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70 Saving Iron Man
Upon hearing Jarvis's words, Tony Stark felt a slight stirring in his heart.
Yes, is it possible to learn this amazing ability? If so, could it be combined with technology?
Thinking of this, he stood up excitedly, preparing to drive to Stark Tower and have a good chat with Jing Yuan's friends.
Of course, it would be even better if the method to obtain that power could be obtained through money or other means.
However, just as he straightened his collar and was about to leave, the door opened by itself.
He recognized the visitor; it was his uncle Obadiah, a veteran of the Stark Industries from his father's time and a trusted friend.
"Uncle Stan, what brings you here?"
Obadiah smiled kindly and patted Tony Stark on the shoulder. "Tony, are you heading out?"
"Yes, I have some things to take care of, but it's not urgent. Why did you come to see me?"
If it were anyone else, Tony Stark would probably ignore it, but facing this elder who had watched him grow up, he patiently invited him into the living room, then sat down again, pretending to listen.
Obadiah casually sat down on the sofa, still maintaining that friendly smile. "Tony, I heard you're planning to shut down the weapons department?"
Tony Stark paused for a moment, then nodded firmly. "Yes, I do need to shut down the weapons division. These weapons have killed countless innocent people, and I cannot allow them to be used for such purposes."
“Tony, you’re an arms dealer, you should know that these kinds of things are unavoidable. You can protest to the relevant people, but I think it’s unwise for you to rashly shut down the weapons division. Doing so will anger the company’s shareholders, and they might do something bad to you.”
Tony Stark shrugged indifferently. "Uncle Stan, I'm the largest shareholder in this company, and then there's you. The rest are just small shareholders who are insignificant. Besides, they can't possibly break through my defenses."
Obadiah sighed, seemingly making a final effort, "Tony, are you sure you really want to shut down the weapons department?"
“That’s right, I must close this department. This is a decision I’ve made after careful consideration, not a whim. Uncle Stan, you’ll support me, won’t you?”
Tony Stark spoke sincerely, showing his best attitude towards his uncle.
“Sigh…” Obadiah sighed deeply, then took out a pair of headphones and put them on. Under Tony Stark’s puzzled gaze, he said, “Tony, I’ve warned you before, this will make the company’s shareholders very angry, and they will do some bad things, but you just won’t listen.”
"Although I love you, my nephew, very much, unfortunately, my love for money outweighs it..."
Upon hearing this, Tony Stark sensed something was wrong, but it was too late. Obadiah took out something and gently pressed it down. Tony Stark instantly felt his whole body stiffen and he couldn't move at all.
He looked at Obadiah with disbelief in his eyes. His own family member would do such a thing to him for money.
Seeing Tony Stark's expression, Obadiah shook his head. "Tony, you're a genius. If you're willing to continue serving Stark Industries and developing more weapons, that would be wonderful. But since you chose this path, for the sake of everyone's future, you must die."
"But don't worry, I will take good care of the inheritance left by your father, and you will have a grand funeral."
Obadiah then stood up, walked up to Tony Stark, pulled aside his clothes, and roughly pulled off the reactor that was glowing blue.
"The Ark Reactor is really good. I believe it will bring more revenue to the group."
After admiring the beautiful object for a while, Obadiah completely ignored Tony Stark, who was lying on the ground, and walked straight to the door.
But as he reached the door and saw the entrance to the underground research lab, Obadiah raised an eyebrow. He thought he should probably go down and take a look; perhaps his genius nephew had some groundbreaking research projects hidden inside.
A short while later, Obadiah emerged from the underground research facility, carrying another reactor in his hand.
"Luckily I kept my guard up, otherwise you might have really turned the tables."
Obadiah smiled smugly as he watched Tony Stark writhe helplessly on the ground, staring at him with wide eyes. Then he strode away.
Seeing Obadiah take away the spare reactor, Tony Stark was filled with despair. After the attack, he had thought that there was still one below, and if he could manage to climb up there and put the reactor back in his chest, he could be reborn.
But now, even that last hope has been extinguished.
He slapped the table next to him weakly.
