Chapter 220: Farce at the Expo (Part 2)
On the day of the Stark Industries Expo, New York was very sunny. The streets of Midtown were crowded with cars and the entire East Street of the Central Station was blocked.
The work vehicle opened the trunk, and the TV staff took down the reflector and the camera bracket. The editor-in-chief near the front of the car was explaining the precautions to the reporter holding the microphone.
On one side of the road, many luxury car drivers impatiently honked to drive away the Internet celebrities and bloggers who occupied the road to shoot. Even the coffee and hot dog stalls were also affected. There were crowds in front of the stalls. Young men and women in fashionable clothes, holding food and drinks in their hands, talked in twos and threes.
Not long after, the glass door of the Stark Building opened, and everyone was like soldiers gathering at the command. The reporters reacted the fastest and rushed forward with long guns and cannons. The luxury car owners were proud of their status and slowly opened the car door. They took the coffee bought by the driver and leaned on the car to watch.
Young couples who were joining in the fun followed and squeezed in. Peter protected Gwen with his arm, and the two followed the crowd into the Stark Building. Gwen whispered to Peter: "You look familiar with the place. It seems that you were very serious during your internship."
Peter looked around and said: "Coincidentally, I brought my work ID today. Let's go through the employee channel."
As he said that, he pulled Gwen out of the crowd and walked to the other side. Gwen said worriedly: "But we don't know the specific address. Where is the 90th floor written on the invitation?"
"I don't know either, but we will go to the 89th floor first, it must be right."
Other people who entered the building did not have such a high subjective initiative as Peter. After they entered the lobby of the Stark Building, they found that there was not even a guide here. Many people complained about Stark's neglect, but in the spirit of coming here, most people also followed the crowd to squeeze into the elevator.
The carrying capacity of Stark Tower is good. Even if so many people come in at once, they are all transported to the top floor in an orderly manner.
The 79th to 89th floors of Stark Tower belong to Stark's personal laboratory. They are generally not open to the public. Almost no one has ever entered or left the 89th floor of Stark Tower. When people came out of the elevator, everyone was stunned.
In the early 21st century, technology was actually quite advanced, but it was definitely not developed to the level of Zenith Star technology displayed by Stark Tower. The moment they left the elevator, the entire corridor lit up, and an electronically synthesized voice sounded: "Hello, I am Jarvis, the butler of Stark Headquarters Building. Welcome everyone, please follow the light instructions and go to the designated location to participate in the exhibition.
At this time, the lights came on, and a holographic arrow appeared in the corridor.
The crowd followed the instructions and passed through the corridor full of technology.
Then came to the lobby on the side of the 89th floor. The three walls and half of the ceiling here are all glass curtain walls.
The curtain wall is covered with a honeycomb-like structure. As the crowd poured in, , the metal plates were turned over like fish scales, and bright but not dazzling sunlight shone in through the glass.
Peter walked into the hall directly from the employee passage with Gwen. Peter was used to it, but Gwen was very surprised and said: "Can such a large area of glass curtain wall really support the building?'
Peter explained to Gwen: "This is the new technology of Stark Group. There is no official name yet, but I call it resonant glass. The larger the area of this glass, the greater the strength:
The crowd rushed into the hall, but found that Stark was not here. Just when they were wondering where Stark, the host of this industrial expo, had gone, a fine buzzing sound came from their heads.
Then, like a machine gun The sound of dense armor friction sounded, and layers of shadows suddenly appeared above their heads. Everyone looked up and opened their mouths wide.
Accompanied by the whistling sound of the wind, hundreds of racks flew in from the opening at the corner of the glass curtain wall. The sun shone on the metal mechas, and the whole hall was like a diamond rain. The dazzling luster made people unable to open their eyes.
Then, a louder jet sounded, and a huge aerial platform fell from the center of the hall. The moment it touched the ground, smoke rose around the platform. All the mechas fell and guarded around the platform. Stark in a suit rose from the platform.
The dense crowd around him did not move for a while, obviously shocked by his unimaginable appearance, but then, Stark He opened his arms and said, "Do you think that's all?"
He shook his head, then slowly raised his head and looked up at the sky. Everyone followed his movements and raised their heads. In an instant, the mecha covered Stark's body. He flew up on the spot and flew out of the exit of the glass curtain wall on the ceiling. Then everyone heard him say, "Prepare to deploy!"
When Stark's voice fell, the crowd saw that shadows gathered above their heads, and the other half of the ceiling was also covered by metal. Then, countless metal structures turned over like waves.
The supporting columns rose layer by layer, and the walls grew like living things. The plate armor spread, the gears were tangent, and the structures overlapped. In an instant, a mechanical city like an empty island appeared above everyone's head.
They watched with their own eyes as Stark, flying in mid-air, released an extremely large mechanical city on the 89th floor of the Stark Building.
Then, people saw that the huge mechanical island began to slowly descend, and the mechas in the hall flew out in all directions and then stopped under the island, as if they were going to catch the huge island.
