Two days later, in the early morning, Raun emerged from the darkness at the lowest level of the AOA base.

The artificial light at the top of the metal corridor reflected on his face, and it seemed that there was not much difference from before, the only difference was probably his eyes that had become unusually determined and calm.

Lawne walked down the corridor, and just as he reached the end of the corridor, the metal door in front of him suddenly opened with the sound of a slight steel cable stranding, and a blade in a long black leather coat and sunglasses was standing in the middle of the elevator.

"You made it."

Although Blade didn't take off his sunglasses, looking at his slightly swaying head, it was obvious that he was looking at Raun in front of him at this time. After glancing up and down a few times, Blade said in a flat voice.

Lawne looked at him levelly, didn't say anything, just nodded slightly.

Nodding his head, he stepped into the elevator, and Blade saw him come in, and quietly moved back, giving up his place in the middle to Lawn.

After the two of them stood still, the metal doors on both sides of the elevator slowly closed, and the two of them rose quickly.

On the way up, neither Blade nor Lawn spoke, Blade tilted his head slightly and stared at Lawn in front of him, as if thinking about something, while Lawne kept staring at his own blurred shadow on the metal elevator door, and the corners of his lips that had remained raised made him seem to be smiling with a hint of nothingness.

Dozens of seconds later, the elevator door opens again, but only Lawne walks out, and Blade remains in the elevator.

Raun didn't look back, didn't glance at the blade behind him, and walked forward as if no one was around, until he was about to step out of the villa gate.

"I'll be back in half a month at the latest." Lawne opened his mouth to speak, saying this to the blade in the elevator behind him.

"Chief, I'm looking forward to it."

Blade stared through his sunglasses at Lawn's back, a miraculous smile of unknown meaning appeared on his tense face.

Raun nodded, said no more, and walked out of the hall of the villa with a single step, disappearing into the sunlight outside. The blade closed with the elevator door and the villa door together, and fell into the ground again.

…………

An hour later, the lobby of the St. Missie Winery Villa ......

"How do you feel now?"

At the dining table, after Ronan stuffed a piece of butter poached egg into his mouth and chewed and swallowed it, he suddenly looked at Lawn, who was sitting on the side, and asked for no reason.

"I don't feel anything."

Lawne turned his head to meet Ronan's eyes, frowned and thought about it, and then continued: "It's just that after learning so many things, I suddenly understood a lot and figured out a lot. ”

"That's enough."

Lawn's vague answer made Ronan grin, cut off another poached egg and swallowed it carefully, and continued: "Lawn, you must know that the world is far from being as simple as we think, even if we have now glimpsed the tip of the iceberg, it is still insignificant. If we want to rush higher and farther in the tide of the times instead of being submerged and knocked down by the tide, all we can do is to constantly enhance our own strength. Hmmm......"

As he was speaking, Ronan suddenly paused, pondered for a moment, and then nodded and continued: "It's power!" All-round strength. ”

"Sir, I know." Lawne stared at Ronan and whispered.

"Hmm."

Ronan nodded, and did not continue the topic, but casually took out a black card from the table, handed it to Lawn, and said aloud, "Look at this." ”

Lawn stretched out his hand to take the card, and at first glance he saw the line at the top of the card, and read it softly: "September 17th, Stark Industries new product launch?" Hmmm......"

"Stark's new product launch?"

As he was reading the contents of the card, Lawne suddenly looked up at Ronan, and his calm face finally changed a little at this time, and asked aloud, "Master...... This is the ...... that invites you."

"Read on."

Before Raun could finish his sentence, he was interrupted by Ronan's voice. I saw him glance at the card in Lawn's hand, and reached out to signal.

Raun nodded, lowered his head slightly, and continued to read the rest of the content: "Special invitation to Mr. Raun Boers and ...... Mr. Ronan Collins attended. ”

As he read the last sentence, Lawne couldn't help but pause in surprise, his expression suddenly became a little strange, and he looked up again at Ronan with inquiring eyes.

"Mr. Lawne Boers ...... Invited"

Ronan pouted, shook his head helplessly, and said, "Yes, that's it." ”

"There's not a few days left until September 17th, Raun, you get ready, I'd like to see what special products Tony Stark can come up with. I still have something to do, so I'll go out first. ”

After saying that, Ronan immediately stood up, removed his chair and walked quickly towards the door. Raun watched Ronan's back until he walked out of the villa gate before he turned his gaze back to the card in his hand again.

Looking at the card intently, Lawne frowned unconsciously, as if remembering something, and muttered a person's name in a low voice: "Tony......"

…………

"Tony ......"

In the villa of Liberty City in the Malibu mansion area of Malibu, California, Pep Potz went down the stairs to the underground experiment, called out to Tony, who was fiddling with a mechanical arm, picked up the notebook in his hand, and slowly walked behind him, and said: "The press conference will start at ten o'clock in the morning, and now it's ......"

As he spoke, Pep raised his hand and looked at his watch, looked at Tony in front of him, and continued, "Nine and three o'clock." ”

"I think we're going to go right away."

"yes, I see."

Tony didn't look back, still fiddling with the mechanical arm he was wearing in his hand, just nodded slightly, and responded, "It'll be fine right away, wait for me for a while." ”

Suddenly stopping what he was doing, Tony suddenly thought of something, turned his head sideways and asked, "Hmm...... By the way, Pep, have all those invitations been sent? ”

"Both the e-invitation and the invitation letter have been sent to everyone on the list." Pep nodded in response.

"It's just Tony......"

But just as the words fell, Pep frowned slightly and asked, "Is it really good for you to skip the board of directors and Obadia and directly hold a new product launch conference on behalf of Stark Industries?" ”

Tony didn't answer immediately, but turned back and picked up the last remaining part of the test bench and mounted it on the robotic arm, tried to stretch his fingers, and after finding nothing unusual, he reached out and tapped the side of the robotic arm loaded in his hand.

"Click......" "Click......"

With a few slight sounds, the mechanical arm covering half of Tony's arm suddenly fell off, and Tony also propped his hands on the table, quickly stood up and turned to look at Pep.

"Pep ......"

Tony's eyes were fixed on Pep, and after calling out her name softly, he didn't continue, but fell silent with a slight frown and a serious face.

"What's wrong? Tony. Seeing Tony's serious appearance, Pep asked with concern.

"Pep, you know what?"

Keeping an eye on Pep, Tony suddenly stepped forward and said in a deep voice, "It seems that you are the only one who deserves my trust now." ”

"Am I alone?"

Pep felt more and more unclear and wrong, looked at Tony, who was less than twenty centimeters away from him, and asked tentatively, "Tony, what happened?" You ......"

"Alright, it's time for us to go."

Before Pep could finish asking, Tony's face suddenly changed, forced a stiff smile, and quickly turned and walked towards the stairs.

Pep watched Tony quickly ascend the stairs, frowned slightly and shook his head, without thinking about it, and immediately followed.