Inside the Bear Country.
Anton Vanko watched Tony Stark, the Iron Man, enjoying the limelight as he flew around doing good deeds, and he was filled with immense sorrow!
This should have been his son's!
"My child, all of this should have been yours!"
"Don't listen to those fools," Ivan said, clutching his father's hand tightly.
"But all I could leave you was my knowledge..."
With that, tears of regret rolled down Anton Vanko's face, and he ended a life of unfulfilled ambitions filled with endless regret...
Ivan Vanko, seeing his father pass away, let out a heartbreaking roar of grief. He had always looked up to his father as his role model!
But as a son, he couldn't let his father leave this world without glory!
His father, Anton Vanko, was Howard's partner. They researched the Arc Reactor together, but Howard not only took the Arc Reactor for himself but also kicked him out of the company, which led to his father's lifelong depression and eventual death.
Now, watching Tony, the playboy, enjoy a life of luxury, while comparing it to his own poverty and misery, the seeds of hatred quickly sprouted and grew into a towering tree.
"Argh!!"
Roaring, Ivan Vanko poured himself a shot of liquor and slammed his fist on the table. Even though his palm was pierced by glass shards and bloodied, he felt nothing.
Hate! Hate! Hate!
The power of hatred was immense. This ruthless man immediately began to build an Arc Reactor based on his father's designs.
He would personally eliminate Iron Man, Tony Stark, and avenge his father and their family!
"What's the point of making such a simple whip? Tony's fully armed. Won't your mortal body get blown to smithereens in one shot?"
Ivan Vanko, who was forging metal, turned his head sharply towards the doorway.
A guy wearing sunglasses, looking all smug, appeared before him, giving him a serious lecture.
"Who are you!"
Ivan Vanko demanded in a stern voice. He was incredibly nervous that this person knew everything about him.
"Me? Who I am isn't important, but I can provide you with everything you need for revenge. Are you willing to cooperate?"
"Heh, there's no free lunch. What do you want from me? I don't have anything."
Ivan Vanko chuckled sarcastically.
"Ivan, do you understand investing in dreams? Call me Angel Investor, thank you."
The person who came wasn't Chen Xi? Where there's a villain, there he is, call him the Villain Investor.
Tony didn't want to share his Iron Armor with him, but as the saying goes, if you don't have a gun or a cannon, can't you just make one yourself?
"Alright, what help can you give me?"
Ivan Vanko took a deep look at the face hidden behind the sunglasses, he felt an unprecedented pressure.
It was as if a higher life form was looking down on a lower life form with indifference!
"Money!"
Chen Xi said lightly and tossed several sacks of USD from his System space, totaling tens of millions of USD.
Ivan Vanko stared at the man who'd just tossed him a mountain of cash without even blinking. He was stunned…
Because Ivan Vanko had thought about building Iron Armor.
He didn't want to wear a pile of junk, but he was broke.
Building a set of Iron Armor would cost at least seven or eight million USD.
A poor guy like him, building an Arc Reactor was already enough to bankrupt him…
"You're not worried I'll run off with the money?" Ivan Vanko tentatively asked.
"Run off? You run, you die."
Chen Xi glanced at him with a playful look, then turned and punched, completely destroying his big pickup truck...
Gasp!
Ivan Vanko's eyelids immediately jumped a few times, and he broke out in a cold sweat...
It seemed that even the Iron Armor wasn't invincible? If he was already this strong, what was the point of needing the Iron Armor, this "toy"?
Yes, Ivan Vanko figured that the awesome Iron Armor was probably just an interesting toy in the eyes of this big shot.
Chen Xi left, leaving Ivan Vanko staring at the scattered piles of cash with a burning heart. He could finally do something big with his life this time!
"Tony, Tony, the nail that sticks out gets hammered, you know? You were so arrogant and overbearing, you pissed someone off, didn't you?"
"Host, you're truly a little genius..."
"Really? I think so too. I am a genius."
Chen Xi pretended not to understand the System's sarcasm, taking it as genuine praise.
"The System's mission was to intercept the villain Ivan Vanko, yet you chose to support the villain, boosting his attributes..."
No wonder the System was complaining about his moral decay, calling him a terrible person, and so on. Turns out the System had generated a mission for him to defeat Ivan Vanko, the villain from Iron Man 2.
But this guy thought the mission reward was too low, only a measly 30,000 Justice Points. [Because the damage and deaths caused weren't as severe as Red Hulk's, and his own strength wasn't that great either.]
Chen Xi, dissatisfied, immediately made the mission more difficult for himself, and the System admired this guy's ability to exploit a bug.
Now, the System mission was directly down, because his interference had changed the future, making it impossible to calculate.
"Ugh, you know, I have a family to support, it's not easy. Gotta earn more for the baby formula, how else am I supposed to provide for them?"
"You're going to cause more deaths. Doesn't your conscience hurt?" The System scorned him!!
"I think they'll understand me. After all, I'm thinking about the future. There have to be sacrifices before victory arrives. Sacrificing them to help me? I'll stop Thanos!!"
"Right, so if they die, they die. Anyway, the dead aren't my countrymen. Different folks, different strokes. I'm also helping The Beautiful Country reduce some population pressure."
Chen Xi shrugged his shoulders indifferently and loudly defended himself. In his eyes, as long as he got more Justice Points, he didn't care if it was bloody or not.
"What if there are Summer Country people?"
"Then they can only blame their bad luck. Right, there don't seem to be any Summer Country people here. We're all from the old US, right? You chose your own idol, haha!"
"Tony is practically your friend. Aren't you going too far to mess with him?"
"Heh, you said it, a half-friend!"
"..."
The System fell silent, realizing that Chen Xi was unmatched in shamelessness and audacity. He could make self-serving actions sound so righteous!
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