The Death Knell

"Something seems not quite right."

The flames in the Baxter Building were extinguished, and the fire department and doctors had taken over the disaster on the streets. Only then did Tony calm down and pay attention to a problem.

Something doesn't quite make sense.

New York is definitely monitored by military satellites for a long time. If Bruce Banner or the Hulk appeared here, judging from past situations, the military should arrive earlier than Steve and the others.

Thunderbolt General Ross is not called that name for nothing. He and his rapid reaction troops were famous for their blitzkrieg warfare in the past.

What's more, after entering the new century, the military also collected a lot of scientific and technological talents and helped them create many high-tech products.

Although it is not as good as the aerial battleship that Tony built for S.H.I.E.L.D., the military has money after all, and if there is money, there will be people who are willing to sacrifice their lives.

Trask Industries, which manufactures the Sentinel robots, ostensibly sells fitness equipment and smart home appliances, but Tony knows that it is almost a shell of a military enterprise. Bolivar Trask is said to be the chairman, but only It's just a shield to push to the front desk.

But despite this, Tony had to admit that although the dwarf was a madman with a twisted personality, he was indeed a madman-like genius engineer. He had gone further than himself on the giant autonomous robot project.

There is also Tony's old classmate, Justin Hammer, who was often asked to put his underwear on his head when he was in college. The Hammer Industry he inherited has always been a military industry company, and the military holds a large shareholding in it. Many of Ding's inventions may be half-baked, but he does have some capable people who are constantly providing the military with high-tech equipment.

Next is the nasty Osborn Group, biochemistry, and the nasty biochemical technology. Tony heard that they are currently working on a new super soldier potion.

What's more, Tony also knows that many engineers work alone. Some of them don't like to be restrained, and some have criminal records. Therefore, these genius scientists are in a mercenary status. As long as they have money, they can accomplish many things that you can't imagine. .

For example, red nose, repairman, Mrs. Menace, beetle, big wheel, blacksmith, etc. It is as if after the white light incident a few years ago, these people have grown out of the ground like weeds in the new century.

Each of them has excellent scientific expertise, not even much worse than Tony himself.

Iron Man didn't know much about their intelligence. After all, they were all in the technology field, and they were very protective of their own information. Furthermore, these people all hated Tony's 'superhero' status.

There is no way, who is calling Tony the first person in the masked world to reveal his identity?

This is equivalent to breaking the rules when dealing with him. What if he exposes you by the way?

Fortunately, Iron Man still has some more traditional information channels, which is to defeat some villains, learn some information about these engineers from their mouths, and seize their creations.

It is said that Red Nose is an old man, an old man of the same era as Howard Stark. He was the chief scientist who once worked for the British Secret Service MI6. After retiring, he came to the United States to start this business. He does not know what changes he encountered. Now They have become technological mercenaries who do things for money.

As long as the money is available and nuclear bombs are built for you, just tell me how many you want, right?

The Blacksmith is a bit more annoying, having created a full set of tools for the military's secret services to deal with mutants.

From the plastic rifle used to deal with Magneto, to the prison cell and experimental water tank, to the fully automatic dissecting table and crematorium, they are all made by the blacksmith.

According to Fury, the giant crematorium can burn 30,000 mutant or human corpses every day when operating at full power. It also has a series of environmentally friendly designs such as flue gas desulfurization, as well as a supporting assembly line for automatic ashes boxing.

This can be called a bad taste.

But what Tony hates most is the Beetle. That guy is a shameless plagiarist who plagiarized the inventions and ideas of the great genius Tony Stark.

Tony came up with the MK12 armor, but before he could gain enough limelight after playing for a few days, a beetle appeared out of nowhere and copied the MH armor, which is the Mach suit.

In terms of performance, in addition to replacing the Ark reactor with a miniature nuclear fusion reactor and without the artificial intelligence Jarvis, the combat effectiveness of the entire set of armor is almost the same as the original version.

The appearance of the Mach armor looks familiar, a bit like something from the special feature film "Masked Superman" produced by Wilson Entertainment...

Yes, that guy not only plagiarized Tony's ideas, but also plagiarized the TV series!

Tony has been competing with each other from afar. MK12 was copied, so he immediately made MK13.

But the new clothes had not been worn for a few days, and Beetle also came up with MH2, once again copying the new features and creativity of Tony's suit.

Can Iron Man endure this? He immediately developed the MK14 suit, which could be airdropped and assembled. However, not long ago, the Beetle also made the MH3 suit with exactly the same function, but it still looked like a dead insect.

In addition, the price of counterfeit goods is very cheap, about the same as a Coast Guard torpedo boat. They are so casually listed on the online black market and sold in large quantities. They are secretly traded in Bitcoin and then laundered through an unregistered platform. Unable to find.

This series of pirated products has caused a lot of trouble for Iron Man, because the Mach series also plagiarized the color scheme of Tony's classic red and gold suit, but the helmet looked like an insect head with compound eyes, which led many bad guys to buy a set of Mach armor. To do evil, witnesses blamed Iron Man for various reasons.

Tony faced a lot of public pressure, and some even accused him of acting, trying to manipulate America by pretending to be good guys and bad guys at the same time.

This makes him very angry, so he has pushed all these troubles to the company's legal department and Xiaojiao. He has been concentrating on the research of MK15, which uses nano-deformable materials as the main body, and he doesn't believe that Beetle can keep up this time.

Of course, out of anger, if there was a chance, he would also like to invite this annoying guy to work in Stark Industries. He believed that his scientific research talent should not be wasted on the road of creating knock-off products.

All in all, after combining this information, Tony thinks that he should be fooling General Ross, who is rushing over, instead of staring at Captain America here.

The person who was supposed to show up didn't show up, and that's not right.

Steve still didn't understand what Tony was talking about. He was still thinking about Tony's previous donation of his ancestral home. Steve often went there as a guest when Howard was still there.

Thinking of Howard's dead friend, he inevitably thought of his dead godfather. The nightmare of tearing off someone's arm came back to Captain America's mind again, making him tremble uncontrollably. Naturally, he couldn't do anything to Tony's words. reaction.

Tony waited for a long time but got no response. The captain was in a daze, while Black Widow and Hawkeye were still telling jokes, as if they hadn't gotten into the mood yet.

No one answered, and the situation became awkward.

He can't get off the stage!

But fortunately, Jarvis will never betray him. When there is no one to talk to, Tony still has AI as his companion.

"Jarvis, help me locate the tracker on Dr. Banner."