[Comprehensive Anglo-American] Gem Merchant

Facing the enemy on the mysterious side for the first time, Steve Rogers had to discuss the assault plan with Fury and Natasha, and Alphonse was not good at this part, and he didn't plan to listen carefully.

He still has a more important task at this moment—holding the gem box brought by the clerk, the alchemist frowned and sat alone in Tony Stark's underground workshop, picking out everything that could be done. Useful gems.

"If I knew it earlier, I would have made more varieties that could be physically triggered."

After counting the inventory, Alphonse felt that the task was very arduous: most of the physical triggers were used for the arrangement of the Hulk or magical creatures. I feel a little under-prepared.

This makes the alchemist who has always armed himself to the teeth and has some obsessive-compulsive disorder feel a little worried.

The teammates are a group of ordinary people. After all, Hydra is involved, and it’s inconvenient to call people from the temple over... Alphonse is thinking about taking stomach medicine, and this body still has stomach ulcers. My God, why is it already sub-healthy? Stark can still drink so much wine when he is in a state.

If only there was even a magic circuit!He thought troubledly, if he could even make a magic circuit, he would have the magic power to activate the gem.Most of Lord Gem's reserves are unusable. It has to be said that even Alphonse feels a little frustrated in this situation.And it is theoretically feasible to forcibly consume life force to activate the gem, but this body belongs to Tony Stark after all, and Alphonse is not willing to leave Stark with a body after the body exchange is over. A body that is numbered.

Fortunately, according to the results of divination, that person should be in no danger for a short time.

But... It doesn't mean that this can delay time indefinitely.

He opened the drink cabinet on one side of the room, which was filled with wines of different national labels. Alphonse glanced at them hastily, and closed the cabinet door again.

This person's living habits are too unhealthy!

The situation was at a stalemate for a while, he had all the fingerprint recognition and iris recognition access permissions of Tony Stark, so there was no problem in staying in the laboratory alone, it would be better to say that this empty place can make He regained some of the feeling of studying in the magic workshop on weekdays.

Therefore, when a voice suddenly appeared beside him, Alphonse was really taken aback.

"Mr. Alphonse?"

His eyes scanned the entire laboratory, which was still empty.

"Let me introduce myself, I am Mr. Stark's butler, an artificial intelligence that uses the same basic algorithm as Friday and has a different simulated personality."

Yes, apart from supervising his own Friday part-time, Tony Stark should indeed be using another intelligence system himself.Alphonse understood, and asked, "Then, what do you want from me?"

The artificial intelligence replied neither humble nor humble: "Mr. Alphonse, I have observed that you have been using methods that Sir doesn't quite understand to carry out this rescue operation."

"After all, I'm an alchemist, heck, I think you and Friday should have exchanged news a lot."

Alphonse scratched his hair, even the hair that was a bit shorter than his own and the texture of his hands reminded himself that this body did not belong to him: "And Stark is Iron Man... I naturally There's no way to act like him."

If it was Tony, what would he do?

He would probably start with satellite positioning and other means that he didn't understand?The alchemist was thinking while packing his things. Those methods have caused headaches for the US military. Are there such troublemakers on the scientific side...

"Mr. Alphonse, actually, you can."

said the smart housekeeper.

Obviously the jeweler hadn't reacted yet: "What?"

Accompanied by the slight tremor of the ground, a huge gap opened in the ground of the entire underground laboratory, and several steel battle suits rose from it. They had slight differences in appearance, but they were uniformly golden and red in color, completely It's the style of a certain troublemaker who can be killed in a war zone if he disagrees.

Alphonse walked towards the row of neatly arranged steel battle suits in a daze. On the golden-red streamlined visor, Stark's face was reflected.

"All the battle suits that are currently ready, except MarkA, are all based on Sir's body parameters, and the activation key is iris recognition, which means that you can now activate any battle suit in front of you to rescue Sir, with all access rights."

The smart butler introduced: "The parameters of all the suits have been sent to your mobile phone."

Alphonse raised his hand and saw that there was indeed a whole detailed report in his mobile phone. In order to prevent him from being confused as a layman, the butler thoughtfully underlined the key areas.

Friday interjected at the right time: "Mr. Alphonse, I recommend that you bring MarkA to the battle location. The current version of MarkA already has the same combat capability as other suits. Even if you can't use magic, as long as Sir can get in touch with MarkA, he will still be able to use it." Have the combat capability to cooperate with the rescue.”

