Chapter 598: The Beginning of Pretense

Stark Villa in New York, this is Li Jie's new work place. On the same day, Mei recruited Li Jie and offered a monthly salary of 2,000 US dollars, which can be said to be quite high in 1965.

Li Jie pretended to think about it and agreed to this point, and then a simple health check, as well as a passport, to make sure that Li Jie is not a criminal. This Li Jie took some time, first went back to the atrium to get a fake passport, and then went to the New York City Police Department to secretly get a fake file.

In 1965, the anti-counterfeiting technology of passports was basically no secret from the perspective of the main world. For an archive database that has not yet been networked nationwide, the archives in various places are managed separately. It was not difficult for Li Jie to secretly file a falsified document in the New York City Police Department in the middle of the night.

It took Li Jie two days on Earth-1, but in fact there was nothing difficult about it.

So the Stark family's New York villa on Long Island ushered in a new chef, because the Stark family's business is basically concentrated in New York, although the old manor is in Los Angeles. But it is difficult to go back several times a year, especially since the Howards have passed away. Except for Peter taking his family and Anthony to visit the grave every year on the death day, basically he will not return to Stark Manor in Los Angeles.

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"Jason, what are you preparing tonight?" May Parker stretched into the kitchen after returning to the villa from get off work: "It smells so good! Is it stew?"

Li Jie, who was cooking in the spacious island-style kitchen, was chopping celery: "Yes, onion soup. I've been making it for almost an afternoon. Mrs. Parker doesn't seem to be in good health. She needs to drink more hot soup in winter .”

What Li Jie said was the main reason why Mei invited him, because Mei and Peter felt much better after drinking Li Jie's soup that day, and Mei thought of her mother Mary.

Marie, who is fifty-one years old this year, is not in very good health. Although she is still healthy, she is extremely afraid of the cold in winter, so the heating in the villa must be turned on to a high level to satisfy her. After all, Mary Jane was just an ordinary person and had never been bitten by a mutant spider.

Li Jie's dietary therapy method is very suitable for Mary, and Mei took this into consideration when Peter did not refuse the invitation.

Li Jie has been working at Stark Villa for almost a week, and he is very familiar with old Peter, May and Mary.

Looking at Peter and Mary, Li Jie always felt as if he was in another world, because in the atrium world, his best friend was Peter Parker, and Mary Jane was the one with the best relationship among female friends.

It is difficult for Li Jie to describe the complexity of his feelings when he sees that his familiar but unfamiliar friends are now showing signs of aging and even shivering from the cold.

So he took care of Peter's family's meals, especially Mary Jane's, and asked her to drink special soup every night for the past week to improve her health. Li Jie didn't want to make it too obvious, but the legendary kitchen utensils are really powerful.

The stew that had only a slight effect on Peter and May had a significant effect on Mary-Jane. The most obvious point was that after just a week of conditioning, she was no longer so afraid of the cold. Even though this winter was extremely cold, she and her daughter built a little snowman in the garden behind the villa to welcome Christmas.

Peter's family is very glad that they hired a very good chef, and Li Jie did add some medicinal materials to Mary's stew to cover it up. Peter and Mei also believed in their spider sense very much, because the spider sense did not call the police, so they believed that Li Jie had no malice towards their family.

This allowed Li Jie to have a good relationship with Peter's family in just a week. Especially with Mei, although Li Jie has a good relationship with Peter in the atrium, Peter on Earth-1 is a middle-aged man, and he is even more majestic.

And he is also the temporary helm of the Stark Group, so it is impossible for him to be so close to a chef in his own family. But Mei didn't care too much. She was working as Peter's secretary and Anthony's personal assistant at the same time.

Her grade is similar to that of Li Jie, and she speaks more easily. Li Jie is also very willing to joke and get close to his nieces (yes, Li Jie regards Mei as his niece).

In this case, the relationship between the two has improved a lot. Especially decades after Li Jie came from another dimension, there are many new things to share with Mei.

There were also many seasonal jokes to tell Mei, and he was also very good-looking, Mei did not dislike the occasional communication with Li Jie.

But Mei doesn't hate communicating with Li Jie, but it doesn't mean that other people are the same, especially someone who hates seeing Mei talking and laughing with a good-looking young man, and even cooking together with a knife in the kitchen.

That's right, this person is Anthony Edward Stark.

Mei and Anthony went home from get off work at the same time, because they lived together and dropped by, and at the same time, they also wanted to protect Anthony's safety.

When Anthony went to the garage to park, and then took some personal belongings out of the car and put them away, Li Jie was already teaching Mei how to cook in the kitchen.

Mei plans to learn some dishes to cook for her mother. Li Jie is teaching her how to make better use of the oven to cook some simple but delicious dishes. For example, use an oven to make low-temperature and slow-cooked steaks, use food bags to package the steaks, spices and marinades, and then cook them slowly over water and low temperature. The temperature is controlled at 50 degrees and heated for two hours.

In this way, you can get a medium-rare steak with a very uniform heat, and fry it with oil to obtain the aroma after it is done. This is the most suitable way to handle steak for lazy people or beginners who are not good at cooking steak.

