Shadow of the Beautiful World

The country of Wakanda has always been a mystery.

The outside world knows very little about it. Even in the political landscape of Africa, Wakanda is a country with very little sense of existence.

Its identity to the outside world is a remote, purely agricultural country with a small area, a sparse population, and no resources. There is not even an airport in the entire country, and the country has not even been connected to electricity.

Such an absolutely poor country, except for some researchers who study environmental science and biology, no one will set their sights there.

Nigeria, which adjoins it, has more presence than Wakanda.

You guys hide yourselves really deep.

Merlin sat by the porthole of the plane. During the rapid descent of the plane, he looked down at the increasingly clear scenery on the ground. It was a barren grassland. The sun shone on the endless grass. Merlin could even see There are migrating antelopes running, hunting lions and drinking rhinos.

At the end of the grassland, there is a lush forest, which covers a huge area, and you can't see the edge at a glance.

This is already the hinterland of Wakanda, but there is still nothing here except a few farms.

Where is your country?

Merlin, who has changed into a black dress robe of the same style as T'Challa's and also put on royal sandals, said:

I mean, how did you hide yourself?

It's not difficult.

Ororo, who was sitting opposite Merlin, was drinking juice and looking at the scenery below, she said:

The population of Wakanda is not large, and there are only three large cities in our country. It is very easy for millions of people to hide in this land full of miracles and gifts. Of course, we also use some other forces. .”

Here we are.

Prince T'Challa took a sip of the juice and said to Merlin and Eric:

It's time to witness the miracle

Don't play memes 10 years ago

Merlin complained, but the next moment, when the plane flew into this lush forest, his gaze still tightened.

An invisible and qualityless shield.

Or it's called an enchantment, or some kind of high-tech three-dimensional projection.

In short, the plane seemed to have crashed into an invisible cover, and Merlin could feel the non-violent energy beating on the surface of the entire plane's outer cabin, just like jumping sparks. Merlin felt a slight numbness, which may be more because he spread his perception outside the cabin.

And after crossing the invisible hood, a completely different scenery appeared in front of Merlin's eyes.

It was a large city built at the confluence of rivers and rivers. Just looking at its appearance, it was somewhat similar to New York.

There are many high-rise buildings and heavy traffic, and there are a few strange-looking black spaceships whizzing past in the sky. Merlin looked down, and the navigation lights on the top of the tall buildings flickered on and off, and those strange trains passing through the city. Compared with the scene of prosperity and the primitive and barren land before, Merlin felt as if he had suddenly returned to the civilized world.

It's not just going back to civilization, it's more like going beyond civilization.

Merlin saw the beating stereoscopic projections in the city, vivid and anthropomorphic, like huge advertisements.

Wakanda's cities are bustling, but the streets are not congested. Their buildings are also very simple and elegant. The shapes are full of simple elegance and are extremely practical. Around the city streets, there are towering trees. It is located on both sides of the river, and the endless city looks very neat, with a feeling of being busy but not chaotic, full of order.

The elegance brought by this order made Merlin's first impression of Wakanda very good.

He is essentially a person who likes order and hates chaos.

It's very developed here.

Eric looked at the large city that suddenly appeared out of the window. As a senior engineer graduated from MIT, he saw the signal tower-like buildings standing around the city at a glance.

He could tell that those were not signal towers, but more like some kind of wireless power transmission device

Your energy use technology is at least 50 years more advanced than the outside world. It's unbelievable.

Not 'you'.

T'Challa shook his head, and he said to Eric:

It's us'.

My cousin, you have entered the sky above the capital Bernin Zana, welcome back to Wakanda.

whoosh, whoosh, whoosh

Under Merlin's gaze, three black spaceships flew out from the ground and approached the descending plane at an extremely fast speed. They hovered around the plane as if they were escorting it.

Merlin noticed that among the three spaceships, there was an oval-shaped spaceship that looked familiar.

It is in the shape of a shuttle as a whole, and there are three energy thrusters at the bottom of the spaceship. From a distance, it looks like a human face.

This is obviously the spaceship that Merlin saw in Auckland that night in 1992 carrying the Black Panther.

That's the Ark Royal.

Ororo followed Merlin's eyes, and she also saw the very flexible spaceship like a flying plate. She said to Merlin:

That is a special car for members of the royal family. Only Black Panther, his wife, and his daughter, Princess Su Rui, are eligible to take it. It seems that Her Royal Highness, the princess who can't be idle, came to welcome her brother.

Suri.

T'Challa also smiled gently, and said:

This active girl is probably going crazy in Wakanda. She is 17 years old this year, and she will be able to travel in the second half of the year. I heard that she has applied for a master's degree at Columbia University. It seems that she has already chosen their own future path.”

travel?

Merlin looked at the son of the black panther in front of him, and said:

Does it mean traveling?

No.

Ororo explained:

It's more like a kind of integration and experience. Although Wakanda keeps a distance from the outside world, we still pay attention to the affairs of the outside world. As members of the royal family, T'Challa and Shu Rui will enter the modern society when they become adults. Return to Wakanda.

Well, I'm doing a Ph.D. in sociology at Oxford, and a master's degree in economics and psychology.

T'Challa explained to Merlin and Eric:

Wakanda values ​​knowledge, and we're willing to learn from anywhere.

very nice.

Merlin said something with an envious tone.

For various reasons, it was his lifelong regret that he did not go to college. Although the knowledge he has now has far surpassed ordinary college students, even doctors.

Not every student in every school has access to real mysticism.

We're going to land at Ho Tran Airport.

T'Challa looked at the watch on his hand and said to the guests:

This kind of slow, polluting plane cannot enter the city. This is against Wakanda's aviation laws, so we will take the Ark Royal for the rest of the journey.

