In a lounge in Stark Tower, Steve, who had just finished a speech, was taking advantage of the free time between two activities to come back here and plan to take a rest first.
Even the former enhanced warrior was really tired from the continuous lectures and various activities.
In terms of physical strength, he is pretty good. The enhanced serum has given him plenty of physical strength, and he will not feel tired even after a day of fighting on the battlefield.
But faced with various political issues that required him to rack his brains to think about the pros and cons, even though Tony assigned him a complete campaign team that could handle various problems, Steve still felt exhausted.
"To be honest, I would rather fight with a whole division of Germans all day than face those reporters for a minute." He poured himself a glass of boiled water, drank it all in one gulp, and then drank it.
Other Avengers who were also resting in this lounge complained: "They are really terrifying. They wish they could even ask you whether you peed to the left or to the right last night."
Hearing Steve's complaint, Tony, who was sitting next to him and was drinking, sneered at him: "You should say nothing to those reporters, let alone pay attention to them, otherwise they will pester you with endless questions.
, you can’t even understand why they always have so many problems.”
"Maybe, but the campaign team you sent to me said they still have to answer some questions properly, so I have to pick a few things I can say to answer." Steve shrugged helplessly, and then threw himself into
The sofa.
After the First World War in New York, and encouraged by Chen Mo to join politics and run for elections, the relationship between Steve and Tony became much more harmonious than before.
He no longer regarded Tony as the son of his old friend Howard and his descendant, and Tony also began to face up to this veteran from seventy years ago, and no longer regarded him as a bedtime story or a hero told by his father.
Although the two sides still dislike each other, at least they are getting along more harmoniously.
But Steve was taking a break from his busy schedule, and Tony was not idle either. He was using various instruments and various methods he could think of to test the envelope without destroying it. At this time, it was just a break from his busy schedule.
"Sir, a total of seventy-four tests specified by you, including X-ray, carbon element detection, magnetic detection, and radioactive element detection, have been completed so far. Except for the optical image, all the results show that this letter does not exist." Tony's artificial intelligence butler
Jarvis suddenly spoke up and reported the test results to Tony.
"It still doesn't exist?" Tony was not surprised by this result. In fact, if his own previous test had not had the same result, he would not have used so many testing methods, and even sent it to other testing institutions for testing.
Detection.
The envelope that Chen Mo had handed to him before had always given him a very solemn feeling, as if he was holding some sacred object, so Tony came here after returning to his laboratory.
I casually threw the envelope into the testing equipment, intending to check what was going on.
As for what Chen Mo mentioned about the Supreme Mage and candidate qualifications, he turned around and forgot about it. For Tony Stark, who has only believed in science his whole life, magic is really nonsense.
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However, what shocked him was that the envelope did not exist in any testing equipment.
Except for optical images and naked eye observation, it is just like an optical image and does not exist in the detection of all detection instruments.
At first, Tony thought that the testing equipment in his laboratory was broken, so he replaced the testing equipment in the company's laboratory, but the results were still the same, whether it was magnetic detection, X-ray penetration, spectral scanning or radioactive elements.
Test, or other conceivable or unexpected tests, the result is the same, this envelope does not exist.
It's like it's just a phantom. You can see it and touch it, but you can't make any other perceptions or explorations.
This undoubtedly aroused Steve's curiosity, and he asked Tony: "What doesn't exist?"
"A letter. The person who appeared in front of you that day to persuade you to join politics gave me an invitation letter. It was said to be an invitation to be the heir of the most powerful magician. I had no interest in it at first, but this letter regardless of
No matter how I try to detect it, it doesn't exist in every sense, except that I can feel its weight when I pick it up, and I can see it, it doesn't exist." Tony told Steve
The husband seemed very helpless as he described the somewhat strange invitation he received.
Hearing what Tony said, Steve suddenly became interested and asked him, "Can you let me see it? It really doesn't exist except that it can be seen and touched?"
"Yes, even the most sophisticated measuring instrument cannot measure its weight, even if it can measure the weight of the flakes of skin that fell when I put down the letter." Tony also looked helpless and irritated. He had not yet
I have experienced the feeling of being blocked by such a difficult problem.
For Tony Stark, whose life can be described as smooth and smooth, except for the time when he ate a bomb in Afghanistan and was hit by shrapnel in the chest, his life can be said to be almost perfect.
The experience in Afghanistan was not even a setback but a training for Tony Stark. The only thing that could be called a setback may be that he discovered that the Ark reactor was gradually eroding his life, but he
He has to rely on the reactor to stay alive and continue to be Iron Man.
However, even so, he still relied on the relics left by his father, Howard Stark, to get through the difficulties. He successfully found new elements and improved the reactor on his chest, allowing him to survive the difficulties.
It is precisely because of this experience that Tony Stark is absolutely confident. He firmly believes that there is no problem in this world that he cannot solve, and there is no problem that he cannot conquer, and of course women, even though he has changed his mind now.
He only likes his female secretary Pepper.
But this time, Tony felt that he had suffered a great setback and blow, because no matter what methods he tried, there was nothing he could do about the envelope.
After handing the envelope to Steve, Tony said angrily: "This envelope is even more helpless than your shield. At least your shield really exists in the material world. I can use it through various methods."
