In the small warehouse, heaps of discarded design drafts were piled up. Zed, not minding at all, simply flipped the waste paper over to use as a mattress and comfortably lay on the folding bed. He fiddled with the Another Watch dial while contemplating the specific details of his plan to seize Stane's assets.
Clack... clack... clack... clack...
The sound of Dan Kuroto frantically typing on the keyboard annoyed Zed a little, but Zed didn't dare to disturb the big shot at work, so he could only silently put on his headphones. Even then, he could still occasionally hear Dan Kuroto shouting,
"This is amazing! Using extremely low-level technology as the standard to complete an impossible task. This method is such a challenge! My god-like talent! Hahaha!! I am truly a god! Heh~ Haha~~"
While Dan Kuroto was still hard at work, Zed suddenly sensed a watch dial being activated. "How is that possible? How could Jessica activate the watch dial now? She should still be wallowing in alcohol and unable to pull herself together!"
In Zed's scenario, Jessica would be devastated by the psychological trauma caused by Kilgrave, and it wouldn't be until she met Luke Cage and joined the Defenders that she would regain her confidence. Only then would Jessica potentially activate the watch dial. Something unexpected must have happened!
Zed lay on the bed, silently and thoughtfully considering the reasons for the problem and how to remedy it.
A furious Tony returned to the villa. Without a word, he sat on the sofa, watching the news reports about Gimora Town on TV, while making the final adjustments to the Mark III Armor.
With the help of Jarvis and Dummy, the golden-red Mark III armor's components were precisely assembled onto Tony.
Iron Man was born at this moment.
Tony, wearing the Mark III, flew at top speed towards Gimora Town. Coincidentally, terrorists were plundering the town's children and women. Even more coincidentally, the leader of these terrorists was the same bearded man Tony had first encountered in the cave.
Iron Man eliminated all the terrorists except the bearded man with overwhelming force. The bearded man had been absent from the base the day Tony escaped in the Mark I, and fortunately, he hadn't been killed.
Today, Tony still didn't intend to kill him personally.
Before leaving, Tony left him to the townspeople:
"Do as you wish!"
After Tony learned about his continued arms dealing last night, Stane became even more determined to get rid of Tony.
Seething with frustration, Stane arrived at his R&D center, loudly berating the scientists and technicians he employed, venting his fury. "You can't make the Arc Reactor! You can't make the damn metal shell either? What kind of garbage is this thing? It can't even stand up straight! Tony made it in a terrorist cave! Why can't you?"
"We're not Tony Stark, sir. Sorry!"
"You!"
Stane was about to continue when his phone buzzed with an email. There was no sender listed.
The email contained only a rough draft of an Iron Man suit design and a short message: Want it? Bring five million in non-sequential used bills to the sixth floor of Woody's Department Store, Block B.
Stane was shocked that someone knew about his attempts to replicate the Iron Man suit, and that they might have already succeeded in building one. He had to go.
After arranging for his men to set up an ambush around the department store, Stane went to the sixth floor of Block B. He had barely arrived when a second email arrived: Locker J6OGJER7 in section F, password swnb.
Stane had prepared to double-cross whoever he was dealing with, but he hadn't expected them to be so cautious. He had no choice but to find the specified locker and retrieve its contents.
Inside the locker, there was only a data storage device, a black-purple watch, and a note:
The things you want are in the storage device. The watch is an instant burst device that can triple the performance of the Iron Man armor within ten minutes. As for the Arc Reactor, it's exclusive to Stark Industries, so I won't try to copy it.
Leave the money here, and you can leave. If I don't receive the money, your secret will be all over the headlines tomorrow.
Stane wanted to tear apart the guy who was toying with him, but this guy had even cut and pasted the content of the note from a newspaper, leaving no clues.
"You just wait! I will find you!" Veins bulging, Stane tore the note to shreds and left two people to continue monitoring the locker before he left.
Returning to the lab with the items, Stane immediately ordered an inspection of the storage device and watch to see if they had been tampered with. But these scientists couldn't compare to Dan Kuroto, who possessed the talent of a god. Without alerting anyone, a virus had already infiltrated Stane's private database, waiting for Dan Kuroto's next command.
The underground laboratory of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Triskelion was a cacophony of noise. Hawkeye, transformed into Kamen Rider Zangetsu Shin, was being observed like a rare animal. From time to time, someone would reach out and touch him, making Hawkeye very uncomfortable.
"What material is this white undersuit made of? I can't tell at all!"
"Why did that melon turn into chest armor?"
