While the young consultant boy who had been sent to Marie Belle just because he was on vacation in Brooklyn was out of luck, Howard Stark, who had risen late, had just seen today's newspaper.

His reaction was similar to Lin Guokai: "Hahahaha, I think this Lin Youde and I have a common language, and now it seems that this is indeed the case." ”

"Dad, what's going on?" As he passed by the hall where Stark was, Tony Stark, who was about to go to the real room, just heard this, so he stopped and came over curiously.

"World Magic Technology Expo? Well...... Oh, that's an interesting strategy, Howard. ”

Tony Stark often calls his dad by his first name, and Howard doesn't care. These two fathers and sons have exactly the same personalities, but Howard would do something full of manly romance like shooting an air combat movie with a real air force unit, and he certainly wouldn't care about being called by his son's name.

"Of course it's interesting, if we exhibit, there are only a few things that can be exhibited, and others have already seen the new shields, and this kind of thing, which is still a military secret, is impossible to transport the machine to Germany for any display. Therefore, we must not be able to come up with anything shocking when we participate in this fair, but we can only come up with some out-of-the-way gadgets like other countries. ”

Magic technology has been in a state of workshop-style operation for a long time, after sacrificing the convenience of industrial production, in exchange for the so-called ingenuity of the unique "creation zào", the most in the magic armor has a completely different shape, each one is different, and even the generalization of parts can not be done. In modern times, the magic technology industry has achieved partial industrialization, and finally made the parts universal, but it still retains the characteristics of handicraft workshops. This trait has given rise to a lot of ingenious gadgets, which are not very useful but can be used to give people a fresh look.

Howard? Stark thinks that most of the exhibiting countries are coming up with these gadgets. In Germany, the Germans have an industrialized magic technology industry that meets modern standards, and they surpass the United States, which is the only one with such an industry, and are now the leading ones. It will certainly come up with some surprising new gadgets, and if the United States fails to do so, it will give the impression that it is still lagging behind Germany in technology -- even though in reality it is lagging behind Germany in technology.

The Americans had intended to use the crystallization of Nevada (they didn't know that the German name is the embodiment of imaginary space) to declare to the world that they were on the same starting line as Germany, but this fair would probably bring the Americans back to their original form.

In fact, if you are more serious, this fair will not be good, and the United States will not suffer any losses, it is purely a matter of face, and it will be over if you are ridiculed and ridiculed.

But the competition for international influence has been going on in the shadows, and it is difficult to describe it in a quantitative way, and no one knows if there will be any chain reaction because of this loss. For example, the head of a small country came to see the expo and thought that Germany was so good that he defected to Germany and joined the League for Human Innovation. Normally, no one would know that there was such an episode in the process of this small country joining the alliance - unless the head of the group preached it everywhere.

This is just a relatively superficial example, but the actual effect of influence is much more subtle, and it is likely to take many years before the corresponding consequences will occur.

Therefore, in this kind of place where the strength of the country is displayed, it is in the interests of the country not to lose if it can be defeated.

But this time the United States is clearly going to lose.

Howard Stark and his son Tony Stark are well aware of the state of magic technology in the United States, and the United States is basically catching up with the Germans in this regard, and it really doesn't look like it can come up with a display comparable to that of Germany - Lin Youde held this fair so solemnly, it is foreseeable that he will also come up with something really worth seeing.

"Aren't we going to lose?" Tony Stark said, propping up his chin, "I thought, maybe I can take the miniaturized battle queen I made out with the magic armor?" ”

"You thing, let's fix the stability of flight first. I don't want it to crash into the crowd during the demo and make other countries laugh. ”

Tony scratched his head as the phone on Howard's desk sizzled, the ringing he had set to his liking.

Howard pressed the button on the phone, and then the voice of his secretary and his wife came out of the speakerphone: "I just received the news that Lin Guokai went to Long Island to visit that young lady, and at the same time that Lin Guokai went to Long Island, the senior White House adviser who was originally on vacation in Brooklyn also went to Long Island. ”

"Well, it seems that Lin Youde is also very interested in this new Miss Shenji."

