[Comprehensive Anglo-American] Gem Merchant

Probably one of the advantages of being a magician is that you don't have to buy a plane ticket no matter where you go.

The little detective stood on the beach in Hawaii, completely puzzled - when he first heard that Mr. Animusfia lived on a "mountain", his first reaction was Mount Olympus in Greek mythology, The other options are nothing more than illusory places like Kunlun or Penglai in Chinese legends. I really didn't expect his boss to take him directly to this tourist attraction for people all over the world.

There are many tourists on the coastline, and there are brats with shaved short hair and surfboards whizzing by with bare feet, and the sand thrown up is thrown on the clerk's calf, which makes him feel extraordinarily unreal.

"boss……"

His lips fluttered and he didn't know how to speak. Alphonse should not be traveling at public expense with the funds from S.H.I.E.L.D.

"The summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii houses the most famous observatory in the world."

Alphonse stretched out his hand and pointed to the distance, and introduced: "The altitude is [-] meters, and it is located at about one-third of the atmosphere. Many countries have set up their own astronomical observation equipment here. , The Magic Association is the same, these devices are taken over, used and maintained by the Astronomical Section of the Clock Tower."

Being able to work in S.H.I.E.L.D., I have to say that the reaction speed of the little detective is fast enough.

"VLBA receivers are also housed here."

He quickly collected information: "There is also the Submillimeter Array Telescope (SMA)... But, the occult is also using a similar method to observe the starry sky?"

He thought that these people were the same as in the novel, first using magic to strengthen their vision, and then using skills such as eagle eye to stare at the night sky.

"A magician is not bound by a means to an end."

Suddenly, the voice of a strange little girl came from behind them. Alphonse turned around with the little clerk, and saw a little girl with silver-white hair folded her arms and stared at him, followed by a silent woman. The silent maid.

"Anything that works to better gaze at the sky, whether it's modern techniques or old astrology, we're going to give it a try."

The girl lifted her skirt and curtseyed to Alphonse: "It's nice to see you again, Mr. Barthumello."

The little clerk twitched his brows, feeling that this outfit appeared on the beach in a group of beach shorts and bikinis. This little girl was wearing a knee-length skirt and a shawl hanging down to her elbows was solemnly draped over her shoulders. The most eye-catching thing was the waist-length silver-white hair. It was obviously so incongruous with the surrounding environment, but no one gave him even a superfluous glance.

Oh, cognitive interference again, he belatedly thought.

Ever since he learned for the first time that a magician can walk around in front of others without being noticed, he once wanted to live by wearing a tactical goggle and relying on infrared thermal imaging, but after insisting on it all morning, he felt that it was too much. I was forced to give up because of troubles, and fell into a panic that "it is very likely that I will be stared at by a magician even in the shower without being noticed".

... As a result, he was deducted from the performance of the month because he was too nervous and made a mistake in the task.

"Magicians are not perverts!"

His team members hated iron and steel, and said: "They have nothing to do to see what you do in the shower."

Clerk: "..."

Taking a bath is just an example, maybe it could be doing something dangerous.

Alphonse looked at the white-haired girl opposite, indifferent to the title 'Bathermelo', and also nodded with a smile: "Long time no see, Olga Marie."

He whispered to the clerk who had already suppressed his curiosity: "Olga Marie Animsfia is the only daughter of Mr. Marisbilly, the next daughter of the Animsfia family. Be in charge."

The little clerk hurriedly saluted, but the girl on the opposite side didn't seem to see it at all, her golden eyes only stared at Alphonse: "Mr. Barthemelo, the altitude of the Mauna Kea Observatory is a bit high. Stay at the visitor center at an altitude of 10 feet for at least three to ten minutes, and then continue to the top of the mountain after acclimatizing to life at high altitudes...Are you planning to go directly to see your father?"

"Visandi's magicians sometimes need to practice magic in the Himalayas at an altitude of more than 5000 meters. I have studied with them for a while, and I don't have too strong altitude sickness."

Alphonse nodded, turned his head and asked the clerk, "How about you?"

"Of course I'm fine!"

This question got the other party's nod in a hurry: "The detectives of the technical department of the criminal investigation department also need to pass basic physical training."

Besides, even if he really had altitude sickness, he couldn't let two magicians dubbed Lords wait for him.

Olga Marie nodded with no extra expression, turned around and asked, "Tracey?"

"As you wish, Mademoiselle Olga Marie."

The maid wearing glasses pressed her right hand to her chest and turned around: "Mr. Barthumello, please go this way."

Clerk: "..."

