It's none of my business. I'm just a lunch box seller.

Is it about the shudder of growing up?

Pull it down quickly!

Some people, even if they fight for many days and die in the belly of a woman or a man, may not grow up.

Therefore, the difference between a boy and a man does not lie in whether or not they applaud for love, nor in how many people they applaud with or at how many people they applaud at one time.

It's about the attitude towards valuable toys.

Boys, no matter they are little boys, big boys, or old boys, once they get something rare or valuable, but it can definitely be regarded as a toy. In addition to appreciating and playing with new toys, boys will definitely share the joy of getting new toys with as many people as possible.

This is the legendary "showing off"!

Not only will they tell you the origin and value of the new toy, but they will also exaggerate it as much as possible for the damn desire to win among boys, in order to win the envious eyes of other children and the sincere, jealous, or perfunctory "Wow, so awesome".

When men get a rare or valuable toy, they will first appreciate and play with it. But after that, the difference between them and boys becomes apparent!

The first thing that comes to their mind is definitely not "Oh, I really want to show off to my friends", but "Fuck, it's over! How can I get away with this?"

Then, the men would use all sorts of tricks, gimmicks, and even go to great lengths to conceal the true price of the new toy, so that their family members or acquaintances would not cause a big commotion at home after learning the true price of the big toy.

To this end, they do not hesitate to exchange interests with friends to reach a dirty deal to cover up for each other. Some men even dare to put the blame on their sons in order to evade responsibility!

What, you said it's impossible?

Well!

Let’s talk about this now.

Do you dare to tell the truth to your family and tell them how much money you spend on mobile games every month?

Do you dare to open your Steam game list, point to each game and tell them their purchase prices, and ask your family to add them up for you with a calculator? They are all free games given as part of the 60 yuan XGP membership per year, right?

Do you dare to put the most realistic price tag on every model and figurine in your display cabinet? Did you buy your genuine Bandai 1/60 disassembled craftsman for 300 or 500?

Do you dare to take out the lenses with red or gold rings in your camera cabinet and describe their real prices to your parents or wife one by one? If you tell them the price of the lens, one of them is over 5000...

No. Is there anything over 2000 yuan?

Do you dare to break the Kevlar and carbon fiber blended fishing rod that you told your family was “guaranteed not expensive”, “only a hundred or two hundred yuan”, or “a gift from a fishing friend” in front of your family?

If you buy a PS5, you will have to yell "Sony is guilty of heinous crimes and people are complaining" because its appearance does not look like a WIFI router, and then you will be afraid to place an order.

Now that your true identity has been exposed, why are you still pretending to be a gentleman?

understand?

This is the difference between boys and men: boys are happy to share, men are good at hiding!

In April 2012 in New York, a boy who was about to turn 4 was showing off to his boss in Mr. Cheng’s restaurant his brand new super toy, the Iron Man Suit MK40, which he had “spent hundreds of millions” on but had not yet completed debugging.

"How is it? I just made it a few days ago! Do you like my Dior?"

Boss Cheng, who was busy in the kitchen, didn't even take a look and said perfunctorily: "No, if you want to see it, go to the bathroom and see it yourself."

Tony Stark then realized that his words were not only seriously ambiguous, but also full of gay feelings. He quickly corrected himself, "That's not what I meant. I wanted to ask you how I think of my new equipment? Can the boss give me some suggestions for improvement?"

"Suggestions?" Boss Cheng threw the chopped onions into the cold water and took off his goggles. He then took a closer look at Tony's bright red power armor.

"He is quite handsome, but he doesn't look very strong."

"Not strong? Are you kidding? This is..."

Before Tony could finish his words, Denise suddenly appeared in front of him. Then he casually pulled out an ordinary dagger from his leg and poked a hole in the brand new steel suit.

Iron Man: Σ(っ°Д°;)っ

The new toy is not perfect!

"What kind of knife did you use?" Tony asked Denise.

