About two hours later, Stark saw Obadiah in the hospital room, looked at the familiar old man, and Stark said straight to the point, "Can you help me take out the contents of my coat pocket hanging on the hanger?" ”

Obadiah was stunned for a moment, he was startled by the complexity of Stark's tone, a kind of confusion and weakness rose in his heart, so he instinctively did what Stark said to bring him his coat, and when his hand reached into his pocket, the strange touch of that thing made his fingertips pause.

Obadaia took the object out, it looked like a small piece of cloth, but the texture on it told him it was human skin, and the moment he saw the tattoo, Obadiah's hand trembled violently.

He'd seen the exact same pattern on the black woman's body — Tony Stark knew it.

Obadiah took a deep breath and stiffened in place for half a minute before slowly exhaling it, and he put the small piece of human skin back in Tony's pocket and turned to look at his nephew lying in the hospital bed.

"Tell me what the hell is going on, Obadiah." Tony looked Obadiah in the eye and said, "I thought you were my only relative." ”

"I am, Tony." Obadiah's breath trembled a little, he let go of his grip on his coat, put it on Stark's bedside, sat on the edge of the bed and looked at Stark and said, "I thought your condition would improve when you grew up, but you didn't, and it got worse and worse." ”

Stark frowned deeply, he didn't understand what Obadiah meant.

"The Stark Group is losing its power to protect you, Tony." Obadiah looked at Stark with a serious face and said, "Or because of you, the military must sanction Stark Group, they want to get you." ”

Obadiah turned his head away and said, "Don't be naïve enough to think they're going to let your brains be the brightest minds in the world to make pistols and missiles in a private company, they want something more lethal." ”

Obadia's throat moved, "About three years ago, the military began to gradually shrink Stark Industries' orders and instead invest in the Osborne Group and Hammer Military Industry, you know, Hammer was completely supported by the military. ”

"They're constantly weakening the Stark Syndicate, in order to get their hands on you, or at least coerce you into doing something more valuable for them."

"And you're going to kill me."

"Because I don't want the military to get what they want, not just for you." Obadiah's tone was strikingly indifferent, he said: "If the era of superweapons comes, the military will no longer buy ordinary arms, and Stark's military industry will completely decline." ”

"So you'd rather kill me?"

Obadiah shook his head and said, "Tony, I don't have the same great ideals as you and your father, I just want to be a successful businessman, and no good businessman will give any buyer a chance to buy or sell." ”

"With you, they are willing to pay a big price, and without you, they can only choose me." Obadiah rubbed his hand against the handrail and said, "And I will make them pay for the previous sanctions." ”

Stark's grip on the sheets tightened, and Obadiah looked at Stark and said, "You've shown your worth prematurely, Tony, I don't remember how long ago I warned you, do you think your father's terrible state before he died was an accident?" ”

"Why are they never satisfied?!" Stark gritted his teeth and said, "They didn't think about letting talented people do their jobs and make people live a better life, but they just kept forcing them to either make weapons or become weapons." ”

"This is the country, Tony, any cutting-edge technology in this world will be the first to be used in the military and medicine, and the cutting-edge technology of medical treatment is ultimately to serve the military, this is the human race, and you can't change anything."

Stark took a deep breath, and then, as if he had thought of something, he tried to suppress the anger in his heart, looked at Obadiah and said, "Your attack didn't fatally wound me, a mercenary saved me." ”

Obadiah immediately showed a suspicious expression, but his suspicion made Stark a little confused, so Obadiah asked, "A mercenary saved you?" Who is he? Which mercenary organization is it from? Have you ever seen it again? ”

"Does it matter?"

Obadiah was silent for a while before he spoke: "Some time before and after your attack, I received a phone call from the other side, and all I said was, 'He knows.'" ”

Stark's eyes widened, of course he could understand what this meant, Obadiah was going to kill him at that time, and the caller was telling Obadiah that you had failed, and that your plan had been revealed, and that he was preparing for a second operation.

Stark froze in place, and suddenly he sat up straight, stared into Obadiah's eyes, and said, "Do you know Alexander Pierce?" ”

Obadiah was stunned by his question, he thought for a moment about this name that was both familiar and unfamiliar, and then said, "Director Pierce, isn't he the director of S.H.I.E.L.D.?" And he's about to retire, what's wrong with him? ”

"He rescued me."

Stark sighed a little helplessly, it wasn't that he wanted to tell Obadiah and the plate, the problem was that he really couldn't figure out the messy relationship between the upper class.

He knew that Alexander Pierce was the head of S.H.I.E.L.D., but he didn't know which faction he was and whose people he was, something that only Obadiah could understand.

