Chapter 723: So Many ‘Just Right’ Things Added Together, a Hammer Falls From the Sky (1/2)
Chapter 723 So many "just right" added together, a hammer fell from the sky
Edward Air Force Base.
Rod carefully took off the Ark Reactor on the chest of Mark II, and the major beside him looked at the white light in his hand curiously, "Is this the source of their energy?"
"Major, this is not a scientific experiment, concentrate on installing the weapons, okay?"
"Yes, sir."
"Good, great, great, is it my birthday today?" A cheerful voice came from not far away, Hammer came over with a lollipop in his mouth, and behind him were two soldiers pushing boxes.
Hammer walked up to Mark II, his face full of joy and amazement, "No way! What did you do? Is this what I thought?"
"Yes." Rod crossed his arms, "Hammer, I want to know what you can do for us."
"What should I do for you? I will upgrade the software for you first, and then I think it should be..."
"That's not what I'm talking about." Rod interrupted, "I'm talking about firepower."
"Then you've found the right person." Hammer chewed the lollipop into pieces, and then asked the soldier to open the box full of weapons.
"Nine-millimeter semi-automatic pistol." Hammer picked up the pistol and showed it, but Rod and the major beside him didn't care.
At this stage of their service, they dare not say that they have seen all the weapons, but they still recognize 80% of the weapons, and they just happened to have seen this pistol.
"It's a bit rustic, I agree." Hammer put the pistol on the table, and then picked up a shotgun, "M24 shotgun, manual loading, five bullets per magazine."
He saw the disdain on Rhodes and the others' faces, knowing that they might not like this weapon, so he said to himself: "You are not a hunter, what am I talking about, I will throw it away."
Then he picked up a submachine gun, "This is a Belgian-made FN2000 submachine gun. Belgians are not only good at making pancakes."
Hammer pulled the bolt, and a mechanical sound of 'click' sounded, "It's wonderful, but you don't seem excited enough, so I put it aside. "
"This is a 40mm grenade launcher, which can fire tear gas and smoke bombs." Hammer saw the impatience on the two people's faces and said in a half-joking tone, "Specially used to deal with hippies."
"You have high requirements! Let me tell you, size is very important, don't believe others who say it is not important."
Hammer put down the grenade launcher, turned around and took out the largest weapon from the weapon box, "This is an M134 machine gun, 6 barrels, extremely powerful, our people jokingly call it Italian vegetable soup or magic dragon."
Rod and the major just nodded slightly, without expressing their opinions at all.
"Okay!" Hammer's face flashed with embarrassment. He put down the machine gun and turned around to pick up a small box. "These are top-grade Cuban cigars, Cohibas, Montecristos."
He opened the box and took out a missile as thick as a thumb. "Sidewinder missile, with cyclotrimethylene trinitramine, is enough to blow up a bunker and the bunkers hidden underneath.
If it is smarter, it will write a book by itself, which is definitely more difficult than the novel "Ulysses", and it will read it to you by itself."
This time, the two officers in front of him finally moved a little. It's not that the weapons Hammer took out before were bad, but they lacked novelty.
It's not like they didn't know it, and he introduced it for so long with complacency.
But they really haven't seen this Sidewinder missile, especially the one that looks quite powerful.
"This is my Eiffel Tower, my Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 3, my classic." Hammer modestly praised the weapon in his hand, "It has an elegant shape and is so beautiful that it can raze any building to the ground.
I named it 'Ex-wife'. It is my best weapon."
Rod touched his chin and fell into deep thought, while the major next to him looked at him in confusion.
If he is still not satisfied, then it can only be said that his superior's vision is too high.
"Do you want it or not? Give me a hint.
You are like the Sphinx, and I can't solve this mystery of you."
"I want it." Rod said.
"Which one?"
"All."
......
Laboratory.
Tony, who was watching the video left by Howard Stark, suddenly received a call from Rod.
"Dude, I'm busy making new elements!"
"I know, I don't want to bother you, but I really have something to do."
