"Is this vibranium? Why does it smell like sea?" Looking at a piece of ore that Carter brought in front of him, Qiao Xi frowned slightly and asked in confusion.
"Because this was fished out of the sea!" Carter said.
"Huh? It was fished out of the sea? Was it accidentally left in the sea, or was it?" After hearing Carter's words, a possibility emerged in Josie's mind.
"Yes, according to the analysis of my analysts, the sea area where this ore was discovered is likely to have a submarine vibranium mine!" Carter nodded and revealed the possibility that Josie was most looking forward to.
"This is great news, isn't it?" Upon hearing the news, Josie's face showed surprise.
Although the destruction of Wakanda allowed him to secretly seize a large amount of vibranium, and the income even far exceeded those of the major countries that really contributed, but it was still not enough for Josh.
After all, vibranium is a top-notch product, whether it is used for personal use or for plane trade.
Now Qiao Xi's remaining vibranium is basically used to fuse with various metals obtained from other worlds and used as alloys.
It is impossible to forge a pure vibranium equipment for Carter like he did at the beginning again.
And Qiao Xi's situation was pretty good, at least there was still some leftover for forging alloy equipment.
The American Bear and several other countries that actually occupied Wakanda are not even enough.
One is because they only got the remaining mines, and the annual production output has not been able to increase much due to mutual interference restrictions.
The second reason is that the use of vibranium is illegal. At the beginning, like Qiao Xi, various countries used vibranium to make weapons and equipment. However, due to the lack of Wakanda's relatively complete technology, various countries basically could only
Use vibranium to make some cold weapons or core components of various weapons.
But they soon discovered that doing so was a complete waste.
The equipment made of vibranium is indeed very powerful, but if it is only used to make weapons and equipment, it is just something that a few big countries have, and it cannot bring them a big advantage, let alone a big one.
Large-scale equipment army.
For example, regarding the merger of several countries in Austria, Mao Xiong, Britain, and France sent some vibranium-armed elites to sneak into Austria, but they were quickly subdued. Not only were the people gone, but the vibranium equipment was also cheaper for Austria.
This reveals that Austria also possesses vibranium, and also shows that once everyone has this thing, there will be no advantage.
What's more, countries don't have the technology to recast vibranium like Qiao Xi. Once it is made, it cannot be changed. This causes great waste and creates a lot of useless things.
Fortunately, with the research in the past few years, various countries have now discovered the true use of vibranium.
That is used for scientific research.
Although the various weapons and equipment of the United States and Mao Xiong in the past two years are still far behind Austria, they are more advanced than the original time and space. In addition to Qiao Xi's leadership, vibranium has also brought a lot of influence.
help.
There are so many places where vibranium can be used, such as machine tool masters, particle accelerators, etc.
But to some extent, this also increases the consumption of vibranium.
So there is a real shortage of vibranium on the earth right now.
Qiao Xi, the landowner, didn't have much food left.
Now Carter told him that he had discovered the existence of a suspected vibranium mine on the seabed. How could it not be great news?
"Yes, so I came to report to you as soon as I got the news. In addition, all relevant people with knowledge were also dealt with!" Carter nodded.
Carter's words made Josie look at her in surprise.
Although Carter had completely declared his allegiance to her before, it was still somewhat beyond his expectation that Carter was able to deal with all the people who knew about it so ruthlessly. They were all colleagues she worked with day and night.
But the next words let Qiao Xi know that he had misunderstood.
"Don't look at me like that. It's not all my fault. It's just that after the team discovered the existence of this suspected vibranium mine on the seabed, they were attacked separately and all of them died. Except for their team leader who had a secret secret before his death.
The stronghold left behind nothing but this piece of raw ore and a piece of information!" Facing Josie's gaze, Carter couldn't help but rolled his eyes and said.
Although if the team had handed over this information according to normal procedures, Carter might have done what Josie thought, but it wasn't because she didn't do it.
She's willing to take the blame for things she didn't do!
"They were all attacked?" After hearing Carter's words, Josie also realized that this matter was not as simple as he thought.
