Chapter 1909: Tin Can Jingle (7)
As another gold and red Iron Man mecha landed, the ultimate Iron Man's face sank, and his heart was like electricity, and he immediately saw that this mecha was different from the Mark series he had built before.
The light line on the visor flashed twice, and the ultimate Iron Man took the lead in opening the visor, he squinted his eyes slightly, looked at the person opposite with white eyes and said, "Who are you?" Why is it here? ”
"That's the question I'm going to ask you." With a click, the Iron Man's visor on the opposite side also opened, and when the two almost identical faces faced each other, it could be seen that the Iron Man wearing the golden-red mecha was younger.
"You took Schiller, didn't you?" Stark asked.
Suddenly, he remembered the day after the parting in the German Valley.
Stark stood in the middle of the valley and watched Schiller and Nick board the plane together, and he was silent for a long time, because he finally realized that Schiller was right, and he had been imagining Schiller as a victim who had no power to resist.
But Schiller's ability and the past he revealed showed that he was capable of resisting and even controlling the situation from beginning to end, he was not a hero, but he must be a strong man.
Stark knew that Schiller's life experience might not be all true, but he could also deduce from the current situation that Schiller was indeed very familiar with Hydra, S.H.I.E.L.D., FBI, and other agencies, and was good at swimming in the cracks, and even holding the thin and thin silk threads to weave a large net to manipulate people's hearts and capture prey.
But this made Stark have another curiosity, who is he? Where did it come from? Which ones are true and which ones are false? What is the purpose of approaching oneself?
Stark was desperate to find Schiller to ask these questions, but to his surprise, Schiller did not appear on the cross-examination bench at the trial of Pierce.
This is very abnormal, even if Stark does not know much about the twists and turns of scheming, he knows that this is the best chance for Schiller to clear his name, and he can even avoid being a tainted witness at all.
In order to successfully take over the position of director of S.H.I.E.L.D. and stabilize the situation of S.H.I.E.L.D., he will be happy to make a deal with the biggest witness, Schiller, as long as Schiller changes his testimony more seriously and stirs up the emotions of the jury, he can ensure that Pierce never comes out again.
Then Nick could have cleared his name, for example, that he was framed by Pierce, or that the doctor was his secret informant, and that his previous arrest was just part of the plan.
This can not only confirm the evidence of Pierce's incrimination, but also elevate Nick's status, showing his calculating, conscientious and responsible characteristics.
Stark had already made up his mind to intercept Schiller after the trial and ask him for answers to all his questions, but Schiller did not come.
Stark went to ask Nick what was going on, Nick kept silent and didn't say anything, an agent leader wanted to hide something, Stark couldn't ask, so he had to return to Stark Group angrily and discouraged.
But at this moment, Pepper found him, showed him the email address he used to find the person before, and said: "I have already canceled the URL of this mailbox, and the emails that have been retained are all on the mirror website, but who knows that the employee has just notified me that someone has restored the previous web page and delivered a new email to this mailbox." ”
Pepper handed the phone to Stark and said, "Although this email says Tony Stark received, but there is no password set, the employee clicked on it, but it is full of garbled characters, please see if it was sent by your scientist friend or something." ”
Stark took the phone with some confusion, and sure enough, he found an email at the top of the mailbox, and after opening it, it was garbled in English, Stark instinctively felt that it might be sent by Schiller.
He asked Pepper for the URL of the recovered mailbox, rummaged through it, and found that the email was sent exactly at 22:06 p.m. as the one Schiller had sent to Pepper with the address of the abandoned base.
This made Stark confirm that the last email was indeed left by Schiller, and Stark thought that there might be clues to Schiller's whereabouts, and then began to decipher the pile of garbled characters.
He tried many ways to read the information out of the garbled characters, but the combinations of English and symbols were completely irregular, and there were no hints around, Stark even used exhaustive methods, and ran on a supercomputer for days and nights, but he couldn't assemble regular words and phrases.
Stark didn't think that the timing of the email could be a clue, but whether it was to choose letters by number or to arrange symbols according to 2206, he couldn't come up with a relevant answer.
Stark stared at the email again in front of the computer, the cold light shining on his eyes, and suddenly he seemed to realize, stood up and stared at all the gibberish, and then leaned down again and began to type on the keyboard.
"What if it's not readable text, but graphics?" Stark muttered, his hands moving quickly to operate the computer.
His eyes mapped the letters on the screen, and soon one letter after another was combined to form a pattern that Stark was somewhat familiar with, which was an eagle flying with wings spread, but the special thing about it was that Stark's familiarity with it came from the fact that it was the logo of a cigarette brand, from the Reynolds Tobacco Company, which produced Camel brand cigarettes, and its name was Yunston.
