[Comprehensive Anglo-American] Gem Merchant

A few days later, the news that Tony Stark was suffering from anxiety neurosis spread in a small circle among acquaintances.

Nick Fury suspended Iron Man's task assignment, and his work was taken over by the remaining members of the Avengers. Although Tony Stark strongly protested this, these objections were jointly suppressed by Pepper and Alphonse As a result, Alphonse and Tony are now both on-job patients. The difference is probably that the former is still eating and drinking while receiving work injury subsidies, while the latter even pays the Avengers.

Alphonse after first learning about this incident: "..."

He asked in shock: "Could it be that S.H.I.E.L.D. can't afford your salary?"

If this is the case, he will have to seriously consider whether to cooperate with the FBI or the CIA, or any other non-governmental organization. Otherwise, there is no future for such a poor place.

Tony: "...No, I just enjoy the feeling of being the boss. In this way, I can say during the meeting, 'If you refute my opinion, I will deduct your salary'. By the way, this sentence is very special to Clint. efficient."

During this period of time, Pepper swiftly handed over the design of the Alphonse wheelchair to the R&D department of Stark Industries for simplification, and put it on the market as a civilian version of medical equipment, helping Stark Industries to earn more money in the industry. Gained a good reputation.For this, Alphonse felt very envious: "Miss Potts, are you free to come to my store to help sell gems?"

This ability to convert technical means into US dollars is really reliable.

Pepper Potts was very moved and refused: "...No, worrying about a bear child is enough for me."

She rubbed the center of her brows. Now Tony Stark has almost thrown the entire Stark Industries on her, and intends to let her be the next CEO. Although Stark Industries is the industry leader, it is not There are no competitors, and there are several technology companies of the same type eyeing them. Apart from Stark Industries, which is clean energy, it has lost a large amount of huge profits in the arms industry. Gaining benefits and taking care of the physical and mental health of an unnamed older child shareholder, Pepper can't wait to grow eight hands.

It's so hard to just eat!She gritted her teeth and thought that she hadn't taken a vacation for a long time.

Being a headhunter in front of Tony Stark himself, the other party couldn't help being unresponsive, and even felt a little proud.Alphonse gave up limiting the scope of "trying to understand others" to the field of technology research and development, but turned his attention to the direction of business. Tony Stark was also happy to chat with Alphonse about topics that both of them could relate to , For a while, Pepper's pressure was even relieved a lot... No wonder.

"Your sister owns a department store?"

Tony said curiously: "I just checked Wikipedia, and it seems to be on a famous commercial street in London."

Alphonse nodded: "The store also uses some magic methods to attract customers... It's similar to psychological suggestion."

Tony and Pepper looked shocked: There is still such an operation!

"It has something to do with land veins, site selection, and magic layout... There was also a saying in ancient China called 'feng shui', right? It is a means of making money and avoiding disasters, but the specific effect actually affects the probability... …You can understand it as a kind of simple magic workshop.”

Alphonse explained.

It sounded very attractive, and Tony directly ordered the smart housekeeper to open the electronic map of New York City: "It just so happens that clean energy needs a new production line here, and I plan to buy another piece of land to build a factory. Al, do you have any good suggestions?"

Pepper couldn't help reminding: "I remember that this proposal has passed the board of directors and approved the project successfully. If you propose changes now..."

"here."

Alphonse pointed to a place on the map without hesitation: "This land is one of the hubs of the leylines, and it happens to be located in the suburbs, suitable for building factories. It is very easy to deploy any spell in such a place with relatively abundant magic power." It is convenient, and if you occupy this place in advance, there will be no good for the magician to use this part of the land to cause damage."

So Stark waved his hand: "Then build it here, and transfer all the main production lines of clean energy."

Pepper: "...??"

Do you know what you just said?

Rationally, she knew that this was probably a decision that would benefit both the scientific side and the mysterious side, and emotionally, she just wanted to throw out these two big hoofs that added a huge amount of work to a sentence.

