In Tony Stark's home in New York, Tony Stark took off the suit he had just put on. Pepper Potts was waiting for him outside the door. The two had originally planned to attend an official party tonight, where all kinds of high-ranking officials, dignitaries, famous businessmen and wealthy people would gather together.
"Pepper, I can't go today!" Tony Stark said.
Then the door opened, and Pepper Potts, dressed in a formal dress, looked at Tony Stark angrily and said, "Tony, you've stood me up so many times. What on earth are you researching all day long?"
"Pepper, I'm helpless too, but now the inspiration has come. Don't you think we can let it go to waste?" Tony Stark said with a smile.
"Really?" Pepper Potts looked at Tony Stark with some suspicion, her face full of doubt.
If it were in the past, she would never believe Tony Stark even if she was beaten to death. After all, what kind of person is Tony Stark? Others may not know, but doesn't she know it?
He must have gone to the casino quietly, or he went to play with young models. In any case, it would be difficult to get him to attend those boring official banquets.
But recently Tony Stark has spent significantly less time hanging out, and most of the time he's like a tech geek, working hard at home on research.
There were even times when she worried about Tony Stark's physical and mental health.
This is a bit too unlike the usual playboy.
"Of course it's true!" Tony Stark said speechlessly, wondering how bad his reputation was.
But he was also very clear about one thing, that is, time was not enough for him. He even reduced the number of times he went out for fun, and he didn't want to participate in some boring official activities, hearings, etc. He wanted to improve his strength as much as possible.
He now understood Lin Feng's feelings a little bit. Others could live leisurely and peacefully because they didn't know that they were about to face a catastrophe. But he knew that the future of the Earth would be full of crises. So the more so, the more he felt like there was a sword hanging over his head, and he didn't know when it would suddenly be cut down.
No wonder Lin Feng, a rich second-generation, is so self-disciplined. Or rather, it's not self-discipline, it's just that he's scared.
"But you left me alone there again. Do you know how many times they have looked for you recently?" Pepper Potts said very dissatisfiedly.
Tony Stark was also a little embarrassed, because he knew very well that if he was invited to the official party, what good could come of it? It was still an attempt to put pressure on him to hand over the armor manufacturing technology.
He just wanted to laugh, what about your technology?
Can you handle it?
It's not that he is arrogant, even if he opens the information to them, they won't be able to use it.
However, there is still pressure. In the United States, capital does not really have absolute power. At least there are several hands working together to cover the sky.
"Then remember to eat. You have a bad stomach. I'll leave first." Pepper glanced at Tony Stark and knew it was useless to say anything. It was her fate to be such a hard-working person.
After Tony Stark sent Pepper away, he changed into comfortable clothes and said, "Why did Lin Feng start writing in his diary so early today..."
Yes, it was only after he received a notification from Jarvis that he found out that the diary had been updated again, and he temporarily canceled his plan to attend the party.
When he walked to the basement, everyone from S.H.I.E.L.D. was already online and had started chatting on the projection on the desktop.
"Nata, you don't look well lately?" Hawkeye Barton asked with some concern.
"Of course it's not good. I have to deal with the tasks given by Fury and the tasks given by Lin Feng. How can it be good? If I hadn't asked for leave today, you wouldn't be able to see me now, these damn evil capitalists..." Black Widow Natasha yawned and said.
"Hey, I think I heard someone cursing. It has nothing to do with me, okay? Don't slam everyone for the same reason." Tony Stark said dissatisfiedly after hearing this. "Why don't you come to my company? I'll give you a less demanding job. I promise it won't be tiring."
Black Widow Natasha glanced at him, and Tony Stark was a little speechless. She rolled her eyes at him and said nothing.
The capitalists' big empty promises!!!
"Today we have a new member, as you all know, Captain America, Steve Rogers." Nick Fury introduced.
"Hi, everyone. Please take care of me in the future. I still don't quite understand these devices. Things have changed so much in the past 70 years." Captain America Rogers said.
He was fiddling with the projection equipment in his rented house, which was too complicated for him.
In his time, watching TV was already a super new technology, not to mention other things.
"Captain? Nice to meet you. You are much younger than I thought." Tony Stark glanced at Captain America Rogers. Although his idol was not Captain America, he had to admit that he grew up listening to the legend of Captain America, so he couldn't help but be curious.
