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Chapter 447 Desperation Reappears?

A few minutes later, the Stark Corporation branch, the scene of the explosion.

It happened too suddenly, without any warning beforehand, and no one figured out what was going on until after the incident.

Afterwards, the survivors were asked, and they all gave the same description - a thunderous bang, followed by a large group of flames being released.Flames swept across the hall, and it was so hot that nothing living could survive.

In a few seconds, the hall on the first floor was swept away, and everything in the center of the hall was melted clean.No one survived inside the hall, only a few people including the guards outside the inner door survived by chance.

Tony rushed to the scene immediately after receiving the notice, and Aegis followed closely.They quickly cordoned off the site, and a large number of professionals arrived at the ruins and began to investigate and study the site.Several small drones circled the messy hall, collecting any possible useful data with various sophisticated scanning instruments.

But to be honest, there are not many clues that can come in handy.The central part of the hall was blown up to the point that there was almost no slag left. Even if there were any clues, they had been evaporated in the high temperature of thousands of degrees.

Oh, and it's also worth mentioning that there were no explosives left at the scene.No shrapnel, no metal residue, no powder reaction, nothing.The test results were as if the air itself had exploded without leaving any traces.

The familiar scene, all the clues and signs connected in series, can't make Tony think of something he has dealt with before.

Extremis virus.

The ultra-high temperature explosion has no metal residue and no gunpowder reaction, perhaps because the bomb that was detonated was not a bomb at all, but the human body itself.The Extremis virus can do this. The transformation of the old version of Extremis will overheat the human body. Once a certain critical value is exceeded, an explosion will occur, resulting in consequences that match all the characteristics of this scene.

Leo Fitz and Gemma Simmons, two young geniuses at S.H.I.E.L.D.Two young people were in charge of the on-site survey work, and the drone used for the survey was also designed by Fitz.

When Tony came up, the two young men were chattering about something, as if they had disagreements on certain clues.Tony stepped forward and asked, "What's going on?"

"Oh, Mr. Stark, I mean, Chief."

The two young men stopped arguing in an instant, and stood at attention in a ridiculously standard posture.Talking to someone who is both a superhero and Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. seems to be stressful for them.

"Relax, I won't eat you." Tony patted Fitz on the shoulder, "Tell me, what did you find?"

"Yes, sir. Due to the impact of the large-scale explosion, the clues we can investigate are limited. But according to the data we have collected, the temperature at the center of the explosion should have exceeded 500 degrees, and it was in a wave-like impact pattern. It spreads from the center to the surrounding area, and can cover a range of up to [-] meters in diameter. There is no explosive residue on the scene, and no gunpowder reaction. Based on the above situation, I personally judge."

He paused, carefully looking at the director's face.

".I think the possibility of Extremis virus is relatively high."

As soon as he finished speaking, before Tony could say anything, Simmons sang the opposite tune.

"I think Fitz's conclusion is a bit premature, sir." She said, picked up the tablet computer in her arms and gestured a few times, then handed the screen to Tony, "Although the results look very similar It's Extremis, but look at the data here"

Tony took the computer from her hand, and swipe down while browsing roughly.

"I roughly understand what you want to express." He nodded and said, "You want to say that although the heat peak is close to the explosion of Extremis, the way of fluctuation during the release process is different. Then there is the issue of radiation, The value of residual radiation on site is about two to three times that of Extremis. Are you trying to say this right?"

Simmons nodded again and again: "Yes, sir! There are some other differences in details. What I want to say is that at first glance, this may look like a desperate situation, but there are still many differences when you examine it carefully. So I think the direct It might be a little too hasty to say that the explosion was caused by Extremis."

Simmons was so moved that he was about to cry. He was so happy to meet a boss who could understand the data.In the past, all the bosses she met were illiterate in science and technology. Sometimes she even had to explain from junior high school physics knowledge when making reports, and sometimes she tried her best to make the other party still confused.At worst, some officers would even put on a straight face and tell her to "speak human terms."

Simmons was on the point of crying.She thought to herself, sir, you are also the leader of such a big organization, did you sleep through the physics class in junior high school?
It's all right now, and now she doesn't even need to explain. Mr. Director can understand everything after taking the test results, and he might even understand more than she does.

"Indeed, your opinion makes sense." Tony rested his chin in thought. "In this way, it is true that the impasse may not be responsible for the attack."

He also has his own considerations for saying this.Now that the designer of Extremis, Maya Hansen, is dead, he should be the one who understands Extremis best in this world.He has thoroughly studied the Extremis virus, upgraded and perfected it himself, and even used it on himself.Having integrated Extremis 2.0 for so long, Tony believes that he should have intuitively felt the Extremis system and how it works with his own body.

Logically speaking, with the death of Maya Hansen, Despair should also be out of print.Before she died, she warned Tony with her life, telling him which villains had fallen into the desperate situation.Tony lived up to her, taking down all the gangsters Maya warned him about right away, and making sure that Extremis didn't leak out.

Therefore, apart from himself, no one should have mastered the technology of the desperate situation.

"But I can't be sure," Fitz continued to argue. "Even if there are some differences in details, overall the explosion scene still has many features of Extremis. Maybe it's just someone who got Extremis and made adjustments? Maybe they upgraded That's why the virus looks different. Otherwise, if it's not Extremis, can you think of anything else that could have caused this?"

Seeing that the two science babies continue to argue like this for a year and there may be no results, Tony waved his hand and interrupted: "Okay, young scientists, thank you for your help, but this will be fine. Next I will Will look into it myself."

If this is really hopeless, then he has one last clue.

Maya Hanson was the first to sell Extremis to some people, some extremely dangerous guys who also had a lot of ties to Tony - the AIM team that Aldrich Killian had built.

Killian had been killed by the Black Knight, and all the Extremis soldiers under him had been dealt with, but there was still one person alive.

That was The Mandarin, the actor Killian had brought in to play the dictator.

(End of this chapter)