My surname is Stark, who changed my job to become a female big gun?

Chapter 577 Do you want to listen to what you are saying?
"Stark, we have to get in quickly!"

"I'm thinking of a way..."

Looking at the seemingly impregnable fortress below, Tony's brows were furrowed and his teeth were gnashing.

He had already flown the Mark 43 around the castle for several circles. He and Rody had taken care of many of the Hydra guards on the periphery, but the energy barrier that was as big as a tortoise shell still left them helpless.

"Tony, this won't work. We have to change our thinking."

Roddy's voice reached his ears, and it was obvious that he was also tired of this awkward situation.

"That's right, I do mean that—"

As if enlightened by Roddy's words, Tony gave up the idea of ​​continuing to fight with the barrier.

Therefore, Tony and the other man simply descended their altitude, abandoning their original air advantage, and fell directly into the last line of defense of the castle defenders, trying to find another way to see if they could find a breakthrough from other places.

"It looks like this turtle shell only covers the surface of the castle. Jarvis, find out where its power source is and see if you can break through it from underground!"

With clear instructions, Jarvis' environmental monitoring system immediately gave the most likely answer.

"There are high-density particle waves under the building to the north. I think that should be the energy source of the barrier."

"Hmm, it looks like Mr. Turtle doesn't have much time left to surrender."

Tony made a joke, then left the remaining defenders to Rody. He suddenly took off, flew half a circle around the castle at a low altitude, and with the guidance of Jarvis, flew to the north side of the mountain at high speed.

Then Mark 43 fired two palm cannons in succession, hitting the energy barrier above the castle, causing two azure shock waves.

"Great, I found your little tail, Mr. Turtle!"

As soon as he finished speaking, thanks to the two palm cannon attacks just now, Tony was now able to clearly see where the boundary of the energy barrier covering the castle was.

Then he decisively fired a ground-penetrating bomb!
A small air-to-ground missile with a tail flame broke away from Tony's Mark 43 armor, easily penetrated into the concrete-reinforced mountain, and went straight to the energy source core located inside the mountain!
Then there was a dull explosion coming from inside the mountain, and Tony noticed from Jarvis's analytical perspective that the energy source that maintained the barrier under the castle had been completely destroyed by himself.

At the same time, the azure energy barrier that had been covering the castle was now collapsing at a speed visible to the naked eye, like the receding tide.

"The turtle shell is gone, guys."

……

At the same time, inside the castle——

"As long as the barrier is still there, the Avengers won't be able to attack for the time being. We have to leave here quickly while the Avengers don't know about the secret passage in the back mountain..."

It has to be said that Baron Strucker, as a veteran Hydra leader, deeply understands the principle of "as long as the green mountains remain, there will be no shortage of firewood to burn".

Now that the defenders outside are defeated, it is only a matter of time before the Avengers break into the castle, so Stark must consider how to protect himself now.

As he said, the castle actually has a secret escape passage that connects to a train tunnel at the foot of the mountain.

This was the path Pietro took when he went to the Avengers alone just now.

What Stark didn't know was that the seemingly safe escape route was now completely covered by Lanie's radar system. His escape plan had actually been completely ruined before it even began.

boom!
Before Baron Stark could finish his next words, a violent tremor suddenly came from under their feet, as if an earthquake had occurred, causing the bricks and tiles above their heads to fall down with a crash.

Sizzle!
"Hey! Hey! Damn it! Chief, the energy source that maintains the barrier in the north has been lost! Iron Man blew it up!"

The liaison officer next to him suddenly brought a bad news, and Baron Stark's face turned pale on the spot.

You just said there was a barrier so the Avengers couldn't get in, and the next second you told me the barrier was gone?!
After being stunned for a moment, Baron Stark turned around and ran towards the secret passage without caring about his subordinates who also looked confused.

He had to leave here quickly and must not be caught by those damn Avengers. Otherwise, if he fell into those guys' hands, he would be in big trouble!

At this moment, Baron Stark hoped that the twins could come back to save him. Now only they could take him away safely!

However, just the next second after he escaped from the command room, the glazed window of the command room was suddenly broken by a golden-red figure, who was none other than Iron Man Tony Stark, who locked onto the core of Hydra's command in the first instant!

Chu Chu Chu!
In an instant, everyone in the command room picked up the weapons at hand and fired at the iron armor, hoping that the guns could bring them some sense of security.

"Guys, stop firing, we can talk..."

The next second, an array of small intelligent missiles from the Mark 43 armor were fired out, hitting the lower limbs of those people with incredible precision, temporarily depriving them of their ability to move.

Suddenly the command room became quiet.

"It was a good talk."

"What's good about it..."

