Rick and Morty: My Grandfather is Rick?

The Sanchez family's second most troublesome member.

What's the point of this projection? I haven't even analyzed it with Mr. Mission Accomplishment yet, and you dare to touch it?

Morty walked over quickly.

Morty approached Sangmei and, following the direction she was pointing, leaned closer to look at the planet.

With his good eyesight, he could even see the extremely fine edges of the 'deep pit' left by Sang Mei's fingers when he got close enough.

Logically speaking, for such galaxy projections, giving a general outline is usually sufficient.

It can also save AI computing resources.

But the extreme detail before him made Morty realize that this projection was not a simple projection.

He tried to get the AI ​​inside the building to switch the view to this location.

Hundreds of Galactic Empire warships were spotted outside the asteroid belt.

They are deploying a functional grid defense, awaiting reinforcements with special capabilities.

Morty hesitated before reaching out and grabbing at a warship. Apart from sparks escaping between his fingers, there was no kinetic energy feedback. Only after releasing his hand did a piece of something compressed into a thin sheet float in space.

"Holy crap?!"

Upon seeing this, Morty and hundreds of millions of viewers worldwide gasped in shock.

What is this... what is this?!

Did he just crush a projection, or... did he crush a spaceship in space?

Incredibly, Morty spent two minutes completely destroying the last fleeing spaceship.

He immediately grabbed Sang Mei and ran out without looking back.

When their spaceships reached the edge of the asteroid belt, the two men looked pale as they gazed at the fleet of warships that had been reduced to cosmic debris and were now floating in space.

A mysterious structure hidden in the asteroid belt.

A holographic projection.

With just a gentle squeeze, a warship costing billions can be destroyed.

Even a slight forward thrust...

"Sangmei..." Morty, feeling something in his neck, whispered his sister's name. After a long silence, he said in a complicated tone, "You just destroyed one-twentieth of a planet's landmass..."

Sangmei: "..."

A few minutes later, the two, who had been silent the whole way, returned to the building and stood before the myriad stars, feeling the power to destroy countless planets with a wave of their hand.

Morty took several deep breaths and had the AI ​​turn off the star map before he finally relaxed and sat down.

Because in that short period of time just now.

He briefly experienced the feeling of having control over the life and death of billions of people.

That feeling is intoxicating, but it also violently challenges one's moral bottom line.

Because this thing is like a power.

One could even say that if you had a dream last night, hundreds of civilizations that have developed to the interstellar age will come to realize that dream for you today.

Want a golden city?

no problem!

They would plunder all the gold in the universe and build a giant city for themselves in the shortest amount of time, where even toothpicks are made of gold.

Want to experience the life of an ancient emperor with three thousand concubines? No! Three hundred thousand concubines!

They would select all the most beautiful women to satisfy only one person.

He might even build a composite metal bridge from planet A to planet B, just to satisfy his desire to see a 'star bridge'!

As long as I have this thing, I can enjoy endless happiness.

This inevitably reminded Morty of a saying.

[Superman? If I had Superman's abilities, you'd know what it means to be the ultimate Homelander!]

Morty also possesses the darkness within human nature.

He could feel the darkness beckoning to him.

His feelings for his grandfather, in particular, have always been very complex!

Who would want to be Grandpa's slave?

Isn't it more enjoyable to be alone?

Why does Rick have to be the best in this world, while Morty has to be relegated to a supporting role?

That self-pitying old man is searching for a sense of existence all over the universe!

Who does he think he is!

Morty grew angrier the more he thought about it, and his face gradually darkened. In the darkness, it seemed as if a wild beast was slowly breaking free of its chains, trying to escape from its cage.

Fortunately, Morty regained consciousness in time.

After realizing how dark his thoughts had been, he decided he couldn't stay there any longer.

Otherwise, this 'projection' would constantly bring out his dark side.

By manipulating the lives and deaths of countless people, he was bewitched onto a path of no return.

Morty glanced around.

He discovered that the hall had three doors—front, left, and right—leading to another room. Following the principle of going through the center and avoiding the left and right, he walked around the circle and forward.

The automatic sensor door made a hissing sound and automatically retracted to the left and right.

Noticing a trace of rust on the edge of the door, Morty deduced that the place had probably been abandoned for quite some time.

Otherwise, how could it rust?

Morty, sensing that the danger level had decreased somewhat, remained vigilant and continued to have Mr. Mission Accomplishment scout ahead for him.

Until they explored the entire building before them.

Morty then relaxed.

He had now arrived at the library on the floor above the lobby, where the surprise Morty received was far greater than that of the 'projection' below!

He randomly picked a book from the shelf, and the title read "Introduction to Carbon-Based Composite Metal Forging".

Or it could be "Numerical Analysis of Kinetic Energy Strike of a Three-Tube Magnetic Acceleration Turret".

Almost every one of them can surpass the most cutting-edge technology on Earth.

At this moment, Sangmei, who was holding a selfie stick, suddenly interjected, "Motty, there's someone in my live stream who claims to be the President of the United States. He says he's willing to pay 20 billion for the fifth book on your right."

Morty: "Does he think this is an online store?"

As he finished speaking, Morty also turned his gaze to the book. After seeing what the book's title was, the corner of his mouth twitched violently.

Let's not talk about whether this book will sell or not.

You think you can buy "An Introduction to Gene Surgery in Higher Primates" for just 20 billion US dollars?

Pooh!

That's wishful thinking!

Judging from the title alone, if someone dares to call it an introduction, it must be a comprehensive and systematic introductory book that teaches others how to learn gene surgery.

I need to use this book myself later!

I won't sell it to you even after I've used it all!

Chapter 094 Return

On the spaceship home, Morty was in a great mood, humming a little tune, practically floating on air.

Having quickly recovered from her 'accident,' Sangmei is thanking all the poor folks in her live stream for their donations to her, who is about to become the world's richest woman.

When they arrived, there were only two people on one spaceship.

When he returned, he was dragging a vault around and carrying four or five books on human enhancement and genetic modification.

In just the time it took to do this, he gained two things. Morty really wanted to give each of those fly-people from the Galactic Empire a one-ton medal.

Then, cup their fly heads in your hands and give them a big kiss.

If they hadn't been chasing him all the way, he really wouldn't have come across this building.

After all, who would have thought that such an incredibly awesome thing could be so easily hidden inside an asteroid belt!

Especially the setting that, through certain characteristics, is only open to the Sanchez family.

The body Morty finally found on the top floor of the building, along with the last video recording on the computer, finally put his mind at ease about something.

But Morty didn't dare tell Sammy.

Because the corpse that died was the original Rick from this universe, the guy who had been gone for twenty years and whose whereabouts were completely unknown.

It turns out that he worked day and night on a groundbreaking, incredibly cool technology, and ultimately died here from exhaustion...

To this, Morty could only say, "May the original Rick rest in peace, and may he not have to work so hard in his next life."

However, considering that something like the 'underworld' exists in this universe.

Morty estimated that Rick was probably still alive, but for some reason, he was not only unwilling to rebuild himself, but also did not interfere with his grandfather's affairs.

On the contrary, that big devil Stein became 'good friends' with Grandpa in just six months.

Sigh, it would be so much better if he died out there...

There's not much of an afterlife outside of the world.

Several thoughts flashed through his mind, and Morty increased the speed of the spaceship to faster than the speed of light, and began heading towards Earth.

Back to our own skies.

Before Motti even landed, he saw the honor guard of the US Army, Navy, and Air Force, along with the US president himself and his presidential team, standing in front of his house.