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Chapter 394 Ross's Request for Help

"No, I'm fine, just...just" Stark rejected Jarvis's 'diagnosis' without hesitation, covered his eyes with his right hand, closed his eyes and took a few deep breaths, as if he was thinking of an excuse. He said, "Maybe I really need to take a break."

Hearing Stark say 'rest', Pepper was greatly relieved. Stark has always been stubborn, willful, willful and other words, which can't be more suitable to describe him.Just like in 2010, when Stark just came back from the Middle East, the first thing he did was not to go to the hospital for a physical examination, but to hold a press conference to disband Stark’s military industry department, which was thriving and making money every day.

Before making this decision, he did not disclose the news to anyone, and directly announced this earth-shattering news in front of N Multimedia, even if the board of directors of Stark Industries initiated the "expulsion" procedure because of this, people from all walks of life Qi went to the battle to persuade, but failed to make Stark take back his decision. In the end, Stark Industries completely withdrew from the military industry.

After the Battle of Miami, Stark entered into this kind of working state day and night, and the rest time began to decrease continuously. Yesterday, he only rested for two or three hours, and then he devoted himself to work, without sleep for more than ten hours in a row of.

Stark in this state is really abnormal. Even when he came back from the Middle East, he had never been like this before. Pepper, the CEO of Stark Industries, left the work at hand and flew back to persuade Stark to rest.Unexpectedly, Stark's condition was so bad that his face was so haggard that it would not be an exaggeration to say that he was seriously ill.

Although Stark was stubbornly unwilling to ask for a doctor, Pepper decided in his heart to let Stark have a comprehensive examination. Even Jarvis said that Stark suffered from "anxiety disorder". The state, and the state just now, how could he not be sick?
Taking advantage of Stark's idea of ​​'resting', Pepper hurriedly helped Stark to the stairs, preparing to send Stark back to the bedroom with all his strength, so that he could rest for a while.But at this moment, Jarvis suddenly said: "Sir, there is a communication from General Ross, do you want to pick it up?"

"No, tell him that Tony is resting, and we can talk about it tomorrow." Before Stark could speak, Pepper flatly refused, and finally persuaded Stark to rest, not to mention General Ross, even the President wanted to In the back, nothing is as important as Stark's health.

Stark didn't say a word, and continued to walk towards the stairs, and Jarvis also rejected General Ross' call request according to Pepper's words, but the matter did not end there. Stark just opened the high-strength glass doors in the basement and stairwell, Jarvis' voice sounded again: "Sir, General Ross sent a video, maybe you need to watch it."

"Tell General Ross that Tony will watch it when he wakes up." Pepper wanted Stark to continue walking towards the stairwell, but Stark stopped, turned his head, and said, "Jarvis , play the video."

"Okay, sir!"

Jarvis received Stark's order, and a holographic projection immediately began to play a 2-minute long video from General Ross. In the brightly lit corridor, he was as cautious as if he was going deep into a tiger's den.

In the No.15 second of the video, an unexpected appearance appeared, and a "person" suddenly walked out of the room three meters in front. The reason for adding single quotation marks is because this "person" has no human appearance at all.

The exposed skin is full of green abscesses, which can definitely kill trypophobia patients. A gray-white bone spur pierces the skin and military uniform at the elbow of the right arm, while the left arm swells and breaks the clothes, and the spine is twisted into a Type S, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like a human being.

And Stark focused on the military uniform on the monster, the epaulets, the dog tag on the neck and other information-containing objects, and immediately shouted at Jarvis: "Jarvis, check his identity."

Rows of photos immediately appeared on the screen next to the video. According to the objects on the monster, they were eliminated and compared. After two seconds, a qualified person was found, and the information of this person was displayed on the big screen.

In the photo of enlisting in the army, there is a very young, sunny boy, and this distorted monster in the image is completely two species. He is only 21 years old, which is the best period of his life, but he has turned into such an ugly, scary monster.

"What is this?" Pepper's voice changed. It was like a biohazard, turning a good person into such a monster.

The video was still playing. The monster turned his head to look at the special forces, revealing his face that seemed to have been run over by a truck, and then rushed towards him like a gust of wind. There were intense gunshots and screams.

This kind of noise lasted for about 45 seconds, and then calm was restored. The camera that fell on the ground captured the monster leaving with three steps and three shakes, and the blood gradually spreading on the ground. The time axis reached [-] seconds, It became a picture taken by another team of special forces, but the background was changed to a stairwell, but the plot was the same. When encountering monsters, the team was wiped out.

The third team of special forces also had the same fate. In a short 2-minute video, a total of 24 special forces of the three teams were wiped out. They all encountered various monsters in confined spaces such as corridors and stairwells, and then conducted encounters In the end, the team was wiped out.

In the narrow environment, it is impossible to use powerful weapons, even the grenade can't be thrown out, so you can only attack the monsters with the rifle in your hand, but the bullets hit these monsters, but it seems to tickle them, it has no effect. And the monsters are one by one, easily destroying the team.

The 2-minute video was watched by Stark three or four times over and over again, and the identities of the four monsters who appeared were found out, all of them were soldiers in service, and the unit numbers were all the same, but now it has become monsters, which made Stark wonder if an accident occurred in the military's super-soldier experiment, causing these monsters to run out.

Stark had no thought of resting anymore, turned around and walked back, saying as he walked, "Jarvis, contact General Ross."

"Okay, sir!"

Stark's call was connected a second later. Obviously, General Ross had been waiting for this call. Before Stark could speak, General Ross shouted in an anxious tone: "Mr. Stark, see Did I send you the video, I need Bruce Banner's help, tell me, where is he?"

