At a party last night, Obaday confessed to Tony that he was selling arms to Afghanistan, and it was he who persuaded the board of directors to forcibly remove Tony from all his positions.
The two of them parted unhappily because they had no idea what was going on.
But Tony didn't expect that after he made it clear last night, Obaday would dare to take his life today.
The makeshift paralysis device in Tony's ear was his own invention.
After failing to pass the approval of the Ministry of Defense, he did not continue to develop it.
But this temporary paralysis device was originally used by the Ministry of Defense for experiments.
If activated continuously for five seconds, the target's body will be paralyzed for five minutes, during which time they will be unable to move and will have difficulty speaking.
If it continues for one minute, the brain will be damaged and the patient will become brain disabled.
If it lasts for more than five minutes, the person will become a brain-dead vegetative state, which is equivalent to death on the spot.
In other words, Obaday only gave Tony a few minutes of life.
Tony couldn't think of any solution.
He is now physically unable to move, and only external forces can save him.
But his mouth could only make a tiny sound, not much louder than the buzz of a mosquito.
Jarvis, which can control the robots in the house, should not have crashed, but he was unable to notify it, and this result was caused by his own invention.
Tony felt angry and aggrieved.
He never thought that those inventions would be used against him one day, and they would be successful.
After this, if I invent something for others again, I will be a pig! He said fiercely in his heart.
Time passed so quickly that after just thirty seconds, Tony's mind began to blur. With black eyes, he only vaguely heard a click, as if something wooden had broken.
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While Obaday was educating his eldest nephew, Luke, wearing a Terminator armor, was kicking two gang members into the wall of the apartment.
The loud voices of men and women in the next room suddenly stopped, and a man's voice sounded next door: "I understand, bosses, I understand, I'll ask her to keep her voice down."
The couple on the other side of the thin wall blocked their mouths with something, and the sound turned into a humming sound, and finally they were not so noisy.
Luke laughed: It’s okay, now no one will care even if you scream at the top of your lungs.
He grabbed several large bags of white crystals in the room and threw them into the sink. While turning on the faucet, he used a kitchen knife beside him to cut the transparent plastic bags in half.
At this moment, a reminder came from his headset: "Iron Man's distress signal has appeared."
Luke paused for a moment, then he flashed out of the apartment door and went straight to the top floor.
By the time he reached the top of the building, he had already put on the Batman armor, and after a few running steps he began to glide off the ground.
The cape on his back transformed into a seldom-used high-speed flying wing suit, with a separate three-jet device mounted on his back.
The high-speed mode was instantly activated, and the flying wing suit drew a slightly upward arc in the air, heading straight for Malibu Beach in the northwest.
With the help of the pager positioning, Luke arrived at Tony's residence within five minutes.
Still far away, he found from above that the villa, which used to be well lit, was now dark, like a haunted house.
He didn't stop, but rushed down from the sky and stopped in front of the villa door.
With a clever kick, he broke the door lock and opened the door. He slipped into the living room and saw Tony slumped on the sofa in the distance.
At the same time, a small but unpleasant whistling sound echoed in the house.
His primary sonic ability keenly captured the source of the sound. He reached for his waist and threw a bat dart, knocking the small device flashing red light beside Tony's ear more than ten meters away.
The small instrument hit the wall, and the sliding cover design allowed it to close when it hit the wall, and the howling sound stopped immediately.
Luke did not rush forward, but activated his keen sense of smell and at the same time started the oxygen supply system inside the armor.
He wasn't sure how Tony ended up like this, so he had to be careful.
Otherwise, if he saved others, he would also sacrifice himself. Luke himself would not die, but the young master would not be saved.
Within seconds, the sensitive sense of smell confirmed that there was no poisonous gas or anything like that in the house.
The armor's built-in intelligent program also analyzed that the small instrument that made the whistling sound was an infrasonic weapon that could paralyze the body and make it difficult for people to move.
Tony must have been knocked down by that little instrument.
After checking Tony's condition, Luke looked at the pale young man and the big hole on his chest when he lifted up his T-shirt, and sighed: "Who tricked you? And is there something missing from your chest?"
For example, he was stupid or something like that. He complained in his mind.
Tony regained some consciousness at this moment, and asked dazedly: "You're here?"
Only then did he suddenly come back to his senses and struggled hard to remember: "I'm not dead?"
His voice sounded like a faint moan, and Luke was only able to make it out thanks to his close proximity and keen hearing.
With his keen sense of smell, Luke locked onto the location of the basement, and he took Tony in his arms and left: "You are not dead yet, but I don't know if the thing missing from your chest will kill you."
Tony took a few hard breaths and found that he was being supported by Luke and moving forward. The words he heard were unreliable, but the strength of his arms supporting him was steady.
He spoke again with difficulty: "It was Obaday. He took away the reactor in my chest. It was what I used to absorb the shrapnel in my chest. Without it, the shrapnel would soon flow through the blood and enter my heart."
Luke: "Well, then you were cold, right?"
Tony's face turned pale: "Yes."
"Where is the backup reactor?" Luke asked knowingly, rubbing salt into the young master's wounds.
Tony: "…I didn't build a backup reactor."
He was busy tinkering with armor during this period. He had just fallen out with Obaday and went to Afghanistan to fight a group of airstrikes. He never thought about making a backup reactor.
Even the simple Ark reactor was enough for him to live for fifty lifetimes. The new reactor was made just after he came back, and there is still a long time before the energy is exhausted, which made him even less likely to think about making a backup reactor.
Luke's eyes had already caught sight of something fixed in a glass box on a table, and he smiled secretly in his heart: The young master's luck is back.
But he couldn't help but rub tons of salt into the young master's wounds again: "Oh, Tony Stark will also be out of money to make spare parts? Although your company's stock price has dropped a little, you are not that poor, right?"
Tony was speechless.
He did not build a backup reactor, this is a fact and cannot be disputed.
Luke had already led him to a table and picked up the glass cover: "Well, what is this thing? Is it a special-shaped LED light?"
Tony, who had been half-conscious, saw the familiar blue-white light flashing before his eyes, and suddenly he was startled: "Ark reactor? Where did it come from?"