After Shuri had finished speaking, T’Challa nodded and prepared to take Bucky and Lin Rui to find appropriate clothing for the River Tribe. However, at this moment, Lin Rui stood there, his face full of hesitation.
“Um… can I stay here? I really want to stay here. This place feels like a science fiction research facility! I love it, especially those three sets of black leopard-print suits over there!”
Although he knew it was unlikely, Lin Rui felt compelled to try. After all, in the original plot, a CIA agent named Everett K. Ross had been left in the laboratory by T’Challa.
“You…” Shuri was about to ask what Lin Rui meant when T’Challa interrupted her.
“No!” T’Challa decisively refused. Having had firsthand experience with Lin Rui’s trouble-prone nature, T’Challa couldn’t trust leaving him alone in the lab.
Hearing T’Challa’s rejection, Lin Rui could only lower his head in resignation and say, “Okay…”
A few minutes later, Bucky and Lin Rui, dressed as members of the Wakandan River Tribe, covered their faces with local headscarves. Following Shuri’s arrangements, they joined a group from the River Tribe and headed to the location of the new king’s coronation ceremony.
T’Challa, along with Shuri and their mother, would fly over each tribe’s territory in the royal aircraft to reach the venue.
Accompanied by a dozen Wakandan “locals” from the River Tribe, Lin Rui and Bucky behaved discreetly, avoiding any actions that might arouse suspicion. Once they left the building constructed within the vibranium mines, Lin Rui no longer paid much attention to the seemingly ordinary tribal members around him.
“Jackson, what’s the real reason you came this time?” Walking together, Bucky leaned in closer to Lin Rui’s ear and whispered.
However, in the next moment, Lin Rui gestured to Bucky to stop talking. Then, he raised his wrist to reveal the black bead, and Bucky quickly understood, falling silent.
“Uncle Bucky, I just came over during my break to see you! Nothing else, but I must say, this place is truly eye-opening! I had no idea there was such an advanced country in the world!” After Bucky caught on, Lin Rui continued to play his part, speaking in a hushed tone.
“That’s good to hear. I was worried you might have caused trouble at home and came looking for me again… But remember, this place isn’t like the outside world. You’ll need to behave yourself and not cause any trouble!”
“I understand, Uncle Bucky!”
With the black beads attached to their wrists, Bucky and Lin Rui could only continue with their act. While Lin Rui possessed powerful mental energy, he didn’t have telepathic abilities, or else he could have communicated directly with Bucky.
After leaving the core city of Wakanda, Lin Rui and the others took a vehicle resembling a bus to reach the riverbank. From there, they boarded a boat and drifted along the river.
As more tribal members gathered from the surrounding rivers, the central river widened. After floating on the river for about fifteen minutes, Lin Rui and Bucky finally reached the venue of the coronation ceremony.
On the boat with Lin Rui and Bucky, there were a total of ten members from the River Tribe. Many other tribal members surrounded them. Looking around, Lin Rui saw hundreds of boats, large and small, floating on the expansive river.
There were over a thousand people participating in the ceremony. Shortly after all the boats had stopped, the Wakandan royal aircraft finally arrived, flying low over all the tribes before hovering in front of the river.
Whoosh, Whoosh, Whoosh~
As the aircraft descended slowly, a platform for landing and takeoff quickly rose from the wide river below. Amid the cheers of the tribal members, T’Challa removed his Black Panther suit and walked down the aircraft’s gangplank.
“T’Challa! T’Challa! T’Challa!!~~”
Seeing the new king before them, the tribal members on the boats excitedly chanted his name in Wakanda’s special language.
Influenced by the tribal members around him, Bucky almost couldn’t resist joining in, but he clenched his fists to contain his excitement. Lin Rui, on the other hand, remained calm; emotional resonance didn’t affect him.
“Wakanda’s development to this level is due to its unique civilization. This kind of aura resonance, triggered by sound alone, is almost impossible to achieve in the outside world.” Unable to communicate with Bucky, Lin Rui silently pondered this.
The people surrounding Lin Rui, apart from T’Challa in front of him who had superhuman abilities due to consuming the heart-shaped herb, were ordinary tribal members. However, their collective voice had already formed a formidable aura.
It wasn’t just a simple wave of sound based on the number of people and the unity of their voices; the Wakandan tribes indeed possessed a unique power of faith.
Rumble!
Amid the orderly chants of the tribal members, the wide river ahead suddenly cracked open. The slowly widening cracks split the river in half, creating a cliff-like waterfall. This phenomenon didn’t panic the tribal members floating on the river; evidently, it was part of the ceremony.
After the river was completely divided into a massive canyon waterfall, the Wakandan Royal Guards, along with T’Challa and a few royal figures, had already arrived in the central half-cliff position below the waterfall through an underground passage.
Bucky and Lin Rui, along with the other tribal members around them, walked into a tunnel following Shuri’s instructions and reached a cave on the cliff, with T’Challa directly below them.
“Combining nature and technology, Wakanda’s skill in this regard far surpasses the outside world,” Lin Rui couldn’t help but marvel silently after witnessing the spectacle of the river transforming into a cliffside waterfall.
Beyond the advanced city located at the center of Wakanda, the other regions seemed primitive on the surface, but beneath that facade lay highly advanced technology seamlessly integrated with nature.
With this brief sense of wonder, Lin Rui shifted his attention to the prominent half-cliff below. There, T’Challa’s coronation ceremony was about to begin. The tribal elder had finished introducing T’Challa, and the next step was the final traditional act before the king’s succession, the challenge of life and death.
“So… next, each tribe has the right to send a representative to challenge our T’Challa!”
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