"I don't know either, but the things that the boss casually threw on the ground in the base are probably just ordinary things used to peel fruit!"

But the question is, how "ordinary" does one have to be to be able to poke a hole in the gold-titanium alloy armor so effortlessly?

"It's so common that everyone has one, and if you throw it away, you get one for free."

Tony was shocked and asked Boss Cheng for one. However, Boss Cheng didn't need to agree to this. Denise handed him her dagger. Tony asked Boss Cheng, "What does ODST mean on the dagger?"

"Orbital Drop Shock Troopers, orbital airdrop assault troops. Also commonly known as hell paratroopers."

"Orbital airdrop?" Tony asked in confusion, "Which orbit?"

"Low Earth Orbit!" Boss Cheng also explained to Tony: "The error is too high at an altitude of more than 2000 kilometers, and there are too many uncertainties. No madman would dare to smash it down from such a high altitude."

Well, Tony always felt that Boss Cheng was bragging to him. But Tony felt that Boss Cheng's bragging was too natural, so natural that it seemed as if the bragging he made was something he had often done before.

"You jumped?" Tony asked.

Boss Cheng shrugged, looking a little nostalgic but indifferent, and said, "I've jumped it quite a few times, but the altitude is usually around 650 kilometers."

Tony:…

"As for your question about my armor improvement suggestions," Boss Cheng pointed to the back door of the restaurant. "Go to the playground and find a mad dog robot named Sweet Cheese. He might be able to give you some good suggestions. Also, tell him that your armor was pierced by the titanium carbide of the M5."

Then, Tony, wearing a bright red and champagne gold Iron Man suit, saw a pink robot at least 6.5 meters tall surrounded by a dozen stray cats next to the guard room at the main entrance of the school.

The pink robot's speaker kept purring, and the stray cats around it lined up after hearing the meows. Then the pink robot distributed cat food to the stray cats, and while feeding the cats, it stretched out its huge metal fingers to gently touch the kittens' heads and backs.

Tony walked forward and asked the robot from a distance: "Boss Cheng asked me to find a crazy dog ​​robot named Sweet Cheese. May I ask..."

"No need to ask, meow!" The robot replied in a voice that sounded like it was pierced by a razor blade: "I am sweet cheese, meow!"

"Ha ha ha ha ha……"

The scene changed, and Iron Man was taken to Boss Cheng's underground base by Sweet Cheese. Tony was amazed at the mechanical quality and intelligence level displayed by Sweet Cheese, and at the same time, he was amazed that there was such a huge underground base hidden under the huge playground.

Especially when Tony saw the three space battleships floating on the slipway, the shock that the base brought to him was beyond words.

"Is that big floating thing a real space battleship?"

"I don't know, meow." Sweet Cheese pointed at the wave cannon battleship and told Tony, "Even the Pilot doesn't know how to activate that thing, so I don't know whether it can move or not, whether it's a real thing or a model meow. The Pilot has already warned me. He said that if I don't want to destroy the earth with one shot, I shouldn't mess with the battleship meow."

Tony originally wanted to call on his intelligent AI butler to help him scan the warships on the slipway, but when he called, he remembered that his armor was still in the debugging state and was not connected to Jarvis's intelligent terminal.

But for a super technology geek boy, the space battleship on the dock was indeed too attractive. Even though Sweet Cheese told him to keep going, Tony activated the jet device of his suit and circled around the space battleship.

Then, because there was a special gravitational field around the battleship, and this gravitational field interfered with the stability of Tony's MK7 suit. As a result, the Iron Suit suddenly crashed into the largest armored patrol ship while flying.

Who would have thought that when the warships were hit by Tony, all the lights on the ships that had never been on suddenly lit up. But when the lights on the three warships were turned on, the autonomous defense systems on the ships were also activated. Almost instantly, the two ships facing Tony opened up all their anti-aircraft firepower.

Fortunately, after Tony hit the ship, he fell directly from the hull to the bottom of the slipway. Because the ship was not attacked again, the autonomous defense system only remained in a state of alert.

