Sure enough, the next day, public opinion turned upside down. But there are really a lot of bullies in the United States, so not only the Hammer Group was scolded, but Tony and the Expo were also scolded. Anyway, if you really want to find a reason, there are many reasons, such as irresponsible security, such as problems with the organization of the conference. In short, the media in New York are the most difficult to serve group in the world. They are always willing to show others Their maverick, they call this thing "journalistic independence."
Stark Group immediately stood up for public relations. Unlike the general shirk of responsibility, they stood up very responsibly and took responsibility for their mistakes. and provide reasonable humanitarian assistance to individuals harmed that day. It can't be compensation, otherwise it would be taking the blame for the Hammer Group. But this attitude still made many people feel the sincerity of the Stark Group. After all, strictly speaking, this matter was the responsibility of the Hammer Group from beginning to end, and the Stark Group itself was also the party whose interests were harmed.
The public is not really stupid. They can still distinguish between good and bad when no one is taking the lead. As for leading the pace of the Stark Group... Who can afford it? There is no benefit in leading the pace at this time. Do you really think that the Stark Group is a vegetarian?
On the expo side, Stark Group also came forward to carry out maintenance. Anyway, as long as there is money, everything will be easy. What's more, the bill for this repair will also be sent to Hammer Group.
What? If you say that Hammer Group is going to die, who will pay?
Don't be stupid, Justin Hammer will be finished, that's for sure, but the Hammer Group is finished? impossible. The Hammer Group does not belong to Justin Hammer. He is only one of the shareholders, and he is not a major shareholder. There are too many interests involved. How can a company with a market value of tens of billions collapse easily? Of course, the price has to be paid. But it is absolutely impossible for those stakeholders to give up on the Hammer Group. After all, if the Hammer Group is really finished, it means that they are at a pure loss, but if the Hammer Group can continue to exist, it means that they still have Possibility of earning it back.
And the possibility is not small, after all, this company is backed by the military-industrial complex. It's really not easy to get orders from the military. It's not hard to get up again.
So despite the lively scolding outside, the big guys who are really behind the scenes are actually not hurt much.
Take, for example, a few names mentioned by the White House spokesperson this morning.
The White House suddenly held a press conference this morning about this expo. The White House spokesperson emphasized that this time the role of the Hammer Group in this incident and its violations will be thoroughly investigated, and several name, and directly told reporters that these people had committed serious violations of laws and regulations.
This is the first time in the entire history of the United States!
It’s not that he was investigated for corruption, but he was so vigorous and resolute!
In fact, the administrative efficiency of the United States is not high. Regardless of what the United States has been saying about neoliberalism and weakening the government, in fact, the United States has always been a big government, and those federal agencies are behemoths, which has caused conflicts among all parties. The entanglement of interests is extremely deep, coupled with the continuous deepening of voting politics, resulting in extremely low overall administrative efficiency.
To use an analogy.
For example, two highways in Boston needed to be rerouted because they were not suitable for development. It was such a simple matter, but the Boston Council delayed for ten years without making a decision.
With this kind of efficiency, it is normal to handle such a big case over a long period of time. It will even take a long time until people have almost forgotten about it before there will be any results. Unexpectedly, the White House actually dropped several names in one night.
More importantly, among these people are senators, federal officials, and senior military generals.
This is indeed rare in American history.
The Pentagon and the Federal Prosecutor's Office also acted responsibly. The Pentagon announced the name of the investigation team almost in the afternoon. A joint investigation team from the Pentagon and the Federal Prosecutor's Office immediately went to the Hammer Group!
Investigate the incident.
The investigative team interviewed Justin Hammer the next day.
Then the New York City Prosecutor's Office issued an arrest warrant to arrest Justin Hammer without bail!
Justin Hammer's lawyer did not protest. His lawyer even issued a statement for Justin Hammer, expressing that he regretted it very much and was willing to take responsibility for it. He was very cooperative.
"Hmph, who are you showing it to?" Tony commented disdainfully on the show.
In fact, the people who can be thrown out at this time are not important people. It's obvious that he is a scapegoat!
