Chapter 2110: The Ultimate New World (Part 27)

Steve sighed deeply.

It really wasn't that he had a stereotypical prejudice against scientific research personnel, but there were indeed some people who could be completely called "more than enough to fail, less than enough to succeed."

Steve learned from the person in charge that two of the three exits of the particle laboratory had broken cameras, and they had been broken for half a year. This group of people could even initiate a project to build a sun, but just wouldn't go to fix the cameras.

But Steve didn't give up because of this. He proposed to see Dr. Otto's research materials. The person in charge didn't refuse, and introduced on the way to the laboratory.

"After Dr. Otto came to us, he continued his research on the artificial sun project and integrated it with our research results, achieving no small breakthroughs."

Steve understood that this was just his cover. This experiment was an artificial sun project. It had no progress for many years, but recently achieved a major breakthrough. This was very likely Otto's contribution.

"However, Dr. Otto's development direction for the artificial sun is different from ours. He hopes to maintain complete stability through one ignition, so he has been trying to find a kind of ignition particle. Recently, there seems to be some breakthrough."

Steve thought of what Otto and Peter said on the phone. It seemed that Otto had found this particle and hurriedly called Peter to see it, but after seeing it, both of them disappeared.

Otto's research results didn't seem to have anything that needed to be kept secret. Steve soon got the materials, but he couldn't understand them, so he could only send this material to Nick.

Nick found a nuclear physics expert, and the final conclusion was that Otto found a mysterious factor in San Francisco, which could become the perfect ignition particle for his artificial sun project. This factor had very magical properties, but what specific properties it had, Otto didn't record in detail.

Nick immediately called Steve and said, "Do you think the mysterious factor found by Dr. Otto will be related to the mutation of San Francisco residents?"

Steve obviously thought of this point too. Otto came to San Francisco recently. Before coming to San Francisco, he didn't achieve much progress in this artificial sun aspect, but after coming, he achieved a breakthrough.

The mysterious factor mentioned in his experimental materials seemed to have very strange properties, and the mutation that occurred to San Francisco residents was equally magical.

Through the investigation materials given by S. H. I. E. L. D., Steve already knew that the mutation of San Francisco residents was not a mutation in the direction of ugliness and weirdness, but becoming more beautiful and stronger. He and Nick immediately linked the appearance of this mutation to the so-called mysterious factor.

The universe where Schiller was in hadn't had an outbreak of Extremis virus. This virus might have been researched, but it never had the opportunity to cause chaos, and Nick hadn't seen it either.

Although through the future timeline he saw before, Nick knew that this thing should be put into the water source, but he didn't understand the nature of its existence, and couldn't be sure it was a virus.

What if the virus was just a smoke bomb? It was very likely that what was truly effective was a certain mysterious factor in the agent.

Finally, all the clues pointed to the White Can.

Nick guessed that it might be that the mysterious factor studied by Otto was the virus that the White Can put into the water source of San Francisco. In order not to let his conspiracy be exposed, the White Can killed people to silence them.

But the situation at that time was under the control of the White Can. He knew that Spider-Man was also a superhero. If he died unclearly, it would inevitably cause social public opinion, so suicide would be the best way to die.

Nick took a deep breath, and the anger in his chest burned fiercely.

November 12, Starks Industry Park, San Francisco Bay Area, 8:00 AM.

With a slap, the phone was thrown on the table. Pepper Potts turned her head and stared at her subordinate and said, "What did you say? Our factory is questioned for illegal discharge, and the agents of the California Bureau of Investigation have already arrived?!"

"What the hell are they doing?!" Pepper gritted her teeth and said, "We don't have any chemical industry here, there is no sewage discharge at all, how could there be illegal discharge?! Is there water in their brains?!"

Da da da, a series of heavy and hurried footsteps appeared outside the door. The agent of the California Bureau of Investigation knocked on the door, showed his credentials to Pepper, and said.

"Hello, Miss Pepper Potts, California Bureau of Investigation agent Trevor Andaker. Received a large number of reports that four factories of Starks in San Francisco are illegally discharging sewage, causing water pollution and resident mutation. Now our bureau requires relevant personnel to cooperate with the investigation, please."

"Are you crazy?!" Pepper roared in disbelief, "Starks Group doesn't have any chemical plants on the West Coast, how could it illegally discharge sewage?!"

"Metal smelting sewage, ma'am, and suspected of having heavy metal exceeding standards and nuclear leakage."

Pepper's mouth could fit an egg. She opened her mouth and closed it, then opened it again and said, "Simply absurd."

"Ma'am, we have sufficient evidence that stands up. Please allow me to ask you a question. The actual controller of the Starks Group, and also the chief scientist of the Starks Group, Anthony Stark, once had symptoms of palladium poisoning, right?"

"Of course, but that was when he..."

"He used a brand-new element to manufacture an arc reactor and solved his own crisis. We now suspect that he is universally using arc reactors that haven't undergone safety testing in the factories of the Starks Group, leading to the leakage of some harmful elements."

Pepper was completely stunned. She didn't understand how these two things were related, but the expressions of several subordinates behind her seemed a bit shaken.

