Chapter 45: Souvenirs
After improvizing a few warning, defense, and escape props for Dylan, Ethan's new henchman was finally able to get to work.
With Dylan Gould's connections and abilities, Ethan's shell company was quickly built into a prototype, and Ethan didn't have to waste time tangling with all kinds of trivial matters.
Dylan is very good at things like dealing with all kinds of people, as long as he introduces Dylan to the beginning of the day, Dylan can naturally handle the rest of the matter.
Dylan's identity is no secret to these politicians, who wonder why this man was chosen by Ethan to be his face on Earth.
Ethan didn't give any explanation for this: just guess hard!
Ethan, who can finally breathe a sigh of relief, did not continue to stay in Los Angeles to enjoy the warm sunshine, but went to Egypt with Tony.
He didn't think about taking the leader module, it contained the will of countless powerful Transformers, and only the Transformer leaders they approved could use the power of it.
It was useless for ordinary people to find that thing, even if Ethan was a powerful mage, he would have to have a spiritual battle with the Transformers who had lived in it for an unknown number of years, and only after gaining a crushing victory could he gain control.
The risk is too great, and the return is not necessarily high, so Ethan is too lazy to take it.
On this trip to Egypt, he really set his sights on the kind of energy block-making equipment hidden in the pyramids - that is, machines that can destroy a star and collect the energy it contains and make it into energy blocks.
Ethan was very curious about the device, and Tony was also interested in the powerful device, so the two of them ran to Egypt together.
With Ethan's current ability, of course, there is no need to waste time applying for a visa and taking a plane, he has already known the specific location from the plot, and after opening a portal in the hotel where he lives, the two of them stood under the pyramid, holding their heads high and carefully observing the building in front of them.
Tony, wearing special sunglasses, is also analyzing the entire pyramid, trying to see if he can directly penetrate the ordinary outer layer of the pyramid and peek into the secrets inside.
"It looks like an ordinary stone, but it contains strange energy fluctuations that shield a lot of detection methods. ”
Tony took his glasses off, and he found that the various high-tech reconnaissance equipment on them did not respond to the pyramid, and the energy fluctuations on them were only felt by his newly mastered magic methods.
This doesn't mean that the Transformers have mastered magic, it's just that their technological civilization has reached a certain level where they can create energy fields similar to magical effects, shielding most detections and ensuring that the device will not be easily discovered.
It is for this reason that this device can be hidden in the pyramid for thousands of years without being known to mankind.
"I can't scan the structure directly, what do I do next?"
Ethan could have scanned the entire pyramid with Merlin's Book of Heritage, and with the particularity of the Book of Heritage, he believed that even if the Transformers' skills were good, all the secrets in this pyramid would be completely recorded.
"It's all here, how can you leave empty-handed?"
What's more, it can be regarded as helping this world solve hidden dangers, otherwise if this equipment has been placed here, Fallen King Kong may not suddenly kill and blow up the sun.
If the sun is destroyed, the earth will be doomed.
Ethan wasn't a saint, but he couldn't just watch the world end like this, so he packed the sun-destroying device into a special glassware.
Looking at the delicate object that has become no more than the size of a palm, like a model, Ethan has no intention of nostalgia, and after recording all the structures in his book of inheritance, he casually handed the 'model' to Tony's hand.
"It's not for nothing to take it as a souvenir. ”
Tony's mouth was about to smile crookedly, this trip was definitely not in vain, a small King Kong corpse was waiting for him to study in detail, and now there was such a magical device, now he didn't have to worry about having no fun after returning to his own world.
He doesn't want to replicate a stellar destruction device in the Marvel Universe, what he wants to do is to understand the technology in it, and even understand some of the technological characteristics of Transformers, and then integrate some of its advantages into his own knowledge system.
From this point of view, what Tony and Ethan want is very similar, which is to explore and collect new things, expand their 'ocean of knowledge', and thus improve their 'realm'.
After getting this thing, the two of them didn't need to stay in this desolate desert to blow the wind and eat sand, and they teleported directly back to Los Angeles.
As for the pyramid missing, Ethan didn't bother to care.
