Chapter 3670

In the midsummer New York Central Park, rich green is flowing. The lawn is tender, and the woods are lush. The sunlight fell into the river of wind, splashing waves one after another, jumping between the crowds, blowing up soft and light skirts. The light-colored picnic mats on the lawn are flocks of seabirds gathered on the green ocean, with feathers that shine like glowing, gathered together in groups, baked like ice cream gradually melting on the ground.

They sat on the hillside, looking curiously at pairs of S. H. I. E. L. D. agents walking toward the corner of the park. Natasha's head of red hair was even illuminated into a warm and beautiful orange under such sunlight. Coulson blocked his eyes with his palm, his skin flushed, also like an orange with sun-wrinkled skin.

Natasha stepped on the edge of the lawn, turned the key ring in her hand, looked at Stark and Peter who were making final adjustments to the flying car, and said: "Do you have to make trouble when we two are on vacation? I've already sent people to block this small area, if you hit someone again, pay for it yourself."

"Have a little confidence in me, beautiful lady." Stark's head suddenly popped out from the trunk, and then sank again.

"Ah, Tony, the brake valve seems to have some problems here, I think it should be tightened more, what do you think?"

"It was tightened too much before, which made it too sensitive, stalling at every turn. Don't move, let me adjust..."

Shiler sat on the grass in the sun next to him, sunbathing while watching the two of them fiddling with that old car. This reminded him of the days of screwing light bulbs in Stark's lab.

However, he really couldn't help with the hover car. He couldn't even see the difference between this car and an ordinary car, so he just sat there watching them fiddle.

Seeing Natasha walk over, he raised his head and said: "Nick let you two come?"

"He didn't expect Tony and the others to get the prototype out so quickly, and chose to test it in Central Park. This has a certain danger, right? If there is really any accident, it will be even harder to get the bill passed by Congress in the future. We must come and watch."

"Do you want to disperse the onlookers?" Coulson walked over and asked. He turned his head and looked, there were already some ordinary people watching because of curiosity near the lawn.

"Better not," Shiler said, "Tony chose to test here because he wanted to attract attention. After all, those who come to the park for a walk at this time are likely to be potential customers for high-end flying cars in the future."

Natasha also turned her head and looked. She quickly judged that what Shiler said was right—at noon on a workday, most of those who have the mood to take a walk in Central Park are nearby residents and tourists. This group of people will likely be very interested in old cars that can fly.

"Hope nothing happens." Natasha said.

"Alright, look at this beautiful little baby." Stark patted the car window and said, "Stark Industries, your most trusted partner. Let's get in the car and try it."

Stark and Peter got into the driver's seat and passenger seat respectively, and then they both sat in the car staring at Shiler. Shiler was stared at inexplicably, he said: "Do you want me to get in the car?"

"Come on, why did we come to find you?"

"I thought I just needed to sit here and watch you fly in the sky. You don't really want me to go up, do you?"

"Stop talking nonsense, come quickly!"

Shiler stood up helplessly. He first walked around the car to look at it, but he really couldn't see anything, so he had to pull open the back door and sit in, subconsciously looking for a seat belt.

"Don't look for it, the prototype doesn't have a seat belt." Stark said while igniting, "And if you tie yourself to the car, it won't be easy to run if something happens later. Don't treat us as ordinary people."

Before Shiler could speak, the car had already flown up. He didn't dare to reach out and push the car door anymore, but patted the car window helplessly and said: "You are simply crazy, daring to fly to an altitude of several hundred meters without safety measures, what if you fall down?"

"Didn't I say it? If you fall down, run quickly. Of course, if you insist on being an ordinary person, it's not like I can't get a mecha to fish you out..."

"Forget it." Shiler refused decisively. Then he looked out the window curiously and said: "The speed of taking off is quite fast, how on earth does this car fly?"

Peter turned his head and gestured with his hand and said: "You've taken a maglev train, Doctor? It's about the same principle, but we don't need to use tracks to generate repulsive force, but directly repel the Earth's magnetic field. This principle can also be applied to rockets, as long as the power is sufficient, you can directly eject out of the Earth..."

"Don't explain so much to him," Stark said, "He doesn't understand anyway. You just watch the scenery well. Shiler, watch it, Stark Group's flying cars will definitely be very popular!"

"Repel the Earth's magnetic field? Isn't this a kind of anti-gravity technology? Then what's going on with the anti-gravity technology used by China?"

"What we use is electromagnetic wave anti-gravity technology, but what is used on the starship is actually an anti-matter technology." Peter continued, "The latter is indeed more advanced, but the extraction and storage of anti-matter are too difficult, requiring the establishment of large experimental bases, unimaginable huge investments, and subsequent miniaturization is even more difficult. Honestly, I can't think of how they achieved it..."