Stark picked up the coffee cup on the side, drank it down, and said, "You should know better than me where Dr. Banner is. After all, I don't pay attention to him all the time." The implication is that you are better than me. They all pay attention to Dr. Banner, how could they not know where he is?
General Ross stood in a room full of screens, staring at more than 20 screens hanging on the wall in front of him, and said anxiously: "I, no, there are many people who need Dr. Banner's help, he is a gamma ray No one knows more about gamma rays than he does.”

"Uh huh!" Stark snorted twice, with a look of 'I'm not interested in asking'. He knows the negotiation skills very well. Now it's General Ross who comes to ask for help. Naturally, he wants to blackmail him, otherwise you say If you want me to help you, I will help you, why?You are my son.

Not to mention, the grievances between Dr. Banner and General Ross can be described as 'the hatred is as deep as the sea'. It is absolutely impossible to help the enemy unless Dr. Banner goes crazy or turns into the white lotus of the Virgin. He even heard that General Ross was in trouble, and maybe popped a bottle of champagne to celebrate.

General Ross naturally understood this, and quickly explained: "I did not give the order to attack Dr. Banner last time, but Samuel Stern. Bruce Banner must know this person. He once helped Bruce Banner Na concocted a temporary antidote.

On November 2010, 11, the abomination in Chinatown and the Kamen Rider battle was created by Samuel Stern using the copied Hulk serum, and he himself was affected by the battle and infected with the Hulk serum. When cleaning the scene He was found and taken to hospital for treatment."

While speaking, General Ross sent Stark photos of Samuel Stern before and after infection, and specifically pointed out that the group of soldiers who attacked Bruce Banner last time was Samuel Stern The project I was in charge of portrayed myself as a poor person who didn't know anything and was cheated by his subordinates.

Of course, it’s up to you if you believe it or not. Obviously Stark didn’t believe it. He didn’t say Bruce Banner, but asked what happened. General Ross said that Samuel Stern is the person in charge of a certain project, so he knew that these monsters should be caused by the Hulk serum experiment. Now he wants to know what happened to make these monsters come out and kill three teams of special forces.

General Ross was very sad and ashamed to say about the tragic time that happened a week ago. Samuel Stern got the Hulk serum, and after the injection, a secondary mutation occurred, and he also activated the gamma ray machine in the base, allowing the The level of gamma-ray radiation throughout the base has risen a thousandfold.

What's even more frightening is that during the radiation monitoring of the escaped soldiers, it was found that the blood of the soldiers at the base contained more or less Hulk serum. That is to say, the scope of Samuel Stern's experiment was the personnel of the entire base. Using an unknown method, he poisoned the entire base with 'blood poison'.

In this case, I am afraid that Samuel Stern has already been planning, otherwise, how could he poison the people in the entire base, and secretly modified the gamma ray machine, making the gamma ray so strong that thousands of Less than a quarter of the large human base has escaped, and all the others have fallen into it.

As soon as the accident happened, General Ross cut off the energy supply of the base and stopped the gamma ray machine, which prevented most people from suffering too much gamma ray radiation and dying on the spot or receiving too much radiation. mutated by gamma rays.

But here lies the difficulty. If the people in the entire base are all dead or mutated, then there is nothing to consider. Just use ground-penetrating missiles to blow up the base. Impossible to survive.

Except for the soldiers who mutated and died tragically due to excessive radiation, there were still thousands of soldiers alive, but the mutated soldiers were rampant in the base, and even trained soldiers couldn't stop their frontal blows.At the beginning, under the organization of the headquarters, the surviving soldiers rushed out in batches, but when they walked out of the hiding place, they were discovered by the mutant soldiers, followed by a one-sided massacre.

Three times of rushing out in succession ended in failure. Nearly [-] surviving soldiers died at the hands of their former comrades. The headquarters no longer dared to let people leave the room protected by thick iron doors, and started a rescue operation, trying to rescue these soldiers. Come out, and bomb the base directly.

It is a pity that the rescue operations all ended in failure. This base was built with a huge amount of resources and a huge amount of money. Not only the defense is amazing, the terrain is also very complicated, and there are several layers of steel plates and reinforced concrete on the roof. The progress of the ground penetration operation was extremely slow, and the result of the frontal attack was the destruction of teams of special forces. The video sent to Stark was only part of it.

In the past five days, more than 200 special forces have died in this base. The result is that more than 200 soldiers on the upper floors have been rescued, and nearly [-] soldiers have been trapped deeper in the base. What's more serious is that The bottom floor received the most radiation. Many of these soldiers had symptoms of nuclear radiation. If they were not rescued as soon as possible and treated, after a while, there would be no need to bother with rescue operations, and the corpses would be collected directly. .

All feasible methods have been tried, and the cost is too high. You can’t take a thousand normal soldiers in order to save 1000 people who have been affected by radiation and don’t know if they can continue to serve in the future. A loss-making deal.

Therefore, in desperation, General Ross had to call for help from the Transhuman Alliance—the Avengers, hoping to get their help, especially Bruce Banner, who is a leading expert in gamma rays and was also responsible for He has passed the Super Soldier Project, and is also the body of the Hulk serum.If he can't find a solution, then the whole earth has no other way.

So General Ross had to put aside his past grudges, humbly ask Bruce Banner for help, and was prepared to be blackmailed, as long as the conditions were not particularly excessive, he would grit his teeth and agree.After all, this accident happened in his base. If thousands of people died, he would be sent to a military court for trial, let alone promoted.

For the sake of the future, this accident must have a good result, such as rescuing the surviving soldiers after untold hardships, so that it is in line with a person who loves his subordinates.

(End of this chapter)