A few days later, Pepper found out with a headache that the change of plan wasn't the most troublesome part - the most troublesome part was that there were still people bidding against her in this suburb with low commercial value.

Sivana Industry didn't know what was going on, and suddenly wanted to buy this place, and even offered a price far higher than the average price, but Tony was not willing to give in to this one bit, with a look that was bound to win. The appearance of the two companies competing for krypton gold, even the surrounding land prices have been driven up.

It even made the headlines in the economic section of the "New York Daily", attracting a group of onlookers who didn't know the truth to eat melons crazily.

"Isn't their company's headquarters in Philadelphia?!"

Why does this person suddenly want to open the branch factory to New York, which is 160 kilometers away? !

Pepper walked out of the meeting room in high heels with arrogance, and her complaints against Tony were completely replaced by her commercial fighting spirit. She originally planned to fight Sivana Industries to the end, but when the bidding was halfway through, The CEO of the other party suddenly sent a request for a meeting, expressing his desire to discuss in detail the ownership of this commercial land with Tony Stark of Stark Industries.

During the video call, the bald doctor named Thaddeus Sivana looked very earnest: "I have always admired Mr. Stark's research and his unremitting efforts to promote the generalization of clean energy. , just coincides with such an opportunity, and I am eager to meet him anyway, please, Miss Potts, please convey my sincere request."

The video of the call was directly sent back to the Avengers Building. Tony touched his chin and felt a little unbelievable: "I read his early papers and wrote them very thoughtfully, but it seems that there has been no new output in the past few years... "

It's not a problem to meet him once, but he won't be able to prevent him from winning this piece of land. Anyway, the size of Shivana's industry is there, and the real bidding will definitely not be able to tear him apart.Tony Stark didn't have any objections to this, and immediately planned to agree to the other party's request-not to mention, the polite and respectful attitude of the other party still made him very useful.

And Alphonse, who had been on the sidelines before, stopped him.

"If you want to meet, take me with you."

The blond gem dealer said: "It's no accident that I was able to choose the hub of this kind of leyline. The bidding attitude of the other party..."

He thought for a while and considered the vocabulary: "——like a magician who chooses a location for a magic workshop."

Aren't you doing the same thing?Tony wanted to ask subconsciously, and then suddenly remembered that there was no magician behind Sivana Industries in theory: "Do you think Thaddeus is a magician?"

"This kind of thing needs to meet to make a conclusion."

Alphonse nodded: "The attitude and behavior shown by the other party so far are indeed very much like a magician."

The confrontation with the magician has to be cautious. Tony investigated the site selection of Sivana Industry so far, almost without exception, it is built on the key nodes of the leylines, especially the headquarters in Philadelphia, which almost occupies the entire city of Philadelphia. The hub of the ley line, if only this factory near New York competes for this place, it may be an accident, but once you understand the development process of this enterprise, you can almost conclude that it is definitely supported by mystical knowledge .

Tony was furious: Everyone makes money based on their ability, and you have been cheating for so many years in love?

Pepper: ... If I remember correctly, my boss is also one of the people who decided to use the mystical curve to overtake.

So this meeting was finalized.

The location of the meeting was set at the conference room of the R&D building of Stark Industries. The location of this building was quite satisfactory, and in Alphonse's view, there was nothing special about it. Even if in the worst case the magician fights directly, it can guarantee that everyone will escape unscathed.

"It's a gem that links to the coordinates of the Avengers Tower."

Alphonse prepared an aquamarine brooch for Tony and Pepper, and Pepper wore it on his chest in surprise, while Tony weighed it in his hand and put it in his pocket: "It's okay if the other party is a magician. ? I mean, in your current state, it would be difficult to deal with if you really fight."

"It's okay if you prepare enough. Most of the battles of magicians depend on who has the most back."