"Didn't those disgusting politicians stop speaking?
I have to say that the military is really efficient. They all shut up less than a day after the Mark II was sent out.
But I still feel a little unhappy. Can you talk to your generals and ask the congressman who took the lead in asking me to hand over Iron Man at the hearing to give me an award?
Tony Stark deserves the honor of contributing to world peace."
Puff!
Rhodes on the other end of the phone couldn't help laughing, "It depends on your performance. To be honest, I'm also very unhappy with him.
Okay, let's get back to the point. I have some bad news to tell you."
"Oh my God! Man, it's only been a day!
Even if your military doesn't thank me, you can't be so ugly!"
"No, this has little to do with the military, but it has something to do with Iron Man.
The general wants me to wear armor at the Stark Expo to support Justin Hammer."
Tony sat up straight immediately, "What?"
"I know this is hard to accept."
"It's not a matter of accepting or not, let my Mark II be a cheerleader for a jumping clown."
"This is an order, Tony, I can't refuse."
"Okay!" Tony took a deep breath, "What kind of garbage technology will Hammer display at the booth? You should know this, right?"
"Iron Soldier." Rhodes said helplessly.
Tony was stunned for a moment, then laughed, "Don't be funny, don't I know what level Hammer Industries' Iron Soldiers are?
It's God's blessing that the armor developed by his company didn't kill the driver. Where did he get the courage to let a bunch of useless decorations on the stage?"
"What do you think?"
Tony:......
"Shit! It turns out that you were not a cheerleader in the past, but a bunch of fakes covering up Hammer Industries."
"You can say that,"
Tony rolled his eyes, "I'm not trying to spoil the fun, but I know how unreliable Hammer is. You know better that the military will definitely lose a lot if they trade with him."
"That's not my business." Rhodes sighed, "I called you just to prepare you in advance, so that you don't get angry and drive the armor over to scold me on the spot while watching TV."
"Am I that boring?"
"You are." Rhodes said very confidently, "This is considering that there are too many ordinary people at the Expo, otherwise you would probably beat me up."
"Haha, when you finish cheerleading, come to my place, I promise I won't beat you to death."
Gulu!
Rhode swallowed, "Let's not talk about this. How is the search for the new element going?"
"Very smoothly, it will be done tomorrow at the latest.
But it will take more time to test."
"Good luck."
Tony hung up the phone just in time for Howard Stark to say his last words, "My greatest creation will always be you."
"Huh!"
Tony took a deep breath and stood up from the sofa, "It's time to work."
He walked to the center of the laboratory and checked the circular pipeline built by Coulson and others, "Not bad."
"You'd better check it carefully." Coulson said "We are not professionals after all."
"This pipeline is only used to transmit energy. The technical content is not that high. As long as it is stable enough, it will be fine."
"Who were you talking to just now?"
"Rod, he will drive the Mark II I gave him to cheer for the Iron Soldier invented by Justin Hammer at the Stark Industrial Expo."
"Hammer?" Aaron raised his eyebrows slightly, "The one in Monaco?"
"Who else could it be besides him?"
"Beautiful!" Aaron clapped his hands, "He appeared in Monaco and invented the Iron Soldier."
"Pure decoration." Tony smiled. He laughed contemptuously, "I'm very sure that it will take at least twenty years for Hammer Industries to develop the Iron Man armor."
"Colonel Rhodes is a representative of the military in a sense.
Why should the military stand up for Hammer? It can't be for a pile of junk, right?" Aaron looked at Tony meaningfully, "Unless Hammer has the possibility of success, or at least made some kind of promise.
Then the question is, where does a military-industrial enterprise that takes twenty years to overcome technical difficulties get such confidence?"
"Vanke." Tony's expression changed slightly, "Do you mean that Ivan Vanke was rescued by Hammer?"
"I didn't say that , but he happened to be in Monaco at the time, happened to see Ivan Vanko assassinating you, happened to see the Ark reactor on his chest, happened to be an arms dealer, happened to be developing iron armor, and happened to have an ambiguous relationship with the military recently.
