Darkness Rises

Chapter 42 Banquet
In Manhattan, on the edge of the East River at the east end of 88th Street, there is a two-story villa shaded by green trees. This is the official residence of successive New York mayors - "Grace Manor".

At this time, at night when the lights are first on, the place is buzzing with people and brightly lit, luxury cars drive in one after another, and a group of dazzling New York upper class people come here one after another.

These people are all behind-the-scenes funders of New York Mayor Herbert Lehman. Tonight is not so much a campaign dinner to celebrate his re-election success as a reward meeting.

Presumably there are many transactions related to the interests of New York, which will be easily settled in the exchange of toasts.

"Alvin~~~Welcome!"

A middle-aged mature man came from the room with a red face, and hugged Ai Wen fiercely, looking very familiar.

"Mayor Lehman, congratulations on your success in re-election. The next four years in New York must be glorious misses!" Ivan's words came out of his mouth.

"Haha, it would be very difficult for me to do it without your support. The 'tomorrow will be better' plan recently proposed by you and Mr. Fisk really has a profound impact on the future of New York!"

Ivan smiled slightly: "We are all New Yorkers, this is what we should do."

At the dinner party, everyone was ready to order, and Mayor Lehman put his arms around Ivan's shoulders at this time, looked at the dazzling Gwen with a pretendingly curious smile, and exclaimed: "Wow, who is this beautiful girl? "

"Gwen Stacy, is the perfect girl I'm after!"

Ivan's words made Gwen blush uncontrollably, and Mayor Lehman also praised him very cooperatively: "You are so talented and beautiful!

Is your family name Stacey, who is George Stacey, our model sheriff of New York? "

"That's my father, Mr. Mayor!"

When mentioning his father in front of the mayor, Gwen was a little nervous for a while, but also very proud. There are quite a few sheriffs in New York City, but Mr. Mayor valued his father so much.

"Wow, it seems that Sheriff George Stacey not only does a great job, but also has a very good daughter. I'm going to be jealous!"

At the end of the unnutritious compliment, Mr. Mayor patted Ivan on the shoulder with a smile on his face: "Ivan, your father has arrived early, and he is right there. I will not disturb your father-son time!"

Ivan nodded: "Congratulations again, Mr. Mayor!"

Mayor Lyman went to meet other distinguished guests, while Ivan held Gwen's hand in his arms, smiled at each other and looked at each other, and the two walked towards Justin Hammer in the crowd .

It has to be said that no matter where he is, Justin Hammer can't change his flamboyant look. This guy is holding a glass of champagne at the moment, showing off to the people around him.

"Hammer Industries has recently developed a new type of Sidewinder missile, which is equipped with a medium-level RDX cyclone explosive. It can raze any bunker and towering buildings to the ground. I nicknamed it 'Ex-wife'!"

After finishing speaking, Justin Hammer blinked meaningfully, making all the guests around him laugh knowingly.

"And we, 'Hammer Industries', are cooperating with the Osborn Group to jointly undertake a number of advanced weapon development programs for the military..."

"Father!"

Seeing that his father was chatting more and more excitedly, he had already begun to spit out some secret plans from his mouth, and Aiwen immediately stepped forward to interrupt, he was afraid that the situation he had set up for the "Osborne Group" would be caught by accident. destroyed.

At that time, who would he seek to reason with?

"Oh, Ivan, and Gwen, you are here!"

Justin Hammer wasn't unhappy about being interrupted at the moment, instead he showed an exaggerated smile the moment he saw Ivan and Gwen.

"Hey, this is my son Alvin Hammer and his girlfriend Gwen Stacy, I think they should get married as soon as possible, then I will also let Alvin come to the company to help me earlier!"

Before Ivan was humble, Justin continued to show off: "You don't know, my son is extremely good, I think with his help, we can become a defense contractor as soon as possible.

