Chapter 3: An Invitation from Pepper

Entrance to the manor.

"Alex, can I come back later? Come in and ask you a few questions about the plot of the novel."

Gwen struggled to find an excuse.

Afraid that Alex would refuse her request.

Discuss the plot of the novel.

Alex, of course, did not mind, especially when the interlocutor was a great beauty.

"Of course, you can come to me when I'm at home. Like I said, we're friends now."

"Then I'll go back to school, see you next time."

"See you next time."

Gwen, who had turned away, could not hide the excitement on her face and made an encouraging gesture with her hands clenched into fists.

"YES!"

Outside the manor, Gwen felt a great sense of relief.

However, the excitement inside made Gwen subconsciously write it off as a great mood.

No special inquiries were conducted.

Looking at the way Gwen looks at the world, Alex also smiled a little.

As soon as he got home, his phone rang in his pocket.

When he picked up the phone, a magnetic female voice rang out on the other end of the line: "Hello, is this Mr. Alex?".

"Yes, may I ask who you are?".

"Hello, this is Pepper Potts, the head of Stark Industries.

Hearing the self-presentation from the other end of the phone, Alex immediately realized who it was.

Tony's old friend Pepper.

Why is she calling?

"How can I help you?"

"The fact is, Mr. Alex, now that you are the largest shareholder of Stark Industries, there will be a ball at Stark Industries tonight. You are invited to it, and there are a lot of people who are your fans. I wonder if you want to attend?"

That's all.

Let's go hang out tonight.

Maybe it was Tony's idea.

"Sure, what time is it tonight?"

Alex never denied himself food and drink, especially when a party was arranged by someone like Tony, who knew how to do it.

"At seven o'clock, please, if you want, we will send a car for you."

"No, thanks."

With that, Alex heard a scream from the other end of the line.

Then Pepper was reprimanded: "Happy, this is so rude!".

"I'm sorry, Miss Pepper."

"I'm sorry, Mr. Alex, we have a fan of yours here who would like to pick you up, but it looks like you refused."

Pepper lived up to her name as Tony's only assistant, not counting Jarvis, she just knew how to put on a show out of the blue.

"Okay, I'll see you tonight."

"I look forward to seeing you, Mr. Alex."

With these words, Alex hung up the phone and looked at the time.

"There's still time, so let's take a nap, get up and change."

He came to the roof, where there was a specially prepared chaise longue facing the sun.

If there were no cloudy weather, then such a position would almost certainly allow you to stay in the sun until it sets.

"Ah~ it's so convenient!"

Especially after the Silver Superman template, Alex Rain felt that it became even more convenient and pleasant to sunbathe.

And without sunscreen, he wasn't afraid of getting a sunburn.

"I wonder if I'll be able to apply sunscreen on Gwen later?"

This lazy feeling just as quickly plunged Alex into a doze.

….

"I look forward to seeing you, Mr. Alex."

Pepper put the phone in her hand and gave Happy an uncharacteristically blank look next to her.

"Sorry about that, Pepper."

Heavy Happy also apologized, realizing his outburst of joy.

Pepper didn't say anything else, but she looked at the other middle-aged man sitting on the couch.

Tony Stark.

"Tony, the guest list for tonight's ball has already been agreed."

Tony held a mirror in his hands, treating several bloody marks on his face, and said: "You have no idea how crazy these reporters are, the microphone doesn't like my face."

"They're about to put it in their mouth."

From the other side of the room, Happy spoke up: "Just like you did with those actresses every night."

As soon as the words left their mouths, Tony and Pepper's eyes looked at Happy in unison.

A good man.

Can you not mess up at all?

Happy immediately realized that he had said something wrong again, and hurried to change the subject: "It seems that my car has run out of fuel, I need to go and refuel."

"Otherwise I won't be able to be a driver tonight."

After saying that, Happy left the office without looking back.

As soon as Happy left, Tony immediately explained to Pepper: "You heard him just now, it was in the past."

Pepper didn't bother to listen to Tony's explanation.

To put it mildly, Pepper remembered these things better than Tony, after all, it was she who helped get rid of Tony's garbage every time.

"Tony, I have to go change too, you know that for such a ball, women need more time to put on makeup."

Tony immediately got up from the sofa: "Of course I know, I'll be waiting for you, Pepper."

Pepper paused at these words and looked at Tony.

"I'm waiting for you to come back and help me choose a costume for tonight."

"Of course I always do."

Tony was watching Pepper's back as she left, and reached out to detain her when Jarvis' voice rang out.

"Sir, Miss Pepper is gone, it's time for you to drink chlorophyll."

"Thank you, Jarvis, for reminding me again."

"You're welcome, sir."

Tony sighed, he was sure Jarvis had caught his gloom and doom.

"Jarvis, how are the experiments on the selection of replaceable elements progressing?"

"No new elements have been identified that can replace the palladium element, and if one element does not work, a combination of elements will be organized."

Listening to Jarvis' report, Tony went to his desk and took out a small object at the very bottom.

Then his thumb pressed hard on the hole on it, and a subtle pain caused Tony to furrow his eyebrows.

A set of percentage figures immediately appeared on the display of the small object.

9%!

"Good news, Jarvis."

"We still have time to take our time."

Once again, Jarvis poured cold water on Tony: "Sir, if we continue to use Mark's Battle Armor, it will speed up the palladium poisoning process."

"Until a replacement item is found, it is recommended that you no longer use the Mark combat armor."

"Where's my chlorophyll?"

"On the table in the basement...."

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