[Comprehensive] Road to Trench

The appearance of Gringotts is still not much different from that of the past. Alex is regarded as a VIP at Gringotts. There is a reception room arranged at Gringotts. Tony and Bucky—only Tony to be precise—feel better Instead of watching the boring financial procedures in the reception room, it would be better to see the style of Wizard Street in the lobby, so Alex took Thor to find the pre-booked goblin to open an account, and Bucky was in charge. Make sure Tony doesn't let him take the opportunity to open an account, including exchanging dollars for Galleons.

"The latter doesn't really bother me," Alex said. "They don't take credit cards—I don't think Tony can get 50 cents from him."

Tony, who has always been used to paying by credit card and tipping, is in charge of Happy and his assistant Pepper (now Stark CEO): "...shut up."

Alex obediently made a "zip up" movement on his mouth, and waved the wand he didn't know when he was holding it.

The empty coffee table in front of Tony and Bucky was suddenly filled with magical dessert sets that were spraying sparks and snowflakes, and colorful bubbles floating.

Tony: "...Are you trying to trick me into being a little princess?"

Such a fairytale and dreamy dessert looks like it is used to cheat children's parents out of their money! ! !

As Tony said, he reached out and picked up the matching small spoon. In front of him was an erupting volcano, with red magma flowing on the top, but white underneath. It looked like it was a snow mountain before the eruption.Now this active volcano was constantly erupting red lava and black clouds from the top of the mountain-Tony stirred the spoon near the clouds and found that the black clouds were entangled on the spoon.

"Dust can't be eaten..." he muttered, putting the spoon into his mouth, "...chocolate?"

The next spoonful was aimed at the magma and the snow-capped mountain slope, and the "mountain body" mixed with red and white was dug down, and then swallowed by terrifying humans.

Spicy...strawberry jam and vanilla ice cream?

What kind of weird combination is this? !

...but it seems to taste good?

Bucky, who was on the sidelines, felt that Tony, who had been an adult for a long time, seemed to have returned to his childhood, just like 20 years ago-the Winter Soldier remembered the golden and red color mechanical arm that was shot and killed under his strong opposition, and at the same time he was very grateful to his friend Steve Husband's star shield color remains unchanged for thousands of years, and it also symbolizes the national spirit. Don't worry about being poisoned by Tony and turning into tomato scrambled eggs...

"...why do you look at me like that?" Rarely, Tony felt uneasy about being watched (most of the time he didn't feel the gaze of others).

The man who didn't show much signs of aging because of the super soldier serum smiled: "It's nothing, you look better now."

"When will I have a hard time?" Without a moment's pause, Tony said something nonchalantly, and scooped up another spoonful of seawater—sea salt flavor?

Paired with the dessert left in the mouth before, the aftertaste of the previous dessert is strengthened, nothing more than a lingering fragrance on the lips and teeth.

"Desserts make people happy—the unchanging truth."

Bucky just smiled and looked away.

I was driving a car and suddenly braked suddenly just because I saw a trash can rolling over, and when I saw a plastic bag blown by the wind, the first reaction was to find a bunker, and I was always anxious...People who return from the battlefield always have this or that. Psychological problems, they always remind you inadvertently: See, you never really get out of the battlefield.

The shadow of war haunts you forever.

Pepper had approached him in private.

The reason was that she went to see a psychiatrist. From Pepper’s description, the psychiatrist realized that the person who was really anxious was Tony who was watching Pepper. The symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) were manifested in this watch It seems that he doesn't care about anything, but in fact he cares about life and responsibility more than anyone else—Little Pepper subconsciously felt this, and she was anxious because she was worried about Tony's state.

They also once persuaded Tony to see a psychiatrist, but Iron Man never felt that he had a mental problem. This proposal was rejected countless times, and they could only watch him bury all his emotions in his heart, forever The look of ease.

But now... the anxiety that Tony had suppressed forcibly in his heart was slowly disappearing.

To be precise, it started when Alex came back.

