Chapter 223 Past Events

"Ark Reactor, yes, that's Howard's work." Obadiah responded to the military's question, and Yin Fan moved his eyes away from Stark and glared at Obadiah again.

Obadiah saw his gaze and said, "I know, there is a man who calls himself a victim here, who thinks Howard stole his father's achievements."

Obadiah leaned back in his chair, his voice filled with nostalgia: "Anton Vanko, a scientist from the Soviet Union."

When the name of the Soviet Union was mentioned, the oldest admiral on the field looked at Obadiah, and a young general seemed to want to stop Obadiah from continuing, but the admiral looked at his subordinates, and in the end, no one spoke, only Obadiah's voice echoed in the room.

"Anton is indeed a genius scientist. He is a very orthodox Soviet man with outstanding talents in industry and machinery, especially in theoretical knowledge."

"I have to say that he and Howard work together perfectly. Howard is also a genius, but he pays more attention to creativity and has a flexible mind. Anton is more inclined to technology and has a rigorous theory. They used to be very tacit partners."

Yin Fan seemed to want to say something to refute, but Obadiah's nostalgic tone carried the special imprint of that era, which made people see the somewhat faded Iron Curtain era.

"At that time, it sounded too absurd for an American and a Soviet to invent something together. Even if Anton said he betrayed the Soviet Union, no one would believe it."

"If you check now, you should still be able to see a lot of long-winded investigation reports in the CIA files, recording the movements of Anton and Howard."

"Although 90% of them are illusions I put in, there is no doubt that Anton is indeed worth their attention because he can really create something that changes the world."

"Howard and Anton created the model of the Ark Reactor together. Yes, this is not Howard's invention alone. Anton is also the creator of the Ark Reactor."

The room was silent. It seemed that neither Stark nor Yin Fan had any objection to this result. Stark no longer cared whether the Ark Reactor was created by Howard alone, and Yin Fan seemed to have expected it.

Obadiah leaned back in his chair, shifted his body, changed his posture, and continued, "Now, I am the only one who knows this story, but perhaps you can all guess it."

"Howard and I know Anton's true position very well. He is a staunch Bolshevik."

"Therefore, as time went on, when the situation in his homeland became increasingly bad, the conflict between them broke out."

Obadiah's tone began to become more and more ethereal, as if the story of the year was constantly playing in front of him.

"Give up, Anton, that will not have any good results!"

"Why don't you see it? You can't save your country with just one technology or one person." In the laboratory, Howard pressed Anton's shoulders. Although he was much thinner than Anton, his attitude was very firm.

"As long as you stay here, the two of us can make more money, we will have no worries about food and clothing, and your son will get the best education. There is no need for you to go back to the ice and snow."

"Anton, Obadiah has a way to make your disguise real, as long as you"

Anton slapped his hand away and said, "This is you, Howard, you don't understand what I am pursuing at all"

Howard took a deep breath and seemed very helpless. He said, "I don't want to talk to you about faith. I'm just stating a fact. It's too late now."

"Even if you go back with this technology, you may not face the praise of heroes. You should understand better than me"

Anton looked back at Howard and said, "Then who caused this situation?!"

"Do you want to vent your anger on me?" Howard was also a little angry.

He said, "I'm just kindly advising you. Faced with the predictable bad results, why are you unwilling to make a little compromise?"

"You Americans call this compromise, yes" Anton's tone was full of sarcasm. He seemed not to want to talk to Howard anymore. He picked up the model and left.

"You can't take it away!" Howard stopped Anton.

"This is the result of our research! Do you want to monopolize it?" Anton was completely furious. He cursed in Russian. Howard was also very angry. In the laboratory, the two of them had a fierce quarrel.

"Finally, Obadiah dragged out the tail tone and said: "Anton took some of the information and returned to his hometown."

"I know that your father must have resented Howard before he died. He thought Howard stopped him from taking the model back in order to monopolize this research result." Obadiah shook his head and said.

"But in fact, if he really wanted to take the model to the Soviet Union, he would be killed by the CIA before he could leave New York."

