[Comprehensive Anglo-American] Gem Merchant

By the time the little clerk recovered enough to catch the plane from Gotham to New York, another day had passed.

A lot happened in this day.

Including but not limited to, Karl Modu, who was furious in the New York Temple, because his wand was stolen and couldn't find who the thief was, he angrily beat all kinds of things, broke them and used magic to restore them to their original shape, What was even more annoying was that the thief actually returned his wand in the end, which was a great shame.

A group of disciples huddled in a hidden place and poked their heads, "We don't know, and we dare not ask."Wang walked past with a stack of books in his arms, and told the juniors what to do and not to watch the excitement, but there was a hint of guilt in his voice.

Pepper Potts found out that his boss had been out of contact all night. Agent Dugan sent a message saying congratulations to Mr. Stark for saving the world as S.H.I.E.L.D. Po turned his head and saw his boss lying down on the sofa drinking wine with a dejected face, not at all like he had just returned from saving the world in triumph.

Pepper: "..."

Yazi feels something is wrong.

The angel and the demon quarreled all the way back, and finally decided that Aziraphale would be responsible for buying a bouquet of flowers or something to apologize, and Crowley would write a double report, as always, be responsible for one person fooling heaven and hell.

Peter Parker, a good neighbor in New York City, still maintains the habit of patrolling Queens every night. He is still not used to his new power, which leads to the popularity of videos like "Spider-Man's Embarrassment Collection" on Youtube all the way. soaring.

The Edelfelt Jewelry Store has returned to the normal state of no one caring about it. The clerk is busy with the mobile game, blinking his eyes and peeping at the door of the jewelry processing room. It seems that the stock has been consumed too much recently. Alvon As soon as Si returned to the store, he went into a crazy replenishment mode, sitting in the room for a whole day.

And these are not the most important things.

The eldest prince of Asgard, Saul Odinson, appeared on the earth with the beam of light from the Rainbow Bridge. The son of Odin, who was once reckless, looks a lot more stable now, expressing that he came with the kindness of an Asa god. Come, determined to protect every country and planet in the Nine Realms that has been protected by Asgard.

"Just like Odin once did."

He scratched the back of his head: "A real king should do this. I'm still far away, but I should move in this direction."

S.H.I.E.L.D. is not very familiar with this Asgar god, and to be honest, as a person on Earth, they don’t want alien princes to come and interfere in Earth’s internal affairs, but... for various reasons, how should the god of Asgard be diplomatic? , the strategy has not been launched so far.

Even though His Royal Highness seems to have no pretensions and is not very smart, he is a legendary Norse god after all.

So in the end, Alphonse still appeared in Nick Fury's office-responsible for discussing how to contact the Asa god.

Although Alphonse's methods so far have been extraordinarily rough and somewhat "infamous" in some senses, it has to be said that they are exceptionally effective.

And this time, the alchemist still did not disappoint Fury.

"Didn't he want to protect Midgard?"

Alphonse said casually: "You let him join S.H.I.E.L.D. and send him out to be a thug with Cap."

Fury: "..."

Fury: "Okay."

"So, about the establishment of the Avengers."

Nick Fury clapped his hands in the conference room: "I'm glad you all accepted my proposals."

He's been working on bringing the Avengers together lately, and if it weren't for Alphonse's recent incident with the Yellowstone Crater and Gotham City, the meeting would have been even earlier.Steve Rogers agreed to his proposal without thinking for a long time, and Natasha and Clinton Barton were originally agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., so they didn't have the slightest opinion.

Tony Stark encountered a lot of resistance, but for some unknown reason recently, although the other party was not very interested, he still agreed to his proposal.In this regard, Stark himself stated that he can not only provide the venue for the Avengers, but even pay them wages.

So Nick Fury naturally looked suspicious: "Have you been cursed recently?"

"If it's a curse, it's okay to say."

With a dark face, the other party turned and left.

The blond Asa God sat in the conference room and placed his Mjolnir horizontally on the table in front of him. He was very interested in the holographic projection screen in the conference room: "This is really similar to my brother's magic. .”

"You said your brother's magic... so you, as a god, don't actually know it?"

Tony raised his eyebrows: "I thought all the Norse gods could do tricks."

"My mother and Loki are good at this, Man of Steel."

Thor's tone of voice has a habit that is not in line with today's era: "The magic of Rune is the wisdom that Odin, the father of the gods, obtained from the world tree Yggdrasil."

Oh, that means you're illiterate, Tony rolled his eyes, not expecting much from the blond hunk.He braced his chin and suppressed his impatience while listening to Nick Fury nagging at the meeting. He originally thought that Alphonse would definitely come forward if Saul was involved, so he pushed back today's experimental plan, but he didn't expect it to be true Just a few of them.

