Chapter 362: The military wants to do it
In the villa, the Fantastic Four sat around the sofa, staring at each other with wide eyes. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
On the side, Wu Ming drank the juice nonchalantly, he knew that it would take an adaptation process to suddenly change from an ordinary person to an extraordinary existence.
As long as you adapt to your new identity, in addition to the original of becoming a monster, others will gain far more than they give, which is a good thing that will wake up with a smile in a dream.
"Invisibility, flames, rubber, stones..."
Reed patted his head with his right hand and said in a serious voice: "What I'm most worried about now is whether there are any side effects of our ability and whether it will get worse. ”
"How bad could it be, I'm like this?"
After Ben became a stone man, his net weight was more than a ton, and he couldn't sit on the sofa because of his weight, so he could only sit cross-legged on the floor, complaining: "Why are you all fine, only I have become a monster, this is not fair!" ”
Hearing this, Wu Ming took out his mobile phone and showed him the appearance of the golden cake.
In the photo, the gold cake is a piece of metal and iron, which looks much better than the stone man.
The stone man was amazed, pointed to the golden cake in the picture, and asked, "Who is this monster?" ”
The gold cake is an iron monster, and it was originally a stone monster, so it's almost the same no matter how you look at it.
Wu Ming looked at the stone man with a smile, handed the phone to the others, and then said: "This is the golden cake, he is now like you, and he can no longer be regarded as a human being." It's just that you're a stone and he's metal, and there's a difference. ”
The Iron Man that the Golden Cake has turned into is similar to the Stone Man in terms of ability, both of which are infinitely powerful plus super defense.
It's just that the gold cake is more powerful than the stone man, after all, one is granite, the other is steel, and the strength and density of the latter are obviously higher than the former.
"Poor goldbread!" Susan said while secretly glad that it was not herself who became such a person.
Compared with the stone man and the steel man, stealth and energy control are undoubtedly Bai Fumei's attributes, which is very consistent with the identity of the goddess Susan.
She couldn't imagine how devastating she would be if she became like this, and she might not even dare to go out of the door.
"Of the five of us plus the Golden Cake, six of the seven people who encountered the Cosmic Storm have mutated. So the question is, has Victor also mutated, and what has he become? ”
Reed didn't care about the gold cake, but thought of Victor.
Everyone has encountered a cosmic storm, and there is no reason for the six people to mutate, and the remaining one is safe and sound.
But until now, Victor hasn't called, which makes Reed wonder if Victor is worse.
"Susan, call Victor and see how he's doing."
Although he didn't like Victor, Reed still didn't forget about him.
Susan made an OK gesture and took out the phone to dial Victor, only to hear a busy signal coming from the phone.
"I'm sorry, your call is not answered for the time being, please call again later."
"Sorry, the user is busy, please dial ...... later"
After several calls, Victor's phone went unanswered.
Everyone present looked at each other, guessing that Victor had also mutated, otherwise as Susan's admirer, he would never even answer the goddess's call.
"It seems that we all won the bid, and it's a miracle of genetics." Reed's scientist attribute activated, got up from the couch and spun in circles, whispering, "What kind of genetic mutation could cause such a strange phenomenon?" No, I have to go, if I can solve this mystery, there will be no secret in my eyes. ”
From amazed to calm, from calm to exploring science, Reed quickly got into the groove.
A man shook his head and walked out the door, and Reed quickly disappeared into the night, apparently going back to the lab to find answers.
"Good night, I'm going back too.
The stone man also stood up, sighed and walked outside: "Hey, I hope my wife won't dislike this." ”
As soon as Reed and the Stone Man left, Wu Ming, Susan, and Johnny were left in the room.
Johnny held a small flame in his hand, admiring the flame intently.
Susan turned her head to look at her brother, her proud figure snuggled up in the couch, and she felt the urge to go up and kiss her.
"Rest well, remember to call me if you have something." Wu Ming looked away, and had no intention of staying.
Leaving Susan's house, Wu Ming didn't go anywhere, and returned home to sleep well.
Nothing was said all night, and for the next few days, nothing special happened.
Reed is busy researching genetic issues, Victor mysteriously disappears, Johnny is busy picking up girls all day, Stone Man is saving the family crisis, and everyone is busy.
The world is peaceful, life is beautiful, and we are all happy.
However, Tony, who was tired of the peace, wanted to find something to do, so he decided to announce his identity to the outside world.
"Iron Man is me, I am Iron Man...... Tony Stark. ”
Looking at the front page of the newspaper, Wu Ming knew that Tony had done another beautiful thing.
Since Stark Industries announced that it would abandon the arms market, the company's stock has been declining.
When unintelligent people see this newspaper, they will think that Tony is in the limelight again, which is simply pretending.
And the smart person will understand that this is a one-handed strategy, and like a record company packaging a star, Tony is hyping himself.
"Sir, Stark Industries' stock has seen a strong rally. Just this morning, your worth has increased by 60 billion, and your partner, Mr. Tony, has taken away 100 billion dollars by conservative estimates. The assistant walked in with the report and reported the good news to Wu Ming.
Hearing the news, Wu Ming nodded silently.
Obviously, Tony's strategy succeeded, and shareholders' confidence in Stark Industries soared because of Iron Man's identity.
