Chapter 218: The Farce of the Exposition (Part I)
Stark Industries Headquarters Building, also known as Stark Building, is located on East 45th Street of Grand Central Terminal, Manhattan, New York, USA, completed in the 90s of the last century, with a height of about 350 meters and a total of 89 floors.
Originally the founder and owner of Stark Industries, Howard, bought a plot of land on the east side of Grand Central Terminal and set out to build a new headquarters for his car company, which was later built into the tallest building in New York City at the time and one of the most famous sights on the New York skyline.
Unfortunately, Howard didn't see the building completed, and after Stark grew up and took over the Stark Group, the building was renovated several times, and now it is a giant building with a high-tech laboratory, group headquarters, and commercial office buildings.
Many New Yorkers also like to jokingly call it the "Triangle Tower" because the Stark Tower is a right-angled triangle, with the buildings on the east side being taller, from the 79th to the 89th floors for Stark's personal laboratories, and the west side of the building being shorter, which is a commercial office building, where Stark Group employees work.
Although this design makes the exterior of the building look a little weird, but it is very practical, the two buildings are interconnected, but do not interfere with each other, although it was criticized by many landscape architects when it was built, thinking that this strange shape of the building, destroying the beauty of the New York skyline, but today, Stark Tower has become an indispensable part of the New York City travel guide.
The first Stark Messe was organized by Howard Stark in 1981, and until the 20th century, Stark Messe was the world's largest industrial expo.
After Howard's death, Tony Stark, who inherited the Stark Group, did not like to hold industrial fairs very much, and therefore, in the late 90s of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, the grandeur of Stark Industrial Fairs was no longer there, until today, Tony Stark faced the flash and microphone at the press conference of the Stark Building:
"I am to blame for the fact that the most important component of human industrial development has been forgotten for many years, and I am very disappointed that after the death of the founder of Stark Group, I have not heard of a single industrial fair in the world that has come out to fill this void......"
"And now, I want to tell you that you will receive what is probably the most important invitation of your life, and you will see for yourself how far mankind has progressed in industrial development, and if this gap of several decades is my negligence, then I will tell you about it with a Stark Messe ......"
Stark looked around, and the reporters around him looked at him without saying a word.
Reporters are all too familiar with Stark, but most of the time, Pepper stands in front of the reporters and explains to the reporters that Stark's bad things won't make a big difference, and then a drunken Tony is dragged up from the backstage and perfunctory to the reporter.
But now, all the reporters could see that the Mr. Stark in front of them was a little different.
Stark used to be arrogant too, often saying things like "Ordinary people can't understand me", "You never know how my invention will change humanity", or "Those little things don't matter, I'm about to change the course of human industry".
No one in his eyes is his calling card, and frivolous waves are synonymous with him, but this time, Stark's tone is very different, and even these reporters who have heard all kinds of celebrities sophistry pay attention to him.
"There are a lot of rumors in this world that are difficult to distinguish between truth and falsehood, and your job is to be responsible for spreading them, but these things can never really change the world, you can't do it, that Yin Fan Vanke can't do it, and the air force, army and navy standing behind him can't do it."
Finally, Stark spoke into the microphone: "...... But I can. β
Stark picked up an invitation card from the table and showed it to the reporters, "This is the ticket for Noah's Ark in the new century, if you don't want to board the ship, then stay in the waves of decay and decay, and wait for death." β
Countless flashes lit up, the sound of shooting was accompanied by noisy questions, and the sound of "boom" rang out, and Stark's calm face was filmed and frozen in one newspaper after another.
The newspaper screen shook, the hand holding the newspaper was put down, Peter's face was exposed behind his back, he took a bite of the hot dog, and said to Gwen next to him: "I really didn't expect you to get a ticket to the Stark Industrial Fair, I thought it was ......"
Gwen shrugged: "Recently, there have been a lot of reports about Stark, and it just so happens that I am also quite interested in the industrial fair, so I asked my dad to help me get two tickets, let's go together." β
Peter was a little angry at this, "I think some reporters are distorting the facts......"
