Chapter 1907: Tin Cans Clinking (Part 7)

Chapter 1881 Tin Cans Clink (VII)

As another gold and red Iron Man mech landed, the Ultimate Iron Man's face darkened. His mind was like lightning, and he immediately saw that this mech was different from the Mark series he had built before.

The light on the visor flashed twice, and the Ultimate Iron Man opened the visor first. He squinted his eyes slightly, looked at the person opposite with white eyes and said: "Who are you? Why are you here?"

"This is the question I want to ask you." With a click, the visor of the Iron Man opposite also opened. When the two almost identical faces faced each other, it can be seen that the Iron Man in the gold and red mech is younger.

"You are the one who took Schiller away, right?" Stark asked.

Suddenly, he recalled what happened after they parted in the German Valley that day.

Stark stood in the middle of the valley and watched Schiller and Nick board the plane together. He was silent for a long time, because he finally realized that what Schiller said was right. He had been imagining Schiller as a victim without any resistance.

But the ability Schiller showed and the past he revealed showed that he had the ability to resist and even control the situation from beginning to end. He was not a hero, but he must be a strong man.

Stark knew that Schiller's life experience might not be all true, but he could also infer from the current situation that Schiller was indeed very familiar with Hydra, SHIELD, FBI and other institutions, and was good at wandering in the cracks, and even holding the thin and thin silk thread to weave a big net, manipulate people's hearts and capture prey.

But this made Stark curious again. Who is he? Where is he from? Which ones are true and which ones are false? What is the purpose of approaching him?

Stark was eager to find Schiller to ask these questions, but what surprised him even more was that Schiller did not appear in the cross-examination seat for the trial of Pierce.

This is very abnormal. Even if Stark doesn't understand the twists and turns of power struggle, he knows that this is Schiller's best chance to clear himself. He doesn't even need to be a tainted witness.

In order to smoothly take over the position of director of SHIELD and stabilize the situation of SHIELD, Nick will be happy to make a deal with Schiller, the biggest witness. As long as Schiller modifies the testimony more seriously and incites the emotions of the jury, he can ensure that Pierce will never get out again.

Then Nick can completely whitewash his identity, for example, he was framed by Pierce, or simply say that the doctor is his secret informant, and his previous arrest was just a part of the plan.

This can not only confirm Pierce's guilt, but also enhance Nick's status, showing his shrewdness, seriousness and responsibility in work.

Stark had already made up his mind to intercept Schiller after the court trial and ask him the answers to all the questions, but Schiller didn't come.

Stark went to ask Nick what was going on, but Nick kept his mouth shut. A spy chief wanted to hide something, but Stark couldn't get it out. He had to return to Stark Group angrily and frustrated.

But at this moment, Pepper found him, showed him the email address he had used to find someone before, and said, "I had already cancelled this email address, and the emails I kept were all on the mirror website, but who knew that the employee just notified me that someone restored the previous webpage and sent a new email to this mailbox."

Pepper handed the phone to Stark and said, "Although this email says Tony Stark, there is no password set. The employee clicked it, but it was full of garbled characters. See if it was sent by your scientist friend or something."

Stark took the phone with some doubts, and sure enough, he found an email at the top of the mailbox. After opening it, it was garbled English. Stark instinctively felt that it might be sent by Schiller.

He asked Pepper for the URL of the recovered email, flipped through it, and found that the email was sent at the same time as the email Schiller had sent to Pepper to provide the address of the abandoned base, both at 22:06.

Stark confirmed that the last email was indeed left by Schiller. Stark thought that there might be clues to Schiller's whereabouts, and then began to crack the garbled code.

He tried many ways to read the information from the garbled code, but the combination of English and symbols was completely irregular, and there was no clue around. Stark even used the exhaustive method, running the supercomputer for several days and nights, but he couldn't combine regular words and phrases.

Stark didn't think that the time the email was sent might be a clue, but whether he selected letters according to numbers or arranged symbols according to 2206, he couldn't get a relevant answer.

On this day, Stark was staring at the email in front of the computer again. The cold light shone on his eyes. Suddenly, he seemed to understand something. He stood up and stared at all the garbled characters, then bent down again and started typing on the keyboard.

"What if it's not readable text, but graphics?" Stark muttered, operating the computer quickly with his hands.

His eyes reflected the letters on the screen, and soon one by one the letters were combined to form a pattern that Stark was somewhat familiar with. It was an eagle with its wings spread. But the special thing was that Stark's familiarity with it came from the fact that it was the logo of a cigarette brand, from Reynolds Tobacco Company, which produced Camel cigarettes. The name was Winston.