"Would you like me to make an appointment with Mademoiselle Marie Bellé?"

"No, I can probably guess what Lin Guokai is going to do, we just have to wait and see, I feel that Miss Marie Belle will not be so easily dragged by Lin You, even if she decides to go to Germany to visit this expo, we don't need to worry too much."

"But Lin Youde is a man who has successfully soaked so many gods...... To be on the safe side, Howard, how about you start first? ”

"I like this idea, it deserves to be my son, and it has won my heart. It's a pity, in the process of your cooperation to get the crystallization, I have tried to invite her countless times, and no one will eat it. Howard Stark picked up his coffee cup and took a long sip before continuing, "I always had the feeling that Miss Marie Belle didn't look like a human ......"

"She's a god, isn't she?"

"No, no, no, Shenji is just an extraordinary human being, and she is still human at the end of the day. But Marie Belle had a strange feeling, how to say, a feeling of inorganicism? When I talk to her, I occasionally have the illusion that I am talking to Jiqì, and this illusion interferes with me so badly that I can't get much interest in her gorgeous appearance. It's weird, don't you feel it at all? ”

Tony Stark shrugged, "No, maybe it's because I'm always doing brain science research?" In my opinion, human beings have never been very complex beings, and human beings can be studied and analyzed in the same way as everything in the world. ”

Howard Stark shook his head, "No, no, no, I didn't mean that...... Well, I don't think I can make you understand what I mean just yet. All in all, let's wait and see what happens this time, if Lin Youde can soak Marie Belle away, it means that he is powerful, and at the same time, it also shows that Mary Belle is indeed a human being. ”

"I want to warn you in advance, Howard, that even if Marie Belle wasn't soaked, it doesn't mean you're right."

"I know, of course I do." Howard took another sip of coffee as he spoke, and his eyes fell again on the newspaper on the table.

"It looks like a lot of interesting things are going to happen at this expo, it's great, with Lin Youde here, it feels like the world will never get boring."

"That's great news, Dad." Tony used the title "Daddy" again.

**

For nearly half a year, nothing major happened in the international community -- depending on how the major event is defined, of course.

At the beginning of '58, just over three years after independence, a civil war broke out in Sudan, and the cause was exactly the same as in another time and space: the dominant Arabs in northern Sudan oppressed the blacks in Sudan, and the black Sudanese, who feared that Sudan would regain the slavery system, revolted under the leadership of an educated black elite.

The Alliance for Human Renewal led by Lin Youde naturally supported the Black Liberation Army (PLA), whose main base was in southern Sudan, while the United States provided assistance to the Arabs in accordance with the principle that whoever the enemy supports, I will support the opposing side.

The outbreak of war was imbued with proxy wars, which were one of the basic forms of warfare around the world for decades to come.

For the Sudanese, this is certainly a big deal, and the war will displace them and make their lives even poorer. But for the two national players who control the whole world and use the earth as a chessboard to play chess, the Sultan is just an inconsequential pawn, they will fight for the Sultan, the only purpose is not to let the other side go well, in fact, for either side, the Sultan is an irrelevant deposit, it doesn't matter if you have it or lose it.

In the game's terms, the country of Sudan has not been allocated victory points, and even possession of it is not beneficial to win, and the refusal of the two players to let go is just a pure battle of will.

In this world, there is such a poor country as Zài.

At the same time as the civil war broke out in Sudan, South American countries also set off a wave of revolution, and a guy familiar to Lin Youde suddenly picked up the stage of history and began his life destined to be like a meteor: This person is called Che? Guevara.

Of course, Lin Youde stretched out his hand very happily, and gave Guevara guns and money to the idea of warming the Americans' backyards, of course the Americans wanted to prevent this from happening, so the smuggling boats sent by Lin Youde and the US coast guard fought wits and courage in the Caribbean Sea and the Central Atlantic.

But this is actually not a big deal, Lin Youde can't meddle in the backyard of the Americans so simply, just like the United States can't meddle in Europe so simply, this kind of action can only be regarded as blocking the other side at best, that's all.

Finally, under this "calm", in June 1958, the first magic technology expo in human history opened.