Alphonse spread his hands: "Besides, most magicians are also afraid of guns. When dealing with ordinary magicians, most of them can't beat you."

It's just that this guy's luck is really not very good. Recently, all he met were cheating characters, so that he had a particularly special impression of the magician.

"In terms of combat ability, you are sure to win the monarch El-Melloi II."

Alphonse made an analogy in the wheelchair: "However, magicians themselves are creatures with various possibilities. After all, unlike mobile games, they can quantify attribute hexagons."

Why are you so proficient? Tony glanced at Alphonse, thinking that this guy must be the type who would silently complain while playing games: "What if that person is really a magician?"

"That's the same as the regular procedure of S.H.I.E.L.D. It's good to file in the clock tower. Not all stray magicians are enemies. If they don't do anything against public order and morals, but use the magic power of the leylines in moderation, continue quietly. Their research isn't a big deal either."

Alphonse raised his hand, and the loose white robe was gathered around his body, gradually turning into a black formal suit: "Let's go."

Tony Stark nodded, standing behind him naturally pushing the armrest of the wheelchair: "Let's go."

Surprisingly, this meeting, Sivana Industry did not bring too many people.The spacious conference room prepared by Pepper was of no use at all. There were only two people from the other side, and they held Tony's hands as soon as they met like a real fanatical fan: "Mr. Stark, I have always I look forward to meeting you like this one day, many of your inventions are inspiring, and all of them are pioneering works that are pushing the world forward."

Tony opened with a smile on his face: "It's a pleasure to meet you, my pleasure."

Thaddeus Sivana warmly shook hands with Pepper again, and even shook her vigorously, which made Pepper feel a little uncomfortable: "Thank you again, Miss Potts, for giving me such a chance!"

Holding both hands together, Dr. Sivana's expression remained unchanged, and his eyes turned to the third person present: "Excuse me, are you..."

Both Pepper and Tony were standing, as were Sivana and his assistant, so Alphonse, who was sitting in a wheelchair, was particularly awkward.

The blond man was wearing a neat suit, with a blanket on his knees, and he was sitting on the new concept wheelchair recently released by Stark Industries, which was even more functional than the products launched by the Technology Research and Development Department— — Thaddeus Sivana is also a well-known scientific research talent. It can be seen at a glance that this wheelchair has taken a lot of effort.

The power source of the wheelchair is the ark reactor made into a triangular shape. It is the same model as the power source of the well-known Iron Man. It is so extravagant to use this kind of thing to make a wheelchair or a prototype version. Sivana looked at the other side's eyes All a little different.

"You may call me Alphonse, Alphonse Barthamello."

Alphonse raised his head while sitting in the wheelchair, and stretched out his white-gloved right hand from under the thick down blanket: "Nice to meet you."

Tony Stark glanced at each other calmly. The surname of a magician generally represents his origin. Most of the time, Alphonse would only mention his own name, or repeat a long list The name of the law, and now the sudden change of the previous style is obviously a temptation, and I don’t know when the glove was conjured... Seeing the two people shaking hands calmly, Tony Stark touched his wrist, Suddenly I want to go out and wash my hands.

"You may also call me Dr. Sivana, Mr. Barthumello."

The man with shiny glasses sat down with a smile on his head: "It seems that you must be a member of the R&D team responsible for clean energy at Stark Industries? It looks really reliable..."

Pepper looked at the other party nonsense with a blank face. Sitting in a wheelchair was not reliable. Tony even rolled his eyes in public, not at all because of his expression management.Fortunately, the other party didn't care about these small details, Shi Ran sat down and began to discuss the ownership of the original disputed commercial land.

"As you know, the headquarters of Sivana Industries is in Philadelphia. We have always wanted to open a branch in New York. This is the best address selected by our planning department. I don't know if you have any intention to show love, Mr. Stark. ?In the future, our cooperation with Stark Industries will also consider giving you more benefits——of course, with the size of the company under your command, it is impossible to mind such a trivial matter... Or, if you buy this land Do you have any other plans?"

