How much does a mountain weigh?
Assume that this is a mountain composed purely of stones and minerals. Generally, the density of granite, marble and other rocks is about 2.6 tons per Cosmic Cube meter. If the mountain is conical, one hundred meters high and the base radius is two hundred meters.
Then its volume will exceed four million Cosmic Cube meters, and its mass will reach about ten million tons.
The Vibranium meteorite, which is shaped like an oblong olive, has a volume of 20 million Cosmic Cube meters and a weight of nearly 70 million tons.
Boom boom boom boom
Tens of thousands of Anti-Gravity Engine powered by Tesseract energy are densely covered on the entire surface of Meteorite Mountain. The blazing flames emitted by each one merge into a variety of sparks, wrapping this ancient extraterrestrial meteorite, rumbling and shaking.
Countless pieces of earth, stone and sawdust fell rustlingly. Erik·Lehnsherr raised his arms high in the air, and the dark red cloak he wore was fluttering in the wind. His face was flushed, his eyes were bloodshot, and he used all his strength to move Vibranium Meteorite Mountain.
Little by little, little by little, the meteorite finally slowly floated up. Eight airships were connected in twos by giant chains several kilometers long, holding the Vibranium Meteorite Mountain body that was gradually swinging sideways. Two large Wolf Nest transport planes also flew to the sky above the meteorite at full power, and lowered special jointers to fix them together.
Relying on the energy engines of eight airships and Wolf Nest transport planes built entirely from Vibranium, as well as tens of thousands of Anti-Gravity Engine all gathered on the bottom of the meteorite, Meteorite Mountain was finally pulled by suspension and slowly moved toward the northeast.
"It's done! It's really done!"
Arnim·Zola jumped up and down excitedly. As the designer of James's whimsical plan, no one was more amazed by the power at this moment than him.
Poof!
Azazel led Raven to the plain, raised their heads together with Emma and others, and stared at the Vibranium meteorite slowly driving away for a long time without saying a word.
After a while, Emma came back to his senses and saw Raven being brought by Azazel. He remembered that it was the girl he had met once that day and smiled gently at her.
Raven pursed her lips shyly. She thought that this beautiful lady who looked about the same age as herself was also a Mind Stone master, and couldn't help but ask:
"Isn't all this really an illusion?"
Emma was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "If all this is an illusion, then I am also part of the illusion. Asking me this question seems to be of no use."
"Well, if you doubt the authenticity of reality, then everything may be false. The power of Mind Stone is too terrifying."
In mid-air, Erik was panting with a flushed face, but he was extremely excited and shouted to James:
"Dad, I finally broke through to the third stage!"
Only Erik·Lehnsherr himself can feel the powerlessness of shaking a Vibranium meteorite weighing tens of millions of tons. Of course, he cannot make Meteorite Mountain shake even one centimeter by relying on his own ability alone.
But the mutant power of controlling electromagnetic force allowed him to truly experience the mass pressure that such an exaggerated size of metal material would bring.
Emotions are an important catalyst for the use of mutant abilities, especially him and Emma, as well as many energy, rule, and mysterious mutant powers.
Most Mutants do not have the correct guidance to use their power, and they often rely on strong emotional catharsis to release it all at once.
Hatred, anger, fear, love, emotion and so on.
But mastering one's emotions, training one's spirit and will, and controlling one's spirit like a warrior honing and driving one's fists and feet, are Howlett Family's own cultivation methods.
"It would be terrible if the pressure of shouldering the mountain can't stimulate you one more step. Don't worry about the future, it will be difficult."
James smiled, flew with Erik to Meteorite Mountain, which was being transported to an unknown location, and landed on it.
"I need you to work harder and keep the magnetic field shielded and the light distorted all the way. This speed is expected to be reached early tomorrow morning."
He looked at the sun that was gradually turning red in the west, and patted Erik on the shoulder. The latter sat cross-legged and released his electromagnetic power to distort the light and disturb the surrounding magnetic field.
The people who were still in the Wakanda valley looked at Meteorite Mountain who was gradually getting smaller and farther away in their eyes and then disappeared, and they couldn't help but marveled again.
James pumped up the energy of his body, fired back, and landed lightly with control. Steve, Bucky and others could not wait to surround him.
Finally, Steve asked:
"Teacher, why should we take Vibranium away? Of course, I understand its importance, but this process is so unimaginable that I don't understand the meaning of this."
