Atomic Robo and the Temple of Od #4

Atomic Robo was volunteered for a secret mission to track down China’s top quantum physicist who was captured by the Imperial Japanese Army and forced to develop a superweapon powered by the theoretically unlimited “zero-point” energy source.

Luckily, Robo’s got help from an old flame, Helen “The Nightingale” McAllister, and her new flame Chen Zhen from the Chinese Resistance and his allies, the Ghost Bandits who are completely and totally 100% trustworthy why would you even worry about it.

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<quantum mechanics, sir.>

<what did they teach you in berlin, mr. matsuda?>

<We are quite familiar with quantum mechanical theory, Mr. Matsuda.>

<Frankly, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d have welcomed its appearance in your paper.>

<I am the first to admit my work is unconventional. even by the wildly eccentric standards of quantum theory.> <but I believe we can learn more about the cosmos by investigating outlandish ideas than by regurgitating orthodoxy.>

<a maverick we could tolerate. not a madman.> <do not make this board regret its decision today, doctor matsuda.>

<who are-->

<doctor matsuda?>

<I’ll ask the questions.>

<what do you know of my work?>

<no. you won’t.>

<We feel your work is wasted on Nishina’s cyclotron.>

<the cyclotron, if it works, may demonstrate that parts of your theories could be feasible.>

<anti-gravity. electric artillery. telEtransportation.>

<but that’s years away.>

<Whereas the Imperial Navy’s Chokaiten Project needs you today.>

so wE know he knows he’s won.

I don’t seE why they don’t just kill us.

it’s pure ego is what it is.

Oh, don’t worry. They will.

But first Matsuda has to let us know there’s no hurry.

<quiet!>

<Does that apply to me as well?>

<we neEd that one.>

<what has he doneâ&#x20AC;Ś?>

Miss McAllister, Doctor Lu. Welcome back.

you brought a friend? I believe we can find some room for him.

oh, quit gloating.

What is this light?

What have you done?

hyperfield leakage crystallizing local spacetime.

your resiStance is destroyed, and with doctor lu captured, only we will possess the secret of zero-point enERgy weapons.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not gloating.

I won.

and you will help us fix it before it becomes haZArdous.