"Political system advantage." This wasn't said by Shiler, but by Stark. Speaking of this, Stark was like a scholar who didn't meet his talent, muttering a lot, in short, the United States will never learn to concentrate power to do big things, it's the interstellar era and it's still like a grassroots team, if it weren't for him, Americans would definitely be hit by the wheels of history and couldn't find north.

Shiler neither refuted nor agreed. He knew very well that Stark was a patriot, but he was also a slightly unrealistic idealist. He wove a utopian-like United States with the best imagination in his mind, and compared this United States with the current United States, naturally, it was not as good as it was, and he naturally complained a lot and had long and unresolvable worries.

And soldiers like Captain America who have truly witnessed the glorious era of the United States, long-lived people like Natasha who walked out of the Cold War, ordinary people like Peter who once lived at the bottom of the United States, and traversers like Shiler who have lived two lives and experienced both Eastern and Western lives at the same time, actually look at the current United States with an optimistic attitude. It can be said that this United States in this era has reached the most glorious period in history.

That's right, Washington is still arguing endlessly, Congress is still fighting every day, the federal government, state governments, municipal governments, and even county governments are still not giving in to each other, and even restraining each other. In the blood and tears of Wall Street, you can't find a conscience that can float to the surface.

But in fact, the air transport system that completely changed the traffic mode was still landed in just a few years, and the unemployment and employment problems brought about were basically solved within the following two years. Transportation and travel costs almost don't exist, and even the time cost of going out doesn't exist.

The almost unlimited energy brought by the solar system development plan was not plundered by capitalists. Electricity prices have been suppressed to the lowest, and ordinary families don't have to worry about hundreds of dollars in water and electricity bills a month. The development of various planets in the solar system, and the construction of starports and starships, have provided countless jobs. Now, one in every three eligible laborers in the United States participates in work related to space. Clean and low-cost energy has also reduced the production costs of food and water that are most basic to human survival, and the cost of living has also decreased. Even if wages haven't increased, disposable income has increased significantly.

In Shiler's view, Stark is a bit moaning without illness. The United States is lucky enough. Looking at the history of American development, it really doesn't suffer any bitterness: World War I had nothing to do with it, World War II enjoyed all the dividends, the Cold War era became the lighthouse of the world, and then harvested the whole world for decades. Before the evil consequences of capitalism arrived, because of the great development of productivity, the bottom line of living standards was greatly improved, and it looked like it was getting better and better.

Look at other countries, either they were severely harmed by war, or they fell before dawn, or they were so poor that they were about to pawn their pants. In contrast to them, the United States is very much like the lucky star in the class who never studies hard, but as long as you review something, it must be tested, and even if you don't review it, you can guess it all right.

Especially the generation of Stark's father, when they were young, there were opportunities everywhere, and they could make a fortune by doing whatever they wanted; when they reached middle age, it was a golden age, and one person working could support a whole family; when they reached old age, the interstellar era arrived, and the living costs necessary for human beings were suppressed to the lowest, and they lived even more freely.

The most annoying thing is that capitalists like Howard, and the pigs on the wind with him in the same era, not only didn't live from being proud to being shouted at by everyone, but when they reached old age, they were blown up by a spring breeze again, and they actually became the pilots of the interstellar era, and became human pioneers again.

With the popularization of air transport technology and the popularization of certain space exploration technologies in the solar system development plan, some private companies on Earth now have the ability to explore the universe. Just the private exploration stations established around Saturn and Jupiter number in the thousands, the vast majority of which are American and Chinese.

Moreover, the American public is no longer satisfied with manufacturing rockets. After the first starship "Atrium" was officially completed, many companies began to study spaceships, wanting to own their own transport spaceship fleet in the solar system, and eat the first bite of the interstellar era cake.

And NASA and the Russian Space Agency (former Soviet Space Agency), which once represented the highest achievement of human space exploration, have set their sights on places outside the solar system, wanting to expand extra-galactic exploration. It is said that that batch of Soviet scientists who haven't died yet are now doing dimensional research, and perhaps it won't be long before human beings will go to a higher level in the depth and breadth of space exploration.

So whenever Stark and the people around him complain about how the United States is, or how Congress is, others are mostly perfunctory. Otherwise, what else can they say? Say Stark is a Versailles who is completely blessed and doesn't know it?

There are always some people or things in this world that are not very good in all aspects, but they can successfully ride every wind of the era. To some extent, having such luck is also a kind of strength. National destiny is also an indispensable part of national historical development.