The two of them went back and forth, and it didn't take half a day in total, even if the government wanted to strengthen the monitoring of Ethan, they couldn't do it, and it was precisely because they realized this that the other party was very polite to Ethan.
It can't be said that these people don't want to kill Ethan, a huge threat, and even if these people want to do something, they can't really hurt Ethan, who comes and goes freely. If you anger the other party because of this, you may suddenly appear in front of you anytime and anywhere, and such an existence is afraid of everyone.
None of them dared to take this risk until they were absolutely sure.
More importantly, North America is about to change again.
Everyone in the entire leadership, including the president, wants to make it through the last period safely and end their tenure relatively perfectly.
None of them wanted to cause trouble at this time, and if they accidentally stabbed the hornet's nest and caused aliens to go to war with Earth, they would all be doomed.
How should we deal with aliens in the future?
It is for this reason that Ethan has not seen this president until now, and it is obvious that the other party is also deliberately avoiding him, and the most frequent contacts with Ethan are politicians who have some ideas about the next term, either they want to cooperate with Ethan, or they are here to test some intelligence information in the universe.
For these people, Ethan coped with them when he was in a good mood, and left them all to Dylan to receive when he was in a bad mood, and he only learned about Dylan's situation from time to time through Sam and Michaela.
The only exception is Senator Kevin Smith, who has now formed an alliance with Ethan, and took the opportunity to accompany Ethan on a 'tour' of the Tinder Source (collecting a little energy from the Tinder Source) to ask Ethan if he could first 'fetch' a meteorite containing water resources.
"In such a hurry?"
"Do some upfront research first. ”
This is a reasonable request, but it makes Ethan very embarrassed, now that he doesn't have a spaceship in his hand, how can he get a suitable meteorite for Senator Smith?
Even if he can use teleportation magic to run into space, with his current demigod-level powerful body and a variety of spells, he can survive in space for a short time, 'load' this suitable meteorite, and then bring it back to Earth, but there is no suitable target now.
Although water resources are ubiquitous in the universe, it is more gaseous water, and solid ones are mostly found on some planets, such as meteorites with solid water, although they can be seen often, but it does not mean that you can see a lot of them in any corner of the universe.
"It's probably going to take a while. ”
"It doesn't matter. ”
It would take some time to get someone home to get something, not to mention helping to find a meteorite, and Ethan would have taken it in front of him - he knew that this suspected god alien did have such abilities, so he looked forward to it a little.
"Anyway, I've already left the phone, I'll let you know when I come over next time, and then you can just come and pick up something. ”
Smith heard another layer of meaning in Ethan's words.
"Are you ready to leave Earth?"
"It's been a lot of going round and round, and being able to get some trade deals is already a windfall. Ethan paused, and seemed to think of something again: "Besides, I can't always hang out outside, after all, there are still many people waiting for me." I'll take the crew with me the next time I come to Earth, so I can stay a little longer. ”
Smith's eyelids jumped, and Ethan's words revealed that he wasn't just himself and his companion who liked to pretend to be Iron Man, he also had a lot of crew members.
However, the two sides are in the honeymoon period of their cooperation, and the stronger the partner, the better it will be for Senator Smith, so he said that when Ethan arrives with the crew, he will personally host a welcome party for him.
After talking to Senator Smith, Ethan went to Optimus Prime again, vaguely reminding him of the news that the 'Leader Module' was on Earth, and using this information to 'hire' Bumblebee from the Bopai Autobots.
The main purpose of hiring Bumblebee is to protect Michaela, Ethan is not going to take Michaela out of this world, although he doesn't know how long he will be away this time, he has already locked the point in time with the space-time pointer, and when he comes back next time, this world will not be more than three months away from his departure.
For people in this world, he was only away for a short time, in line with what Ethan and Smith said about a short period of time.
And he can use this time to test the abilities of Michaela, Sam, and Dylan to see if his arrangement is reliable.
If they perform well, Ethan wouldn't mind giving them more benefits, such as various enhancement potions.
Including Dylan, Ethan will let him know that he was not fooling around, as long as he does his best to do things for himself, Ethan will really give him a bright future, which is definitely better than the ending of being electrocuted by a teleporter in the original plot.