"So you mean people from Asgard will come looking for him later?"
Having just stepped out of the interrogation room, Coulson hurried after Fang Mo. "Do you know what those people are like? Could some kind of violent conflict break out then?"
"If you're afraid of a violent conflict, then let him go."
Fang Mo said it bluntly.
"This..."
Coulson froze for a moment. "There really will be a violent conflict? That guy seemed like he had pretty decent character."
"Old Coulson, Nick Fury sent you to handle this, not me." Fang Mo rubbed his forehead. "I'm just S.H.I.E.L.D.'s sugar daddy, not someone who came here specifically to give you ideas... Besides, Nick Fury can't possibly trust me completely. Why should I bother with thankless work? Am I that bored?"
"..."
Hearing that, Coulson had no idea what to say.
"Anyway, I'm going to study Witchcraft. Call me when a few guys who look like ancient warriors show up in town." With that, Fang Mo walked straight into his room.
"Ancient warriors?"
Coulson stood there blankly, unable to make sense of it.
But before he could figure out what that meant, the door suddenly opened again, and Fang Mo poked his head out. "Oh, right. Have your people find me an ostrich that can incubate eggs."
"Huh?"
Coulson was genuinely dumbfounded this time.
Before he could ask why Fang Mo wanted something so bizarre, the door slammed shut again.
"..."
Coulson rubbed his temples with a headache. This sugar daddy was certainly generous, but his demands were truly bizarre. After taking a deep breath, he picked up his radio.
"Calling headquarters, come in."
"This is Coulson. I know this sounds absurd, but it's an order. Transport an ostrich capable of incubating eggs to Old Bridge Town, New Mexico, within half an hour..."
It had to be said that S.H.I.E.L.D. was incredibly efficient.
Although Fang Mo's request was outrageous, once Coulson reported it to Nick Fury, the entirety of S.H.I.E.L.D. swiftly sprang into action.
Countless departments immediately mobilized. Before long, the agents located a private zoo in San Francisco, negotiated with its utterly bewildered director, then took away an ostrich that was incubating eggs in the name of the government and rushed it to Old Bridge Town aboard a Harrier jet.
As for Fang Mo...
Of course he had a use for the ostrich.
Hadn't he mentioned testing the real-world manifestation of MC items before?
Fang Mo had previously tested the Ender Hand and Essence Berries. Both items had benefited him greatly after becoming real, but there were still a whole pile of other items in Steve's backpack waiting to be tested.
Among them was something called a Dragon Egg.
In fact, Fang Mo had already manifested the Dragon Egg back when Thor infiltrated the base to try and steal Thor's Hammer. That was precisely why he had Steve eavesdrop on the conversation between Thor and Loki.
Otherwise, given his personality, he would have gone over himself long ago.
In any case, just as Fang Mo had expected, the Dragon Egg really did turn into an egg after being manifested.
The egg was slightly larger than a soccer ball. Its shell was deep black, covered in purple speckles.
It even pulsed at a strange rhythm as though it were breathing, releasing faint light purple motes of energy. Of course, that was not what shocked Fang Mo the most.
What shocked Fang Mo the most was...
The Dragon Egg's pulse could actually resonate with the Ender Field!
Fang Mo had no idea why. Something like that could never happen in the game, but this was reality. It was probably the result of the rules of the MC world colliding with reality. The Ender Field came from a mutated Enderman, while the Dragon Egg came from the Ender Dragon. Both possessed Ender attributes, so perhaps that was why?
But the more it was like this, the more curious Fang Mo became about the Dragon Egg.
In vanilla Minecraft, the Dragon Egg was merely a decorative item. It could not actually hatch an Ender Dragon.
But this was already the real world.
Through the Ender Field, Fang Mo could clearly sense that a tiny life was indeed growing inside the Dragon Egg.
Honestly, Fang Mo really wanted to hatch it, but... he had never incubated an egg before. Besides, no matter how he thought about it, a grown man sitting on an egg all day would be way too ridiculous. If Nick Fury saw that, wouldn't he laugh himself to death?
At that thought, Fang Mo decided to leave this to a professional.
So he asked Coulson for an ostrich.
And specifically requested one that could incubate eggs.
In any case, after Nick Fury accepted a gold block from Fang Mo earlier, he had been giving him the green light on everything. It truly felt as though the entire S.H.I.E.L.D. was working for him, and their efficiency was top-notch.
In less than half an hour, the ostrich had been delivered to Fang Mo's room.
Then Fang Mo and the ostrich began staring each other down.
Perhaps because it had suddenly been taken from its home and jostled all the way there by plane, the ostrich was suffering from stress. It looked extremely nervous, its huge eyes fixed on Fang Mo as it occasionally spread its wings in warning.
As for Fang Mo...
He was holding the Ender Dragon Egg and nursing a headache.
With the ostrich in that state, he did not dare hand it the Dragon Egg to incubate.
What if the thing accidentally stepped on it and crushed it? Then he would have to make a special trip to the End to resurrect the Ender Dragon again.
"Damn it, I should've had Coulson bring a zoologist too..."
Fang Mo helplessly rubbed his forehead.
It seemed he would have to let the ostrich calm down first. For now, he could test some other MC items.
No sooner said than done. With a thought from Fang Mo, Stand-in Steve immediately opened the Alchemical Bag and pulled out an enormous purple blade as large as a door.
This was the Cleaver, the strongest weapon in Tinkers' Construct.
For this trip to the Marvel world, Fang Mo had specifically had Steve make two Manyullyn Cleavers. Steve used one himself, while the other was meant for real-world manifestation testing.
Fang Mo reached out and gently stroked the flat of the blade. The next second, white light flashed as the manifestation activated.
The massive dark-purple cleaver dropped directly to the floor with a deafening crash, startling the ostrich in the distance into squawking wildly.
"It actually worked..."
Fang Mo's eyes lit up. He bent down and picked up the giant cleaver from the ground.
After being manifested, the cleaver had clearly become even more vicious. The entire weapon was nearly two meters long and dozens of centimeters wide. Its blade was broad and thick like a door, yet its edge was incomparably sharp. That said, it was forged entirely from pure Manyullyn Metal, so its weight was obvious.
If Fang Mo had not eaten so many Essence Berries, he probably would have needed the Ender Field just to lift it.
With a new weapon in hand, Fang Mo naturally could not resist thoroughly playing with it and testing it.
And once he started, an entire night passed. By the time he was catching up on sleep the next morning, Coulson came knocking at his door again.
"Mr. Fang Mo, it seems the warriors you mentioned have already appeared."
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