[Comprehensive Yingmei] I cover this earth

Chapter 83 The White Whale 22

"So..." There was a dazzling smile on Bruce's handsome face, which was even more dazzling than the gorgeous crystal chandelier behind him, "Are you on the phone? Are you bored with Gotham wine?"

"Well..." Tony clinked glasses with Bruce casually, "After all, I'm still very busy, unlike you who have entered retirement."

The smile on Bruce's face remained unchanged, and his tone was already full of laziness: "Maybe you can try it, maybe retirement life will not be as pleasant as you imagined."

Tony was noncommittal, and took a piece of delicate cake from the passing waiter's tray, and said, "Yeah, for a control freak, being an overlord really doesn't mean much."

Bruce chuckled, and looked slightly at Elmer who was socializing with other people standing not far away: "It's also pretty good, after all, there's nothing I need to worry about in Gotham right now."

Tony noticed the look in his eyes, raised his eyebrows and asked, "So... who is the real power in Gotham now?"

Bruce narrowed his eyes and said, "Who knows?"

"I have to judge the nature and composition of the new energy detection base that the Gotham City Government, the Wayne Group and Stark Industries jointly landed in New York, as well as the risks I may need to take—after all The partner is a wonderful independent city-state that combines politics and religion." Tony said holding up a small cake.

"This cooperation will be very pleasant to think about. The large-scale underground precision detection instrument is a great new patent, which will greatly improve the current energy dilemma." Bruce has a very business smile on his face.

Tony stuffed the little cake into his mouth and swallowed it in two or three bites, "It tastes good, do you want one?"

"No, I don't want to waste an hour on the treadmill after the reception." Bruce smiled.

Tony: "...Retirement is really nice, isn't it? You have a more effective exercise pattern before."

"So..." Bruce said, the rather nonchalant smile on his face gone, "How's New York?"

"It's the same." Tony shrugged. "We are not as lucky as you Gotham. There is a savior who fell from the sky and directly turned a city of sin into the Garden of Eden."

"Really? I heard that the church has also developed believers on your side?" Bruce asked seemingly unintentionally.

"You can't stop those people from believing in the gods they want to believe in, can you?" Tony said, "But New York is not as bad as Gotham back then, and the citizens' demand for faith is not that great, so the development model is quite satisfactory. Bar."

After a pause, he raised his eyebrows and looked at Bruce, jokingly said, "What? Are you worried that the church will shift its focus away from Gotham?"

Religion has always been a bloody business.

Just look at the commercial benefits that the Church of the Secret Star has brought to Gotham over the years. It can not only stabilize the life and happiness of the people of Gotham, but can even continuously attract external funds and continuously develop, forming a virtuous circle.

And if the people of Gotham City have no free will under religious brainwashing—don’t be ridiculous, if the church doesn’t come to brainwash them, someone else will naturally come to wash them.

Human thinking is nothing more than a little girl who can be dressed up by others.

Bruce was noncommittal, but looked in Elmer's direction and said, "It's not that simple."

Tony narrowed his eyes.

He'd always disliked Bruce's intermittent bouts of Riddlerness, which had intensified after he retired.

After conveniently putting his empty goblet on the tray, he took the handkerchief handed over by the waiter and wiped his hands, and said, "Okay, the reception is really boring, the business talks are about the same, and I need to go back to New York."

"In a hurry?" Bruce said.

"Of course, I'm not like you." Tony rolled his eyes lightly, "The little girl at home has reached a milestone in her career today, so she has to go back and open a glass of champagne anyway."

"Little girl? Daughter?" Bruce seemed to be interested, "Let me guess, the mistakes you made when you were young?"

"I'm not like you, I never make mistakes... Maybe you can go to your mobile phone to check the annual new song list, the No.1 is the work of my little girl. Reminder before watching, please be sure to raise your expectations appropriately " Tony said proudly, he was like an old father showing off his daughter, leaving the lonely old man Bruce speechless for a while.

Seeing that Tony was about to leave here, Bruce looked at his back, his heart suddenly moved, and he shouted as if feeling something: "Stark."