"And that zipper! It's amazing!"
Nick Fury didn't have as many questions. He immediately asked Hawkeye if he had any special feelings about it.
Hawkeye, after a moment of concentration, reached out his right hand and clenched it in the air. A red bow and arrow materialized in his hand. As soon as the bow appeared, Hawkeye seemed possessed, caressing it as if it were his lover, treating it with utmost care.
"Your name is Sonic Bow? What a great name!"
"Enough!" Nick Fury immediately cut off Hawkeye's reverie. "Go to the training ground, let's see how powerful this armor is."
Hearing this, the scientists immediately displayed the speed of a hundred-meter dash, preparing all the tools needed for the experiment, and eagerly pulled Hawkeye to begin the tests.
Hawkeye put down the Sonic Bow that he couldn't bear to part with, walked to the testing equipment, and, taking a stance, put all his strength into throwing a punch.
Boom!
The huge impact shook everyone's eardrums, and the numbers on the display screen shocked their understanding.
"Fourteen tons! Fourteen tons! This punch is fourteen tons!"
"Hurry up! Hurry up! Test the armor's defense!"
"No! Test the speed first!"
After a round of physical tests, it was finally Hawkeye's turn to test his new favorite, the Sonic Bow. Hawkeye took a deep breath and drew back the bowstring, concentrating.
The transparent bowstring lit up with yellow-green light, and a swirling vortex of energy appeared at the tip of the arrow, growing larger and larger.
When the energy reached its peak, Hawkeye released the bowstring.
BOMM
The testing equipment vanished instantly, and a man-sized hole was blasted in the special material of the laboratory wall!
Nick Fury's single eye flashed with a chilling light.
When this blank data sheet arrived at the S.H.I.E.L.D. laboratory, Alexander Pierce had been following the news. For several days, the internal HYDRA scientists hadn't sent any news, but no news was the biggest news of all.
Pierce understood that S.H.I.E.L.D. had locked down the entire lab because of a major discovery. Nick Fury wouldn't let any information leak.
Realizing this, Pierce opened the S.H.I.E.L.D. Level Ten Archives. Browsing through the experiment records and the video of Hawkeye transforming into Zangetsu, Pierce's blood pressure rose.
In Stane's private lab, the storage device and the watch face traded from the mysterious man showed no problems. It was as if the other party genuinely wanted to do business. But the more it seemed like that, the more uneasy Stane felt.
Sitting by the fireplace, pondering the mysterious man's motives, the television broadcasted Colonel Rhodes, a military spokesperson, saying, "Yesterday, the Middle East was attacked by an unknown armed force, but we can assure you that the US government and military were not involved."
Stane had no proof, but he knew! It was Tony! It had to be Tony!
His Arc Reactor and Iron Man armor must have been completed, and they could probably be used on the battlefield. But he still had nothing. He had to do something!
Stane pondered for a long time, thinking about his fate after Tony regained control of Stark Industries and the potential problems the mysterious man could bring.
Finally, he chose the lesser of two evils!
Determined, Stane rushed back to the lab overnight and ordered the immediate assembly of the Iron Man armor.
The scientists and technicians in the lab had been waiting for this order for ages. Once they confirmed that the Iron Man armor data and watch face had not been tampered with, they were eager to complete this work of art made of steel.
Or rather, even if they knew there was poison hidden within, they would still accept it gladly. After all, an opportunity like this might only come once in a lifetime.
With the efforts of the entire laboratory staff, piece after piece of metal parts were installed in their proper places. Each wire, dense yet aesthetically pleasing, was intertwined. Flesh and blood gradually grew on the steel skeleton.
At dawn, this Iron Monger, a fusion of a degraded Lv.99 level-up player and Stark Industries technology, was only missing its last two parts.
Yesterday, Tony returned covered in bullet holes, which worried Pepper greatly, causing her to often space out. Unknowingly, she walked into Tony's lab.
Tony was repairing the Mark III Armor. Seeing Pepper enter, he said, "Are you busy? Can you help me with something?"
"What is it?"
"I want you to hack into the company's database and find the recent weapon transaction records." Tony got up and took a data storage device from the toolbox and handed it to Pepper.
"What do you want to do after you find them?"
"As you can see, I'll stop this from happening myself!"
"No! It's too dangerous! If you insist on this, I'll have to resign!"
"You were there when I made my money by destroying others! Now that I want to correct my mistakes, you want to leave me? I know this is dangerous, but a voice inside me tells me it's the right thing to do. I've finally found my mission!"
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