D. that made people envious. But everything is afraid of comparison, isn't it?

People are always greedy and don't know how to be satisfied.

“Fury told me about you, Luke Field. The Heberon you are in charge of is now S.H.I.E.L.D.'s most important equipment supplier.” Steve Rogers, who was next to Nick, also extended his hand.

“I've also heard him talk about you, a symbol of an era.” Luke shook Steve's hand.

“You said that in addition to ordinary testers, you also need someone with a firm will and a bottom line and conscience. After thinking about it, the only person who can be trusted and meets your requirements is Rogers in front of you.” Nick said after the two shook hands.

“You understand yourself.” Luke smiled. This proves that Nick knows very well what kind of people he and the agents under his command at S.H.I.E.L.D. are.

In Nick's eyes, they may be guardians of order and peace, but they are definitely not related to the conditions required by Luke. Out of prudence and insurance, Nick invited Steve Rogers, a representative figure, at the beginning of the test, when everything was unknown.

At least the other party's will and morality are much more convincing than those of his agents.

“Can I see your product?” Nick's intact eye fell on Snook, who was standing behind Luke carrying a suitcase.

Luke snapped his fingers and stepped aside. Snook, who received the look from his boss, immediately put the suitcase in his hand on the ground, then squatted down and opened it.

The box was very heavy and thick. Nick originally thought that the new equipment would be larger, but he didn't expect that after opening it, the first thing that came into his eyes was a thick book.

“What is this?” Nick watched Snook take out a book that was estimated to be nearly ten centimeters thick from the box and hand it to Luke's outstretched hand, and then through Luke's hand, it was passed to his hand. He only felt a sinking in his hand and was a little dazed.

Could it be that the equipment Luke promised was just a book?

“You're holding it upside down.” Luke kindly reminded him. At this time, Snook had turned the box over, with the opened side facing Nick and the others.

Nick turned the book over and looked at the words on it in silence.

“Mind Ring User Manual?” Steve, who was next to Nick, turned his head and glanced at the cover, and couldn't help but read aloud.

“Are these the mind rings?” Nick calmly tucked the thick manual under his right arm, took two steps forward, squatted down and looked at the six rings in the box that were arranged in a ring shape.

He wanted to reach out and take them, but suddenly seemed to remember something, raised his head and glanced at Luke next to him, and asked, “I should be able to take them out and have a look, right?”

“As long as you don't wear them.” Luke nodded. Then his eyes fell on Steve on the side, and he took out the prototype ring from his pocket, and threw it out under Steve's stunned gaze. “Catch.”

Steve nimbly grabbed the ring thrown to him in mid-air, glanced at Luke, then opened his clenched palm and looked at the silver-gray, very simple ring lying in his palm.

“This is the special ring you told me about?” Seeing this scene, Nick couldn't care less about looking at the rings in the box. He stood up, took the prototype ring from Steve's palm, turned it over and over in front of his only eye, and glanced at Luke next to him.

“The first mind ring on this planet. As its creator, I think it is necessary to find a good owner for it.” Luke said.

“What is it for?” After Nick finished speaking, he seemed to feel that his words were ambiguous, and changed his words: “I mean, what can it do?”

“Let the captain put it on and try it. Isn't this the purpose of our meeting this time?” Luke took two steps aside, signaling Nick to return the ring to Steve.

Nick followed suit and put the prototype ring back on Steve's body, then led Agent Natasha behind him and retreated a distance with Luke.

Steve looked at the silver-gray ring lying quietly in his palm, took a breath, then picked it up with his other hand, switched it back and forth in his hand a few times, and put it on the index finger of his right hand.

Two or three seconds after putting it on, Steve suddenly felt that his spirit perceived the existence of some kind of energy. This energy seemed to emerge from the depths of his body, and also seemed to surge in from the outside.

He closed his eyes, carefully sensing the power that appeared in his body. Everything outside was shielded by him now.

What Steve Rogers didn't know was that Nick, not far away at this moment, had widened his only eye because he couldn't restrain his surprise. In his eyes, Steve was surrounded by a layer of golden energy, rendering him a slightly dazzling light standing in the sun.

What surprised him even more was that Steve's toes were slightly off the ground under the effect of that energy. Looking at the other party, Nick suddenly felt a mixed emotion of trust and tranquility welling up in his heart for no reason.

This emotion did not disappear until the golden energy on Steve's body dissipated, and his toes, which had been floating a little, returned to the ground. Only then did Nick wake up from this emotion.

He frowned and began to examine his heart. What was the reason that he had an urge to fight side by side with Steve just now? After thinking about it, he focused his attention on the ring on Steve's right index finger.

At this moment, the previously silver-gray, simple-looking ring had undergone visible changes. First of all, its original silver-gray color had been replaced by a transparent emerald-gold color, and the ring body, which felt and looked like metal, also had a sense of transparency like emerald.

And on the ring face of the ring, an imprint that was not there before emerged. Due to the angle problem, Nick couldn't see it clearly. He could only roughly judge from the part he saw that the imprint on the ring face should be a ball of light like the sun, emitting golden lines outward.