The other party seems to be really determined to close the door of occultism. The shopkeeper thanked customers behind closed doors. Only by making an appointment in advance through some channel he doesn't understand can he buy the shopkeeper's gemstones. As for the method - artificial intelligence once even told He, a pigeon flew away from the store with a necklace of gemstones in its mouth.

Oh my God, do you still need to train pigeons when you buy gems in the future?

Nick Fury looked at Stark, who was obviously not listening to the meeting seriously. Forget it, Howard was like this back then, and his son was obviously not much better, so he decided to adjourn the meeting after announcing the establishment of the Avengers Alliance. As a result Saul Odinson raised his hand to indicate that he had something to say.

The other party is a god, and everyone's attitude is of course that you can ask what you need, and we will try our best to meet what we can.

The big Thunder God seemed to be struggling a bit: "Where is the alchemist I met last time? Alphonse Bathermelo Edfelt, Asgard has something to entrust to him , how can I contact him?"

Tony Stark also pricked up his ears.

I saw Nick Fury say with a blank face: "Brooklyn, New York City, Edfield Jewelry Store, people with magical powers can break through cognitive interference and walk into this store. If you go, you can also call him on your mobile phone."

Saul: "What's a cell phone?"

Fury: "When I didn't say... Forget it, I'll just call him over. After all, this guy is also a consultant of S.H.I.E.L.D., but he won't do it for free if he needs to be paid for his work."

Sol nodded readily: "Asgard is the richest and most prosperous land in the Nine Realms, and I can represent Asgard's will."

That is to say, the guy is rich, very rich, the treasury is full, and the people don't care how their crown prince plans to squander it.

Clint, who was living on a salary, looked at the two wealthy colleagues present, and turned himself into lemon essence to hypnotize himself repeatedly. I'm not jealous at all, really.

...Ci Ao, it's nice to have money.

Under the intentional or unintentional arrangement and arrangement of Nick Ferry before, everyone in the Avengers knew about Alphonse. Not long after the text message was sent, a blue teleportation array appeared in the office, alchemy The master stepped out of the formation and raised his hood: "Are you looking for me?"

As soon as he looked up, he met the warm brown eyes at the other end of the conference table.

Alphonse: "..."

Tony: "..."

It was extremely embarrassing, especially since he said something harsh yesterday and met him at the meeting the next day.

Sol didn't think too much, he said to Alphonse a little embarrassedly: "I want to ask you to help me contact my brother, he doesn't have many friends, I've only heard of you, I don't know Is there any special connection between you magicians?"

"You have something to do with him? Tell me the content first, and I'll try to leave him a message."

Alphonse spread his hands: "We don't communicate much, and most of the time we use gem magic to send messages. Whether he reads back or not depends on his mood... You know what Loki said."

Well, Rocky Odinson, the god of trickery, everyone knows, this guy has always been difficult to fathom, even Alphonse can't guarantee it - not to mention that there must be a reason why the other party didn't return to Asgard. He ran away from home in front of Odin, probably very angry.

Saul was obviously very satisfied with this answer, and he began to babble about what needed to be relayed in front of everyone in the conference room:

"My mother received the opera script he sent back, and after reading it, she thought the content was very good, so we helped him build an opera house in Asgard."

Crowd: ?

"And a gold statue was made for him at the entrance of the Opera House."

Crowd: ? ?

"The content of the opera was well received, and many aliens came to watch it, and the tickets cost a lot."

Saul said: "Everyone is waiting for the author to come back and do the book signing."

Crowd: ...

Eat, eat whale.

They now have a particularly three-dimensional and intuitive concept of how rich Asgard is, and Thor's thinking is so ingenious that it is hard to describe.Although I don't know what happened in Asgard, but the throne dispute in Kings Storm 2 finally turned into this way, people can only be shocked that God's operation is beyond the understanding of ordinary people.

However, Alphonse had already expected the level of local tyrants in Asgard, and it's not that he has never met a rich friend, but the content of this message is not in line with Sol's style... He raised his eyebrows: "This is not what you came up with idea?"

"It's mother."

Saul answered honestly, even a little proud: "She is the most intelligent goddess in Vanaheim."

Even though others might quarrel with Loki, he was always willing to listen to what his mother said.

Alphonse raised his eyes and glanced around, seeing that no one needed his help anymore, he turned around and wanted to leave.Tony Stark stopped him subconsciously: "Alphonse!"

"...?"

The alchemist turned around, one hand was still ready to snap his fingers: "What?"

