Chapter 525 For Peace

Dr. Ethan, an excellent scientist, is also a nice guy. For Tony Stirk, without his help, there would be no rebirth of Tony, and the birth of Iron Man would be out of the question.

At the lowest point of his life, Dr. Ethan, who was born in Central Asia, gave Tony the hope of living. It was also in that besieged cave that Tony finally figured out what he needed for the first time.

Although there was a quarrel over new energy issues, Ethan finally chose to return to his hometown to help his hometown resume construction and production. But the key role he played in Tony's life is self-evident.

But now he has become Zhang Tong's puppet.

This matter still needs to start with Tony being trapped in Afghanistan. Tony Stark, who was caught and trapped in Afghanistan by the Ten Rings and the freedom fighters, developed the first steel armor MK1 in that humble cave.

In the original story, the fragments of this armor will be obtained by Obedia to develop the first villain BOSS that Iron Man faces: Iron Overlord.

But because of Li Jie's intervention, things changed a lot. Because the incident of vampire food was exposed, organizations that cooperate with vampires, such as the Ten Rings Gang and the Freedom Fighters, began to send more people to arrest humans.

As a result, Tony's defense was lax. This prevented Tony from fleeing in embarrassment like in the original story, and even Ethan died in that nameless cave.

Tony had enough time to arrange everything, and finally took Ethan out of Afghanistan and returned to the United States calmly.

Even the fragments of MK1 were not left, and Obedia had no chance to imitate Iron King, and finally died at the hands of several members of the Ten Rings Gang, becoming Tony's lifelong good uncle.

And when Iron Man began to rise, especially after the emergence of new energy, Zhang Tong began to investigate the appearance of Iron Man, especially after he knew about the kidnapping of Tony Stark by the Afghan branch base.

Because Tony completely destroyed the entire base before leaving, and at the same time left no survivors, which made Zhang Tong's investigation work very difficult.

But after a long investigation, he still found a useful piece of information, that is, Tony Stark was imprisoned with a man named Ethan at that time.

And according to Zhang Tong's speculation, it is very likely that this person named Ethan participated in the entire research plan of Tony's steel armor and the manufacture of the first Ark reactor!

Zhang Tong's speculation is not wrong. In fact, Ethan not only participated in the design of Tony's first armor. Because he didn't die, but instead returned to New York with Tony and spent more than half a year.

So in fact Ethan also participated in the research and development of the follow-up MK2 to MK7. He even discussed the future research direction with Tony, and expanded the model of the entire Iron Man family to MK15.

Because Ethan is Tony's most trusted person, many of Tony's designs were not reserved to him. You know, even the first Ark energy reactor was made by Ethan himself, and Tony was more of a technical guide at the time because of his injuries.

So what Ethan has mastered is far beyond Zhang Tong's imagination.

When he visited Ethan, he simply wanted to ask about the manufacturing of Iron Man MK1 and the manufacturing method of the Ark Energy Reactor. Because Zhang Tong is not sure how much Ethan can master.

But Ethan's stubbornness exceeded Zhang Tong's imagination. This forced Zhang Tong to use the power of his Lord of the Rings [spirit]. This is a magic ring that can control the minds of others.

But Mandarin has seldom used it recently. There is no other reason, because using the [Spiritual] Lord of the Rings is a burden on mental power. Over the years, in order to form a scientific research team that can mass-produce the flying dragon troops, Zhang Tong has recruited many scientists around the world by kidnapping, coercing, and luring.

But how can a selfish tycoon keep his secrets from being revealed? Those scientists may not necessarily bow to Zhang Tong. The Ten Rings Gang is not Hydra after all.

Red Skull's Hydra began to appear with the help of the Internet before World War II. It has been in business for more than 80 years and nearly 90 years, and it is deeply rooted. At the same time, there is a set of ways to train their own scientists. Because the Red Skull is an excellent scientist in his own right.

You let Zhang Tong play this trick? Sorry, he can't play it. He can use his profound skills to guide those elite fighters and thugs in the Ten Rings Gang, but to do scientific research? What he learned back then was more than a hundred years behind the world.

But even a hundred years ago, what he learned was only about the learning of emperors and the art of commanding troops. How do you let him train a group of his own scientists in the past 30 to 40 years?

He can't even learn it by himself! Everyone is good at something. Mandarin is a genius in martial arts, but don't count on him when it comes to science.

So those scientists who were brought in by him did not necessarily obey his orders, but Zhang Tong needed the power of these people. After all, this was not more than a hundred years ago.

So Zhang Tong's [spiritual] Lord of the Rings began to show its power. Before joining the Ten Rings, almost all scientists would be brainwashed by him to make them loyal to Zhang Tong.

The Lord of the Rings is so powerful that almost no one can resist Zhang Tong's brainwashing. But there is still a disadvantage here, that is, every time a person is brainwashed, it will consume some of Zhang Tong's mental power. Although the mental power consumed is very little for Zhang Tong.

Moreover, Zhang Tong's mental strength is already very strong due to the great achievement of Xuan Gong. But this can't stand Zhang Tong's brainwashing of so many scientific researchers over the past few decades!

There are also high-level and elite fighters of the Ten Rings Gang, all of which need to be brainwashed and controlled. This is an increasingly serious burden for Zhang Tong. It doesn't appear normally, but if you encounter an opponent who is proficient in spiritual invasion (such as Professor X) during the battle, then you will have no ability to resist at all.

