Chapter 362: Wakanda Chaos (Part 1)
After Christmas, heavy snow fell from the sky of New York. The heavy snow covered the city in silver. Schiller sat on the office chair, blew the floating heat on the cup, and the light of the computer screen reflected in his eyes.
Although the computer screen now stays on the interface of the work software, Schiller shook the mouse slightly, and the interface of the news website below the work software was revealed. On it is the science news section newly opened by the Global Times.
Originally, the Global Times did not report on the progress of scientific research, or it could be said that no newspaper would carefully report this kind of thing. Even if there was, it was just to create a more exaggerated gimmick to attract the attention of those black technology lovers, or to stand for certain companies.
But times have changed. When the Solar System construction plan is in full swing, the official also began to disclose some information to ordinary people through some news channels to give them a vaccination.
Otherwise, people would still be in the period when landing on the moon was difficult, and suddenly a spaceship appeared on their heads, which would scare many people.
Therefore, newspaper media with official channels like the Global Times began to focus on reporting human scientific and technological progress, as if in just a few days, human basic science had been greatly improved.
In fact, many technologies had been researched long ago, but they were still confidential. And now, because the technological leap is about to begin, these confidential technologies are no longer necessary to be kept secret. Therefore, ordinary people found that reports on these scientific and technological advances occupied all news and browser home pages overwhelmingly.
Because Eddie Brock is a cosmic frontline reporter, mainly referring to rushing to the front line of various cosmic major events, relying on the unreasonable powerful physical fitness of the Venom symbiote, hard-carrying the aftermath of war, and filming many precious cosmic pictures, after returning to Earth, he is also the editor-in-chief of the Global Times, so the science section of the Global Times has become the most popular science news report.
At this time, on the main interface of their official website, the most conspicuous title has a line of large characters: "Material technology breakthrough again! Molten Steel alloy not inferior to Vibranium is born, will human materials science move towards a new peak?"
After clicking on this title, you can see an interview report full of various professional terms. The interviewee is a researcher at Stark Industries. According to him, Molten Steel is a miracle of materials science in the new era, possessing attributes not inferior to Vibranium, and more importantly, it can be synthesized in batches with huge output.
When asked about the formula of this alloy, this researcher revealed. This is still Tony Stark's masterpiece, and the formula is only mastered by him alone.
This result did not make people who saw this report feel surprised. In fact, in the past few days, Stark seemed to have been opened up by the Ren and Du meridians. Amazing inventions were one after another.
It's not that no one suspected that he was conducting academic fraud to attract attention, but Stark told them in another way that this was all true—he applied all these technologies to his steel armor, and then flew eight times a day over New York in his steel armor.
When it was revealed before that Stark was Iron Man, most people's evaluation of this was very negative. They regarded the steel armor as a toy for a wealthy man to find fun.
Until now, this impression has not changed much, it just became a toy for a wealthy man with technology to find fun.
Most people's evaluation of Iron Man now is that Stark is a complete scumbag, a damn playboy, God is really unfair to the extreme, not only gave him so much money, but also gave him a brain that is easy to use.
Stark enjoyed this evaluation very much. In the interview, he answered this question positively. He said: "Yes, but God is more unfair than you think. He not only gave me a lot of wealth and wisdom, but also gave me the charm to make women all over the world fall for me. This is the point!"
Regardless of those black fans who were so angry that their teeth itched, those former cover girl girlfriends stood up one after another and said that they had no interest in Stark's wealth and wisdom, mainly because they valued his charm.
These gossip news are not mentioned for the time being. The news report of the new material Molten Steel not only caused an uproar in the three continents of America, Asia, and Europe, but also made a small country in Africa anxious like an ant on a hot pot, that is Wakanda.
It must be admitted that Wakanda's international status today is inseparable from the importance of Vibranium. The leader of Wakanda, Black Panther, is indeed a leader with knowledge and vision, but without the special material properties of Vibranium, Wakanda would definitely not have developed to today's level.
Originally, Wakanda held the Vibranium stock in its hands, and could hold the Emperor to command the princes, and use Vibranium to utilize the whole world, so that Wakanda could occupy an important position in interstellar development.
Even Stark had to discuss with Black Panther in a good voice, and even. At this important node, countries that want to get Vibranium shares must bid. Wakanda's international status has risen sharply recently.
If the leader Black Panther T'Challa was a small person who didn't seek progress and was selfish, then he should have been crowned Emperor of Africa by now.
But T'Challa is a leader with wisdom and vision. Although he stuck to Vibranium resources, he also manipulated resources to exchange for the support of the international community, and also had great righteousness, and joined hands with Stark to increase the mining output of Vibranium, so that human Solar System construction plan could go more smoothly.
