Tony didn't have any objections to the fact that his most trusted friend was borrowing money from him. Although he didn't like raising money on weekdays, after hearing what Shinji Ikari wanted to do, he had no objection at all.
"That's what I want to do, but unfortunately I don't have enough patience, and I'm not very good at it. By the way, where do you plan to conduct your so-called social experiment?"
Tony rubbed his forehead: "You'd better not do it in China. After all, I'm just an ordinary businessman. Judging from your appearance, I will definitely make some big noise, and it's difficult for me to protect you in this country. The government The power is not weak, at least for you."
"Don't worry, I will go to some place that is a little more desolate but has enough resources. In fact, I already had an idea before that, that is Siberia."
Tony was a little surprised: "It is indeed rich in resources, but the population there is too sparse and the industry is only average. Why choose there."
"Didn't you pay attention when you flew around the world? Even if you didn't pay attention, you should have heard the rumors about the Tunguska explosion.
Although we have not yet figured out the source of the explosion, there is strong free magic power at the location of the explosion crater, and a continuous magic field is formed. It is one of the areas with the strongest magic power on the earth. Some High-dimensional magic must be communicated to other places, and it can be used directly there.
For magical civilization, the scope of the explosion area is equivalent to the oil of today's industrial civilization. Of course, your Ark reactor has caused the price of oil to plummet. Those guys who originally relied on oil to make their fortunes probably hate you to death. But even now, the role of petroleum in the chemical industry is still irreplaceable.
And the huge magic power should be similar in the early stages of the development of magic civilization. Believe me, that area will become prosperous. "
Tony raised his eyebrows: "It used to be a place where prisoners were exiled, and even now, but if it is as full of magic as you said, maybe you can actually create miracles, so I wish you good luck."
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The Lannos did not expect that Shinji Ikari would choose Siberia, nor did they expect that when his mecha landed in Siberia, it would happen to land in the only inhabited house in a deserted village.
"If I remember correctly, it should be the father and son living here!" Observer No. 15436 couldn't help but ask his colleagues around him.
"Yes, you remember correctly. It seems that the protagonists of these worlds have special destiny trajectories. Important characters are always connected with each other and will eventually come together inexplicably. I don't know that their encounter will make the plot different. What a completely new direction.”
…
Shinji Ikari didn't know who he was going to meet. After landing, he disintegrated his armor and let them scatter around the grassland in the form of drones, while he explored the place on foot. Magic environment.
There is an abandoned village not far away, but obviously no one lives there anymore. It may have been a pioneer farm, but it was completely abandoned because it had no economic value. There are still some houses that were once built in the village, and you can see some completely If you recycle the scrapped agricultural machinery, you may not even be able to pay for the freight by selling it for scrap.
And he just happened to see someone riding a motorcycle that was making noise all over except the horn, driving out of the village. With his disheveled hair, those who didn't know it thought he was playing music.
"Brother, where are you going? Do you need me to give you a lift?" The motorcycle stopped next to him. What's interesting is that the person riding on the car actually had a parrot standing on his shoulder. He didn't look afraid of people at all.
Shinji Ikari looked at the driver curiously: "Is there anyone still living in this village?"
"I am the only one who still has the old one in my family who has only one breath left. He is still clamoring for a drink all day long. He drank all my vodka and was about to go to the county for wholesale."
Shinji Ikari: "..."
Look at the word used, two people, wholesale, don't say it, this has to be drank as water to use this amount.
"I want to visit the village. I may want to settle nearby in the future." Shinji Ikari sensed that this place is one of the places with the strongest magic: "We may be neighbors in the future. My name is Ikari Yuantang." Shinji Ikari has become more and more proficient in using his father's pseudonym, and now there is almost no chance of him saying something wrong.
The man with disheveled hair looked at him deeply. Those who would live in such barren mountains and ridges were probably those who could not survive in the civilized world and had offended some serious existence. However, this had something to do with him. What's the relationship? His father is about to die. After sending his father away, the only thing left in his life is revenge.
"My name is Ivan Vanke, I wish you good luck!" After saying that, he rode away from the village on the motorcycle that was blaring except the horn.
Shinji Ikari walked around the village and found that it was indeed abandoned. The few houses that had not collapsed were also covered with dust. There were no signs of human habitation at all. It should not be a big problem to establish a magic hub here.
While he was wandering around the village, he noticed that in one of the houses still occupied by people, there was an old man whose vitality was already quite weak. Under normal circumstances, he would have died long ago. It was the special magical environment here that allowed him to His weak body held on.
He did not rush into the room to disturb, but waited for a while at the door of the courtyard. After hearing a clanking sound, he knew that Ivan was back.
"wait for me here?"
"Yes, I heard the sound of coughing. Your father may not be in good condition. I might be able to help."
"You?" Ivan shook his head: "Except for vodka, there is probably nothing in this world that can help him, but it doesn't matter, come in with me! It's difficult for a person to survive in this ice and snow."
Ivan pulled him into the room, then picked up a bundle of wood from the yard and threw it into the stove, which made the room warm again.
Ivan's father was lying there in the warmest place in the house. When he saw him come back, it was as if he had received a life-saving straw. He took a bottle of wine from his hand and took a shaky sip of alcohol to his mouth. It numbed his nerves and made him seem to see himself when he was young. He murmured in the hallucination: "My child, I have left you nothing, except my knowledge."
Shinji Ikari watched as the old man said this, as if he had ended a flashback, and his life breath was rapidly weakening. He didn't even have time to discuss it with Ivan and started building a spell model for healing magic on the spot.
