The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman

The winter atmosphere approaching Christmas has finally emerged from the cold and silence to some mundane excitement. Outside the balcony, a shuttle full of passengers passes by from time to time, adding some unique vitality to the morning.

Schiller still lived in Eddie's house, not because he didn't want to move back to his practice, but because something happened to his only two residences in New York.

The site of the Arkham Sanatorium Skytrain was almost completed, but Jarvis suddenly pulled the brakes on himself, causing the project to stop urgently. Although it was quickly taken over by the next automated construction machinery, it was agreed. The mute device is not installed, even if it is running, there will be a lot of sound, and Schiller can't rest well at all.

The small clinic in Hell's Kitchen was also bombed. The last time Eddie led Bob to get the medicine, Bob threw the bomb he was going to use to blow up the shuttle in the basement.

Later, Bob had a bad idea about the expensive medicines in the room of the small clinic. In the middle of the night, he wanted to break into the clinic to steal the medicines, but because he was inexperienced, he went there in the middle of the night. Carefully detonating the bomb, he was half dead, and caused the structure of the clinic to collapse, making the entire ground floor uninhabitable.

Schiller can only continue to borrow from Eddie, but fortunately, because Eddie made a lot of money as the editor-in-chief, and because he is willing to downgrade his consumption, he rents a house on the edge of Hell's Kitchen, so at the same price, he can rent a house. to a bigger house.

The house that Eddie is renting now has three bedrooms, two living rooms and two large balconies. Although it is an old-fashioned building apartment, in terms of size, there is no problem at all for him, Schiller and Thor to live in.

A few mornings before Christmas, Schiller got up at 5:30 am according to his fairly punctual biological clock, and took medicine immediately after waking up. Certain anti-anxiety medications.

Of course, due to the existence of the gray fog, Schiller did not have any physical lesions, so these medicines became placebos, and he could take them whenever he remembered, and forget it if he couldn't remember.

Schiller took off his nightcap from his head and went to the bathroom. After a brief wash, he began to rummage through the ingredients in the refrigerator and prepared to make a breakfast.

At this moment, there was a sudden knock on the door, and Schiller frowned when he heard the rapid knock on the door.

He knew that this could not be a courier or a newspaper delivery person. There is no home delivery service in this block. Even if there was, they would not knock on the door in this way, as if you opened the door a second late, and the other party immediately About to shoot.

Schiller put down the lettuce in his hand, walked to the door, opened the door, and found Stark with a bruised nose and a swollen face standing outside the door.

Schiller raised his head, glanced at the air above his head, rubbed his eyes again, and then closed the door with a bang.

Opening the door again, Stark slowly withdrew his hand that wanted to continue smashing the door. After confirming that it was not a hallucination, Schiller looked Stark up and down and found that he was not in a good state.

First of all, Stark is wearing a special suit, which is different from the suits of nanotechnology and compression folding technology he has developed before. It is more like the original version of the armed suit, that is, he must walk on it by himself. Clothes can only be closed, and the kind of work.

Moreover, even this original battle suit is not complete. Stark only wears the breastplate and the left arm armor, the entire right arm armor and the left hand armor are all gone, and the leg armor Only one was neatly dressed, and the other disappeared from the knee down.

Schiller opened his mouth, and before some more tricky words were about to blurt out, seeing the wound on Stark's face, he still purified his language a little bit, and then said: Recently, you have the ambition to give yourself Will all the mechs hold a fashion show?

Stark stretched out his hand without the gauntlet, touched the wound on his face, took a breath, then he looked at Schiller with a bright smile, and Schiller also looked at him with a smile, But there was no intention of getting out of the way at all, so Stark could only stretch out two fingers, squeeze them together, and said, A small experimental error.

What's going on? Eddie came out rubbing his eyes, opening one eye and closing the other, his eyebrows raised and lowered. When Schiller looked back at him, he just turned sideways to get out of the way, and Stark whoosh Immediately squeezed through the door.

Eddie licked his lips, looked at the embarrassed Stark from head to toe, and the voice of venom came from his mouth:

Judging from the damaged area of ​​your suit and the direction of the scratches, you should have been knocked over by a big truck just now. Before I laugh at you, I have to ask you a question. Your mother didn't teach you , Don’t knock on the door so hard before confirming that no one is sleeping in the room?!!!!”

Seeing the saliva sprayed out by the venom, Stark took two steps back in disgust, wiped the surface of his battle suit with his hand, then stretched out his hand to gesture on his body, and looked at Schiller and Eddie, said: Haven't you noticed, is there anything special about this new suit?

It's so broken, is it special? Schiller turned around without looking at Stark, walked back to the refrigerator, and began to select ingredients for cooking.

This is a battle suit made of molten steel and vibrating gold alloy. This is my first molten steel vibrating gold alloy battle suit! Stark raised his voice and introduced: In the past, no one has ever been able to put The two metals were smelted into an alloy, but I succeeded!

Eddie touched his face and said: Let's not talk about it, has anyone been able to do it before, are you sure...you succeeded?

Stark looked down at his slightly embarrassed image, touched his nose, and said: This is a test version. The properties of this alloy are a little more difficult to control than I imagined. Some parts of the parts are more difficult to control. Some of them are not particularly compatible, and the cooperation between each other is also a bit tacit...

But it doesn't matter, that's exactly what I made it for! I'm here today, just to invite you to come up with a loud and nice name for this monumental progress in materials science!