During this period of research, the friendship between Stark and T'Challa progressed by leaps and bounds. Therefore. When the news of Molten Steel came out, T'Challa contacted Stark immediately.
"... Yes, I know you are very anxious, and I also know that the new material is related to the future development of Wakanda, but the reserves of Vibranium are really too small. For the entire construction plan, it is simply a drop in the bucket."
Stark listened to T'Challa's voice on the other end of the phone being a bit anxious, and he comforted T'Challa: "Of course, Molten Steel alloy is not omnipotent either. The strategic status of Vibranium has not declined as seriously as you think..."
"Tony, I hope you understand that this is an important resource that all the people of our country rely on for survival, and it is also the most important bargaining chip we can stand in the international community..."
Stark shook his head and said: "T'Challa, don't you think you take Vibranium too seriously? Do you really intend to tie your entire country and everyone in your country to this kind of material?"
Before T'Challa could say anything, Stark said: "Because we are friends, I must remind you of this. I think I want to tell you a story, a story about a civilization that went to tragedy because of relying too much on special resources..."
In Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, Storm was standing in front of Professor X's desk, and she sighed with worry: "Wakanda's situation is very bad now. Many people think that Molten Steel will replace Vibranium. In that case. The large amount of resources in their hands may become waste paper."
"What's more terrifying is that they think their leader Black Panther didn't take enough tough measures to protect the strategic status of Vibranium, and some people even think. T'Challa shouldn't have controlled the output of Vibranium before. If Vibranium resources were cashed out at that time, then there would be no need to deal with the impact of alternative materials now."
Charles covered his forehead and said: "Isn't Wakanda the country with the highest level of education in Africa? Can't they even figure out this common sense problem?"
Storm sighed, smoothed her silver hair behind her ears, and said: "T'Challa distributed Vibranium shares to the people, originally to improve everyone's welfare, but once resources are distributed to individuals, they will not care about what strategic significance the country has, only whether the resources in their hands will depreciate."
"Now many people are making trouble demanding that the country acquire the Vibranium resources in their hands at the previous market price, but T'Challa cannot do that, which will lead to the rupture of Wakanda's capital chain."
"Didn't he go to talk to Stark? In fact, things haven't reached that point at all." Charles was still very calm and said: "Molten Steel is good, but there is also a limit to production capacity. The amount of resources used in the Solar System construction plan is an astronomical figure. It may not be that there is no Vibranium if there is Molten Steel. Why can't we have both?"
"Yes, I know, even if the characteristics of Molten Steel are similar to Vibranium, they are not exactly the same after all. Whether the new material is stable and controllable still needs to be tested by time. During this period, they will still rely on Wakanda's Vibranium..." Storm summarized.
"But Black Panther is hard to convince the people, right?" Charles asked.
Storm sat down, she revealed a somewhat sad expression and said: "I have been with T'Challa during this time. He told me his dream. He hopes that Wakanda will not just be a small African country. He hopes that he and the people here will have the opportunity to move towards the universe..."
"Therefore, he did not use his power as a king to sell precious Vibranium resources without restraint, but used these resources to exchange for more support in the international community to improve Wakanda's international status, and also actively participated in the construction of the Solar System, even at a great cost, just to keep up with the pace of the great powers..."
"However, his efforts are not easy to be seen. What people see is just that T'Challa and Stark have a good relationship, and then lock himself in the laboratory to engage in those inventions they don't understand at all, just like a faint king who doesn't care about the people at all..."
Storm closed her eyes, she tilted her head, her eyelashes flickered, as if she was about to shed tears, she said: "Because I have lived in New York for so long, I can understand more clearly how afraid and helpless the people in my hometown are. On that land, the people of Wakanda have seen too many tragedies of small countries falling apart, and they are incomparably afraid of the arrival of that day."
"Any disturbance will make them feel afraid like a bird of prey, but this cannot blame them, because you never know whether the next accident will cause this fire of civilization to extinguish..."
"It seems that the trip to Wakanda has brought you many changes, Ororo. In the past, you rarely mentioned the situation in your hometown."
"I am a black person born in New York, you know, in the circle of black people in New York, no one likes to talk about Africa, and my mother also told me that she is trying to forget about Kenya."
Storm raised her head, her light-colored pupils shining with light, she said: "But our ability to manipulate weather comes from the Munroe family in Kenya. We have inherited it there for thousands of years..."
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"The wind, rain, thunder, and lightning on that land often appear in my dreams, but this time, after I returned to Africa, I found that it is not the African paradise in the reports..."
Storm revealed a sad expression and said: "Wakanda is not either." ===== CHAPTER 363 =====
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