At that time, the market value of Hanmer Industries is bound to increase significantly, if you want to buy stocks, you must do so as soon as possible..."

Ai Wen was completely speechless. How could he have such an open-mouthed and show-off dad? At this moment, he had the impulse to use his ability to directly seal the other party's mouth.

But at this moment, a frivolous, annoying, ironic voice came from behind the crowd.

"Justin Hammer, I thought you were already incompetent enough, but I didn't expect that you have already started to rely on underage children to barely survive."

The surrounding guests couldn't help turning their heads to look, and in Justin's slightly nervous eyes, and Ivan's indifferent eyes, a frivolous playboy came out.

"Tony Stark, why are you here!"

Aiwen's pupils shrank involuntarily. Although this was not the first time he saw the man in front of him, the appearance of this "son of the plane" still caused ripples in Aiwen's heart.

"Hehe, Justin, not only you supported Mayor Lehman, but we "Stark Industries" also supported him, oh, or we supported every candidate!"

Arrogant!

Apart from being arrogant, Tony Stark didn't care whether it would arouse the disgust of the banquet host. He was even more outspoken than Justin Hammer, for fear that others would not know his arrogance!

"I just heard you say that 'Hammer Industries' wants to be a defense contractor, originally we 'Stark Industries' didn't care about that title.

But how can the weapons in the hands of our federal soldiers be provided by your 'toy factory'? I feel that I have an obligation to give them real weapons, not toys in the hands of children.

I announce that we, 'Stark Industries', will officially seek to become a defense contractor.

Oh, I'm sorry, if this is the case, your stock price will fall, hahaha! "

After finishing speaking, Tony raised the champagne in his hands to the surroundings, hugged a hot girl beside him in a revealing black evening dress, turned and walked away contentedly under the adoring eyes of the other party.

And only his arrogant laughter remained in the air, as well as the extremely tense atmosphere. The surrounding guests did not expect that they could see such a good show.

The two top arms giants in the United States would actually go to war in public. Such a scene is really rare. It is estimated that it will only happen to Tony Stark, who has an extremely bad personality, and Justin Hammer, who is flamboyant and funny.

However, it looks like Stark has the upper hand.

Didn't you see that Justin Hammer could only point at Stark who left arrogantly and yell, but didn't dare to fight back in person?

Ai Wen looked at the distant figure with cold eyes at this moment, and he felt that it was necessary to find an opportunity to teach the other party a lesson.

He doesn't care if the other party is the protagonist of this plane, no one can be arrogant in front of him without paying the price!
At this time, Gwen shook his arm with some concern, and Ivan came back to his senses, and gave the other party a look of not worrying.

"Beautiful lady, I wonder if I can borrow your boyfriend for a few minutes?"

"Chief Bratton, this is Gwen Stacy, the daughter of Sheriff George Stacy, Gwen, this is Commissioner Bratton of the New York Police Department!"

After exchanging pleasantries, Gwen signaled that she could be alone at the banquet, and made room for the two of them to talk.

"Ewen, during this time, with the severe crackdown and cooperation of the police, the black gangs in Harlem that threatened the lives of ordinary people have been completely wiped out.

It's just that the old Chief Philip is not in good health due to overwork! "

Ivan smiled slightly, knowing that the other party was asking him for the promised benefits, nodded, and said in a low voice: "Don't worry, I have already made a suggestion with Mayor Lehmann, presumably the old Director Philip will be here soon. You can retire!"

"Haha, Ivan, it's really great to have you care about old Philip!"

Bratton was immediately elated, and then he whispered to Ivan: "The opera singer recently is good, and she has more taste than the girls in Southeast Asia!"

"Hahaha!" The two laughed in an indescribable and indescribable way.

At this moment, an untimely noise suddenly came from not far away, and Ivan couldn't help turning his head to look.

When it was discovered that the protagonist of the incident was Gwen, Aiwen's face instantly became ugly.

(End of this chapter)