Chapter 2027 Lighting up the Dream in Your Heart (Twenty-Two)
Orlando Disney Hollywood Studios is the smallest of the four parks, but it can also be called the essence of concentration. The entire park gathers many popular movie IP projects, and most of the projects are relatively exciting, so it is very popular among young people.
Crossing the boulevard, you can see a huge Mickey Magic Hat, which is bright blue and purple, dotted with stars and moons, and the most classic Mickey gloves.
The four parks in Disney World have similar structures, with a main road leading to four or five areas. The American Street in the Magic Kingdom was replaced by the boulevard in the Hollywood Studios.
Because Steve and Schiller's team had to wait for Black Panther T'Challa, they did not squeeze in at the first time of the opening of the park, but watched the show under the stage of Mickey Magic Hat for a while.
Another major feature of the Hollywood Park is that many of their programs are performed by comedians who have not yet become famous. There will be special competitions here, and even tourists can perform impromptu.
Now the Magic Hat stage should be rehearsing the formal program in the evening. Although the actors have changed their costumes, there is really nothing to see because of the lack of lighting and music.
Fortunately, T'Challa arrived soon, and what the few people didn't expect was that the mutant Storm Ororo walked out of the portal with him.
Steve immediately walked up and patted T'Challa's arm, smiling at him and said, "I heard that you are engaged recently? When do you plan to hold the wedding?"
T'Challa also showed a hearty smile, and Ororo walked up and said a little helplessly, "You see, I said that as long as we announce the engagement, everyone will ask this question, and they will ask it over and over again."
"In fact, we have to wait for a while." T'Challa answered realistically, he said: "The wedding process of the Wakanda royal family will be very complicated, because we have to coordinate the free time of the chiefs of various tribes, and we have to worship the leopard god during the wedding. It is a very complicated and long process..."
"And Monroe The family also has many taboos in weddings. "Ororo said, "I have to listen to the opinions of my relatives to prevent some of our actions from offending the gods on both sides." Steve shook his head and said, "I originally thought that the Catholic wedding ceremony was troublesome enough. Carter was still telling me about this two days ago. He fell asleep three times in the church when he attended his cousin's wedding." "Of course I have experienced it." T'Challa smiled and said, "But although the wedding process in Africa is more complicated, it is mostly more lively. Many times, guests need to participate, so you won't be too bored." "It seems that it won't be long, right?" Schiller also said. T'Challa and Ororo both responded with a smile, and finally they said: "If it is confirmed, we will send you an invitation as soon as possible. Just give it to Nick, right?"
"He will go crazy." Steve and his group began to enter the park. He said as he walked: "This time, Disney reimbursed all the tour expenses, so he was willing to give us such a long vacation."
"Then it seems that I have to prepare more souvenirs."
"Compared to souvenirs, he may prefer the souvenir box to be made of vibranium." Schiller shook his head slightly and said: "Since the price of vibranium has started to rise again, he looks at Steve's shield with a bit of dissatisfaction. That's right. "
Steve laughed in a low voice, patted the wrapped shield 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 loose goods on the market. He is unwilling to sell now because he thinks it can still go up."
Tracha's face was full of red when he mentioned this. Since molten steel hit the vibranium price market, causing the international price of vibranium to drop sharply, which in turn affected Wakanda's international status, SHIELD, S.H.I.E.L.D., Stark Group, Wakanda Royal Family, and even mutants have taken various measures to try their best to coordinate.
Originally, many civilian companies thought that large-scale mining of molten steel would completely replace vibranium, but SHIELD, 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 no longer hid it, slightly relaxed the export of some vibranium, and reached direct agreements with companies with large demand to provide them with a stable supply of raw materials.
Most civilian enterprises have found that although vibranium is expensive, it is easy to purchase and the supply is stable, which is more conducive to long-term production, which has slightly warmed up the international price of vibranium.
Then there is cultural propaganda. Vibranium actually has similar properties to gold. They are both extraterrestrial objects. The earth itself cannot produce similar minerals.
The physical strength of vibranium is far better than gold, and its chemical stability is not low. It is an essential raw material for the production of many precision equipment and has great industrial production value. Although its appearance is not as good as that of well-cut diamonds, its stock is less than diamonds and is rarer.
The turning point occurred when Asgard was making the crown of the God King. S.H.I.E.L.D. and S.H.I.E.L.D. cooperated with Asgard to carry out a wave of hype. The general idea was that the lords of the nine kingdoms were looking for treasures in the nine kingdoms and wanted to use the nine most dazzling gems to make the crown of the God King.
