[Comprehensive Anglo-American] Gem Merchant

Tony Stark's little accident came to an end. After the wound was rinsed with saline, the wound was wiped with water, and the clean gauze was re-covered, a new problem also appeared in Alphonse.

Neither the level of physical health nor the realm of mystery.

After suffering from insomnia and tinnitus for two nights, Alphonse went straight back to the store, and found the gem box in which he stored his goods under the shocked eyes of the clerk, and skillfully opened the box from the stacked box. Found a piece of turquoise that can help sleep.

Maybe it was because he slept so well at night and woke up in a daze in the morning, he even forgot that this was not his body...

The next day, all the media was shocked to find out that Tony Stark himself - he shaved off his beard.

Tony Stark, shaved off his beard!

After the arms dealer became the former arms dealer, the mustache dealer has a clean chin.

Obviously it was his own face, Tony Stark curled up on the beanbag sofa at home to watch the live broadcast, laughing so much that he leaned towards the side of the sofa.

At the press conference, Alphonse faced a lot of unexpected interviews and flashing camera flashes. He was as stable as an old dog on the surface, but restless inside.

The verbal commitment with Atlantis includes the promotion of the use of clean energy as much as possible and the establishment of many waste treatment plants.The former is the future development direction of Stark Industries, and the latter is largely due to Tony Stark's donation.Except for some relevant people in S.H.I.E.L.D., almost no one realizes that a crisis has been resolved with such thunder and rain, and at this moment, in order to show enough sincerity to Atlantis, Alphonse is replacing Tony. Stark himself, at a presentation on clean energy from Stark Industries.

Today, journalists with bright eyes almost don't intend to continue to pay attention to clean energy - anyway, the products produced by Stark Industries have never had technical problems. Word of mouth, rather than reporting on these well-behaved things, it would be better to...

No one expected that Tony Stark's recent exposure rate was so high. The people who eat melons on the Internet and a group of media people finally ushered in a long-lost carnival.

"Mr. Stark."

A reporter stood up and asked the first question: "What made you decide to change your image?"

Alphonse: "..."

This question was not included in the manuscript given to him by the PR department.In order to surprise this press conference, he even matched his lines overnight with Pepper, and made a list of all the questions that the reporter might ask. Alphonse felt that it was the last time in his life that he worked so hard. , or when the magical properties of different types of gemstones were carried under Zellich's hands.

As a result, it was completely off topic from the very beginning—Tony Stark himself was a topic attractor, and all the reporters were staring at them, only wanting to ask those sharp items that could hit the headlines of major websites.

"Uh."

Only after the first sound was made, the shutters of the surrounding cameras rang one after another, which made Alphonse, who wanted to touch the bridge of his nose, stop his hand immediately - Tony Stark never They are all confident and calm, and will never feel stiff and unnatural, so they must not show these small movements that show unconfidence in body language.

"I think you have to have some personal freedom as a CEO."

He recalled the emphasis and tone of Tony's speech in his impression, and shrugged humorously and relaxedly: "After all, Stark Industries doesn't actually have any image design team for their executive president, only film and television stars need this."

There was a friendly laugh from the audience, but then a second question followed.

"You have now shut down the weapons and equipment business. Is it related to your experience in Afghanistan?"

"What do you think of the Stark Industries employees who lost their jobs due to the closure of the arms R&D department?"

"For the new identity of 'Iron Man', you..."

Pepper had already expected such a scene, and suggested that Alphonse could choose not to attend the presentation at the beginning, but the real alchemist thought about it for a while. After all, Lord Arthur, who is in charge of the Seven Seas, mostly stays on land all the time, and he's sure to watch the news...

Hopefully.

In a bar near the coast, Arthur sneezed violently with a pitcher of beer.

"What's wrong? Why are you sick?"

His drinking buddy smiled and slapped him on the shoulder vigorously: "If you want me to say, this is unbelievable!"

Arthur rubbed his nose and didn't care: "How could I be sick! Someone must be talking about me again."

Everyone laughed, and the small TV in the bar played a football match somewhere.

……

The seemingly motionless alchemist fled under the escort of Harpy, got into the car and let out a sigh of relief.Pepper suppressed a smile and glanced at him, commented: "You played well, and you took a lot of photos, enough to leave a sincere paper record."

Alphonse: "...it's too difficult."

The most outstanding alchemist organization in the world, the Atlas Academy, is a group of dead houses who live in the cellar and never go out, and even if he himself is with Zellich, he will inevitably be raised because of his magical properties. He has become a somewhat quiet character, and hastily thrown into a large group of journalists with sharp questions. He really has no experience in dealing with it at all.

