[Comprehensive Anglo-American] Gem Merchant

The incident happened suddenly, and the two hurriedly packed up their things and left the underground laboratory.

Thaddeus Sivana was still talking to them a few days ago. Alphonse's magic power reaction on this person cannot be mistaken. It is definitely not a powerful character. Now Sivana Industries has encountered a big board meeting Blood exchange, although there is no direct connection between the two, but in any case, things related to the magician should not be underestimated.

"I'm sorry to contact you when you are recuperating..."

Fury also felt a little embarrassed: "But this kind of murder that is very likely to involve mysterious and vicious murders cannot be put on hold anyway."

"I also have a problem with pre-judging that this person is safe."

Alphonse was sitting in a wheelchair and making a phone call: "Please send a copy of the information recently collected by S.H.I.E.L.D. to Stark, and I'll be there right away."

"You're not healed yet."

Tony Stark, who was in charge of pushing the wheelchair, felt that this was inappropriate: "No one can hide by any means."

"I still have the ability to escape."

Alphonse thought for a while: "If it wasn't for a magician of Rocky's level, the current state would be barely enough."

Wheelchair meal.

Alphonse was about to turn around and ask why the other party didn't push, when he heard a complaint from behind: "Even in this situation, wouldn't your first reaction be to ask me to help?"

"I--"

He wanted to say something.

Looking back in the wheelchair, the eyes behind her were also waiting for what she said.

Those things that are enough to drive a person into madness, and the mystery that chased after him, he originally didn't intend to let anyone get involved in it.

Ten years ago, a magician with silver hair and golden eyes approached him with a vision that required a huge sum of money.Maris Billy Animsfia's smile didn't touch the bottom of my heart, but the commercial smile did convince Alphonse: "I know what you are afraid of, and I know other magicians who have the honor to observe the future What are we afraid of... I have an idea that is different from the old ideas that tried to change the world once and for all."

That day was the day when Alphonse completely became Alphonse Bathmelo Edelfelt.And one day ten years later, he witnessed Tony Stark become Iron Man.

"I……"

The other party's expression was obviously hesitant, Tony Stark turned his mouth and did not intend to wait any longer, and said bluntly: "Now I am the boss here, and the person who pays the salary has the final say. If you plan to go by yourself, Then I will investigate the matter in my own way."

"..."

Sure enough, there was no way to win the quarrel.The jeweler sighed: "Two people are indeed more efficient...then I'll leave it to you."

The conference room of Sivana Industries has been put under martial law. After the golden-red steel suits fell from the sky, the SHIELD officers in charge of cleaning up the scene swiftly gave way to a passage.

"How about it?"

In a coffee shop 800 meters away, Alphonse wore special holographic glasses and shared vision with Tony Stark: "SHIELD should have the greatest degree of protection on the scene."

"Uh... There are a lot of corpse fragments on the ground. You are right that you didn't come. The scene is a bit disgusting to be honest."

Tony Stark hovered in the middle of the room. His descriptions had already been extraordinarily beautified. This room was literally filled with blood, and the pieces of corpses were thrown wantonly on the ground and on the conference table. There was no room at all. step down.

"After scanning, these body residues come from different parts of twenty people, but most of their bodies have disappeared, and there are no traces of them outside the room where the incident occurred. It looks like they were..."

Iron Man paused: "It was eaten."

"Keep impact records, and then detect the magic reaction on the spot."

Alphonse said: "Be careful if something comes out. You are the only living person in that building now. If you suddenly feel tired or have a drastic change in mood, leave immediately."

Tony Stark nodded, and ejected a red spinel from the steel suit. The gem ejected complex geometric angles on the ground under the acceleration of the propelling bullet slot. Every time it touched the ground or wall, , leaving a shallow magic symbol on the contact surface.

"The color of the symbol feedback is blue, and the magic power responds weakly, and the opponent has already left."

