at the same time. Stark at his Malibu mansion.
Tony is still in his underground laboratory. Pepper will handle the outside matters, there is no need for him to cause trouble.
It's not like Pepper didn't ask him to help...it's a pity...this guy is really causing trouble. Of course Pepper knew that Tony did it on purpose. He is a genius and an all-rounder, and he also knows how to run a company. It's just that after he has something more interesting, the company and other things will be moved to the back.
What he was most interested in right now was the Iron Overlord in front of him, or more precisely, the several injuries on Iron Overlord's body. Looking at the perspective view of Iron Overlord projected by Jarvis using a virtual light screen, he murmured: "Every time, it was cut at the exposed joint parts interface of Iron Overlord, or some control lines were cut off. These few times The attacks were very targeted and basically destroyed Iron Overlord’s mobility.”
Jarvis: "Yes, sir. Comparing the video taken at that time, it can be determined that Batman has a considerable understanding of the structure of the Iron Overlord."
Tony's scalp felt a little numb: "When has this guy ever seen the Mark I? Did he hack into my security system and monitor me? Jarvis!"
"The system does not show any traces of being invaded. Maybe Batman obtained the Mark 1 design through other means, such as Mr. Obaday." Jarvis reminded.
"Obaday..." Tony's expression immediately became complicated. He has trusted three people in his life, Obaday, Pepper and Happy, maybe adding Kai. For him, trust is an extremely rare and scarce resource, but among these few people, there is someone who betrays him.
He once regarded Obadiah as his mentor and relative, but unfortunately, Obadiah wanted his life.
Soon, Tony got rid of this little emotion.
Speaking of Obaday, by the way, he sounded one thing. He ordered Jarvis: "Jarvis, make a new security plan for the villa."
After hesitating for a moment, he continued: "All the security personnel of the villa have gone home for vacation, waiting for investigation."
He couldn't trust the security now. A few nights ago, Obadie almost killed him, but the security guards didn't notice anything unusual. If he hadn't been lucky, he might have actually burped, which made Tony realize his fragility. After all, if he were classified as a normal person, he would be considered a disabled person. Without wearing steel armor, he would It's just too fragile. Therefore, he now attaches great importance to security.
From this point of view, even those who do not find any problems after a comprehensive investigation must be retrained.
Thinking of this, he did not continue. This matter also takes time, and it is better to continue studying Batman now. He's genuinely curious about Batman's true identity. In fact, his curiosity has always been very strong, and he has a bad habit. Once he is curious about something, he will want to know it thoroughly, which is a bit obsessive-compulsive.
"Haven't you found any clues about Batman yet?"
"Sorry sir, I still haven't found any clues about Batman. But my analysis of his suit has come out."
"Oh? Tell me." Tony felt that this should be a clue. As long as he found out the technology on Batman's armor and followed the clues, he might be able to find out the truth.
"After analyzing the Batman battle videos, I discovered at least five very cutting-edge technologies, including electromagnetic sound wave oscillation, magnetic levitation, laser cutting, high-efficiency energy-absorbing alloys, and polymer memory fabrics."
"Hmm, not a bad idea. Where's the energy source?"
"I'm sorry, sir, that suit of armor has an anti-scanning coating, so I can't perform a deep scan. However, I guess it won't be long before his energy source will be replaced by the Ark Reactor."
"Of course, my work is the most perfect!"
"Indeed, if you look purely at the technical content, you, sir, are indeed better. After all, judging from the movements of the Bat Armor at that time, his armor should have adopted a force feedback armor. For this reason alone, you will win. ”
"Bingo! I'm always the winner."
"But judging from the results, Batman's combat effectiveness is stronger. I feel this is due to the differences between individuals." Jarvis said very honestly.
"You mean, he's better than me."
"Yes sir. There is no doubt about it. After all, you have not experienced any special combat training."
Jarvis almost said that Tony was a noob.
Obviously being complained about by his smart butler made Tony's competitive spirit very hurt.
