Tony didn't have any objections to the fact that his most trusted friend was borrowing money from him. Although he didn't like to ask for money on weekdays, after hearing what Shinji Ikari wanted to do, he had no objection at all.
"That's what I want to do, but unfortunately I don't have enough patience, and I'm not very good at it. By the way, where do you plan to conduct your so-called social experiment?"
Tony rubbed his forehead: "You'd better not do it in China. After all, I'm just an ordinary businessman. Judging from your appearance, I will definitely make some big noise, and it's difficult for me to protect you in this country. The government
The power is not weak, at least for you."
"Don't worry, I will go to some place that is a little more desolate but has enough resources. In fact, I already had an idea before that, and that is Siberia."
Tony was a little surprised: "It is indeed rich in resources, but the population there is too sparse and the industry is only average. Why choose there."
"Didn't you pay attention when you flew around the world? Even if you didn't pay attention, you should have heard the rumors about the Tunguska explosion.
Although we have not yet figured out the source of the explosion, there is strong free magic power in the location of the explosion crater, and a continuous magic field is formed. It is one of the areas with the strongest magic power on the earth.
High-dimensional magic must be communicated to other places, and it can be used directly there.
For magical civilization, the scope of the explosion area is equivalent to the oil of today's industrial civilization. Of course, your Ark reactor has caused the price of oil to plummet. Those guys who originally made their fortunes from oil probably hate you to death.
But even now, the role of petroleum in the chemical industry is still irreplaceable.
And the huge magic power should be similar in the early stages of the development of magic civilization. Believe me, that area will become prosperous."
Tony raised his eyebrows: "It used to be a place where prisoners were exiled, and it is even now. But if it is as full of magic as you said, maybe you can actually create miracles, so I wish you good luck."
…
The Lannos did not expect that Shinji Ikari would choose Siberia, nor did they expect that when his mecha landed in Siberia, it would happen to land in the only inhabited house in a deserted village.
"If I remember correctly, it should be the father and son living here!" Observer No. 15436 couldn't help but ask his colleagues around him.
"Yes, you remember correctly. It seems that the protagonists of these worlds have special destiny trajectories. Important characters are always connected with each other and will eventually come together inexplicably. I don't know that their encounter will make the plot different.
What a completely new direction.”
…
Shinji Ikari didn't know who he was going to meet. After landing, he disintegrated his armor and let them disperse in the form of drones throughout the grassland, while he explored the place on foot.
Magical environment.
There is an abandoned village not far away, but apparently no one lives there anymore. It may have been a pioneer farm, but it was completely abandoned because it had no economic value. There are still some houses that were once built in the village, and you can see some completely
If you recycle scrapped agricultural machinery and sell it for scrap, you won’t even be able to pay for the freight.
And he just happened to see someone riding a motorcycle with the horn blaring all over his body, driving out of the village. With his disheveled hair, those who didn't know thought he was playing music.
"Brother, where are you going? Do you need me to give you a lift?" The motorcycle stopped next to him. What's interesting is that the man riding on the car actually had a parrot standing on his shoulder. He didn't look afraid of people at all.
Shinji Ikari looked at the driver curiously: "Is there anyone still living in this village?"
"I am the only one left with the old man in my family who has only one breath left. He is still clamoring for a drink all day long. He drank all my vodka and was about to go to the county for wholesale."
Shinji Ikari: "..."
Look at the word used, two people, wholesale, don't say much, this has to be drank as water to use this amount.
"I want to visit the village. I may want to settle nearby in the future." Shinji Ikari sensed that this is one of the places with the strongest magic: "We may be neighbors in the future. My name is Ikari Yuantang."
Shinji Ikari has become more and more proficient in using his father's pseudonym, and now there is almost no chance of him saying the wrong thing out of nowhere.
The disheveled man looked at him deeply. Most of the people who would live in such barren mountains are those who can't survive in the civilized world and have offended some serious existence. But this has something to do with him.
What does it have to do with it? His father is about to die. After sending his father away, the only thing left in his life is revenge.
"My name is Ivan Vanko, I wish you good luck!" After saying that, he rode away from the village on the motorcycle with the horn blaring all over.
Shinji Ikari walked around the village and found that it was indeed abandoned. The few houses that had not collapsed were also covered with dust. There were no signs of human habitation at all. It should not be a big problem to establish a magic hub here.
While he was wandering around the village, he noticed that in one of the houses still occupied by people, there was an old man whose vitality was already quite weak. Under normal circumstances, he would have died long ago. It was the special magical environment here that allowed him to
His weak body held on.
He did not rush into the room to disturb, but waited for a while at the door of the courtyard. After hearing a clanking sound, he knew that Ivan was back.
"wait for me here?"
"Yes, I heard the sound of coughing. Your father's condition may not be very good. I might be able to help."
"You?" Ivan shook his head: "Except for vodka, there is probably nothing in this world that can help him, but it doesn't matter, come in with me! It's difficult for a person to survive in this ice and snow."
Ivan pulled him into the room, then picked up a bundle of wood from the yard and threw it into the stove pit, which made the room warm again.
Ivan's father was lying there in the warmest place in the house. When he saw him come back, it was as if he had received a life-saving straw. He took a bottle of wine from his hand and took a shaky sip of alcohol to his mouth.
It numbed his nerves and made him seem to see himself when he was young, muttering in the hallucination: "My child, I have left you nothing, except my knowledge."
Shinji Ikari watched as the old man finished speaking this sentence, as if he had ended a flashback, and his life breath was rapidly weakening. He didn't even have time to discuss it with Ivan and started building a spell model for healing magic on the spot.
