The Death Knell

Seeing Cassandra, Tony had mixed feelings for a moment. He had been looking for her for so many years and wanted to avenge his parents.

However, she sold Jasper Industries and disappeared. More than ten years have passed without any news.

He thought she was dead, starving to death like a beggar on a street in Europe, so he was no longer upset about meeting her in his dream, but felt that everything was over.

But now, when the living Cassandra appeared in front of him with a fully armed elite guard, he didn't know what to say for a moment.

Is it a greeting after a long separation? Or is it a fight to the death when enemies meet?

Tony, who was always sharp-tongued, fell silent. He held his car battery and sat back on the bed feebly.

"That's good." She came over, put the lantern in her hand on the small table, took out a cigarette, put it in her mouth and lit it. After taking a deep breath, she exhaled the smoke and looked at Tony up and down, as if Inspection: "You are thinner than I looked on TV. Maybe it was the two little models you were holding in your arms that made you look fat."

"Kill me." Tony turned his head and said, "I have always wanted to kill you, do you think so too? Now that I am in your hands, you win."

Cassandra showed a weird smile, she reached out and scratched Tony's chin, rubbing the mustache: "No, Tony, my dear, I will let you live in the same pain as me. Living, you don't know how much hardship I endured after selling the company, and how much effort I put into building today's 'Shadow Industry'. You are still of use to me..."

"Give up! I won't do anything for you, you Hydra remnant, you killed my parents! Don't even think of getting even a single screw-making method from me!"

Tony slapped her hand away, he would rather die than obey, not even her.

"I'm not Hydra, or AIM. I'm just me, and what I want is not your crappy weapons. Your parents are dead, and so are my parents. I don't think there will ever be an answer to what happened back then."

Cassandra reached out again and forcefully turned Tony's head to face her. Her expression was as cold as ice:

"But that's not what our family did... Forget it, you don't believe me as always. I shed a lot of tears for this in the past, but it's different now. I don't need your belief. I will be like I will raise you like a dog, and then, like this!”

She stood up and slapped Tony across the face so hard that he was sent flying off the mattress to the other side.

Seeing his aggrieved look, she laughed loudly and led people outside.

"I'm going to kill myself! Don't you dare humiliate me again!" Tony stood up and shouted at her.

Cassandra stopped, turned her face and smiled: "You remember that I was a doctor in biology and chemistry more than ten years ago, right? Guess how many things I can do with your body now? You can Feel free to commit suicide and try my abilities..."

After saying that, she left without looking back, and the iron door was closed again by the guards. Tony could only cover his face, listening to her three-part laughter echoing in the corridor, getting further and further away.

"Hehe, oh hehe, hahahahaha..."

He rubbed his face, sat silently on the bed, lowered his head for a long time before saying to himself:

"I hate biologists the most, a group of lunatics... She is crazy, completely crazy, no, I have to find a way to escape..."

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From this day on, Tony's suffering began. Although Cassandra provided some gadgets to make him a new energy source for his chest, Tony had no access to anything that could help him out of danger.

The gun may be stolen, but he has never been a well-trained soldier. Cassandra's men are so numerous that even if he is given unlimited bullets, he cannot break out.

Judging from the humidity in the basement, this base is still deep in the rain forest. How could it be possible to escape?

So he could only pretend to give in, make excuses with his ex-girlfriend, and continue to lurk and wait for opportunities.

Cassandra would come to Tony's cell to spend the night from time to time, as if to make up for the regrets of the past ten years, squeeze Tony dry, and leave with satisfaction the next morning, leaving only a pair of eyes that seemed to be in ruins. The greasy man looked at the ceiling without a trace.

He couldn't beat her. I don't know where this woman learned a good martial arts. That jujitsu could remove the joints of Tony's limbs and then put them back together when she was done.

After a month passed, Tony, who had almost turned gray, realized that what Cassandra was interested in was not his inventions and creations, but his genes!

This gave him a chill in his heart. He couldn't delay it any longer and had to find a way out.

Perhaps it was his obedience during these days that made Cassandra relax some of her vigilance. She even took Tony for a few laps in the rainforest, as if looking for shared memories from the past. This was how Tony took her back again. For a ride on the sea.

It's just that he didn't use force to coerce her, but kidnapped her in the name of love.

During the drive, Tony only responded to Cassandra's nostalgic talk, and even took the opportunity to steal a small set of car repair tools at the expense of his appearance.

After a few days, he used the excuse that the basement was too cold. Not only was his body unable to bear it, but also having sex with Cassandra at night was not enjoyable.

He offered to help build a boiler.

Kashan, who was immersed in the aftermath of the incident, barely thought about it and happily agreed. She felt that Tony had seen the reality clearly and was going to give in to her.

The boiler is not a high-tech thing, it is just some steel and pipes. Even if Tony uses them to make a cannon, what will happen?

In the past few years, she had taken in many lone mercenaries, traitors from Hydra or S.H.I.E.L.D., as well as some dead soldiers she had trained. The combat capabilities of these people were not comparable to those of her ex-boyfriend.

So she happily agreed.

But she only knew about her growth over the past ten years, but she didn't know that Tony had not given up his major. Even when he was busy picking flowers all over the world, he still continued his research in physics and engineering.

In the days that followed, Tony was busy working on the "boiler" during the day, and at night he had to deal with his ex-girlfriend "painfully and happily". The excessive loss of energy made his eyes look like pandas.

But he succeeded. The Jericho missiles he brought for display at the time were not used up, and the remaining ones were intercepted by Kashan.

After the soldiers knew that he was the leader's man and that he was powerless, they guarded him laxly. He found an opportunity to steal some palladium metal used as a filler for the missile balancer.

With this metal, Tony built the Ark reactor while just going to the toilet.

He installed the energy on a boiler that looked like a large iron can, and then the steel behemoth began to mechanically deform, revealing a place inside that could accommodate a person.

Tony was delighted with his intelligence.

After all, tanks were born to defend against bullets, so why not just invent a similar device so that he is no longer afraid of bullets? By the way, the flight function is also added, otherwise I will definitely walk out of the rainforest.

By the way, this boiler is also painted with red paint, which seems to be a good sign.

"What are you doing?!"

The guard passing by outside the boiler room door noticed Tony's little move and shouted.

Tony did not hesitate, jumped directly into the simple armor, and used a flamethrower modified by oxygen welding to attack the opponent.

Ding ding dong dong, the bullet couldn't penetrate. He was so confident now that he ran away quickly along the underground corridor.