Chapter 446: Desperate Situation Returns?
A few minutes later, the Stark Corporation division, the scene of the explosion.
It happened so suddenly, without warning, and no one knew what was going on until after the incident.
When the survivors were questioned afterwards, they all had the same descriptionβa thud like thunder, followed by a large burst of fire. Flames swept across the hall, high enough to melt everything, and nothing alive survived.
Within seconds, the hall on the first floor was swept away, and everything in the center of the hall was melted clean. No one survived inside the hall, except for a few people outside the inner door, including the guards standing guard.
Tony rushed to the scene as soon as he was notified, and Aegis followed. They quickly set up a cordon and cordoned off the scene, and a large number of professionals arrived at the ruins to begin to investigate and study the site. Several small drones swirl around the messy halls, using a variety of sophisticated scanners to collect any data that might be useful.
But let's be honest, there aren't many clues that can come in handy. The center of the hall had been blasted to the point that there was barely any slag left, and if there was anything that could be called a clue, it had already evaporated in the thousands of degrees of heat.
Oh, and it's also worth mentioning that there were no explosives left at the site. No shrapnel, no metal residues, no gunpowder reaction, nothing. The test turned out as if the air itself had exploded, leaving no trace.
The scene is familiar, and all these clues and signs are connected, so that Tony can't not think of something he has dealt with.
Desperate virus.
The explosion at an ultra-high temperature, with no metal residue and no gunpowder reaction, may be because the bomb that was detonated was not a bomb at all, but the human body itself. The Desperate Virus can do this, and the transformation of the old version of the Desperate Realm will overheat the human body, and once it exceeds a certain threshold, it will explode, causing all the consequences that match the characteristics of this scene.
Leo Fitz and Jenma Simmons, two young geniuses at S.H.I.E.L.D. Labs. The two young men were in charge of the survey of the site, and the drone used for the survey was also designed by Fitz.
When Tony walked up, the two young men were chattering about something, as if they were at odds about some clues. Tony stepped forward and asked, "What's the situation?" β
"Oh, Mr. Stark...... I mean, Director. β
The two young men stopped arguing in an instant, and stood upright in a standard to a somewhat ridiculous posture. Talking to someone who is both a superhero and the head of S.H.I.E.L.D. seems to be stressing them out.
"Relax, I'm not going to eat you." Tony patted Fitz on the shoulder, "Tell me, what did you find?" β
"Yes, sir. Due to the effects of the massive explosion, we have limited clues. However, according to the data we have gathered, the temperature of the explosion center should be more than 3,000 degrees, in a wave-like impact pattern, with a point as the center and spreading around, up to a diameter of 500 meters. There was no explosive residue at the scene, and there was no gunpowder reaction. To sum up, my personal judgment is ......"
He paused, carefully examining the director's face.
β...... I think it's more likely that a desperate virus is a virus. β
As soon as he finished speaking, before Tony could say something, Simmons sang the opposite tune.
"I think Fitz's conclusion was a little premature, sir." She said, picked up the tablet in her arms and gestured a few times, then handed the screen to Tony, "Although it looks like a desperate virus in terms of results, look at the data here......"
Tony took the computer in her hand and skimmed it down as he skimmed it roughly.
"I roughly understand what you're trying to say." He nodded and said, "You want to say that while the heat peak and the desperate explosion are close, the way the release fluctuates differently. Then there is the question of the amount of radiation, and the value of residual radiation at the site is about two to three times that of the desperate situation...... You're trying to say that, right? β
Simmons nodded repeatedly: "Yes, sir! There are a few other differences in details. I would say that at first glance this may seem like a desperate situation, but on closer inspection, there are quite a few differences. So I think it's a bit impatient to just assert that the explosion was caused by a desperate virus. β
Simmons was so moved that he almost cried, and he was so happy to meet a boss who could understand data. In the past, all the bosses she met were illiterate in science and technology, and sometimes she even had to start explaining from junior high school physics knowledge when making reports, and then sometimes she tried her best to figure out that the other party was still confused. In worse cases, some commanders will even put on a straight face and tell her to "speak human words".
Simmons was about to cry. She said in her heart, Sir, you are also the leader of such a big organization, did you sleep in junior high school physics class?
Well, now she doesn't even need to explain, Mr. Director can understand all the test results at a glance, and he can't even understand more than her.
"Indeed, your opinion is very reasonable." Tony cupped his chin in thought, "In this way, it is not necessarily a desperate situation to be responsible for the attack. β
He also has his own considerations when he says this. Now that Maya Hansen, the designer of the desperate situation, is dead, he should be the person left in the world who knows the most about the desperate situation. He thoroughly researched the Desperate Virus, upgraded and perfected it himself, and even used it on himself. Having fused Desperate 2.0 for so long, Tony believes he must have intuitively experienced the Desperate System and how it works with his own body.
Logically speaking, with the death of Maya Hansen, the desperate situation should also be out of print. Before she died, she warned Tony with her life, telling him which bad guys had fallen into his desperate situation. Tony didn't let her down either, he immediately took down all the gangsters that Maya had warned him about, and made sure that the desperate situation was not lost.
So apart from himself, there should be no one who has mastered the technology of a desperate situation.
"But it's not entirely certain," Fitz continued, "that even if there are some differences in the details, there are still a lot of desperate features of the explosion site on the whole." Maybe it's just someone who has made adjustments after getting a desperate situation? Maybe they upgraded the virus and that's why it looks different. Otherwise, if this is not a desperate situation, can you think of anything else that could cause such a result? β
Seeing that the two science babies continued to quarrel like this for a year, Tony waved his hand and interrupted, "Okay, young scientists, thank you for your help, but that's fine." I'll look into it myself. β
If this is a desperate situation, then he has one last clue.
Maya Hansen was the first to sell the desperate situation to some people, some extremely dangerous guys who also had a lot of connections to Tony, the AIM team built by Aldridge Killian.
Killian has been killed by the Black Knight, and his desperate warriors have been disposed of, but there is still one man alive.
That is "Manchurian", the actor who was hired by Killian to play the dictator.