[Comprehensive British and American] Shoebill stork is passing by

Stark's rehabilitation progress is gratifying. Perhaps the life support cabin has been helping him protect his muscles and nerves. His body has not completely entered "post-mortem stiffness", except for the first step. Responding, he landed sideways on his shoulders, protecting his face.

"Hell, can't you give me a hand?" Stark scolded the little friend for his lack of conscience.

"You can get better quickly by yourself." Batman motioned for him to cheer himself up.

What is it called rehabilitation when someone supports you?

When the clock showed that the current time was daytime, they were doing rehabilitation, and when it was night, they came to the host, giving Stark extra lessons while keeping up with current events.

"Twice trying to link, it seems that they failed to open the channel." Stark sat in a wheelchair, pretending to be Professor X, pressing his fingers on the side of his temple, and made a pretentious evaluation: "I'm not very good over there." ah."

Batman gets a headache seeing him.

The Fool is nowhere to be found, probably returned to the snow field.

"Where's the snow disaster beast?" Stark was looking at the file of the mutant animal, "It's positioned right above us, but there's no sign of it on the visible camera."

"Buried by the wind and snow." Batman pointed to a snow bag, "It has been sleeping here for more than a year, its vital signs are stable, but it just doesn't wake up."

Stark: "Aren't these animals too sleepy?"

When the shoebill stork was in charge of guarding the door, it seemed to go directly into standby mode, sleeping non-stop, and it was covered with snow as a sculpture outside.

"..." Batman looked at him silently: "It's already hard to eat, let them sleep better."

Stark: "... Where's Wayne?"

"Still."

"Oh... what about Stark Industries?"

"It's still there."

"Then why can't you afford it?"

"Because money is meaningless."

Seeing that Stark has not yet accepted the setting of the new era, Batman sent some materials for him to read slowly.

"Money, paper and pens and other equivalents, their basic value and transaction guarantee are based on the premise of the rule of law and order. Money has meaning only when living materials are abundant and stable. Now there is a wasteland outside, and people have long since abandoned coins. This general equivalent is now dominated by barter."

Stark: ...

A Fvck stopped in his throat.

"How long have I been fucking dead?" was all he could ask in the end.

Batman: "Now is the fifth year of the new era, and some people call it the fifth year of the wasteland."

To put it mildly, Stark has been "dead" for at least 5 years. This is a conservative estimate. After all, the year Stark "died" was not the beginning of a new era.

Human surface civilization still struggled for a while before GG.

Stark: ...

He waved his hand to signal Batman to shut up and let him slow down.

Then his genius brain moved first, leaving aside those that he could not accept or understand, and independently selected the information that was beneficial to him, and began to deal with this part first.

"Barter?" Stark wondered, "Why does it sound like I can go back to my old ways?"

When he was an arms dealer in the past, he was actually bartering, exchanging guns and ammunition for diamonds and gold bars, but at that time it was because his clients had no clean source of money, and it was too troublesome to launder money for nothing. Stark, who didn't want his business to be messed with, would rather have some jewelry equivalent in gold.

After Stark finished reading the information, he looked up and saw that Batman was gone. He was also used to the guy's ability to turn his head and disappear, and looked at the whalebill stork in the corner.

The big bird didn't know when it stood here, motionless, staring straight at Stark.

Stark looked back.

"What? Is Dad handsome?"

The Fool remained motionless, still staring at him.

He obviously didn't have any expression, but it just made people feel hairy. Stark shivered and looked away.

"Strange bird." Muttering.

……

And it's kind of hard to deal with.

Because of the lack of food, mutant animals often put themselves into standby mode, like the snow disaster beast, which sleeps for a year, and when the shoebill stork is guarding outside, it also enters this low energy consumption state that only retains the minimum alertness.

If there is no situation, you will not wake up, and you will not need to eat.

Batman handed a large pack of nutrition bars to Stark and explained: "This is the staple food of the fool, the recipe of the Hydra, one a day is enough."

Stark looked over.

About the thickness of an adult's arm.

But comparing the size of the Shoebill, I always feel that it is not enough to eat.

However, in this special period, there is no other way, everyone is making do.

Stark purred: "I guess there are no more donuts now?"

"Sleep, there will be in the dream." Batman is very coping.

Stark: ...

Put up the middle finger.

The days of recovery went on like this day after day.

Stark also finally understands why it is now called "Wasteland".

Thanks Brainiac.

The earth has lost 60% of its trees and 30% of its water. In addition, other resources such as metal minerals have also been rapidly exploited on a large scale. The entire planet is changing at a speed visible to the naked eye. The surface of the earth has begun to show irreversible decay and transformation.

To make matters worse, Brainiac plans to further exploit the energy of the earth's core.

Once it succeeds, the earth will die completely.