Tony looked back at him: "Huh? You finished listening so quickly? Tell you, if you want to sign, you have to wait in line."

Bruce: ...

Bruce was so choked by this sentence that he almost forgot what he was going to say. After a while, he stepped forward and patted Tony on the shoulder.

"Anyway." He looked at Tony's big eyes full of doubts, and said softly, "Be careful of the church."

Tony looked at the seriousness in the Gotham prince's eyes, and stopped what he wanted to tease.

……

the other side.

Steve was at the back of the line, pressed his peaked cap, and lowered his head to ask Natasha beside him, "How long do we have to wait?"

"Looking at the length of the line, it should take more than half an hour." Natasha, who was also wearing a hat at night, raised her head to look at the length of the line, "I told you to come two hours early, and the line might not be ready by then. Not that long."

Steve shrugged: "Who would have thought of that."

Before he finished speaking, a person wearing a T-shirt with Alice's picture on it not far in front of him suddenly raised his arms and sang Alice's song out of tune loudly.

His singing voice is swaying here and there, without skills and full of emotion: "Hey, everyone, anyway, if you are idle in line to check tickets, you are also idle, let's sing together!"

As soon as there was a hundred responses, Steve was immediately overturned by the chaotic singing of Alice's fanatical fans around him.

He was stunned: "Is it so enthusiastic?"

Natasha said: "Didn't your stars back then have this kind of treatment? I don't believe it."

She smiled teasingly, and mentioned Steve's black history maliciously: "I remember that you were the one who was admired before, maybe it's a little uncomfortable to look at it from another angle? You should have been more fanatical back then. "

Steve was helpless: "Can you stop mentioning this?"

Natasha smiled even wider.

……

It's fun to say.

The two went on a mission together that day. After the mission was completed, the two actually seized a stack of vinyl records from Hydra's warehouse.

Natasha's eyes lit up on the spot: "Oh, Alice Millia, it seems that Hydra also has a bit of artistic taste."

Now Steve became curious: "Alice Mi...mi what?"

"Don't you know?" Natasha said while quietly walking away with a priceless vinyl, "She is a singer who has completely dominated the charts recently."

A question mark slowly appeared above Steve's head: "...I really don't know."

"Hmm." Natasha smiled, "Perhaps you should listen to it, so that you may be better...adapted to the new era."

Although Alice does not represent this era, but she is so young, she may represent the music scene of the next era.

A young girl always has a future with unlimited possibilities.

At this moment, Nicole Fury, who came to finish the task, heard the conversation between the two and raised his eyebrows: "Are you talking about chasing stars during work?"

Natasha glanced at him, unmoved in the slightest: "The ears are so sharp? He came over when he heard Alice Milia, are you in such a hurry?"

Fury, who was directly exposed, coughed slightly in embarrassment, and said, "Get me a copy of this vinyl, and don't let others see it."

Stunned Steve: ...?

No, what's going on with you two?

After finishing the work, that fellow Fury quietly and mysteriously took out two tickets from his arms, showing off triumphantly: "Look."

Natasha paused when she saw it, raised her eyebrows, and glanced at Fury with some teasing: "Not bad, did you get it by abusing your power?"

Steve took a closer look, and it turned out to be two tickets for Alice's concert.

Fury achieved his goal of showing off, and after receiving envious eyes, he stuffed the ticket back into his arms with a satisfied smile: "I work so hard every day, of course I have to reward myself. Whoever performs well, the second ticket Give it to whoever."

However, what happened next made Fury unable to laugh.

Just two days before Alice's concert, he was suddenly notified to attend a secret meeting related to S.H.I.E.L.D., and the top group of people had to attend.

It was related to the funds for S.H.I.E.L.D.'s activities in the second half of the year. Fury was so angry and helpless that he could only give two tickets to Natasha angrily.

Natasha smiled and said, "So, where did these two tickets come from?"

Fury was very angry: "Only these two, if I give you all, don't ask!"

So these two votes naturally fell into the hands of Natasha and Steve.

At this time, Steve had already heard Alice's song, and I have to say that this is the most incredible song he has heard since he came to the present age. There is no need to repeat the beauty and dream, and he fell in love with it almost immediately. the singer.