Is it because Alex's return made Tony realize that there are many other sides of the earth that he doesn't understand, so he doesn't need to worry too much about the future cosmic army, or is it just because the arrival of his little friend eased his emotions, Bucky I don't intend to delve into this point, anyway...

"You're right, desserts make you feel good."

Said the Winter Soldier who took the last piece of Coconut Cake with a fork from Iron Man's hand.

The result is good.

Thor’s business of opening an account was done very quickly. Alex himself came here to discuss some “foreign capital” issues, but after a simple conversation, she quickly realized that the goblins did not open up new areas of business. Thoughts (or needs), so he directly pressed the original plan, skipped it lightly, and just smiled and watched Thor fill in the information.

"Why do you need to fill in so many things..." the eldest prince of Asgard muttered, you must know that he had never done any "opening service for online banking" in Asgard.

——After all, when he takes the throne, the whole of Asgard will be his...

"Think about many legal provisions and issues that you haven't thought about." The little girl who was drinking tea comfortably beside her said with a smile.

Between her raised wrists, a stream of light flashed away, so fast that Thor, the god of thunder, only caught that little light: "...?"

He looked over in surprise, and found that it was a string of gemstone bracelets worn on the little girl's slender wrists, but what really surprised him was...

"Who gave you that chain in your hand?" Thor had a strange look on his face.

Alex looked down, it was a string of gemstone bracelets carefully carved into the shape of buds that are about to bloom, each rosebud has a different posture, and the gemstones that carry all these are in colorful colors. Clear, like a condensed rainbow.

She touched the bracelet subconsciously: "what's the matter?"

"That is a very rare rainbow stone in Asgard. It is rumored that the rainbow stone buried at the foot of the rainbow has magical and incredible power. If you give it to the girl you like, everything in the world will watch this pair of lovers. All misfortunes are far away from them." Lei Shen said, "But Rainbow Stone is extremely rare, even in my mother's place, there is only a bunch of them that my father found when he proposed to her... For more than 1000 years, no one has found it ,Apart from……"

Thor, the god of thunder, thought of the person he knew not long ago: "...except for the earthling who accidentally went to Asgard with me not long ago." Then, he scratched his head, "but you shouldn't belong to him. That string..."

Alex was taken aback: "Huh? What do you mean?"

"Ah, Haieri—that's the earthling I was talking about who accidentally came to Asgard. He found the rainbow stone and carved it into various flowers..." Thor said, his eyes It landed on the rose gemstone bracelet on Alex's wrist, "...but it should have nothing to do with yours. He can carve all kinds of flowers, but he has never carved roses."

Although it really looks like the bracelet he was carving... Thor muttered in his heart.

In terms of style and size, this bracelet is so similar to those flower bud bracelets in Hayley's hand...

"Bud bracelet?"

Hearing Alex's doubtful voice, Thor realized that he accidentally said what he was saying: "...ah, it's the bracelet that Haieri was carving. He carved a lot of flower bud bracelets with rainbow stones. flowers……"

"Sounds very beautiful..." This aroused the interest of the little girl with silver curly hair. She reached out and opened the shell necklace hanging around her neck. After clicking on it a few times, a flower page was projected, "Which flower is it?" ?”

Thor recalled that when he went to find Haieri, he saw the half-made gem buds that he casually placed on the table, which corresponded one-to-one with the flowers on the picture in front of him: "This, this, ah, and this, That's also..."

"This is cherry blossom, sunflower, mandala, Casablanca, dandelion...all are very beautiful flowers!" The little girl exclaimed, still seemed to be full of interest, and occasionally she lost her mind when her eyes fell on the gemstone bracelet, Only then will people know that her heart is far less peaceful than it appears on the surface.

It's just that Bucky and Tony, who are good at detecting her emotions, are not here at this time. When Thor finally fills in the overwhelming information and looks up, there is no abnormality in the silver-haired girl.

When the two came out, they found that the place where Tony was located had become the focus of everyone's attention—especially because of the warm-up activities for Children's Day, the number of wizard children active in Wizard Street these days is much higher On weekdays, rounding up, the number of children in the lobby today is higher than usual, so the location of the table of desserts that particularly attracts the attention of children has become the most eye-catching place in the entire Gringotts hall... …

Iron Man wearing sunglasses is very used to the feeling of being the focus of eyes, so the eyes of the children focusing on him as if they were going to put him on the fire did not affect his appetite at all, and he still took a bite without changing his face.