Of course, human beings are not qualified to steal lives.

Stark looked at the surface image sent back from Hydra.

Brainiac's metal skull stayed in the sky above the North Pole. A huge catheter had been inserted into the ground, and the preliminary preparations were in progress. From a distance, it looked like a mosquito, sucking blood from the earth.

Next to the metal skull, there is a small dot floating, Stark zooms in and can see that it is Superman.

The original set of three primary color configurations made Stark complain, but now with the Brainiac purple lighting effect, it seems to be a disco flashing ball in the sky.

It was almost twisted on the spot.

pity.

There is a high probability that a boy in a small town will not twist.

"Can't you take him back?" Stark bit the precious apple, turned his head to look at the whalebill stork in the corner, "You're a psychic, right?"

The Fool just watched him silently.

No response, no gesture, like a statue.

Stark shuddered again.

"Do you know? You remind me of the nightmare I had when I was a child. I was very heavy and couldn't get up. If I lifted my eyelids hard to look, I would see a tall thing stuck there in the shadow of the corner."

Stark looked at the shoebill and said, "It just keeps looking at me, as if waiting for the moment I fall asleep."

The Fool was unmoved and still just looked at him.

Stark looks at it too, and eats the last bite of the apple.

"You know? I'm going to have nightmares tonight."

The Fool remained unmoved, still staring at him quietly.

……

…………

Orthodox universe.

Tony's bedroom in Stark Tower.

Stark, who was soundly asleep, woke up with a jerk.

He dreamed that his chest was pressed by something, he couldn't move his whole body, his breathing was gradually difficult, he was unconscious, and he was about to pass out of coma and shock.

……! ??

Opening his eyes, he saw a whalebill resting its head on his chest.

"...Cub, this is murder." Stark moaned under the pressure.

Dazed was sleeping soundly. After being pushed twice, he only moved his head slightly, from the top of his chest to the position of his abdomen, so that he couldn't die and just pressed on Stark's stomach.

Stark: "..."

This time I woke up completely.

And also found myself hungry.

Looking at the time, it's past 5 in the morning.

Healthy, perfect timing for a morning run.

Stark showed a dying expression, turned over and hugged the head of the Shoebill stork, using the dumb mouth as a hard pillow, pressed it up, stretched his body down, and began to stretch his neck.

Daidai, who was eating dinosaur fish in his dream, was pulled so hard that he kicked his bird's claws several times, and then reacted, slowly raised his eyelids, opened the haw, and realized that he was being used as a pillow by humans again.

So it skillfully adjusted the position of the bird's beak, just stuck to Stark's jaw, and then grabbed the soles of his legs with two claws. After everything was ready, the shoebill opened one wing to maintain balance, and at the same time began to move forward. Push down slightly.

Stretch traction.

Stark was stretched by it, and the whole person was refreshed.

"Okay, okay, Dad will make you breakfast, and while the big bad bat is not around today, let's eat as much as we want." Mua took a sip from the big mouth of the whalebill stork~

He went back in a daze.

The small eyes are shining, as if hearing the sound of the river water being slapped by the vigorous fish tail.

After turning on the light, doing a simple wash, and changing out of pajamas, Stark woke up the AI ​​system at home, let the floor of the house sink, and poured in specially prepared clean water, followed by vigorous dinosaur fish.

Dadai regained his energy and stood up shaking his wings.

After the AI ​​was awakened, it turned on the light for Stark, and naturally woke up Taotao who was still sleeping.

The little parrot curled up in the straw nest built for it by Stark, sleeping soundly, and was still dazed when woken up by the light. He raised his head and yawned, with a small mouth, and looked around in confusion. .

"Chirp...?" Is it dawn?

"Not yet, give your brother a snack." Stark smiled, and stuffed Xiao Taotao with a parrot snack.

Right under Taotao's body, Xiaopu squirmed and swayed, as if he had just turned on the machine, he wobbled up a little bit, and found that Taotao on his body hadn't woken up yet, so he wobbled on the ground again go down.

Taotao finished eating the parrot ration when it rose up, and when it fell back, Taotao fell asleep again.A square scarf was carefully covered on the parrot's body, rising and falling with the little guy's breathing.

Stark himself yawned and decided to get up.

"I went to the laboratory, and this time I slept for 8 hours. You are not allowed to take the hair." Refers to the whalebill stork.

Swallowing a dinosaur fish with his head held high, he blinked at Stark, very innocent.

When Stark left the room, the whalebill turned to look at the night sky.

At this point, it's time to insert Batman.

It pulled out the recently frequently recycled feather from Stark's quilt, opened its wings, AI opened the window for it, and the shoebill stork broke through the darkest night before dawn and flew to Gotham.

It's time for Batman to turn into Baby Brucey and go to sleep!