The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman

...Tony, he refuses to see me now. I know he must be disappointed, but I hope you can tell him that the Air Force is not satisfied with the technologies he gave them, they want more... My boss, General Johnson It has been revealed that they want to join forces with the Army to put pressure on the Stark Group...

Or maybe they have more up their sleeves.

Lord said on the phone that Schiller asked him: You have been excluded from the center of power in this circle? Why? Because you have wavered?

Rhodes was silent for a while and said: No, General Johnson actually never trusted me because I was once a subordinate of the old General Andro, and the relationship between the two of them was very bad.

That's why he forced you to go, right?

Schiller sighed and said, What if you can't stand the pressure there?

Before Rhodes could speak, Schiller said again: Tony doesn't see you now, not because of anything related to the Air Force. There are some internal problems in their Stark Group. He needs to slow down now. He hasn't been there for a few days. go out.

Rhodes' tone had never been ups and downs. Just like him, he was always serious and rigid. He said, I think we all know that the Stark group is not monolithic. There must be some people among them who are related to the military. There is collusion, and this person must be a high-level person.

He continued: The military grasped the Stark Group's technical information too quickly and too detailedly. This is very abnormal. Although I don't know more information for the time being, I don't want Tony to be betrayed.

You want me to tell him about this? But maybe you haven't thought about it. He already knew about it. The reason why I delayed it until now...

I know that he is too easy-hearted, otherwise he would not compromise with the military because of me, but this matter is too serious. If he continues to be so indecisive, something big will happen...

Just as he said this, Schiller heard a noise. He turned his head and saw two meteors passing through the window, followed by two dazzling lights flashing through the air, and a violent explosion sounded at the end of the sky. , the two rays of light entangled together and fell downwards. Schiller looked out the window and said to the other end of the phone: ... Something big has happened.

Schiller hung up the phone, turned into gray mist and walked through the streets of Manhattan, following the landing point of the two streams of light, and arrived at an abandoned warehouse in the XC District of New York.

This landing point must have been chosen by Stark, because this is a rare abandoned neighborhood in the city. Only falling here will not hurt ordinary people.

Schiller slowly gathered his body, but before he could go in, the phone rang again, and Rhodes said hurriedly on the other end: Send me a satellite positioning, I'll go there right now, Tony may need my help!

While holding the phone, Schiller flashed to the roof of the warehouse and looked down.

There, Iron Man in a golden and red mecha was entangled with a huge robot.

That robot is not Iron Overlord.

Its whole body is jet black, with some joints decorated with gold. It is larger than Iron Overlord, but more ferocious.

Schiller said into the phone: Things have changed. You'd better come here quickly.

The battle below was fierce. It was not that Iron Man couldn't defeat the big robot, but in the fall just now, he had to take the robot to a deserted place, so he didn't have time to adjust the angle when he landed. The side of the body is already a little inflexible.

This was not the gangsters he usually beat on the streets when rescuing people. Even with Jarvis's intelligent calculation system, Iron Man still had a hard time dealing with it. It could be seen that the robot seemed to be prepared to deal with him.

Iron Man flew into the air, swooped down, hugged the robot's waist, and slammed it into the wall. After a violent impact, a large piece of the roof collapsed and hit the two of them.

Iron Man's situation was even worse. His entire shoulder mecha was somewhat damaged, and he could hardly lift one arm at all.

But the big guy wasn't much better. After being hit hard, he was shocked again, and a large piece of the cockpit was knocked off. However, there was no driver inside, and it seemed that someone was controlling it remotely.

After discovering this, Iron Man came up with a way to deal with it. He first pretended that the mecha was out of control, climbed out of the fallen steel frame on the roof, and then pretended to be defeated and fell to the ground.

The big robot also struggled to climb out of the steel frame and found that Iron Man had fallen to the ground. He directly picked up a steel bar and tried to insert it into Iron Man's chest.

Just when he leaned his entire upper body forward to exert force, Iron Man on the ground suddenly rose up and kicked it on the knee, followed by an elbow strike that hit the robot's head.

The upper body of the big robot was designed to be too bloated. Although it was very strong, the lower body was inevitably unstable. It received an elbow from Iron Man and staggered to one side.

Just when Iron Man was about to repeat his old tricks and defeat it with electric shocks and impacts, the big robot suddenly burst into smoke. Jarvis started to call the police frantically. Iron Man quickly stepped back, but was still a step too slow.

