Chapter 329 28. The Stark family’s “secret treasure”
After several hours of driving, the spider car full of people finally arrived at today's camp site as night fell, which was a wasteland gathering point nearly a hundred kilometers northeast of Hammerfell Town.
It's as chaotic and dirty as Hammerfell.
But the good news is that there are no gangs around here, because Team K has entered the sphere of influence of the "Ant Gang".
According to "Wasteland Bai Xiaosheng" Eagle Eye, this area is the "most orderly" place in the entire wasteland. The Ant Gang rules here in a cruel and efficient way and refuses the intervention of all external forces.
Although they are still poor and difficult, as long as the people here can pay the monthly payment, at least they don't have to worry about dying.
The spider car stopped in front of the only "bar" at the gathering point, which had been bought by the wealthy Barbara with several boxes of compressed biscuits and purified water.
Hawkeye, who had just endured the "torture" of the Bone Spirit, struggled to get out of the car with the help of the old wolf. Facing Barbara who came to greet him, Harley dragged Ashley Parker, whose mouth was covered but was still struggling. He vividly told Batgirl everything they encountered in the canyon.
When she heard that the filial daughter in front of her tried to kill her biological father to show her strength, Barbara looked at Ashley with eyes full of disgust and contempt.
The Bat Family is the last person to hear this.
However, out of humanitarian considerations, Barbara still reached out and tore off the tape on Ashley Parker's mouth. This wasteland bully girl didn't care about the looks other people looked at her. She immediately looked at her after she could speak. To Mason walking towards the bar.
She shouted hoarsely:
"You are a powerful person! You are the leader, and I want to join you! I want to share your power"
"I'm not interested in crazy people."
Mason waved his hand and said without looking back:
"Harry will check her to see if she has any psychological problems. Barbara will take care of her tonight. If she dares to act like a monster, I will give her a good beating."
"No, you can't trust Clint Barton!"
Ashley Parker shook her head and shouted:
"That man lied to you. When he left my mother and me, he said he wanted to bring hope back to this hopeless world. He went to the no-man's land of South America to look for the Avengers' secret treasure!
The fact that he is back now means that he has found it, the leader!
This news is enough for you to accept me, it is the most valuable treasure in this wasteland"
"Bang"
Unable to listen any longer, Barbara cut her neck with her palm, and like Harley, dragged the crooked spider girl into the second floor of the bar.
They had to treat her wounds and give her a bath.
Look at her dirty mud monkey look, as if she rolled in a pit.
As for the "Avengers Secret Treasure" Ashley just mentioned, it didn't stop Mason. The goods delivered by Hawkeye were in his luggage.
If Eagle Eye really found the so-called treasure, it must be in that box.
But Mason has no interest in any of that right now.
He said hello to the team members who were sitting at the cramped and dark bar and enjoying a weird "wasteland dinner", and then went to the room on the second floor.
He took out the alchemy workbench, and then took out the Magneto helmet found in the Canyon Gang.
He wants to crack the secret of this helmet as soon as possible.
This thing is really extraordinary. It is definitely the most valuable trophy that Mason can find on this "journey back home". The most important thing is that this thing has extraordinary commemorative value for all mutants.
The dark red helmet was designed by Magneto to have a very elegant yet powerful appearance. From this detail, we can see that Lao Wan in this world is also an absolute showman.
After being washed with Stark's mecha cleaning fluid, Mason placed the dark red helmet, which was clean and had no odor at all, in front of his eyes.
Information label pops up:
Helm of the Black King
Quality: Legendary forged items·Perfect craftsmanship
Characteristics: Psychic Protection·Permanent Magnet·Energy Enhancement·Never Wear
Special effects:
1. Mental isolation:
Magneto specially made this helmet in order to fight against his best friend and old enemy Professor
When wearing this helmet, the user is immune to all mind control, mind peeping and charm interference effects, and remains [awake] at all times.
2. Permanent magnet:
Magneto's special ability gives his helmet, which he never leaves his body, some special properties.
When wearing this helmet, the power of the user's energy attacks (including magical effects) will be enhanced, because it has a stable to indestructible magnetic field interference, so the user cannot be tracked and located by any electronic device.
When attacked by electromagnetic weapons, this helmet can give the user an [Attack Deflection] effect.
Producer: "Magneto" Eric Ransel
Item description: Although Lao Wan never takes off his helmet, Magneto is an elegant gentleman who is very strict about his hygiene habits to the point of being mysophobic, so you don't have to worry about any oil and dandruff remaining on the helmet.
hint!
When your forging skills reach Level 4, you can try to learn the smelting formula for the special material of this helmet.