This triggered a big discussion among the public. Everyone was thinking about which metal could represent the Earth. In the end, the Stark Group published an overview of the distribution of minerals on twelve types of planets in the universe, which made ordinary people who had never left the surface of the Earth understand that diamonds were not rare.
Basically, on each planet, the more valuable ones are not the minerals that the planet itself can produce. Most of them are one-time extraterrestrial objects that will become sought-after precious metals, and even become planetary currency like gold.
The Earth is particularly lucky in that vibranium seems to be a free metal in the universe, without any planetary origin. Stark inferred that vibranium is likely to come 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 absorption characteristics of vibranium may be a special property produced after the dense core of the star is subjected to some kind of cosmic radiation. It can be said to be a coincidence among coincidences, a low probability among low probabilities.
As a result, the popularity of vibranium has become even higher. On the one hand, this has greatly stimulated the sense of superiority of human beings. After all, the universe is so big, and this material happened to fall on the earth. There is no other universe. It is much more noble than the molten steel that can be mined on the planet.
On the other hand, if it is considered rare in the universe, it is not shameful to take it out. 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 their floor tiles on his head?
So vibranium naturally became the ninth gem on Thor’s crown, and then people found that after being forged by the dwarves, this metal that was originally only used for industrial materials actually glowed with unique beauty.
For a while, vibranium became famous in the collection circle.
And because not everyone has the technology to forge this metal, it is more sought after by wealthy people who pursue rarity. Wakanda established a vibranium jewelry production center overnight. T’Challa and Ororo have recently attended various important events wearing a full set of vibranium jewelry.
"We are planning to cooperate with the dwarves recently." T'Challa and Steve said as they walked in: "Their forging technology is indeed unexpected, which makes us even more amazed at the vastness of the universe and the wonder of life."
"Another reason why the time of our wedding cannot be determined is that we hope to take this opportunity to show the beauty of vibranium to the world."
"Are you no longer stingy with your exports?" Schiller joked with a smile.
T'Challa shook his head and said, "My father's policy of holding a few precious resources and thinking that Wakanda's status cannot be shaken by anyone is simply unsustainable. The gift given to us by God should bring us greater benefits, not to those vibranium dealers."
"It's hard to imagine how you convinced your father." Steve sighed and said, "Howard once told me that the most difficult part of making this shield is not the design or forging, but getting such a large piece of vibranium raw material is simply impossible."
T'Challa looked down at the shield in Steve's hand and said, "Excuse me, Wakanda couldn't export such a large piece of vibranium in that era. This should also 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?"
T'Challa and Steve were stunned for a moment, Steve nodded and said, "He gave this shield to me. When I asked him about the material, 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 caused by falling, being able to absorb great kinetic energy, and the upper limit has not yet been measured, and being able to absorb sound waves. Aren't these 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, causing the molecules to always be in a state of 0 degrees Kelvin, resulting in a lack of movement on a molecular scale. Therefore, vibranium does not transmit force at all physically, so it can almost completely absorb kinetic energy and never wear out. "
Schiller actually knew that Captain America's shield was a vibranium alloy, and the raw material was not made by Howard Stark, but from a materials science doctor, McClane. When he was resting in the laboratory, he accidentally mixed many materials to make a mysterious alloy.
The properties of this mysterious alloy are even more peculiar. It makes vibranium more flexible and becomes a super elastic alloy, and this alloy should be the original adamantium alloy.
However, Schiller did not point it out, because if a Star Wars-themed battle really happened next, T'Challa, who was most often exposed to vibranium, would definitely find that the properties of Captain America's shield were not completely consistent with vibranium.
They were already very eager to hype vibranium, and once they found that vibranium alloys had better properties than vibranium, the value of vibranium would undoubtedly increase greatly.
More importantly, if they could have a superior vibranium alloy material, vibranium would have advantages that molten steel did not have, which meant that it would not be replaced by molten steel.
Schiller speculated that Howard chose to conceal the original adamantium alloy because he did not want to encourage Wakanda to raise prices. The old king at that time was determined to become a resource-dependent country. If they realized that the alloy of vibranium had greater value, the price of vibranium would definitely soar.
However, T'Challa seems to be planning to actively transform and keep up with the pace of space exploration. Therefore, perhaps a deeper development of the material properties of vibranium will be more beneficial than harmful to human industry.