Winter is quietly coming to this bustling metropolis.

Freight trains rumbled past the criss-crossed tracks.

The road is sparsely populated.

Aside from work needs, not many people want to go out in this terrible environment covered with heavy snow. Occasionally, two or three pedestrians, wrapped tightly under the heavy snow, hugged their arms, shrunk their necks, stomped their shoes, and hurried silently with their heads bored.

Compared to the people who can sit comfortably in the office or the warm bed at home in this harsh environment, enjoying the heating and drinking warm coffee, there is another kind of person in the corner of the city.

Beggar.

and homeless people without status.

Some of the city's out-of-the-way alleys and corners, and even the wide sewers, are the homes of these people. Even if the home is very basic.

Ivan Vanko is one of those people.

The difference is that Ivan Vanko does not have to move from time to time like the "floating population". He has a very good place in the eyes of his peers. The basement of a secluded and abandoned enclosed alleyway.

The basement space may not be as large as a bedroom in Tony's mansion, and it is densely packed with all kinds of instruments and miscellaneous items, making it difficult to get off your feet. Some large miscellaneous items, which were used by Ivan as wall panels, separated several rooms in the space they were in. A soft light adds a bit of brightness to this dim and windowless space.

The instruments in the house were the only belongings Ivan Vanko had. It's the money he saves from selling all kinds of programs and coding for people. Of course, he has made much more money over the years, but a large part of the money he has earned needs to provide for his terminally ill father, which is much more expensive than the medical expenses of all the people in this city and this country.

They have no identity, they can't leave the country, and they can't enjoy the benefits that the country gives to their people.

Just recently, the doctor who was impressed by Ivan Vanko's money had clearly issued a critical illness notice to his father, the elder Vanko.

"Ivan?"

A low, weak call rang out in the dimly lit space, waking up Ivan Vanko, who was leaning against the wall outside and weeping silently.

Ivan Vanko raised his head from the wall and looked at the place where the sound came.

In the basement, on the only iron plate bed, an old man with a stern face and a puffy face and a weak spirit was looking at his son who was sitting on the edge of his bed and gently tucking the quilt for him.

At the foot of the bed, a TV was broadcasting the news of an interview.

Which company and individual are the most popular and talked about recently?

All media workers and the public will undoubtedly tell you that it is Stark Industries, and Tony Stark at the helm of Stark Industries! The playboy, arms tycoon, energy businessman who was always active in the media and newspapers, who never lacked topics to talk about, was chased by all kinds of journalists!

Any journalist can pick a topic in Tony Stark that matches the character of the newspaper they feed. Some people even jokingly said that aside from Tony's complex identity, just the title of a playboy can fatten the brains of hundreds of paparazzi reporters with endless scandals with all kinds of big stars and hot supermodels.

The general public likes this, and they like to count which big-name female star Tony has soaked in today, and which supermodel with a hot body has brought back to the villa for the night.

But since Tony was kidnapped and returned, Tony has not had this kind of scandal for a while, and a few of them are chasing the wind, and those reporters who are counting on Tony's scandal to make random arrangements out of nothing, or take out the previous scandals to fry cold rice.

This has disappointed many entertainment reporters recently, and even maliciously speculated that Tony was kidnapped or not. Otherwise, how could the former playboy suddenly be indifferent to women and no longer shuttle through the hunting of various drinking parties and banquets?

But compared to the anguish of entertainment reporters, media and programs such as financial reporters and current affairs talk shows are cheering loudly. Because since Tony Stark admitted that he was Iron Man in front of hundreds of reporters in public, he has frequently appeared in various media and programs.

If you buy a newspaper at a newsstand, the headlines must have something to do with Tony, who has been in a lot of limelight lately.

Take a look at the web search headlines.

Number one, Tony.

The second, the steel suit.

Article 3, Stark Industries.

Fourth, our genius of invention, the Iron Man, has gone to which place and country to do chivalrous deeds, and so on.

Article 5, Stark Tech Fair.

Article 6 ,......

Like newspapers, when the TV is turned on, as long as it is news media or financial news, Tony must be the person who cannot but be mentioned by those anchors. In the case of this unprecedentedly hot topic, unless you don't read newspapers, watch TV, or watch the Internet, you can't escape this news whirlpool.

Its heat is comparable to that of the Osborne Industrial Incident.

The tide is like this, and S.H.I.E.L.D. wants to suppress it, but it is also beyond its strength. Or maybe they can eliminate the news, but they don't want to pay attention to it at the moment.

A steel suit, the crystallization of high technology, is not as distorted as alien and biological weapons, and is regarded as taboo.

“…… I'm not a hero, I have a lot of shortcomings, and I've made a lot of mistakes in front of the public......" On the screen, Tony Stark is talking to reporters in front of the reporters.

"That should be yours, Ivan." Anton Vanko gasped and said, "The person standing there should be you, not him." ”

"Don't listen to these stupid words." Ivan Vanko patted the old Vanko on the shoulder and said comfortingly.

"I'm sorry." Anton Vanko's swollen eyes could only open even one line, and he looked at his son with guilt: "I can only teach you all my knowledge." ”

With tears in his eyes, Ivan Vanko looked at the old man who was wheezing violently on the bed, his face flushed, as if he was like a candle in the wind, and the next moment he would extinguish the brilliance of life, but he couldn't say anything.

When the old man's body ceased to breathe, no longer tremble, and became cold, the stone statue of Ivan Vankoru sitting on the bed was sculpted.

……

"I agree to your conditions, but you also have to give me the corresponding materials."

Ivan Vanko stood in a phone booth at the entrance of the alley, looked at the heavy snow falling in the sky, and said to the person on the phone.

"I'll give you the technology of the Pocket Ark Reactor, but I need identity and revenge."