Chapter 50 | Armored Ambition (Part 2)

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"Tony won't see me now. I know he must be very disappointed," Rhodes said on the phone to Schiller. "But I hope you can tell him that the Air Force is not satisfied with the technology he gave them. They want more. Johnson, my boss, has revealed that they want to put pressure on the Stark Group with the joint army. Or maybe they have more conspiracies."

"You were excluded from the power center of this circle? Why? Because you wavered?" Schiller asked.

Rhodes was silent for a while before responding, "No, General Johnson actually never trusted me because I used to be a subordinate of the old General Andro, and the relationship between the two of them was very tense. That's why he forced me to go, right?"

Schiller sighed and asked, "If you can't withstand the pressure there, what should you do?"

Before Rhodes could answer, Schiller continued, "As for why Tony doesn't want to see you now, it's not related to the Air Force. There are some problems with the Stark Group. He needs to slow down for now. He hasn't been out of the lab for a few days now."

Rhodes remained serious as he said, "There are many people in the Stark Group, and it's not surprising that there must be some people among them who have colluded. The military has grasped the Stark Group's technical information too quickly and in too much detail. This is very abnormal. Although I don't know more information for the time being, I don't want Tony to be betrayed."

"You want me to tell him about it?" Schiller asked. "But maybe you haven't thought about it. He already knows about it and that's the reason why he has delayed everything until now..."

"I know that he is too soft-hearted, otherwise he would not compromise with the military because of me," Rhodes responded. "But this time the matter is too serious. If he continues to be so indecisive, something big will happen..."

Just as he was speaking, Schiller heard movement. He turned his head and saw two meteors passing by outside the window. There were two dazzling rays of light that flashed across the air, followed by a violent explosion at the end of the sky. Two rays of light entangled and fell together. Schiller looked out of the window and said on the other end of the phone: "...something has happened."

Schiller hung up the phone, and he turned into a gray mist and walked through the streets of Manhattan, chasing the landing point of the two light streams. He came to an abandoned warehouse in the XX district of New York.

This landing point must have been chosen by Stark, because this was a deserted neighborhood in the city. Only by falling here can ordinary people not be harmed.

Schiller slowly gathered his figure, and before he could react, the phone rang again, and Rhodes hurriedly said on the other end of the phone: "Send me a satellite postion, I will go there right now, Tony may need my help! "

While holding the phone, Schiller flew to the roof of the warehouse in a flash, and then looked down.

There, Iron Man wearing a golden-red mecha was entangled with a huge robot.

That robot was not Iron Overlord.

Its whole body was pitch black, and some joints were embellished with gold. It was much larger than the Iron Overlord, and even more ferocious.

Schiller said on the phone: "Things have changed. You'd better come here quickly."

The battle below was very fierce. It's not that Iron Man can't beat the robot, it's just that before he landed, he had to take the robot to a place where no one was around. Therefore, he couldn't adjust the angle. There was already a bit of rigidity in the side body.

While he usually beats up those street gangsters when he saves people, he was not doing so here. Even with Jarvis's intelligent calculation system, Iron Man still struggles to deal with it. It can be seen that the robot seems to be prepared to deal with him.

Iron Man flew into the air, swooped down to hug the robot's waist, and slammed it into the wall. After a violent crash, a large piece of the roof collapsed and hit the two of them.

Iron Man's condition was even more serious. The entire shoulder of the mecha was damaged, and he could hardly lift one arm at all.

But the big guy was not in much better condition. After being hit hard, he was shocked again. A large piece of the cockpit was knocked off, but there was no pilot in it, and it seemed that someone was controlling it remotely.

After discovering this, Iron Man came up with a way to deal with it. He first pretended that the mecha was out of control. He climbed out of the fallen steel frame on the roof, and then fell to the ground pretending to be unconscious.

The big robot also struggled to get out of the steel frame, and found that Iron Man had fallen to the ground. Immediately, he picked up a steel bar and wanted to insert it into Iron Man's chest.

Just as it leaned its entire upper body forward to exert strength, Iron Man on the ground suddenly jumped up, kicked his knee, and then elbowed it. This hit the robot's head.

The upper body of that big robot was designed to be too bloated. Although it was very strong, its lower body was unavoidably unstable. It was firmly hit by Iron Man's elbow, and it swayed and fell to one side.