He has reason to suspect that he was deliberately ignored—or more likely, he was subjected to reverse cognitive interference, just like the little girl named Olga Marie blocked the tourists' perception of her , she may have actively blocked other ordinary human beings in her eyes. In this beach full of tourists, in her eyes, maybe there are only Alphonse and Tracy standing, as well as a large group of people who need to subconsciously avoid. obstacle.

In his eyes, the next road to the top of the mountain is more like the movie scene of Alice in Wonderland.Every door opened by the girl feels like a dream. The scenery behind the door panel is completely different from the scenery in front of the door. They just started from a lounge door near the beach and traveled all the way. Stopping, shuttling through the door panels that appeared out of thin air, after half an hour, I finally arrived at the top of the mountain at an altitude of more than 4000 meters.

"This gradual adjustment of the height of the spatial jump will help your eardrums adapt to the change in altitude."

Animsfia's next boss explained while leading the way.

Alphonse glanced at the little clerk who was following behind and tightly tugged on his sleeve to prevent being left behind the space door, and added another sentence of explanation: "This is the magic of Animsfia. Step up and down on the climbing route, use the ley lines here to drive the entire Mauna Kea Mountain workshop, and these convenient doors for climbing are one of their magic dresses."

The little clerk's eyes widened, feeling incredible: "But, there are also many tourists here?!"

The distance between the tourist and the magician is so close?His boss has always stayed in a gem shop that no one visits. If the whole mountain is turned into a workshop, who knows if it will cause any harm to ordinary people.

Olga Marie rolled her eyes when she heard this exclamation. At an altitude of more than 3000 meters, she finally removed the barrier of cognitive interference: "We don't have much intersection with ordinary human beings, and we don't have much interaction in life. He will never expose his mysterious identity, if it weren't for Alphonse, no one would have discovered the Animsfia family's research here."

Alphonse shrugged and explained to the shop assistant: "The concealment of orthodox magicians is still very reliable."

In short, the main reason why so many things happened before is because they were all neurotics.

Mauna Kea, summit.

After sunset, visitors are no longer allowed to stay on the observatory. Night is the time when this silent peak really works and becomes active.The radio in the observatory played circularly to urge tourists to leave in an orderly manner, and the setting sun dragged the figures of the three into long silhouettes on the ground.In the empty hall, there are a lot of equipment used to observe the sky, some of which are still very new, while some are covered with a thin layer of dust.

The clouds had already been left behind during the climbing process, and now looking out of the window, one can see layers upon layers of slow-moving fire clouds surrounding the mountainside.

At dusk, in some East Asian countries, it is often called the warning line between the world where humans live and the world where ghosts and ghosts run rampant.And when the astronomical telescopes distributed on the top of the mountain really work as the tourists leave, the feeling of separation becomes more obvious.

Tick.

It seems that there is a drop of water, dripping on the invisible lake.The magic power rippled and spread from the top of the mountain to all directions.The little clerk suddenly had the feeling of taking X-rays in the basement of the hospital. Something invisible brushed over his skin, bones, limbs and bones, and then rushed away silently along their original path.

"Long time no see, Alphonse."

I don't know when it started, the pretty little girl Olga Marie disappeared quietly, together with the servant Tracy who was always by her side, without making a sound.Standing next to the huge astronomical telescope was a tall, white-haired man. He had the same gilt pupils as Olga Marie, and a cloak of the same style was draped over his shoulders. It could be seen at a glance that they were related by blood. Contact on .

"Mr. Animsfia."

Alphonse nodded slightly, and saluted Maris Billy Animsfia, and the clerk quickly followed suit, feeling that the monitoring and recording task this time put him under a lot of pressure.

This is the monarch of the Clock Tower's Astronomy Department, he thought, with a lingering, somewhat inhuman and deserted aura about him.

The few people were seated quickly, perhaps because they were really familiar with it, and Alphonse made it clear as soon as he sat down: "I want you to see the geography of the United States."

The white eyelashes drooped slightly: "Do you think they have changed anything? Al."

"An abnormal concentration of magical power in Gotham City has been observed at the New York Temple. I think someone wants to know what to do in this land."

Alphonse said: "Kama Taj doesn't intend to take the initiative to interfere. The ancient one has other things to do, and she can't get away. Considering that there was an unconventional spirit seance at sea before, just to be on the safe side, I still want you to take a look."

"Spiritual spell."

As if hearing something interesting, the corners of Maris Billy's mouth twitched slightly: "However, you encountered a large-scale séance, and you didn't plan to contact the séance department of the clock tower, but you found me here."