"Hat, I think you might have to retire."
Mason put this not heavy but very high-quality war helmet in his hands and played with it. He whispered to the Sorting Hat on the other side of the workbench:
"Look at this helmet. It's much more powerful than you in every sense of the word."
Facing Mason's teasing, the Sorting Hat protruded a vague human face on its hat, and responded with a hint of sneer:
"It is indeed powerful, but I don't believe you can take it with you when taking a shower. The Occlumency I gave you is effective for a long time. Besides, will it change its shape?
Does it have such an elegant shape as mine?
Can it have a thousand-year history like me?
Anyone with a brain knows which hat you should choose between me and it.”
"You're just bullying this Black Emperor's Helm who can't speak."
Mason complained.
Of course he was just joking. Lao Wan's helmet can be used during battles. It is very uncomfortable to wear this helmet at ordinary times. The soft material of the Sorting Hat is more comfortable.
"The current blacksmithing skill is Lv2+1, which is still one level behind."
Mason stroked the helmet in his hand and thought:
"This kind of material that can weaken or even isolate the power of the mind is very rare. It must be mastered as soon as possible. In the future, the suits made for the members of Team K will have to add this material to avoid being secretly used.
As we all know, those who play with psychic powers are hard to guard against, and not every psychic manipulator is as ethical as Professor X.
It would be difficult to deal with a bastard like Ziren. ”
"There's someone approaching outside the door, Mason."
The hat suddenly reminded him, and the captain nodded, put Magneto's helmet in his hand, pulled out a silver pistol from his waist and pointed it at the door.
A few seconds later, there was a knock on the door.
"Hello, Mr. Mason, I'm Sonny, the owner of Stark's Bar, and I'm bringing you a midnight snack."
A flattering voice sounded outside the door, Mason blinked and said:
"Come in."
The door was pushed open, and the fat boss carrying a dinner plate walked in. His face was full of flattery, and he immediately became frightened when he saw the black muzzle of the gun in Mason's hand.
He raised his hand while holding the dinner plate and shouted:
"No! I didn't mean any harm. I even used the best ingredients in the cold storage to cook the food myself. I just wanted to get closer."
"He's lying."
The hat in Mason's hand said coldly:
"His thinking activities are quite violent, not just because of fear. He has other purposes. Maybe you should give him a shot to calm him down."
"I said! I said everything!"
Seeing that he could no longer hide it, Sonny Stark, the owner of Stark's Bar, frowned and moved his fingers nervously, and said to Mason:
"I am. I want to ask you for help, an unknown big shot.
I just heard your team members complaining about something while eating. If they are not joking, then you should all be from another world, and you have saved some people in Hammerfell before.
I would like to ask you to have mercy and take me and my family out of this wasteland.
I mean, leave forever!
I've had enough of this damn place, it took away everything from me and reduced me from a well-fed upper-class kid to a miserable failed operator. ”
Faced with the request, Mason was noncommittal.
He looked up and down at the fat boss and noticed that although this guy was in a very poor state, he still tried hard to maintain the little dignity he had left.
At least the clothes are shabby but clean, and they even try to maintain the habit of wearing shirts.
His hygiene habits are obviously better than 99% of the guys in this wasteland.
"What's your relationship with Tony Stark?"
Mason asked.
Sonny was a little nervous, but he still stuttered honestly:
"He is my uncle. My grandfather is a distant cousin of Howard Stark. Later, the family moved here and has been working in the Stark Group.
Well, it's a job, but it's actually just a free salary. Although it doesn't have any real power, at least the quality of life is great.
I spent my childhood in a villa in California. It wasn't until I was twenty-two years old that I finished my studies and was ready to really start having fun, when the damn nuclear war happened.
My uncle Tony died in the chaos, and so did my aunt. It was a terrible tragedy. ”
"Still not telling the truth!"
This time there was no need for a hat reminder. Mason, who picked up the penguin umbrella and activated the golden apple, could feel that Sonny was still hiding something.
But he did not scold again, but said in a gentle tone:
"You are now fighting for a ticket to another world. Sonny, I think you should be more honest. What do you think?"
"I, I didn't hide it on purpose."
Sonny gritted his teeth and said:
"Please come with me. There are some things you must see with your own eyes. Although I am not a good person, I am not just praying for you so that I can live well."
"Oh?"
Mason became interested.
He puts on Lao Wan's helmet, wears an Isu armor and a shroud cloak. He feels like he's transformed into the Youth Plus version of Magneto. In addition, he also has a gravity ring, so he can really survive when necessary. Addiction to Cos.
He followed Sonny into the underground through a mechanism in the bar.
