[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-kryptonian-slacker-in-marvel":3,"chapter-the-kryptonian-slacker-in-marvel-the-kryptonian-slacker-in-marvel-chapter-68":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Marvel's Salted Fish Kryptonian",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},2231262,4185,"Chapter 68: The Predicament of Stark Industries","the-kryptonian-slacker-in-marvel-chapter-68",68,"\u003Cp>In this world where Howard Stark is still alive, should he tell the other party to be careful of the assassination from Hydra?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anyone who does this is a fool!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First, he has no evidence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Secondly, Henry is not sure which version of the death method this old Stark couple in this world will use. Wanting to be a fake prophet is impossible. Speaking nonsense is simply ruining his little credibility.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Furthermore, if he guesses right, he feels that his trouble will be more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, this matter is a problem within S.H.I.E.L.D. Those who stand in the Stark camp will naturally pursue Henry's intelligence source; those on the Hydra side will also want to know where the leak is.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In short, if he guesses right, he will attract the attention of both positive and negative camps at once, concentrating all their eyes on himself. At this time, even if he wants to pretend to be a god-stick, pretending that he can divine and predict, he can't get rid of the trouble on his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There is also a selfish heart that is unclear and unclear, and that is, if he doesn't sacrifice Tony's parents, where will Iron Man's magical power come from.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Henry doesn't know if preventing the appearance of Iron Man is a good thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Honestly, he doesn't have the idea of deliberately stabilizing a certain historical trend, or having to change the future. He just looks at it from his own standpoint, and whether Howard Stark lives or dies won't bring him benefits or losses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Let the other party owe a favor, so as to enter the Stark Industries system, or ask for other things?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is no different from running to the center of the universe, New York, and shouting 'I am a Kryptonian, everyone fire at me if you have the guts'.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Henry hasn't forgotten his purpose is to live a stable life, not to get himself involved in the whirlpool of trouble. Since that's the case, what is the reason for influencing this matter?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Friendship with Tony Stark? Met less than five times in total, just because the guy said 'friend' in a mouth-high way, he really thinks he is a character?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is no different from the goddess he loves looking at him in the crowd, and thinking that the other party fell in love with him at first sight. Self-consciousness is too much, really think the Earth revolves around him?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the above thoughts are just looking at it from the Marvel superhero worldview. If he is in it, looking at the economic situation of this world, he will realize that there are absolutely more than just Hydra who want Howard Stark to die.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Rockefeller family, which once sat firmly in the leading position of the oil industry, was dismantled, and the Carnegie family, which was famous all over the world, also stepped into the same footsteps.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is said that the United States is founded by financial groups, but when any financial group is large enough to dominate the United States, it is inevitably the end of being dismantled. The famous Antitrust Act provides a legal basis for such purposes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, there are policies above and countermeasures below. These dismantled family industries are not exterminated or raided, they just use scattered and obscure ways to hide from the front to the back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So surnames like Rockefeller, Carnegie, Rothschild, etc., disappeared from the public eye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those who can still appear in front of the public are only big shots in the financial circle like Morgan. In the industrial circle, almost no one possesses the status of the oil leader or steel king of the past.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason for saying 'almost' is naturally because there are exceptions. And that exception is the Stark Industries established by Howard Stark.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to the future before Iron Man appeared, Stark Industries' nature is a military-industrial complex, belonging to a member of the arms group.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under the leadership of Howard Stark, Stark Industries is a comprehensive industry that touches everything. As long as it is related to manufacturing, Stark Industries will have relevant laboratories even if it doesn't have a production line.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Basically, as long as old Stark is interested, he will touch the things he can make. Just looking at Hollywood also has the shadow of Stark Industries, you know that this guy's habit is like a dog, peeing everywhere to draw territory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps in a single field, it can't compare to those old-school industries that have been deeply cultivated for a long time. For example, Boeing in the aviation field, Lockheed Martin in the military field, Ford in the automotive field, Intel in the chip field, etc.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Stark Industries forms its own ecosystem, and the upstream and downstream industries are in its own hands. In terms of comprehensive industrial strength, within the United States and even the world, the sum of the second to tenth places is not necessarily stronger than Stark Industries.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It simply turned the world's commercial field into a situation of 'one super and many strong'. Just saying that such a person, who can tolerate him among those in power and business competitors?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What's even more f***ing terrible is that his successor is the only seedling, Tony Stark!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Simply put, as long as Howard Stark falls, it will be a capital feast no less than the collapse\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason why Stark Industries has been able to develop to its current scale is not hard to imagine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Howard Stark always had a very good relationship with the military, and he was one of the founders of the Strategic Scientific Reserve. After World War II, this unit was reorganized into the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division, known as the famous S.H.I.E.L.D.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the military as a backer on the outside and intelligence organizations supporting from the inside, even a pig could have developed it, let alone Howard Stark. Even if people disliked him, those who wanted to move against him had no way to start.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Furthermore, to put it plainly, if Howard Stark of this era wanted to enter the White House, as long as he revealed such an intention, he could gather a large group of people to pave the way for him. Old political families would have to step aside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is said that the strongest fortresses always collapse from within. Howard’s death was precisely orchestrated by Hydra, which was hidden inside S.H.I.E.L.D.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for stealing the Super Soldier Serum, that was more like something done in passing. Because no one could guarantee whether the serum Howard restored was truly effective. And looking at the subsequent development of the MCU, it indeed did not play much of a role.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In short, if Henry wants to keep Howard Stark alive today, he would have to provide protection twenty-four hours a day by his side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, even if he blocked one attack by the Winter Soldier disguised as a car accident, there would be a second, a third, and even countless more, until the assassination succeeded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under these circumstances, unless Howard Stark handed over Stark Industries and settled for some retirement shares or a pension, he could forget about living a peaceful life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But would the elder Stark agree? One knows it is impossible just by thinking about it. Even with concrete evidence, it might not be enough to convince this scientist and entrepreneur who lived through World War II; let alone the fact that Henry has no evidence at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So is it really necessary for Henry to save Howard? The truth is that it is neither necessary nor possible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is a calamity that Stark Industries must inevitably face, and it is also a hurdle for whether Tony Stark can transform and grow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just like the inevitable collapse of the Red Empire, Henry, as a Kryptonian, does not even have the qualifications to be a pawn in this situation. Not to mention gaining any benefits from it; at most, he could scrape together some insignificant scraps.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having figured this out, Henry felt at ease putting his attention back on his own employer, no longer focusing on that trendsetter of the era. 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