As a person who has never been exposed to magic, Ivan cannot see the magic model. At this time, he heard his father's last words and felt that his father's breath was completely cut off. He couldn't help shouting to the sky, and the sound reached the roof.
The snow was falling with a rustling sound.
Halfway through the roar, he was interrupted by a rough and old voice: "What's the ghost's name? I'm still alive and well."
Then he felt someone slap him on the back.
Ivan turned around with a confused look on his face, and saw that his father was more energetic than ever. When he turned around, he was taking a swig of vodka, and he had just received a guest at home and was holding out his hand.
Put a hand on the old man's heart, and you could vaguely see that the air between his palm and his heart showed a strange distortion, as if there was high-temperature airflow there, causing the refraction of light.
"What's this?"
"Some special treatment techniques can help relieve the symptoms of various cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. You two are actually in pretty good physical condition. Even in such a cold place, there is no problem with your body.
Dad is like this just because of drinking, otherwise he can live for another ten years if he doesn't talk about it."
Ivan: “…”
"Do you think he can quit like this?"
Shinji Ikari glanced at the old man, clutching the wine bottle in his hand, and the same was in Ivan's hand. The most outrageous thing was that the parrot on his shoulder would also lie on the mouth of the bottle, and then take a sip. Shinji Ikari
It felt like this world was a bit magical, and he remembered that except for humans, most animals couldn't drink alcohol.
He could only regard this as a racial talent, and shook his head helplessly: "If you can't quit, then you can't quit! I'll teach you a set of movements, and you can ask your father to follow it every day. It should be able to alleviate the situation and at least look like a normal old man.
In the same way, there is nothing wrong with ending your life."
The magic power in this area is extremely rich. Even simple body movements can guide the magic power into the body and strengthen the physical quality to a certain extent.
He even suspected that the two of them would choose to settle here because it could alleviate the old man's condition to a certain extent.
Ivan is not a person who is very good at expressing his feelings. Living in such a world of ice and snow all year round has made him a little autistic. However, in the next few days, he still used his actions to express his gratitude to his new neighbors, and
His action was to help Shinji Ikari build his house despite the wind and snow in the middle of winter. In the process, he also witnessed some of his strange abilities, such as making the space between the bricks almost without adhesive.
They were tightly connected to each other and even completely airtight, but he didn't ask much about it.
Most people who would go to such a place to live in seclusion have offended people outside who cannot afford to offend. If they are people with special abilities, it means that the people they offend are even more terrifying.
The house is just a temporary place to stay. Shinji Ikari wants to build a magic hub here, and then he probably needs to go to the civilized world to set up a company and recruit people to build a small industrial base here, or a magic base.
In the past few days, Ivan Vanke's father Anton Vanke's physical condition has been getting better and better. That set of movements is indeed useful. It is the radio gymnastics for elementary school students in Atlantis. Shinji Ikari also forgot which routine it was.
, but if thrown into a martial arts world with adapted rules, it can basically be used as a secret book to suppress the sect.
In an environment full of magical power, the old man can now recognize shoes on the floor and the kang after eating two kilograms of vodka... Well, his wife is gone, so that's okay.
"It seems that before I die, I have the opportunity to impart more knowledge to you. There is still a lot of knowledge that I have not told you about the invention that I am most proud of during my lifetime. Without knowing this, your reaction is as follows:
Efficiency is not optimal."
Everything Anton said and did did not avoid Shinji Ikari. After all, he was his savior, and the other party also showed his special ability in front of him. Instead, the old man wanted to show off his return, otherwise he would also end up living in this barbaric land.
I am a person who, while others know magic, does not have any otherworldly abilities, I always feel that I am unable to use them.
Then Shinji Ikari watched the old man take out a blue drawing, which clearly showed the Ark reactor.
If you look carefully at the signatures under the drawings, you can see that there are two names in the signatures, one is Anton Vanke, and the other is Howard Stark, Tony Stark's father.
He was very familiar with the design of this thing. Tony even explained the design principle of this thing to him personally, but the structure and manufacturing method of the Ark reactor had never been exposed. In other words, the design in front of the two of them
The picture is most likely real and was passed down from decades ago.
"Old man? Did you really invent this thing back then? For such a powerful thing, you don't get a grand prize and are famous all over the world. Why did you end up in this wilderness?"
The old man glared at him angrily, and then sprayed him with the smell of alcohol: "You kid still asked me, don't you know magic? If such a powerful thing is announced, isn't it much more powerful than the old man's mine? Why?
I also came to this remote place."
Obviously the other party did not mean to answer the question directly, and was still explaining to his son about the Ark Reactor. In the original plot, although Ivan also built the Ark Reactor, the efficiency of the first-generation version was compared to the one used by Tony.
It is still a little worse, and the conditions are too limited. The first set of whip cord armor is still worse than the portable steel suit. Even in the case of a sneak attack, it did not win. Of course, it may be because of him
Got hit by a car several times.
There is no doubt that Ivan, who is studying hard at this time, has a deeper understanding of the Ark Reactor, and the version he can produce will not be worse than Tony.
Although the old man was unwilling to reveal his past, Ivan explained to Shinji Ikari what happened that year while roasting wild rabbits next to the campfire after studying all day.
In short, his father was a scientist who defected to the United States. He developed the Ark reactor with Howard Stark, but later they had a falling out, and Howard reported him as a spy and was deported. Such a person would
One can imagine what the fate will be like, they can only live on this frozen soil.
This made him even a little lucky that his mother died early and did not have to go through this suffering with the two of them.
Shinji Ikari: "..."
"My former buddy is the child of my current buddy's enemy. What should I do? Wait online and send it!"