"Or occupy this place and continue mining and development?"
Bucky also added aloud that he seemed to think this method was much better.
There was no emotion on James's face. He briefly glanced at Raven next to Azazel, then looked at the pits dug out in the mountains to the northwest of Wakanda, and sighed quietly:
"Because I want too much."
Several researchers came forward to hold the box made by Vibranium. James looked at Heart-Shaped Herb with roots transplanted inside, and nodded.
As the Vibranium meteorite will replace a piece of land and be resettled again, this magical plant will also be replanted and multiplied. The radiation stimulation of Meteorite Mountain is the focus of the growth of Heart-Shaped Herb.
As for other climate, temperature, soil and other issues, they have little impact and can be solved by technical means.
"Tell me what these people will do after occupying this land."
James tilted his head and motioned to the tens of thousands of Wakanda warriors lying on top of each other and unconscious on the plain by the river in the distance.
"Although this is a small and primitive country, it still has a population of hundreds of thousands. They have regarded Vibranium as a sacred object for thousands of years and have lived in seclusion here. Any outsider who tries to enter or covets Vibranium is regarded as the biggest enemy."
"Occupy this land? Should I kill all these people, or chain them one by one and use a whip to force them to work for me?"
Bucky, like everyone else, seems to have just remembered that there are hundreds of thousands of Wakanda people here who are willing to fight to the death for Vibranium.
"Furthermore, the geographical location of Wakanda is too poor. It is far away from the American Continent and is in the lush jungle inland. Although the surrounding countries are extremely poor and backward, they all have colonial backgrounds from major countries. It will be very difficult to develop, far less than -"
"Boss! A large amount of Vibranium Infinity Stone was discovered in the nearby mountain mines. It is conservatively estimated to be tens of thousands of tons. What do you think?"
Zola's sudden report interrupted James's words. His nerves were too excited today and he was a little careless.
James shook his head and walked towards Wolf Seat.
The Wolf Pack team of the Howlett Family or the researchers and engineers of Science Division also evacuated one after another. He looked at the former chief scientist of Hydra, whose eyes were still shining and who quickly followed in reverse steps, and said simply:
"Just stay here. Wakanda has accumulated more than this for thousands of years, but we don't need it anymore. Let's all end the mission and return home."
Toot. Toot. Toot.
Director Edgar Hoover put down the phone with a solemn expression. The busy tone continued to ring, and he did not hang up in a hurry.
Hoover, whose skin gradually became darker as he grew older, suddenly thought that this was the first time someone dared to hang up on him.
The previous president ended his eight-year term without many merits and demerits. What he continued was nothing more than America's consistent expansion policy and unilateralism. However, the new White House owner, who can be considered young and "beautiful", has much more troublesome ideas in his mind.
Moreover, he has a pretty good relationship with Mr. Martin King, who just hung up the phone on him.
Thinking about how black people in America have become more active in participating in politics and raising demands over the years, Director Hoover felt a sense of disgust. He still preferred the 1930s. At least in that era, he would not allow even one dark-skinned operator to be recruited into his FBI.
For nearly forty years, Edgar Hoover, who founded and has been in charge of FBI to this day, has a certain degree of authority that is even higher than that of Mr. President in the Rotunda of White House.
The political secrets he mastered and the dirty information about high-ranking officials and congressmen allowed the America king of the "white way" to grow steadily from youth to old age.
But what he was still unwilling to accept was the surname in the information in his hand. The one he had focused on since the Roosevelt era and continues to this day, Howlett Family.
Hoover picked up his reading glasses, scratched the large forehead exposed by the receding hairline with the mirror leg, hung up the glasses and opened another study and report next to it on Mutants's problems for more than ten years.
Especially with the latest intelligence and records this year, Director Hoover finally tried to connect some unsolved mysteries in the past few years. Perhaps those strange events that are beyond human control can be explained in another way.
The sunrise at Greenland is not easy to see.
Most of the land here is located north of Arctic Circle, so the sun cannot be seen during the long winter. The closer to high latitudes, the longer the polar days and nights of the year.
Every winter, there is a polar night that lasts for several months. At that time, the colorful Aurora Borealis occasionally appears in the sky over Greenland. Sometimes it shoots into the sky like colorful fireworks, and sometimes it dances like a fairy holding colorful silk, bringing vitality to the night sky here.