"I know you're a Stark fan, and when you interned at Stark Group before, he was nice to you." Gwen turned to look at Peter, who sighed and was a little frustrated, "Do you think he's a rotten person too?" But ......"
Gwen patted Peter on the shoulder: "The Stark that many people know from the report may be different from the Stark you know, but this is also normal, because people are multifaceted." β
"You think they're smearing your idol, but they also think you're whitewashing him, but in any case, I'm more concerned about whether Stark can actually live up to his bold words at the press conference."
Gwen took her bag, then pulled out two invitations and handed one to Peter, "Take it apart and take a look, if the design is too ugly, we won't go." β
The invitation that Peter flipped up and down, "From the outside, there is nothing special about it......"
He opened the invitation, and Gwen did the same, and then was a little disappointed: "The design of the invitation card is quite ordinary, and inside is a card that reads, 'Please go to the 90th floor of the Stark Group headquarters building on 45th East Street at Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan'......"
"Wait!" Peter interrupted Gwen, he picked up the card in his invitation card and looked at it carefully, surprised: "90th floor??" Where did Stark Tower get its 90th floor? That building is only 89 floors! β
Gwen also looked at it, puzzled: "You should have counted wrong, right?" After that, she put her eyes back on the invitation, "The two of us have 90 layers on the cards, so it shouldn't be a mistake." β
Peter scratched his head, his tone a little uncertain: "I think there should only be 89 floors?" At least the elevator is definitely up to the 89th floor. β
"Could it be that he plans to let us visit from the rooftop?"
"And I remember......" Gwen took the newspaper Peter had put down, and pointed to the picture of Stark Tower in one of the reports, "Shouldn't that exhibition hall at Stark Tower be on the top floor of this lower building on the left?" How is it possible for this building to have 90 floors? β
"It's true, I've been to that pavilion and it's really big, and it should be more than enough to hold an industrial expo."
Just when Peter and Gwen were confused, the other people who received the invitation also had the same doubts as them, even if they stood on the roof of other buildings and looked at Stark Tower with a telescope, the number of floors was indeed only 89 floors, not 90 floors at all.
Quite a few reporters seized on this and began to attack Stark, claiming that it was a bad joke by Playboy, that he was doing anything to attract attention and get gimmicks, and that some ridiculed him for being a poor donkey and struggling before he died.
Indeed, after Stark's bold words, most of the industrial groups and large enterprises were angered by his attitude of no one in his eyes, if Stark's words were more like a bulwark bragging, but now Stark's ridicule has broken many people's defenses.
Because of a fact in front of them: a rotten person who is so rotten still has come up with cross-era mecha technology, and can even wear that handsome mecha as a superhero in New York.
Many leaders of Kejia and industrial groups who are not doing well can't help but fantasize that if they develop this kind of technology, they will not be as naΓ―ve as Stark, wearing a suit to be a superhero.
They fantasize about cooperating with the military, increasing production, controlling a mechanical army, and even dominating the world.
Therefore, they are even more justified in ridiculing and sarcastically Stark, thinking that his choice is extremely naΓ―ve.
Many Stark people have made the most wrong choices in every link, resulting in themselves falling into such a quagmire, if they are replaced, not only to cooperate with the military, but also to cooperate with peers, everyone joins forces, use this technology to seize the market, divide the monopoly profits, or participate in the international political game.
But no matter what you do, it must be much more mature than putting on an iron shell and doing chivalry in New York.
The most ridiculous thing is the object of Stark's chivalrous righteousness, those ordinary people who are protected and saved by him do not appreciate it, and even, the people's opposition to Stark and Iron Man is more fierce than Stark's peers.
In short, whether it is colleagues, the military or ordinary people, after receiving this invitation, they still plan to participate.
Most of them were trying to have fun and see how the famous playboy planned to pull off this stunt.
There are also many self-proclaimed professional scientists who plan to use their professional knowledge to debunk the Stark scam, and many aspiring young people who have never met talents plan to watch Stark's jokes to comfort themselves, these rich people are just lucky.
There are only a few people like Peter and Gwen who want to visit simply because they are interested in industry and machinery.
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