"Yes, we can put the steak in the oven after softening it to a certain extent." Li Jie guided Mei from the side, because the kitchen space is so big, the two of them are relatively close.

But neither of them felt anything, Anthony who was standing at the door of the kitchen was very happy, he snorted heavily: "Huh~!"

Li Jie turned around and saw him, and waved his hand: "Mr. Stark, what do you want to eat tonight?" He already knew that this was Tony Stark. But the Tony Stark of this world is not the Iron Man Tony Stark who has gone through ups and downs and gradually matured into a superhero.

This Anthony is just a naive young man, such as in the current situation. He was very upset that Mei and Li Jie were getting close. Although Mei was only learning how to cook, Li Jie was only teaching. But he is very upset, as if his beloved toy was taken away by someone, he just has such a childish side.

In this respect, it is in the same line as Tony Stark in the atrium, the middle-aged version of Stark is also a childish ghost. It's just because he's older and better at hiding, so it's not easy for people to see his childishness.

Anthony really wanted to find an opportunity to fire Li Jie directly, but now his words don't count, whether it's the company or the villa, it's Peter who speaks usefully.

Under Li Jie's diet and recuperation, Mary's health has improved a lot, and Anthony can see it. So although he is very upset, he can't say anything for the time being. He can only express his dissatisfaction with Mei in a very naive way: "I won't eat dinner, and I still have research to do. Help me and Mei. Say Uncle Peter."

After saying this, Anthony left here angrily, cursing inwardly as he walked: Is it great to be able to cook? Is it amazing to be tall? I can also do scientific research and make inventions. After wearing the inner height booster, I can still be 1.75 meters tall!

In terms of love, Anthony is a complete naive ghost, because Peter is in charge of him, and Anthony has no chance to be a playboy. He has been in love twice but nothing happened. Because he fell in love with May very early, but May's father is Peter Parker.

This man left a deep shadow on Anthony. He didn't know if Peter Parker would hang himself upside down under the Brooklyn Bridge by the spider silk if he wanted to fuck his daughter.

After walking into his underground laboratory and feeling a lot of inexplicable idleness, Anthony took a deep breath and prepared to do some scientific research.

Because the previous MK4 has proved to be a failure, but Tony does not intend to give up Iron Man's plan. He felt that this plan definitely had potential for development, but he didn't find the right direction.

He needs to improve and improve, but improvement needs money, and now Anthony has no extra money to buy materials. Because Peter Parker locked up all his pocket money this month.

MK4 cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and finally turned into a handful of fireworks, which is useless. Peter Parker didn't stop Anthony from continuing to study, just cutting off his money for this month was considered good.

You can't do many things without money, but that doesn't mean Anthony has nothing to do.

"I need to study the further purification of oil-hydrogen fuel. The oil-hydrogen fuel developed now can provide 350% of the energy of traditional fossil fuels. But it is still not enough. The horsepower of the internal combustion engine that drives Iron Man is only 550 horsepower , and the response speed is also very slow. I still need to improve the transmission mechanism." Anthony thought about it and found that he still needs to do a lot.

So he plunged into the sea of ​​improvement and research questions, and at this moment he forgot about Mei and Li Jie. The Anthony Stark of this world has become a pure engineering man, and I don't know whether it is luck or misfortune.

Anthony plunged into academic research and forgot the time, and it was past eleven o'clock in the evening when he came back to his senses. He didn't feel it when he was doing things, but he felt hungry when he stopped.

But at this time, there was no one in the kitchen cooking for him, and everyone went to bed. Apart from the guards on guard outside the villa, even the servants in the villa went back to the servants' room to rest.

Anthony kicked the lab wall hard like a kid sulking, getting nothing but pain in his toes and jumping with one foot in his arms.

Rubbing his sore left foot, Anthony sat on the ground feeling a little wronged, and said sullenly, "I don't even know to come to me for dinner, and I don't even send me something to eat." Although there is no subject, it is easy to guess Know that Anthony is talking about May. An immature ghost is an immature ghost, if this goes on like this, I'm afraid it's not a lonely life.

Anthony didn't know that everything he was doing in the research room was being watched by another pair of eyes. Li Jie has been here for more than half an hour by using the cloaking device, and looked at the samples of Waste No. 1 to Waste No. 4 (MK1~MK4) that Anthony had researched before.

And he made oil and hydrogen fuel, which is the new energy in this world? Well, it's much better than gasoline, but it's far worse than the Ark reactor on my side.

I'm afraid that Iron Man like this has no bright future. I'm afraid even Spider Girl is much better than him.

What Li Jie thought was right, Anthony was raised by Mei's protection even though he was a man. But he can only be a soft princess in the fairy tale world, and the role of riding a white horse and wielding a long sword to kill the dragon and rescue the princess is usually played by Mei Lai.

This made Anthony angry for ten years, and he wanted to prove that he was also capable of protecting May. Because at least he must have the ability to protect Mei, so he dared to confess his love to Mei and persuade Peter.