When such a huge building overturned, everyone showed a horrified expression. This kind of landing process, like a mountain pressing down on one's head, brought a suffocating sense of oppression.
In the center of the hall, Stark descended from the light curtain elevator. When the elevator landed, his visor opened and his voice echoed in the hall:
"Welcome to the Stark Industrial Expo!"
When the voice fell, the flying mecha supported the bottom of the sky island, and then quickly deformed and became a pillar. With the humming of the machinery and the sound of the jet, the mechanical sky island landed steadily on the top of the Stark Building.
I don't know who cheered first, but a few seconds later, the boiling shouts resounded throughout the hall.
The crowd was completely boiling. No matter what purpose they came here, there is no doubt that they witnessed a miracle of human technology.
At this time, Schiller's satisfied voice came to Stark's ears: "! It's worth it that I screwed the light bulb for so long. ’
Stark held down the headset and replied: “Obviously, the least important thing here is the process of you screwing in the light bulb.”
In the monitoring room of Stark Tower, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Steve glanced at the surprised expressions of Peter and Gwen in the monitoring screen and said: “If Peter knew we didn’t bring him, he would probably be very sad.”
“He said he had to wait for his girlfriend and couldn’t come early.” Schiller put down the coffee cup and said: “Let’s go, the work is done, it’s time to go to the exhibition.”
“You go first.” Rod behind the two said: “Stark told me that someone might come to make trouble, I will Go check the evacuation passage to prevent ordinary people from being affected. "
Natasha combed her hair and said to Schiller: "Stark knew someone was going to make trouble, but he still made such a high-profile appearance?" "What you should worry about now is not Stark's safety, but the safety of the group of people who want to make trouble.
The two walked into the hall, and Schiller said as he walked: "The security facilities of the entire Stark Building have been fully upgraded. I doubt whether those people can
After Peter pulled Gwen onto the Sky Island, the two became ruthless exclamation machines. Except for the exclamation of "Wow", no other sound could be made.
The entire mechanical Sky Island is not just for show. After boarding the Sky Island, all kinds of new technologies and new machines developed by the Stark Group are displayed on it in a staggered manner. The various mechanical creations that should not appear in this era are dazzling.
Generally speaking, industrial expositions should be comprehensive in nature. Even if Stark is the organizer, other industrial groups should be invited to participate in the exhibition. After the organizer provides the venue, it will mark out their own venues for other exhibitors. The previous Stark Industrial Expo was also in this form.
However, the Stark Industrial Expo held by Stark has no place for others at all. It is a very pure "Stark Industrial" Expo.
This has to start from the moment when Stark used the magic reactor to upgrade. At that time, in addition to gaining a high-dimensional sensory experience, the combat method of the Iron Demon Mechanical Army also gave him a lot of inspiration.
Although Stark was not an extreme technological conservative, he was disgusted with some uncontrollable things due to the lack of security.
But the emotional upgrade of Jarvis made him take the first step. The subsequent vampire war made him realize the importance of quantity and functionality. Later, the perspective of the Iron Demon made him realize that the so-called risk and uncontrollability are actually just insufficient technical levels. As long as the realm of "I am the machine group" can be reached, there is no risk of intelligent machine crisis at all.
Stark, who had experienced this feeling, began to break through his inner barriers and stopped studying the path of single-soldier mechas. Obviously, he also felt that compared to becoming a perfect mechanical individual, the master of machinery and the torrent of steel were more practical.
After figuring this out, Stark has been full of inspiration recently. In the past, there was only one line of skills. Once he encountered a technical bottleneck, the research progress would be shelved. Now, Stark has developed a dense skill tree based on that line. When a research bottleneck occurs, he will turn around and click on another line, which greatly increases his research efficiency.
The biggest difference between Stark and other geniuses lies in his rich creativity. After upgrading his line to a skill tree, the exhibits at the Stark Industrial Expo are extremely rich. There is no need for any cooperation from friendly companies. Stark's inventions alone have supported an entire large-scale industrial expo.
Even if Schiller was not really tired of screwing in light bulbs, the scale of the mechanical sky island would be reduced by one third than expected, and Stark could have stuffed more things in it.
Even the most critical critics have to admit that this is an unprecedented expo, not only because of its shocking opening, rich products, and advanced technology, but most importantly, it is an expo independently completed by the Stark Group, which fully demonstrates the shocking financial resources of the Stark Industrial Group and Stark's amazing creativity.
"How is it? I said it would be a surprise." Stark squeezed out from the reporters and said to Schiller who had just landed on the sky island
"The group of reporters were stunned, can you imagine? Among so many reporters, no one asked me those peachy gossips, they were all amazed at how I did it
"Compared to this
Schiller turned his head and looked around and said: "Don't you think this scene is missing something?"
"What's missing?" Stark was stunned and said: "My exhibits are all here, what else is missing?"
"Where is your opponent?" Schiller looked at Stark helplessly.
Stark opened his mouth and said, "I forgot about them. Right, where are Hammer Military and that guy called Ivan, Vanke? Shouldn't they show up at my industrial expo to cause trouble?"