Chapter 6: Tony's Return
It's still a normal day, with no aliens invading Earth and no mutants declaring war on humanity.
The only unusual thing is that Catherine's New York daily newspaper has finally stopped working overtime.
In other words, the boss of the New York Daily finally realized that making his subordinates work crazy overtime would not increase newspaper sales much other than wasting overtime pay.
Catherine, who had been tired for three months, took a week's leave and decided to get a good night's sleep and never get up until 12 o'clock in the afternoon.
The first thing Wang Dali, who had eaten breakfast, did when he left the house was not to go to Stark Company, but to ride his newly bought electric car to Stark House.
Since taking office, he has been going to work every morning with Pepper, who lives at Stark's house, and taking her home in the evening, waiting for her to turn on Stark's defenses before riding away on an electric car.
Usually, Wang Dali arrives first, and Pepper doesn't come out until a few minutes later. But this time, when Stark House appeared in Wang Dali's field of vision, he unexpectedly found that Pepper was already waiting for him here.
She is also accompanied by Tony Stark's bodyguard, who is also a good friend, Hogan.
Without waiting for Wang Dali to have any questions, Pepper, who seemed to be in a hurry, hurriedly urged him to check the vehicle quickly.
"There's no problem with the car, Miss Pepper."
Wang Dali, who said this, was caught up in the car by Pepper again and sat in the passenger seat. The $20 million thickened, bulletproof Rolls-Royce, driven by Hogan, was woken from sleep and quickly exited Stark's house down the parking lane.
"Doesn't that seem like the way to the company? Miss Pepper, is something wrong? ”
Wang Dali, who had already roughly guessed the reason, confirmed to Pepper.
"Let's go to the airport."
A bright smile that King Dali had never seen before appeared on Pepper's face, along with a look of relief.
"Tony is back."
Just spit out a few words lightly, but Pepper seemed to have put down a thousand pounds of boulder. Although her complexion is still not very good, the whole person seems to be much more relaxed.
"Really? Congratulations, Miss Pepper. ”
And so it was. Wang Dali nodded secretly. Although it is not known exactly how long, Tony Stark should have returned from Afghanistan as well.
……
There is no way for ordinary people to enter the airport runway to pick up the plane, and even the rich cannot.
However, in capitalist countries, very rich people can.
The military aircraft slowed down along the runway, and the hatch used yellow as a warning fell down. Tony Stark, whose right hand was still bandaged, was helped out by his good friend, Black Colonel Rod.
He looked haggard compared to what Pepper had seen, and there were a few more scars on his face, and she bit her lip lightly when she saw it, and she almost didn't cry on the spot.
At this time, Tony is the same. The middle-aged man in a dark blue suit looked at his female assistant with a tenderness in his eyes.
"Your eyes are red, are you worried about your boss?"
"It's tears of joy, I don't have to look for a job anymore."
Pepper raised her right hand and gently brushed her eyes, clasping her hands around her chest. In her high heels, she is about the same height as Tony Stark.
"Well, the holiday is over."
Sitting in the back of the car with Pepper, Tony glanced at Wang Dali with some confusion. Pepper commanded.
"Hogan, go to the hospital."
"Nope."
"Tony, you have to go to the hospital."
"If I say no, no."
Tony Stark shook his head at Pepper's concerned gaze.
"I've been locked up for three months, and now I only want to do two things. One is to eat an Americano burger, and the other is to want ......"
"I know what you want."
Stark was halfway through his sentence, and Pepper's face immediately darkened, and interrupted him.
The first thing this playboy did when he returned from Afghanistan was not to go to the hospital for a check-up, as she had done well, but to find a woman. Why didn't he just die in Afghanistan!
"It's not what you think, I'm going to have a press conference."
"Hold a press conference?"
……
With a hamburger in one hand and a microphone in the other, Tony Stark announced at a press conference that the Stark Corporation Arms Department would be closed with immediate effect, causing an uproar throughout the United States.
For example, it's like Microsoft announcing that it will no longer sell computer systems from now on.
At this time, Wang Dali was not thinking about what would happen to Stark Company next, but about Catherine probably ending her vacation of less than a day.
Sure enough, when Wang Dali was about to go home, he received a call from Catherine.
On the phone, after counting down Tony Stark, who was not doing his job, Catherine asked Wang Dali to buy some cheese, and she took all the cheese at home to the newspaper.
……
Early the next morning, Wang Dali came to Stark's house as usual. But just as he stopped the electric car, the door to Stark's house suddenly opened.
"Mr. Wang, Mr. Stark, please come in."
Please let me in? Do what?
Wang Dali was slightly puzzled, but he still followed Jarvis's instructions and walked all the way through Stark's house, and finally came to an elegantly shaped bar.
Here he once again met America's most talented military research scientist, world-renowned billionaire and playboy, Tony Stark.
"Have a drink, Mr. Wang, this is the wine that Tony Stark poured for you himself."
Wang Dali was silent, took the red wine handed over by Stark with a face of 'This is your honor', and took a sip.
There were no adverse reactions, just plain, expensive red wine.
"Do you have anything to do with me, Mr. Stark?"
"Nothing, just a question for you."
"Ask me a question?"
Wang Dali looked at each other a little strangely.
"Hmmm......"
Facing Wang Dali's direct gaze, Stark turned his head a little awkwardly, pretending to be inadvertent, but he asked very concernedly.
"Why don't you use your strength to make your life better?"
"I've used it."
Wang Dali did not panic or overreact because of Stark's sudden attack, but calmly said it.
"Oh?"
Stark narrowed his eyes and quietly placed his left hand on the alarm button under the bar.
"Can you elaborate on that?"
"Yes."
Wang nodded vigorously.
"I used to use my almost endless strength to move bricks on a construction site."
"Move, move bricks?"
The other party's answer was very different from what he imagined, which made Tony Stark look very shocked and speechless. Even if he said he had sinned, Stark wouldn't have been so surprised.
"That's right, moving bricks."
Wang Dali said to Tony very seriously.
"At that time, even if I had reservations, one person could do the work of three people and get three times the salary of others. But in the end, this unusual place was discovered, and I had to leave the construction site and look for another job. ”