Tabora, Tanzania, Africa.

There are 130,000 people living here, and everyone is trying to keep up with this developing world and try to survive here. About 126,000 people own smartphones.

Atimo is one of the new residents. She and her friends bought a cell phone to call their family members out of town, or to the boys they care about living in nearby towns.

Atimo never bought a phone himself, and he never had a camera. In fact, neither she nor her friends ever did. Her mother-in-law also thinks that cameras suck people's souls out.

This is a time of rapid change.

Tony Stark has always considered himself the planner of the future of humanity, who should act as a guide and who should plan for the future of all. A lot of times he feels sorry for not being able to bring more technology and change to more people, or to get the future in front of everyone.

Earlier today, Adimo and her friends died. In a self-detonating terrorist attack, nearby terrorists managed to get their hands on high-tech explosives sold by Stark Industries in the old days and load them in the back compartment of a truck. It only took them one or four seconds to kill a total of ninety-eight people.

Ninety-eight locals they didn't know and died entirely out of bad luck.

Tony Stark didn't hear about it until five hours after the incident. At that time, he suddenly thought of dinosaurs for no reason, and suddenly felt that there was not much difference between humans and dinosaurs at some point-

- We were extinct long before our brains knew it.

"The third attack of the month."

Colonel James Roddy said from a communications screen suspended in Stark's underground lab.

"Presumably, it may be the handiwork of the Ten Rings Gang."

That is, the terrorist group that took Tony to the cave in the first place. Although they have been hit by Iron Man over the years, these guys will always be born again in the context of the Middle East.

"And AIM"

“AIM？” Tony frowned, "Killian's think tank? I thought we were out of Killian's troubles. ”

"It's getting rid of it, and the desperate situation is no longer a problem. However, AIM has long since broken away from its original organizational structure and developed into a technological terrorist organization focusing on various cutting-edge scientific and technological research.

Their research includes, but is not limited to, biological and chemical weapons, genetic modification, exoskeleton armor, and heavy equipment."

"Okay."

Tony rubbed the bridge of his nose.

He never said it to anyone, not even Roddy and Pepper, who were closest to him. But Iron Man actually has a few of his deepest nightmares.

One is that somewhere in the world, Iron Man will become very cheap, or a simple and cheap copy.

And the next nightmare is derived from this. That is, there is someone other than himself who will have Iron Man, or a similar replacement.

The time when Iron Man was first created was when Tony felt his best, and the only time he could really laugh from the bottom of his heart. He once publicly said, "I have achieved world peace alone", because he is confident that Iron Man has that ability, and he can protect the whole world by himself.

But as things progressed, he was no longer confident.

Aldridge Killian almost did. He and his desperate situation once made Tony wonder if Iron Man was outdated. But soon the desperate situation was no longer in his eyes.

In fact, the desperate situation did him a great favor. Now the desperate situation connects him to the armor, like an extension of the central nervous system. He completed the nano-Warframe technology ahead of schedule, and it was much stronger than he had originally designed.

It was a fantastic armor, a leap forward that even he had in the past.

But he realized that it wasn't enough, far from enough.

He couldn't be everywhere at the same time, and he couldn't keep up with the new challenges that were constantly emerging around the world. With new victims appearing every day, Iron Man is like a firefighter who flies around the world to put out fires. The harder he tried, the more he could feel his powerlessness.

Especially after that incident last month.

He has seen far beyond these powers, far beyond human science and modern cognition, as god-like beings battle with incomparably powerful demons in another dimension.

That made him realize how vast the universe was, and how fragile this azure world was.

I'm not doing enough." He said.

"What?" Roddy on the other end of the communication was stunned, "What are you talking about, Tony?" ”

"No, nothing. I mean, got your message, thank you, buddy. Let's talk about it later. ”

With a wave of his hand, Tony turned off the floating screen. He walked to the other side of the lab and reached out to pull open a new screen with the title of a new project in development.

RC Project.

"Hopefully I'm not making another mistake." Tony muttered to himself.

The universe, the other end.

The starship of Ronan the Kerry accuser.

"We need your favor."

In the huge screen was a long, thin and pale face. It was Thanos' most trusted advisor, Ebony Throat among the Obsidian Five.

Ronan sat on the black seat of the battleship and said expressionlessly, "What's the matter?" ”

Thanos is a well-known war-torn terrorist in the universe, while Ronan is a well-known belligerent maniac in the Kree Empire. The two hit it off and have worked together many times so far, maintaining an alliance relationship.

"It's not a big deal." Ebony Throat said softly, "I just wanted to ask you to do some investigation, and if you find one, maybe catch a few people on some primitive and backward planet." A desolate galaxy where people can't even break free from the gravity of the planet that gave birth to them. ”

"Well, that doesn't sound like a big deal." Ronan narrowed his eyes, "But this little thing, Thanos must not need us to make a move, right?" ”

"Unfortunately, our nearest unit was also very far from there. But we hope to catch the target as soon as possible, so that there are no long nights and dreams. "The accuser of greatness should be a matter of effort." ”

"Okay." Ronan smiled confidently, "Just tell me the location, and the name." ”

There was a sense of confidence in his voice.

You just need to know where to go and who to do.

But it's also a matter of course. He said that going to a primordial planet was indeed just a gesture.

"The Milky Way's Blue Star." "The people there call that place 'Earth' themselves. ”

Ronan's smile disappeared instantly.

O Earth.

Images from decades ago quickly came to the minds of the accusers.

He came to this wild place for the first time, and with his invincible starfleet, he thought he could easily sweep through this planet that didn't even have a basic interstellar defense mechanism.

Then I saw a freak who broke through the atmosphere with his physical body, pushed back his missiles with his bare hands, and tore the battleship with his hands

It's a good thing he ran fast back then, otherwise he wouldn't have the name of Ronan the accuser today.

"What's wrong?"

Seeing that Ronan was silent, Ebony Throat couldn't help but ask.

"Is there anything wrong with the accuser?"

"No, I just remembered it out of nowhere."

Ronan's expression quickly returned to normal, and he remained silent, still speaking in that cold and heavy voice.

"My universal weapon was recently lost, and now I don't have the weapon I can take advantage of, so I don't want to travel. Thanos should find someone else. ”

Ebony Throat: "??? ”

(End of chapter)