——With the title of Lord of Jewelry, most people either stay away from him or keep a cautious attitude like Fury. It is true that very few people directly confront him with a microphone, turning words into knives without any hesitation. He hesitated to stab it, just to pierce the biggest bunch of blood among all.

"What about the award ceremony in the afternoon? It is said that it is to reward the contribution made to environmental protection and then urge Stark Industries to continue to donate... If it is really not possible, it should be rejected."

Pepper suggested: "Tony Stark himself would not be so diligent in business, your workload today is enough."

The real alchemist took a deep breath, his mind was full of the majestic and calm appearance of El-Melloi II giving a lecture, he never thought that it would be so difficult to give a speech and accept interviews in front of everyone.

"I do not."

He poked his neck and said.

"...Then please do as you please, we will fully cooperate."

Pepper was speechless. For some reason, in some respects, the alchemist seemed particularly persistent, as if he couldn't even remember to eat dinner when he was playing a game card recently.

Unwilling to admit defeat, and unwilling to let Stark come over to help, the appearance of sitting cross-legged in front of the game controller made Tony Stark secretly take a lot of photos.

"—I've never seen myself look like this."

The other party raised his eyebrows and declared so.

The afternoon ceremony began with Alphonse's high-spirited appearance.The alchemist sat in the middle of the first row of the awards ceremony, with an emerald brooch pinned to his chest.Nick Fury was sitting not far from him, watching the delegates speaking on the podium, while secretly looking at Alphonse who was swiping his phone with his head down.

What made Nick Fury extra vigilant was that the other party showed an expression like he was about to slay a dragon alone.

A single Alphonse or Tony Stark is already very troublesome, but now this person is wearing the shell of Tony Stark, which makes him feel that the pressure of work has increased several times recently.

On the screen of the phone were the recent comments on Tony Stark on the Internet. His fingertips slid across the screen, and Alphonse frowned more and more, his expression became ugly to the naked eye.

Fury: "..."

Although he didn't know what the other party was looking at, he was very nervous now.The tenth-level agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. cracklingly issued instructions on the mobile phone, so that an additional team of agents was deployed at the awards ceremony, ready to deal with all possible emergencies at any time.

"What is the sudden situation?"

The little clerk who was caught carrying a gun wanted to cry, but he was originally transferred from a civilian technical department, so he never thought that one day he would be able to drive ducks to the shelves and carry an assault rifle.

"Stark's shell contains your boss."

The agent in charge of the team waved his hand back: "What do you think he meant by showing this expression?"

"..."

The clerk put on the tactical goggles with a jerky hand, made a judgment on his own, and rolled his Adam's apple up and down with difficulty: "...According to experience, the last time the store manager showed this expression was when he was being chased and scolded by Internet trolls while playing games. .”

Everyone: "..."

They all still remember the report that day. At that time, the technical department was dispatched to locate the network for the sake of safety, and another assault team followed the troll for a week, and found that the unlucky big brother had stuffed his teeth when he drank cold water: he broke his leg when he went out, and he couldn't eat. Sand, bird droppings from the sky on the way to work, the computer circuit suddenly aging and malfunctioning at work, and even the french fries I bought didn’t have ketchup.

Agents: "..."

At that time, considering that Alphonse was an alchemist representing the mysterious side, they could barely accept this level of revenge, so they turned a blind eye.And now there are many well-known dignitaries and reporters from major media among the people present, this...

The detectives all looked thoughtful as they held their guns.

……

How much surging malice can a person bear?

Alphonse thought.

The United States is a country with freedom of speech, and everyone can make jokes about the President of the United States in funny variety shows.Anthony Edward Stark obviously also played the role of entertaining the public and providing topics in a sense. After all, everyone knows Stark, and he won’t lose a piece of meat if he makes complaints.

He is the creator of war, an unscrupulous capitalist, a person whose conscience is dissolved in the ink smell of banknotes, and who creates more chaos in the world.

On the first page of the scrolling news, the first one was his own shaved face facing the spotlight—the latest news!A new look for Tony Stark, for which I have no comment.

"...This technology will bring about a revolution in new energy sources, which is of great significance to environmental protection..."

The awards ceremony was still going on, and the light brown eyes lowered and continued to read the news, with a calm and quiet expression.

——What do you think, the weapons of Stark Industries spread all over the world and caused countless deaths?

