The Marvel Journey Begins With The X-Men

Taking this into consideration, Norton began arranging for people to monitor Ivan Vanke a few months ago, hoping to find Mandarin through Ivan.

Norton has been coveting Mandarin's ten rings, especially the one with the ability to reorganize matter.

It's just that Mandarin, this old fox, is too meticulous and can't find any traces.

So Norton has great hopes for Ivan Vanko, hoping that this bait can successfully catch Mandarin!

As expected, Norton was not disappointed. Although he did not find Mandarin directly, he successfully put down the bait.

Next, as long as you wait patiently, you will most likely be able to reach Mandarin.

This time may not be too short, but Norton is patient enough.

The plan to track down Mandarin has just come to an end, and there is another good news from Tony:

"Norton, I have completed the preliminary design of the space engine, but there are some process issues in the manufacturing of the prototype that need to be solved by you personally!"

"No problem, I'll be right back!" Norton immediately prepared to return to the moon.

The microgravity environment is beneficial to the manufacturing of spacecraft, so Norton placed the construction base of the spacecraft in the lunar orbit, including the manufacturing of the space engine, on the right side of the earth.

But just as Norton was preparing to go to the moon, an unexpected person found the Carnegie Alloy Company.

Seeing the arrival of 163, Norton asked: "Director Nick Fury, S.H.I.E.L.D's order shouldn't need to be handled by the director himself, right?"

"Other people will naturally handle the order. I have other matters to ask you, Mr. Carnegie!" Nick Fury did not beat around the bush.

Nick Fury doesn't dare to treat Norton the same way he treats Tony. The two are about the same age and come from prominent backgrounds, but Norton and Tony are very different.

Although the influence of the Stark family in the United States is equally huge, the Stark family is not prosperous, and there is only Tony in this generation.

As long as Tony himself has no objections, the Stark family will not have any objections.

There is also the Carnegie family behind Norton. When facing Norton, Fury must consider the attitude of the Carnegie family.

"If you have anything to say, just tell me!" Norton was in a good mood today, so he didn't refuse directly.

"Has Stark been with you these past few months?" Fury asked.

"Tony is indeed here to help me research some technologies." Norton replied affirmatively.

Tony didn't keep it strictly confidential when he came over, so S.H.I.E.L.D wouldn't be surprised if he knew about it. It wasn't a shameful thing (cjfb) and there was no need to hide it.

After receiving a positive reply, Fury directly stated his purpose: "I want to meet Stark!"

‘Meet Tony?’ Norton instantly thought of Fury’s super boy plan, but it had nothing to do with him and there was no need to forcefully intervene.

So Norton said: "I will tell Tony about this. As for whether he wants to see you or not, that is Tony's own business!"

"Thank you! Please tell Stark as soon as possible!" Fury thanked him.

Fury's attitude was so good that Norton didn't feel embarrassed to embarrass him: "If the director is not busy, you can go to the reception room first and wait. I will contact Tony right away!"

Norton did not deceive Fury, he indeed returned directly to the lunar research base and told Tony about it.

Tony thought for a moment, and for the sake of his father's relics, he finally went back to see Nick Fury.

Norton didn't know what the two talked about, but judging from the change in Tony's expression, this meeting might not be pleasant.

The result of this meeting between Tony and Fury was not pleasant.

But a seed has been planted in Tony's heart, although he may not even realize it.

After returning to the moon, Tony soon forgot about it and took Norton to start building the prototype of the first-generation space engine.

High-end equipment such as space engines have very high requirements on manufacturing processes, and it does not mean that they can be manufactured just because they are designed.

"In order to complete the design as quickly as possible, I did not consider the manufacturing process issues at the beginning of the design of this first-generation space engine!" Tony introduced to Norton.

Norton didn't care about this and said confidently: "With me here, all process problems are not a problem."

Norton's atomic-level control is enough to meet all process needs!

"Good, let's get started!" Tony handed the data parameters of each part to Norton.

In just half a month, the prototype was built purely by hand and was successfully released.

If it is not in the process of manufacturing parts, the parameters of other parts will be continuously fine-tuned based on the manufactured finished parts.

The prototyping time should be a few days ahead of schedule!

The space engine designed by Tony is not large, and because there is no need to consider process limitations, it is half the size of the space engine disassembled from the Kree spacecraft, only about three meters in diameter.

Although the volume has been reduced by half, the power has not been reduced at all, which is theoretically sufficient for interstellar navigation.

Looking at the spherical space engine, Tony suddenly asked a question: "How should we test it?"

Space engines are completely different from ordinary engines. The testing methods of ordinary engines are definitely not suitable for use on space engines.

The fixed test site can only test the first half of the engine operation at most, which is the preparation stage for space jump.

However, if you want to test the safety and stability of the engine, a complete space jump process is essential.

A single space engine is obviously not enough to test the complete space jump process!

Fortunately, Norton had already considered this and took Tony to the newly built hangar next to it.

In this hangar, a dish-shaped spacecraft with a diameter of ten meters and a height of six meters has been half assembled. The three-meter-diameter space at the core is obviously reserved for the space engine.

"This is a test spacecraft specially designed by my researchers to test the space engine!" Norton introduced to Tony,

"Its only purpose is to test the performance and safety of the space engine. For this purpose, all unnecessary supporting facilities are sacrificed, and only a few modules such as the energy and control core are retained.

With that said, Norton handed Tony the detailed technical information of the test spacecraft.

"It's rough, but it's enough as a test spacecraft!" Tony commented.

He didn't like this test spaceship very much, and the metallic primary color paint didn't suit his aesthetics, but Tony didn't deny its practicality.

And with his eyesight, he could naturally see that this test spacecraft was not only testing the space engine, but other core modules such as energy and control systems were also tested.

The so-called test spacecraft is obviously a simplified version of the complete spacecraft design!

The purpose of researching space engines must be for real spaceships. Although Norton did not explain this, he did not hide it either. .