The three Mercers, who had just finished breakfast, heard Pepper's knock on the door before they had time to clean up the dishes and chopsticks, and it could be seen that she seemed to have just cried.

"Alex, Tony was kidnapped by terrorists, you ......"

"You sit down and drink saliva first, don't be too nervous, the person who kidnapped Tony will definitely not kill him directly, but for another purpose, so Tony is at least alive now."

Mercer handed the water poured by Dana to Pepper, he was really not in a hurry, he knew this plot, Tony also became the famous Iron Man from here, and it was this incident that changed his concept.

has also changed from an arms giant to an energy giant, and even more to a person yearning for peace, Mercer has been waiting for this day for a long time, after all, fighting alone is often in a hurry.

Mercer's words were not unspoken by others, but the words that came out of Mercer's mouth made her feel a lot more relieved.

"Is there any valuable news that can be confirmed now?"

Pepper gathered her thoughts and was about to speak, when the doorbell rang again, and it was Coulson, who looked exhausted, who came in from outside the door.

"Alex, Tony Stark is missing! You...... Miss Potts is already here? What are you guys discussing? ”

"Phil, I haven't said anything yet, let's tell me everything you know."

"The military has just received news that three days ago, Mr. Stark's convoy was attacked, all the soldiers accompanying him were killed, and Mr. Stark was kidnapped, and the situation is now unknown."

"Those people probably can't handle it, so I'll tell you, is there a general search range?"

"There are Gobi Deserts all around, and there are even mountainous areas, and the whereabouts of the other party are completely unknown, but according to the weapons and tools used by the other party, they should be the forces near the attack site."

"Wait? The desert next door, you say? ”

"yes......"

"Dana, call Flint and ask him to come directly."

"Alex, do you mean to ask Flint to use his abilities to find it?"

Coulson suddenly realized that it was not that he was not as clever as Mercer, but that he did not have a concept of the use of superpowers.

"Well, I don't know if it's going to work, but he's definitely better than I am in that environment," Mercer said, "Phil, what are those guys doing with Tony?" Extortion? ”

"I don't know, the other party hasn't contacted us, it may be related to the newly developed weapons of Stark Industries."

Coulson said that Tony Stark's disappearance may be known to the public in a while, not to mention Tony Stark's invisible identity for the time being, even the collapse of Stark Industries' stock is also a headache, but the pressure is not on S.H.I.E.L.D.'s side.

"Alex, is there anything I need to do?"

Flint's figure came in through the open window, then landed in place and quickly converged on the human form. He had made up his mind early on that he would do whatever Mercer commanded.

"Flint, you're going with me to Afghanistan, I need you to help me find someone in the desert, can you do that?"

"I haven't tried, but I should have some advantage in the desert."

Flint hadn't been to the desert since his mutation, but it was his home anyway, and he was curious to see what he could do in the desert.

"Pepper, don't worry, you go back to Stark Industries first to stabilize the situation, anyway, you are usually in charge of Stark Industries", Mercer looked at Pepper and said, Pepper's face also returned to calm.

"Phil, you have to use your S.H.I.E.L.D. plane to get me and Flint to the place of the incident, don't you need a visa or anything?"

"No, you can leave at any time," Coulson said, adding that the S.H.I.E.L.D. plane could leave the United States directly, and as a world organization, the Iraqi side could naturally make arrangements.

Mercer instructed Dana and Melinda in turn.

……

In the end, Mercer was on a military plane, and the military leader was Colonel Roddy, who seemed to know that Mercer was extraordinary, and was very happy to take Mercer and Flint on the plane.

"Colonel Roddy, I'm Alex Mercer, I didn't have time to thank you for your help the last time I saw you, but this time we're going to work together once."

"Alex, you can just call me Roddy, and thank you for being willing to help us find Tony, I don't know this time...... Alas. ”

Roddy's personality is very approachable, and it can be seen that he and Tony are very good friends.

"Yes, Tony also helped me a lot, I think Tony must be fine, the person who kidnapped him is probably for some special purpose."

Mercer remembered that in the plot, the kidnappers were trying to get Tony to develop weapons for them, but Tony used limited resources to make a rough steel suit and fight his way out.

"I hope so, Alex, do you have any search and rescue ideas?"

"Roddy, this is Flint Mark, it's my friend, he can control the grit, where it should make a big difference."

"Control the grit?"

Flint turned his left hand into sand, much to Roddy's jaw-dropping, and he suddenly felt that his perception of the world had been completely turned upside down in the first half of his life.

"Well, it is impossible for those robbers to attack Tony escorted by the army alone, let alone without eating or drinking, the place where they are must be a settlement, the army is responsible for searching the settlement on a large scale, and Flint is responsible for cooperating with you to explore the inside of the settlement."

"Okay, just enough to avoid clashes with those civilians, those people are not easy to mess with."

The Americans themselves have created their own sins, and the residents of Afghanistan hate them to the extreme, and guns and weapons are not a scarce commodity here, and every household has rifles and other weapons.

If there is a conflict, although Roddy is not afraid, he will also delay the search for a target.

The weather in Afghanistan at this time was still very hot, and as soon as they got off the plane, they could see some beads of sweat on the faces of Rodi and others, but Mercer and Flint did not react.

Flint blended directly into the sand beneath his feet as planned, and then he could see "sand snakes" spreading across the ground, and soon saw Flint's face appear on the sand.

"It feels good, I can cover a radius of about five kilometers of sand, and I can see directly above the sand."

Mercer sometimes felt that Flint's abilities were even more amazing than his own, and he helped Flint check that all the flesh, bones, and even eyeballs in his body had turned into a sandy tissue.

In other words, as Flint becomes more proficient in his abilities, he can grow eyes and noses in any part of his body.

Not daring to delay time, according to the guidance of the helicopter, Mo Se and the others investigated the villages scattered in Afghanistan one by one.

After Flint found the armed men, Mercer went directly to investigate, and with his agile speed, Mercer was difficult to even be discovered by the villagers, and even if he found it, it didn't make any sense, and in a blink of an eye, Mercer left.

Mercer ran faster than the speed of sound, and with his keen reactions, he was definitely in the middle of a thousand flowers, and not a single leaf was touched.

The search lasted seven or eight hours, and Mercer and the others found nothing until Flint reappeared.

"Alex, there's nothing wrong with this village, but I stumbled upon a group of armed men in a small valley nearby, and there seem to be two people imprisoned in the cave, one of whom looks like Tony Stark, but ......"

"How is he? Still alive? ”

Roddy asked directly, with an anxious look on his face.

"I'm alive, but I seem to have been injured, and I'm busy making something with another person."