"Snapped"
Something fell down; it was a cell phone.
"My phone, yeah, I need to call an ambulance..."
Tony Stark reached out his hand shakily, wanting to dial 911, but his hand was too weak and unsteady. Instead of dialing 911, he dialed someone directly from his contacts.
"Ding dong ding dong"
Jing Yuan, who was chatting with Bai Zhi and Fu Xuan, picked up the phone on the table with some confusion.
"It sounds like it was Tony calling, the rich guy I just told you about, the one I rescued."
As he spoke, Jingyuan pressed the answer button and put the call on speakerphone.
However, after the call was connected, there was no sound from the other end, only deathly silence.
"Huh...did he accidentally press the dial button?"
Jing Yuan was a little confused. After waiting for a few seconds, he found that there was still no sound and was about to hang up.
Just then, a weak, intermittent voice came from the other end, "Help...help me, I'm at the beach...villa..."
Jing Yuan's expression turned serious. "It seems he's encountered some trouble. Although he didn't achieve the final result in finding you, Bai Zhi, he still put in a lot of effort, so we still have to save him. Coincidentally, I also know where his seaside villa is. Everyone, follow me."
"Sigh..." Bai Zhi shook her head helplessly as she watched Jing Yuan fly away first. She was just about to say that she had the Ancient One on her side who could teleport her there.
But since things have come to this, let's just fly.
71 Tony: I think I should learn magic from Angelica.
"Sir, we have just detected multiple unidentified flying objects taking off from Stark Tower in New York!"
Inside a military base, a soldier nervously ran into an office and reported to the colonel who was having fun inside.
"Stark Tower, UFO?"
The colonel cleared his throat, dismissing the flamboyantly dressed woman beside him, before saying, "I remember Stark Industries researches weapons, right?"
“That’s right, Colonel. It’s because Stark Industries is a weapons supplier that I came to report to you immediately after detecting the flying object.”
"We have reason to suspect that those unidentified flying objects may be missiles."
"Missile?!" The colonel jumped up from his seat. "Are you sure? You can't just say that."
“You can’t just say that. Please come with me.”
The soldier led the skeptical colonel to the monitoring room, where relevant information had already been prepared.
When the colonel went over to take a look, he saw several shadows flying at high speed in the blurry satellite image.
"Have you figured out what these are?"
The colonel stared at the soldier and asked him.
"How would I know that? We received this information from the New York City Department of Urban Management, and that's when they started taking pictures with satellites."
"As for what these things are, we don't know either, because the radar doesn't react to these strange things at all, as if these things are coated with very advanced stealth coatings."
"Damn it... What is Stark Industries up to? Get the people under me to investigate immediately. Also, report this to that Homeland Strategic Defense, Attack and Logistics Agency. Don't they boast about having elite agents? Let them investigate this as well."
The colonel slammed his fist on the table in frustration. The United States had the most advanced technology, yet they couldn't track the trajectory of this flying object. This was outrageous!
What if the other side suddenly goes crazy and fires at the White House? Wouldn't that create chaos?
"What? A strange flying object took off from Stark Tower?"
The bald-faced director, who was carefully studying the documents, looked up in surprise. "Is it Tony Stark? I recently received intelligence that he seems to be researching some powerful armor."
"No, Chief, it doesn't seem to be anything like armor. The military said... it might be a missile with advanced stealth coating..."
"what?"
Nick Fury looked up at Coulson with a stunned expression. "Are you sure it's a missile? While Stark Industries does have the capability to manufacture them, this seems absurd no matter how you look at it. Isn't Tony Stark afraid of being held accountable by the government?"
"Director, this is just information from the military. They only said it was suspected, but what is certain is that an object did take off from the building and caused a commotion in New York."
Coulson gave a helpless explanation.
"Is that so... Well, anyway, we can't intercept those flying objects. But have any information come back from the agents inside Stark Industries?"
Nick Fury nodded, changing the subject.
“There is indeed relevant information from Stark Industries’ internal agents. The agent said that Stark has been getting close to a white-haired man named Jing Yuan recently. After several attempts to probe, we got information from the group’s secretary, Pepper, that this Jing Yuan should be the person who rescued Stark.”