"You saw 'that spell', Alphonse."

The white-haired magician asked firmly.

The heroic spirit summoning system may be a copy of the Fuyuki City system in the Holy Grail War, or it may be an inferior imitation created by relying on the American leylines.In any case, after confirming that Fuyuki's Holy Grail War could not fulfill Animsphia's long-cherished wish, Marisbilly Animsphia's research direction began to consider other forms of reversal, rather than directly Take advantage of the Holy Grail War.

"There are obvious signs of inferiority."

Alphonse nodded: "It was even modified into a form of summoning demons, but I read the source correctly, it still originated from Einzbern's summoning style."

Maris Billy nodded, his expression unchanged: "But there is no way for the United States to achieve a complete Holy Grail War. I also heard that magicians in Alaska held a subspecies Holy Grail War. Although there were heavy casualties, the followers' Magic is not enough to support the emergence of the Holy Grail."

The little detective looked confused: What?What war?Alaska?He remembered that there was indeed a branch of S.H.I.E.L.D., and the CIA and FBI were also operating normally. Why didn't they find anything? !

"Perhaps the opponent's goal is not the Holy Grail."

Alphonse shrugged, stretched out a finger and tapped on the table, and in the next second, a cup of hot cocoa with steam and chocolate aroma appeared in front of him out of thin air.

There are even two marshmallows floating in it.

"That's Gotham after all."

He recently retrieved a lot of information about Gotham City. SHIELD's attitude towards this place is quite laissez-faire. After all, compared with the end of the world, alien invasion, mysterious things, and arms trade, it is a whole. City gangsters and villains going mad at each other behind closed doors as long as it doesn't affect the whole of America, it doesn't matter much to them.

What's more, Gotham City is not without its own local heroes.

"Right."

Animsfia nodded in agreement: "That's Gotham after all."

When night covers the whole of Hawaii, the vitality of this resort city just bursts out at the right time.The Milky Way can be seen clearly on the top of the mountain with little pollution and deep into the atmosphere. Various astronomical telescopes have started to work to send human eyes to the deep space. Under the sea of ​​clouds at the bottom of the mountain is the carnival carried by this famous tourist city. crowd.

"I still need to prepare for a while before I can mobilize the ground veins."

Maris Billy Animsfia raised his hand to manipulate the unknown instrument beside him. Judging from his proficiency, the saying "magicians don't mind whether the tools they use is modern" is indeed true: "You first Go down to dinner."

Alphonse and the clerk were materialized in front of two dinner tickets. The latter glanced at the white-haired magician gratefully. Thank God this time he was not included in the scope of cognitive interference and ignored.

"Are you staying here?"

Alphonse asked casually.

"Of course, I won't leave."

This question received a natural answer from the other party.

New York City, Queens.

In the narrow alleyway, Peter Parker put on a Spider-Man hood in embarrassment, and wiped his face against the wall.He tucked his schoolbag whole behind a pile of black garbage bags, making sure it looked all right from the outside.

Jin is not the only one who is fighting alone. This person can mobilize countless gangster forces. Since he provoked this incredible guy, his chances of getting into a hard fight in the near future are much higher.

Even if Spider-Man's physical fitness is frighteningly strong, he still can't stand up to the opponent's crowd tactics. Fortunately, Mr. Stark has publicly stated on the news recently that he wants to deal with this guy, causing the opponent's energy to be divided...God Ah, he doesn't want to go to school every day with a bruised nose.

My high school life has just begun, and Aunt Mei will be so worried if she returns home with an injury.

The young man patted himself on the cheek, took a deep breath to regroup, a small piece of spider silk popped out from his fingertips, and jumped to the roof with his strength, unaware that in the corner behind him was a palm-sized drone carrying The camera buzzes off.

[Sir, don't you plan to contact him proactively? ]

The smart butler asked.

Tony Stark leaned on his reclining chair, shook his head, and outside the huge floor-to-ceiling glass windows were carnival crowds. He was invited to a business party, and he secretly watched his newly discovered young hero.

Stark Industries is a huge multinational company anyway, even if he is not interested in these chores, he still has to find time to do some necessary work.

"No... To be honest, I quite enjoy the feeling of being an unsung hero who silently supports others."

He replied with a cigar in his mouth.

[......]

Thinking of the news, Tony Stark declared with great fanfare that he was going to deal with Jin Bing, and the smart butler silently deleted and changed the definition of the unsung hero in his database.

The author has something to say: Chaldea is in a sense... superficially also an observatory :-D