Thaddeus Sivana propped his hands on the long glass table in the meeting room, and leaned forward slightly. This is the usual posture of a superior, but unfortunately it has no effect on Pepper or Stark.

Tony: There is no fluctuation in my heart and I even want to laugh a little.

As soon as he stretched out his hand, he showed a very unreasonable smile at the other party: "I don't have that much plan, it's just an interest."

Sivana: "..."

He probably didn't expect Tony himself to be so difficult to talk to. The experiment just now proved that neither he nor Pepper Potts had any signs of mana reserves. As for the remaining man in a wheelchair... Well, even if the other party is really a magician, if he can't even solve the problem of his own physical disability, then it's not a character worth looking at seriously.

The two assistants glanced at each other, and decided in a tacit agreement to continue the discussion in another place. After all, neither Tony nor Sivana seemed like characters who cared about business competition.After handing over the important work to the assistant, Shivana also squeezed out a smile again: "Since you must insist, then of course I will not force you to argue about this, let the assistants solve the boring business procedures Let's talk about something interesting...Mr. Stark, have you heard of the recent news? 'Hysteria syndrome', many people have the same wonderful hallucination."

Come on, Tony and Alphonse thought, but he had never experienced such an incident, so he shook his head: "I haven't paid attention to these recently."

"There are indeed rumors on the Internet, but when I paid attention to it before, everyone said it was a group hallucination. Now is the official finally come up with a scientific explanation?"

Alphonse spoke suddenly, and smiled at the two of them: "To be honest, if this matter is true, I'm quite curious about the scene like Alice in Wonderland... When I was a child I had a similar experience as a child, but my parents and teachers told me it was just a dream."

Sivana looked at the blond young man who had been ignored before, and the strangeness in his eyes flashed past.

What the other person said was true, he thought.

Dr. Sivana wore some exaggerated glasses, and looked at Alphonse carefully again. There was no lie in the words of the other party. He tried his best to collect a lot of things related to occultism over the years. This pair of glasses that can see through the truth is one of them, which makes him invincible in the business field. Now, the blond young man's joke-like remarks have attracted his attention again.

Maybe this is a person like himself, he thought, maybe the other person was also selected by a wizard named Shazam, but was severely abandoned, completely trampling a child's trust under his feet.It's just that this Mr. Barthumello only regarded it as a dream in his childhood, and it will no longer have any impact on his current life.

Stark was obviously lying when he said he wanted to buy the land, but it wasn't easy to pry the truth out of that old fox's mouth, after all, he hadn't really acquired magic power yet... But this Basher Mr. Mello seemed to be the unexpected surprise of the day.

"My little niece loved the story too."

He smiled slightly: "During my business trip this time, she has been begging me to bring back gifts from New York to give to her. I think a charming story may be more suitable for desserts in New York City. If you are interested, tell me more Shall I have some?"

Alphonse finally showed a relieved smile: "Of course."

A magic dress with a simple structure and function that can be seen at a glance; only skin contact can be used to detect whether the opponent has magic power; there is no response to the surname Barthemelo, that is to say, there is nothing about the orthodox magician family. I know—but any magician who has the slightest understanding of the clock tower will not be indifferent when hearing this surname...

The other party has a magic circuit, but not many, at least not up to the average level of the clock tower magicians, even worse than Weber, maybe it is a local magician passed down from generation to generation, or a mystic lover who suddenly awakened his power .Knowing this level, Alphonse narrowed his eyes quite relaxed, and casually followed the other party's suddenly enthusiastic greetings.

Tony Stark sat aside and was very upset: Why does this bald man keep talking to Al?

The author has something to say: Sivana: This, this may be a colleague who has the same life experience as me—(Excited.rmvb)

Al: Oh, Yeluzi

Tony: Get out of the way!Say a few words!