In the summer, Greenland will have the bright sun above its head all day long, becoming an island where the sun never sets. Only during the short days between winter and summer every year, the few Inuit indigenous people and very few Danish immigrants on the island can see the sun rise and the moon set, and the alternating black and white scenes.
With an area of more than two million square kilometers, Greenland is the largest island in the world, but about three-quarters of the island is within Arctic Circle. The average temperature throughout the year is below 0°C, and the coldest central inland area can reach as low as -70°C. The population is only about 10,000.
As early as thirty years ago, James·Howlett arranged for Mr. Jay Gatsby to remain anonymous and forge a series of identities, and "bought" this extremely cold island, which was almost uninhabited at the time, from the Danish royal family and government.
Although nominally owned, Greenland still belongs to Danish colonial land, the actual ownership and development qualifications here are in the hands of a America oil businessman named "Ben Hudson" who does not exist in reality.
In the past few years, the people in their early 10,000s on the island have held a so-called referendum on autonomy, and Greenland was declared.
This is an icy island that is isolated from the world and no one cares about it. No country or organization really cares about what really happens here.
In the few areas of land that are not buried by tens of thousands of years of ice, transformation projects reaching deep underground have been underway for several years.
James put his hands on the rock behind Meteorite Mountain and pushed with all his strength. He laughed and said that this was a kind of resistance exercise. After all, with his current strength, he could no longer find suitable exercise equipment.
He seemed to be an ordinary person pushing a truck on the ground for exercise, with energy flowing all over his body, pushing the Vibranium meteorite forward, slightly increasing his speed.
At the moment when the morning light of Greenland shines on the dark frozen soil and frost-white ice, we arrived at our final destination.
This is the southwest corner of Greenland near Atlantic Ocean and Davis Strait. It is further north than Nuuk City where the main population is concentrated. It has a natural continental depression and is close to the seaside.
The coastal cliffs have long been excavated and cleared to create a large cavity, which is like a cylindrical groove. The underground excavated spaces are layered on top of each other, and are supported and divided into several areas by steel frame structures, just like a large-scale underground city.
The core cabin that James and the Wolf Pack warriors used to evolve, as well as the sealed cave of the "Winter of the Wolf" plan, are also connected to this newly developed and complete base.
Tesseract is located deep underground in the center of the base. A complete set of energy extraction and supply equipment connects the entire underground base in series, supplying endless ultra-high-energy energy here, as well as the assembly line Tesseract Energy Cube manufacturing and production unit.
With the arrival of sufficient squandered Vibranium ore resources, the energy core and a large number of equipment structures here will all be replaced by Vibranium manufacturing, greatly increasing the energy utilization rate.
Emma, Steve, Bucky and others had already arrived here on the Wolf Seat supersonic plane. Azazel took Raven back to New York but did not bring her here. Several people looked at this ice base with an unusually large scale and structure and couldn't help but joke:
"I found that the teacher really likes to 'dig holes'. From old houses to New York mansions, almost all industries in the Howlett Family will lay out large-scale underground spaces and secret passages. This time it's great."
Bucky hugged his shoulders and looked at the groove in the cliff waiting for the Vibranium meteorite to be "embedded". He couldn't help but sigh that this place is also connected to underground rivers, connected to bays and ports, and can be used by submarines and ships to sail in.
"James once said that this kind of obsession is called 'farming'. I laughed at him at the time if it was because of his earliest experience as a farmer, but his description of the word was like a child who likes to build a log cabin on his own banyan tree. It is his safest and most secluded haven."
Boom boom boom.
Finally, they listened to the increasingly clear roar, and the air flow began to stir abnormally. Erik suddenly removed the electromagnetic power that distorted the light. Hundreds of meters high in the sky, the Vibranium meteorite that had arrived all the way from Africa flashed in everyone's eyes.
Erik floated down. His mission had been completed. Mr. Lehnsherr, who looked tired, put his arm around Bucky's shoulders and said feebly:
"But I was so exhausted that I couldn't sleep all night, and I had to pay attention to the flights that took off at night from time to time. When I arrived near Greenland, it was extremely cold."
At this moment, everyone was staring at Meteorite Mountain, who was slowly adjusting his direction, and ignored Erik, who had a look of concern. A large number of alloy devices had been reinforced in the grooves of the cliff, waiting for the meteorite to be placed.
As the feet trembled violently, the tundra seemed to experience a brief magnitude 7 earthquake, which soon subsided.
