Aaron casually tossed the newspaper on the table aside and asked, "Felicia, do you want to go to New Mexico with me for some fun?"
Felicia struggled out from a pile of documents, revealing a pair of resentful eyes.
"Boss, you know me, I'm currently busy dealing with Exposition-related matters. Mr. Norman isn't here, so my workload is too heavy."
Felicia was mentally exhausted.
Other secretaries either worked or were... worked.
Unlike her, who worked like crazy, and when she had free time, she still had to satisfy her boss's terrifying demands, her legs were still a bit weak now.
With Norman absent, Felicia realized that the seemingly inarticulate, research-oriented former president was truly a workhorse. There was no end to the work, absolutely no end!
Felicia had been dealing with various documents since early morning. She hadn't even graduated yet, how could she possibly bear such a heavy responsibility?
But there was no choice.
Currently, Aaron was in charge of Osborn Industries. He only gave orders, Norman executed them, and the entire secretarial department was in a frenzy.
With Norman absent, only Aaron and Felicia could make decisions. Felicia had no choice but to bravely step up.
There was the new headquarters inspection, Exposition arrangements, Sun Project, Regeneration Cradle Project progress scheduling, and also handling various appointments.
Even after becoming Spider-Woman, Felicia still felt her brain was fried, wishing she could learn Clone Jutsu and create two of herself... no, perhaps four or five would barely be enough?
Aaron glanced at the mountain of documents and felt a pang of sympathy. Then he looked at Helen with his far-sighted eyes.
But the latter had gone all out last night to research Aaron's version of the celestial flower and hadn't woken up yet. Even in her sleep, she still tightly clutched a celestial flower in her hand.
Guessing she was awake, she wanted to immediately throw herself into research.
After hesitating for a moment, Aaron looked towards Barbara.
Oh, look, she was still studying with Kate right now.
As for Skye... she had discussed a multi-billion deal with Aaron again. Already unrestored, she was now completely out of the question.
Aaron sighed, "Felicia, contact a plane for me. I'm going to New Mexico alone."
Felicia rolled her eyes, then weakly picked up her phone to contact a private plane.
After notifying the other party, the itinerary was arranged properly, and the airport in New Mexico also began preparations.
Aaron went to the storage room as usual. He then had the insect shop owner bring the items, paid a considerable reward, and sent the man away.
Most of the abilities this time were duplicates. In terms of intensity, they were not as good as before and could not bring him much improvement.
He also smelted some plants this time.
Aaron had already made up his mind. Every species on Earth must be smelted once. He even needed to acquire species from the entire Universe.
Since devouring one was the same as devouring two, he might as well devour them all.
Absorbing all beneficial traits into himself was the first step toward omnipotence.
After melting down these plants, the greatest improvement was his increased efficiency in absorbing light energy.
Besides that, there was another decent improvement.
[Super Respiration: A similar ability has been detected. Fusion complete. You possess higher respiratory efficiency. Furthermore, every pore and every cell on your body can breathe, allowing normal respiratory function even in water.]
Super Respiration also underwent fusion with abilities like light energy absorption and kinetic energy absorption, evolving into more efficient energy absorption.
His efficiency in absorbing various unowned energies around him improved further.
Every cell and every pore was like a greedy glutton, frantically devouring the surrounding energy, as well as the energy of the Solar Core.
Unseen by outsiders, his body's interior was like a high-speed machine, undergoing earth-shattering changes every moment. Every day, he felt himself growing stronger again. This was not an illusion.
From large organs down to cellular structures, he could clearly sense their changes.
The storage, consumption, and distribution of every bit of energy, the birth and death of every cell... he knew them all clearly.
Precisely because of this, he understood exactly what kind of terrifying changes were happening inside his body.
If someone were to study him at this moment, they would surely cry out in shock: Impossible, absolutely impossible!
To put it this way, the energy contained in every single one of his cells far exceeded that of a conventional human missile.
After another period of time, each cell would be comparable to Tony's Generation One arc reactor.
Perhaps a few months later, it would be comparable to, or even far surpass, Tony's Generation Two arc reactor.
And he had one hundred trillion such cells.
If displayed as data, a Generation One arc reactor outputs three billion joules of energy per second for fifteen minutes, totaling approximately 2.7 * 10^12 joules, enough to easily blow up a skyscraper.
A Generation Two arc reactor is a thousand times more powerful than Generation One, reaching 10^15 joules. If this power were to explode simultaneously, it could even destroy a small town.
Therefore, with Aaron's current conventional strength, destroying a city was easy. Destroying a country was not difficult either.
Going even further, such as deploying several Solar Cores and detonating them like bombs... that power would be enough to cause despair.
However, with current human technology, studying Aaron's body would not be easy. Even just one cell could resist all known human technology.
Thus, Aaron was not worried about any residual cells falling into external hands.
No matter how they studied him, they could never catch up to his growth speed.
Aaron declared: Study all you want, chase all you want. If you can see my exhaust fumes, I admit defeat.
"Speaking of which, I am definitely stronger than Henry after thirty years of sun exposure. I just wonder, compared to Odin, who is stronger?"
Aaron thought about it and felt his chances of winning were high.
After all, his abilities were too all-encompassing.
Moreover, Odin was too old. If he were two thousand years younger, they might have a good fight.
Aaron took a deep breath and temporarily stopped thinking about these things.
Stepping onto the private plane alone and looking at the empty cabin, Aaron felt something was missing.
"It's missing a few busty flight attendants." Aaron suddenly realized.
With a turn of his head, he thought about asking Felicia to find two suitable ones. But after considering it, he decided to find them himself.
The main reason was that the current environment was bad, and who knew if the people Felicia found were agents arranged by someone else.
If Aaron had a slightly bigger appetite, he might even be able to establish a "Mini United Nations."
That feeling would be marvelous.
Aaron closed his eyes in contemplation. The feeling of having no one accompanying him was quite unpleasant.
Perhaps his strength had increased too quickly, or he had too many abilities, but Aaron always felt a great deal of internal fire.
"It definitely isn't my nature, yes, it's an ability issue."