Sweet Cheese, who discovered that the boat was lit up, opened the top cover of the lifting platform and rushed out. Don't think that the AI ​​system carried by Sweet Cheese is called "dull type". But the name "dull" does not mean that the AI ​​itself is really dull. It just does not have a neuron bionic structure processor like the "smart type". It does not have the independent learning, independent thinking and independent judgment capabilities of the "smart type" artificial intelligence.

But if you don't need it to learn and think independently, but instead follow the pilot in battle and give battlefield situation analysis and relatively reasonable suggestions in the process, then even the dumbest "dull" artificial intelligence is much more reliable than ordinary humans.

Therefore, when the space battleship on the dock activated the active defense system, Sweet Cheese immediately suspected that he, as a combat machine, might become the target of the battleship. And judging from the existing "battlefield situation", Sweet Cheese believed that his first task was not to be defeated, and conveyed the news of the battleship's activation to the pilot.

So, in desperation, this 6-meter-tall robot pulled open the back door of Boss Cheng's restaurant.

"Oh no! Something terrible has happened! Pilot, that flashy red armor has been poked by the damn battleship! Go check it out quickly, meow!"

0126 Starship Captain but Mad Dog

When Boss Cheng followed Sweet Cheese to the underground base, although the lights of the three ships were still on, the active defense systems on the ships were not working.

This is not because the three ships are "out of repair", but because Tony Stark took the initiative to take off his iron suit, which made the defense system on the ship dormant along with his iron suit.

Tony, wearing an ugly T-shirt, was still sitting on the ground in shock. When he saw Boss Cheng coming, he got up and pointed at the battleships and asked Boss Cheng why the three space battleships activated their defense systems.

Boss Ke Cheng knows nothing. If he knew anything about warships, he would have driven it out for a ride long ago. Why would he leave it on the slipway for a whole year?

But now Boss Cheng also has his own "magic conch", so he immediately asked the system about the three warships.

But the programmer on the other side of the system asked Boss Cheng with doubts:

[All the information is in the "Wanwei Cafe de Coral" terminal, don't you know? ]

"What is 'Wanwei Cafe de Coral'? How can I still have it after I've retired..."

Boss Cheng then remembered that before he went to fight Hell at the end of January, among the rewards awarded to him by the system there seemed to be a... what was it?

【Restore the connection of the "Wanwei Cafe de Coral" terminal. 】

Yes! Restore the connection of the "Wanwei Cafe de Coral" terminal.

The "Wanwei Cafe de Coral" terminal is actually a terminal system for shopping, entertainment, and betting that connects all universes to the competitive world. The machine is divided into two types: "competition version" and "entertainment version", and the entertainment version terminal is open to the public.

The competition version is only open to the contestants. Compared with the entertainment version terminal, the biggest difference of the competition version terminal is that it provides contestants with the function of viewing and booking events. However, the viewing and booking here are not to remind contestants to place bets and watch the games, but to remind contestants that "it's time to work."

Of course, if you want to become a free participant, you can also apply to the competitive world to upgrade the entertainment version terminal. After the upgrade, the terminal is slightly different from the real competition version. But the upgraded version has everything that the competition version has. - You can register as a (sightseeing) free participant, you can check the competition points, and you can use the competition points to buy things. You can also watch the game and place bets, but the betting bonus and competition points are separate.

There is only one way to merge betting bonuses and competitive points, which is to become a "slave worker" like Boss Cheng, or to sign a contract with the master controller of the competitive world and become a contracted (free) participant who needs to participate in the competition regularly.

Then, Boss Cheng realized that not only was his terminal still there, but it had even been reconnected to the competitive world by the system because of the last hell mission!

[You've been back for more than a month. Don't you know that your terminal has been connected to the Internet? ]

Boss Cheng: ...

[Let me ask you another question. Have you ever been unaware that your terminal is still there? ]

"Ah."