I can detect its existence by any means, but this circus ticket cannot detect its existence no matter what method I use.
Except for the refraction of light and its existence when touched by hand, it does not exist at any other time. I even doubt whether this thing is my illusion, but in fact it does not exist at all!"
"No, I think it should still be real, because I can also see it and pick it up." Steve smiled at Tony, picked up the envelope, and looked at the words "Tony History" written in dark purple ink on it. Tucker's name, he suddenly frowned: "This handwriting looks familiar to me. Tony, do you know who wrote this handwriting?"
"Sorry, I don't know. The guy had already written this letter when he gave it to me, so I don't know who wrote it." Tony shook his head. He didn't pay attention to the handwriting on the envelope. At first It was because he didn't care, and the latter was because the peculiarity of the envelope itself had attracted all his attention and he ignored this detail.
However, this was the first time Steve came into contact with this letter, and he was very concerned about it.
After all, in his time, writing letters was still a very popular and common method. When you get a letter, you usually read the words on the envelope first. Familiar handwriting can help people quickly identify the writer of the letter. .
Steve carefully recalled his memories, trying to find out where his sense of familiarity came from. At the same time, he also turned over the envelope and saw the strange starlight skull emblem on the back of the envelope, which made him instantly fascinated. Stunned.
The sense of sanctity exuded from that emblem made Steve feel as if he had seen God. It inexplicably made him feel sacrosanct and solemn.
"I have to say, this envelope is indeed a bit weird. Have you ever opened it?" Steve calmed down and asked Tony.
"Not yet, I tried to use mechanical means to open it, but because it didn't exist in all senses, I couldn't even touch it with other means except touching it with my hands, so I didn't open it. "Tony was still cautious about this. Although he said disdainful words on his lips and regarded magic as non-existent in his heart, some of the information he searched about magic mentioned that someone opened a letter sent by a magician. The letter was transformed into some kind of small animal or simply teleported to a certain place by the magic attached to the letter, which made him resist opening the letter.
Tony had no intention of opening it until it was absolutely safe.
Steve didn't have as many worries as Tony. After carefully checking the letter, he decided to open the envelope.
After all, Tony is the son of his old friend Howard, and he is also an important member of the current Avengers. In Steve's opinion, who is the most indispensable among the Avengers, Tony must be one of them.
Therefore, he has the obligation to protect the son of his old friend, and even if there is any danger, Steve feels that he should be better able to deal with these dangers than Tony.
However, just when he was about to open the envelope, Steve was stunned by the thought of Howard in his mind, and then he quickly asked Tony: "Tony, do you have Howard's handwriting information? This handwriting looks like Howard's handwriting ."
"What did you say? This is my father's handwriting?" Tony was also shocked. He didn't expect Steve to say such a thing.
Tony was very unfamiliar with his father. Except for the time he found new elements to solve his reactor problem through Howard's relics, Tony's only impression of Howard was that he sent him to a full-time care school.
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The father-son relationship between Tony and Howard is actually very rigid. Not only a loving father and a filial son, but also a "loving father and a filial son."
Therefore, Tony was really unfamiliar with Howard's handwriting, and he didn't even think about it in this direction. It wasn't until Steve mentioned it that he hurriedly asked Jarvis to bring up relevant information for comparison, and he himself felt
I fell into an inexplicable uneasiness.
Is this letter really written by Howard, who has been dead for many years? Isn't he already dead? Why can he still write the letter?
Or did someone deliberately forge it? No, the letter was already so strange that there was no point in deliberately forging Howard's handwriting.
Or from another perspective, it is not impossible to create such a letter that does not exist in the physical sense, and actually let Howard write Tony Stark's name on it.
Even in Tony's opinion, it was far more difficult to let Howard write on it than to make the letter physically non-existent.
"Sir, after comparison, this is indeed the handwriting of your father, Mr. Howard Stark. The similarity between the two is more than 95%." Jarvis was as efficient and reliable as ever, and Tony was still going around in his mind.
When various questions arose, it had already completed comparing the handwriting on the envelope.
Hearing this result, Steve stopped opening the envelope. If the handwriting on it was really written by his old friend Howard, then he should not have opened the letter.
He turned around and looked at Tony, handing the envelope in front of him: "Tony, do you want to open it yourself?"
Tony nodded stiffly and remained silent. He just took the envelope and stared blankly at the writing on the envelope.
This is really my father's handwriting, his own name written by him.
This is the first time Tony has seriously seen his name written by his father. Because of the bad relationship between father and son, Tony mostly sees his mother and the family's old housekeeper Jarvis.
It is precisely because of this that he named his artificial intelligence Jarvis.
But compared with these, the bigger doubt in Tony's heart is why this letter was written by his father.
Because it is known that Howard Stark has been dead for many years and died in a car accident on December 16, 1991. Tony will always remember this date.
So is the dead father resurrected? Or is the so-called mage playing some tricks?
No matter what the truth of the matter was, Tony had an impulse in his heart to find out what the truth of the matter was.
So under Steve's slightly worried and concerned eyes, he called for his steel suit. After putting on it and getting ready, he reached out and planned to open the envelope.
However, what surprised him was that the envelope fell from his hands wrapped in steel suits and fell to the ground as if to mock him invisibly.