As someone who had never been exposed to magic, Ivan could not see the magic model. At this time, he heard his father's last words and felt that his father's breath was completely cut off. He couldn't help shouting to the sky, and the sound reached the roof. The snow was falling with a rustling sound.
Halfway through the roar, he was interrupted by a rough and old voice: "What is the ghost calling? I'm still alive and well."
Then he felt someone slap him on the back.
Ivan turned around with a confused look on his face, and saw that his father was more energetic than ever. When he turned around, he was taking a swig of vodka, and he had just received a guest at home and was holding out his hand. Put a hand on the old man's heart, and you could vaguely see that the air between his palm and his heart showed a strange distortion, as if there was high-temperature airflow there, causing the refraction of light.
"What's this?"
"Some special treatment techniques can help alleviate the symptoms of various cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Your physical fitness is actually quite good. Even in such a cold place, there is no problem with your body. Dad is like this just because of drinking, otherwise he can live for another ten years if he doesn't talk about it."
Ivan: "..."
"Do you think he can quit like this?"
Shinji Ikari glanced at the old man, clutching the wine bottle in his hand, and the same was in Ivan's hand. The most outrageous thing was that the parrot on his shoulder would also lie on the mouth of the bottle, and then take a sip. Shinji Ikari It felt like this world was a bit magical, and he remembered that except for humans, most animals couldn't drink alcohol.
He could only regard this as a racial talent, and shook his head helplessly: "If you can't quit, then you can't quit! I'll teach you a set of movements, and you ask your father to do it again every day. It should be able to alleviate the situation and at least look like a normal old man. Likewise, there is nothing wrong with dying at the end of your life."
The magic power in this area is extremely rich. Even simple body movements can guide the magic power into the body and strengthen the physical quality to a certain extent.
He even suspected that the two would choose to settle here because it could alleviate the old man's condition to a certain extent.
Ivan is not a person who is very good at expressing his feelings. Living in such a world of ice and snow all year round has made him a little autistic. However, in the next few days, he still used his actions to express his gratitude to his new neighbors, and His action was to help Shinji Ikari build his house in the middle of winter in the wind and snow. In the process, he also witnessed some of his strange abilities, such as making the space between the bricks almost without adhesive. They were tightly connected to each other and even completely airtight, but he didn't ask much about it.
Most of the people who would go to such a place to live in seclusion have offended people outside who cannot afford to offend. If they are people with special abilities, it means that the people they offend are even more terrifying.
The house is just a temporary place to stay. Shinji Ikari wants to build a magic hub here, and then he probably needs to go to the civilized world to set up a company and recruit people to build a small industrial base, or magic base, here.
In the past few days, Ivan Vanke's father Anton Vanke's physical condition has been getting better and better. That set of movements is indeed useful. It is the radio gymnastics of elementary school students in Atlantis. Shinji Ikari also forgot which set it was, but if it were thrown into a martial arts world with adapted rules, it could basically be used as a secret book for the town sect.
In an environment full of magical power, the old man can now recognize shoes on the ground and the kang after eating two kilograms of vodka... Well, his wife is gone, so that's okay.
"It seems that before I die, I have the opportunity to impart more knowledge to you. There is still a lot of knowledge that I have not told you about the invention that I am most proud of during my lifetime. Without knowing this, your reaction is as follows. Efficiency is not optimal.”
Everything Anton said and did did not avoid Shinji Ikari. After all, he was his savior, and the other party also showed his special ability in front of him. Instead, the old man wanted to show off his return, otherwise he would also end up living in this barbaric land. People who know other people can do magic, but they don’t have any otherworldly abilities, so they always feel that they can’t do anything.
Then Shinji Ikari watched the old man take out a blue drawing, which clearly showed the Ark reactor.
If you look carefully at the signatures under the drawings, you can see that there are two names in the signatures, one is Anton Vanke, and the other is Howard Stark, Tony Stark's father.
He was very familiar with the design of this thing. Tony even explained the design principle of this thing to him personally, but the structure and manufacturing method of the Ark reactor had never been exposed. In other words, the design in front of the two of them The picture is most likely real and was passed down from decades ago.
"Old man? Did you really invent this thing back then? You can't win a big prize for such a powerful thing, and you are famous all over the world. Why did you come to this wilderness?"
The old man glared at him angrily, and then sprayed him with the smell of alcohol: "You kid still asked me, don't you know magic? If such a powerful thing is announced, isn't it much more powerful than the old man's mine? Why? He also came to this remote place."
Obviously the other party did not mean to answer the question directly, and was still explaining to his son about the Ark Reactor. In the original plot, although Ivan also built the Ark Reactor, the efficiency of the first-generation version was compared to the one used by Tony. It's still a bit worse, and the conditions are too limited. The first set of whip cord armor is still a bit worse than the portable steel armor. Even in the case of a sneak attack, it didn't win. Of course, it may be because of him. Got hit several times by cars.
Ivan, who is studying hard at this time, has no doubt that he has a deeper understanding of the Ark Reactor, and the version he can produce will not be worse than Tony.
Although the old man was unwilling to reveal his past, Ivan explained to Shinji Ikari what happened that year while roasting wild rabbits next to the campfire after a whole day of study.
In short, his father was a scientist who defected to the United States. He developed the Ark reactor with Howard Stark, but later they had a falling out, and Howard reported him as a spy and was deported. Such a person would One can imagine what the outcome will be, they can only live on this frozen soil.
This made him even a little lucky that his mother died early and did not have to go through this suffering with the two of them.
Shinji Ikari: "..."
"My former buddy is the child of my current buddy's enemy. What should I do? Wait online, send it!"
[To be continued]
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