The Death Knell

"Why? Uncle Stan?"

Tony was squirming like maggots on the expensive carpet, and the round hole in his chest was empty. He even immediately felt the shrapnel flowing with his blood, and his heart was about to stop.

Obaday played with the Ark Reactor in his hand and answered with a victor's tone.

"Because someone has given me more than you. With this, I have the capital to cooperate."

"Is it Cassandra? Did she find you?"

Tony's face was livid, and he didn't know if he was about to kick his legs? Still in a bad mood? Maybe a bit of both.

Obadiah had no idea who he was talking about, and his face was a little confused, but he quickly turned away and said, "You can guess."

Tony wanted to guess, but he couldn't think straight and could only smell the smell of sheep on the carpet.

His heart beat slower and slower, he closed his eyes, and his last thought was:

"If I have another life, I won't buy wool carpets."

But he didn't die.

He didn't know how long it took, but when he opened his eyes again, he saw Pepper's face. She was sad and happy at the same time, and kept wiping tears.

Tony lowered his head and glanced at his chest. It turned out that she arrived in time and replaced Tony with the old reactor, thus saving his life.

"What? You can't bear to leave me, boss? But it's not too late to cry at the funeral."

Tony got up, shook his head, and joked with his assistant.

Potts smiled and patted Tony's chest: "I'm just happy that I don't have to find a new job."

"Okay, how did you know something was wrong with me?"

Tony walked towards the basement. He probably guessed what Obadiah was going to do by taking away the Ark reactor.

There is also a giant reactor in Stark Industrial Park that supplies power to New York. Obadiah technically does not need this miniature one, but in addition to being an energy source, it can also drive the MK1 armor that Tony threw on the beach at that time.

That guy must have found someone to fix it, and was planning to take the sample to the conspiracy partners, right? Tony has to stop them.

"I told her." A woman walked out from the dark corner of the room, wearing a black tights, with only her red hair shining in the moonlight: "I think this saved your life."

"Ms. Romanoff." Tony stopped and looked at his newly recruited female secretary. Her appearance now was outrageous. She was not as elegant and generous as she was in the company. Instead, she was full of predatory behavior. Breath: "So, you've been spying on me? Who do you work for?"

"Strategic Homeland Defense Attack and Logistics Support Agency." Natasha directly revealed her identity: "You are in danger now. Obadiah has taken control of the board of directors, copied your armored prototype, and plans to use Stark Group to seal it If you use weapons to launch a terrorist attack, your best response is to cooperate with us. I will talk to you on behalf of our director."

"You are fired."

Tony looked at her deeply, then left these words and left.

He doesn't trust anyone except Little Pepper now, and is anxious to put on his MK2, so that he will feel safe.

Potts smiled awkwardly at Natasha. Although she was indeed a spy, it was because of this that she saved Tony's life. This was really rude. After all, one code equals the other.

When you fire someone, you should at least smile. How bad is it to stare?

Natasha didn't care. She held her arms and sat on the head of Tony's sofa, making a seductive pose: "If Howard and I weren't old friends, I wouldn't bother to care about him."

Not knowing whether to follow Tony to the basement or stay here and watch Natasha's little pepper ears twitch, she didn't know how old Natasha was, but she looked very young.

So how did the other party know Howard? She wanted to ask about it.

But when it comes to clichés, how is she Natasha's opponent?

The two chatted for a long time, not to mention that they didn't find out anything about Natasha. On the contrary, Pepper even found out where she went to elementary school. Black Widow now knows that the other party likes blue, likes small animals, and loves Eating lemon pie, not liking to wear high heels, and a whole host of other female character weaknesses.

She and Potts were chatting very intimately about men, and for some reason, Pepper suddenly told her about the marriage push at home...

At this time, a golden and red armor flew away from the top of the villa, dragging its tail of flames and flying towards the city in the dark night. However, the light of the fire did not affect the two women's conversation. They even sat on the sofa and fell asleep. Got wine.

Howard himself graduated from the California Institute of Technology and later built the Stark Industrial Technology Park in the northern suburbs of Los Angeles.

After his death, Tony inherited the business, bought a hilltop on Malibu Beach in the southwest suburbs of Los Angeles, and built a villa to live in.

In fact, it's not to get closer to the science and technology park, but because there are many celebrities here. Tony is actually a 'star chaser', who likes to chase female celebrities into bed.

But more often than not, he lives on the top floor of the Stark Tower in New York, where the company is headquartered.

After all, Stark not only has a scientific research department, but also a finance and investment department, an urban construction department, an import and export trade department, etc. The flow of a large amount of materials still relies on the New York Port.

Across the Atlantic is Europe, and the United States is more closely connected with Europe.

Moreover, New York is closer to the Stark factory in New Jersey, which is the place responsible for manufacturing products. The Stark Industrial Technology Park here is only responsible for research and development.

Tony's grandfather, Isaac Stark, left behind a large piece of land and factories in New Jersey that were the Stark Group's biggest capital. The family first started making light bulbs and switches in the 19th century.

On the contrary, Howard started the arms business later, and it was he who brought huge profits and rapid development to the company.

At the same time, Tony's hometown is also in Long Island, New York. The Maria family's manor is also part of the inheritance, but he is afraid of being hurt by the situation and rarely goes back there. Only the old Jarvis is responsible for maintaining it.

It’s not like he never thought about using the Ark Reactor to provide electricity to New York City. After all, that would generate more publicity and network traffic. However, he started too late in this regard. The Osborne Group had already taken over New York State’s electricity supply. and construction.

They invented a method of generating electricity using genetically modified electric eels, which is also considered clean energy.

Tony went to visit unconvinced, and then sat in the car and kept complaining to Chili about the damn biology...

But he also admitted that the other party's project was successful. His Ark reactor may have advantages in higher-level energy utilization and can be converted into light energy or radiation more easily, but when it comes to electricity, it is really not as good as those 'Pipi Eel'.

To put it bluntly, the Ark reactor is still cold nuclear fusion. Tony himself knows that it is very safe and clean, but the common people don't know. His scalp went numb when he heard that a nuclear power plant was to be built in New York City. He firmly opposed it and was still in the Stark headquarters building. Demonstration in front of the gate.

Osborn Industries, on the other hand, said they were going to build some large ponds to raise electric eels, and even the Animal Protection Association didn't bother to bother them, so it went very smoothly.

‘There are people who love cats and dogs, but why aren’t there people who love eels? ’

Tony kept muttering about this in his mind, but he could only give up the New York plan.

Fortunately, there are not so many other consortiums in California. He successfully persuaded the governor and built the giant ark in the park within a few days and connected it to the power grid.

This time he was smarter and stopped explaining the principle of power generation to others. He directly said it was new energy, and everyone applauded and agreed. They were very happy. After all, the electricity bill had dropped.

Now his destination is Stark Industrial Science and Technology Park. He knows that all the scientists under his command are there. If someone helps Obaday repair the MK1 armor, he must be hiding there.

Further west is the Pacific Ocean, but we can't really let Obaday run away with his invention. Although he still can't figure out why the always good Uncle Stan suddenly wants to kill himself, Tony is not a pussy, and he is determined. Go back for revenge.