Chapter 20: Possessed Tony (Seeking follow-up reading)
Freed from Peter, Bant floated over New York City like a ghost.
This world capital is indeed very luxurious when viewed from a distance, and when viewed from above, it looks like the veins of the starry sky.
"Unfortunately, if you look closely, you will find that beneath the prosperity is filth and sin."
Bant sneered.
For the rich people at the top of society, New York is the real world capital, the city of empire, where the rich party all night long, indulge in luxury, and squander money and desires all night long.
But for more people, the prosperous world is separated from them by an insurmountable chasm!
The lights shining in the darkness do not belong to them; the dark and damp corners under the lights are where they gather.
The prosperous city that is insurmountable and the tall skyscrapers are like the Five Finger Mountain, pressing down on the people at the bottom of society and making it difficult for them to breathe.
Those who lived at the bottom of society once dreamed of prosperity and fought for it, but in the end, this huge city ruthlessly shattered their dreams and trampled them underfoot.
The prosperity of this city has always belonged to only a few people.
The prosperous New York is New York, and the New York full of crime and violence is also New York.
New York is still the same New York, but different people see completely different things.
What is even more tragic is that the prosperity of this minority has been achieved by constantly sucking the blood and flesh of those at the bottom of the society.
They stood on the top of the building as tall as the sky, eating every piece of flesh of those ordinary people, drinking every drop of their blood, breaking every bone of them, sucking out all the marrow, and finally leaving their dried dead corpses to pile up the city.
Every brick and every penny in this city is stained with blood!
But those who built the city will never be the owners of the city!
Just like Uncle Ben and Aunt May, they work hard but still live in poverty, and this situation is almost impossible to change. Those who are born in slums are likely to struggle in the mud forever.
In this glamorous city, they are like cockroaches scurrying around.
"But now it's different!" Bant's eyes flickered with will-o'-the-wisp, "I will change everything!"
But what he wants to change is not the city, but only his family.
Of course, he also knew that this would never be that simple.
Once he has made a successful cake, those capitalists with large amounts of money in their hands will come like sharks smelling blood and will swallow him and his company up completely, leaving no surplus value at all.
Just like our poor Connors.
After more than a decade of hard work researching cross-species genetic inheritance, in the end it was just a wedding dress for Osborn Enterprises.
Bant thought of Connors because he happened to pass by the top of Osborne Building at that moment. He saw Connors covering his arm and climbing into a taxi in pain and embarrassment.
Apparently, in order to stop Osborn's top brass from conducting human experiments, this poor doctor made himself the first experimental subject.
"So, Connors will become Dr. Lizard tonight?"
Kurt Connors is a rare talent, maybe I can recruit him to my company in the future.
"Not only Connors, Dr. Otto is also a good scientist." Bant has already set his sights on Dr. Lizard and Dr. Octopus.
Both of them were eager to use their inventions to benefit the world, but unfortunately they were manipulated by fate and became villains.
However, even though he thought so, Bant did not immediately follow Dr. Lizard.
In his opinion, Dr. Lizard was just the right person to be Peter's first superhero opponent.
There was no need for him to intervene now, and he had his own things to do at the moment.
After leaving Osborne Building, Bant and Connors went in opposite directions. Not long after, he arrived at another famous building in New York City, which was several times more luxurious than Osborne Building and was also the tallest building in New York - Stark Building.
Ever since he snatched the armor from Tony last time, Bant has been wanting to get his hands on the Ark reactor and do some research on it.
Cold nuclear fusion reaction has always been a theory, and he really wants to know how Tony actually achieved it.
"Even if Obaday got the reactor, he couldn't replicate it. It's conceivable that the reactor's technological level must be very high."
Bant passed through the outer glass of Stark Tower. His figure had become completely translucent. In the darkness, if you didn't look carefully, it would be difficult to see his existence.
In addition to the reactor, Stark's artificial intelligence Bant is also of interest.
Stark: ???
You just want to take advantage of me, right?
Jarvis's artificial intelligence level is so high that he even has human-like emotions and thinking patterns in the later stages. In comparison, the later Fridays are much more rigid.
Give Bant some time, he can use his little tricks to realize artificial intelligence technology and reactors, but in the final analysis, since there are ready-made ones to study, the time can be greatly shortened.
Although it was already night, there were still a few people working inside the Stark Group.
Cows and horses are social animals, and even dogs shake their heads when they see them.
Bant flew directly to the top floor.
The top of the building is Tony's private area and also where he works.
Tony did most of his inventing there.
But what surprised Bant a little was that Tony was still working at Stark Tower at this time.
"This guy, why is he hiding here so late at night instead of sleeping with the girl on the cover of the magazine?" Bant was a little confused.
Fortunately, Tony didn't hear him, otherwise he would have been furious.
No one knew who had stolen his battle suit, forcing him to create a new one.
"Sir, a lizard man appeared on the Williamsburg Bridge." Jarvis said as he pulled up the surveillance video along the way.
As soon as Tony heard the word "lizard", he seemed to be stressed. He immediately put down all the work at hand, walked in front of Jarvis, and picked up a glass of chlorophyll juice.
Then he frowned: "What is this?"
He originally thought that the Flashstar had appeared again, but the monster in the picture now looked more like a small Godzilla.
"This stuff is almost as disgusting as chlorophyll juice!" Tony took a sip of the chlorophyll juice and immediately looked miserable. "It's all my fault, baby dinosaur. I have to drink this stuff."
"But on the other hand, the Flash Star took away your battle suit and slowed down the rate of palladium poisoning." Jarvis analyzed rationally.
At that time, Bant did cause the palladium element in the Ark reactor to leak, but thanks to him, Tony was unable to use the armor during this period, which slowed down the spread of the palladium element.
At this moment, the new suit had not been made yet, and Tony could only stare blankly.
"Damn it, I should have prepared a few sets of combat suits just in case." Tony drank the chlorophyll in his hand while enduring the bitter taste. Suddenly, he saw a weirdo in a red and blue tights passing through the picture played by Jarvis.
"what is that?"
He was about to ask Jarvis to slow down the camera again, but his body froze in place as if under a spell.
No one noticed that a translucent milky white shadow entered his body.
(End of this chapter)