[Zhongyingmei] Goblin Detective

Howard Stark once said that enterprise management does not need to care too much when employing people.

"Thank you for your trip to Japan."

In the conference room on the top floor of the Stark Industries New York headquarters, an old acquaintance sitting in front of the desk thanked Lindell softly: "Aren't you hurt?"

"Twice shot, but recovered quickly. Humans like to shoot at the head or the heart, but if the hearth is not in such a place, it will not help."

Lindell casually skipped over his own battle scene at the time: "It would be a little troublesome if there are mutants involved. It would be better to ask me to go there than to let other people go there."

"But it's hard to understand."

Lindell stood in the office: "The managers you selected... Well, they should be called CEOs now, and not all of them are loyal to you, right? There are several people I know who are vaguely loyal to you With malice—even so, you keep them working here."

“There is no such thing as allegiance in this day and age.”

Howard corrected Lindell's wording: "It's all 'employment,' and malicious stuff, as long as it doesn't show—or execute."

"It's dangerous."

Lindell emphasized.

"How many employees in a company do you think will be dissatisfied with the boss?"

Howard asked him instead: "You can perceive human emotions, so if you walk into a school, can you feel how many students are dissatisfied with the teacher?"

"But I think those mutant kids really like Charles."

"That's different, I mean... Humans judge things by 'actions' not 'thoughts'. A court will judge a person for doing something against the law, but not Will do it earlier because they have the idea of ​​presumptuousness."

Howard spread his hands at him: "Because human beings are creatures whose words and deeds are different, language, behavior and thought, although these three are somewhat related, but most of the time they will not be consistent at all."

"For example, you think that Stanislav is mean to you. Goblins don't lie, so your judgment must be true."

Howard said: "But you didn't do anything to apologize to him. The only reason that caused him to be malicious towards you, I personally guess, was just because I entrusted you to go to Japan at that time, and he probably mistook it for me to Give you full responsibility for the business of the Japanese branch..."

Lindell didn't speak, which was regarded as acquiescing to Howard's judgment.

"He has ambitions for Stark Industries, but at the same time, this person also has a considerable degree of management ability. Of course, I can replace people who do not have this ambition to take up this position, but they may not be able to do better than Stanislav. Good -- as long as he doesn't have a real plan to influence me, it's to my advantage to have him in that position."

Howard said: "However, thank you very much for telling me this, so that it will be more convenient for me to further evaluate the employees I hired."

"...So you're actually not his friend either."

Lindell suddenly reacted: "You just 'made him think you were'."

... No, the other party obviously did not consider Howard to be a friend. The former thought the latter was a useful weapon that might backfire on him, and Stanislav would probably try to seize the opportunity to snatch his own from Stark Industries. interest.

Lindleton suddenly showed a troublesome expression of "you humans are so complicated". If he was not facing Howard, he would definitely back off on the spot.

Of course, Howard also saw Lindell's resistance, and couldn't help but smile: "It's troublesome for you, right? It's the same in S.H.I.E.L.D. Fury is facing a job hundreds of times more complicated than this .”

"He's getting fat if he doesn't exercise at all recently."

Lindell couldn't help complaining: "If you always sit in the office and don't move, the life-extending serum will not prevent fat accumulation."

Howard couldn't help laughing: "I suggest you tell him this in person...but Fury is also quite difficult. It is not an easy task to mediate with government officials. It is no easier than dealing with experimental institutions that conduct secret mutant trafficking."

Technological advancements are changing with each passing day, but the world is not getting better.After the end of the Vietnam War, the Iran-Iraq War followed. Curses, magic and modern weapons fought endlessly. Dugan went on several long business trips, and he didn't know what kind of work he was involved in.

In fact, I don’t know if it’s my own illusion—Lindell always feels that he is being pushed out of the core of S.H.I.E.L.D. intentionally or unintentionally.

The undead shadow agent, one of the few people who will never age, industry legends, such and such descriptions have accumulated many layers in the forum, separated by a layer of screens, Lindell can't judge whether these contents are from good intentions—and even if The other party was malicious, and he couldn't find out whether this maliciousness was aimed at some special self, or something else that he couldn't touch yet.

For example, the death of President Kennedy, the opening of a war, the endless disputes and falling defoliants, and the flames of war caused by religion-the methods are so close that Lindell can't help but recall the Jews who were excluded at the beginning.

Crowley once said that wars are started by humans themselves.What angels and demons can do is very limited. Considering the confrontation between their two forces in the past 6000 years, the interference of the mysterious side on the development of mankind is indeed not as great as the influence of mankind itself.Lindell leaned against Howard's office, watched his boring work progress for a while, yawned and planned to go back as soon as possible, maybe he could still buy freshly baked bread in time to leave now.

When he was about to leave, the old acquaintance behind the computer poked his head out.

"Please tell Tony similar things in the future."

Howard said.

"what?"

"Tell him the malice that you think it is necessary to tell, and then leave the judgment to humans."

Howard smiled: "After all, we are creatures living amidst lies and games, and we should be more flexible."

Two hours later, Stark's house.

"Are you planning to go to Bordeaux afterwards?"

Holding the newly baked snacks, Tony asked, "When will you be back?"

"It should be within a week. Anyway, I'm just responsible for ordering goods."

Lindell thought for a while: "The principle is similar to the snacks I brought you, but because the quantity is relatively large, the magic rituals that need to be prepared are more complicated."

The teenager looked at the paper bag in which he put the donuts. It was still as hot as if it was freshly baked at home, but the drive from Brooklyn to Long Island, New York was definitely not close, whether he drove by himself or took the bus, theoretically. It is impossible to keep these foods at a constant temperature and deliver them to the home.

On the edge of the paper bag, runes flashed past.

