Chapter 173: Short Stark Industries (Subscription Requested)
The international convention on the planet where Mei was originally located explicitly prohibits the production and use of cluster bombs, and this clause does not exist in this world.
Tony, the guy with the [Merchant of Death] at this point in time, is at the most prodigal time, and he only has the CDEFG number in his heart, but he doesn't have the A number and the B number.
It's too small for A, and a pervert like Tony definitely doesn't want it.
B, hehe!
Anyway, when Tony raised his arms and posed, it was the moment when the bomb set off a monstrous wave.
With the explosion as the background and the death that will arrive in the near future as the background, Tony at this moment gives people the feeling that he is the Holy Spirit of Death!
He has God-given wisdom, but he does evil deeds that spread death.
If he hadn't been on the same side as the U.S. military and had been dubbed the "Patriot", he would undoubtedly have become the world's most notorious arms dealer and inventor.
Fortunately, pretending to be forced is a kind of thing, even if it is not struck by lightning, it is easy to have retribution.
Tony, who miscalculated the power of the bomb, was almost blown off by the shock wave of his own missile explosion, and Tony almost got a dog on the street to eat.
However, the test launch of the Jericho missile was undoubtedly successful, and the military bigwigs were very satisfied.
At the end of the test, Tony, who was drinking champagne and pretending to be forced and enjoying the adoration of the American soldiers, was sitting on a US military jeep, protected by a team of US troops, and rushed back to the airfield from the shooting range.
Who knew that disaster would fall from heaven!
"Boom!" the Humvee in front of his car was first shot into the sky by rocket launchers, and it was planted upside down on the spot.
They were followed by Humvees in front and behind.
Combat has proved that the Humvee, although extremely exaggerated, can be modified in various ways, loading large-caliber machine guns, rocket launchers and even electronic warfare equipment on the roof of the vehicle. But the low protection of the Hummer itself doomed the Hummer to be unbearable.
In a hail of bullets, Tony is horrified to find that the GIs who were supposed to protect him are all over in the face of this obviously premeditated ambush.
He staggered off the Humvee, and when he ducked to the side of the road, a missile shot not far from him.
On the missile, the clear words "Stark Industries" seemed to mock him, the brightest star of the military industry.
"Wow!" Tony crawled as he tried to escape the blast's blast, wishing it was a dud.
Unfortunately, the missiles designed by him and built to the highest standards have the most reliable performance and the most vicious design.
He hadn't taken a few steps before the missile exploded.
The flying shrapnel ignored the protection of his body armor and penetrated directly into his chest.
Tony was seriously injured and unconscious......
When he wakes up, he finds himself captured by an Afghan warlord.
Terrible things, one after the other.
First of all, all the shrapnel of the missile had entered his veins, and if there was no magnet to help him suck the metal shrapnel, it would flow down the veins into his heart and kill him.
Then, he was captured, and the warlord leader forced him to make the latest Jericho missile, or he would be killed.
What does a warlord who is against the US military want Jericho missiles for?
Needless to say, the missiles will inevitably end up on the heads of American soldiers.
No one knows the power of this cluster missile better than Tony, who is the inventor. It would be an absolute nightmare for a warlord to have Jericho missiles.
And an Afghan warlord who will not let Tony go if he says anything.
Tony looked thoughtfully at the small valley where he was imprisoned, littered with Stark Industries' weapons and missiles.
The multiple-choice question is simple: if you don't listen to the warlord, you will do nothing, and you will only be shot immediately. Listen to the warlord's words and make a missile, and if the warlord does not kill him when he turns back, the US military will not let him go. That only one last option is left - to secretly make an escape tool in the name of making missiles.
Here, Tony meets Ethan, a man who becomes his assistant, a scientist and doctor. The previous fate between the two was just Ethan's encounter with Tony, who was above the top, at a science seminar.
It's not a relationship, it's purely a meeting in the past.
It's just that the two of them were also captured by the great warlords.
It was Ethan who used an electromagnet connected to the car battery to put it on Tony's chest to ensure that the shrapnel did not flow into Tony's heart, saving Tony's life.
"I have a plan!" said Tony.
"If you can't deliver a new missile in seven days, you're going to die. Ethan reminded Tony.
"So I have a plan......"
The disappearance of Tony Stark immediately caused an uproar, and of course the news was kept strictly secret by the US military and Stark Industries. In the United States, except for the core of the high-ranking officials, Stark's other bigwig Obadi, Tony's secretary and future wife Pepper, Tony's bodyguard and driver Harpy, no one knows about this.
The U.S. stock market has changed.
Dozens of stocks, which have always been stable and rising, suddenly appeared in large-scale selling. The market was a bit of a surprise, but acceptable. Because the sell orders are widely distributed and these stocks are quite high-quality stocks, the sell orders were quickly taken over.
Then the major brokerages received the same request, and a large number of retail investors began to short the stock [Stark Industries].
The so-called "shorting" is when a qualified customer asks a brokerage to borrow a company's shares. Basically, it will be a very short period, such as one day, or one month, depending on the agreement between the customer and the broker, as well as the rules of the brokerage.
Generally speaking, as long as the stock falls, the customer who borrowed the stock can buy back the stock at a lower price and return it to the broker, and the difference in the price will be earned by the customer.
Of course, if the stock does not fall but rises during the short selling period, and the customer does not have enough funds to buy back the stock, many brokerages have a forced liquidation mechanism to force the customer to use all the funds to buy back the stock to the broker.
The current situation is that there are more than 10 billion funds in the market to short Stark Industries, and the period is 5 days.
This situation is absolutely abnormal.
Everyone knows that Stark Industries is a popular fried chicken on the stock market. The long-term cooperation with the U.S. military has enabled Stark Industries to earn a large amount of money.
Tony Stark's products are also star products, and efficiency and reliability are the hallmarks of Stark Industries.
For Stark Industries to fall, unless the new Jericho missile fails to test-fire, or the U.S. military refuses to include it in the purchase list.
Except for a traverser, no one expected that Stark's stock could fall because of another incident - Tony Stark disappeared after being ambushed in Afghanistan and was suspected of being captured by a local warlord.
As soon as this news broke, it immediately triggered a cliff-like decline in Stark Industries' stock.