".In this way, I took back the five infinity stones from Thanos' hands, snapped my fingers, destroyed Thanos and his army, and brought half of the world back to this land."
Tony told them roughly the plot of the Avengers, but ignored the historical background, and replaced some words with vocabulary that these people were familiar with.
For example, "alien" is replaced by "extraterrestrial devil.", and "starship" is replaced by "warship."
He seemed to be a little thirsty, so he opened his suitcase again, fumbled out a hot water bottle and unscrewed the lid, with a few wolfberries floating in it.
He poured the kettle onto the lid and blew away the heat before taking a sip.
Xia Ya has been drinking wolfberry soaked in water recently. According to him, it has some benefits for the body.
Tony was old enough, so he naturally learned to drink.
He used to be accustomed to drinking cold water, but after drinking too much tea, he gradually became accustomed to drinking warm water.
According to Xia Ya, drinking warm water is better for the body than drinking cold water because the stomach does not need to expend excess energy to heat the cold water and can absorb it directly.
Galante and others also recovered from the shock.
"Has something like this ever happened in this world?"
"But why are there no records at all?"
"It must have been a long time ago. Aren't there no records of Egyptian civilization that have been handed down?"
“Why do I feel that people in the past were more powerful than people today.
It is difficult for people to build so many pyramids now, and they can still fight against such an army of extraterrestrial demons. "
Simon came back to his senses and asked, "Do the Infinity Stones still exist?"
"There must be no such thing in this world." Tony said.
Simon nodded assuredly.
"This is the best possible outcome."
"Indeed." Galante nodded, "If a treasure with such power really exists, then the world will never be peaceful."
He looked at Tony, "What happens after that?"
"I died after I snapped my fingers, and I don't know what happened after that." Tony said, "But when I woke up again, I saw that person. He woke me up and gave me a new life." life."
"Perhaps that gentleman also felt that it was a pity that a hero like you passed away like that." Galante said, "You deserve this."
Tony raised his chin, but said nothing.
As a person who said the classic "I am Iron man" at a press conference, he is not a low-key person. On the contrary, he also has a certain degree of vanity, so he has no regard for Galante's compliments. Not adaptable.
He has no regrets about his past life and is proud of it.
Although it is shorter than most people's lives, it is also more wonderful than most people's lives.
There are not many opportunities in this world to save so many people.
"Da da da~"
The sound of the clockwork turning and the footsteps of the mechanical mouse attracted everyone's attention. They turned their heads. At the end of the tunnel, a severely damaged pathfinding mouse was crawling tremblingly towards this side. come over.
Many parts of the body fell out, and there were even some hideous knife edges.
"It seems that this journey has not been very peaceful." Tony said quietly, and he silently raised his hand and grabbed the mouse.
The refining array on the right hand armor glowed faintly, and the treasure-hunting rat was quickly re-refined and returned to its previous appearance.
He took the winding key and continued to wind up the mouse, then placed it on the ground again.
"Let's go."
Hearing this, Galante and the rest of the team stood up from the ground, "Is it okay?"
"Since it's back, it means it has found a way." Tony said.
They quickly picked up the bag containing the fluorescent fruits and followed the mouse deeper into the underground palace bit by bit.
As they walked deeper into the tunnel, they threw some fluorescent fruits around.
Fear comes from the unknown, and darkness is most of the factors that bring about the unknown, so these fluorescent fruits may bring them a higher sense of security than the magic wand in their hands.
As Tony said, this underground palace is larger than they imagined. It is like a hive of countless identical but different bridges, corridors, platforms, and stairs that intertwine and wind around, forming a huge and incredible geometric maze.
If there were no wayfinding mice, no one would be able to get out of a maze like this.
There were many unknown traps on the road, and they had already seen many triggered traps on the road. The huge guillotine cut some of the treasure-hunting rats they released into two, and there were many hidden arrows that shot all over the wall.
If this underground palace has been established for more than three thousand years as Tony said, it is incredible that these mechanisms can still be effective after so many years.
There were many murals and texts on the road. Galante really wanted to know the meaning of these texts, so that he might be able to understand what kind of civilization existed thousands of years ago.
"hiss!"
Suddenly, while he was thinking, a strange sound came from his ears, and a black shadow suddenly appeared from the wall on one side, but the black shadow was still some distance away from Galante. Caught by Tony.
The black shadow bit Tony's gauntlet, but how could Mithril's gauntlet be chewed to pieces by something like this.
Galante came to his senses and realized it was a cobra.
They turned their heads and looked at the corridor. As the fluorescent fruits gradually brought light, the various poisonous snakes on both sides of the corridor gradually revealed their figures.