“How does it feel, Captain?” Seeing Steve open his eyes, Nick looked eagerly at the ring on his hand and couldn't help but step forward and ask.

“Feel?” Steve frowned and thought seriously, and gave a very vague answer: “It's great. It's like taking a hot bath. The whole person seems to have been washed from the inside out. Those anxieties, insecurities, hesitations, and loneliness in my heart since I woke up seem to have been dispelled. I have never felt so relaxed as I do now.”

“Anything more specific? Leaving aside the spiritual level, for example, what changes have taken place in your body?” Nick had more points of concern.

“Changes in the body?” Steve closed his eyes again and felt it carefully, and soon opened his eyes and said, “I feel an inexhaustible amount of strength surging in my body. It seems that my strength has become greater, and I can also feel some kind of energy.”

“What did you feel just now?” Nick turned his head to look at Agent Natasha behind him.

“Feel? I feel like he is trustworthy, and I will have more courage by his side? This feeling is very strange. I usually don't easily trust someone I don't know.” Natasha said seriously. She really had a sense of trust in Steve like a comrade-in-arms just now, to the point that it seemed like as long as he was by her side, no matter who the enemy was or who the opponent was, she would be fearless.

“Do you know how to use and control that power, Captain?” Nick nodded, then turned to Steve's direction and asked again.

“I only know some simple ways to use it. It's like someone taught me, and it has become an instinct. But I think there are still many places worth exploring.” Steve gave his answer very honestly.

“Looks like you can get started without a manual?” Nick subconsciously glanced at Luke, who was observing Steve with interest.

“That's a special edition. It's currently unique. Don't compare it with these mass-produced versions.” Luke said, his eyes sweeping over the rings in the box. “If you want to use the ring proficiently, let your agents carefully memorize the user manual.”

Nick looked at the ring on Steve's hand that had undergone a great change: “It seems that the material used to make it is very special.”

“Very rare material.” Luke nodded.

“Did these rings also use the same material?” Nick looked at the rings in the box and asked with great interest.

Luke rolled his eyes at him: “Stop daydreaming. These rings use first-generation symbiote metal material.”

“Why did I hear that this material has already been eliminated within Heberon?” Nick looked at Luke with a strange expression.

“Who said that? Where did you hear that? That's completely nonsense! It hasn't even been released yet, how could it be eliminated?” Luke retorted plausibly.

“Then what kind of emotional power does the captain have?” Nick raised his hand in a gesture of surrender.

“Trust, courage, you can regard it as a unique ring of leadership. It can greatly increase the wearer's strength and influence the people around him, bringing them courage and distributing power.

This refers to the situation where the captain can skillfully use the ring. As long as the other party can do this, he alone can form a super-powered team. The more you believe and worship, the more power you can distribute.

If you reach the level of a fanatic, you may be able to obtain an ethereal energy sub-ring. This is just my speculation, and the conditions to achieve it are very harsh.” Luke explained in a flat tone.

Because it was a prototype ring, Luke couldn't help but add a lot of functions to it subconsciously in a state of inspiration. As for the subsequent mass-produced version, it doesn't have as many fancy functions as the prototype ring. At most, it's just a symbiote-like battle suit.

The difference is that the symbiote is parasitic and has a physical body, while the ring's amplification is an energy coat and an energy body.

“After mastering this power proficiently, you can shape them into any weapon you are good at. And if you have a weapon you are good at, you can also plate this layer of power on it.

Gold of Inclusion!

The stronger your will, the greater the amplification you add to the weapon. You can understand it as a mage using magic to enchant an item. Frequent use of this power to contain your weapon will optimize and grow the material of the weapon to a certain extent.

“It can form an energy suit to protect you, and it can also be used as a long-range weapon, launching energy beams to strike. As long as you don't have any earth-shattering changes in personality, and your will remains steadfast, it will never betray you and will be your most solid backing.”

Luke said a few more words under Steve's implicit and pleading gaze.

“Do these rings have the same characteristics?” Nick couldn't help but look at the rings in the box again. Although he knew this was unlikely.

“The characteristic of the mass-produced version is that it doesn't pick its master; anyone can use it regardless of their personality. Although the power is weakened a lot, various hidden dangers and threshold restrictions are also weakened a lot. Like the ring in the Captain's hand, strictly speaking, it is not a completely dead object. After being worn by the first owner, it has a template for choosing subsequent owners.

My suggestion is, don't think about the ring in the Captain's hand. The mass-produced version is more suitable for you. Even if I were willing to sell it, you wouldn't have the money to buy a few.” As expected, Luke gave Nick an answer that was not surprising at all.

PS: This chapter is difficult to divide. Furthermore, the average subscription has reached an integer threshold, and I feel uncomfortable looking at it. Allow me to use a large chapter to increase the average subscription and break through this integer threshold.

PS: Thanks to classmate Lingkong Zhichi for the summary.