Chapter 34: The Beginning of Pretending to Be Coerced (5,500 Words Chapter Asking for Votes)
Stark Villa, New York, is Jack's new place of work. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Mei recruited Li Jie on the same day and offered a monthly salary of 2,000 US dollars, which can be said to be quite high in 1965.
Li Jie pretended to think about it for a while and agreed, and then there was a simple health check, as well as a passport, to make sure that Li Jie was not a black household. This Li Jie took some time, first went back to the atrium to get a fake passport, and then went to the New York City Police Department to secretly get a fake file.
The anti-counterfeiting technology of the 1965 passport was basically no secret in the main world, and for an archive database that did not have a national network, the archives were managed separately. Li Kit secretly filed a fake document at the New York City Police Department in the middle of the night, which was hardly difficult for him.
It took Li Jie two days on Earth One, but in fact, there was nothing difficult about it.
As a result, the Stark family's New York villa on Long Island welcomed a new chef, because the Stark family's business was basically concentrated in New York, although the family manor was in Los Angeles. But it's hard to go back several times a year, especially since the Howards have passed away, and Peter basically won't go back to Stark Manor in Los Angeles except for the annual death day when Peter takes his family and Anthony to visit the grave.
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"Jason, what's ready for tonight?" Mae Parker walked into the kitchen after returning to the villa from work, stretching her waist and walking, "It's so fragrant!
Li Jie, who was cooking in the spacious island kitchen, was chopping celery: "Yes, onion soup. I've been doing this for almost an afternoon, and Mrs. Parker doesn't seem to be in good shape, and she needs a little more hot soup in the winter. ”
What Li Jie said was the main reason why Mei invited him, because after drinking Li Jie's soup on the side of the road that day, May and Peter felt a lot more comfortable, and Mei thought of her mother Mary.
Mary, who is fifty-one years old this year, is not in very good health, although she is still healthy, she is very afraid of cold in winter, so the heating in the villa must be turned on very large to meet her needs. After all, Mary Jane was just an ordinary person and had not been bitten by mutant spiders.
The dietary therapy that Li Jie said was very suitable for Mary, and May proposed the invitation, and Peter did not refuse, which was also taken into account.
Lee Jay had been working at Stark Villa for almost a week now, and was familiar with Old Peter, as well as May and Mary.
Looking at Peter and Mary, Li Jie always has a feeling of being out of the world, because in the world of the atrium, his best friend is Peter Parker, and Mary Jane is the one who has a good relationship among female friends.
Seeing that his familiar and unfamiliar friends are now old, and even afraid of cold, it is difficult for Li Jie to describe the complexity of his mood.
So he took care of Peter's family's food, especially Mary Jane's, and asked her to drink special soup every night for the past week to improve her health. Li Jie didn't want to make it too obvious, but the legendary kitchenware was really powerful.
The stew that had only a slight effect on Peter and May had a remarkable effect on Mary-Jane, the most obvious being that after only a week of conditioning, she was no longer so afraid of the cold. Even though this year's winter was unusually cold, she still accompanied her daughter to build a small snowman in the garden behind the villa to welcome Christmas.
The Peter family was very glad that they had hired a very good cook, and Li Jie did add some herbs to Mary's stew to cover it up. Peter and Mei also believe in their spider sense, because spider sensing did not call the police, so they believe that Li Jie has no ill will towards their family.
This allowed Li Jie to have a good relationship with Peter's family in just one week. Especially with Mei, although Li Jie has a good relationship with Peter in the atrium, Peter of Earth One is a middle-aged man and is even more majestic.
And as the temporary helmsman of the Stark Group, he couldn't possibly be so close to a chef in his own family. May doesn't care too much, she now works as Peter's secretary and also as Anthony's personal assistant.
Her grade is similar to Li Jie's, and she speaks more easily. Li Jie is also willing to joke with his niece generation (yes, Li Jie treats Mei as a niece) and get close to him.
In this case, the relationship between the two has improved a lot. Especially after Li Jie came from another dimension for decades, there are many new things to share with Mei.
There are also a lot of jokes that are in line with the season, and Mei is also very good-looking, so Mei doesn't hate the occasional communication with Li Jie.
However, Mei doesn't hate communicating with Li Jie, but it doesn't mean that other people are like this, especially someone who especially hates to see Mei talking and laughing with a good-looking young man, and even cooking together with knives in the kitchen.
That's right, this person is Anthony Edward Stark.
May and Anthony came home from work at the same time, because they lived together and also to protect Anthony's safety.
When Anthony went to the garage to park and then took some of the personal belongings off the car and put them away, Li Jie had already started teaching Mei how to cook in the kitchen.
Mei plans to learn some dishes to make for her mother. Li Kit is instructing her on how to make simple but delicious dishes in the oven. For example, if you use an oven to cook a steak that is slow-cooked at a low temperature, you can use a grocery bag to encapsulate the steak and spices and marinade and then slow cook it in water. The temperature is controlled at fifty degrees and heated for two hours.
This results in a medium-rare steak that is cooked at a very uniform temperature, and is fried in oil to get the aroma when it is ready. This is the most suitable way to handle steak for lazy people or beginners who are not good at steak cooking.