At the same time as the energy barrier covering the castle collapsed, Lainie also received feedback through the radar system that always covered the battlefield.

"OK, radar coverage is complete, I can see again now..."

With a self-deprecating laugh, Lainie, who had completely cleared the battlefield fog, immediately turned the radar system's active detection to the maximum.

"Steve, Stark wants to run away. You can stop him by following the road on your right. Remember to be quick. Pietro is still wandering around in the castle. Don't let him take advantage of you."

"Don't worry, I won't give that guy any chance."

Steve nodded after receiving the instructions and immediately rushed towards the stairs on the right.

"Rody, there are still many enemies holding out to the east and south of the castle. Take care of them, I'll be there soon."

"learn."

"Thor, I found the scepter. It's in the dark room under the castle. Strucker didn't have time to take it away, but the other twin is also there. Don't rush in. Before you figure out the other party's abilities, don't act rashly for the time being."

"Well, let's hope that fast fellow doesn't take the scepter before us."

Thor overturned the last tank, looked towards the direction of the castle, tightened his right hand holding the hammer, and wanted to fly directly in to take back the scepter, but out of trust in Lani, he finally endured it temporarily.

"Tony, Stark's men seem to be deleting the data. Stop him and wait for me there. I will go down with you."

As the person who knows the inside story best, Lainie is now very worried that Tony will run down there alone like in the original timeline.

You know, one of the twins, Wanda Maximoff, is guarding down there. She regards Tony as someone who has killed her relatives. If he goes down rashly, he will simply be sending a sheep into the tiger's mouth!
But Lainie, who knows Tony's personality very well, knows that Tony is not the kind of person who will follow the rules just because you remind him.

Therefore, the worried Lainie finally decided to go down with the other party. This way, at least she would have the opportunity to use alchemical potion to help Tony break the mind control.

"Jarvis, come and pick me up..."

After calling the Gemini on the communication channel, Lainie immediately turned her attention to the Hulk on the other side of the battlefield, who was so bored that he started tearing apart the wreckage of a tank with his bare hands.

"Natasha, the sun is about to set."

Hearing this, Natasha's face froze, but she still took Lainie's hint.

Hulk's play time is over, and someone has to persuade him to come back and then switch the role back to Dr. Banner.

"Alert mode."

A shot knocked down Dr. Lister who was hyping up the deletion of data on the computer. Tony left the armor just like in the original timeline, and handed the control of the armor to Jarvis. He went forward to control the equipment and intended to copy Strucker's research data to the Avengers' database.

"Come on, let me see what Mr. Turtle has researched. Maybe it's some kind of Super Saiyan monkey..."

With the help of the Mark 43's data network, Tony easily hacked into Strucker's database.

However, most of the information has been deleted by the old man lying on the ground, and it will probably take some time to restore it all.

"Ahem, Miss H, are you online?"

Seeing the downloading prompt appearing on the computer screen, Tony raised his hand and tapped twice on the communicator next to his ear.

"Always here, Boss."

In the Avengers Building, Hill, who Tony called Miss H, focused her mind and instantly turned her attention away from Dr. Zhao Hailun beside her, returning to her role as the chief steward of the Avengers. "You don't have to call me BOSS. Your BOSS is actually that girl Lainie. Repair the data I just sent over and see what Strucker has been researching all this time."

"receive."

Hill responded neatly, then immediately turned his gaze to Fitz and the others beside him. Upon seeing this, the latter folded his hands and flexed his fingers.

"Leave it to me. Although my level in this area is not as good as Skye's, but give me one... two hours, I will definitely be able to finish it before they come back."

……

Without paying attention to the situation inside the Avengers headquarters, Tony finished explaining things and turned his attention to the display layout of the command room.

Just now, Lanie said that the secret room where Loki's scepter was stored was under the castle, but Tony didn't see any suspicious entrances or exits on the surface, so he decided to see if there was any secret door hidden here.

"Lao Jia, use infrared to scan this place. Hurry up, we have to get it done before that flying guy runs back."

Just as Lainie had worried, Tony began to exercise his strong subjective initiative again and ignored Lainie's reminder.

However, Tony was not acting rashly without any preparation at this moment, but had other reasons.

In fact, as early as when Tony saw the information about the twins from Lani, he wanted to meet the unfortunate brother and sister in person.

Her brother, Pietro Maximov, and sister, Wanda Maximov, are about the same age as Lainie and were also born in 1989.

Originally, the two should have had a happy family, but because of a divisive war, their lives were completely dragged into misfortune.

According to the records in the material, during that war, the siblings' home was destroyed by a bomb produced by Stark Military Industries, and both their parents died.

Although the young brother and sister were not affected by the explosion, they were frightened. Brother Pietro took his sister and hid under the bed, but they did not expect the second bomb to fall and hit them less than three feet away.