The expression of the lake-green eyes is extraordinarily complicated. Tony guesses that this is probably regretting that he has too many memories to delete, but Iron Man never backs down!He looked directly into the eyes blessed by the goblin: "Uh, I remember I still have a concert in Atlantis."

Steve Rogers also remembered this incident, the first moment he met Alphonse.Now his relationship with the alchemist has not improved at all, let alone pulling him into the Avengers. Thinking of this, he also nodded: "Yes, the contact with Atlantis is also very important part of the work."

Of course, Natasha and Clinton Barton also knew about the famous garbage dump that swept across the east coast of New York. The information about Atlantis was not a secret in the eyes of these people, so they also turned their attention to the blonde jeweler.

Alphonse lowered his eyelashes, as if thinking for a moment: "Of course, I will contact Lord Aum as soon as possible, and give you an answer within a week."

This answer is not a big deal. The annual Siren Singer concert is around this time. He has received invitations before, but he has never had the opportunity to participate.

After leaving this sentence, the figure of the alchemist disappeared from everyone's field of vision from top to bottom. Sol was accustomed to this very "magician" exit method. After all, his younger brother often used illusions to talk to others. And the rest were once again marveling at the mystery of magic.

Tony Stark, who returned to his home, looked extremely cramped, probably because it was so rare for this kind of expression to appear on a Stark's face. After Pepper held a lot of documents and urged the other party to sign, he still couldn't bear it. I couldn't help asking: "It seems that my boss encountered some problems today that even a genius brain can't solve?"

"...If you suddenly make someone unhappy, how do you usually make up?"

Tony put down the handheld angle grinder in his hand, and asked a little bit tangled.

Pepper: "...you've grown up so much that you're only now encountering this kind of problem?"

She really couldn't help the urge to complain. With Stark's mouth, it is estimated that countless people have been offended in the process of growing up.

Tony spread his hands: "But those people before can use money to solve it."

Even if the employees complain about the boss, when the boss pays enough, this kind of dissatisfaction will become extremely limited under the pressure of the meal, not to mention that he doesn't care what others think of him at all. What does it matter to her that most people like or hate Tony Stark?

"But there are always things that money can't solve."

Pepper sighed and sighed that his boss should have felt a beating from society earlier: "Especially a guy who is only thinking about making money will give up generating income from you."

"Wait, I clearly remember not telling you about this?"

Tony looked back in shock: "Have you learned to read minds?"

"...This kind of thing doesn't need mind reading skills to see it."

15 minute later.

The CEO's secretary, who was forced to be in charge of psychological counseling and making suggestions, once again felt that men were big pigs.

The social experience of these two guys is almost incomplete. If it is said that Tony seldom really sympathizes and pays attention to anyone, then the way Alphonse expresses his concern is simply so rough that it makes people vomit blood.

However, considering the man's hardcore experience of getting Orm drunk, anesthetizing Sol, and beating Mephisto violently, Pepper has reason to guess that under the surface of this handsome and gentle young man, there is actually a stubborn and unusual soul hidden.

"He was worried about you... After all, it is said that if you didn't have that ruby, you might be killed on the spot."

"Of course I know, but what's the difference between this kind of worry and worrying about someone falling and breaking his leg!"

Tony was indignant: "I did him a big favor to save the world!"

"Perhaps the other party thinks that you should not risk your life for things beyond your responsibility. To be honest, although saving the world is indeed a heroic act, please take care of the emotions of those who care about you."

Pepper spoke with extra seriousness.

So Tony was even more aggrieved: Is it my fault for co-authoring? ?He even refuses to sell me spinels!

"You know, Tony, Alphonse is actually the same person as you."

In the end, Pepper could only say: "You all have absolute confidence in your professional fields, and you are not willing to let others intervene. Think about it differently. If Al said that he decided to help you develop a suit, what would you think? ?”

Tony: "...that's impossible."

Pepper shrugged, leaving Tony with a look of "you see, that's right", and decided to ignore the conflict between the two guys who lacked social experience.

So, he was the only one left in the laboratory.

Tony thought about it for a long time, and felt that he was really innocent: he was the one who saved the world, but he was the one who was the first to be bullied.

But it cannot be said that Al did something wrong. The bearded businessman threw a replaced Ark reactor up and down. The disc-shaped furnace core emitted a constant blue light, and the carrying tank that was originally inlaid with four spinels, And now it's empty.

Strength is the basis for taking responsibility, and alchemists have always been invincible.Tony Stark sat in his chair thinking for a long time, and suddenly laughed softly.

He has some new ideas.

There is only one week left, it seems that the time is a bit tight.