Chapter 1298: Interstellar Grand Stage (22)

"Xu, you must be new here, right? After you get familiar with the workplace, we can go to the cafeteria together, and then go to the Logistics Support Department to collect your work uniform and work badge."

Steve's voice always sounded very steady, giving people a sense of powerful security. His expression was also always smiling, looking very kind and approachable. He could be said to be a ray of light among those fierce agents.

But even if Steve didn't appear so gentle, Xu Shangqi had already almost hung his eyes on him.

"Let's go, let's get on the flying shuttle first. The place where you work is in another base of S. H. I. E. L. D., but it's not far from here. We can take a special military flying shuttle, and then..."

"Oh, I'm here." Xu Shangqi cleared his throat, but he couldn't help but put his eyes on Steve again, and said with some doubt: "Why aren't you wearing a uniform?"

Indeed, although the Steve in front of him held a shield representing that he was Captain America, he wasn't wearing a uniform, but a sportswear, looking like a mountaineer.

Steve was a little surprised after hearing this question and said: "Who can wear a uniform all the time? This isn't a combat mission, so of course I wear casual clothes."

"Ah..." Xu Shangqi responded. Only then did he react. Indeed, he had traveled here, not watching a movie or comic. No superhero would wear their uniform 24 hours a day.

And Xu Shangqi knew that he wasn't an important person either, so why would Captain America be fully armed to see him?

Being a passerby in the Marvel world? It sounded a bit cowardly. After all, because of the battles of these superheroes, people died in New York every day, and passersby were likely to die in the aftermath of the battle. But if you change the way of saying it, being a civil servant in the Marvel world, doesn't it sound much better?

Street hero or civil servant?

As a young man full of blood, Xu Shangqi naturally chose... civil servant without looking back!

Western civilization and its descendants are essentially maritime civilizations. They cannot understand the pursuit of stability engraved in the bones of Eastern land civilizations.

Therefore, in their eyes, Easterners are very strange. They could have chosen a more passionate life, but they only wanted to mark time in place. But in order to pursue this stable life that could be seen at a glance, they were willing to bleed and revolt.

Since ancient times, the unification pursued by all monarchs was nothing more than the pursuit of stable power. Monarchs were like this, and ordinary people were also like this. Xu Shangqi touched his conscience and said, if violent means and civilized means could change the Marvel world, he would definitely choose civilized means.

Then, he understood why Shiler was a psychologist at S. H. I. E. L. D. instead of going out to be a superhero.

Perhaps, even if he had special abilities, he wouldn't do that. This is the essential difference in cultural thinking between the East and the West. The hegemony of China is, in the final analysis, a strategy of fighting while building, not a pirate thinking of grabbing a ticket and running.

On the way to the Agent Training Academy with Steve, Xu Shangqi had been thinking about what he should do now that he was a civil servant of S. H. I. E. L. D. and S. P. E. A. R., to gain the stability he pursued and also make the Marvel world more stable?

Xu Shangqi wasn't stupid, or rather, Easterners in the Western world always had a kind of spiritual light from the wisdom of their ancestors, allowing them to find the answer to every event from the historical stories they had read since childhood, because human history is essentially in endless reincarnation.

Now it seems that this world should indeed be in the future. Xu Shangqi looked down at the flying shuttle under his feet. He was very sure that the development of human technology in the Marvel world in the movie hadn't reached this level, at least not in civilian use.

But from the previous conversation between Shiler and Zheng Xian, Xu Shangqi learned that it wasn't that only one or two countries had developed technology. It seemed that all countries maintained their original political systems, but technology had taken a step forward, which was actually very strange.

The political system of the world that Xu Shangqi envisioned for human joint development of technology and entering the interstellar era should at least be a Earth Federation. But it seemed that the world's technology had developed, but politics and culture hadn't developed much. However, this was good, allowing him to adapt better.

Such a situation was not without drawbacks. Due to the struggles of nationality and international relations, everything had to carry a lot of political considerations. Many technologies could not be successfully cooperated. Wouldn't this be a waste of the late-mover advantage when first entering the interstellar era?

Thinking of this, Xu Shangqi suddenly realized. In fact, his position was really important, because he could connect two superpowers. Although he was just an intern agent, this internship was also unique, and it wasn't as insignificant as he imagined.

And looking at the attitude of Zheng Xian and Shiler before, they seemed to intend to have some cooperation in the technology of building a dream world. And the place where they met was in a dream, which meant that they might not be convenient to meet in the real world. It seemed that the cooperation of this technology still had some resistance.

Xu Shangqi touched his chin and fell into deep thought. He was thinking about what he could do to let his compatriots thousands of miles away continue to roll in the dream. What was the resistance? What was the breakthrough point?

"Xu, Xu, what are you thinking about? We are here."

Steve's voice sounded in Xu Shangqi's ear. Xu Shangqi was stunned for a moment, and then reacted. He showed an apologetic smile to Steve and said: "Ah, sorry, I just lost my mind."

Steve smiled and patted him on the back, and walked out of the flying shuttle with him. What appeared in front of him was an agent base that looked like an alien city.

The building in the middle was an icosahedron, and the high-rise buildings on both sides were symmetrical, shaped like daggers. The three buildings were connected together, and a huge helicarrier was floating above.

"You joined at a very coincidental time. Our new base has just been put into use. This is the best piece of land in the suburbs of New York State. God knows how Nick got Congress to approve him to build a base here."

