Chapter 2029: Lighting Up the Dream in My Heart (22)
Orlando Disney's Hollywood Studio is the smallest of the four parks, but it can also be called the essence of condensation, and there are many popular movie IP projects in the whole park, and most of them are more exciting, so they are very popular with young people.
Across the boulevard, you'll find a giant Mickey Mouse magic hat, a bright blue-purple color with stars and moons, and the most classic Mickey Mouse glove.
The four campuses at Disney World are all of the same structure, with a single main thoroughfare leading to four or five districts, and in the middle of the Magic Kingdom, Main Street, U.S.A. has been replaced by a boulevard at the Hollywood Studios.
Because Steve and Schiller's team had to wait for T'Challa the Black Panther, they didn't squeeze in the park as soon as it opened, but watched the show for a while under the stage of Mickey's magic hat.
Another great feature of the Hollywood campus is that many of their shows are performed by comedians who have not yet become famous, and there are special events here, and even visitors can improvise.
Now the Magic Hat Stage is supposed to be rehearsing for the official show of the evening, and although the actors have already changed their costumes, there is really nothing to see because of the lack of lighting and music.
Fortunately, T'Challa arrived soon, and to the surprise of several people, the mutant Storm Lady Ororo walked out of the portal with him.
Steve immediately walked up and patted T'Challa's arm, smiled at him and said, "I heard you guys got engaged recently?" When are you planning to have your wedding? ”
T'Challa also showed a hearty smile, and Oloro stepped forward and said a little helplessly: "You see, I said that as long as we announce the news of the engagement, everyone will ask this question, and it will be asked again and again. ”
"It's actually going to have to wait a while." T'Challa replied matter-of-factly, saying, "The wedding process for the Wakanda royal family will be complicated because we have to coordinate the free time of the various tribal chiefs, and we will have to sacrifice the leopard god during the wedding, which is a very complicated and lengthy process......
"And the Monroe family also has a lot of taboos when it comes to weddings." "I must listen to my relatives to prevent certain actions of the two of us from angering the gods on either side," said Ororo. ”
Steve shook his head and said, "I thought the Catholic wedding ceremony was troublesome enough, Carter was talking to me about it two days ago, he slept in the church three times when he went to his cousin's wedding. ”
"Of course I did." T'Challa pursed her lips and smiled, "However, although the wedding process in Africa is more complicated, most of them are more warm, and many times they require the participation of guests, so you will not be too bored." ”
"It doesn't seem like it's going to be long, is it?" Schiller also said.
Both T'Challa and Oloro responded with smiles, and finally they said, "If it's confirmed, I'll send you an invitation as soon as possible, just give it to Nick, right?" ”
"He's going to go crazy." As Steve and his party began to enter the park, he said as he walked, "This time Disney reimbursed all the tour expenses, and he was willing to give us such a long vacation." ”
"Then it looks like I've got to prepare a little more souvenirs."
"He probably prefers the box of the souvenir to be made of vibranium." Schiller shook his head lightly and said, "Since the price of vibranium has started to rise wildly again, the way he looks at Steve's shield is a little wrong. ”
Steve chuckled lowly, patted the wrapped shield he was carrying in his hand and said, "Don't think we don't know, Nick took advantage of the lowest price of vibranium to buy a large number of bulk goods on the market, and now he is reluctant to sell, just because he thinks it can still rise." ”
Since the impact of steel melting on the vibranium price market, which led to a sharp drop in the international price of vibranium, which in turn affected Wakanda's international status, S.H.I.E.L.D., S.H.I.E.L.D., Stuck's Group, Wakanda's royal family, and even mutants have taken a variety of measures to try their best to coordinate.
Originally, many civilian enterprises thought that the mass mining of molten steel would completely replace vibranium, but S.H.I.E.L.D., Stark Group and mutants reached an agreement to control the mining volume of molten steel and tighten the conditions for civilian molten steel procurement.
At the same time, Wakanda is no longer hiding, slightly loosening the export of vibranium, and reaching direct agreements with companies with high demand to provide them with a stable supply of raw materials.
Most civilian enterprises found that although vibranium is expensive, it is difficult to procure, and the supply is stable, which is more conducive to long-term production, which makes the international price of vibranium slightly warmer.
Then there is the cultural propaganda that vibranium actually has similar properties to gold, both are extraterrestrial objects, and the earth itself cannot produce similar minerals.
The physical strength of vibranium is much better than that of gold, and the chemical stability is not low, it is a necessary raw material for the production of many precision equipment, and has great industrial production value.
The turning point occurred when Asgard was building the crown of the god king, and the S.H.I.E.L.D. and the spear bureau cooperated with Asgard to carry out a wave of hype, to the effect that the lord of the nine kingdoms was searching for strange treasures in the nine kingdoms, and wanted to use the nine most brilliant gems to make the crown of the god king.