Tony looked back and forth on the display screen for the simple instructions left by Alphonse before: "But it can cause such a large amount of damage, it is estimated that the movement was not small at the time. After the specific parameters were quantified, I sent them to your mobile phone together with the video." , Take a look for yourself, and by the way, I don’t have any sign of mental disturbance, and I feel in good shape.”

Alphonse looked at the phone with a surprised expression.

"That's not right."

He said: "This is definitely not a trace that Thaddeus Sivana can leave... Or, this is no longer like a human magical reaction."

"So I ran into a big case the first time I went out?"

Tony shrugged: "So it's the trick god of Asgard again?"

"Not quite like..."

The communication was cut off for a moment, and then, the voice of the jeweler appeared behind Tony Stark: "It feels more evil, Loki is one of the twelve main gods of Northern Europe, even if he is the god of tricks, in essence He is also one of the gods who promised to protect the earth...Of course he has no such interest himself."

As soon as he was sent into the conference room, Alphonse, who was extremely sensitive to air quality, retched.Tony Stark dug out a simple gas mask from the storage interlayer of his battle suit and put it on half of the jeweler's face. The other party seemed to be seriously injured, and it took a while before his face became better: "Judging from the cross-section and tooth marks, it should be considered a large beast... But your scan just now did not leave any obvious fingerprints."

"Dimension teleportation? It's like the group of Templar mages you know."

Tony Stark guessed.

And Alphonse shook his head: "Elmello II once said that in the world of magicians, it is meaningless to explore 'Howdoneit' and 'Whodoneit'. A perfect crime is not like a scientific crime that can always be broken through criminal investigation techniques and reasoning. Only the motive is certain - no matter who does this kind of thing by any means, the other party's purpose is definitely not Perjury."

The wheelchair turned forward and crushed another piece of debris. Alphonse turned his head as if he couldn't stand the scene at last: "The identity verification and social relationship of the deceased will be handed over to S.H.I.E.L.D. The information is ready, let’s go back to the next work.”

"Are you sure there's nothing else you want to see?"

Tony reached out and rubbed the other person's temple: "If necessary, you can go back by yourself..."

"No need."

Alphonse stared at the blood-stained wall. The spinel that was just ejected by Tony Stark smashed several magic symbols on the wall. They were drawn into lines under the magic power of the jeweler. Eccentric symbols are carved on the walls.

"—probably a specialty of Crowley's side."

Alphonse thought for a while and explained, "These things come from hell."

After recounting the situation to the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents who were in charge of maintaining order at the gate, regardless of the other party's shock at hearing the word "hell", Alphonse gave the next step instructions concisely: "Take one every one kilometer. Test the water of the Delaware River. This place is different from New York. I don't know much about the geography of this place. I need to use some auxiliary means to determine the prisoner... or where something that caused the massacre has gone now. "

Everyone nodded, and someone asked curiously: "Iron Man also wants to get involved in this matter?"

"of course."

Tony nodded in a serious manner: "By the way, the site inspection, it's time to put the plan for the merger and acquisition of Sivana Industries on the agenda."

Stark Industries also has a branch in Philadelphia. The chairman's on-site inspection made the whole branch busy. As a result, the golden-red steel suit flew away without hesitation, leaving The exclamation of a group of people in the office.

"I asked the smart butler to book a hotel. It's not far from the Barnes Foundation Gallery. Are you going to stay here today or go back to New York?"

Tony fell from the sky and landed next to the wheelchair: "It will probably take a while to investigate the hydrology, or do you have any plans for the future?"

"I'm going to write a letter to the other side of hell and ask them if there is something that is not locked and let out."

Alphonse thought for a while, and his face was reflected in the golden-red and mirror-like steel armor. Alphonse was stunned, and said, "Let's live here."

The hotel was extravagantly located on the top floor, but as soon as the jeweler walked into the room, he rummaged for a pen and paper and began to write a letter at his desk, which completely ruined this good environment with huge floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the entire Philadelphia.Tony Stark moved a chair and sat by the side to watch, but all the strange symbols fell from the tip of the pen, which felt like variants of Hebrew.