With a click, the electronic lock on the desktop automatically opened, and a small chrome-white box popped up. Alphonse lifted it up and shook it, oh, it was quite heavy.

The cold metal texture of his palm reminded him that even if the owner of this body does not have a magic circuit, he can be regarded as an outstanding and unique one among human beings.

But here comes the problem, he doesn't even know how to drive... As a result of using the portal or teleporting when going out, Alphonse himself is quite inexperienced in driving these modern devices, even though he was wearing steel in accordance with Stark's test requirements. The battle suit has flown a few times, but it is only limited to the degree of "flying", and its additional functions have not been explored at all.

However, the smart butler has already manipulated one of the battle suits in the laboratory, and opened the hatch with a click, urging silently.

...That should be considered a hatch, right?Alphonse became uncommonly nervous, thinking with some uncertainty.

When he is flying with his battle suit, the artificial intelligence will be very considerately adjusted to the no-pop-up window mode. There is almost no prompt window in the entire field of vision, and all judgments are left to the system to solve independently, but now the power-on self-test program Those cumbersome self-inspection items have already made him dizzy.

And Stark was the one who made them... Alphonse thought, this is probably a genius on the scientific side.

"Mr. Alphonse, based on your lack of experience in combat suit operation, I suggest you hand over the master control authority to me."

The artificial intelligence reminded: "And find an opportunity to exchange bodies with Sir as soon as possible."

A few minutes later, the iron suit walked in front of Steve with some uncoordinated hands and feet.

"That, Cap..."

Alphonse said, "I have a plan."

Tony Stark had a dream.

The reason why he was able to understand that this was a dream was because he had never seen the surrounding environment before, and - he himself was extremely awake now.

It was weird, he confirmed his sobriety, and it was obvious that this was not in the real world.If the possibility of the soul going out of the body is ruled out, then this place must be a dream, maybe the content written in children's books such as "Alice in Wonderland" is also somewhat true.

Of course, he also thought about the possibility that this might be an illusion created by magicians to pry some secrets from him that he didn't know at all, but even so, they probably wouldn't... in the illusion Make an Al that's obviously a few sizes too small, right?

That miniature Alphonse was sitting upright on a tree stump, surrounded by clusters of dense flowers, and... a large group of standing or sitting around him, swaying... I don't know what .

God, his imagination is so thin.

Some of them have the same upper body as humans, and they have first-class good looks, but they have pointed and long ears, and the lower half is a huge eight-legged body like a spider; some look like a centaur, With four hooves on the ground, a pair of eyes without eyelids and whites, like two huge gems; some are only the size of a palm, with a pair or two pairs of wings, flying in the air flickeringly.

He remembered the last word he heard before falling into a dream.

"Fairy"

The goblins in fairy tales are often very beautiful, but the scene in front of him really made Stark shiver with vigor.These guys are indeed very delicate, but there is a theory called the uncanny valley effect, that is, when something is similar to humans, but not completely similar, it will trigger some people's disgust.

Just as he was thinking this way, one of the elves with a pretty face and long and curly eyelashes suddenly grinned, revealing two rows of thin, dense, cold-glowing sharp teeth in a mouth that was much wider than humans.

And it almost licked Alphonse's face with its long, barbed tongue.

Tony Stark: "..."

Damn, he's going to have PTSD with leprechauns later on.

The boy surrounded by goblins did not look loose at all. He was wearing uncut rectangular cloth like the ancient Greeks described in the statue, which was draped or wrapped around his body, and a belt was tied around his waist to outline the The boy's waistline, the whole person looks like he has just stepped down from the myths and legends of Mount Olympus.

Dress in the Himation style, he thought, fortunately, the aesthetic that Pepper bought forcibly cultivated by the pile of famous paintings is still in place.

The two fairies flying in the sky were carrying a wreath together, and they let go of it and clasped it on top of Alphonse's head.Although it looks a bit strange for an adult to wear a wreath, but Alphonse, who looks like a boy with curly long hair, looks like wearing a wreath... I have to say it looks pretty good.

It's just that the delicate, very Edelfelt face lacks the vivid expressions that belong to this age.

In the dream, Tony Stark returned to his original appearance. He waved at the "people" and found that no one was paying attention to him, and Alphonse, who was sitting in the center, couldn't even eyelid After lifting it, he sat on another tree stump with confidence, resting his chin and watching the live broadcast.

Anyway... He pinched his own face, but it didn't hurt, and there was no sign of waking up, so the former arms dealer who was in prison simply let himself go and watched this silent pantomime.