"Yes, we can put the steak in the oven after we have softened it a little. Li Jie was guiding Mei on the side, because the kitchen space was so large, and the two were relatively close.
However, neither of them felt anything, but Anthony, who was standing at the door of the kitchen, was very happy, and he snorted heavily: "Hmph~!"
Li Jie looked back at him and waved his hand, "Mr. Stark, what do you want to eat at night?" He already knew it was Tony Stark. However, the Tony Stark of this world is not the Iron Man Tony Stark who has gone through ups and downs and then gradually matured into a superhero.
This Anthony is just a naïve young man, as in the current situation. He was very unhappy that Mei and Li Jie were very close, although Mei was just learning to cook, and Li Jie was just teaching. But he was very unhappy, as if his beloved toy had been taken away, he just had such a childish side.
In this respect, it is in the same vein as Tony Stark in the atrium, and the middle-aged version of Stark is also a childish ghost. It's just that because he's older, he's better at hiding, and it's easy not to let people see his childishness.
Anthony really wanted to find an opportunity to fire Li Jie directly, but now his words don't count, whether it's a company or a villa, it's Peter.
Mary has improved a lot under Li Jie's dietary therapy, and Anthony can see it. So although he was very unhappy, he couldn't say anything for the time being, and he could only express his dissatisfaction with May in a very naïve way now: "I don't eat dinner, I still have research to do, help me talk to Uncle Peter." ”
After saying this, Anthony left here angrily, and scolded in his heart as he walked: Is it great to be able to cook? Is it great to grow taller? I can also do scientific research, can I make inventions, and can I also be 1.75 meters tall after wearing the inner height!
Emotionally, Anthony is a complete naïve ghost, because Peter is in charge of him, Anthony has never had the opportunity to be a playboy, and he has been in love twice but it is not good. Because he liked May at an early age, but May's father was Peter Parker.
This man left a deep shadow on Anthony, and he didn't know if he was going to soak his daughter, and if Peter Parker would hang himself upside down under the bridge in Brooklyn.
After walking into his underground laboratory and generating a bunch of inexplicable idleness, Anthony took a deep breath and prepared to do some scientific research.
Because the previous MK4 has proven to be a failure, but Tony does not intend to abandon the Iron Man plan. He felt that this plan must have development potential, but he just didn't find the right direction.
He needs to improve the improvement, but the improvement needs money, and now Anthony has no extra money to buy materials. Because Peter Parker locked up all his pocket money for the month.
MK4 cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and in the end it turned into a handful of fireworks, and it didn't work. Peter Parker didn't stop Anthony from continuing his research, and it was good to just cut off his money for the month.
There are many things that cannot be done without money, but that doesn't mean Anthony has nothing to do.
"I need to look into further purification of oil-hydrogen fuels, which can provide 350 percent of the energy of traditional fossil fuels. But it was still not enough, the internal combustion engine that drove the Iron Man only had five hundred and fifty horsepower, and the reaction speed was also very slow. I also need to improve the drivetrain. Anthony thought about it and realized that there was still a lot more to do.
So he plunged headlong into the sea of improvement and research, and this time he forgot about Mei and Li Jie. Anthony Stark of this world has become a pure science man, and I don't know if it's a blessing or a misfortune.
Anthony lost track of time in his academic studies, and by the time he came to his senses, it was past eleven o'clock in the evening. He didn't feel it when he was doing things, but as soon as he stopped, he felt hungry in his belly.
But at this time, there was no one in the kitchen to cook for him, and everyone went to bed. In addition to the bodyguards who kept vigil outside the villa, even the servants in the villa went back to the maid's room to rest.
Anthony sulked like a child and kicked the walls of the research room, getting nothing but pain in his toes and jumping with one foot.
Rubbing his aching left foot, Anthony sat on the ground and felt a little aggrieved, and said sullenly: "You don't know that you come to me for dinner, and you don't send me anything to eat." Although there is no subject, everyone who guesses knows that Anthony is talking about May. A childish ghost is a childish ghost, and if it goes on like this, I'm afraid it's not going to be an orphan.
Unbeknownst to Anthony, what he was doing in the lab was being watched by another pair of eyes. Li Jie has been here for more than half an hour using the stealth device, looking at the samples of Waste 1 to Waste 4 (MK1~MK4) that Anthony had researched before.
And he got oil and hydrogen fuel, which is the new energy of this world? Well, it's much stronger than gasoline, but it's too far worse than his own ark reactor.
I'm afraid that this kind of Iron Man won't have a bright future, I'm afraid that even Spider Girl is much stronger than him.
Li Jie was right, Anthony was raised by Mei since he was a child, although he was a man. But he can only be a soft princess in the fairy tale world, and the role of riding a white horse and wielding a long sword to kill the dragon and rescue the princess is usually done by Meilai.
This kept Anthony angry for ten years, and he wanted to prove that he was also capable of protecting May. Because he had to at least have the ability to protect May, he dared to confess to May and convince Peter.
But now the Iron Man robot that he has built himself is garbage from beginning to end, and none of it has real practical significance, except for the research that can be used to verify some scientific experiments, it is a live target on the battlefield.