"Be content. It would be nice if, with the previous virtues of those gentlemen, they could throw out a few temporary workers and retire a few unimportant old guys. This time, those guys suffered heavy losses." Kai lay on the sofa, He said angrily.
Not only a scapegoat, but also a high-level scapegoat! Moreover, many people will step down sadly due to this incident in the future. For the interest groups behind the Hammer Group, it will definitely be considered a heavy loss. And they didn’t just lose these, the Stark Group also gained a lot, first of all, the intuitive economic benefits. In this matter, no matter which party it is, it is necessary to appease the Stark Group, so it is the Stark Group. The Gram Group received a lot of compensation for its losses, and secondly, Tony's own patents were preserved, and the military promised that they would not start similar projects without Tony's authorization.
Of course, the other party's original intention to pay such a high price naturally comes with conditions.
That is, Tony must provide a set of mecha for the military to use. They may not be able to manufacture it, but they must not live without it. This is also a kind of containment for Tony.
Balance is everywhere.
After much consideration, Tony agreed to the request, but the driving must be designated by him.
So the second 'War Machine' fell on James Lord.
This is a no-brainer.
In addition, the police were also sprayed this time, and it was Kai who was sprayed.
As a representative figure of the New York police, Kay's approval rate in New York City has always been high. After all, he has participated in various major events and performed well. What's more, he has also improved the appearance of Hell's Kitchen and is considered the most proud of New Yorkers. One of the superheroes.
But in this operation, he was still sprayed.
It is said that he was soy sauce throughout the whole process and did not play his due role.
Please, those 'nuclear bombs' are placed in front of him! It explodes when he moves, does he dare to move? He himself was not afraid, but the problem was that the audience there could not stand it.
But the media doesn't care, they just spray.
Kai was also helpless about this, and those media were all small media, not mainstream at all, and the fans were also a bunch of guys with abnormal minds. The United States is so colorful. There are even people who dare to eat veterinary drugs and disinfectant. What can you do?
"Are you very free?" Tony didn't want to continue the topic because he always felt like he lost. After all, he lowered his head. Although he had to lower his head, he was still reluctant to say it. So he quickly changed the subject and asked Kai why he didn't work at the police station.
Generally speaking, he is busiest after a big event like this.
"Too lazy to deal with the media." Kai lay on the sofa and waved his hands casually.
There were no casualties this time, except for the unlucky ones from the Hammer Group, but the police didn't need to worry about that thing at all. They were all blown to pieces. Just help them collect the bodies. The murderer was obvious, and There is no investigation.
Reporters are going crazy these days, arresting people everywhere for interviews.
As the central figure in the incident (?), Kai is in a good position although he is watching the whole show. The VIP seats are directly in the admiration position.
"Since you are so free, you might as well go investigate this case." Tony looked at Kai and suddenly thought of something, and then Jarvis projected a piece of information.
"What?" Kai was startled by what was in the photo.
When I looked carefully, I saw that it was a person. I thought it was an avocado that had been burned with sulfuric acid.
"Who is this? The new perverted murderer? The one who can harm himself?"
"Uh... no." Tony was speechless for a while, then clicked on the projector, and a video appeared.
In the video, an inexplicable guy wearing an ugly tight-fitting suit found somewhere was fighting with a group of armed men on a viaduct.
"This..." Kai said seriously.
The guy's fighting style was unexpectedly reckless. When he appeared, he caused a car accident and was beaten to a pulp with a gun. However, as if nothing happened, the guy actually took two Japanese swords and held them against the bullets. The enemy was almost killed.
If the Green Arrow of SHIELD hadn't suddenly appeared and hindered him, maybe he would have killed all those people.
"S.H.I.E.L.D.?"
"How's it going? Are you interested? It looks like a mutant." Tony said.
Kai shook his head. Now that SHIELD had intervened, he was reluctant to intervene. Although Kai likes to cause trouble for SHIELD, this guy is obviously different from the Punisher or Blood Mint. Whether he is causing a car accident or fighting, he never takes ordinary people into consideration from the beginning to the end, because Because of his nonsense, at least a dozen ordinary people were implicated in that car accident. This kind of person... From Kai's point of view, he is a bad guy.
It's not that Kai can't understand that the aftermath of the battle affects innocent people. Although it's a pity, there is really no way to completely avoid this kind of thing.