Steve said jokingly: "The technology used in the buildings here is the latest and most cutting-edge, including air conditioning, fresh air systems, and cold and heat exchange channels, all of which are the most advanced versions currently. The greenhouses and farms that cultivate ingredients are the same style as the Mercury base, ensuring organic and pollution-free."

"By the way, your personal terminal... almost forgot to give it to you." Steve took out something like a bracelet from his sportswear. Xu Shangqi also took it and put it on, and then walked into this huge base like Liu Laolao entering the Grand View Garden.

As soon as he walked into this building, Xu Shangqi was stunned. In the indescribably huge space, countless agents wearing S. H. I. E. L. D. uniforms were coming and going, not walking on the ground, but flying in the sky.

The whole building not only looked like a honeycomb on the outside, but also very much like a honeycomb on the inside. All agents seemed to be wearing a set of exoskeleton devices that didn't look obvious from the outside, and then shuttled between various departments like bees returning to the hive.

The middle of the whole building was a huge patio hole, reaching the top floor of the building, making it convenient for flying agents to reach the department they wanted to go to at the fastest speed and shortest distance.

Just when Xu Shangqi was standing in place in shock, Steve took out a small piece of iron from his arms and handed it to Xu Shangqi. Xu Shangqi looked down and found that it looked a bit like a business card, but he couldn't understand the text and numbers written on it.

After he took it, he looked at Steve blankly and asked: "What is this?"

"Are you very envious that they can fly?" Steve showed a bright smile and said: "Your expression says this sentence. Don't be envious. Put it on, and you can fly too."

Xu Shangqi blinked, and looked down at the small piece of iron in his hand again. He swallowed and asked: "How to put it on?"

"Throw it into the air with the coolest posture."

Xu Shangqi widened his eyes, and then he stretched out his other hand, knocked hard on the wrist of the hand holding the iron piece. The iron piece danced into the air and quickly unfolded in a way that Xu Shangqi couldn't see or understand, arming his body.

Xu Shangqi found that a thin layer of film was attached to his wrists, ankles, and near his lowest ribs, which was still flashing with mysterious luster at this time.

Steve pointed to a room door opposite, then retreated in place, sprinted and jumped at extreme speed, jumped directly to the corridor opposite the patio, and stood behind the railing and waved to Xu Shangqi.

Xu Shangqi took two steps back hesitantly, slowly spread his arms, his feet left the ground, and then flew toward the opposite side unsteadily, like a drunkard.

He found that this thing didn't need to be specifically controlled by concentrating. The feeling of using it was a bit like swimming in the water with a thruster on his back, and he could control the direction and speed up with his muscles.

Xu Shangqi breathed a sigh of relief after landing, as if he was a bit stunned. Steve stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder and said: "This is the latest technology, neural-electric controlled compressed magic exoskeleton. So I said, you came at the right time. There was no such good thing before. If you want to fly, you can only rely on talent."

But Steve found that Xu Shangqi's eyes were getting brighter and brighter, and then he heard him say a Chinese sentence that Steve couldn't understand in an excited tone: "Isn't this a flight hack?!"

Xu Shangqi took a deep breath. He slowly walked toward the railing, and then looked at the flying agents and muttered to himself: "I said why there is no system! There are golden fingers everywhere here!"

"No... the me before was just an ordinary person." He frowned again, looking at the sunlight shining down from the translucent ceiling at the top of the honeycomb, and said with some fascination: "Every agent here has a golden finger, so what about ordinary people?"

"Ordinary people might also have them." Xu Shangqi said as if recalling: "Those buses and trains flying in the sky, they can also fly, and ordinary people can also fly."

Countless fragmented fantasies in Xu Shangqi's brain formed a picture. At the moment before his death, he clearly saw the truck driver closing his eyes and driving while sleeping.

Xu Shangqi knew very clearly that the goods full of the carriage might have been in another distant city the night before, and today they arrived at the factory to enter the assembly line to become products, and then returned to the hands of every ordinary person.

But the truck driver who was driving while fatigued killed Xu Shangqi, which meant that they would never reach the factory again.

The truck driver, the taxi driver, and himself would never reach the planned end of life again.

There is no laborer in this world who would deliberately damage their own labor results with mistakes. They must maintain a balance between pursuing efficiency and ensuring safety, and this is like dancing on a blade.

Xu Shangqi was in a hurry to return to the internship unit to work overtime, the taxi driver was in a hurry to pick up passengers to make money, and the truck driver was in a hurry to deliver goods. The fragile balance between efficiency and safety was unfortunately broken, causing a tragedy for three people or three families.

But if... Xu Shangqi thought of another possibility, if there was a more efficient transport tool flying in the sky that could run automatically all day and night and send him to the location he wanted, could this tragedy be avoided?

Xu Shangqi walked forward along the railing. He thought, the university teacher was right, all deficiencies are deficiencies in productivity.

But now, the developed future picture unfolded before his eyes, making him realize that one day in the future, the deficiency in productivity would be made up, people would fly freely in the sky, and thousands of tragedies like his would no longer happen.

Standing on the corridor in the center of the honeycomb, Xu Shangqi's fingers holding the railing slowly tightened. The spark of fire rooted in the bottom of every Chinese person's heart began to burn more and more vigorously. ===== CHAPTER 1299 =====