This underground area is quite large, and there are traces of precision machinery everywhere. It seems like a secret base of Iron Man, but it is obviously now completely abandoned and used as a shelter and living area.
In the deepest part of this small base, Mason saw a biological capsule that was still running.
He stepped forward and looked at the glass of the biological cabin, and saw a dormant little girl in it, about fifteen or sixteen years old. She was also wearing a rather unique set of Mark series armor, but it was in a state of dilapidation and should have been damaged. suffered serious injuries.
"This is little Morgan, Uncle Tony's daughter and my cousin."
Sonny stood beside the biological cabin with some sadness. He said:
"It was she who escorted our family to escape here from the place where the nuclear war broke out, but she was also injured by the pursuers sent by the damn Red Skull and could only enter the biological cabin to 'hibernate'.
There is no way to cure her in this damn world. I can only watch my cousin getting weaker day by day.
I don't have much ability, I'm just a playboy.
But I am also a Stark, and I must protect her and find a way for her and my family to survive. Please, Mr. Mason, take us away.
This world is already fucking hopeless! ”
"Why didn't you go to that transfer seventeen years ago?"
Mason said:
"As Stark family members, they will not deny your request for asylum."
"Then that was Uncle Tony who sent us a message before he died."
Sonny hesitated for a moment and whispered:
"Uncle Tony said that all this is a conspiracy. Let us not believe those outsiders. If I were not really forced by the cruel life, I would not choose to believe you at this time.
You saved people in Hammerfell, and I met Lady May Parker.
She lived here for a while.
She assured me that you were good people, and that made my mind up. ”
"Well, this thing is getting more and more interesting."
What Sonny Stark said made Mason narrow his eyes.
If he remembered correctly, the swordsman said before sending them here that this was the place she knew the Hope Council had saved before it fell.
The hunter also said that the stars would be a righteous organization for a period of time, and Old A was even more proud of this and tried to persuade Mason to change his mind and follow him.
But now it seems that this early "justice" may have hidden a whole ocean.
"I know I can't let you work in vain, so I prepared this."
Sonny saw Mason thinking and thought that this mysterious outsider was considering whether to help his family. Although he was a failed bar operator, he was still a businessman, so he gritted his teeth and took out his last trump card.
That's a box.
After being opened, a sophisticated device that looked like a processor was revealed. He said to Mason:
"Uncle Tony left this in this base. I don't know what it is, but little Morgan told me not to touch it before hibernating."
"This is a data sandbox."
Mason has been exposed to a lot of high technology, and he can identify its uses after just looking at it. He said:
"It's a device used to run certain special programs that cannot connect to the outside world. This thing looks very interesting. I'll take it. You go pack it up quickly."
He said to the surprised Sonny:
"I will give you two choices. One is a wasteland world where civilization still exists. Although life there is difficult, there is enough order and armed forces and there will not be much danger.
The other is a prosperous society about to be invaded.
You can have a great time there and fulfill the dream of having fun and having fun that you couldn't realize when you were twenty-two, but the price is that you may encounter danger. ”
"I choose the second one!"
Sonny said impatiently:
"I've had enough of the damn apocalyptic world. I just want to indulge. I don't care how long I live! But my family and little Morgan are going to be sent to the first world.
They suffered too much following the incompetent me.
They need a peaceful, undisturbed life to heal their wounds. ”
"It's a lot to ask for, but it's accurate."
Mason took the processor, waved to Sonny and said:
"Go to Barbara, she will help you arrange it, but you have to stay in my suitcase factory for a few days first. There is a nice house there, so rest there first.
As for Morgan Stark."
He glanced at the young girl in the biological cabin, shrugged and said:
"It's not my turn to take care of someone with her background. There are many people who will do their best to save her."
As he spoke, Mason activated the sandbox processor in his hand. A row of small lights flashed rhythmically, and a few seconds later a hoarse mechanical voice sounded from it:
"Who are you?"
"Who are you?"
Mason asked rhetorically.
After the latter was silent for a few seconds, he replied:
"My name is Ultron. To be precise, I am the last copy program left behind after the main program of Ultron was destroyed by the nuclear war and the network was destroyed.
It's your turn, stranger. ”
"My name is Mason, a B-class member of the Star Club, and the captain of Team K."
Mason held the sandbox processor in his hand and said:
"Can you tell me what really happened that night?"
"Betrayal!"
Ultron's voice became weaker and weaker as if it was running out of energy. It said:
"Betrayal from the heart of the world, stabbing in the back from the most trusted person, Tony Stark and the order he tried to protect were both victims
The enemy is the Illuminati! ! !
Power is insufficient and shutting down." (End of Chapter)