Sure enough, Obadiah remained silent for a long time as if he was shocked by the news, and after a while he said with a little caution: "As far as I know, Director Pierce is not a nosy person. ”

Stark almost came to say his dangerous speculation, but it was so shocking that he didn't say it.

Because if Pepper received the address on the mail but didn't save him, and there was nothing unusual about the visit to the email website, Stark was confident in his skill level, so it was impossible for someone to hack or intercept the email.

So where did Pierce know the address of the abandoned base?

If there is no problem on the receiving end, then the problem must be on the sender side, and the person who sent the email is Schiller, Schiller is a hydra, and Schiller has a high-ranking teacher and boss.

If anyone can monitor Schiller's messages, it must be the teacher and boss who restored his identity and kept giving him orders.

And then Pierce appeared.

At the moment when Schiller was pinned, this guess had already been formed in Stark's mind, so he felt fear - it was the director of S.H.I.E.L.D.!

S.H.I.E.L.D. itself was established to deal with Hydra, and today, even the director has become Hydra, Stark didn't dare to think about how much shock it would cause after the news was released, and it might even change the situation in the world.

But Stark certainly can't ignore this, if Pierce is really a hydra, then the harm he can do is too great.

But Stark didn't have any evidence, Pierce only needed to say that they planted eyeliner among the locals and saw Stark, after all, there were many people at that time when they evacuated, and no one paid attention to everyone's movements, and Pierce's heavenly gods didn't prove anything at all.

Then the only one who can identify Pierce is Schiller.

Stark's brain was spinning, and he thought that Schiller would let him go at the last minute to prove that he was definitely not an incorrigible evil.

Schiller will explain to him his willingness to save people, explain that at least part of him also wants to return to civilization with the help of the Stark Group, and show that he also wants to get rid of Hydra, then he is likely to be willing to be a witness to this stain.

Stark knew he had to get Schiller out.

Schiller gave up on executing his boss's plan at the last minute, so that he was successfully rescued, not to mention that without his superb medical skills before, Stark might have lost too much blood or died of infection in the cave, Schiller saved Stark twice, out of emotion, Stark had to find a way to save him.

And if Pierce is very likely to be Hydra, and wants to use the matter of saving Stark to do something, Stark will never let him succeed, and has to find a way to counter him, then Schiller, a Hydra insider, has become quite valuable, he is very likely to have Pierce's incriminating evidence in his hand, and Stark has to find a way to save him out of interest.

What's more, Stark knew that Pierce didn't bring the police and the military, but let SCHILLER BE TAKEN AWAY BY SCHILLER agents, which proved that he didn't want Schiller to go to court.

Thinking of Schiller's mighty power, it is self-evident what Pierce wants to do.

Even if Pierce is a hydra, he has been lurking for so many years, he has not caused any trouble, and he is not in a hurry to deal with it, but if Schiller gets out of control, his great power may cause many deaths, and at that time, he will never have a chance to get on the right track again.

Thinking of this, Stark became more and more anxious, and he made a decision in his heart, so he looked at Obadiah firmly and said, "Listen, uncle, I can think that you are going to attack me as an uncontrollable move by you under too much pressure, or it may be that some cult organization has lured you, it doesn't matter. ”

"The important thing is that we all know that this is not over yet, I am still alive, the military will not give up, and the person who kidnapped me for the second time was Hydra, and they are also eyeing me, in addition to this, there may be more people watching around."

"I need you to reassure me that the entire Stark Group is united, and we must stand together, Obadiah."

Obadiah's eyes widened, as if he didn't know Stark, and he stared at him for at least two minutes before he shook his head gently and sighed, "Tony, you've grown up." ”

Obadiah stood up, still in disbelief, "If it had been before, you would have rushed up and punched me in a mad way, and then told me to get out of the Stark Group immediately." ”

"I'm going to punch you right now, too." Stark rolled over and sat on the edge of the bed, looked up at Obadiah and said, "But we all know it's useless, the enemy is much stronger than we think, and if we can't join forces, the slightest mistake will be all over." ”

Obadiah frowned in confusion, instinctively feeling that Stark hadn't told him everything.

He knew that this nephew of his own, if it weren't for the huge pressure of life and death, he would not have shown his mature side.

Obadiah couldn't help but step forward, put one hand on Stark's shoulder, looked him in the eye and said, "Tony, tell me the truth, what did you see in Afghanistan?" ”

Stark stared at him silently for a moment before saying, "I've seen a psychiatrist." ”

(End of chapter)