This sparked a wave of discussion among the people, everyone was thinking about which metal can represent the earth, and finally it was the Stark Group released an overview of the distribution of minerals on the twelve planets in the universe to make ordinary people who have never left the surface of the earth understand that diamonds are not a rare thing.
Basically, on each planet, the more valuable ones are not the minerals that can be produced by the planet itself, most of which are one-time extraterrestrial objects that will become sought-after precious metals, and even become planetary currency like gold.
Luckily for Earth, vibranium appears to be a free metal in the universe without any planetary origin, and Stark deduces that vibranium most likely comes from the core of a planet that has disappeared in a collision or explosion, because only the pressure of an entire planet can forge such a dense substance.
At the same time, the sound-absorbing properties of vibranium may be a special property produced after the dense star core is subjected to some kind of cosmic radiation, which can be said to be a coincidence within a coincidence, and a low probability within a low probability.
In this way, the voice of vibranium is even higher, on the one hand, this greatly stimulates the superiority of human beings, after all, the universe is so big, this material happened to fall on the earth, and no other universe has it, but it is much taller than the molten steel that can be mined on the planet.
On the other hand, if it is rare in the universe, then there is no shame in taking it out, but if it is diamonds and gold, and it is seen by aliens who produce these two minerals on other home planets, wouldn't they think that the god-king has the floor tiles of their house on his head?
As a result, vibranium naturally became the ninth jewel in Thor's crown, and it was discovered that after being forged by the dwarves, this metal, which was originally only used for industrial materials, also radiated its unique beauty.
Suddenly, vibranium's reputation in the collecting circle soared.
And because not everyone has the skills to forge this metal, it is even more sought after by wealthy people who pursue rarity, Wakanda set up a vibranium jewelry production center overnight, and T'Challa and Oloro have recently attended various important events wearing a full set of vibranium jewelry.
"We've been planning to work with the dwarves lately." T'Challa and Steve said as they walked inside, "Their forging skills are truly unexpected, and it makes us marvel even more at the vastness of the universe and the wonder of life." ”
"Another reason why we couldn't be sure of the timing of our wedding was that we wanted to take the opportunity to show the world the beauty of vibranium."
"No more stingy exports?" Schiller teased with a smile.
T'Challa shook his head and said, "With a little precious resource in my father's hands, I feel that Wakanda's unshakable policy is simply not sustainable, and that the gift given to us by God should bring us greater good, not to the vibranium dealers." ”
"It's hard to imagine how you managed to convince your father." Steve sighed and said, "Howard once told me that the hardest thing to make this shield is not the design or forging at all, but the difficulty of getting such a large piece of vibranium. ”
T'Challa glanced down at the shield in Steve's hand and said, "With all due respect, it was impossible for Wakanda to export such a large piece of vibranium back then, and this should be the credit of the vibranium dealers." ”
Hearing their conversation, Schiller paused, he turned to look at Steve and said, "Howard told you that this shield is made of vibranium?" ”
Both T'Challa and Steve were stunned for a moment, and Steve nodded and said, "When he gave me this shield, I asked about the material, and he told me it was made of vibranium. ”
"Later, when I used it, I found that this shield has many powerful functions, such as being able to completely eliminate the impact of falling, being able to absorb great kinetic energy, and there is no upper limit yet, and it can also absorb sound waves, isn't this all the characteristics of vibranium?"
T'Challa also nodded and said: "Vibranium is also known as sound-absorbing steel, its properties are very special, the electrons in the material do not move at all, resulting in the molecule always in a state of 0 degrees Kelvin, resulting in a lack of movement at the molecular scale, so vibranium does not transmit force at all physically, so it can almost completely absorb kinetic energy, and never wear." ”
Schiller actually knew that Captain America's shield was a vibranium alloy, and that the raw material was not made by Howard Stark, but by a doctor of materials science, Michael Crane, who accidentally mixed many materials to create a mysterious alloy while resting in the laboratory.
This mysterious alloy is even more peculiar, making vibranium more flexible, making it a superelastic alloy, which is supposed to be the original Edelman.
However, Schiller did not say anything, because if there was indeed a Star Wars-themed battle next, T'Challa, who was most in contact with vibranium, would definitely find that the nature of Captain America's shield was not exactly the same as that of vibranium.
They were already very anxious to hype vibranium, and once they found that the alloy of vibranium had superior properties than vibranium, the value of vibranium would undoubtedly increase greatly.
More importantly, if you can have a superior vibranium alloy material, then vibranium has the advantages that molten steel does not have, which means that it will not be replaced by molten steel.
Schiller speculated that Howard chose to hide the original Edelman alloy because he didn't want to encourage Wakanda's rising prices, and that the old kings had made up their minds to become a resource-dependent country, and if they realized that the vibranium alloy was more valuable, the price of vibranium would skyrocket.
However, it seems that T'Challa intends to actively transform and keep up with the pace of cosmic development, so perhaps more in-depth development of vibranium's material properties will have more advantages than disadvantages for human industry.