Unlike other established companies with an entire or even several R&D teams, all of Stark Industries' R&D actually falls to Tony alone, before his son Howard.

True geniuses can't be copied, and the inspiration that keeps coming up in their heads is like an alien instilling them with black technology.

Just as Stark's creativity and invention alone outperformed other military enterprises, Stark Industries with Tony is a well-deserved No. 1, and Stark Industries without Tony is not.

Despite the military's efforts to cover up their mistakes and Stark Industries' efforts to conceal Tony's whereabouts, Tony's disappearance was blown up on the third day. Because Tony was absent from a large number of scheduled trips, he was supposed to be back to the United States on a supersonic private jet that day.

The panicked market reacted most honestly, and Stark's stock almost fell in response.

The brokers who borrowed the stock were almost short Stark's stock because someone had kidnapped Tony on purpose. If this is true, it would be too bad.

The other party dares to short, naturally there is no fear. Because the shorting of stocks is basically the company account registered in the tax haven of the Cayman Islands. Secretive, effective, and don't try to find out.

In fact, it's hard for anyone to refute the rumors now, and unless Tony makes it public, the rumors will get bigger and bigger.

That night, with a proclamation and videotape from a certain warlord in Afghanistan, it was announced that they had kidnapped Tony Stark. Stark Industries' stock price has plummeted and is out of control.

Everyone knows that the person or organization who shorted Stark Industries before made a lot of money.

At this moment, Tony is in a state of misery. He had to carry out his own escape with his life threatened and closely surveilled.

As a result, all his ingenuity burst out in the shadow of death.

Work?

It's impossible to work for the rest of your life.

Tony is such a high-minded man who can't possibly be a research slave for a junk Afghan warlord.

From the very beginning, he was not making Jericho missiles at the request of the warlords.

As the most hands-on science and engineering man in the Marvel world, he was locked in a cave, dismantled the missile parts provided to him by the warlord, extracted metal palladium from them, and made a small [Ark Reactor] with a power generation capacity of 3 billion joules per second like winding an electromagnetic coil group.

Then he had to turn an idea in his head into reality, or he would die.

This reactor, on the one hand, is used to suck the shrapnel in his veins, and on the other hand, it is to power 'a big guy'.

That thing is naturally the legendary [Iron Man].

Of course, limited to the material, he could only use the most rudimentary welding torch and other tools to weld himself a stainless steel armor that was difficult to see and cry ghosts, which looked no different from medieval knight's plate armor.

The steel armor, which is more than 1 centimeter thick, is powered by the exoskeleton mechanical system driven by the small Ark reactor. This allowed Tony to 'carry' the humanoid steel creature that weighed at least a ton.

Tony, who couldn't find a weapon, had to attach a small missile and two flamethrowers to the mechanical case named [Iron Man MKI.].

The bald assistant Ethan assisted Tony the whole time, and he did the ultimate in what an assistant could do. Tony did the main control program and the wiring of the exoskeleton's moving parts, of course, while Ethan was responsible for a lot of the basic welding work.

Under the weight of death, the two who gradually revealed their hearts have become good friends unconsciously.

"Do you have a family?" asked Ethan.

"No ......" is Tony's biggest regret. His parents are dead, and he lacks the love of his relatives, but he actually longs for family affection more than anyone else. It's just that he can't find that kind of family feeling, and he would rather be single.

"I have. Ethan said expressionlessly, "The first thing I did when I went out was to see them. ”

Tony pouted.

It's a pity that next, their plan is to go through the gang after all, after all, Iron Man's humanoid parts don't look like the shape of Jericho's missiles at all. Even if the warlords are all pigs, they find the wrong shape on the monitor.

The warlord's men knocked down two of them, and the big warlord gave the final line of death - to get the missiles ready tomorrow.

At this point, Tony said that he wouldn't give in, they were fighting against death. One by one, the Iron Man accessories were finally processed, in fact, except for the core control program, exoskeleton system and fire system, this original Iron Man was no different from the ancient European knights wearing plate armor.

The armor steel plate that was not made before in order not to be discovered was quickly molded by two science and engineering Frankensteins.

If Tony is given another half an hour, no, even ten minutes, Tony, who has already drilled into Iron Man's armor, will complete Iron Man and teach these turtle warlords with AK47s to be humans. But the other party was already vigilant, and saw something wrong in the surveillance, so he came directly to break the door.

When the bomb placed on the door kills the two intruding warlord soldiers, the big battle is triggered, but before Tony has completed the final steps, Iron Man can't use it.

The reading bar on the computer screen continues, this is the final step, and if it is not completed, the power system will not start, and the so-called Iron Man is a steel lump that collapses in place. Tony's personal muscular strength couldn't make this heavy steel armor move.

The warlord's faction was completely alarmed, and the cacophony of words and messy footsteps came from the entrance to the tunnel.

"They're coming!" Ethan was nervous.

"Leave everything else at bay, get every hex screw on me. ”

"It's coming!"

"Gotta empty the computer, I'm not going to leave anything for those bastards. ”

"Not enough time. Ethan turned, despair in his eyes.

"No!"

At this time, Ethan smiled: "Sure enough! I'm going to execute my plan. ”

"Wait! that's not the plan!" Tony looked at Ethan, who ran to get an assault rifle, and immediately had a sense of foreboding.

Ethan said firmly, "No! that's my plan." ”

In the tunnels, gunshots rang out.

Tony closed his eyes in agony.

What will happen to Ethan, he can already predict. A man of science and engineering who had never touched a gun and had received military training could not have been better at playing with a gun than these warlord soldiers who killed people with AKs at the age of eight or nine.

"Da Da Da!" the gunfire rang out, and it quickly stopped.

Everything has already come to fruition.

At the same time, the launch process of [Iron Man Generation] has finally been completed.

Without Ethan's last sacrifice of his life, Tony would have become an immovable target and would have been killed in this set of immovable steel armor.

As the system's progress bar runs out, the last vestiges of power in the cave are siphoned off. As the warlord soldiers break into the innermost laboratory of this cave with their messy steps, an Iron Grim Reaper appears.