Zhang Tong obviously wouldn't leave such a big opening for himself. So under Zhang Tong's hard thinking, he finally found a way to have both.

That is to sow spiritual seeds and hypnotize and brainwash the other party in an inductive way, so that he hardly needs to pay any mental power to deliberately control the other party.

For example, he used this method when dealing with Ethan.

When Ethan was hypnotized by him, Zhang Tong asked, "What are you insisting on and afraid of?"

"A war brought about by new energy sources." Dr. Ethan tilted his head and stared blankly.

"Who brought the new energy and war?" Zhang Tong said playfully.

"Iron Man, Tony Stark." Ethan answered truthfully.

"Then destroy Iron Man and his new energy! And I can help you." A ring in Zhang Tong's hand was shining bright red.

And as Zhang Tong spoke, the red light imprinted on Ethan's forehead, and the seed was planted.

Zhang Tong has become Ethan's most trusted leader, because they have a common purpose, a common goal, to eliminate Tony Stark and eliminate new energy.

But it is not easy to eliminate Iron Man, because he has the financial resources brought by new energy and advanced steel armor.

Zhang Tong needs the help of Ethan, who participated in the manufacture and design of the earliest new energy and steel armor.

Ethan couldn't figure out how Tony Steck's Ark reactor worked, or there were no more than five people in the world who could figure it out. One of them is dead (Ivan), and one is basically dead (Ivan's father).

But this does not prevent him from imitating cats and tigers. Ethan participated in the first-generation Ark reactor developed in Tuoshan Cave. This is the initial stage of the entire Ark reactor, which can only provide energy for MK1 for less than 15 minutes.

But this does not prevent Zhang Tong from being excited after hearing the news! If Tony was killed and the world's attention was shifted to Latvia, if he could develop the Ark silently, what would happen to this world?

The joints in this need not be said.

Therefore, Ethan has been reused by Zhang Tong unprecedentedly, because not only the elementary Ark reactor mastered by Ethan, but also a full set of design drawings from MK1 to MK7, and even experimental MK8 to MK15 that have not been finalized.

These are important resources. Why did the base in Afghanistan kidnap Tony? Isn't it his high-tech weapon!

And Ethan has the top design in Tony's life (once). Now that the flying dragon unit is nearly formed, Zhang Tong can allocate most of the resources to Ethan.

Because of the control of the [Spiritual] Lord of the Rings, Zhang Tong is not worried about Ethan's betrayal.

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On the ocean, Zhang Tong made a video call with Ethan in the captain's room.

"You mean you want to set up a public technology company?" Zhang Tong said noncommittally while sitting on a chair.

"Yes, Mandarin." Ethan on the opposite side of the video said respectfully: "The benefits that oil energy can bring are getting less and less, we need to find a new way out, while we still have money in our hands. .”

Ethan is right, Zhang Tong has accumulated a lot of money through the oil trade over the years.

"Fintech venture capital, these are things with quick returns. Through financial means, sometimes just a gimmick can make us a lot of money." Ethan said to Zhang Tong seriously.

"To eliminate the new energy war, we need to have enough strong capital. To deal with Iron Man, we also need to get enough new technology. The most important point is that the original Ark can provide very little energy. To achieve the current height of Iron Man, we need huge capital investment, which is difficult to support when relying on increasingly scarce oil revenue."

What Ethan said moved Zhang Tong a little. Because the ark was not invented by Ethan after all, you want him to improve the original ark to become the first-generation ark (made by Ivan), or even want to become the second-generation ark (the one used by Tony now). Then a long-term and huge financial investment is required.

"The Telamark Petroleum Company established by the Ten Rings Gang (a legal oil sales group organized by Zhang Tong in the open) is already a thing of the past. Let go while you can." Ethan continued.

"I still have a lot of friends in the scientific community and know a lot of people. We can quietly set up a new technology investment group, and it will make a big difference!"

Zhang Tong was somewhat moved by Ethan's words. He thought for a long time and said, "In this case, doctor, please build a skeleton of the company first. I will allocate enough funds for your operation."

"Thank you very much." Ethan nodded to Zhang Tong and said.

When the two were about to close the video call, Zhang Tong suddenly asked: "Doctor, have you thought about the name of the newly established company?"

"Think about it." Ethan replied.

"what is it call?"

"Zodiac!" (commentary)

Dr. Ethan turned off the video, glanced at his hands with flashing red eyes and said in a low voice, "For peace."

After turning off the video call, Zhang Tong stood up and looked at the calm sea from the captain's room. Now everything is starting to develop in a good direction, and he feels that he has a chance to win! And New York is only three days away!

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At the end of the conversation between Zhang Tong and Ethan, the largest riot ever broke out in California's state prison. Someone is organizing a jailbreak!

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And in New York, the plane transporting the Divine Spear Bureau [Feng Shen Squad] finally arrived.

PS: Zodiac, an organization in Marvel Comics. Originally belonged to Hydra like AIM, but Zodiac did not know that his boss was Hydra.

Here I will separate this organization from the Hydra. After all, I think many people have never heard of the Zodiac. Forcibly pressing on the Hydra does not work well.

SO~, leave this organization to Dr. Ethan!