"Yes, a large amount of seawater was found at each scene, and all the vibranium equipment owned by some agents was missing!" Carter shrugged. As one of the important intelligence agencies in the United States, its original establishment was still limited.
With the support of Qiao Xi, he also received a certain amount of vibranium share every year.
In particular, most of the various equipment wasted and manufactured in the early days were distributed to the intelligence department, so it is not surprising that some individual members of the more established groups own one or two pieces of vibranium equipment.
After all, as long as the enemy is not too strong, you can still save your life at critical moments.
"The latter is normal. Anyone who knows how to buy vibranium will not let go of vibranium, but sea water appears in every scene, which is very unusual!" Qiao Xi couldn't help but say.
"It's not that simple. Based on the bodies of the agents who had vibranium equipment, I found that they all suffered penetrating injuries, and the penetrations were all at the locations where they should have been wearing vibranium equipment!" Carter shook his head.
He denied Qiao Xi’s statement that the attacker took the vibranium because of its value.
"You mean that the attacker took all the vibranium equipment not because he wanted vibranium, but because he wanted to cover up the fact that he had defeated vibranium's defense?" Hearing Carter's words, Josie became even more interested.
This chapter is not over yet, please click the next page to continue reading the exciting content! According to Carter, those agents were supposed to use the defensive parts with vibranium to resist the attacker's fatal attack, but the fact was that
It was the attacker who directly broke through the vibranium defense, and it was most likely a physical attack.
This is amazing!
It is not unusual for Qiao Xi to use extreme energy to overload vibranium and collapse.
But using physical attacks to break through vibranium's defense, looking at the whole thing, only one Thanos has done this, right?
What? There are still powerful people on the same level as Thanos hidden on the earth?
No, this possibility is very small.
And if this possibility is ruled out, then there is only one possibility left, that is, the attackers have extremely high vibranium technology and know the characteristics of vibranium so well that their weapons cannot even defend against vibranium.
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And the ocean, the bottom of the sea
Could it be Atlantis?
But he has sent people to search Atlantis, and there is obviously nothing there!
Yes, he is a time traveler after all. How could Josie forget the existence of Atlantis?
Even before, he had found records about Atlantis in the memories of the Eternals, as well as in the relevant documents of Karma Taj and Attilan.
This was indeed an extremely prosperous civilization in ancient times.
But what is different from the Eternals, Asgard and many other elements in the comics is that this Atlantis is just a relatively prosperous ancient island civilization, and the rulers do have some extraordinary powers.
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Other than that, there is nothing special about it, and it was completely destroyed thousands of years ago due to major earthquakes and floods.
On the seabed in the area where it is located, there is only a ruined wall. Even the life card, the most precious treasure of civilization, has become Odin's collection and now falls into Loki's hands.
This also led Josie to mistakenly believe that Atlantis did not exist in this world at all.
But now, some of the signs Carter said left by the attackers made it difficult for Josie not to think of Atlantis.
Did he miss something important in his original search for Atlantis?
"The place where this ore was discovered couldn't be the North Atlantic Ocean, right?" Josie asked.
"Huh? How do you know?" Carter was surprised when he heard Josie's words.
"Could it really be Atlantis?" Josie couldn't help but rub his forehead and felt a headache. It seemed that he had indeed made a big mistake.
"Atlantis? That legendary country really exists?" Carter was a little surprised at first, but then he felt relieved.
I have been to the universe, and yesterday I met the god of Asgard, so it seems that it is not surprising that Atlantis appears now.
"Of course, and I had specially sent people to explore it before, just in the outer waters of the Strait of Gibraltar! However, after the investigation at that time, what was found was only a ruins on the seabed, so I didn't pay too much attention to it. Now it seems that the person in charge of the investigation and I at that time
You made a big mistake!" Qiao Xi nodded and explained.
He was still very impressed by the location of Atlantis, because it was not very far from the Canary Islands where Tiamat was located.