Fortunately, the bomb was a dud and the explosive inside did not explode, so the two men survived.

But under the bed, which was shrouded in fear all the time, the two siblings were able to completely attribute their hatred to the name clearly engraved on the bomb: STARK INDUSTRIES!

"Tony, to children of that age, you are undoubtedly the mortal enemy who took the lives of their loved ones."

With Lainie's words echoing in his mind, Tony felt mixed emotions.

"Sir, on the wall to your left, I detected additional steel reinforcement and airflow."

Hearing this, Tony cast his gaze towards the ordinary-looking brick and stone wall, and a complex look flashed in his eyes.

To be honest, Tony is not a sentimental person.

But he is definitely not a heartless and ungrateful guy.

He was very clear about what he had done, and also very clear about how much disaster his actions had brought to so many people. He even witnessed the death of several young lives, and saw his savior lying in a pool of blood, unable to be saved.

Therefore, the first thing Tony did after escaping from that damn dark and sunlightless cave was to try to prevent those tragedies from happening again.

So he disbanded the military industry department of Stark Industries, and then established the Stark Relief Foundation, and later the Disaster Control Department.

Even if this could only be considered a last-ditch effort, Tony felt it was not too late.

He doesn't want to be criticized and called a warmonger again!

Even if that wasn't his intention at all;
Even if he is just a goose that lays golden eggs and is being used;

Even though he was just an unfortunate man who had also lost his parents...

"call--"

Tony exhaled deeply and made up his mind. He immediately walked quickly to the old brick wall and pushed it hard with both hands!
"Tony, I knew you wouldn't listen."

A familiar voice came from the communication channel, causing Tony to pause.

Then, a black and white steel armor suddenly appeared from the window that was just broken by Mark 43. It was none other than Lainie herself who was controlling the Gemini armor.

"Are you planning to go meet the brother and sister alone?"

After breaking away from the Gemini armor, Lainie signaled Jarvis and the Gemini to follow her and Tony, and then looked at Tony helplessly.

"Well—I was actually planning on opening the door first."

Tony did not acknowledge Lainie's statement, but he did not directly deny it either.

Seeing this, Lainie shook her head helplessly, glanced behind the stone door that Tony had pushed open, and took the lead to walk down.

"Follow me."

"Of course, ladies first..."

The secret passage leading to the underground laboratory is very long, and it is simply a long flight of stairs. The lighting inside is dim. If it weren't for Lainie's radar perception, she would not dare to walk in front of it so openly.

"What about that brother? Does he look more handsome in person than in the photo?"

Following behind Lainie, Tony, who felt inexplicably relieved, mentioned Pietro, who had just had a fight with Lainie and the others.

But to Lainie's ears, these words seemed a little inappropriate.

"What the hell are you talking about? Are you that nervous?"

Lainie rolled her eyes, not wanting to dwell on this topic with this guy.

But Tony is obviously not the kind of person who can easily get away with it.

"I think that boy is pretty good. He is the same age as you and is also a superpower. Although he doesn't seem to be anything special except that he can run fast, aren't you very good at training superpowers? I think you have developed Skye's abilities quite well. Who knows, in the future..."

"Shut up, Tony. You don't need to worry about my business. And what's the word you used? Training? Do you want to listen to what you are saying?"

The two of them exchanged glances and words, looking so familiar as if they didn't take the silent and gloomy atmosphere around them seriously at all.

The two men stopped bickering until they passed through an archway and a unique underground research area appeared before them.

The originally solid mountain had now been hollowed out by Baron Strucker, and the complete remains of a gigantic Chitauri monster were being suspended by an array of steel cables and cranes in the middle of the Hydra's underground palace.

"Where did they get this stuff?"

Tony's eyes widened in disbelief.

How did Stark hide such a huge monster here without letting the whole world know?

"S.H.I.E.L.D., where else could it be..."

Lainie raised her eyebrows and answered nonchalantly, but her mind had been fixed on a figure hiding in the corner since she stepped into this underground experimental area.

"Alexander Pierce? I'm afraid he's the only one who could do something like this without anyone noticing."

"Probably. That old man has done a lot of things, and what I know is only a part of it..."

Walking slowly past a number of experimental equipment that had obviously just been shut down, Lainie and the others' eyes immediately fell on a workbench.

What was placed there was actually an unfinished steel robot.

"It seems that they are also trying to develop the Iron Legion..."

"Oh, this is all thanks to that unlucky Mr. Hammer."

Tony curled his lips, he got very angry when this was mentioned.

"Oh, by the way, speaking of him, I remember that guy seemed to have been beaten up by someone and is in prison..."

(End of this chapter)