On the West Coast, in a luxury seafront villa, Stark is debugging the latest Ark reactor for the assembled Mark 6, checking the condition of the new laser weapon. Ever since he saw Grell kick the Iron Overlord with Faiz's crimson drill in Flushing, Stark had the idea of equipping the Iron Suit with an energy weapon.

The development of energy weapons is not a problem for Stark, the biggest problem is energy consumption, the energy consumption of lasers is too large, and the second-generation Ark reactor cannot afford to supply it at all. To this end, Stark made several adjustments, replacing the palladium element with a palladium plate to improve the output efficiency, and the result of the test was that firing a laser weapon would consume seventy percent of the energy, which still did not have much practical value.

It didn't take long for the problem of palladium poisoning to appear, so both steel suits and laser weapons were shelved, after all, life is the most important. Now that the palladium poisoning has finally been solved, and he also has a new Ark reactor with stronger output energy, Stark immediately installed the laser weapon that was still in the experimental stage.

The personal assistant Natalie walked down the stairs to the basement door, entered the password, opened the high-strength glass door and walked in, and said softly to Stark: "Mr. Stark, according to the schedule, your birthday party will be held in a week, but..." Natalie looked at the messy villa, the pipes of the particle collider had not been dismantled, and said helplessly: "I think it is necessary to determine the new location as soon as possible and notify the guests before leaving." ”

Because of Grien's intervention, before S.H.I.E.L.D. could intervene, Stark discovered a new element to solve the poisoning problem, and so far, Natalie still hides her true identity very well, and is rated by Stark as the most satisfactory personal assistant.

"Haven't you canceled yet?" Stark said without looking back, making Natalie even more helpless: "You didn't say anything about canceling, you were busy demolishing houses, experimenting, and making new steel suits during this time, and no one was allowed to disturb you." ”

"Hmm... Then just find a place to do it. Stark said indifferently, his eyes were always on the steel suit in front of him, and from beginning to end, the hot beauty next to him didn't even look at it, and he didn't look like a playboy at all, just like a scientist.

Natalie dutifully recorded Stark's request and walked out, not asking the Iron Suit any questions, as if she wasn't interested.

Just as Natalie was about to close the door, Jarvis's voice rang out, "Sir, there's an encrypted call. ”

"Huh?" Stark was stunned for a moment, and then thought that Grell and S.H.I.E.L.D.'s phone calls were encrypted like this, so he directly asked Jarvis to connect, and before Stark could speak, a somewhat hoarse male voice came out: "Hey, Tony, are you okay?" ”

This unfamiliar voice stunned Stark, stopped what he was doing, walked to the computer, and asked, "Who are you?" ”

"Forgot about me so soon? I've been thinking about you," said Ivan Vanko, reclining on a plush sofa with a satellite phone in his hand, as if chatting with an old friend of many years, "I said that once God bleed, then he would no longer be feared." ”

"It's you!" Stark instantly remembered the guy in Monaco who blew himself up in a steel suit, and without hesitation, he turned off his voice and instructed Jarvis: "Trace the source of the call, well, focus on the signal of Hammer Industries." ”

"Yes, sir!"

Stark then began to talk nonsense with the other party: "You imitate well, use the plasma channel to gather counter energy, a very good idea, but the output power is too low, but as a knock-off, who did you sell the product to?" This thing is making a lot of money now. ”

"Haha," Ivan Vanke laughed, staring at the screens of the twelve computers on the table seven or eight meters in front of him, and his words were full of schadenfreude: "The Stark family is all thieves, taking other people's things for themselves, but you will always have retribution, your father died in a car accident, and you will be worse than him, the taste of palladium poisoning is very uncomfortable, Stark." ”

"Who are you?" Stark's face was gloomy, his eyes were fixed on the computer screen, Jarvis was tracking the source of the phone signal, and with the location of Hammer Industries, all the properties of Hammer Industries in the East Coast region had been locked.

Ivan Vanke got up from the couch, walked to the computer, and said: "What your father did to my father forty years ago, I will give you back double. ”

"Why don't we meet and make things clear."

"We'll meet," Ivan Vanke sat in front of the computer, clicked the mouse with his right hand to bring up the control program, and said with a cruel smile: "Stark Industrial Fair, you Stark family must be proud, after all, it is a company to hold such a grand exhibition." I also wanted a booth to show off the power of the steel suits I made, as you'll see on the news. ”

"Do you want to..."Stark's words were not finished, the other party had already hung up the phone, and Jarvis's tracking ended there, only locating the call from Queens, but that was enough, there was only one Hammer Industries factory there.

"Jarvis, contact the air traffic control department immediately, I ask for a direct route to the twist, and I want to wear Mark 6 immediately."

"Yes, sir!"

Ivan Vanke dropped the phone, walked out the door, called in the two bodyguards who had been watching him on the pretext of helping to carry things, and in a few strokes knocked down the two well-trained bodyguards, tied them up with wires, and threw them aside.

With a quick twig of his hands on the keyboard, he quickly took over Hammer Industries' main server, and then began to edit the program that automatically locked onto the target, tracked the attack, and the program for all the drones to explode at the same time after the last drone was destroyed.

In the exhibition hall of Hammer Industries, it was very lively at this time, after the singing and dancing, a large number of spectators gathered below, and all the media invited by Justin Hammer at a large price also arrived with long guns and short guns.

When the beauty leaves, Justin Hammer in a suit and leather shoes appears to the beat of the music and begins to give a speech similar to the content of the big screen outside, which is the cruelty of war and the heavy casualties, in order to set off the superiority of his mechanical soldiers.

His speech was very exciting, but Grell listened to it with a hairy heart, took out his mobile phone and looked at the time, it was indeed morning, it was still early before dark, could it be that the plot had changed again? Thinking of the unreliable original plot, Grell quickly patted Daisy's shoulder beside him and said, "Louise, there's nothing to see, let's go to Stark's pavilion." ”

"Well, you haven't seen any mechanical soldiers yet?"

"It must be broken copper and iron, there is nothing to see, gone, gone." As he spoke, Grell grabbed Daisy's shoulders and took her halfway in his arms, escorting her out and preparing to forcibly take her out of this potentially dangerous place.

But just a few meters out, the music behind him became excited, and Justin Hammer also ended his short speech and shouted loudly: "Now please invite the mechanical soldier who will change the whole world and the absolute protagonist of future warfare to appear." ”