But when he thought of Tiamat, Qiao Xi also felt that something was wrong. If there really was an underwater kingdom so close to us, there was no way Tiamat wouldn't know about it!
At this time, Peggy Carter also raised questions.
"The waters outside Gibraltar? But that's wrong. According to the message left by the team leader, the ore was found in the waters of Bermuda!" Carter said.
"Bermuda?" Carter's words made Qiao Xi stunned for a moment, and then shouted, "Pangu, open the world map!"
Pangu is a set of extremely powerful new intelligent terminals created by Yuri by combining the artificial intelligence technology of his own world, me, the robot world, and the Star Wars world.
Powerful and reliable.
Of course Pangu is the name Qiao Xi chose himself.
Originally he wanted to name Cortana, but thinking about Cortana's rebellion in Halo 5, he felt it was unlucky, so he randomly chose the name after an ancient god.
He asked for the coordinates Carter mentioned and compared them with the locations he knew of the ruins of Atlantis.
Good guys, although the two coordinate points are both in the North Atlantic, one is in the east and the other is in the west. The difference between the two places is more than 4,000 kilometers.
This is obviously inconsistent with the location of Atlantis.
Although in the past life, there were many marketing accounts and some street stall literature linking Bermuda and Atlantis, but in fact it is just like all kinds of historical falsification in the West, it is just an operation to put gold on one's own face.
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Yes, there are indeed underwater ruins in the undersea area where Bermuda is located, but they are left behind by the Mayan civilization and have nothing to do with Atlantis in Europe!
Neither the geographical location nor the architectural style has anything to do with it.
"Is it here?" Looking at the location marked on the holographic map, Qiao Xi thought thoughtfully, and then ordered Pangu, "Pangu, search the database for all relevant legends about this sea area!"
"Searching, relevant information found!" Accompanied by Pangu's rich electronic baritone, a few pieces of information were listed.
One of them immediately caught the attention of Josie and Carter.
Tarocan, the underwater world described in Aztec classics, is an underwater kingdom ruled by the rain god. It is the resting place for the souls of those who encountered storms or died of drowning!
"It seems it's not that I made a mistake, but that this is indeed not a place!" After reading this message, Josie and Carter looked at each other and said.
"What are you going to do? From the previous situation, it seems that if this civilization really exists, it may not be simple!" Carter said.
"What are you afraid of? If it's not simple, I don't believe they can withstand the endless mechanical army!" Qiao Xi snorted.
Yes, compared to being on land or even in space, the actions of Qiao Xi's forces, including robots, on the seabed may indeed be less convenient than beings that may move unimpeded in the sea.
But it can be seen from the other party's desperate efforts to hide themselves that this Tarotken is obviously a sparsely populated civilization like Wakanda.
Because a civilization with a large population cannot stop expanding, after all, although vibranium is good, it cannot be used as food.
Of course, this cannot be said too absolutely. After all, the resources of the earth's oceans are much richer than those of the land.
But even if the prediction is wrong, Qiao Xi has nothing to fear with his current strength.
"You don't need to participate in this matter. After all, you can't show much strength in the water!" Josie said to Carter.
Not only Carter, but also most of Qiao Xi's subordinates did not play a big role in the subsequent contact with this Tarotken civilization.
Undersea combat is definitely a nightmare for conventional land creatures.
Not to mention breathing problems, the huge water pressure is enough to crush most people.
Moreover, the opponent's weapons can also break through vibranium's defense, which means that even if you wear power armor, you will only be equipping yourself with an extra iron coffin.
So once the two sides actually go to war, robots with strong weapons and no need to breathe will be the main force.
It is relatively affected, but the impact is slightly smaller. The powerful warrior can be used as a support.
Although the robot will also be affected by resistance on the seabed and cannot be as flexible as on land, at least normal firepower output is still no problem.
In addition, Josie also has to borrow a navy from Yuri!
Huh? No, maybe we can borrow a special navy from little Abedis!
"I understand!" Carter did not refuse Josie's arrangement. She really couldn't imagine herself fighting in the water. It sounded like a nightmare.