"Contact me Happy! I need the best fighter in the world to train me tomorrow!"
"With all due respect, your current physical condition is not suitable for such high-intensity training."
"What do you mean?" Tony was immediately angry when his housekeeper complained about his poor health.
"I just scanned your physical condition and found something very bad. You have been poisoned by palladium."
"What?!" Tony was frightened: "Why didn't you tell me about such an important thing earlier?"
"I only discovered it during the most recent scan of your body. After all, you have two pounds of palladium in your chest, which greatly affected my scan. So only when enough palladium has accumulated in your body, I Only then can we find out." Jarvis said that I will not bear the blame.
Tony's first reaction was to remove the thing from his chest, but he immediately thought that if he removed the thing, he would probably die faster than palladium poisoning.
"In fact, the current symptoms are not serious. If you stop using the armor, you will have a lot of time to solve the problem. If you continue to use the Mark armor with a heavy load, the severe energy demand will increase the palladium element very quickly. The consumption of the core will aggravate the accumulation of toxins, leading to insufficient metabolic capacity of the body, resulting in symptoms of poisoning, and ultimately life-threatening."
This means that if the Palladium Ark Reactor is used for normal life support, the toxins produced will not constitute a physical hazard to Tony, let alone life-threatening. Moreover, Tony also discovered that chlorophyll can alleviate toxins to a certain extent. The effect creates a balance of metabolism and toxin accumulation. As long as Tony does not use the Mark Armor, then this balance will always exist and will not be broken, and Tony's life will naturally be safe.
"You mean you want me to give up my identity as Iron Man?"
"I'm just giving advice."
"impossible!"
A not-so-good experience made Tony go through life and death, but it also gave Tony the opportunity to transform from a "playboy" to a superhero with a sense of social responsibility, and also allowed a "profit-only" arms dealer to become a superhero. The guardian of world peace. In addition to the transformation of Tony's own consciousness level, all of this is also the stage provided by Mark's armor for Tony.
Putting on the Mark armor, Tony is the much-anticipated "Iron Man", but taking off the armor, Tony is completely just an ordinary person. However, when a person realizes a higher level of belief, it is actually difficult to let it go, even if he devotes everything to it, he will not hesitate. Having seen the vastness of the sea, how could you be willing to settle at the bottom of a well? Therefore, after Tony becomes Iron Man, no matter in terms of personal or responsibility, he will not choose to take off his armor and go back to being an ordinary person with nothing to do and no beliefs. This is his belief and his consciousness.
"Then, I suggest you start looking for new elements to replace palladium."
Tony touched his stubble and snapped his fingers: "Then do it!"
"Of course, I have another suggestion, sir."
"Say!" Tony was always so confident in himself and had no doubt that he could not solve this problem.
"Perform surgery to remove the shrapnel from your chest." Jarvis gave the most reliable advice. After all, as long as this is done, there is no need to put the Ark Reactor into the body. Naturally, poisoning is less likely to occur. After all, it is safe and feasible to use external energy sources to kill, and that’s what Iron Overlord does.
In fact, there is another way, but Jarvis didn't mention it and Tony didn't think about it. That's Dr. Ethan's solution - use batteries. Of course, this is just a proxy, and other power sources are also acceptable. Anyway, as long as it absorbs those shrapnel, it is enough. And there is no doubt that the battery cannot support Tony's use of the Mark Armor. There is almost no difference in actual effects between the two. Even ordinary batteries cannot provide Tony with emergency protection. After all, the Palladium Ark Reactor can still be used in times of crisis. There is always a chance for Tony to use the Mark suit.
More importantly, this was too low a level, and Tony was willing to die of poisoning.
"Operation……"
To be honest, it's not like Tony hasn't considered this option. After all, he is not a special person who likes to put some weird things in his body. He doesn't even plan to get earrings, let alone shrapnel so close to his heart.
