"There's a bulky energy core here, equivalent to a high-tech battery, at least a decade ahead of the outside world's technology, but to me Tony Stark, it's just a pile of junk!"
Tony stood near a jet at Sky Base, his rear end sticking out; the outer shell of the jet had already been removed by Tony.
"What's the use of this thing? A backup power source?"
Qin Xiao stood to the side, assisting him.
"Pretty much! It's like your home's USB uninterruptible power supply. It's used when the power runs out or the power line malfunctions, ensuring you can land safely on the ground."
Tony said, forcefully turning the wrench and tightening the screw.
"Once you replace it with mine, I can guarantee that even if there's a power problem, this thing can fly at least several hundred kilometers and land safely!"
"Damn it! These hex screws are completely stuck. Don't they replace the parts regularly?"
Tony struggled for ages but couldn't loosen the screw. In a fit of anger, he threw the wrench on the ground.
"I'll do it! I'll do it!"
Qin Xiao eagerly picked up the wrench. There was no way around it; in terms of technology, especially mechanical technology, Tony was definitely one of the best on Earth.
Qin Xiao had been listening to him boast for a long time, and now he finally had a chance to use his skills.
Quickly grab the wrench and go upstairs.
"A real man can't just be smart, Tony. You can't take off your armor and not even be able to fix a screw. Today I'll show you what a real man is! Let's go!"
With a slight exertion of force, Qin Xiao broke off the head of the screw, which flew high into the air and landed on the ice in the distance, where it bounced playfully several times before turning into a glimmer of sunlight.
"Hahaha!"
Tony sat to the side and laughed.
"Come on! Mr. Macho, just yank it off forcefully. Don't worry about damaging anything, I'll clean it up!"
"All right!"
Qin Xiao stretched out his hands, grabbed the metal box which was about the size of two batteries, and pulled hard!
The base and the wiring conduit underneath were violently pulled off.
Whoosh~~~~~!
A burst of intense flames suddenly erupted from the pulled-out base, and a powerful thrust propelled the unprepared Qin Xiao directly into the air, several meters high.
Since people are high in the air and can't get any leverage, Qin Xiao simply couldn't stop that thing with his bare hands.
Like a runaway faucet, it swung around in the air countless times before being carried hundreds of meters away from the base.
Qin Xiao then remembered to let go of his hands, resulting in him slamming heavily onto the ice.
Tony was laughing so hard he was doubled over.
" Tony, you bastard! Did you know this would happen?"
Qin Xiao shouted angrily at Tony.
In fact, men's happiness is sometimes so simple, regardless of their profession or social status; sometimes it can even be so naive.
Tony Stark is like that, and so is Qin Xiao.
"You wait, Tony, I'm going to burn a hole in the ice right here and throw you into the Arctic Ocean!"
Flames erupted from Qin Xiao's body.
"I suspect that the gods of Asgard all have the power to reduce intelligence. You look just as much like that big, dumb Thor now!"
Tony completely ignored Qin Xiao's threat, muttered something to himself, and then shouted loudly at Qin Xiao.
"This is Greenland. If you burn down another hundred meters, you won't see the Arctic Ocean. But you might unearth a frozen human body from who-knows-how-many years ago. Maybe she was a great beauty, with a really nice, shapely bottom or something."
" Tony, Tony! Come here, I don't know if this woman counts as a beauty, but she definitely has a nice, perky butt!"
"You actually found a frozen corpse?"
Tony muttered something to himself and ran towards Qin Xiao.
Qin Xiao Qin Xiao burned a crater several tens of centimeters deep into a small patch of ice around him.
Qin Xiao was standing inside, with a round shield beneath his feet.
The shield is very familiar to Tony Stark because it was made by his father.
"My God! My father searched for this guy for half a year in the Arctic Ocean and couldn't find it, but we found it so easily?"
Tony said, somewhat incredulously.
"In China terms, this guy might be 'destined' for us!"
Qin Xiao spread his hands and said.
"Forget it! I have no interest in him. My father used this guy as an example to me every day when I was a kid, as if I were a complete waste compared to him. I have no interest in him at all. At most, I'd dig him up and send him to a museum in New York, and maybe he'd get a patriotic banner or something."
The shield has been found, so the person should be nearby.
Tony went back and put on his armor. Using the armor's scanning function, he discovered that about 10 meters below the ice, five meters away from the shield.
This guy should thank global warming!
When Qin Xiao carried Captain America out from under the ten-meter-deep ice, Tony said something from the side.
"Do you think the New York City Museum might give us a prize or something? I remember there's a Captain America museum in New York that's dedicated to the life and deeds of this guy and his team. If we send them the shield and popsicles, they could probably raise their ticket prices dramatically!"
" Tony, have you ever considered that this guy might still be alive? I mean, frozen. You know, didn't some rich guy pay to freeze himself up?"
"I love your lack of common sense, Qin. First of all, freezing requires a lot of environmental factors. Secondly, it's not certain whether the body's functions and organs, even the brain, can recover after thawing. I'll bet you ten dollars that this guy is already a fossil, just a relatively fresh one."
Two hours later, in the medical room of the Sky Base, after a detailed examination and scan of various vital signs and organs, including the brain, he was taken.
Tony took ten dollars out of his pocket and handed it to Qin Xiao.
"I need to make this clear: this is an isolated case and absolutely does not represent accurate scientific evidence or data!"
"Come on, Tony, sometimes you can't just look at the world through a scientific lens, you know? I can breathe fire, and some people can fly with a hammer. What's impossible in this world?"
The Sky Base eventually came to rest high in the air, more than 100 kilometers above the New York coastline.
It took two days from the time the Captain was dug out to the time he returned here.
Tony's new energy source helped Sky Base accelerate its progress.
I wonder if it's because I'm getting closer to my hometown.
After the Sky Base came to a complete stop, Captain America suddenly opened his eyes.
There weren't many people at Sky Base right now, and Qin Xiao was afraid that if the Captain suddenly woke up, he would get into a conflict with someone.
They left the Captain alone on the lower layer of the fan blades.
Poor Captain America, he woke up to find himself all alone, and outside was a futuristic corridor with modern lighting.
As soon as I ran outside, I realized I was in the sky, above the clouds.
I stood back in the hallway and called out for a long time, but no one responded.
"Do you think our Captain Rogers would think he'd arrived in heaven if I flew over there in my battle armor?!"
Tony looked at the monitor and said with a smile.
After searching for a long time, the Captain finally spotted the elevator where the fan blades and metal column connected.
He had actually seen it a long time ago, but the door and buttons were so different from what he remembered that he hadn't realized it was an elevator.
I tried to press the button, but before I could even reach out...
With a ding, the elevator doors opened automatically.
A young man with black hair and black eyes looked at him with a smile.
"Welcome, Steve Rogers, welcome to Heaven. I am your guiding angel, number 1918!"
In the movie, Captain America was actually found in the wreckage of the plane, but Marvel's original plan was for him to be separated from the plane!
Because Banner committed suicide by shooting himself in the Arctic, and later transformed into the Hulk, he shattered an iceberg in the Arctic. A satellite took a picture of the Hulk standing on the ice and roaring, while Captain America was buried under the ice in one corner next to him.
I don't know why this setting was discontinued later.
Also, each of my chapters has enough words, averaging over 2000 words, which is the 2000-word limit required by Tomato's editors. I'm above average. The words after the dividing lines don't count towards the main word count, nor do they earn me any money.
Stop saying I'm padding my numbers, I'm broke!
If you find the main text lackluster, it's because my writing isn't good enough; there's nothing I can do about that for now, but I'll improve it gradually! Have a great weekend!