Although Anna’s mother, Ms.
Lorraine, owned 200,000 acres of land, it was scattered around the town in six or seven separate plots.
The 3,000-acre farm they lived on was actually the first one they purchased after arriving in the Marvel Universe six years ago.
Though “purchased” isn’t quite right.
Because Anna, a little Kryptonian infant who had only arrived a few days prior, remembered that her mother, Lorraine, hadn’t spent a single penny when buying this farm.
Even the transfer fees, legal fees for both sides, and taxes were all paid by the previous owner.
Moreover, after Anna’s family received this farm, worth over 6 million, and the machinery inside for free, the previous owner even left behind living expenses, plus enough seeds, fertilizer, and pesticides for a year.
The previous owner didn’t do this because he was threatened by the two mothers.
In fact, this 90-year-old American man handed over the entire farm to Anna’s family, who had just arrived in the Marvel Universe, as if he were passing a baton, and then he simply vanished from the World.
Anna now suspects that this mysterious old man, in the eyes of the townspeople, likely finished his duty in the Marvel Universe and transmigrated to another World after the handover.
This explains the old man’s strange behavior and the items Anna later found in the barn used as a tool shed.
This is why she always suspected her mother, Lorraine, was a hidden “matryoshka doll” style boss.
The farm transaction felt like the old man was finishing his shift for an organization in the Marvel Universe, and Anna’s family, who had run away from the DC Universe, were the ones coming to take over.
Therefore, the 3,000-acre farm where they had lived for the past six years was the most important place among all of Lorraine’s assets and identities, and it was the place hiding the most secrets.
It was for this reason that three years ago, as soon as Anna awakened her Super Vision, she looked and wandered all over the farm.
She really did find the box containing the Arc Reactor blueprints.
However, even after finding the box, and her mother generously letting her play with it, it wasn’t of much use to Anna.
The spy gear, photos, dog tags, passports, and CIA credentials belonging to the farm’s previous owner were decent toys…
But these things couldn’t be sold now, and even if they could, she wouldn’t be willing to part with items that had ascended to the status of antiques.
In the eyes of Anna, a homebody, these were essential items for her real-life cosplay of a Cold War Agent, and they were genuine antiques.
They had much more “style” than the knock-offs at comic conventions or the so-called limited-edition figures released every few years.
So, after taking them out and carefully maintaining them, Anna put them back.
And that set of Arc Reactor blueprints was even more useless to her at the time…
Because those blueprints were copies of the first-generation reactor designed by Howard Stark and Anton Vanko, the kind that required a whole room to build.
Even the signatures of those two were stamped on them perfectly.
Not to mention that this thing was a money-losing reactor; trying to power it with “love” would make one lose enough money to sell their pants.
Besides, S.H.I.E.L.D.
and HYDRA probably had dozens of copies of these blueprints in their own homes.
It was only because of Howard’s technological verification that he built one in his factory.
Even if Anna had the ability to build this large reactor, where would a poor girl like her get tens or hundreds of millions of dollars to build this large Arc Reactor?
Most importantly, even if she had the money…
As a bad student, she couldn’t understand these blueprints, right?
For her, this was the most painful part!
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Although Superman has super intelligence, a full-fledged Superman can read all published medical books in 5 minutes and Master knowledge that would take an ordinary person 10 years to learn.
This girl is currently enjoying her life as a couch potato, and unless it’s a life-or-death situation, she can’t summon the energy to study, nor does she have the motivation to flip through dozens of books a minute to learn.
Moreover, her learning efficiency isn’t as exaggerated as a full-fledged Superman’s.
Currently, if she slacks off and studies normally like an elementary school student for a year, it’s equivalent to 10 years of learning for an ordinary person.
But note, this is only equivalent to the knowledge an ordinary person can learn in 10 years.
And the Marvel Universe is a World where all kinds of high-IQ criminals and geniuses with “hacks” run rampant; what an ordinary person learns in 10 years might not even be as much as what those geniuses learn in two or three months.
If you really calculate Anna’s current learning efficiency, it’s actually at the same level as the geniuses in the Marvel Universe—that is, one year of study equals 10 years for an ordinary person.
But compared to “hacked” characters like Tony and Mr.
Fantastic, who are like children of destiny, she is still a little bit behind.
And “learning” here only refers to pure learning efficiency—being able to learn, understand, use, and know what the big shots are talking about.
But if you want the Anna who has learned these things to innovate, research, and burst with genius sparks of inspiration like these geniuses and big shots…
Ah!
~ The weather is nice today.
Let’s go eat barbecue…
So, don’t look at Anna as having the Kryptonian super-intelligence hack; in reality, this hack only boosts her learning speed and growth speed to be about the same as a genius like Stark.
Well, just like Stark, who made a circuit board at age 4 and a V8 engine at age 6.
So, how old is Anna now?
Therefore, even though Anna has a super intelligence that is explosive compared to her past life, she is currently just at the level of being able to independently build an engine.
That is why it is said that blueprints for an Arc Reactor are of no real use to her for the time being, other than making her drool in her dreams.