Phantom Kid in the World of American Comics

Chapter 217: Dying Together, Forcibly Detonated Nuclear Bomb?

“Boom!” 

Just as Mathison walked to the reactor and reached out to touch it, an explosion suddenly sounded behind him. 

In the next moment, thick smoke enveloped the scene. 

It was even hard to see one’s hand.

Mathison’s eyes narrowed, it really wasn’t as easy as he thought it would be.

At this time, the thick smoke had enveloped the fusion reactor and Mathison. 

Suddenly, there was another rush of footsteps coming from the side, accompanied by the clanging sound of the sharp blade being unsheathed. 

The speed of the visitor was so fast that it even faintly brought a whistling wind.

It would have been difficult for normal human reflexes to evade this attack.

The opponent’s target could not have been anyone else but Mathison

At the moment of the explosion, Mathison was prepared. 

Although the attack of the assailant was quick, he jumped back lightly and entered the safe area. 

The attacker’s attack stopped a few centimeters from the reactor. 

Exactly at this time, the ventilation system of the awards venue began to work automatically to dispel air. 

The thick smoke dissipated quickly at a speed visible to the naked eye. 

And the true face of the attacker was revealed in front of Mathison. 

Talia Al Ghul! 

Compared with “Miranda” Mathison had seen before, Talia’s temperament had undergone an earth-shaking change at this moment. 

If Miranda was a calculating, conspiratorial politician, Talia is an assassin with restrained killing intent and a complete lack of emotions. 

“Ms. Talia, we meet again.” 

Mathison put on a perpetually smiling poker face as he spoke to Talia. 

“Ah.” 

Unexpectedly, Talia also smiled when she heard Phantom Kid’s greeting. 

“Yeah, we met again. You played me hard last time. I admit that you are the toughest guy I’ve ever met, but this time…” 

“The winner will be me!” 

Talia pated the fusion reactor without warning. 

Mathison frowned slightly, he knew that Talia would never make senseless actions. 

The next second Talia’s palm came into contact with a part of the reactor, it was as if the reactor had been activated.

A series of colored lights turned on at the same time, Did the huge spherical device go into a fully operational state?

No, because another change occurred at the same time as the indicator lit up. 

At the point where Talia’s hand touched, a strange device protruded from the interior of the reactor.

It looks like an operation panel, except that there were no other mechanisms on it except for devices similar to the fingerprint unlocking system. 

Mathison’s pupils shrank, and he guessed what the panel was used for. 

Lucius told him that Bruce had an extraordinary stubbornness about the stability of fusion reactors. 

Years of development funding have been spent almost entirely on how to achieve a controllable nuclear fusion. 

And Bruce’s understanding of the word “controllable” seems to be different from that of others. 

The simplest explanation of what a reactor does is to be able to harness, in a controlled manner, the enormous energy produced by a nuclear reaction, usually by converting nuclear energy into electricity. 

Although it is said to be controllable, the slightest mishap could lead to a serious accident in the form of a nuclear leak.

And that’s just the fission reactor; fusion reactors are far more complex. 

In Bruce’s eyes, this is tantamount to uncontrollable. 

The controlled nuclear reactor he had in mind was not simply a civilian energy source that could not be militarized, what he really wanted to achieve was the maximum constraint on nuclear reactions.

He really wanted to achieve the greatest possible constraints on nuclear reactions, both in terms of enabling the reactor to operate autonomously and in terms of limiting its energy output.

In short, Bruce built a condensed “Tokamak” in his own reactor! 

In the real world, the Tokamak device is limited by a series of problems such as material factors, and there is still no perfect solution, but in this world full of black technology, the material problem is hardly a problem.

Vibranium, Nth metal, Uru metal, Edman alloy… 

Of course, Mathison couldn’t get all kinds of fancy and rare materials, but Bruce could. 

So here’s the problem: Bane had Dr. Pavel modify part of the reactor’s programming to activate it completely and trigger a fusion reaction.

Since Miranda was still trusted by Bruce at the time and was herself second in charge of this project for the Wayne Group, many permissions were opened up by Bruce to Miranda.

This was also one of the necessary conditions for Dr. Pavel to be able to transform the reactor into a nuclear bomb. 

However, it was only then that they discovered that, although the reactor was activated, the energy generated by the fusion reaction was very strange, and even the scale of nuclear fission was far less than that. 

In simple terms, that is, although the fusion reactor is working, a strong nuclear fusion reaction does occur inside it. 

But due to the existence of the Wayne brand Tokamak, this huge amount of energy is always stored inside the reactor and continues to suppress further nuclear reactions. 

Unless the energy stored inside the reactor reaches the upper limit, let alone a nuclear explosion, not a single fart will be produced. (Author: I don’t have much knowledge about this, I just read a few articles on Baidu and then wrote this, so don’t believe what I said)

This is the core reason why Bane and the others insisted on waiting for the nuclear bomb to explode before evacuating Gotham instead of detonating it on the spot.

If so, no matter what Talia does, it’s impossible to change the state of the nuclear bomb. 

After all, there was no way Bruce would have released the final stage of the restriction to her or anyone else.

But in front of Mathison, Talia’s confident demeanour made his mind a bit uneasy.

A terrible guess came to Mathison’s mind. 

There was another access that Bruce might give to the ‘Miranda’ he trusted.

A self-destruct program! 

Bruce, an extremely paranoid guy, could never put everything on the restraint device. 

What if someone could actually crack the restricted permissions? 

Very simple, he would rather destroy the reactor than let the outlaws get it!

In fact, it is normal. There is nothing that Batman makes without a self-destructing program. 

Especially dangerous devices like reactors. 

Once activated, it will be completely destroyed within three seconds. 

Under normal circumstances, there would be no problem, but you know that the reactor has been storing fusion energy inside it for a long time now. It’s no different from a small-yield nuclear bomb! 

Bruce never thought that Miranda would be the mastermind behind the scenes, causing his arrangements to be used against him instead. 

“Talia, are you really going to do this?” 

Just as Talia was about to put her finger on the reactor, Phantom Kid’s calm words reached her ears. 

No, no, Kid has not only a calming tone. 

Anyone who would have heard his voice would feel their hearts tending towards peace and tranquility.

In a trance, Talia actually stopped moving. 

Her fingers were less than two centimeters away from the device. 

That’s right, at this very moment, Mathison used Red Magic to affect Talia’s mood. 

Without waiting for Mathison to breathe a sigh of relief, Talia’s eyes suddenly regained agility inexplicably, and her finger instantly touched the panel!