"Complicated operations on time are in the category of magic—such as rewinding time throughout the world, but if it is limited to slowing down the flow of time in a small area, some human magicians can do this kind of thing[1], as fairies Me too."

Lindell also tore open the wrapping paper: "For this bag of snacks, their time is only about 30 seconds out of the oven."

"What to do?"

"A human being I know wants to entrust me to order wine made from grapes in season."

Lindell thought about Master Gu Yi's commission, and found it very strange: "But this human being does not drink alcohol herself, and her subordinates basically prohibit alcohol consumption...it doesn't make sense."

Weishandi's mages have always been ascetics, adhering to the integrity of the soul and pursuing the firmness of the will. Lindell is quite confused about this commission-the most important thing is that she also can't figure out where the ancient one got the money, obviously They couldn't even afford to buy the New York Temple land.

But the human supreme mage still smiled like an old god, with an expression of "everything is under control": "How should I put it... This is an investment? If you prolong your life longer, you will learn Store things ahead of time that will be useful in the future.”

"Is it for making money? Like buying their stock when Stark Industries just went public?"

Lindell made an analogy, and felt that this was a bit wrong: "If that's the case, why don't you go to Japan to buy a house..."

If it is the holder of the fifth law who can observe the future, wouldn't it be easy to make money by speculating in real estate?

"It's almost the same, but there are some differences."

Master Gu Yi smiled: "From my standpoint, I have to do some things to plan for the future...but by then the supreme mage may have changed. The collective subconsciousness of mankind, Akasha's record belt Occasionally some funny memes are inscribed, which is great in the occult realm."

"...Okay, although I don't understand much, but anyway, I will help with this."

Lindell agreed wholeheartedly—it's hard to imagine how much real-life interference can be caused by buying wine.

This is the autumn of [-].

In the winter of the same year, the International Robot Soccer Championship.

The event is held on American soil and brings together teams from all over the world.Under the spotlight and the lens of the camera is a simulated field that is about 25/[-]th the size of a real football field, with white lines drawn on it, and a reduced version of the football goal placed at each end.

The participating robots are a six-on-six match, in which two teams each have a goalkeeper, and the remaining five members run on the field.The rules are very simple. It is not allowed to physically collide with the opponent's robot. The only thing that can be touched is the marker signal ball used for simulated battles.

The two teams are in the process of intensive debugging before the game. The participating members of the Buchen robot team are correcting sensor parameters one after another. Finally, it fell to the ground, but soon it regained its balance, and took off from the ground to stand up again.

"Did you see it, three and a half seconds!"

There was bursts of applause from the auditorium: "A new record has been set. After falling to the ground, I recovered in [-] seconds!"

The Buchen Robot Team is a very experienced humanoid robot manufacturing team, and there is no shortage of talented members. It is a former champion of the humanoid crew.And the other side—it wasn't even a team, after all, there was only one person sitting in the empty player bench.

Tony Stark is holding a controller similar to a Sony gamepad in his hand, looking bored.

Hundreds of kilometers away, the Golden Gate Bridge, the cross-sea channel connecting San Francisco and California, is slowly rising.

"Don't think I dare not hit you!"

Lindell stood on the tall metal bridge pole in a bad mood, and the strong wind on the sea blew his long golden hair: "As long as the metal is not included, I won't be controlled by you. My experience in dealing with mutants over the years is not good. Less than you!"

"Then what, Lindell...he was just affected by malice in his brain, you just need to take off the helmet on his head and leave the rest to me!"

The spiritual realm of goblins is different from that of human beings, and there is no way to communicate directly by means of spiritual speech, so that Charles can only sit in the distance and call him desperately: "I mean, you'd better not hit him too hard ..."

"I told you I was in a hurry!"

Surrounded by X-Men planes, Lindell could only circle far away because he was afraid of being drawn into the range of Magneto's gravitational field. The huge metal strips were peeled off from the bridge, rushing towards him with unstoppable strength and acceleration. Lindell's face came.

"It's just today that such a troublesome thing happened..."

Lindell stepped on the steel bar with his toes, and his movements were like swifts skimming across the lake. Under several axes that accelerated around the formation, they rushed straight to Magneto's face. Human blood also contains iron elements. In theory, all attacks should It is very difficult to work against the opponent, but - except for the body made of true ether.

Ether itself is not an element that can be completely explained by the material world, and the blood, skin, temperature, and breath are all just a disguise to make oneself "look more like a human being". After stripping away all these, Lin Del himself would not be subject to any restrictions from Eric's mutant abilities.

He stepped into the strong wind, grabbed the position close to him, and chanted the first incantation in the fairy language-this is not any known language, even the human brain can't understand it, as long as you think about it carefully, you will be confused. The mind brings a load, and there is a burst of pain.

"Increased pain."

Lindell said.

Immediately afterwards, he turned around sharply in the air, made a movement that even gymnasts could hardly achieve, and threw a flying kick without hesitation.

The set screw on the Golden Gate Bridge flew out of the steel bars with a beep, beep, beep, and struck Lindell's back across the curve, but was intercepted by a strong wind halfway, changed the attack path, and smashed on On the bridge deck near Lindell.

"And as I said earlier, it just takes the right wind."

Under the spotlight, the robot soccer game officially begins.Tony Stark pressed the start button alone. He had already prepared a complete automatic control program and correction plan at the beginning, and he made it all the way to the finals by himself.The robot makes a flexible long pass, which is completely different from the opponent's trembling movement on the ground.

There was wave after wave of cheers from the audience, but the young contestants seemed bored.

Until a leaf falls into the hand holding the joystick.

He looked up suddenly.

Author has something to say: General note:

[1] Refers to the magic of the Emiya family, which can modify the time within a certain range.

Congratulations to Master Gu Yi for winning the Lafite xn in [-]