But being unable to avoid it and consciously keeping the battle away from ordinary people are two different things!
But what about that guy? I didn’t have this idea at all. I didn’t care about the many vehicles on the viaduct and just went up to start a fight.
"Why are you so free?" Although I don't know where the viaduct is specifically, it must not be New York, otherwise Kai would not know.
"Because I found out that this guy appeared in New York." Tony operated the projection again and played a video.
What appeared this time was the shockingly ugly guy just now. He was wearing a hoodie and stalking a woman.
"You said that guy in the ridiculous tights and this avocado are the same person?"
"That's right! This was analyzed by Jarvis based on motion capture." Tony said with certainty: "This guy seems to be plotting against that girl. As a New York police officer, don't you care about the safety of citizens?"
Kai thought for a while and felt that there was nothing wrong and he could take a look.
…
At night, Wade stood in a dark corner, letting the chilly raindrops fall on his body, but his eyes were just staring blankly at the balcony on the third floor. His current mood was exactly the same as the current weather, cold wind and rain. The words are bleak.
He used to be a handsome young man. Although others said that he was arrogant, he thought that it was because others were jealous. He always thought that it was his humor, otherwise how could he possibly pursue his girlfriend.
Wade used to be a soldier and teamed up with a group of mutants. I really miss those days when I didn’t have to think about anything, I just did what I was told!
Later, the team broke up and he became unemployed. His immediate superior felt that he was not suitable for the army and asked him to fend for himself.
Although Wade was a little melancholy about this, he could accept it, so he returned to New York and started his old business.
Be a mercenary.
He took on any job, from killing people and setting fires to battlefields to tracking cats to do homework. After all, no matter how chaotic the United States is, there is not that much business to accept. If you really want to kill people, others will look for 'big companies', such as Gaotai Table, or mutual aid associations. In short, these single-running gangs are actually at the bottom.
Sometimes he takes orders from gangsters and acts as a temporary thug, just to scare people.
Life was hard, but Wade felt that those days were his happiest times.
Because he met his girlfriend - Vanessa.
A barmaid.
After that, they quickly fell in love and spent two years together. But then bad news came one after another.
He has cancer.
So he had to leave Vanessa.
In response to this, Wade felt bitter in his heart: Fortunately, he left all the money to her.
Since his disappearance, Vanessa has quit her job and gone from being a barmaid to becoming a homeless person. Every day, he posts missing person notices with his photo printed on them everywhere, and also asks passers-by about their appearance.
Seeing Vanessa like that, he felt a kind of happiness, and then even greater despair.
How could he go to see her in such a horrible state? The two of them lay together. If she wanted to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night and saw his face, she didn't have to go. She could just wait to change the sheets the next day.
After learning that he was not going to die soon, Wade looked around for a way, whether it was a way to save himself or a way that Vanessa could rely on for the rest of her life.
Eventually he found a job... that he regrets to this day.
Be an experiment volunteer.
Of course, this is illegal. Otherwise it wouldn't be so expensive.
Two million!
No matter life or death!
At first he thought it was some undisclosed experimental treatment for cancer.
But you won’t know until you arrive.
Those guys tricked him, they were studying mutants!
Then those people tortured him in every possible way!
He wanted to die several times, but he was saved by these people.
He didn't know how he survived those days, maybe because of Vanessa? Or maybe it's...his hatred that wants to tear those bastards into pieces!
In short, he survived, but the price was that his handsome appearance left him forever.
This also deepened his hatred for those who experimented on himself!
"Hey, do you need help?" Just when Wade was feeling sad, a voice sounded behind him.
Wade's voice stiffened, and he immediately turned to look over.
The other party was obviously taken aback!
"Wow! Wow! Fuck! Wait, are you okay? Do you need a doctor? Really, man, your face is scarier than in the photo!" The person who came was none other than Kai. To be honest, Kai had seen it before I was mentally prepared for the photo, but I didn’t expect that the photo was actually edited!
It’s definitely skin resurfacing and beauty!
This guy's real appearance is ten times more disgusting than the photo! ! ! The kind that doesn’t even require makeup when filming a horror movie.