But now the Iron Man robot I made is rubbish from beginning to end, none of which has real practical significance. Except for the research that can be used to verify some scientific experiments, it is a living target on the battlefield.

I want to protect Mei, but it seems that I am not doing enough.

"Hey, when will it be the end?" Anthony sighed suddenly while sitting on the ground, he was really a little discouraged. The enemy of his parents has not been found yet, the girl he wants to pursue seems to be in the foreseeable future, and the steel robot he made has no practical use. Anthony feels that he has no use other than being rich.

Oh, wrong, I don't even have money myself. Because now his property is still in the stage where Peter Parker is in charge. He now feels that life is boring. He wants to fight criminals, but he doesn't have the capital to fight criminals, not even the capital to protect the girl he likes.

Li Jie looked at Anthony who was sitting on the ground and was sulking at him. The expression on Li Jie's face was very rich. Li Jie had never thought of such a pure and sullen man in science and engineering Tony Stark.

The Tony Stark he knew was a playboy and a flamboyant master. Seeing the wronged look of the young Anthony in front of him, Li Jie suddenly felt a little unbearable. This kid is pretty good in essence, at least better than Tony in another world. But this kid had some bad luck.

Li Jie didn't intend to take action so early, he wanted to observe for a while. But now he felt that he might as well do something now.

As soon as he thought of it, Li Jie removed the cloaking device, and suddenly appeared in Anthony's research room in such a bold manner.

Anthony, who was still sulking with himself, didn't notice Li Jie who appeared behind him until a strange voice appeared in the basement.

"Anthony Edward Stark, hello."

The sudden sound startled Anthony, he turned around, and a man wearing a medieval hooded robe suddenly appeared behind him.

According to Peter's teaching for so many years, Anthony immediately became alert, and he wanted to draw his pistol from his waist to defend himself. But when I touched the back of the waist, it was empty.

The hooded man raised his pistol in one hand and said, "Are you looking for this?"

Anthony's heart trembled, the opponent's movements were so fast. He tried to see the other person's face clearly, but the face under the hood seemed to be magical, making it impossible to see clearly.

He wanted to escape here, but the door of the research room could not be opened no matter what. He yelled loudly to wake up others, but it seemed that the outside world couldn't hear his cries at all. This is the ghost of the hooded man!

The man in the hooded robe didn't seem at all afraid to call for help. He just sat on a chair in the research room and watched him banging on doors and windows, yelling. I don't care about myself at all, just like watching a play.

Until Anthony was exhausted from kicking the door, he failed to attract the slightest attention from other people in the villa. He was panting and leaning against the wall, sweating profusely, but his heart was cold.

The man in the hood was so strange that Anthony didn't know how he did it all, but he knew that this man could do it all.

He was no longer worried about his own life safety, but started to worry about Peter's family, especially May. While he was panting heavily and thinking of other ways, the man in the hood said, "I think you are probably tired now? If you are tired, we can sit down and have a good talk."

Anthony forced himself to calm down and asked, "What are you talking about?"

"Something small, about your father. Howard Stark, he was once a member of our great organization, but unfortunately he died. I only recently learned of this news, hastily go to him I came here to find you after worshiping in front of the tomb. Because in the organization, your father Howard left you a legacy." The hooded man's tone was calm and without a trace of emotion.

Anthony couldn't believe him. Now Anthony was just delaying time and trying to remind Uncle Peter, so he asked, "What organization?"

The hooded man shook his head: "You are not qualified to know yet, but I think there is a piece of information that you will be interested in."

As he said that, the hooded man put a strange black glass twice as big as a slap on the table and supported it. Under Anthony's curious eyes, he only saw the hooded man press a few times on the strange black glass, and the original black glass suddenly lit up.

"LCD screen!" Anthony exclaimed uncontrollably. In this era, the concept of LCD is only a paper in academic journals, and the first stage has not even been completed. As a scientist, Anthony has the habit of browsing various scientific publications. He knows the concept of liquid crystal proposed by some people. However, it will take at least 20 years for the finished product of liquid crystal in the laboratory, and it may take more than 30 years for the mass production of the factory. .

The hooded man casually took out a technological product that spanned an era, and it was not just as simple as an LCD screen. Anthony noticed that the man in the hood did not connect an external power cable and video signal cable to the LCD screen.

But the LCD screen already has a picture, which proves that this LCD screen has a built-in power supply and a built-in image!

How can this be? The size of that LCD screen is only two palms, and the thickness does not exceed 9MM! How can this volume go to the built-in power supply? How is it possible to add a large chip to provide images? !

The man in the hood glanced at Anthony's reaction and chuckled twice: "Don't be surprised, you will have more things to be surprised about later."

Anthony has now forgotten his nervousness, his fear, and even the origin of this stranger in front of him.

He is now staring fixedly at the LCD screen in front of him. This cross-age product has completely subverted his thinking. All he wanted to know now was what the Hooded Man was going to show him.

The man in the hood continued to lightly touch the LCD screen with his fingers, and then it seemed to be done. The LCD screen went dark, then turned on again, and a bright red figure appeared on the screen.

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