Chapter Fifty-Six: An Increasingly Interesting World
On the other side, Clint was digesting Coulson's explanations to himself.
For a highly trained agent, it is the most basic ability to remain sane and calm in the face of various emergencies.
Of course, the premise of this stay calm is that the incident is not too suspicious of life.
Things like New York becoming an alien battlefield are completely beyond the initial training of the agents.
Clutching at his short blonde hair, Clint couldn't believe what he was hearing.
Coulson on the side looked at Clint's action of grabbing his hair, and he also looked at the dense blonde hair with great distress, and then thought about his hairline that seemed to have moved back again.
Sighing, he patted Clint on the shoulder.
"This kind of thing, you still need to digest it yourself, there are still some things on my side, so I won't accompany you." Coulson stood up, but turned back to Clint and said, "Well, you'd better be kind to your hair, they're not easy." β
"Huh? Oh! Coulson's words didn't make Clint react for a while, but when he saw Coulson's hair, Clint also silently put down his hand holding his hair.
Looking at Clint's doubtful appearance, Coulson could only shake his head and leave.
Not to mention Clint, until now, Coulson had a feeling that the world was unreal.
Clint sat down and muttered for a while, then got up and left the place in the other direction.
At Hammer Industries, Carla is talking to Pepper Potts, the new CEO of Stark Industries.
"Mr. Stark really believes in you." Carla smiled and said to Pepper on the other end of the video.
"Indeed." Pepper smiled a little shyly.
But even though it was a video call, I could still see the thick tiredness in the center of his eyebrows.
"Stark's burden is heavy, so pay attention to your body." Carla took a sip of the coffee the little secretary had prepared for herself, and said to Pepper.
"To be honest, I'm a little overwhelmed. For a moment I didn't know what I was supposed to do my job with, and there were troubles everywhere. Pepper seemed to have found someone to confide in, and poured bitter water directly at Kara.
"Hey~~ We're business rivals, so it's not appropriate for you to say this kind of thing." Kara shook her head with a smile, stopping Pepper's words.
In any case, Stark Industries and Hammer are both commercial rivals, and although Stark has given up the two most overlapping arms fields, both are large conglomerates, and there is a lot of overlap in other areas.
This construction project is an order that the two families got from the New York City government together.
As for the small construction teams that want a piece of the soup, they can only wait for Hammer and Stark to subcontract some business downward.
Otherwise, what awaits them will inevitably be nothing.
"Alas~" Pepper also sighed, rubbing his eyebrows, "Now Tony doesn't know what he's doing, he went out and came back before, so he asked me to be the CEO, and the stock that originally rose back a little bit fell again this time." β
"Trust that genius scientist of yours, and your stock will definitely go up."
"What do you call mine?" Pepper was also a little angry when he heard Kara's words, "That guy is almost only staying in his own house now, and he asks Harpy to buy all the food." β
"Forget it, it's a bit boring to say he's a little boring. When will our project start? β
"When will the New York city pay the money, and when will the construction start." Kara spoke quite calmly, not paying the slightest attention to the somewhat incredulous Pepper on the other side, "How much they pay, how much work we do." β
Listening to Karana's almost ruthless words, Pepper couldn't accept it for a while.
The person in front of him, who was as beautiful as a flower, was able to say such cold words.
"But those who wander the streets, and have to live in tentsβ" Pepper wanted to say something, at least to correct Kara's thinking.
Carla just stopped indifferently: "Pepper"
The new CEO was also stopped by Carla for a while, and looked at Carla on the other end in a bit of a daze.
"Philanthropists are not something that anyone can do, and we can't be philanthropists. We are capital, we are vampires. β
Looking at Kara's beautiful blue eyes, Pepper didn't feel any emotion in them, as if the person sitting there was not a person with emotions, but a machine.
"I can give preferential treatment to my own employees because they work for me, and we can't control the guys on the street who have nothing to do with Hammer Industries, you Stark Industries."
"What those people need is the old men of New York City to take care of them, not us."
"We only need to do it once, so the next time something like this happens, do we have to do it a second time? Otherwise, people will poke your backbone and scold you. β
"The most we can do is donate, and the free reconstruction is not our job, let alone an obligation."
