Chapter 413: Berserk Staff
Professor Randolph nodded at Ling Xiao seemingly casually before continuing, "In mythology, he went to Earth to fight, but ended up falling in love.
Whether it's a beautiful woman on Earth, or any other life on Earth, it can be seen that he loves Earth very much. And when his regiment returned to Asgard, he himself stayed. ”
Listening to this mythical story that satisfies all the beautiful fantasies of a woman, Simmons' eyes were a little drunk, and Fitz was a little unhappy at this time, and asked directly: "Then what about the staff?" ”
Professor Randolph didn't care about Fitz's childish behavior, smiled lightly, and said to everyone: "According to the records, because he didn't want the dark mana of the staff to fall into the hands of the bad guys, he directly broke the staff into three pieces and hid them in three different places. ”
The story was so detailed that Coulson couldn't help but ask, "The original manuscript doesn't just mention the location where he hid his staff, right?" ”
"Actually, there is, in three verses." Professor Randolph scratched his head and reminded, "But beware, these are poems excerpted from ancient texts that have been lost. There is a mention of a tree in one passage, maybe this is the one they found, and another passage says 'east of the river, the sun of the top, buried in the soil of dead bones', which is a bit scary, isn't it? ”
Professor Randolph glanced at the others who were listening attentively, smiled a little awkwardly, and then continued: "There is another paragraph here, but this one doesn't seem to rhyme at all, but it is to the effect of 'close to God', which may be very fast, right?" ”
"I guess it's in a church!" Ling Xiao touched his chin and guessed: "In the records of any religion, a church should be built near God, for example, the closest place to God in Catholicism should be the Vatican Cathedral, as for Norse mythology?" ”
"There are no churches in Norse mythology." Professor Randolph shook his head and said, "Churches are Catholic terms, and they should all be temples in Norse mythology, but most of the ancient temples have been destroyed in history, and most of the current temples were built later. There is a famous Valhalla temple in Regensburg, Bavaria, but it was not built for 200 years. ”
Coulson couldn't help but smile bitterly and said, "I wish there were not so many metaphors, more longitude and latitude." ”
"But it's not impossible." Professor Randolph pondered, "If you can search the vicinity of the route of the Viking raids, you may find something. In addition, there are some things that have been interesting recently, such as the discovery of many Norse relics and a large number of new antiquities on Baffin Island off the coast of Canada. ”
"We'll start looking from there." Coulson nodded lightly and said gratefully, "Thank you, Professor." ”
"You're welcome!" Professor Randolph stood up to see the group off, Ling Xiao walked last, and when he was about to leave the door, he glanced at Randolph deeply, and said meaningfully: "Professor, if possible, I hope to visit you once in the future to discuss some topics about Asgard." ”
"Welcome, welcome, this is my business card, just call me when you come." Professor Randolph was enthusiastic, but after the group left, his face turned gloomy, and he returned to his office and made a phone call.
"Coulson, don't you think it would be interesting if this berserk staff fell into Dr. Banner's hands!" Leaving the University of Seville, Ling Xiao reminded in a low voice as he followed Coulson into the car.
"Ling, this joke can't be made." Hearing Ling Xiao say this, Coulson's face immediately changed, he could imagine that once the complete staff of rage fell into the hands of someone with a heart, and this thing was handed over to Dr. Banner at a critical moment, the consequences would be ......
Coulson immediately said: "I will discuss the follow-up of this matter with Director Fury immediately, Ling, what is your opinion?" ”
"What can I say, I'm just an ordinary doctor." Ling Xiao smiled indifferently and said, "If I can, I hope that S.H.I.E.L.D. can give this staff to Dr. Banner, so that it will be of great help to him to control the anger in his body." ”
After the First World War in New York, everyone can see that after Dr. Banner's transformation into the Hulk, after some venting, it is not so easy to transform, if you can induce the transformation in a place where no one is in advance before some things, then it will be of great help to control him.
Thinking of this, Coulson was about to dial Director Fury's phone immediately, but he accidentally saw the expressions on the faces of Fitz and Simmons, and the movements of his hands immediately stopped.
Fitz and Simmons, who were sitting in the back seat, kept discussing, with eagerness on their faces, as if Ling Xiao and Coulson had not heard the conversation before, which couldn't help but surprise Coulson.
In fact, what Ling Xiao thought was not the same thing as what he said to him, in Ling Xiao's opinion, the biggest effect of this berserk staff was that one day in the future, when Dr. Banner could no longer transform into Hulk, maybe it could play a certain role.
Back on the Quinn plane back at S.H.I.E.L.D., Coulson asked Melinda to take care of Ling Xiao, and he was alone looking for a place to make a phone call.
Melinda ushered Ling Xiao to the conference room and handed him a cup of coffee, before asking in a deep voice, "Looks like you've been doing well lately?" ”
"It's okay, after a big war, you always need to take a break." It was the first time for Ling Xiao to get on this kind of Quinn plane, and he couldn't help but ask, "Mei, how much does it cost to buy such a plane?" ”
"How much?" Melinda smiled rarely, and said: "As far as I know, the cost of this aircraft alone is 32.5 million US dollars, if you want to buy one, 50 million starts, there is no cap, you don't have enough economic strength, don't want to buy it at all." ”
"Really?" Ling Xiao sighed helplessly, he had worked hard to make money all these years, and his total worth had not reached $50 million until now, and the value of a plane casually thrown out by S.H.I.E.L.D. was higher than his total value, so how could he not be in a complicated mood.
His mind converged slightly, Ling Xiao's voice lowered, and he asked, "Coulson has nothing to do lately, and have you cleaned up here?" ”
"Coulson didn't have anything wrong, but who the rat inside is, hasn't been found out yet." Melinda sighed slightly, stood up, and said in a deep voice, "I have to be busy, you can do it yourself." ”
Obviously, Melinda was tasked with spying on Coulson, so it was naturally impossible for her to chat with Ling Xiao all the time.
However, shortly after Melinda left, Simmons kicked Fitz into the doorway, where Skye Ai stood standing.
"Hello, can we call you Ling?" Simmons' eyes flashed with curiosity, this was the second time she had seen Ling Xiao, the last time was in London, Ling Xiao was in front of everyone, and followed Thor to leave the earth on the rainbow bridge, and they were very curious about Ling Xiao's identity.
However, because of the confidentiality relationship of S.H.I.E.L.D., without the authority above level 8, he cannot access Ling Xiao's relevant information at all. A group of people were curious, but they couldn't find anything, no wonder they were itching in their hearts, it was rare for Ling Xiao to come directly to the door this time, they naturally had to find a way to find out.
"Yes!" Ling Xiao smiled lightly and motioned for Simmons and Fitz to sit down, but his eyes swept lightly over Skye who was standing in the doorway.
The last time she was in the factory, Skye recognized Ling Xiao, and she was very worried that Ling Xiao would tell Coulson about the last time she appeared in Ling Xiao's villa, but Ling Xiao just glanced at her lightly and didn't say anything more, and then what shocked her even more was that Ling Xiao and Thor left the earth on the rainbow bridge in Asgard, and this incident was also forgotten by her.
Until today, Ling Xiao reappeared in the Kunzi flying machine, and Skye couldn't help but get nervous again.
However, Ling Xiao still glanced at her lightly and regarded her as invisible, which made her breathe a sigh of relief and at the same time, she was also a little curious about his true identity.
"Ling, are you really from the earth?" Fitz couldn't help but raise a question that was of great concern to everyone.
"Of course I'm from Earth, and I'm a U.S. citizen, and I pay millions of dollars in taxes every year." Ling Xiao couldn't help but laugh.
(End of chapter)