Chapter 42: The Return
At the beginning of August, Zhang Shuren, who had completed the first semester of his studies, gave up his original plan to go home for the summer vacation.
On the one hand, the development of the Rendehui has entered a critical period, and many professional things need his expertise to coordinate.
On the other hand, Zhang also really fell in love with the job β which was a perfect fit for his profession.
Even Zhang's supervisor is interested in sending graduate students for internships, and plans to launch a new model of environmental organization research modeled after Rende Society next semester.
If the project can be carried out smoothly, not only can the laboratory get first-hand real data, but also the Association can quickly improve its own shortcomings and receive complete academic support.
Environmental science is an integrated study that involves knowledge of geography, physics, chemistry, biology, economics, law, and social sciences.
For example, Zhang himself pays more attention to the direction of sustainable development, which is the most lacking in China, and not only has scientific research majors, but also elects some courses in management, economics and even policy analysis and formulation.
However, when Oakes first came back, he received another wave of admiration from Zhen Xueba Zhang - Stark Industries' stock was basically the highest point when it was sold before Oakes left.
And since Tony was kidnapped, it has been all the way down, until he came back in May to announce the closure of the weapons department, and began to take a sharp dive, and now it has been falling intermittently for more than three months.
Oakes had just returned this time, and after asking about the situation, he asked him to start preparing to raise funds, because this winter, Stark Industries' stock was about to start fighting back.
In the past six months, Rende Club has been doing a monopoly business, and the magic drink acorn has taken over the entire New York market.
Their philanthropic efforts have accelerated New York's greening plan by more than 30%, which has attracted the attention and praise of countless media and the public.
Stark Industries discovered this phenomenon and, in order to deflect the adverse effects of Tony's decision, they increased their efforts to promote Tony's investment in the Environmental Foundation and the charitable causes of the Benevolence Association.
This time, they can be regarded as finding another way to alleviate their troubles, and they have once again attracted a huge amount of public attention for the start-up Rende Association.
At the same time, with the acquiescence of S.H.I.E.L.D., various departments quickly issued test reports, and beverage acorns were regarded as "real green food", becoming a perfect combination of biotechnology and environmental protection conceptsββ
It is composed of organic matter as a whole, and Rende Society even has a business of recycling fruit husks, pulling them back into the small rainforest, and treating them with highly effective degradable moss developed by Oaks as fertilizer, without causing any environmental pollution.
Therefore, although they are doing public welfare, they are not short of money at all, and even made a fortune through it.
When Oakes returned, it didn't take him a month to buy all the funds back into the stock of Stark Industries, which was at an all-time low.
Although it is not worth mentioning compared to the difficulties encountered by Stark Industries, his support has undoubtedly led the Board of Directors of Stark Industries to praise and increase their support for him.
Melinda also seems to have adjusted her mood well with the help of the work of the Benevolence Association, and as a liaison, she is now a real Benevolence employee......
And as soon as Oakes himself determined the next development plan of the Rende Society, he was directly approached by a haggard Tony.
Fascinated by the study of Warframes, he completed a key model before being reminded by Jarvis to learn that Oakes had returned and invested in Stark Industries.
"Hey man, this is very important, you must help me!"
As soon as he entered, Tony threw himself on the couch, rubbed his face with his hands, and then sneered unabashedly:
"Hey! What is the best hospital, they can't cure him, it's ridiculous, I can only let that group of idiot doctors study my life-saving benefactor like a specimen in a display case, but they can't restore him to consciousness!
Oakes, I can't crack your technique, let alone those idiots - Ethan was dying at the time, and I had to crush the acorns to save him, but it was too late.
I took him to the desert for two days to be rescued, and Ethan's condition had deteriorated again! β
He raised his head, his eyes red, like a desperate beast:
"Man, without him, I'm ready to give up this life...... Gotta save him! β
ββ¦β¦ How long has it been since you closed your eyes? β
Oakes frowned and threw Tony another string of acorn bracelets:
"In your state, I'm afraid that when your savior wakes up, you will be insane.
Put it on, go get some sleep, and when you wake up, you will drive me to see him yourself. β
ββ¦β¦ Thank you. β
Tony sighed with relief, took the bracelet and put it on, and the whole person instantly relaxed, and fell asleep directly on the sofa.
"This guy ......"
Oakes shrugged helplessly, called for a quilt to cover him, and closed the door.
When Tony came, he didn't bring anyone, and now he is in stark industries, and even Pepper doesn't quite understand what he does, although she trusts him as always.
The acorn bracelet was a small attempt by Oakes to meddle in his fate, and now, it seems that Dr. Ethan survived, as he expected, but now that he is out of danger, he still has not regained consciousness.
So, after half a year's hard work, we finally got the first test subject.
Tony shouldn't have finished the Mark II Armor yet, but he's already told Obadiah about the miniature, which means ......
"Dr. Ethan, the only person other than Tony who has the potential to know about the Micro Ark reactor technology, even if only a part of it, has become a strange thing."
The U.S. military was not yet aware of the existence of the Miniature Ark reactor, but they were already unhappy with Tony's efforts to close the weapons department, even Colonel Rhodes.
S.H.I.E.L.D. is also confused about the details of how Tony escaped, and although Coulson has tried to get close to Tony, he has clearly not found a chance yet, but it seems that he has come to Rende to find Melinda.
But Obadiah should be well aware of all this.
In other words, if Dr. Ethan comes to his senses, when Tony shows the power of the Warframe, one of the core technologies of the Warframe, the Miniature Ark Reactor, will inevitably allow these three parties to target Dr. Ethan at the same time.
This is something that Tony didn't even expect at the moment.
"It seems that Dr. Ethan's questions should be arranged before Tony reveals his stuff."
When Tony came to his senses, he met Agent Coulson, S.H.I.E.L.D., who had come to know that he was in the Benevolence Society.
"Mr. Stark, I'm Melinda's colleague, Coulson."
As a good field agent, Coulson doesn't seem to have any embarrassment about taking the "back-office" agent Melinda's relationship to complete the mission.
"Colleague? S.H.I.E.L.D.? β
Tony's mind was now very clear, and he touched the bracelet on his wrist and looked Coulson up and down:
"I don't want to talk about how I got out right now."
"But for what you're going to do now, I can help you with something."
Coulson glanced at Oakes next to him, who nodded slightly to Tony, so Tony spread his hands:
"Okay, follow me."