I want to protect May, but it seems that I haven't done enough.
"Hey, when is it a head? Anthony sat on the ground and suddenly sighed, he was really a little discouraged. His parents' enemies have not been found now, the girl he wants to pursue seems to be far away, and the steel robot he made has no practical use, and Anthony feels that he has no use except for money.
Oh, wrong, I don't even have money myself. Because now his fortune is still in the hands of Peter Parker. He now feels that life is boring, he wants to fight criminals, but he doesn't have the capital to fight criminals at all, and he doesn't even have the capital to protect the girls he likes.
Li Jie looked at Anthony, who was sitting on the ground and sulking at himself, and the expression on Li Jie's face was very rich. Such an innocent and sullen science and engineering man, Tony Stark, was something Li Jie never expected.
The Tony Stark he knew was a big carrot and a sinister master. Looking at the aggrieved look of the young Anthony in front of him, Li Jie suddenly felt a little unbearable. This kid is still pretty good in nature, at least better than Tony in the other world. But the child had some bad luck.
Li Jie didn't plan to act so early, he wanted to observe for a while. But now he thinks he might as well do something about it now.
As soon as he thought of it, Li Jie directly removed the stealth device, and suddenly appeared in Anthony's research room.
Anthony, who was still sulking at himself, didn't notice Li Jie appearing behind him, until an unfamiliar voice appeared in the basement.
"Hello Anthony Edward Stark. ”
Anthony was startled by the sudden sound, and he turned around to see a man in a medieval hooded robe suddenly appear behind him.
Based on Peter's teachings for so many years, Anthony immediately became alert, and he wanted to pull his pistol from his waist to defend himself. But when I touched the back of the waist, it was empty.
The hooded man raised his pistol in one hand and said, "Are you looking for this?"
Anthony's heart sank, the other party's movements were so fast. He tried to see the other person's face, but the face under the hood was magical, and it was impossible to see it.
He tried to get out of here, but the door to the lab wouldn't open anyway, and he screamed to wake the others, but it was as if his screams weren't even heard. This is the hooded man's doing!
The man in the hooded robe didn't look afraid to call for help at all, he just sat on a chair in the research room and watched himself bang on the door, on the window, and yell. Ignoring yourself at all is like watching a play.
Until Anthony was exhausted from kicking the door, he couldn't get the slightest attention from the rest of the villa. He was panting and leaning against the wall and sweating, but his heart was cold.
The hooded man was so peculiar that Anthony didn't know how he managed it all, but he knew he could do it all.
Instead of worrying about his own life now, he began to worry about Peter's family, especially May. As he gasped and thought of something else, the hooded man spoke, "I think you're tired now, and if so, we can sit down and talk." ”
Anthony forced himself to calm down and asked, "What are you talking about?"
"Something small, something about your father. Howard Stark, who was once part of our great organization, but sadly he died. I only recently learned the news, and after a hurried visit to his grave to pay respects, I came here to find you. Because in the organization, your father Howard also left a legacy for you. The hooded man spoke calmly and without a hint of emotion.
Anthony couldn't believe him, and now Anthony was just stalling for time, trying to find a way to remind Uncle Peter, so he asked, "What organization?"
The hooded man shook his head, "You're not qualified to know yet, but I think there's a piece of information that will be of interest to you." ”
As he spoke, the hooded man placed a strange black glass twice as long as a slap on the table and propped it up. As Anthony's curious gaze moved, he saw the hooded man press the strange black glass a few times, and the originally black glass suddenly lit up.
"LCD screen!" Anthony exclaimed irrepressibly, in this era the concept of liquid crystal was only a paper in an academic journal, and even the first stage was not completed. As a scientist, Anthony has the habit of browsing various scientific journals, and he knows that some people have proposed the concept of liquid crystals, but it will take at least 20 years for the appearance of liquid crystal products in the laboratory, and more than 30 years for the mass production of factories.
This hooded man casually came up with a technology product that spanned an era, and this is not just as simple as an LCD screen. Anthony noticed that the hooded man did not connect an external power and video signal cable for this LCD screen.
But the LCD screen already has a picture, which proves that this LCD screen has a built-in power supply and a built-in image!
HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE? THAT LCD SCREEN IS ONLY TWO PALMS IN SIZE, AND ITS THICKNESS IS NO MORE THAN 9 MM! HOW IS IT POSSIBLE FOR THIS VOLUME TO HAVE A BUILT-IN POWER SUPPLY? HOW CAN A LARGE CHIP BE ADDED TO PROVIDE IMAGES?!
The hooded man glanced at Anthony's reaction and laughed twice: "Don't be surprised, there will be more things you need to be surprised later." ”
Anthony had now forgotten his nervousness, his fear, and even the origin of the stranger in front of him.
He was now staring at the LCD screen in front of him, a cross-generational product that completely subverted his thinking. All he wanted to know now was what the hooded man was going to show him.
The hooded man continued to touch the LCD screen with his fingers, and then seemed to be done. The LCD screen dimmed, then lit up again, and a bright red figure appeared on the screen.
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