Marvel: The Imposter Inventor

Chapter 183 If You Die (Second Update)
"Secretary-General, it seems... it seems our system has been hacked!"

Upon hearing this, Pierce immediately threw down the operator he was holding, turned around and looked at the speaker with bloodshot eyes, his voice filled with barely suppressed anger.

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!!"

"The space carrier's operating system is completely closed! Unless physically hacked, it's impossible for anyone to modify the space carrier's programs!!"

The Eye of Insight, as the final project that Pierce has been leading, how could he not know any of the details of the project, even though he is not a technician?
Each of these three space carriers has its own independent server, which is completely isolated from the outside world, and each of them is equipped with a 'threat algorithm program'.

To change the target setting, unless someone directly storms into the space carrier's server room and manually replaces the chip, there is simply no way to change the target.

This is also the approach taken by Captain America and others in the original comics.

however.

Upon hearing Pierce's furious question, the operator, though somewhat intimidated, still forced a low reply.

"Your Excellency Secretary-General, the space carrier's operating system has indeed not been hacked."

“Here!” Pierce stepped forward abruptly, and the operator, seeing this, quickly sped up his speech.

"The system that was hacked must be the satellite system!"

Upon hearing this, Pierce paused, forcibly calming his anger and trying to make his tone sound as gentle as possible.

"Keep talking!"

Seeing that his boss seemed to have finally calmed down, the operator sorted out his thoughts and began to explain.

"Our space carrier's system is stored on the carrier's servers, and there is currently no possibility of it being hacked from the outside. However, the carrier's own radar cannot accurately lock onto enemies that the system identifies as threats. We must connect to a satellite to locate the targets."

"However, the current situation is that the mothership is functioning normally and the satellite signals have not been intercepted, but all the ground-attack weapons have lost their targets."

"Then the only possibility is that the satellite's system has been hacked, and all the data it sends to us is ambiguous, making it impossible for the threat algorithm to determine who to attack, and the fire control program naturally stops firing as well."

After uttering such a long speech, the operator looked at Pierce with an innocent expression, awaiting his judgment.

Just then, the eerie voice of the Hive came from behind Pierce.

"Alexander, is this the new era you've prepared for me to see?"

At that moment, cold sweat instantly covered Pierce's back, and only one thought occupied his mind.

'What kind of bastard came up with this plan?! How could it have such a huge flaw?!'

In fact, the Hydra operator's analysis was not wrong.

Let's rewind a little.

Above a wasteland in Pennsylvania.

That is, the location where Stark's private plane was attacked.

In the sky, two inconspicuous little black dots are slowly descending towards the ground.

One of the slightly larger black dots is Luca, who was carried to the ground by the husky mech.

At this moment, Luca was dressed in a clean and tidy suit, and he did not feel cold or frostbite. After all, the [tailcoat] was a science fiction prop, which had the function of self-ironing and heat preservation.

His exposed cheeks were red from the cold, and his hair was blown around like a bird's nest by the high-altitude airflow. However, Luca didn't care about his appearance at the moment. After landing, he haphazardly wiped his hair a few times, then took out an empty universal capsule from his pocket and stuffed the energy cube containing the airplane directly into it.

After some thought, Luca was still unsure what the effect would be if such a large aircraft were released. So he handed the capsule to the five-ha dog beside him and gave the order.

"Go to the open space ahead and launch the plane."

Fortunately, this is a wasteland. To be honest, Luca himself had never tried releasing a compressed block in a place with obstacles before.

The Five-Ha mech naturally wouldn't disobey Luca's orders. After receiving the universal capsule, it immediately took off and dropped it onto an open ground not far away.

"Bang~"

A cloud of white smoke exploded.

The enormous plane appeared out of thin air, and the resulting airflow made Luca's hair flutter wildly.

"Luca—!"

Familiar shouts came from the cabin, followed by a flurry of panic and uncertainty.

Hearing Tony's lingering shouts, Luca walked with a smile to the hole in the cabin.

Right in front of them was Happy, the bodyguard who was holding Tony back from getting out of the plane, while he himself was sneaking around, peeking out of the plane.

However, the moment Tony saw Luca appear outside the cabin, he didn't bother to figure out what was going on and pushed aside Happy, who was blocking his way.

He rushed to the hole in the cabin in a few strides, then jumped down, stumbling several times on the ground. He continued rushing to Luca before slowing down.

"Hey," Luca opened his mouth, but before he could utter the first word, he was already uttering a sound.

Tony, who had slowed his pace, suddenly stepped forward and, to Luca's astonishment, pulled him into his arms.

The sudden hug left Luca frozen in place, somewhat at a loss for words.

Fortunately, Tony's hug didn't last long. He quickly let go of Luca, glanced at his somewhat dazed expression, and then smiled.

"You little rascal! How dare you jump out of the plane!"

Hearing Tony's words, Luca was still somewhat at a loss.

In fact, when he jumped out of the plane to compress it with the [dehydration gun], he was thinking, 'Tony doesn't think I'm going to run away, does he?'

That's why he told Tony not to make any sudden moves and to trust himself.

Unexpectedly, Tony was more worried about the danger of jumping out of the plane.

For a moment, Luca, who had a lot to say, didn't know how to start and could only offer some dry, incoherent excuses.

"Why did you make such a fuss? Don't you always jump down from the sky and get caught by the mechs? Erha was still outside at the time, how could anything have happened to me!"

Hearing this, Tony was a little annoyed and wanted to ruffle Luca's hair, but looking at the messy hairstyle that looked like a bird's nest, obviously messed up when he landed from the sky, he slowly stopped.

He simply placed his raised hand on Luca's shoulder and patted it lightly twice before speaking again with a somewhat hesitant tone.

"If you die, I will consider it my responsibility."

(End of this chapter)