So when Natasha took out two tickets, Steve was quite surprised: "Where did you get them?"

"Nico Fury used S.H.I.E.L.D.'s employee welfare funds to buy it from scalpers." Natasha said with a smile, "Obviously."

Steve:  …

It's really "employee benefits"!

……

Among the crowd entering the security check, Steve raised his head and looked at the large screen on the facade of the building.

Alice's promotional posters and some MV shots were played in turn on the big screen.

The little girl was wearing a goose yellow dress with an abstract graphic of a flying crane printed on the skirt. Her white and straight calves were hanging down naturally, and her bare feet stepped on the water, causing circles of ripples.She is smiling towards the camera, holding a bouquet of flowers in her hand, her smile is more beautiful, brilliant and dazzling than flowers.

Behind her is a dense forest, and the shadow of a deer is looming in the forest.

Just looking at this photo, Steve felt as if he was in a cool and fresh deep forest, with moist air lingering around the tip of his nose, and the crisp echo of the gurgling stream in his ears, so that all the hustle and bustle around him became silent. .

"What a beautiful little girl, isn't she?" Natasha looked at Alice on the screen and said with admiration.

"...Yeah." Steve came back to his senses and responded.

It's good to see people in a trance, which is not necessarily a good thing...

At this moment, he suddenly heard a surprised voice not far away: "Steve? Natasha?"

As soon as the two turned their heads, they saw Bruce Banner who was separated from them by a separation zone and who was also in line.

Dr. Banner was holding two fluorescent sticks he got from someone who didn't know where he got them, and looked at them awkwardly: "Uh... what a coincidence?"

Steve:  …

Natasha:  …

Seeing that both of them turned their eyes to the fluorescent stick in his hand, Dr. Banner said quickly: "This was given by someone outside just now, and there is an advertisement on it!"

Steve and Natasha couldn't bear to look directly away.

Steve said: "Very, very good, come out occasionally to relax and rest, it will be very beneficial to future work and combat."

"Which area and row are you sitting in?" Dr. Banner asked curiously.

Natasha handed their two tickets to Banner, who took a look and was stunned: "Why are you so close?!"

Natasha: "You'll have to ask Nicole Fury about that."

Banner: ...

Banner stayed there for a while, then said silently: "Don't tell me this is the employee benefit of S.H.I.E.L.D.?"

Natasha blinked: "Yes."

Banner: ...

Why does S.H.I.E.L.D. have it, but not the Avengers?He didn't believe that the welfare funds of the Avengers could be lower than that of S.H.I.E.L.D. Tony Stark, an iron cock, thankfully gave him back Alice Miria!

Just when Banner was seriously considering whether to change jobs, they heard a familiar voice coming from outside the queue railing.

"Hey! Why are you all here?" A boyish voice rang out.

The three turned their heads to look together, and at a glance they saw Peter standing not far away in a T-shirt and sweatpants, looking at them with surprise on his face: "Are you also here to hear Alice's concert?"

Natasha & Steve & Banner:  …

Wait a minute, things are getting weirder, why is it that almost half of the Avengers come to a mere concert?

"Where is your seat?" Natasha asked casually.

Peter took out his ticket with some embarrassment, and said, "Should it be higher?"

I leaned over and glanced at the three adults with seat numbers: ...the smiles gradually disappeared.

"How did you manage to buy a ticket for this position?" Dr. Banner, the only one who was able to grab tickets by writing his own script and almost failed because of a server crash, said, "It's impossible to buy!"

"Uh...someone gave it to me." Peter said with a embarrassed smile.

Of course he was also smiling.

Just kidding, he has been holding back this matter for so long, and has never shared his joy with others, nor found a chance to show it off, so now he is satisfied!

Banner & Natasha & Steve:  …

You can even think of who sent it with your toes!

Banner, who was still secretly scolding Tony Stark for not giving benefits to employees just now: ...

He almost suffocated himself to death without mentioning it in one breath, and suffocated Hulk out.

The co-authoring staff is not important, only the son is important, right?

——It turns out that I am not worthy!