"Is this the text of hell?"

Tony asked.

"For the common language, you can use English... This kind of text is a letter format that can leverage some power."

Alphonse explained: "Just like the Asa gods like Thor and others use runes, hell also has its own language. 'The old Cangjie wrote books, and the sky rained, millets and ghosts cried at night', the text itself It is something that can leverage the power of nature, but the text after the end of the Age of Gods has lost this function."

"Can you read it?"

Tony stretched out an index finger to touch the piece of paper, but Alphonse didn't stop it, but in fact, the texture after touching it was nothing more than the texture of ordinary A4 printing paper.

"If you read it, it will trigger a magic phenomenon..."

The gem dealer folded the white paper in three until it was only the size of a palm, and then slapped the writing side outward on the closed door of the room: "So generally, we will use this kind of guide."

This is an ordinary hotel wooden door... Just as Tony thought about it, he found a bang, a burst of light burst out from behind the door, and then the smell of gunpowder and sulfur permeated the billowing smoke that overflowed from the crack in the door.

Tony Stark: "...Someone once described to me the smell of hell. I also refuted the other party'According to your statement, hell is a sulfur mine'. I didn't expect it to be so."

Beyond the wooden door, hell is already connected.

"I'm now beginning to wonder if there are rivers of honey and milk flowing in heaven."

Tony rubbed his chin thoughtfully.

"How is it possible...Although I haven't really been to heaven, there may be a liquid with a similar taste, but there are so many bees and cows to arrange it."

Alphonse reached out and grasped the doorknob, twisted it lightly, and put the letter in the skinny palm protruding from the crack of the door: "Send a letter to Beelzebub, saying that I found some treasures that flowed out of hell. The things will be packaged and sent to him in two days, I hope the old man will pay attention to check them."

Withered hands took over a thin piece of letter paper, accompanied by a tooth-piercing wooden door pushing and pulling, the door of hell closed again.

"Beelzebub...I know this name, is Crowley's boss?"

Tony recalled: "I remember that he is the one in the Seven Lords of Hell who is gluttonous, and he is called 'Lord of the Flies'...Is he really a fly?"

"The types of creatures in hell are much more complicated than those in heaven, and I'm not sure what he is in essence, but Lord of the Flies is just a description, and more often, it refers to a concept. , turbulent cyber violence and silent bullying by the masses, these 'tiny evils' gathered together will become the strength of Mr. Beelzebub, just like mosquitoes that cannot be driven away."

Alphonse spread his hands: "The Seven Deadly Sins are also 'concepts', which have spawned a lot of magic formulas and fantasy creatures. If you really want to talk about it in detail, it is quite complicated, but there is only one thing you need to know now. Stitch monsters with a negative concept are bound to be malicious to humans."

After these introductions, it seemed that Alphonse didn't intend to talk about work anymore, so he changed the subject: "Are you interested in acquiring Sivana Industries?"

"All the members of the board of directors are dead, and there is no one who can take on the big responsibility. At this time, the acquisition can be said to be profitable."

As soon as he mentioned the fields he was familiar with, the mustache businessman looked a little elated: "I remember you said before that the location of this company is very good, and some businesses overlap with Stark Industries."

Alphonse nodded, and corporate mergers were beyond his understanding: "The only living person left should be Dr. Thaddeus Sivana. Joining the board, just being one of the CEOs providing technical support... I think that's probably why he was still alive in this incident."

"You think this guy is the murderer?"

Tony asked while wearing holographic glasses to collect information: "Well, according to the Internet, the relationship between this Dr. Sivana and his brother and father is not very good, but if he killed so many people because of family conflicts In human terms, this reaction is too intense."

"Generally speaking, as long as there are rational people, they will not let their family business collapse like this..."

Alphonse sighed: "Combined with the situation at the scene, it is more likely that he may have been contaminated by something."