Their path was blocked by a variety of densely entangled snakes that could kill ligers and ligers, and their hissing sounds made the scalps of those behind them numb.
If you look carefully, you will find that many pathfinding mice have been captured by these snakes.
"Don't take it lightly, I can't save each of your lives." Tony reminded.
"Thank you." Galante said gratefully.
But then, he looked at the venomous snakes and asked in confusion, "How have these snakes survived for so many years?"
"It means this place is not airtight." Tony said calmly, "It could also be...we are not the only ones who have lived here..."
He led the group towards another corridor.
"Come on, let's go another way."
Galante came to his senses and quickly followed Tony, and the others followed closely behind.
It's strange to say that as they go deeper, the corridor becomes wider and taller, like a corridor in a palace, guarded by many round stone pillars and statues.
Soon, they entered a particularly spacious room, about a few hundred square meters. There were many sarcophagi neatly placed here. It seemed to be a tomb group, but they didn't know who or how many of the tomb owners were buried. Very huge.
There is a faint smell of spices in the air, indicating that there are a lot of mummies here.
Some people behind Galante saw these sarcophagi with coffin lids, and finally there was a little excitement in their eyes.
The reason why they followed Galante to this inhospitable Egypt was to find the treasures here.
But after searching for so long, they found nothing. They had long been impatient, but now they finally saw some hope.
Some people stepped forward and tried to push open the lid of one of the sarcophagi.
Galante's expression changed when he saw this, "Wait, don't move!"
But it's too late.
"Bah!" followed by a bird chirping.
A big bird about one meter suddenly flew down from the ceiling, rushed directly towards the man, and bit him on the neck.
"Ah ah ah ah ah!!!!"
The man howled in pain and kept slapping the bird to get it off him.
But the next second.
"Puch!!"
Blood spurted out, his throat was directly bitten open, countless blood was scattered on the ground, and the strong smell of blood filled the space.
It was no ordinary bird. It had a human head on its body, but there was no intelligence in its eyes. Instead, it was full of cruelty and blood. The corners of its mouth were grinning, revealing sharp teeth full of blood.
After killing the man, the strange bird leaned down and gnawed at the corpse. The blood spread quickly to the surroundings, and the smell of blood in the air became stronger.
Tony frowned slightly, but not too sadly.
Before entering, Tony had warned these people of the dangers of this underground palace, but even so, they still followed in.
Greed makes them lose their minds.
He didn't mind whether these people who were nicknamed explorers but were actually tomb robbers died.
What's more, this is their own suicide, and it has nothing to do with him.
Galante reacted and immediately raised the wand in his hand to point it at the monster and prepare to shoot.
But he was stopped by Tony.
He raised his finger and pointed at the ceiling, and everyone slowly raised their heads. This hall was very high, about ten meters, almost five or six stories high, so the light of the fluorescent fruit could not reach it.
But with the light of the fluorescent fruit, you can still see something.
Countless human-faced birds like this hang upside down on the ceiling, their scarlet eyes quietly watching everything on the ground...
Galante's scalp was numb, the hairs all over his body stood on end, and he didn't dare to take a breath.
"Now, let's exit slowly." Tony lowered his voice.
Galante nodded.
He turned his head and signaled the rest of the people behind him to retreat. At the critical moment of life and death, they did not dare to make too many moves. They all retreated out of the room little by little without daring to say a word.
Suddenly, the human-faced bird that was lying on the ground eating the corpse seemed to have discovered something, and raised its head to look at Tony and the others.
They stopped and their breathing almost stopped, but the human-faced bird didn't seem to have any intention of entangled with them, and instead flapped its wings and flew up to the roof.
The group of people all breathed a sigh of relief.
"Bah!"
A loud and piercing cry echoed throughout the tomb.
After a while, eagle chirps followed one after another. This chirp seemed to wake up all the human-faced birds sleeping on the ceiling.
The noisy and harsh sound was like countless people scratching the blackboard with their fingernails. It was harsh and piercing. Along with the sound of flapping wings, Tony's voice also came.
"run!!!"
With almost no hesitation, everyone took steps at that moment, turned around and ran away.
In the courtyard of the Moving Castle.
Xia Ya was lying on the recliner, and the magic projection in front of him was playing what happened in the underground palace.
Alicia was sitting on a chair behind Char, peeling an orange. She peeled off the peel, then tore off a piece of pulp and put it directly into Char's mouth.
Alicia raised her head and looked at the monsters with human faces and bird bodies and frowned, "What are these?"
"You will understand later." Xiaya looked at the people on the screen being chased by the human-faced birds and murmured in a low voice, "In a sense, this is the bitter fruit caused by these Europeans themselves."
Alicia didn't ask any more questions, but stretched out her hand and gently rubbed his cheek with her fingers, "Did you let these people in just to find the Jade Record?"