If it is really hypnotized by a magician... If it comes, let it be at ease, and he has no magic power, so what else can he do.

Even in the depths of his heart, there was a secret thought that Mr. Alchemist could always solve this kind of problem—even if the other party was now encapsulated in his own body without a trace of magic power.

Just like a million times before.Fury said that S.H.I.E.L.D.

Those people’s expressions of awe and vigilance prove this point. No matter what time it is, Alphonse will be reassuring like a magic needle in the sea. I have to say that even Iron Man himself wants to relax his tense nerves.

The goblins started to attack Alphonse as if they were adorning some large toy. Soon, with the joint efforts of the goblins, the boy wearing a wreath put on a bracelet woven with flowers. For some unknown reason, it changed several colors in a row.

The goblins chattered and chattered, but Stark in the dream couldn't hear anything.He only saw the other party's lips open and close, and it seemed that the discussion was quite intense, so he boldly moved closer to listen, no matter how close he was, there was silence in his ears.

One of them was too tight, as if whispering in the boy's ear, which finally made Alphonse in the center show some expression, he pushed back in confusion and bewilderment, and then more goblins pressed down his limbs.

Tony Stark frowned.

This scene is not quite right.How can you bully a half-grown child?

The goblins were still chattering in an inaudible language, Alphonse opened his mouth in a daze, and only breathed out a sound before his lips were tapped with a slender index finger.

The goblin repeated a short word, why was it short? Although he couldn't hear it, Tony judged that it only took less than two seconds to say the word.

Alphonse spoke imitatively, and when he uttered it, the voice still belonged to a teenager, at most it had some hoarseness during the voice change period, so the voice was still blocked halfway and disappeared.

He was the only one in the silent pantomime that made a sound Stark could hear.

So the goblins whispered again, and the other stood up, stroking the young man's slender neck with a scaly arm, and after his fingertips touched his Adam's apple, he spoke again, and his words were as unstoppable as the goblins around him. Human recognition, in the filter of the dream, gave him the feeling that it was like a dolphin emitting ultrasonic waves.

God, goblins, they were teaching him to speak.

The young man obviously didn't understand the essentials of the goblin language, nor did he know the meaning of these words, but judging from the expressions of the goblins, he still staggered out those words that could affect the forces of nature. Immediately afterwards, countless hands covered him When those arms swung open again, Alphonse's eyes changed from light brown to blue and green magic eyes.

In the dream, Tony Stark gasped.

He knew that the little blond profiteer had a pair of beautiful and special eyes, in front of which eyes, all malice and tricks could not be hidden, but he never thought that those eyes were born at this moment, in this way .

Those eyes trembled slightly under the watchful eyes of the goblins, and his gaze swept across the surroundings. Under the urging of the goblins, the young man spit out more words that Stark couldn't hear at all.

Just like parrots can never understand human beings, human beings can never truly understand the fairy language. Blue and green overlap each other, flowing back and forth in the boy's eye sockets, glowing with magic power.

When the identity was revealed for the first time, the other party declared that he would erase his memory.

When they fought together for the first time, the jeweler in the night turned his head with a smile.

Returning from the dark dimension, there is a fleeting light in the eyes.

At the banquet, Lord Gem's power shocked both the enemy and us.

Those blue-green magic eyes... there was no mistaking that.He finally learned some more secrets of the gem merchants that he couldn't tell, but the amount of information in these secrets was so great that he felt like he was stuck in the throat and hit by a hammer.

They did endow him with a lot of things in a certain sense, and perhaps, this power made many people very greedy, but this kind of favor was essentially the same as human beings' favor for kittens and puppies.

He remembered some pet videos he had seen online.

They are eating, drinking, fighting, baring their teeth and claws, huddling together with grievances, and yawning sleepily, so what is the relationship and difference?The caretakers will just think it's cute.Human beings weave exquisite cages and restrain birds that do not understand human language in them. Parrots may be amusing, but no one seriously thinks that they can have an in-depth conversation with a bird.

...But, that's Alphonse.

Tony's throat rolled with difficulty, and the scene full of flowers was simply unbearable to watch.

That's Alphonse.

The author has something to say: Regarding the setting of [mysterious being seen by too many people, it will become thinner]... Let me explain it, the only thing that is not integrated in the moon world, otherwise it will not be able to explain Shi Qiqi and Manchu The magician of Weishan Emperor's origin in Shanmangu.

Think of it as a subtle parallel world_(:з」∠)_