Evil Among Men

Once the national machinery starts running, its power surpasses everyone's imagination.

In the face of the big picture, who cares about evidence? Just a little suspicion is enough. It's not an exaggeration to say that it's better to kill 3,000 innocent people than to let one guilty person go free—it's a bloody fact.

As the saying goes, a slight move can affect the whole body. This time, Stane really messed up the Hydra.

After venting his emotions, Pierce, who had calmed down, immediately gave orders to Crossbones.

"Brock, go clean up all the surviving personnel in the Russia branch. Send everyone who has seen or knows about Stane to hell. Hail Hydra."

"Hail Hydra!"

Crossbones' eyes were filled with a sick fanaticism. After shouting the slogan, he left to erase all traces left by Stane in Hydra.

Although everything had come to this, Pierce was still not at ease. He opened a video, which showed last night's scene, with Zane and Lorna also in it.

Pierce, who was aware of the situation, dared not have any thoughts about Zane. While Hydra often provoked powerful individuals, they would collect intelligence and find the weaknesses of those individuals before attempting to control them. But when it came to Zane, this method was completely ineffective. After extensive analysis by behavioral and psychological experts, both Hydra and S.H.I.E.L.D. surprisingly reached a common conclusion: this person absolutely cannot be provoked. Once provoked, death was inevitable!

Because Zane was different from those who grew up under legal constraints. Although he lived under the law, he was a being who ignored the rules. Everyone else would hesitate to shoot at Natasha when there was only suspicion. But this MF Zane he went ahead and it. 

Once Zane's bottom line was touched, he wouldn't care about the law or innocent lives. He would come directly to eliminate you, without negotiation or any way out, leaving you only with death.

After a long analysis, they came to a devastating conclusion: Zane's bottom line was simply not to be displeased.

Despite Zane's usual sunny disposition, appearing harmless, during the development of Skynet Technologies, countless individuals or companies who maliciously obstructed Skynet Corporation mysteriously disappeared the next day. There was no physical evidence, they just disappeared, and the evidence of their existence was only in others' memories.

After repeated analysis of Zane's power, it was confirmed that he was capable of eliminating them eight times over.

In Hydra's secret documents, Zane had a special nickname: the Evil Among Men!

{He is the T̶̶r̶̶u̶̶e̶̶ C̶̶r̶̶a̶̶z̶̶y̶̶ M̶̶a̶̶d̶̶ C̶o̶s̶mi̶c̶ B̶̶l̶̶a̶̶d̶̶e̶̶ C̶e̶l̶e̶s̶t̶i̶a̶l̶ B̶̶l̶̶o̶̶o̶̶d̶̶ A̶z̶u̶r̶e̶ H̶̶o̶̶u̶̶n̶̶d̶̶ D̶̶e̶̶a̶̶t̶̶h̶̶ G̶̶o̶̶d̶̶.}

So Pierce didn't dare to provoke Zane or his girlfriend Lorna. Instead, he focused his attention on Tony Stark.

"Someone, edit and trim this video, remove these two people from it, and then release it on social media. At the same time, subtly make everyone suspect that the person wearing the gold and red Iron Armor is Tony Stark."

Pierce called over a subordinate and pointed to Zane and Lorna in the video, indicating that these two were to be removed.

His purpose was to use the mass media to distract Tony's attention and buy time for Crossbones to destroy evidence.

By the time Tony finished dealing with these annoying media, the traces left by Stane would probably have disappeared without a trace.

Even if Tony exhausted all his resources, he wouldn't be able to find any evidence linking Hydra to him.

By then, Hydra could once again lurk, develop quietly, and wait patiently for their plan to be completed.

The video spread by Pierce's command was quickly circulated on various video websites after being heavily promoted by Hydra.

The front page of the New York Daily quickly changed from the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man swinging between buildings to Tony wearing the Mark 3 armor.

At the same time, many experts emerged from nowhere, giving obscure analyses of the Mark 3 armor.

They also vaguely pointed out that the only energy source capable of powering the Mark 3 armor was the arc reactor from Stark Industries.

In an era with few superheroes, this video immediately sparked nationwide discussions.

American netizens even gave Tony a new name: Iron Man!

When Tony drove to the company, wanting to contact someone to organize the ruins of his villa, which had already been destroyed by Stane, he suddenly realized in confusion that the entrance of his company was swarmed with countless reporters from various news media.

Seeing Tony's conspicuous Ferrari, these reporters, like hungry wolves, surrounded Tony's car.

Terrified, Tony quickly locked the car doors, afraid of being dragged out by these crazy reporters.

Trapped in the car, Tony felt like a lone boat on the sea, his face filled with confusion and fear.

"Who am I?"

"Where am I?"

"What's happening?"

It wasn't until Happy arrived with a team of bodyguards, breaking through the crowd of reporters, that Tony dared to breathe a sigh of relief.

"Happy, what's going on?"

Tony, with a bewildered expression, looked at Happy, whose suit sleeves had already been torn off by some crazy reporter.

"Boss, now is not the time to talk. Follow me quickly."

After saying this, the sturdy Happy directly grabbed Tony and ran into the company, while Tony nervously dodged countless microphones reaching out to him along the way.

It didn't feel like living in a civilized world but more like escaping from an apocalypse.

After finally entering the company, Tony quickly instructed the security to close the gates.

As for the few bodyguards still struggling in the sea of reporters, Tony could only feel sorry for them and decided that if they could "survive," their salary for this month would definitely be doubled.

Once completely safe, Happy handed his phone to Tony.

Playing on it was a video showing Tony wearing the Mark 3 armor battling Iron Monger and Whiplash last night.

It had to be said that the person who edited this video for Hydra was truly a rare talent.

Originally a video of Tony being beaten up by Stan's group, this talent turned it into a video of Tony's counterattack, eliminating two major villains who invaded his home in one fell swoop.

With an inspiring background music, this video could easily be used as a movie trailer.

Next, Happy clicked into a technology forum where an expert was praising the Mark 3 armor incessantly.

At the same time, he staked his reputation that this Iron Man armor was definitely created by the greatest genius of this world—Tony Stark.

Otherwise, no one in this world could create such an invincible armor.

After watching the video, Tony's face turned extremely grim. He was no longer the playboy who once eagerly sought the spotlight.

The origin of this video and its rapid spread clearly indicated the hands of the mastermind behind the scenes.

As for their purpose, Tony could only think of one: buying time!

So Tony made a decisive decision to have Happy arrange the venue while he himself would hold a press conference. This was the fastest way to calm the turmoil.

Standing still with a dark expression, lost in thought, Tony was approached by a middle-aged man with a friendly smile on his face.

"Hello, Mr. Stark~."

Tony looked at him with suspicion.

"Who are you?"

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