After obtaining the Linking Book, Fang Mo could barely wait even a second.
He wished he could immediately travel to the Marvel world, find Nick Fury, and throw an entire gold block in his face, telling him that S.H.I.E.L.D. might as well follow him from now on.
Or he could find Tony Stark and mess around with radiation jokes again.
If that guy still had not solved his palladium poisoning problem, Fang Mo would not mind pulling out a bucket of milk and chugging it down his throat to see whether milk could actually remove poisoning DEBUFFs.
However eager Fang Mo was, he still had to make preparations.
The last time he had just awakened Stand-in Steve, the Age Book had directly dragged him into the Marvel world. Aside from a few Gold Ingots, he had been dirt poor.
Fortunately, Fang Mo had been blessed with absurd luck and drew an Ender Hand. Otherwise, he probably could not even have beaten fodder like Abomination.
Since Fang Mo had suffered a loss last time,
he naturally had to make thorough preparations this time.
He was especially interested in testing how MC items could be materialized in reality.
The Ender Hand had been incredibly useful after being materialized, so this time, he had sorted out a huge pile of items and planned to materialize all of them to test their effects.
Fortunately, Steve had drawn an Alchemical Bag. Otherwise, it probably would not have held all this stuff.
It took Fang Mo quite a while to organize everything. By the time night had fallen, he finally put away the Alchemical Bag in satisfaction, then had Steve take out the Age Book and right-click to open it.
The next second, endless black mist poured from the book and completely devoured both of them.
A brief sensation of weightlessness came over him, and everything soon calmed down. Fang Mo immediately opened his eyes excitedly, only for a fierce gust of wind to hit him head-on as countless grains of yellow sand smacked into his face.
"Hmm? A desert?"
Fang Mo froze for a moment, then immediately looked around.
His location really did resemble a desert. Several sand dunes surrounded him, with withered yellow plants growing there lifelessly.
However, it was nighttime, and the surroundings were extremely dark. Fang Mo's vision was obstructed, and he could only vaguely make out faint lights in the distance, seemingly from some kind of camp.
"Don't tell me I fucking ended up in Afghanistan again?"
Seeing this, Fang Mo felt a headache coming on. "Come on... I don't want to kill terrorists anymore. Could you please teleport me somewhere cooler?"
In fact, Fang Mo's judgment did have some basis.
After all, whenever players used the Age Book in the game, they would be teleported to the same coordinates.
Those coordinates were somewhat like the Overworld spawn point. Fang Mo suspected that his spawn point had been set inside that cave, meaning every time he came to the Marvel world, he would first have to figure out how to escape Afghanistan.
However, just as Fang Mo was getting a headache, something suddenly flashed in midair. In the pitch-black night, that light was extremely conspicuous and instantly drew his attention.
"Hmm? What's that?"
Fang Mo curiously raised his head and looked toward the sky, only to discover what seemed to be a spot of light in midair.
It was far too dark for Fang Mo to see what it was. All he knew was that it streaked across the sky, leaving a long trail behind it before flying straight at him.
"Holy shit..."
Seeing the meteor-like object hurtling straight toward him, Fang Mo instinctively activated teleportation.
Purple light flashed, and Fang Mo instantly vanished from where he stood.
The very next second, the object slammed heavily into the ground. With a deafening boom, it felt as if the entire earth trembled. The enormous shockwave lifted the dunes like ocean waves, burying everything nearby beneath yellow sand.
Fortunately, Fang Mo could teleport. After several flashes, he avoided the wave of sand.
"Getting hit in the face by a meteor the instant I arrive is something else."
After avoiding the shockwave, Fang Mo looked at the crater in the distance and could not help complaining, "System, shouldn't this unlock a Meteorite Mod for me?"
However, to Fang Mo's surprise, after hearing him say that, the system actually sounded a prompt.
System Prompt: New mod traits detected. Download permission may be obtained after research.
"No way. It actually gave me one?"
Hearing the electronic prompt in his mind, Fang Mo was somewhat surprised.
Although he was surprised, Fang Mo still teleported several times into the crater, intending to unlock this free mod first.
However, once Fang Mo arrived inside the crater, he realized something was wrong.
There was no meteorite at the center of the crater. Instead, a blazing red hammer was embedded in a rock. Perhaps because it had only just landed, it was still faintly steaming.
"This... a hammer?"
The moment Fang Mo saw this, he understood. This was obviously Thor's Hammer. It seemed that time flowed differently between the MC world and the Marvel world. He had only been gone for a short while, yet Thor's storyline had already begun.
By that calculation, he must have missed the events of Iron Man 2.
Tony Stark should already have solved his palladium poisoning problem. With S.H.I.E.L.D.'s help, he had received inspiration from his father and invented a new element.
Just as Fang Mo was thinking through the plot, another system prompt sounded in his mind.
System Prompt: New mod traits detected. Download permission may be obtained after research.
"Hmm?"
The sudden notification made Fang Mo pause.
The thing in this crater clearly was not a meteorite, yet the system had still indicated new mod access. To be honest, Fang Mo could not make sense of it. What kind of mod could this unlock? A hammer core?
Still, thoughts were just thoughts. Fang Mo reached out toward Thor's Hammer.
As soon as he touched Thor's Hammer, another prompt sounded from the system.
System Prompt: You have grasped the internal structure of 'God Metal—Uru.' You have obtained 30% download permission for a new mod.
After hearing the system prompt again, Fang Mo understood.
It seemed that this new mod really had nothing to do with the hammer. It was probably some kind of Tinkers' Construct alloy expansion.
However, the mod was only thirty percent loaded right now. He probably still needed to research some other metals, such as Vibranium, Meteoritic Iron, or minerals like Tiberium.
With that in mind, Fang Mo directly pulled a phone from his pocket and dialed Nick Fury's number.
"Fang Mo?" The call was answered almost instantly, and Nick Fury's surprised voice came through. "You... when did you get back?"
"My hands are suddenly itching. Get Captain America's Shield to me within half an hour so I can touch it."
Fang Mo spoke directly into the phone. "Once it's done, I'll give you twenty tons of gold as research funding for S.H.I.E.L.D.'s private study of the Tesseract."
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