"At that time, the red beast was on the verge of death. No one would allow anyone to give it another shot of adrenaline. At the final critical stage, if Anton got the model, he would definitely die within three days."

Obadiah's voice was realistic. He looked at Yin Fan and said, "In fact, your father brought back enough information. If you can make an Ark reactor from scratch, then they can definitely do it, and they can even do better."

"But unfortunately, as Howard expected, it didn't work. It was too late."

Yin Fan didn't listen to his words. Hearing the victor's superiority in the air, without even hearing the sarcasm, Obadiah's tone was very complicated, with nostalgia and regret. Finally, he said:

"On December 16, 1991, Howard Stark died in a car accident, and on December 26, 1991, the Soviet Union announced its dissolution."

Yin Fan was silent for a while, and said involuntarily: "On December 28, 1991, Anton Vanko died."

The air in the room became quiet, and Tony Stark, Obadiah, and Yin Fan Vanko were all silent. They didn't know how to express their feelings in words.

Just like everyone who witnessed the end of that era, the story that happened in the Iron Curtain era was both bizarre and ordinary. When hearing such a story, everyone felt absurd, but they didn't know where to get the emotion.

Except for Yin Fan Vanko, everyone present was the beneficiary of the victory, but when this story fell in the room, few people could laugh.

"Your father resented Howard, perhaps because he still had the illusion that if he got the complete model, he could save everything."

"But perhaps, before he died, he knew that this was impossible, but he didn't want to tell you, didn't want to tell you that he found out at the end that he had no comrades."

Obadiah sighed again, he looked at Yin Fan and said: "Your revenge is doomed to fail, because you are different from your father."

Obadiah's tone of telling the whole story made the young generals who were listening in very dissatisfied. They tried to interrupt him several times, but were stopped by the old general in the lead.

"All these grudges and hatreds are in the past, Obadiah." The old admiral said, "We all know that that era will never come back."

"Let's put aside the past and talk about practical issues."

Obadiah stroked the pen in his hand and said, "As you can see, the Ark Reactor is not Howard's patent alone. Anton Vanko also enjoys this achievement, and his son has already made a finished product. If he is willing to give this finished product to you, then Stark Group will not stop it."

"If possible, we still want to cooperate with Stark Group."

The old admiral glanced at Yin Fan's face and felt that instead of trying to get technology from the old Russian in this state, it would be better to wait for Obadiah to blackmail them.

Obadiah looked at Justin, and Justin felt a chill on his back.

Schiller drank the last sip of coffee, Putting the empty cup on the table, Steve came in, took a cup of water from the water dispenser next to him, drank it in a few gulps, and said, "Hammer Industries was indeed thrown out by the military to take the blame. It seems that the situation will soon calm down."

"Where did Yin Fan go? He should have been deported back to his country, right?"

Steve shook his head and said, "You may not believe it, he has the qualifications to stay legally, not an illegal immigrant, and should have been handed over to the police, but Nick seemed to be impressed by his technical ability and saved him."

"Is he willing to work for Nick?"

"Of course not, but Nick is more capable than Hammer. He has more patience. Now Yin Fan should have found a house on the edge of Manhattan and settled down. No one knows what he is going to do. "

"Is he not going to seek revenge on Stark?"

"But before taking revenge, at least his armor should be repaired." Rhodes also finished the last sip of coffee and said, "His armor and weapons are badly damaged, or rather, he can still move after such an attack and destruction, which is already a gifted Russian product."

"In short, with the agents of SHIELD watching him, there shouldn't be any big trouble." Steve moved a chair over and sat down.

Schiller turned another page of the newspaper and said, "So Stark's public opinion problem is just ignored?"

Rod sighed and said, "Actually, this can't really be considered a public opinion attack, because they just brought up what Stark did again."

"Even if Stark is really a bad guy, Pepper should try to make him look less bad, right?"

"After the negotiation, Stark went to Pepper immediately. I guess he must have gone to Pepper to discuss the issue of public opinion, right?"

After Rod finished speaking, the three of them laughed knowingly.