So many "just happened" added together... hehe! "
"This joke is really not funny at all." Tony's face was gloomy, "I have to call Rod to let him be more vigilant."
"Let me do it!" Coulson took out his mobile phone, "You prepare new elements with peace of mind, I will call the director to report this situation."
After speaking, Coulson left the laboratory.
"You'd better not hold too much hope." Aaron said lightly, "If Hammer really reached a cooperation with Vanko, it is estimated that the military will be too happy, or they don't care who Hammer cooperates with.
If it succeeds, they can get a batch of iron soldiers. If it fails, Justin Hammer will be blamed, and the military can pretend to know nothing.
Justin Hammer is not a smart man. He will probably be sold out if he cooperates with Vanke and has to count money for him.
Get ready! Vanke's revenge on Stark should not be far away. You'd better get the new element before that. "
"I know." Tony patted the pipe, and then fixed a palm-sized equilateral triangle that carried the energy of the Ark reactor on the bracket.
"Let's get started, Jarvis." Tony put on goggles, "Start the prism accelerator."
The blue light was looming in the pipe, and soon formed a blue beam.
"Close to the highest energy." Jarvis said.
The whole pipe began to shake violently, and the blue energy beam shot through the prism to the wall.
The powerful energy cut the wall, and the red flames burned wherever it passed.
Tony carefully controlled the movement of the beam through a turntable and slowly shone it on the equilateral triangle.
This new Ark reactor became brighter and brighter. When it was about to overload, Tony immediately stopped the energy transmission.
"Did it succeed? "Aaron asked.
Tony took off his goggles, walked forward and used tweezers to pick out the energy composed of the new element, "Perfect."
"Congratulations, you created a new element." Jarvis said.
Tony put the new element into the small reactor, and soon the blue light began to bloom.
"The reactor accepts the updated core, and I will start testing."
Stark's face was full of joy, and Aaron silently opened the task panel.
[Help Tony Stark find a new element]
[Complete the task to reward 1,000 magic points; no penalty for mission failure; completed]
"Receive."
"Congratulations to the host for completing the task and gaining 1,000 magic points. "
Hearing the voice of the system, Aaron was also in a rare mood of joy.
Every day he was trembling with fear, shrinking in his own little piece of land, and could only get a little magic points by signing in. It has been a long time since he saw such a large income.
He knew that he had to contact more plot characters to trigger the system tasks, but in order to keep a low profile, he would avoid it if possible.
If Tony hadn't taken the initiative to find him, he might not care about it.
But now that the mission has been completed, it's time to retire.
And if nothing unexpected happens, Ivan Vanko's revenge will soon fall on Tony Stark. Who knows if he will be implicated if he stays here.
What if he is forced to take action again at that time? How can he explain it? You can't just say to them: Sorry, I'm a wizard!
Just when Aaron's thoughts were flying, Coulson pushed open the door and walked in.
"Did you finish the call?" Tony asked.
"I finished the call. The director said he would notify Rhodes. As for the military... I'm afraid he can't persuade them. "
Tony curled his lips, "Those generals never cry until they see the coffin, and they regret it only after they suffer losses."
"You succeeded?" Coulson looked at the Ark reactor emitting blue light in surprise, "Is this the new element?"
"Of course, I am Tony Stark.
But in order to avoid rejection, it still needs to be tested.
"Congratulations, at least the problem of palladium poisoning has been solved." Coulson smiled, "That's good, I just want to say goodbye."
"I was transferred to New Mexico."
"The Land of Charm."
"Everyone says so."
"Is it a secret mission?"
"Almost." Coulson nodded, then looked at Aaron, "You have to go under the director's order."
"What?" Aaron's mouth twitched, "What a joke, I'm just a consultant, I don't go out on field missions."
"But you have to cooperate with S.H.I.E.L.D. when necessary. "Coulson said meaningfully, "Remember the divination you did for me?
The hammer fell from the sky, right in New Mexico."