"This is an epoch-making invention, and the replacement rate for the current old thermal power plants..."

——What do you think of those innocent people who lost their homes in the war?

"The conversion rate of this new energy system is several times that of the old system, and it will open up a new pattern of..."

——Many people think that your actions can be called "the atrocities of the devil", Mr. Stark, what do you think?

Alphonse sat in the very center of the first row, and the lights in the hall fell from top to bottom, casting a small shadow under the bridge of his nose.The seat to his left was vacant, and to his right sat Pepper Potts, sitting upright.The keen secretary tilted his head slightly, and saw the news on Alphonse's phone, and his brows twitched.

"Stark won't care about these, Mr. Alphonse, he is particularly experienced in this area, and he is quite stubborn, and he won't listen to good or bad things."

The secretary lowered his voice and came over, covering half of his face with a folder, as if discussing some business issue: "So you don't have to worry too much."

Alphonse nodded with a serious face, and said in a low voice, "I've seen devils in hell, they don't look like this at all."

Pepper: "..."

Although the topic was a bit too fierce, she didn't know how to answer it, but Pepper Potts, who was quick to react, still rolled his eyes and smiled: "Of course."

Nick Fury looked at the small movements here, walked through the crowded crowd and sat next to Alphonse, and asked after holding back for a long time: "What were you thinking before?"

His expression just now was definitely not friendly.

Alphonse has found his composure now, eyelashes cast a small shadow in the spotlight: "I was thinking, the moon."

Fury: "..."

It's a mistake, he should bring an agent who specializes in religious studies or folklore... He feels that he can't keep up with the magician's train of thought.

"What did you say?"

Fury opened Wikipedia as he spoke, trying to understand what the other person was saying.

"In the distant past, when the mystery has not yet faded, there were many taboos in human life. At that time, the distance between gods, fairies and humans was not so far away, so the manifestation of the world was different from the present."

Nick Fury nodded, myths and legends.Even if he was very confused, he still listened with absolute respect: "What do you want to express...?"

Alphonse glanced at him.

"Seven times you don't go out, eight times you don't go home, the moon can't be pointed at."

"It sounds like some folk customs handed down from the savage period."

Nick Fury asked: "What does that mean?"

"The meaning of the first half of the sentence is that not to go out on the seventh day of the calendar and not to return home on the eighth day is a folk custom handed down by a certain ethnic minority in China. This folk custom system is actually very complex, including some called ' Including the architectural essentials of Fengshui' houses, it is essentially the outline of the magic workshop before the mysterious decline-using different architectural forms to pry the magic power of the earth's veins to achieve the expected purpose. Modern magic workshops also have more or less or less of that tendency."

Alphonse explained: "The second half of the sentence literally means that if you point at the moon—I mean if you do something disrespectful to the moon, the moon god will cut off your ears with a sickle while you are asleep. .”

Fury: "..."

This is really bloody.

After a while, the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. spoke cautiously: "I hope this story is nothing more than a myth."

The alchemist smashed this idea without hesitation: "There is no unreasonable legend that can be passed down from thousands of years ago to the present. For example, in all human legends, there is a great flood that wiped out most of the population. Same. Although the environment of the Age of Gods is no longer testable, the gods at that time still often responded to human prayers. Who knows if there will be one or two gods who happen to be in charge of the moon's field, but hate being kicked on the nose by others The disrespectful treatment of the face."

The threat of this sentence was almost clear from the lines. Nick Fury suddenly broke out in a thin layer of sweat, and his mind was full of hope that the end of the world would not be caused by the trolls. If this is the case, he will go back Let S.H.I.E.L.D.'s cybersecurity department curb public opinion.

"So? Does Stark's situation make you want to be the Moon that used to be?"

Fury felt that his voice was extra heavy.

For a long time, so long that Fury and Pepper could hear Alphonse's quiet breathing.

The alchemist showed his harmless expression again—by ​​the way, the smile on Stark's face was also particularly abrupt.

"--how could be."

"I just miss it a little bit," he said.

"The magicians in the mysterious world are still in awe of power, whether it is damage or protection. But now it seems that humans in modern society have long forgotten something."

The alchemist said word by word what made Fury feel amazing: "The moon is just a natural satellite that keeps moving in circles around the earth, but people are different."

He stood up and walked step by step to the center of the podium at the awards ceremony under the eyes of everyone.

The author has something to say: Al: I have paid too much for this world, and Atlantis must have felt the sincerity.

Arthur (not watching the news at all, Aum is in charge): Come on!Men should watch football! (cheers!)