"Tony?" Pepper looked at him immediately.
"Impossible, don't even think about it!" Tony seemed a little excited.
"I am Iron Man. I am one with the Iron Suit, so I will not give up. It can sustain my life, and I can find new elements during this time. I am still Iron Man, it's that simple."
Even Congress couldn't get him to hand over the Iron Armor, so it's even more impossible for him to give up his identity as Iron Man.
He is Tony Stark and Iron Man, both of them are him, and it is impossible to give up one of them!
"What if you can't find a new element to replace it? What if you die in that iron armor? We can't take this risk again. Have you ever considered my feelings?" Pepper was also very excited.
To which Tony responded: "I can do it, just give me time."
"Hua Q! Tony, you are an absolute bastard!"
Pepper left angrily.
"Hey, Pepper, wait for me."
Tony shouted, then looked at Dio, stood up and said, "Women always have those few days every month when they get emotional. I have to go check on her to prevent her from doing anything irrational."
Before he finished speaking, there was a bang outside. When Tony and Dio came out one after another, they saw Pepper covering her head and sticking out a middle finger from the car whose front end had been deformed by the collision.
"Walk back, bastard!"
Pepper deliberately crashed the car Tony was driving, then stepped on the accelerator and drove away, leaving Tony and his bodyguard Happy disheveled in the wind.
"Shette, you just watched her do this?" Looking at Happy who had an innocent look on his face, Tony wanted to kick him to death.
"Boss, I tried to stop her, but Miss Pepper is the current CEO. In theory, all my salary is signed and paid by Miss Pepper, so I..."
"Stop talking, Hua Q, why don't you go over and take a look!"
At this moment, Dio, who was trying hard to hold back his laughter, took out his car keys and the lights of a Porsche next to him immediately turned on.
"Hey, aren't you going to give us a ride? I treated you to dinner, after all."
"Sorry, I don't think we know each other that well yet, and speaking of dinner... I agree with Pepper, you're an asshole, Tony."
Dio immediately stepped on the accelerator and sped away from Tony.
Tony could only put his hands on his hips in anger, but there was nothing he could do.
"How's it going? Can we drive back?"
"The gas tank's cracked, boss."
"Hua Q, Hua Q, Hua Q! Why don't you hurry up and find a car? Are you really going to walk back?"
"Actually, my home is not far from here, just over there, so it's okay to walk back."
“… …” Tony.
Two hours later, a taxi finally stopped at 10880 Malibu Harbor...
. . . . . . . . . . . .
The next day, Dior moved again. The environment and area of the new villa were better than the previous one, but the rent was almost the same.
Needless to say, he also knew that the owner of this house must have sold face to Jessica's family.
In addition, Jessica also dealt with the matter of the previous villa being blown up. The insurance company agreed to compensate the owner of the house according to the contract, and also returned the rest of the rent paid by Dior. After all, he paid two years' rent in full at once.
As expected, professional matters should be left to professionals. Dio can handle fighting, killing and cooking, but forget about other aspects.
Just when Dio wanted to express his gratitude, Natasha's voice suddenly sounded in his head.
"It is very likely that our operation has been exposed. All the spies we targeted have disappeared."
"disappear?"
"Some people are missing and their whereabouts are unknown. The rest are all dead, and they died during the mission due to various 'accidents'."
"Didn't you say during the last contact that SHIELD would give me an explanation? In this way?"
There seemed to be silence over there for a moment, and then the sound continued to come over.
"I'm sorry, but we don't have many people we can trust right now. In addition, the other party is very decisive. After they sensed the danger, they immediately found a way to deal with all the targets that might be exposed, and directly cut off the clues we were tracking down."
"so?"
"So we need your help. Helping us is also helping yourself."
"No, no, no, I think you may have misunderstood something. Helping you and solving the problem myself are two different things. Before this, I was going to solve the problem in my own way, but you refused and hoped that I would stay rational. For the sake of our partnership, I gave you a chance to handle it yourselves. Now that you can't handle it, you think of me again. Have you always been so arrogant in SHIELD?"
After learning the truth, he did not rush to SHIELD immediately. Catching those bastards was the result of his repeated restraint. After all, he did not like killing innocent people and hated trouble.
So he gave Natasha the opportunity to examine herself, but he obviously overestimated the current situation within SHIELD. The power of Hydra that had infiltrated at this time was even greater than imagined. They noticed the abnormality so quickly and abandoned the captured part in a very cold-blooded and decisive manner.
This means that Natasha and her team have become headless flies again. It is impossible for them to screen everyone without a purpose with just a few people.
If the news leaked out, not to mention the counterattack that Hydra would launch, the already precarious SHIELD would immediately become panic-stricken, and Hydra would be paralyzed without even having to take the initiative.
After all, for these agents who are risking their lives to complete their missions, without trust, they lose everything, and paralysis is the inevitable result.
"Dio, now is not the time to make distinctions. We have a common enemy, don't we?" Natasha was still trying to persuade him.
"There's nothing much to say. Either you use my method to completely eliminate this cancer, or you continue to waste time using your method. After you are done, I will solve everything in my own way."
Dio's answer was very firm. To be honest, he admired Hydra's style of doing things more. They took decisive action to nip any crisis in the bud and did not give the enemy any chance to counterattack.
However, Hydra's overly extreme ideas may bring changes to the world, but may also bring disasters.
Forget about ruling the world or something like that. It’s a different era now, and you’re still playing with that kind of tricks.
Moreover, according to the normal timeline, Hydra would have no chance of success, not to mention that it has now angered Dio. By then, it would be a luxury to want a decent death!