I Am Gwen's Spider-Man Mentor

Obadiah waited anxiously for the results of the attack - he knew that no matter what, this would be his last blow. If Tony Stark and Raymond Xu could die, then control of Stark Industries No matter what, you have room for change.

But if they don't die, then... they will die.

The bearded former CEO knew the price he would bear for launching such an attack on the soil of the United States of America.

But in the final analysis, as long as those two people die, the White House will not touch itself under any circumstances - Obadiah knows very well that the current White House cannot afford the cost of problems with a cross-disciplinary giant like Stark Industries.

The secretary slammed open the office door, and there was sweat on the young secretary's forehead. Although Obadiah was rubbing his fingers to relieve his tension at this time, he still could not stop his impulse at this time - the man suddenly stood up and asked before the secretary could speak: "How is it?"

It was as if he could turn bad news into good news by asking in advance.

The secretary swallowed and replied with some embarrassment: "They... didn't succeed."

This brief message made Obadiah, who always stood in front of everyone like a giant, shake his body. Then the giant sat down on the chair with a look of dejection.

The secretary did not run for his life. Now he knew that even if he betrayed his boss, Obadiah Stane would be tied to his career. Selling out your boss will only make you die faster - who can trust such a subordinate who can betray anyone?

Obadiah sat on a chair, lowered his head and pinched the bridge of his nose. His breathing was loud, just like the wheezing Darth Vader in "Star Wars". In the end, the breathing sound even made the secretary feel quite oppressive and breathless - and then Obadiah spoke:

"You go out first, I think I still have some friends in Washington DC."

Obadiah said this with despair. He knew that he was almost certain to die at this time, but he still had to struggle to some extent.

The secretary walked out with heavy steps. Obadiah picked up the phone with a calm face. He first dialed He Jinbin's number:

"You must kill him, otherwise you will get nothing!" Obadiah calmly handed over his threat to New York's underground emperor - although this threat seemed weak.

"Stan." Kingpin's voice was hoarse and low. "You have many friends in Washington. Didn't any of them tell you that the Oval Office made a bet on Raymond Xu?"

"I know..." Obadiah's voice also seemed to be lowered, like a giant groaning after being tired: "I just didn't expect those damn bureaucrats to be so ruthless..."

"Save it, Mr. Stein." Obadiah seemed to be able to hear the sarcasm in Kingpin's words, "You have known it for a long time, but you refused to accept your fate."

Obadiah's voice turned completely cold: "Are you saying that, are you going to betray our agreement?"

"My attitude has been told to you." Kingpin did not care about Obadiah's threat. In fact, the long paragraph he just quoted about the so-called "attitude of Washington bureaucrats" represented his own attitude. .

What made Wilson Fisk the uncrowned king in New York was not his muscles, but his ruthlessness and backing - Obadiah only knew that his backing was in the Senate and the Federal Supreme Court.

For the same reason as Professor Xu, although Jinpin also wanted to help Obadiah Stan complete this high-risk gamble, he could not betray the source of his power or kill himself.

The stalwart former CEO threw down the phone dejectedly. He knew that the Kingpin was his last resort. If the Kingpin refused to take advantage of him, then he would probably be doomed.

Looking back on the entire process, Obadiah didn't even know how he lost - he held all the power of the entire Stark Industries. From his perspective, Raymond Xu just went to meet Tony Stark's personal assistant and then received support from Washington. After that, he easily provoked the internal affairs of Stark Industries with a speech. Fight, destroying most of the cards in your hand that you can play.

Just when he decided to take further action, damn Tony Stark actually came back. From this point of view, the timing of Raymond Xu's speech was so clever that it made people doubt whether he had the ability to predict things.

I thought he was just an unknown person, and I thought that by asking two policemen to teach the other person a lesson, I would be able to make the other person quit. However, I didn’t expect that the other person had been pretending to be a pig and eating the tiger. In the end, he struck back and, day and night, with a simple battle The speech attracted the attention and support of Washington, thereby destroying everything that Obadiah was proud of.

Although the core of all this is based on this foundation-Raymond Xu was supported by his old friend Nathan Wade in this process, and Nathan is the highest-ranking technical officer of IARPA. He was high enough to get through to Director of National Intelligence Stephanie Haines, who had a voice that could reach the ears of the heavens.