“Tony Stark disappeared in the desert, and what we found in the ruins of that camp indicates it was struck by lightning. Who exactly is this Jing Yuan?”
Nick Fury pondered to himself. He had originally planned to wait a while before going to see Tony Stark, but his intuition told him that he should perhaps set off a little earlier.
While Nick Fury was pondering how to make contact, Bai Zhi had already flown to Tony Stark's seaside villa.
The group moved quickly and arrived here in about ten minutes.
When the group reached the door, they found it locked and the lights were off.
"It seems this guy is probably really in trouble. I don't believe he's the kind of person who saves electricity like that."
Jing Yuan frowned, took out his weapon, and swung it at the heavy door. The solid alloy was instantly cut into pieces like tofu and then casually swept aside.
Then, what appeared before everyone was Tony Stark lying on the blood-soaked ground, his eyes wide open, looking as if he were dying with his eyes still open.
Upon seeing the crowd, Tony Stark's lips trembled slightly, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he couldn't utter a word. Instead, he exhaled and his eyes quickly dimmed.
"It seems we arrived at just the right time. If we had been a second later, he probably would have been dead."
As Bai Zhi spoke, she snapped her fingers, instantly activating the power of the dog charm and covering the absolute protagonist of the Marvel universe.
"Uh...."
Tony Stark let out a groan, and his previously dimmed eyes immediately regained their vitality. His limbs, which had been unable to feel due to excessive blood loss, began to feel again, and even his consciousness returned from the endless darkness.
"Hoohoohoo."
Tony Stark sat up abruptly, panting heavily, touching his gaping wound in his chest, his eyes filled with disbelief.
He could feel the mysterious power surging within his body. This power replaced blood and other life-sustaining substances. He even felt that under the influence of this power, he could barely survive even if all his internal organs disappeared.
Is this... what they call magic?
Tony Stark didn't know, but he was certain that this was something Earth's technology couldn't do.
If I could learn this power, wouldn't I be less powerless when facing this situation again?
This idea kept popping into Tony Stark's mind.
The one who just unleashed that power was that person, wasn't it? That little girl beside Jing Yuan. If I could learn from her and gain magical power...
"Little Baizhi, your skills are truly amazing. You turned a person on the verge of death into this state in an instant. Even within the Dan Ding Division, I'm afraid the only one who can rival you is Bai Lu."
Seeing this, Jingyuan didn't hold back his praise.
"It's alright, just a minor skill."
“Hahaha.” Jing Yuan shook his head. “This is no trivial skill. Don’t be modest. You should know that excessive modesty is a form of self-deprecation.”
72 Nick Fury: I think I need to recruit Jing Yuan.
"Hello, Mr. Tony, I am Bai Zhi, a friend of General Jing Yuan."
Bai Zhi walked up to Tony Stark and extended her hand in a friendly manner.
"Thank you for your help. If it weren't for you, I'd probably be in heaven by now," Tony said weakly, looking at Bai Zhi with a complicated expression.
Although the dog charm locked his blood, Bai Zhi's dog charm was not of a high level, so Tony Stark was still in a severely weakened state.
"No, no, no, I think that with your track record, Mr. Tony, and all the killing weapons your company has sold, you're definitely not going to heaven, but to hell."
Tony Stark rolled his eyes in exasperation. What a ridiculous joke.
Although he was speechless at Bai Zhi's utterly ridiculous joke, he forced himself to stay alert and cautiously asked, "Was the strange power you just used on me magic?"
"In a sense, it's similar to the magic you understand."
Bai Zhi said somewhat ambiguously that the power of talismans does indeed come from the sublimation of powerful magic, but under normal circumstances, it is still very difficult to achieve this level using magic alone, because talismans are now more inclined to a kind of rule-based power compared to magic.
Bai Zhi's words made Tony Stark's eyes light up. Just as he was about to ask to learn from her, Bai Zhi interrupted him.
"However, you should go to the hospital now. Although my power can keep you alive, it has a time limit. If you don't want to die, you still need to get treatment as soon as possible."