"if not?"
"I feel like you have other purposes." Alicia said.
Xia Ya smiled helplessly, "Sometimes you understand me too well, Alicia.
It’s the little secrets in life that make it interesting, right? "
Alicia didn't speak, just waited for his answer quietly.
Xia raised his hand, and a map appeared in front of them. It was a world map. It was very clearly drawn. The borders and disputed borders of all countries were drawn on the map.
Brittania and Beichen are particularly conspicuous on the map.
"What did you see?" Xia Ya asked.
"Map?" Alicia frowned.
"And what I see is the future." Xia looked at the map in front of her and murmured softly, "Britannia occupies the entire North America, and Beichen occupies most of Asia.
It is almost certain that in the future, the world will be dominated by these two countries. "
"Isn't this bad?" Alicia asked.
Char shook his head, "It depends on where you stand. If you stand on Brittania's point of view, this is naturally good.
But if you stand from the perspective of human civilization as a whole, this is different.
The world has become bipolar, but a mountain will not tolerate a second tiger. An iron curtain will divide the world into two in the future.
The civilizations of the East and the West will confront each other fiercely in the future. It may be the most brutal war, or it may be a competition between technology and economy, until one side has a winner.
The victor will draw nutrients from the corpse of the loser to strengthen itself, and the world will turn from bipolar to unipolar, becoming a single superpower.
Due to the establishment of this country's absolute dominant position, the long-term competition for leadership in the international system, which has been the source of world conflicts, will no longer exist.
To bring about "stability and peace under the dominance of unipolar forces" in the world
The more prominent and powerful this force is, the more stable and peaceful the international order under its leadership will be.
However, under the influence of unilateral hegemonism, it will cause instability in some regions and terrorism will become increasingly rampant.
There will be many countries oppressed by it.
From the perspective of a country, prosperity must decline. If there are no external enemies, then enemies will naturally appear from within. Absolute hegemony will lead to the abuse of power and corruption, and thus self-disintegration.
Therefore, a unipolar world only brings temporary peace and stability to the world, but it cannot be stable for a long time, and it is very harmful.
A better one should be the pattern of a multi-polar world.
In this case, the world will form a relationship that not only relies on each other but also restricts and balances each other, which will help avoid the outbreak of a new world war. "
"Isn't that right?" Alicia frowned and said, "Any powerful country has the desire to expand its territory. Even if such a multi-polar world really exists, it is impossible to stop wars. On the contrary, conflicts will become more intense. Is that much?"
"What if there is a weapon in the future world that is powerful enough to destroy a city and powerful enough to make all countries use rat weapons?
Moreover, countries in the multipolar world possess this weapon. "
Alicia fell silent.
"In this case, the cost of war will expand." Xia Ya said.
“Economic war will become the norm in the future, and at this time, the existence of a multipolar world will be necessary.
It can curb hegemonism and power politics, and promote the establishment of a truly just and reasonable new international order.
Many things will be achieved at the negotiating table to democratize international politics.
Economic regional globalization will gradually provide the basis for unification in the long-term future. "
"Of course, unification will be a long time in the future." Xia Ya said.
“Until a certain point appears, a multipolar world will be better than a unified world.
Although a unified world avoids internal friction to a certain extent, it can concentrate its efforts on major things.
But as the saying goes, one is born in sorrow and dies in happiness. Simply relying on human consciousness is not reliable.
And for a closed world, a unified world risks falling into the Tasmanian effect, leading to the degradation of civilization. "
Since the disintegration of the red world, Ugly Country has gradually fallen into decline due to the lack of a strong opponent.
The leader who was once the first to land on the moon now does not even own his own space station, and cannot even repeat the moon landing. Needless to say, it is rotten inside.
"What is the Tasmanian effect?" Alicia asked.
"Tasmania is a small island in the southern hemisphere. It is separated from Nanchen by the Bass Strait, which is two hundred kilometers wide.
When the Europeans discovered this group of people in 1624, they found that they were a very primitive group. They were covered in animal skins and did not even have the simplest animal skin clothes. They did not know how to fish and could only engage in the most basic hunting. Use the roughest stone tools.
However, according to scientific research, they were not so backward from the beginning. They once had clothing-making technology, advanced fishing and hunting technology, and many standard stone tools and bone tools, such as bone needles for sewing clothes.
In an isolated environment, human beings will close their creative abilities. In this environment, people will slowly lose their past technologies, and even lead to the regression of civilization. "
Alicia nodded, looked at the map in front of her and said, "So, you plan to come here to find one of the poles?"
"exactly."
Xia Ya's eyes flashed.
"I am ready to revive a civilization."
(End of chapter)