[When Li Yunlong's troops help you clean up the pile of debris, the terminal will be placed behind the mechanical Titan.]

"I……"

Boss Cheng really never noticed the existence of the terminal.

Indeed, the garbage mountain in the base had been cleared by Captain Li and his team a long time ago. But even though most of the "outdated" guns and ammunition in the base had been moved away by Captain Li and his team, the "junk" in the warehouse was still piled up and randomly thrown on the ground.

After all, the people who cleaned up the garbage were a group of men, and all they could do was to "tear up" the garbage mountain instead of sorting and storing the garbage in it. Besides, even if they wanted to sort it out, they had to know these things first!

Not long after, Boss Cheng found the long-unused competition version terminal in the warehouse area full of garbage. And this location was exactly where he had taken back the sweet cheese.

Boss Cheng turned on the terminal and saw the familiar interface he had seen for decades. He did not choose to access "Wanwei Cafe de Coral", but clicked into the database of the terminal itself.

"Dong! Based on your query habits, the operation you want to perform is:"

"Search for recipe file categories → Primate human society recipes → Ancient oriental recipes"

"Search for recipe file categories → Primate human society recipes → Ancient Apennine recipes"

"Query the classification of machinery and weapon blueprints → weapon blueprints → modification drawings"

"Query the classification of machinery and weapon drawings → machinery drawings → armor strength comparison table"

"Search video files → Relaxation videos → Do not share → Joystick activation device"

Boss Cheng calmly closed the navigation page and continued to search for information about the battleship. As a result, he discovered that the terminal even contained the manufacturing drawings and principles of the battleship's core - the wave engine.

Boss Cheng glanced at the data transmission date and asked the system: "These data were transmitted to the terminal after you connected to the Internet, right?"

[Yes, enter it after the Hell mission is completed and your terminal is connected to the Internet again. ]

"We even have the welding technology for hard titanium alloy armor!" Boss Cheng said with a smile as he checked the latest dated documents in the terminal: "The drawings and technical papers you provided are quite complete, but I always thought hard titanium alloy could be welded casually."

[How is that possible! The welding technology of hard titanium alloy is far more advanced than the production technology of alloy. Even if UNCS can develop mass production technology of alloy in 2024, it is difficult to complete the technical development of alloy welding within 30 years. Without the ability to complete welding, it is even more impossible to embed superconducting heat dissipation devices in armor. ]

"No, we are just planning to push the Earth out of the solar system, not to drive the Earth to fight an interstellar war. There is no need..."

"Wow! What is Type A hard titanium alloy?"

Tony suddenly appeared and interrupted the communication between Boss Cheng and the "system". Tony regained his composure and once again showed the nature of a tech geek + social terrorist. He pushed Boss Cheng to the ground with his buttocks and stood alone in front of the terminal to check the technical papers on hard titanium alloy.

"If the technology in the paper is true, then for metal materials science..." Tony raised his head and stared at Boss Cheng with his shiny eyes, "You know, the application prospect of this thing is even higher than vibranium!"

"I know about vibranium!" Boss Cheng retorted with a smile, "I think the performance of vibranium is far superior to that of hard titanium alloy. Because vibranium is not afraid of plasma slurry ablation, I used a plasma bombardment cannon to blow up the captain's shield, and the thing didn't get damaged at all. But hard titanium alloy is not the same. If there is no superconducting heat dissipation device, it is still very easy for hard titanium alloy to be burned through."

(Nick Fury: Mother fxxker!)

"But do you know how precious vibranium is?" Tony emphasized, "My dad worked very hard to get just a tiny bit of it! But once your hard titanium technology is realized, it means that it can be produced in tens of thousands of tons. And the aviation and aerospace materials in this world will be completely overturned!"

Then, Sweet Cheese picked up a piece of gray curved metal and handed it to Tony.

"This is my spare shoulder joint armor, meow. It's made of A3 hard titanium alloy, meow! It's much better than your armor material, meow!"