A section of Meteorite Mountain was deeply submerged in the sea, crushing the reefs and land structures into one piece. Later, the outer circle will artificially build a rock structure to cover the Vibranium meteorite, instead of being nakedly exposed like this.
"Speak from your heart."
Steve·Rogers hugged Carter, looking at the majestic and majestic project, the spirit of moving mountains and reclaiming seas, and the extremely sophisticated and complex industrial technology, and continued to preach with sadness:
"I really don't understand the teacher's inexplicable persistence sometimes, but when I see this scene, I really look forward to how he will develop the Vibranium meteorite that was wasted by the Wakanda people."
The newly born sun slanted down on the figure of James suspended in the air. He overlooked the entire land-based reconstruction project from a high place, looking at the Meteorite Mountain that finally fell into his pocket, just like the joyful look of an old farmer who was finally satisfied after filling his barn, bright and full.
"Does it really matter if I see what your dad did in Africa?"
On the roof of New York Empire State Building, a bright red figure and a blue figure are sitting side by side on the edge of the rooftop. Under their feet are ants-sized traffic, and the buildings and streets are spread out into the distance. As far as the eye can see, Azazel and Raven cannot see the end of this bustling city.
The two of them had cans of beer next to them, touching each other from time to time, drinking wild wine at the top of Empire State Building, watching the sunset gradually set, and the dim light spreading over this city that had never been quiet. It was also a kind of romance that was hard to touch.
Raven is no longer the sweet white girl with dirty blonde curls.
Her skin was indigo, with weird raised lines and dark brown the Spot or strip marks on it. The whites of her eyes turned amber, and her small black pupils looked a bit scary. Her hair was dark red, not as bright as Azazel's skin. She was still wearing a rivet jacket and denim trousers.
On the contrary, the outline of the facial features is the same as before, with a sweet appearance with a little baby fat.
"Don't look at it, that cousin of yours is a Mind Stone master, but he can only see through others, but not himself. Dad said that one day, it's enough for people to be able to understand themselves. The world is dazzling, so it's okay not to see through."
Azazel took another sip of beer, his feet were dangling in the air, and his tail was playing behind him. He looked at Raven with eyes that were gentle and shy like never before.
The girl turned her head and looked over, Azazel avoided her gaze and continued hurriedly:
"He has nothing to worry about you, or in other words, he is trustworthy enough about me, even though I caused trouble to him when I was a child. I used to be very naughty."
Raven chuckled. Azazel is not much mature now. She picked at the edge of the beer can in her hand and her voice became a little lower.
"Charles is not my cousin. I am "adopted" by him. In fact, I should be older than him, but like you, I grow old very slowly. On the contrary, Charles has always taken care of me, but he has never been at ease with me."
"Don't worry! I won't tell anyone about your family affairs. Charles. Charles promised me that he won't look at my thoughts. He is a very well-behaved person, although sometimes he is too well-behaved."
As Raven spoke, she hurriedly added that although she didn't know much, she knew very well that what Mr. Howlett did was not "big things" that outsiders could know about.
Azazel waved his hand, touched the wine can with Raven without hesitation, and said carelessly, "Dad said that after this plan is completed, he will be very looking forward to having some people come out, and -"
Red Devil suddenly fell silent for a moment, then whispered to himself softly:
"And he promised me that one day I would be able to walk on the road openly. Dad would never lie to me. He has never done so before."
Raven trembled. Azazel's words deeply touched her heart. After a while, neither of them seemed to know what to say. Raven tried hard to liven up the not-so-relaxing atmosphere and joked:
"Azazel, what kind of girl do you like? Do you think Miss Emma is beautiful."
Suddenly, Raven's body was filled with tiny ripples. His body grew taller silently, and the jeans on his legs became shorter. His long golden hair was flowing down, and his skin was so white that not even a pore could be seen.
She completely transformed into Emma from head to toe, and was looking at Azazel with a smile.
Then she changed her hair, color, eyes, and even body shape and skin color in a showy way, transforming into four or five completely different beautiful faces in a moment.
"I like the way you look."
Azazel said quietly. He looked into Raven's eyes calmly. The brilliance in his eyes did not fluctuate at all due to the various charming changes in the girl's appearance. It was not until Raven dullly changed back to the red-haired and blue-skinned appearance that he grinned brightly.
The last ray of the setting sun fell on them, reflecting the scene of Raven and Azazel lightly touching their lips. Then it finally set, letting the lights and stars and moon light up the city again.