Unfortunately, there are very, very few doctors in the world who can safely remove the shrapnel. To be precise, there is only one.
No, it should be half.
Why half.
"Well, what's that, Steve Stritch. How's he doing?"
"His name should be Stephen Strange." Jarvis reminded.
"Oh, that's right." Tony didn't feel embarrassed at all about misremembering other people's names. "How is he doing lately?"
Speaking of which, I don't know if Tony is unlucky or this Stephen Strange is unlucky. Not long after Tony returned to the United States and was about to make an appointment with the top surgeon, this man got into a car accident...
Stephen Strange, the most famous surgeon at New York General Hospital, has outstanding skills and is very young. With his superb medical skills, he is praised by the outside world as God's gift to the surgical community. He is the doctor most likely to complete Tony's chest surgery.
"His condition is very bad. The car accident ruined his medical career. His hands, which he relied on for survival, suffered comminuted fractures. It is very likely that he will never be able to pick up a scalpel again."
"Okay, let's bless this unfortunate guy." Tony didn't know that the person he was gloating about would have a very deep entanglement with him in the future.
"No, sir. This is not good news for you." Jarvis reminded Tony that he was unlucky and would do Tony no good at all.
"No, I prefer to solve problems by myself. I don't trust giving my body to someone I don't know, no matter how famous the person is. I believe in myself more." Tony's pride is sometimes very unreasonable .
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"So, the most important thing in life is to understand the situation clearly. Look, I didn't originally intend to kill you. Why bother?"
Three o'clock in the morning is said to be the time of day when the yin is the heaviest, and wild dogs will start to "blow dog snails". It is also the time when the probability of death in the hospital is highest. A pseudo-scientific explanation is that ghosts belong to the magnetic field. species, they can absorb energy and develop, and three o'clock in the morning is the time when the energy of the human body is weakest, so it is most likely to bump into ghosts... Coincidentally, there are similar sayings abroad. They call three o'clock in the morning the darkest hour. , it is said that Jesus also died at this time.
All in all, this is the worst time of the day.
If someone breaks in here at this time, they will definitely think that they have encountered something dirty at this moment.
Because now this kind of thing has become a hell!
Blood soaked the entire factory, and mutilated bones were scattered everywhere. Among the mutilated corpses, there were still mutilated human heads with expressions of despair and relief.
It's hard to imagine that these two expressions can appear on the same face.
And deep in the factory, what could be called a humanoid was lying in a pool of blood, and next to him was Hannibal.
That humanoid object is Guzman.
Anyone who sees him now will be shocked by his terrifying vitality.
All his limbs were torn off, his abdomen was opened, half of the internal organs inside had disappeared, and almost four-fifths of his intestines were missing, but his remaining heart and half of his lungs were still beating.
His skull was opened, one eye was removed, his nose was missing, and both of his lips were missing. Only the bare gums are left. In the opened skull, the pink brain even squirmed slightly.
"Tsk, tsk... It's really cruel, you guys. I can't imagine how much of a sensation it would cause if this place was discovered. In the end, I will still have to take the blame. I was wronged, okay?"
No matter what, Kai would not be so perverted and do so many tricks. These are indeed the tricks of the hounds of Tindalos. Because they lost the high-quality food of the cross, they became very temperamental. Kai had promised in advance that he would give them a chance to relax, so he had no intention of stopping them from the beginning.
At that time, the two hounds ran into Guzman's lair happily.
Kate arrived late intentionally, but the scene became uncontrollable.
As a result, Guzman didn't cooperate honestly with Hannibal's questioning, so Kai handed him over to the hounds.
And then it became like this.
"Kill me...you promised...kill me."
Even though Guzman was like this, he could still speak. I have to say that the hounds were really cruel in their bad intentions.
"Okay. I got what I wanted, and nature granted you a merciful death. After all... I'm not a devil."
Hannibal said and snapped his fingers.
Two hounds rushed forward.
In a look of relief, Guzmán brought about the death he deserved.