It was just a simple press conference, and Tony's sentence that I am Iron Man easily reversed the downturn in the stock market. I have to say that Tony is really a genius, and such a commercial packaging method is enough to be written into textbooks and become a model of capital operation.
"Just by making his identity public, he took hundreds of billions of dollars from the stock market, and he made a big splash. This Tony, in one sentence, won back a consortium-level company. Hmph, but there are pros and cons, the controller of the hegemon-level consortium is still a superhero, I'm afraid someone can't sit still. "There are two sides to everything, and Tony's public identity will certainly not be an exception.
The benefits are obvious, Tony has made a lot of money out of the stock market, which has greatly boosted the cohesion of Stark Industries.
Of course, there will be no less disadvantages, and the technology of such a black steel armor is in the hands of a civilian consortium, which the military cannot tolerate in any case.
Although everyone believes that it is the conglomerates that control the United States, there needs to be a premise for this.
The U.S. military is relatively independent, and the military has its own system within it.
The consortium controls Congress and funding, but the demands of the military cannot be ignored, and even if Tony is at the helm of a hegemon-level consortium, it is impossible to silence the military's voice.
"Dude, I'm in trouble!"
A fiery red battle armor suddenly landed from the sky and stopped in Wu Ming's back garden.
In the back garden, Wu Ming is drinking morning tea and enjoying his leisure time.
Seeing Tony coming in the steel armor, he put down the coffee in his hand, pointed to the beach chair beside him, and said, "I guessed you would come, but I didn't expect it to come so quickly." ”
"I'm not happy, I held a press conference yesterday afternoon, and I was harassed all night. You don't know how many giants called me harassing in one night, and how many people threatened me! Tony said as he took off his steel armor and sat down next to Wu Ming.
Wu Ming smiled slightly and didn't care, Tony dared to disclose his identity, it was impossible not to think of these questions.
It's just that he was thinking about what conditions the military wanted to make Tony, a lazy man, come to him early in the morning.
"The military is asking for a very high price?" Wu Ming opened his mouth at the right time and asked Tony.
Tony nodded silently, patted his armor, and whispered, "They want me to make a price list, just like selling arms, sell the armor to the military, and I will set the price as I like." ”
The US military is very rich, but this money is not blown by the wind.
If the other party can say the price casually, it shows that the opponent's ambition is bound to win, which shows a tough attitude.
"The military is a behemoth, I think, you must have refused!" Wu Ming replied in the affirmative, because he knew this guy very well.
Tony's announcement of Stark Industries, a complete abandonment of the arms sector, is itself an offense to the military.
Judging from this guy's ethics, he will never give up the field of arms, and then sell the more powerful steel armor to the military for use.
In this way, Tony's relationship with Stark Industries and the military will drop to a freezing point, reaching a very dangerous level.
"Yes, I refused, and then General Truuk said, tell me to be careful in the future."
After Tony said this, he suddenly laughed again and whispered, "After General Duruk called, General Ross called again and asked me if I had any plans to share the manufacturing process with the military. If anything, he would have persuaded General Duruk, otherwise he would have to sit idly by. ”
General Trurucker is a black man, a four-star general in the U.S. Continental Command, and belongs to a giant in the military.
As for General Ross, Wu Ming is more familiar, he is the father-in-law of Hulk Banner, the famous Thunderbolt General, and the future Red Giant.
Currently, General Ross is presiding over the Gamma Project, and in a few years he will move from the military to Congress, becoming secretary of state and joining the U.S. decision-making hierarchy.
Therefore, whether it is General Truruke or General Ross, it represents the attitude of the military.
If one is not handled well, the military may do anything in order to obtain the steel armor technology.
"What are you going to do?" After thinking for a moment, Wu Ming asked in a deep voice.
Tony sat up straight from his chair, his face no longer playful and irreverent, and said solemnly, "I will never allow the steel armor to become a weapon of war." So, I'm going to reach out to my friends in the council to put pressure on the military, and my bottom line is that I can hand over a Steel Armor without handing over the design drawings, and make sure that the Steel Armor doesn't leak out. ”
The core of the steel armor is not actually the armor itself, but the arc-shaped reactor.
Without the Arc Reactor to provide energy, the Steel Warframe is scrap metal, and there is currently no known energy source that can replace the Arc Reactor as an energy source.
Wu Ming thought about it briefly, and Stark in the movie handed over the steel armor to his friend in the military, that is, Major Rhodes, a black man.
Obviously, that was the result of Tony's compromise with the military, and the military did not equip the army on a large scale after getting the armor. In this way, it can also be seen that the steel armor has not been completely deciphered in the hands of the military, and even the military is helpless against the black technology of the arc reactor.
"What do you need me to do?" Tony's method was feasible, and Wu Ming directly asked Tony for his purpose.
Everyone was an acquaintance, and Tony himself did not pretend to be a mystery, and said, "When I was making the armor, there were some people who served as assistants to me, and I need you to erase their memories. Then, I want to ask you to sit at the company headquarters, and I'm afraid that the military will make a small move and make something that everyone is unhappy about. ”
As the company's second shareholder, Stark Industries' stability is also what Wu Ming wants to see.
After thinking about it, Wu Ming nodded and affirmed, "Leave it to me..."