So the mysterious world is full of troublesome guys, and the Norse gods also like to throw everything on the earth, and the earth is not a garbage dump.

Philadelphia, a middle school.

For the time being, Billy Bassant is still in a state of incompatibility with his new adoptive family. Student life is not very attractive to him. This child who has been in various families has sprouted the "maybe" for the first time. It's not bad here, too."

Alphonse packed a set of anagrams test tubes collected by SHIELD agents and sent them directly to Strange through the portal, asking him to use the workshop equipment at the temple for analysis; after solving this problem, he Shaking a wheelchair, I sat on the roof of the hotel, staring at the endless stream of car lights in the Philadelphia street scene in the night.

The swimming pool on the roof was covered, and now it is sparkling with sparkling water.Tony Stark was obviously used to such scenes. He leaned on the recliner and waved to the gem dealer: "What are you looking at? Those things in the eyes of your magicians... I mean, the leylines?"

Philadelphia is one of the well-known tourist cities in the United States. The scenery here seems to be on the cover of a magazine as long as you set up a camera.The blond hair flowing out of the cloak was blown by the night, and the lake-green eyes seemed to give birth to a sense of sight that would shatter in the next second.

"Just looking at the city."

The night in Fairy Township is quiet, and the woodland is only filled with the whispers of non-human beings; the night in the city is completely different, 24 hours a day, the brilliance created by humans never goes out.

Prometheus brought the flame to the human world, and the human world has been lit for a long time since then, and the flame is passed on to the flame, and the light is endless.

A glass of champagne was pressed against the jeweler's mouth. Alphonse wanted to wave his hand and say that he would not drink alcohol, but he couldn't stand Tony's insistence, and the glass of champagne was almost forcibly poured down in the end.Alphonse coughed twice, turned around and looked at the perpetrator, unable to figure out what the other party was thinking.

"It's time for some champagne."

Tony said as a matter of course: "You have never enjoyed life like this, have you?"

--No.Alcohol can take your mind off your head and set off what's been suppressed.Most of Weissandi's magicians are not allowed to drink too much alcohol for the same reason.

But... well, it's not like there's no way to metabolize alcohol in Gem Magic.

Alphonse blinked his eyes, wanted to shake his head slowly, but changed his words when he was on the verge of speaking: "...give me another glass."

Tony laughed, lifting the champagne bottle with one hand to refill the empty goblet.The golden sparkling wine filled the glass, and the glass made a crisp sound when it collided.

"cheers."

Tony raised his glass to Alphonse: "To be honest, when I first met you, I was looking forward to having a drink with you like this."

Alphonse swallowed the bubbling cold liquid in small mouthfuls. In fact, champagne didn't taste very good to him, but he really didn't want to take the kindness of others, not to mention, it would have been nothing to him. It's a novel experience.

When it's all over...

"Wait until it's all over..."

Without thinking, this sentence was said out of the mouth.

"Ok?"

Tony Stark smiled: "After that, what do you want to do? Continue to sell gems in Brooklyn? Or are you interested in joining the Avengers? By the way, you can't just say such things casually, you I don’t surf the Internet often.”

This is the most commonly used flag after "after the war is over".

Wait until Maris Billy's research is complete.Wait until the pressure of this world can finally take a breather, wait until the god of Atlas no longer has to carry the entire sky on his back.

Something cold fell on the tip of Alphonse's nose, and the jeweler raised his head to see snowflakes falling from the sky.

"After twelve o'clock is Christmas Eve."

Alphonse said suddenly, "It's about nine o'clock in the evening."

The glow of the Ark reactor penetrated through the clothes. Since the "nuclear heart" was changed, even a thick windbreaker can't block its light: "You haven't finished what you just said... Or, you Are you still looking forward to the age when Santa Claus will deliver gifts? There are still about 20 hours before the real Christmas Eve, and you are looking forward to it too early."

"When it's all over, just drink like this again."

——After a long time, Alphonse put on the hood to block the snowflakes, and said softly.