Chapter Eighty-Six: Ultron
The common people of Wakanda looked at each other, and no one dared to take the lead in moving, not even those tribal nobles who acted as politicians, and they did not take any action - although the legal system and imperial power of the Wakanda Kingdom were not so strict, but killing a king directly or indirectly was still a big and dirty thing,
As time passed, the patience on Eric's face quickly faded, and he looked at the cowering and stagnant crowd, King T'Chaka, who knelt on the ground like a dead chicken, and the corners of his mouth gradually drooped. The anticipation in his eyes gradually extinguished, and only coldness remained.
Eventually, a nobleman from a mining tribe chose to give in and surrender, he took a step forward and shouted to the people: "It is an unforgivable sin for T'Chaka to deceive the people, secretly mutilate his black compatriots, and disregard the laws of his ancestors and interfere with the fight for honor!" β
"That's right, if it weren't for His Excellency Leon, we don't know how long we would continue to be deceived by T'Chaca!"
"That's right!"
The noise grew louder and louder, and the crowd, or seemed to be excited, swarmed up, and with all their hands and feet, they pulled the warrior skirt from the king in the center of the stone platform, tied it to the top of the pole with hemp rope, and hoisted it high.
The evening sun was no longer so hot, and the crowd gathered under the wooden poles, and some even picked up the rounded stones from the river and threw them at T'Chaca.
King T'Chaca's bloated and out-of-shape body was hit by countless stones like a target, and his dark skin was chiseled out of wounds, oozing blood, and the scene was full of chaos and uglinessβthe so-called kingly spirit and hegemonic aura were probably just illusory illusions brought about by power, and even kings were only mortal and bleeding human beings, not some true destiny favored by fate and would never die.
Eric watched coldly as the citizens who had once given their hearts for Wakanda were participating in an unprecedented revelry.
They threw stones at themselves and hurled foul language against King T'Chaca until he was stoned to death, and the unbelievers lowered his body from the pole and examined it before he chopped off his limbs with axes and threw it into the water.
"You can see that the power to kill the king is given to the common people, so that the royal tribes of Wakanda, and the inviolable nature of the imperial power itself, will collapse at the same time and become history."
Leon smiled at Eric and said, "Why, aren't you afraid that after you become the king of Wakanda, the people below will also guillotine you in this way?" β
"Don't be afraid, becoming a king is not an end, but a means.
The feudal kingdom of Wakanda itself is a departure from the times, and if it were not for the purpose of centralizing power, unifying ideas, and accelerating development, I would prefer to directly establish a party system and a people's election system."
Eric said with a smile: "I just used the convenience of being the king of Wakanda to help me renovate Africa and the world."
If conditions permit, I will naturally abdicate on the day I complete my mission, leaving the opportunity to those young people who are truly capable and have a conscience. β
This "villain" who was born in the Black Panther Party and is familiar with Taizu's quotations is quite open, after all, feudal kingship is a product of the times, and now Eric has proclaimed himself king, which is just a stopgap measure.
While the two were talking, all the parts of King T'Chaca's body were thrown into the water by the people, sliding down the waterfall, until a few seconds later, there was a rather faint "snapping" sound of falling into the water.
"Thank you very much for your help this time, Wakanda will never forget your kindness."
King Eric looked at the diluted blood in the pool and said to Leon in a deep voice, "As the new king of the Wakanda Kingdom, the cooperation treaty between us is still valid, please come with me." β
The so-called cooperation treaty is, of course, the vibranium nugget in the Wakanda treasury. For thousands of years, the reason why this narrow country in central and eastern Africa has been able to occupy the top layer of the African continent and develop black technology that is more exaggerated than the world's powers is derived from the special metal vibranium.
Leon, who had solved this honor fight and sent the self-inflicted T'Chaka on the road, was in a good mood, and took the Storm Girl with Eric, under the leadership of the captain of the Wakanda Women's Guard, to get on the vibranium maglev train and head towards the vibranium mineral storage warehouse in the underground scientific research center in the center of the capital.
"For hundreds and thousands of years, Wakanda has been using the method of manual excavation, using shovels and hammers with a high concentration of vibranium to chisel down the rock formations around the vibranium ore to extract the pure vibranium metal."
The captain of the women's guard, Okoye, had a gloomy face, but he still explained quite intimately: "However, since the old country of T'Chaca.... Ahem, it's the daughter of the traitor T'Chaca, Princess Suri,
After becoming the chief researcher in Wakanda, she developed a complete set of automated vibranium excavation and transportation systems, which greatly liberated manpower, promoted the mining of vibranium, and shortened the cycle required for vibranium production. β
The captain of the women's guard, named Okoye, is one hundred percent of the old king's henchmen, but she is also an 112 percent supporter of the ancestral code of Wakanda, and will not betray a king like Eric who has won an honorable battle on his own.
"Suri? I'm impressed. β
Eric nodded and said to Leon: "That chick is a pretty good inventor and scholar, not only the excavation and mining system of vibranium, but she has also made achievements in dozens of other scientific research fields, and it can be said that the entire Wakanda scientific research institution is supported by her alone." β
"I know,"
Li Ang nodded, and said lightly: "It took a full thirty seconds for the Central Intelligence Brain of the School City to break through the peripheral network security protocol of the Wakanda Scientific Research Center designed by her, and collect and sort out all the data in the scientific research center.