Just when Iron Man was about to repeat the same trick, with electric sounds the big robot suddenly burst into smoke, and Jarvis started to call the police frantically. Iron Man quickly backed away, but he was still a step late.

The violent explosion created a huge mushroom cloud in the warehouse. The roar could be heard several blocks away, and it blew itself up.

Obviously, the designer of this big robot made its upper body so substantial for a reason.

There was a big bomb inside.

He was covered in blood when Schiller pulled Stark out of the mecha, and his ribs had been broken at least three times. It seemed that his ankle and arm were also broken.

Stark himself does not have any superpowers. Although his brain is very developed, his limbs are obviously much weaker.

Stark raised his arm and wiped away the bloodstains on his eyes. When he saw that it was Schiller, he breathed a sigh of relief and said to him: "In my pocket...the mobile phone...Jarvis will call another mecha, go and see if there is anyone around...the explosion was too big..."

Apparently, his head also suffered some shocks.

Schiller looked at them.

His bloodshot eyes looked very serious. He took out a small bottle of medicine, and asked Stark to drink it.

As a result of the highly concentrated analgesic's effect, Stark said: "This guy is coming for me." It has a strong restraint on my mecha, and it can even predict my course of action. I cannot believe it."

"Can't believe what? Can't believe that the person who knows you the most might have betrayed you? You have the technology. Build a few more mechas, and you can win with one punch."

"I'm aware I shouldn't hide in a laboratory to avoid this fact, but I just need time to digest it. You can't expect me to be emotionless like a zombie. "

Stark right now looks very negative. His face was full of decadence and loss.

Stark coughed heavily a few times, and a trace of blood flowed down the corner of his mouth. The impact had hurt his respiratory tract, and the euphoria caused by the high-concentration painkiller kept surging through his body. He seemed fascinated, and whispered:

"I knew he would not be a pleasant person, as terrible as he was, I thought..."

"No, or maybe he is right. Stark is not worth entrusting, and will always disappoint..."

Schiller laid Stark's head flat and felt for his pulse. He found that his heart rate was a bit low. The driver attempted to take Stark away directly, but Stark refused to leave as if he were drunk.

It is clear that his desire to survive is not strong at the moment.

So Schiller could only sit cross-legged next to him, next to the wreckage of Iron Man's battle suit. The big pit caused by the self-explosion of the big robot was now smoking not far away, and the entire warehouse was blown to pieces. It looked like ruins from a doomed civilization with all the steel and cement fragments.

Schiller asked Stark: "Obadiah is actually more like your father than Howard, right?"

Stark didn't answer him, as if he had fallen asleep, and after a while he said slowly: "When I made the first robot, Uncle Obadiah was very happy. He said, I am a genius like my father."

"I always hear my father's name from his mouth. He described him as a perfect person, smart, upright, firm... just..."

"In my previous memory, every time he mentioned the name Howard, it was always with praise and nostalgia."

"But later, I started to dislike hearing this name more and more, so he stopped mentioning it..."

Stark's voice was very hoarse. He almost sounded out of breath. He said:

"I've seen a group photo of them and it's on his desk. On it, they are all young and energetic..."

"Maybe it's like you and Rhodes," Schiller said.

"No, that's different, completely different."

"I'm not like Howard at all, not at all, Rhodes will not be like Obadiah, me and Rhodes, we are two complete opposites, we will never be a copy of them, absolutely not ..."

After that, Stark no longer spoke, and the effects of the painkillers made him fall asleep quickly.

When Rhodes came, seeing Stark's serious injuries, he hammered the wreckage of the mecha, and Schiller said to him: "Compared to his physical injuries, I think his mental state issues are bigger."

"Aren't you a psychiatrist? Can't you enlighten him?"

"I'm a psychiatrist, but I'm not God. He has now entered a dead end. He feels that everything he suffers now is retribution, his retribution, his father's retribution, and the Stark Group's retribution."

"He wants to hand over all this?"

"You have to ask yourself. He once said that for the sake of his family, he would never back down, but now it seems that he really wants to give up all of this."

Rhodes looked back at Stark who was lying on the ground, and said, "If there is only one price he has to pay, it might be his brilliant brain and sensitive heart."

"He said you two are completely opposite." Schiller said, "He has iron armor, what about you?"

"Do you have a firm enough heart?"

Rhodes turned around, looked at the scrapped mech in front of him, and said nothing.

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