I became a weirdo in Marvel

Chapter 42 Master Gonghuo
"Ha ha!"

In the night sky, a little iron man with red as the main body and golden patterns drew a beautiful arc. The tail flame under his feet was shining like a stream of fire, making passers-by who saw this scene think they had encountered a UFO.

Inside the thick battle suit, Tony was like a kid who got a remote control toy car for the first time, with a smile on his face that never stopped.

After testing the smoothness of his flight, he gradually became inflated, wanting to try how high the suit could fly, and flew straight into the sky.

Passing over an altitude of ten thousand meters, he penetrated the troposphere and reached the stratosphere. The temperature dropped sharply and the thrusters on the soles of his feet actually shut down and froze.

The armor that lost power slowly stopped and then fell down. Tony was startled and the smile on his face disappeared instantly.

Fortunately, when it was about to fall to the ground, the ice water on the thrusters melted quickly, restoring its original function and carrying Mark I back into the sky.

Tony, who escaped the danger, no longer had the heart to continue testing, and drove the Iron Man suit back to the villa.

"No, the Mark I is too heavy. I will also switch to a lighter material. Of course, I also need to solve the problem of the thrusters freezing at low temperatures."

Tony took off his battle suit and immediately began to design a new one with better performance - Mark II.

After working for a while, Jarvis suddenly said, "Sir, Ms. Pepper called."

Tony swung the hammer and hit it, then said without turning his head, "Take it."

After a beep, Pepper's voice came out: "Tony, this is my last call, if you don't go to work tomorrow."

"What's going on that even Obadiah can't handle, and I have to step in."

"Tony, the core of Stark Industries is you, not him. The current environment is very bad, and our stock price continues to fall. I hope you can show up at the headquarters and give employees and shareholders a shot in the arm."

"The stock price fell? How is that possible?"

Tony stopped what he was doing, as if he had thought of something: "I see, it's because of Homelander again, right?"

"Yes, it seems that you haven't completely become a savage. Due to the existence of the motherland, the stock price of the Austen Group has soared, and the military also attaches more importance to the Austen Group, so..."

"So, without Tony Stark, Stark Industries will only decline further."

Tony smiled and said, "Okay, see you tomorrow, Pepper."

"I hope this isn't an excuse for you to deal with me."

"of course not."

After finishing his conversation with Pepper, Tony picked up the hammer and continued forging iron.

He had to speed up and build the Mark II.

Early the next morning, Pepper drove to Tony's villa.

Before she could speak, Jarvis opened the door on his own: "Welcome, Ms. Pepper."

"Thanks, and good morning, Jarvis."

"Good morning."

As soon as Pepper entered the door, she happened to meet Tony coming out of the underground laboratory.

Seeing his haggard and slovenly face and the dark circles under his eyes, Pepper frowned: "You stayed up all night again?"

"No, I slept for an hour."

Tony yawned loudly and went straight upstairs: "I'm going to take a shower, you sit and wait for a while."

"Where's Happy?"

"I don't know. I should go buy breakfast."

Pepper sat on the sofa, but couldn't sit still, so she turned on her computer and started handling official business.

Ever since Tony stayed at home all day and didn't go to work, her workload has increased day by day. She is basically earning a secretary's salary but doing the work of a chairman.

Pepper had had enough of this kind of life. When Tony had dealt with the company's affairs, she would confront him and tell him to either raise her salary or fire her.

Pepper nodded vigorously, making up her mind.

After a long while, even Happy, who had gone out to buy breakfast, came back, and Tony finally returned to his original playboy appearance and appeared in front of the two of them.

"Well, not bad, let's go."

"I didn't even have breakfast."

"Same thing with eating in the car, just like you can get it on with those women in the car."

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Tony and the other two rode in the same car and headed to Stark Industries together, without saying a word along the way.

When they arrived at the place, Tony got out of the car. Several reporters who had received the news from somewhere jumped out from the bushes and put the microphone to Tony's mouth.

"Mr. Stark, what do you think of the superhuman serum of the Oscorp Corporation? Can a being as powerful as Homelander really be mass-produced?"

"Mr. Stark, Norman Osborn described you as a 'well-behaved, sensible, and corrective child' in an interview. How would you feel and respond to this?"

"Mr. Stark, some people believe that Stark Industries is on the decline and the future belongs to Austen Corporation. Do you agree?"

"Mr. Stark"

Tony was annoyed when he heard more and more unpleasant questions. He stopped and said coldly, "Stark Industries has never been willing to compare with any other company. We just need to move forward. As for the Austen Group, I'm sorry, I'm not familiar with it."

With that, Tony turned and walked away, and Happy used his broad body to block the reporters.

Seeing Tony walking further and further away, the reporters stopped tacitly and looked at each other. They could see the excitement in each other's eyes.

Haha, I knew I could get big news from Tony Stark. I even thought of the title - "Tony Stark bluntly said that Austen Corporation is not worthy of being compared with Stark Industries."

People like to watch big shots fighting and swearing at each other.

No, I have to go back early before others get there first.

After taking a wary look at their colleagues, these reporters, who were masters of fanning the flames, hurried away.

Tony came to the headquarters conference room with a sullen face. Obadiah, who had been waiting there, stood up and opened his arms, wanting to give Tony a hug.

"Oh my Tony, we haven't seen each other for a long time."

"stop."

Tony stretched out his hand to block it and sat directly in his seat: "I'm not in a good mood. If you have something to say, just say it. Don't do anything useless."

Obadiah awkwardly withdrew his arm and glanced at Pepper, who smiled and said, "Sorry, we just ran into a few reporters."

"Oh, those reporters are really hateful. They always want to stir up trouble and have blocked my way several times."

Obadiah sat down again, sighed, and said worriedly, "But this time, the Austen Group is indeed coming with great force. Tony, how about we take a step back?"

"Retreat? Ha, if anyone wants to retreat, it should be them."

Tony said impatiently: "Come on, you should have discussed the countermeasures, what should I do?"

Obadiah coughed and said, "It's simple. Didn't the military ask us to research some new weapons? Tony, take our latest results over there and shock them. Let them know that when it comes to weapons, we are still the best."

"Okay, where to go?"

"Afghanistan."

"Oh--"

Tony curled up the corners of his mouth, almost smiling.

(End of this chapter)