She independently developed a vibranium double-layer hydrogel based on vibranium and based on the bilayer alginate-polyacrylamide matrix extension structure in soft organisms, which can be used in limb regeneration technology and body augmentation technology.
With this vibranium double-layer hydrogel, even if the head is cut off, as long as a layer is attached to the wound skin, the two parts of the body can be reglued and restored to their original state very quickly.
It's interesting that the school city medical team is still an idea on paper, but she was able to design it and put it into production independently. β
Eric laughed dryly a few times, and then he wouldn't admit that he didn't understand the "bilayer alginate-polyacrylamide matrix" at all, so he could only continue to talk along the topic, "Since Your Excellency Leon knows that Su Rui is quite valuable, why didn't you arrest her at that time?" β
"I think that putting pressure on such a scientific genius and making her full of revenge ambitions may further squeeze her potential." Li Angwan smiled and said casually.
Eric stroked his palm and smiled: "Also, if you are interested, Mr. Leon, I will let the guards arrest her and send her to the school city." β
The new king of Wakanda, after all, did not take Suri to heart, after getting rid of Wakanda's huge vibranium reserves, what kind of moth can an ordinary scholar make? It's better to make her a favor and give it to Li Ang for nothing.
"Then it's settled." Li Ang smiled and nodded in agreement, and said lightly: "By the way, you didn't choose to arrest Prince T'Challa's family in time at that time, I'm afraid you wanted to use Prince T'Challa to lure out the ulterior motives in Wakanda, so that you can catch them all at that time, right?" β
"You're right."
Eric admits rather heartily: "Even if I have royal blood, even if I have won the divine power of the honor duel, but in the eyes of some Wakanda widows, I am just an outsider who has lived in the United States for more than ten years.
Rather than let these old and young people play tricks in the dark, it is better to leave Prince T'Challa outside, let the black panther with his dead father, and attract the resistance forces in the kingdom, and wait until the time comes to completely strangle him.
Only by purifying the mind, consolidating the team, and removing all potential lesions can Wakanda be rejuvenated....."
Before the words fell, the face of Okoye, the captain of the women's guard, changed suddenly, took off the headphones he was wearing in his ears, turned his head and said to Eric: "Your Majesty, the royal hall is under a surprise attack by the enemy. β
"Raid?!"
Eric's eyes widened angrily, slapped the handrail on the inside of the maglev train, and shouted, "What's going on?" Damn, is it T'Challa?! How could he return to the capital so soon? β
"Unfortunately, that's right."
Captain Okoye took a deep breath and said bitterly: "According to the information from the front, T'Challa sneaked into the palace, sneaked into the scientific research center through the secret passage in the palace, and tried to steal some materials from the scientific research center. β
β....β
King Eric's mind was racing and his face was gloomy - T'Challa was able to infiltrate the palace so smoothly, in addition to the empty palace garrison and insufficient force, there must have been many royalist forces who secretly acquiesced and even silently supported T'Challa's actions.
Thinking about it this way, I can't think about it too much....
Eric let out a breath of turbidity and looked at the upright Captain Okoye, as if he was wondering if the bald black girl in front of him was also a member of T'Challa's camp.
Captain Okoye didn't know why, but still said: "However, in the process of infiltrating the scientific research center, T'Challa encountered another group of outsiders, and the two sides clashed, and fought all the way from the scientific research center to the royal conference hall..."
Another group of outsiders? What's going on here?
Eric was puzzled, but he heard Leon say unhurriedly, "Is there any surveillance footage in the royal conference hall?" Pull it up and show me. β
"Okay."
Captain Okoye nodded, and his finger tapped a few times on the front panel of the maglev train, and a miniature three-dimensional projection appeared in the air.
The architecture of the Wakanda Royal Assembly Hall is modeled after the Sahel region of the southern Sahara Desert and the central Sudanese steppe.
The original Sahel clay building was built without brick by brick, but with a special clay and palm tree quality.
The main building material of the Wakanda Royal Hall is made of a mixture of characteristic clay and vibranium power, without gaps in wall tiles, integrated, indestructible, and extremely load-bearing and compressive capacity.
What's more, the Royal Hall is also modeled after the tall cylindrical towers of African Shaona architecture, with a cylindrical shape that is narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, which further increases the strength of the building itself, even if it is subjected to artillery fire head-on.
But now, in the three-dimensional projection, the high cylindrical Imperial Conference Hall, the outer part of the building is covered with terrible potholes - you must know that it is a mixture of clay and vibranium particles....
Eric's face was full of shock, and before he could react, he saw that in the picture, at the middle end of the cylindrical tower-shaped conference hall, a miserable white light flashed, and the entire cylindrical building was actually cut open by an invisible and substantial force, the edge of the wound was smooth as a mirror, and the upper body of the cylindrical building slowly fell down.
"This-," Eric, who grew up in a black community, was naturally not a good boy who knew how to build civilization and a new style, and immediately burst out a long list of expletives, "What is this?!" β
Leon, who was sitting in the back seat of the car, raised his eyebrows with interest, looking at the picture, Prince T'Challa, wearing a panther uniform, leaning on the outside of the falling buildings in the conference hall, tossing and turning, dodging the falling stones above.
In the picture, the aftermath of these terrible battles all came from an individual.
A robot, to be exact.