For Pepper, who knew Tony Stark very well, this kind of thing was unimaginable, because Pepper knew very well that Stark's anxiety disorder brought him symptoms similar to persecutory delusion. He was very anxious about the controllability of technology. If a technology had the possibility of being out of control, he would firmly not use it, so he couldn't possibly use the arc reactor technology in ordinary factories.

But others didn't see it that way. On one hand, this thing was indeed very advanced, ordinary people didn't understand the principle at all, and didn't know how the safety factor was. On the other hand, from a common sense perspective, since this thing was so powerful, why not use it on a large scale?

Pepper's heart went cold to the bottom. Once it involved the arc reactor technology, Stark would definitely jump up like he was stepped on the tail, and she couldn't stop him.

This kind of pure slander couldn't be without a reason. The best way to break the situation wasn't to use scientific testing to prove they didn't illegally discharge, but to ask relevant interest personnel to turn around from it. Simply put, it was to use political means.

But Stark couldn't allow anyone to say that his arc reactor would leak. He would definitely try every means to prove that his technology was perfect.

A pure trap, Pepper thought. The other party must know Tony Stark very well, otherwise it would be impossible to create such a perfect situation.

Suddenly, Pepper saw the notebook on the table flicker from the reflection of the glass.

Pepper turned her head, but there was nothing again. At this time, her phone vibrated, and a text message sent from an unknown network number appeared on her phone screen. It was a program.

Pepper seemed to remember something, immediately said a few perfunctory words to the agent of the California Bureau of Investigation, and hurriedly rushed to Stark's office, finding his dedicated computer.

Immediately after calling out the program running box, typing the content sent by the text message into it, and pressing the Enter key, a video appeared in the center of the screen.

"Pepper, I'm glad you could find me." The face appearing in the center of the screen was exactly Stark's. He said, "Just now, I woke up. I learned that I am the Tony Stark consciousness you backed up. Your wisdom and decisiveness are always so admirable to me."

"Listen, Pepper, we might not have time. I checked in the database of Stark Tower that the me who is currently active in the real world is studying the Extremis virus created by Maya Hansen. He modified it to make it more transmissible and powerful."

"The most fatal thing is that I found in the research log written by this Stark that he has a demand for virus release experiments. According to my understanding of myself, I'm afraid he has already done so."

"How is that possible? Tony!" Pepper couldn't believe it at all. She shook her head and said, "Why does he want to release the virus? Does this have any benefits for us and for the Starks Group? Biochemistry and medicine are not the main sources of profit for the Starks Group at all."

"Perhaps he wants to expand his profit channels." Stark sighed and said, "In short, the Stark you are facing now is very wrong. I am searching for more evidence in the database and trying to control the armor. You'd better hold him back, pay attention to safety, Pepper."

The video ended. Pepper hammered the table forcefully, bit her lip, straightened up, and took a deep breath.

After hearing footsteps, she raised her head and found the agent of the California Bureau of Investigation standing outside the door looking at her.

Pepper thought, so this wasn't framing at all, it was the conspiracy being exposed. But as the CEO of the Starks Group, could she say she didn't know? I'm afraid no party would believe it.

Pepper's brain turned rapidly. Soon, she calmed down and walked firmly towards the agent.

Silicon Valley, San Francisco, 7:20 AM.

Bruce hugged Aisha down from the car, and the two sneaked around the side wall of the building. Aisha bit off the lock on the back door in one bite.

The two slipped into the building along the wall, avoided the surveillance cameras, slipped into the building at the fastest speed, and took the public elevator to the server room of this information company.

Aisha immediately started operating on the computer. Bruce walked to the window, looked down along the window on the 22nd floor. The morning peak hadn't fully arrived, and there were few vehicles on the street at this time.

Suddenly, police cars with sirens rushed out from the street corner. Bruce narrowed his eyes, because he recognized that it was the car of the California Bureau of Investigation, and following the direction of the vehicle, Bruce saw the building of the Starks Industry Park on the skyline.

"Are you done? Aisha." Bruce asked.

"Almost, it's not difficult to release Stark's backup consciousness." Aisha took a deep breath. The tight time made her speech become much more fluent. She continued, "But we must put the evidence of the current evil Stark in front of him."

"Wait." Bruce said somewhat confusedly, "If you haven't released that backup consciousness, and haven't shown him the evidence, then why did the California Bureau of Investigation go towards the Starks Park? Did someone report to the police before us?"

"Alright, it's done." Aisha jumped off the chair and said, "Iron Man has been released, the next one is Osborn, let's go."

Bruce quickly hugged Aisha. At this time, it was close to work time, and bustling footsteps had already come from the corridor. According to Aisha's guidance, Bruce avoided the crowd and successfully returned to the car.

Bruce stepped on the accelerator, and the car drove away from this street at the fastest speed, and drove towards the suburbs against the direction of the morning peak. Obviously, the destination was the Osborn Medical Experiment Center.

Just when the car drove onto the highway, Bruce and Aisha both found that the car window was stained with a thin layer of fog.

A cold fog that didn't belong here drifted on the highway in the morning on the West Coast, which was always warm and sunny. ===== CHAPTER 2111 =====