OK.

Merlin said with great interest:

I have long wanted to try the feeling of flying in a spaceship.

After a while, the black plane stopped at the airport. Just like its name, the airport is located in the center of the river. It is a super-large platform, half suspended in the air, supported by metal pillars, which looks full of sci-fi and future. Feel.

Merlin and Eric, wearing Wakanda traditional costumes, walked down the gangway. There was no staff in the airport around them. Merlin saw some self-driving tractors driving to the front of the plane according to a fixed route, and then Stretch out the grapple, grab the wheels of the plane, and under the traction of two tractors, the plane is slowly sent into the hangar behind the platform.

It wasn't until this moment that Merlin realized that there was no pilot on the plane he was traveling on.

This plane was also modified by Wakanda, and it is also unmanned!

Damn it.

Merlin rubbed his forehead. He didn't dislike high technology, but when he thought that the plane he was on along the way didn't have a pilot, Merlin still had an indescribable feeling.

It's like the future dreamed by the visionaries has come into reality at this moment. Since coming to Wakanda, Merlin has a little bit of his own understanding of what the real future society will look like.

Wakanda, which is extremely technologically advanced, looks like the future world.

And it’s not that unimaginably advanced. According to Eric, Wakanda’s technology is 50 years more advanced than the outside world, and some cutting-edge technologies may be stronger. This proves that Wakanda’s model can be learned by the outside world and copied.

elder brother!

Just as Merlin was observing the unmanned facilities at the airport, a crisp shout sounded behind him, probably because of Lorna and Ruiwen, Merlin was very sensitive to this word.

When he turned his head, he saw the elevator under the Ark Royal parked in front opened, and a girl in a skirt and veil was running towards T'Challa.

She should be Princess Su Rui, T'Challa's younger sister, and Black Panther's daughter.

Look, that's your sister.

Merlin said to Eric beside him:

She looks a bit like you, look at your eyes, they are almost exactly the same.

From an ethical point of view

Eric snorted, and said to Merlin maliciously:

That's your niece too.

Uh, forget it.

Merlin shrugged and said:

I can't make love to a princess, go, they're waiting for you.

Merlin pushed Eric who stayed where he was, and the young man walked forward hesitantly. He stood beside T'Challa. Princess Su Rui said a few words to Ororo, and then turned to look at Eric. Ke, those big eyes were full of curiosity.

Are you Eric? Uncle Njob's son?

Yes, I am.

Eric was a little uncomfortable with the robe on his body. He moved his shoulders and said to Su Rui in front of him:

It's my first time in Wakanda, and I have to say, it's very different from the hometown I imagined.

Yes, it does look grotesque.

Princess Su Rui said solemnly:

When you've lived here long enough, you realize that it's as boring as it looks.

She shrugged at Eric, then held out her hand:

Hi, brother Eric, I'm Su Rui, your cousin.

Hello, Su Rui.

Eric stretched out his hand, held Shu Rui's hand, and then let go. He looked at the mountains outside the city and said to T'Challa:

I want to visit my father's tombstone before meeting the Panther.

sure.

T'Challa patted Eric on the shoulder, and he said:

Come with me. Uncle Njob is buried in the family cemetery, in the forest behind the palace.

A group of people boarded the Royal Ark. Princess Su Rui tilted her head and looked at Merlin who walked at the end with a leisurely face like a tourist. She asked curiously:

Who are you? Uncle Njob's other son?

No.

Merlin replied solemnly:

I'm Prince Eric's bodyguard, Your Highness, don't worry about me, I'm just a dispensable person.

No, you're not!

Su Rui looked at the slightly weird watch on her hand, and she said to Merlin:

You have a special energy emission frequency, which is comparable to the frequency when a vibranium missile explodes. You are a dangerous guy. I guess, are you a mutant?

Yes, I'm a mutant.

Merlin looked frustrated when his identity was exposed, and he said to Su Rui:

My name is 'Raven', and my ability is to turn into a bird.

cool!

Su Rui widened her eyes and praised, and she said to Merlin in frustration:

When I was a child, I also wished that I was a mutant and could fly with the wind like Ororo. Unfortunately, I was just an ordinary person, and I was not blessed by Goddess Buster.

bless?

Merlin asked curiously:

In Wakanda, do you consider mutants a goddess blessing?

yes.

Su Rui said to Merlin while manipulating the equipment that made Merlin dizzy in this high-tech spaceship cabin:

For example, the Ororo family is regarded as the family of the goddess Buster. Every generation of their family will have a wizard who manipulates the weather to make the whole of Wakanda smooth, and there are several other families. , There are not many mutants in Wakanda, but everyone lives together in harmony. So through Ororo's relationship, we also choose to support Professor Charles' moderate proposition.

Suri.

Ororo couldn't help reminding:

You talk too much.

Uh, fine.

Su Rui glanced at Merlin, she stopped talking, but continued to steer the spaceship, smoothly, slowly lifted into the air like a flying saucer, and then quickly drove towards the Wakanda palace.

Ororo looked at Merlin with a calm face. She looked at Merlin's fingers pinched together, and she said:

Using a spirit channeling spell on a child, Mr. Merlin, isn't that too much for you?

I just want to know the forces behind the professor.

Merlin said frankly to Ororo:

I asked you, but you refused to tell. Besides, Su Rui didn't take it as a secret, otherwise she wouldn't tell it even if it was spiritual guidance.

Merlin looked at Shu Rui, then at T'Challa who was whispering to Eric, and said:

The spiritual strength of their siblings is different from ordinary people, and I feel that their bodies are also extremely strong, like sleeping magma, which has not yet erupted.

Well, the blood of the black panther is indeed extraordinary.

Sogou