Stark didn't smoke much, but he was very familiar with this brand because it was Howard's favorite brand. When Stark was young, he often saw Howard put the cigarette box of this brand of cigarettes high up. Because of curiosity, Stark took it down and looked at it.

Stark immediately felt confused. Schiller made such a complicated code just to show him a pattern of a cigarette brand?

But suddenly, he realized that this couldn't be a coincidence. Compared with the more popular Camel or Good Luck cigarettes, Winston's sales were not low, but after all, it was not as well-known as the above two brands, and it was not distributed in the army. Smoking this brand of cigarettes can be said to be a relatively niche hobby.

So how did Schiller know the brand of cigarettes Howard liked? Did Schiller know Howard?

But now Schiller was nowhere to be found, and Stark had no place to ask, which made him more and more anxious, and he just looked at the pattern again and again.

Then he felt that Schiller should not have left this pattern simply to tell him that he knew his father, because it was meaningless. Howard was already dead, so what would it matter if he knew him?

Stark couldn't figure it out, and then he thought that since the clue was related to Howard, he would go back to the old house of the Stark family to see if he could find any clues?

He didn't find Schiller's clues, but he found the video left by Howard and the sand table that inspired the new element.

Because Schiller changed the course of history, this Stark did not have the Ark reactor embedded in his chest, but his previous concept of unmanned mecha did need energy to drive it, but so far, he has not found a good energy source, and the clues of the new element gave him inspiration.

So everything was on track. The Iron Man of this universe developed a new suit like most Iron Man, but still could not find any clues about Schiller.

But at this time, the King of Wakanda, Black Panther, came to him and offered to provide Stark with enough vibranium to improve the armor. He said that this was the reward proposed by Schiller.

Stark was almost like an ant on a hot pot. On the one hand, Iron Man was a person who didn't like to owe favors to others. If the other party helped him, he would definitely repay ten times, but Schiller didn't give him a chance to repay.

On the other hand, he also wanted to know why Schiller wanted to help him, and even decided to help him when he reached a deal with Black Panther. In other words, they were not strangers who met by chance from the beginning. Schiller knew him, but he didn't know Schiller.

This information gap made Stark almost crazy. He put on a new suit and rushed into Nick's office regardless of anything, asking him to give an explanation. In the end, Nick sighed and had to show Stark a video.

The video only lasted three seconds, but it clearly showed the process of Schiller disappearing out of thin air. Nick was not a technician and could not say anything, but Stark believed that the flash of white light was a space-time tunnel, and Schiller was very likely to have gone to another universe.

Stark did not have the portal technology for the time being, but he knew that the development of this technology would not be completed in a day or two, so he became even angrier. He was angry that Schiller left without saying a word, and he was also angry that he did not even leave a coordinate, and he did not know when he could find him.

What happened later was just like other universes. Iron Man became a superhero, and Nick invited Iron Man to join a mysterious superhero organization as before.

But there was a small episode, that is, Iron Man met Spider-Man, and it was very coincidental that Spider-Man was contacted by the spider web not long after being bitten by the spider, and also joined the Spider Legion and became a member of the glorious credit-brushing army.

At this time, Spider-Man was still a high school student and had no defensive mentality. Iron Man was already a very famous superhero at that time. He didn't think much about it and directly told Stark about the multiverse Spider-Man, and also said that he planned to go to the central universe this summer vacation.

When Stark heard this, didn't this opportunity to go to other universes come? So he hurriedly asked Spider-Man to help him open the channel. He wanted to go to other universes to find someone. This Spider-Man had just joined the Spider Corps not long ago and didn't know the rules very well, so he directly asked other Spider-Men.

Spider Silk was going to refuse. After all, rules are rules. If anyone can go through the channel of the Spider Totem, it will be a mess. Other Spider-Men didn't agree with it either, because the Corps had already argued about the Ultimate Iron Man before, and they were formulating more stringent on-the-job training.

Spider-Man felt a little frustrated, but didn't say much. He just said that the Iron Man of their universe was going to other universes to find a doctor named Schiller.

As soon as Schiller's name came out, the Spider-Man present exchanged glances for about half a minute, and then his attitude changed 180 degrees. He decided on the spot that he could go, immediately, and now.

Stark was originally going to teleport to Earth, but when the Spider-Man in the Central Universe heard that he was looking for Schiller, he pointed out a clear way for him, saying that Schiller was not on Earth now, and he could go to Centauri, which was the place with the most information in the universe.

In this way, Stark, wearing the latest generation of vibranium steel suit, had just landed in Centauri when he scanned an abnormal signal and flew directly over the base of the Ultimate Iron Man, and saw Schiller's back as he walked into the instrument.