Stark doesn't actually smoke much, he is very familiar with this brand, because this is Howard's favorite brand, Stark was a child, he often saw Howard put the cigarette case of this brand of cigarettes in a high place, because of curiosity, Stark also took it down and looked at it.
Stark suddenly felt puzzled, Schiller made such a complicated code, just to show him the pattern of a cigarette brand?
But suddenly, he reacted, this can't be a coincidence, compared to the more popular camel brand or good luck brand cigarettes, although the sales of Yunston are not low, but after all, they are not as well-known as the above two brands, and they are not rationed in the army, smoking this brand of cigarettes can be said to be a relatively niche hobby.
So how did Schiller know the brand of cigarettes that Howard liked? Did Schiller still know Howard?
But now Schiller didn't know where to go, and Stark had nowhere to ask, so he became more and more anxious, just looking at the pattern repeatedly.
Then he felt that Schiller had left this image not simply to tell him that he knew his father, because it didn't make sense, and Howard was dead, so what could he do?
Stark couldn't think of a reason, and then he thought that since the clue was related to Howard, then he would go back to the Stark family's old house and have a look, maybe he could find any clues?
Instead of finding Schiller's clues, he found Howard's previous footage and the sand table that inspired the new element.
Because Schiller changed the course of history, this Stark did not have the ark reactor embedded in his chest, but his previous idea of a drone armor did need to be powered by energy, but so far, he has not found a good energy source, and the clues of the new elements have inspired him.
So everything went right, and the Iron Man of this universe still developed a new suit like most Iron Man, but still failed to find any clues about Schiller.
But just then, the king of Wakanda, the Black Panther, approached him and offered to provide Stark with enough vibranium to improve his armor, which he said was Schiller's offer.
Stark is almost like an ant on a hot pot, on the one hand, Iron Man is a person who doesn't like to owe favors to others very much, if the other party helps him, then he must repay it tenfold, but Schiller didn't give him a chance to repay it at all.
On the one hand, he also really wanted to know why Schiller wanted to help him, and even when he made a deal with the Black Panther, he had already decided to help him, that is, they were not strangers from the beginning, Schiller knew him, and he didn't.
This information gap makes Stark almost crazy, he puts on his new suit and rushes into Nick's office regardless of it, asking him to give an explanation, and finally Nick sighs and has to show Stark a video.
The video is only three seconds long, but it clearly shows the process of Schiller's disappearance out of thin air, Nick is not a technician, he can't say anything, but Stark believes that the flash of white light is a time and space tunnel, and Schiller is very likely to go to another universe.
Stark didn't have portal technology for the time being, but he knew that the research and development of this technology could not be completed in a day or two, so he was even more angry, angry that Schiller left without saying a word, and angry that he didn't even leave a coordinate, and he didn't know when he would be found.
As it happens in other universes, Iron Man becomes a superhero, and Nick invites Iron Man to join a mysterious superhero organization, as he did before.
But there was a small episode in it, that is, Iron Man met Spider-Man, and it was very coincidental that this Spider-Man was contacted by a spider web not long after being bitten by a spider, and also joined the Spider Army and became a member of the glorious army of credits.
At this time, the little spider was still a high school student, and he was not defenseless, and Iron Man was already a very famous superhero at that time, so he didn't think much about it, and directly told Stark about the multiverse Spider-Man, and also said that he planned to go to the central universe this summer.
As soon as Stark heard this, wouldn't this opportunity to travel to other universes come? So he hurriedly asked Spider-Man to help him open the passage, he was going to other universes to find someone, this Spider-Man had just joined the Spider Army not long ago, and he didn't know the rules very well, so he opened his mouth directly to other Spider-Men.
Spider Silk is going to refuse, after all, rules are rules, if anyone can walk the passage of the spider totem, it will be chaotic, and other Spider-Men don't agree with it, because there has been a round of quarrel in the Ultimate Iron Man Legion before, and a more rigorous induction training is being formulated.
Spider-Man felt a little frustrated, but he didn't say much, but occasionally said that the Iron Man of their universe was going to another universe to find a doctor named Schiller.
As soon as the name Schiller came out, the Spider-Man present made an eyebrow change for about half a minute, and his attitude turned 180 degrees, and he decided on the spot, you can go, go immediately, and leave now.
Stark was originally going to teleport to Earth, but Spider-Man of the Central Universe heard that he was looking for Schiller, so he pointed him out a clear way, saying that Schiller was not on Earth now, and he could go around Centaur, which was the most well-informed place in the universe.
In this way, Stark had just landed in the Centaur in the latest generation of vibranium steel suits, and he scanned an abnormal signal and flew directly over the base of Ultimate Iron Man, and saw the back of Schiller walking into the instrument.
(End of chapter)