The violent explosion sent up a huge mushroom cloud in the warehouse and the roar could be heard for blocks as it self-destructed.

Obviously, the designer of this big robot made its upper body so big for a reason.

There is a big bomb in there, with a large yield.

When Schiller pulled Stark out of the mecha, his face was covered in blood, his ribs were at least three broken, and his ankle and arm seemed to be broken.

Stark himself does not have any superpowers. Although his brain is very developed, his limbs are obviously much worse.

Stark tried hard to raise his arm and wipe away the blood from his eyes. When he saw it was Schiller, he breathed a sigh of relief and said to him: I have...the phone in my pocket...Jarvis will call another mecha. , go see if anyone is around...the explosion was too big...

Apparently, he also suffered some impact on his head. Schiller opened his eyelids and took a look. The eyes were very congested. He took out a small bottle of medicine, poured out a pill, and asked Stark to take it.

The high-concentration analgesic worked very well. Soon, Stark said: This guy is coming for me. It has strong restraint on my mecha and can even predict my course of action. ,I can not believe it……

What can't you believe? Can't believe that the person who knows you best could betray you? If you have the skill, you can build a few more mechas and win with one punch per person.

I know I shouldn't hide in the lab to escape, but I just want to digest the fact that you can't expect me to be emotionless like a zombie.

Stark looks very negative now, with decadence and loss written all over his face.

Stark coughed heavily several times, and a trace of blood flowed down the corner of his mouth. Obviously, the impact just now made his respiratory tract uncomfortable, and a sense of euphoria brought by high-concentration painkillers continued to surge in his body. He seemed to be fascinated and whispered:

I knew his friends wouldn't be good people. They were as bad as him. I thought...

No, or maybe he is right. Stark is not worth entrusting to him and will always only disappoint people...

Schiller laid Stark's head flat, felt his pulse, and found that the heart rate was a little low. He wanted to take Stark away directly, but Stark seemed to be drunk and refused to leave.

It can be seen that his desire for survival is not high now.

So Schiller could only sit down cross-legged next to him. Next to him was the remains of Iron Man's suit. The big robot had just self-destructed, causing a large explosion crater. Smoke was rising not far away. The entire warehouse was blown to pieces, and the ground was covered with smoke. Pieces of steel and cement, everything looks like a doomsday ruins.

Schiller asked Stark: Obadiah is actually more like your father than Howard, right?

Stark didn't answer him, as if he was asleep. After a while, he slowly said: When I made the first robot, Uncle Obadiah was very happy. He said, I am a robot just like my father. genius.

I always heard my father's name in his mouth. He described him as a perfect person, smart, upright, firm...just...

In my past memory, every time he mentioned the name Howard, it was always with praise and nostalgia.

But later, I began to dislike hearing the name less and less, and he stopped mentioning it...

Stark's voice was hoarse, and he was almost out of breath when he spoke. He said:

I saw a photo of them together, which was placed on his desk. On it, they were all young and high-spirited...

Maybe like you and Rod, Schiller said.

No, that's different. It's completely different.

I don't look like Howard at all, and Rod doesn't look like Obadiah at all. Rod and I are completely opposite, and we will never be replicas of them, absolutely not. meeting……

After that, Stark no longer made a sound, and the effect of the analgesics made him fall asleep quickly.

When Rhodes arrived and saw Stark's serious injuries, he hammered the remains of the mecha hard. Schiller said to him: Compared with his physical injuries, I think his The mental state is a bigger problem.”

Aren't you a psychiatrist? Can't you enlighten him?

I'm a psychiatrist, but not God. It's clear that he has now reached a dead end. He feels that everything he is suffering now is retribution, his retribution, his father's retribution, and the Stark Group's retribution.

He wants to give it all away?

You have to ask himself. He once said that he would never retreat for the sake of his family, but now it seems that he really wants to give up all this on his own.

Rhodes looked back at Stark who was lying on the ground and said, If there is a price he has to pay, perhaps it is for his extremely smart brain and his sensitive heart.

He said you two are complete opposites. Schiller said: He has a suit of armor, but what about you?

Do you have a strong enough heart?

Rhodes turned around, looked at the scrapped mecha in front of him, and said nothing.