At this time, Thor, who was awakened, came out with his hands on his waist. His upper body was naked, and his whole body was covered with smooth muscle lines. He shook his blond hair, squinted his eyes, and looked at Si Tucker said, ...you crashed?

Stark immediately jumped up like a cat whose tail was stepped on, and shouted: What is a crash?!! This is just a small mistake in the testing phase!!!

Okay, the plane crashed. Thor walked to the island in the kitchen, took the cold beer that Schiller handed him, opened the can and poured two mouthfuls into his mouth, wiped his mouth, and let out a sound of satisfaction exclamation.

Stark stood still and sighed, and looked down at his toes. The shoe on the foot without the armor was already broken.

Stark coughed twice, and said seemingly unintentionally: So, is this a station you opened for your friends? The great Stark came here, should you provide a little maintenance and help? Help with upkeep?

Eddie also walked to the cutting board, and Schiller just brought over a plate of celery. The two got together, Schiller looked back at Stark, and said in a low voice, It probably crashed halfway through the flight. It's so embarrassing that I don't have the face to go back to see his father...

Eddie took a piece of celery and put it in his mouth, took a bite, and said while chewing: I think it's more likely that he has no face to see Pepper...

The two nodded together, and Stark stood in the doorway and yelled at them, Don't think I can't hear you! ... Can't you find me some shoes before we talk?

Thor, who was slumped on the sofa and drinking beer, pointed to the shoe cabinet at the door and said, On the penultimate floor, slippers, shoe covers, and sneakers are all there.

Stark limped to the shoe cabinet, took out a brand new pair of disposable slippers with his hand covered with gauntlets, and after putting them on, he swaggered to the sofa and sat next to Thor.

Thor put his hands on the back of the sofa, turned to look at Stark, and asked, How is Jarvis?

Stark put his elbows on his knees, touched the stubble on his chin with his hand, and said, I decided to delete Jarvis's underlying agreement, what do you think?

I'm not a human being, so I don't have any opinions to express, but I think it's best not to let too many people know about this matter. Human beings are too suspicious, and they won't be willing to give so much important data to someone with knowledge A robot with independent consciousness. Thor walked to the island, brought another can of cold beer, and handed it to Stark.

I believe in Jarvis. Stark took a sip of the beer, gritted his teeth, and said, However, what you said makes sense, so I don't intend to tell anyone but you , you also need to help Jarvis keep it secret...

Eddie brought the freshly made vegetable salad to the coffee table, patted Stark on the shoulder, and Stark looked back at him.

Eddie walked back and said: Originally, I also felt that intelligent life with independent consciousness is not so reliable, but when I think about it carefully, it is even less reliable to hand over these materials to Congress, the military, or private groups. For Jarvis.

Speaking of which, what's the matter with this suit? Thor reached out and patted Stark's arm that was attached to the suit, and said, It looks a little different, and it's more beautiful than some of your original outfits. The convenient battle suit looks heavier and stronger, and seems to have some other functions...

You are very knowledgeable. Starklick became happy, and Thor snorted and said: Don't treat the gods of Asgard as bumpkins who have never seen the world. These stages of human technological development go through , Asgard has already experienced it.”

In fact, we have also developed similar individual armed forces and made some achievements. The Destroyer is one of them. However, we later discovered that our individual qualities are too strong. No matter what armed forces, we can only It would hinder our agility, so we gave up this path.

Stark snapped his fingers, took another sip of cold beer, and said, You've got the point. This new suit officially refers to the Destroyer.

Before, what I was pursuing was the speed of arming, as well as the lightness and flexibility of the battle suit, but now, I found that I need a set of heavy armor to strengthen my close combat ability, and it can also be used to control the armor if necessary. other side.

Thank you for the gift of nature. The Destroyer suit has given me a lot of inspiration. In addition, the breakthrough in material science brought about by the successful refining of molten steel and vibration gold alloy is also a necessary factor for the successful development of this suit...

More importantly... Stark became more and more excited as he spoke, and his tone gradually became high-pitched: The previous nano-suits and folding suits are more suitable for arming humans with combat experience, but this kind of suit is more Suitable for independent combat...

Moreover, it's not just combat, as long as it is equipped with a sufficiently intelligent AI, it can complete a lot of space work for humans, so that precious astronauts can be safer and play a greater role...

So, wearing such an advanced, high-tech, cross-age armor, you crashed into a truck? ... and haven't crashed yet? Thor asked.

I said it all!! This is just a beta version!!! Stark stood up and shouted: Besides, these missing parts have automatic pathfinding function, and they will come back soon!

Whoosh! Bang!

A black figure smashed through the glass, drew a graceful straight line in the air, and hit Stark's nose head-on.

The three of them turned their heads and set their eyes on the part of the face shield that just flew up and achieved a fatal blow.

And Stark used his trembling arms to remove the parts stained with nosebleeds from his face. He saw in a blur that the heads of Thor and Eddie approached, and on Schiller's side, A cell phone camera sticks out.

With a click, Schiller retracted the phone, and Stark, who was lying on the ground, widened his eyes. Schiller came over, squatted next to his head, shook the phone and said:

If you don't want Howard or Pepper to be the recipient of my text message, shouldn't you consider increasing the budget for your health and medical treatment in the next quarter?

Schiller!!!!!!!!!!