"You didn't sit in this position before, so you can naturally radiate your kindness, but any decision you make now will affect the structure of the entire Stark industry."
"You have tens of thousands of employees of all kinds to raise, you know?"
Kara's voice was like a cold wind in winter, making people shiver, and they couldn't even open their eyes, so they could only shrink helplessly in place and wait for help.
Obviously, she wanted to refute Kara's words, saying that she was just saying some crooked reasoning, but Pepper knew in her heart that Kara was telling the truth, and that she should be thinking about it when she was in her current position.
Now she is no longer Stark's personal secretary before, and she is only responsible for Stark.
There are too many things for which she is responsible.
"At this point, I'll hang up first." Kara's tone also returned to the previous gentle state, and hung up the video communication between the two people.
"Thank you." Before the video hung up, a small thank you was also transmitted.
Pepper was well aware that, as a business rival, Kara was able to say these things. What she has to do now is to adjust her state well, so as not to do something regretful directly because of her emotions at one point.
At Hammer Industries, Kara didn't change in the slightest, just calmly pressed the communicator on her desktop.
"Felicia, let the finance side donate ten million dollars in the name of Hammer Industries."
"Understood." Felicia's voice did not have the feeling of distress for money before, and she answered Kara quite succinctly.
"Also, notify the Ministry of Finance to start buying shares in Stark Industries."
"Huh? Isn't Stark Industrial's stock falling all the time? Felicia couldn't figure out why.
The current Stark Industries can be said to be the only large group in the entire stock market that continues to decline, even if it is Osborne next door, there is no Stark current phenomenon.
Isn't it pure to buy Stark Industries stock at this time?
"Emaciated camels are bigger than horses. Stark Industries is not going to sink like this, neither Stark himself nor anyone else will sit idly by. Kara spoke patiently.
Although there are some doubts about Stark Industries' stock, if Kara says it, just do it.
Felicia also responded: "Okay. Anything else? β
"It's nothing, by the way, the coffee brewed well today." The chuckle in Kara's last sentence was almost overflowing.
"Hey, hey." The little secretary also smiled softly, and then hung up the communication, to follow through on what Kara had said.
And Carla, who was sitting in the office, focused her attention on Stark.
She knew that after this battle, neither S.H.I.E.L.D. nor Stark himself could just sit idly by, and if she wasn't mistaken, the two guys should have joined forces by now.
What her eyes saw slowly looked beyond the walls, through buildings, across the United States, and Kara was able to see the mansion of the genius scientist and playboy.
The voices are also very clear.
"Jarvis, give me a simulation of the maximum strength of those two aliens when they fight." Stark's voice was a little hoarse, and with his red rabbit-like eyes, it was already very indicative of this guy's current situation.
Now he has begun to analyze himself with all his might.
The video Jarvis showed Stark, and the sign on the military box placed next to it, was a bald eagle with wings outstretched.
Sure enough, S.H.I.E.L.D. has begun to join forces with this one.
Presumably thinking about turning Tony Stark into Bruce Wayne in this world, but the problem is that the life experiences between the two are different, and there is nothing to compare at all.
Except that the brain, which can be called the strongest brain of human beings.
But as long as Kara wants to, Stark now will have a brain flower that is unique in the world.
"Sir, according to the destructive power calculations in the video, their strength is at least fifty tons or more." After analyzing the footage in the video frame by frame, Jarvis also gave Stark a data that he couldn't believe at all, "The data of male aliens is insufficient to make the highest calculation, and the data of female alien strength is at least more than 1,000 tons." β
"As for the upper limit of strength, there is no way to estimate."
Listening to the outrageous data that Jarvis gave him, Stark could only rub his face at this time, trying to sober himself up.
In his memory, no metal could withstand this kind of force.
Hit by a punch of this power, Stark felt that no matter what kind of cushioning device he made, the only option in the end would be to be smashed into iron.
Unless he can find the kind of metal that his father used to make a shield for Captain America.
"Looks like I'm going to have time to go and find that metal."
"Alright, let's see if there's anything we can do to keep me from palladium poisoning!" Once Tony had jotted down his search for the metal, he threw it aside and began to look for a source of energy to replace the palladium.
"The world is getting more and more interesting." Kara retracted her attention and smiled slightly.