But Obadiah could not have known all this. Therefore, as a traditional American who values ​​strength, he was even curious about Xu's magical "oriental wisdom"...and deeply fearful.

The former CEO slumped in his chair and began to think - will those bureaucrats in Washington kill him after he fails? After all, he has mastered too many secrets in the past thirty years, and it is not in everyone's interest to let such a person go to jail in the public eye.

In addition to the saying "If you lose, you will hold a grudge; if you win, you will counterattack and calculate." Another saying admired by those bureaucrats is "Only the dead can keep secrets."

Just when Obadiah was freeing his mind and trying to sit in the chair that belonged to the CEO of Stark Industries for a while longer and enjoy the taste of power for a while longer, the phone in his hand suddenly rang.

Like a drowning man grasping at straws, the decadent man hurriedly grabbed the phone receiver: "Hello!"

"Mr. Obadiah." The person on the other side of the phone used a processed voice, "I believe that by now, you finally understand that you have no way out."

"What do you want?" Obadiah said angrily after his trump card was revealed. Although this was an obvious fact, exposing the scars would still arouse his anger.

"To make a long story short." The processed voice was completely devoid of emotion, "We are offering you a chance, a chance to at least—survive."

"How to survive?" Obadiah asked, "Put me in jail? Plea bargain? Whose details do you want? Or some confession from me?"

After finishing this long list of questions, he finally mocked: "Do you think I will give you these?"

"You will, because we don't want these." The other party said such contradictory words, and then the call was hung up.

“Puff—puff—”

Obadiah only had time to hear two strange sounds coming from outside the quiet door, a bit like the sound of silenced firearms and subsonic bullets, before he saw the door to his office suddenly pushed open.

On both sides of the secretary's fallen body, a long line of black-clad special operations personnel approached him with their guns aimed. Immediately afterwards, a bald agent wearing a black suit walked in. He looked at Obadiah with a smile:

"Introduction, Jasper Sitwell, you are under arrest."

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"Obadiah is really a lunatic." Stephanie put down the report in her hand. "Using the Stark family's security company, which is actually Stark's private soldiers, to kill Stark himself is really crazy. Like people of his time. It seems that Raymond did not teach him the way of fighting of civilized people."

"But surprisingly, the Navy's report showed that they traced back the IP address of the uploader of the data link information. That address came from a project we would never have thought of." Nathaniel Wade said calmly, holding the tablet in his hand Read, "That project has not been delivered yet, and as it happens, it is in the hands of Raymond Xu."

"You don't shy away from the faults of alumni." Stephanie laughed out loud, "With all due respect, is this a way of protecting one's own safety by setting aside the relationship?"

"Not really." Nathan replied calmly, "You know, I'm just an IARPA employee, just a technician. I'm only responsible for stating technical issues. All I have to do is be objective and truthful."

"Nathan." Stephanie looked at her men meaningfully, "This is why everyone likes you."

A politician like Stephanie, no matter how scheming she is or how she plays with people's hearts, needs people like Nathaniel Wade, because all scheming must be based on facts and facts, you can You can selectively report facts and do practical things that are only beneficial to you, but in the end everything cannot get around people like Nathan.

This is also the source of Nathan's own power.

"So, you mean, Raymond Xu himself went to Stark's house wearing the suit that everyone expected to be undeliverable, and made Obadiah suffer such a big blow?" Stephanie The tone of the question, even she herself might not be able to tell whether it was ridicule or doubt.

"I can't tell clearly. The two naval pilots described a little girl wearing a white uniform dancing on the battlefield for a long time, but I always felt that that was 'our girl', the one we talked about."

"Our spider sister?" Stephanie understood Nathan's hint. "She ran all the way from New York to the West Coast, and when such a big thing happened within the top management of Stark Industries?"

Nathan spread his hands to express that he knew nothing. Collating intelligence was his business, but intelligence analysis and inferences had nothing to do with him - one of the biggest taboos in officialdom was to overstep his authority.

Stephanie smiled secretly as she lowered her head: "It seems that this little spider is not as harmless as we thought. She will actively participate in this power game."

It’s too miserable to follow through. If you want to keep reading, you can turn to the last chapter first and then continue to wait. . .