"You are... Tony Stark, right? You look a lot like Howard." Captain America Rogers glanced at Tony Stark and sighed in his heart. He didn't expect that in the blink of an eye, really in the blink of an eye, the son of his good friend who had been through life and death with him back then has grown up so big.
Her mental age is even much older than his.
Hearing this, Tony Stark's mouth twitched slightly. Why did he feel like, "Child, I held you in my arms when I was a child. Do you still remember me?"
He really wanted to say, who are you? Don't pretend to be my elder, but this person was really his elder.
"Okay, after greeting each other, let's begin today's diary study," Nick Fury said. "Based on previous information, the three Avengers mentioned here are probably Tony, Thor, and Captain America. That should be correct."
Captain America Rogers was a little confused when he heard this. He didn't understand why Lin Feng would include him in the three giants of the Avengers. He had even just heard of the Avengers organization.
Moreover, he is very self-aware. His fighting ability is much stronger than that of ordinary people, but if he has to compare with gods like Thor, the difference is not even a little bit.
Tony Stark curled his lips. As for the title of the Big Three, he felt that he had not done enough and needed to speed up the iteration of the armor.
"The captain's early recovery and return obviously caught him off guard. He thought it would be around 2010 or 2011. It seems there are things he doesn't realize," said Hawkeye Barton.
"That's normal. He was just an ordinary person in his previous life. Just like ordinary people reading history, knowing the general history is good enough. Can we expect him to remember even the specific years?" Hill said. "But didn't he buy up a lot of companies with copyrights related to the captain before?"
"Does it have anything to do with me?" Captain America Rogers was a little bit unbelievable that he had become an IP and even had the copyright.
In the wild and chaotic era in which he lived, it wasn't that there were no patents or copyrights, it was just that the execution effect was quite touching.
"Yes, Sharon and I were in charge of this. He probably wanted to stockpile a batch of copyrights and wait for two years to use them. Unexpectedly, the captain suddenly returned, which saved the waiting time. This wave made at least 4 billion." Black Widow Natasha replied.
Except for Tony Stark, everyone present couldn't help but shed tears of envy and jealousy. Damn capitalists, is it so easy to make money?
Only then did they realize that Lin Feng knew many things about the future in advance. Even if he didn't remember them clearly, it was enough to bring him countless benefits.
Even Tony Stark felt a little shaken. Unless he relied on stock price fluctuations, it would not be easy for him to earn 4 billion.
"I think the key point is this. In 2012, the Chitauri invaded... It's only a few years away..." Tony Stark spoke and woke everyone up.
Compared to how much money Lin Feng made by using his ability to predict the future, this is a fatal thing.
I only had a vague idea about this before, but now I not only know the specific time, but also which alien civilization is invading.
All of a sudden, the looming mountain came down and almost crushed everyone.
They also knew one thing very well: for aliens capable of traveling across planets on expeditions, even if calculated based on the lowest level of civilization, it would not be much more difficult for them to defeat humans than it was for European colonists to defeat the Native Americans.
No, to be precise, it may be similar to modern civilization beating monkeys.
The human beings on Earth are a group of small, skinny monkeys that have not yet flown out of the Earth. It is impossible for them to have any ability to fight back.
Tony Stark himself can think of some possible technological applications in the interstellar era. For example, what if the other party has the envisioned star destroyer cannon?
If one shot is fired, half of the United States will be gone. How can we fight then?
The most powerful hydrogen bomb explosion ever created by humans on Earth can only move the ground a few millimeters at most, which is not on the same level at all.
It's not even as powerful as the energy from the Earth's daily volcanic eruptions.
"So how do we fight? Or, in other words, how did we actually defeat this alien invasion?" Tony Stark asked. "The previous video, the one where the little guy asks Doctor Strange for help, we speculated it took place in 2017. At that time, the world seemed peaceful. So, at least we withstood the alien invasion in 2012. And since Lin Feng was talking about the first gathering of the Avengers, it seems we won on our own, rather than relying on the Ancient One and his mages. So, the question is, how did we actually win?"
No matter how I calculate it now, I still have no chance of winning!"