Alex: ...

I always feel that Tony's mental age seems to be growing back every year...

Not feeling at all that the culprit of the current situation is actually me (the table of desserts I brought), the little girl with silver curly hair happily went over to hug her.

"Are you done?" Bucky was the first to notice the girl who came over, and he reached out to pick up the little girl in the wheelchair and put him on the sofa beside him, rubbing her hair before he asked.

"Well, he opened a Gringotts vault for Thor, and he also exchanged the gems he brought from Asgard for Galleons." Alex tilted his head and thought for a while, and said, " Originally, I wanted to develop new business for Gringotts, but after a few questions, I found that they were not interested, so I had to do it myself."

"What new business?" Tony swallowed the last piece of Michelle Pudding, and asked with some doubts, "Is it a COS goblin?"

——When Iron Man saw the goblins in Gringotts for the first time, he felt that they looked like goblins in fantasy stories. If Alex hadn't corrected him and said that there were goblins in the wizarding world or creatures like pests, He would really take the goblins of Gringotts for goblins.

Alex didn't answer at that time, but when he left Gringotts and returned to the Avengers Building and started to make preliminary preparations, he said to Tony: "I remember you cooperated with the New York government to establish a post-disaster control department? I forgot what it was called, but this is it anyway, have you ever thought that there may be more similar disasters in the future?"

Tony unpacked the lollipop in his hand and stuffed it into his mouth: "Obviously. The universe is so big, but we can't even leave the solar system. If any aliens come to the earth, with their technological level , controlling the entire planet is easy."

What he didn't say was that during the period after the New York War, he dreamed that the alien army did not leave, but came out of the wormhole and landed in New York...

No matter how powerful the individual strength of the Avengers is, they are only a small team of five or six people. Can they resist such an army?

Even if he once told Loki that if the earth is destroyed, they will absolutely do everything to avenge the earth at all costs, but if the earth is really destroyed...

Can all the power of the Avengers Alliance really cause harm to the enemy?

Even if it is really possible to avenge the earth, what about the earth?

The earth they fought and fought for, and their relatives and friends on the earth, can they come back?

He has a very clear answer in his heart:

No.

Alex looked at the little friend who didn't know why his eyes were a bit obscure, and always felt that the other person's thoughts were not on the same road as his own: "...Let's not talk about the alien army for now, in such a remote place on the earth, if it is really If anyone is interested, the journey to Earth is too far away, so it’s not worth it if you calculate the cost. What I want to say is that even if there is no invasion of alien forces, there is still a need for the Avengers on Earth alone. When you are dispatched, whether it is you or Hulk, everyone fights—except maybe Hawkeye and Black Widow—the damage to the environment is too great, especially guns and the like, and you cannot guarantee that every Every time you can choose to fight in a place far away from human habitation, right?"

What's more, the environment is still a trivial matter, and the biggest problem is casualties. It happened to be in Manhattan, New York, where Alex was located this time—it happened that Tony was worried that it would be unsafe for her to be alone in the seaside villa, so he specially received New York Star. It’s not always good luck to come to the Ke building—just imagine, if Tony chose to hire a nurse and nanny to take care of Alex in the villa, how terrible the post-war liquidation and public opinion of the New York War would be ?

Even under the current miraculous premise that no one died, there are still congressmen attacking the Avengers and causing a lot of property damage. If the number of human lives is added to this property, how heavy will it be?

Biting a lollipop and being silent for a few seconds, Tony looked at his little friend, and after a while he slowly said: "...I believe you are not aimless, right?"

The little girl with silver curly hair smiled mischievously in response to him.

Two weeks later, Stark's post-disaster control department discovered that their boss had found a partner, the Taobei platform, to be in charge of logistics coordination, including battlefield assistance.

Post-disaster control department members: I have never heard of this name, where did the pheasant department come from! ?