Marvel Start With Reality Stone - Chapter 56
The temperature in the desert at night is opposite to that during the day.
Due to the properties of sand, it heats up quickly during the day but cools down just as rapidly at night!
It was deep into the night, and the temperature that had reached nearly fifty degrees Celsius during the day was now close to zero, a drop from almost fifty degrees!
The new superhero—Iron Man, at this moment, lay motionless on the sand beside him, seemingly oblivious to the surrounding temperature changes, uncaring.
Indeed, that was the case.
In the evening, due to the bombshell Qi Jun dropped and some recent events mixed into a mess, Tony Stark, already exhausted, fainted.
Jarvis, the loyal AI, immediately lowered the faceplate and activated all the thrusters, preparing to fly the fainted Tony Stark back to his seaside mansion.
Unfortunately, Jarvis’s quick actions were not as fast as those of Qi Jun, who was right in front of Tony Stark.
A pair of solid hands firmly held the ‘AI Iron Man’ in place.
The ammunition carried by the Mark suit had been emptied on a terrorist base, and the remaining energy attacks were useless in front of Qi Jun.
After struggling for a while, Jarvis had to stop as instructed by Qi Jun, who said he would not harm Tony Stark.
Thus, controlled by Jarvis, the Mark armor quickly stretched out and lay flat on the sandy ground.
The drastic temperature change in the desert actually did not affect Tony Stark, who was protected in Mark’s armor.
Although the energy cell was shattered and cold air could seep in, unfortunately, the palladium arc reactor itself was a heat source.
Inside the armor, Tony Stark not only felt no cold but slept very sweetly!
Despite passing out from overwhelming grief, this turned into a blessing as he entered deep sleep.
Qi Jun was sure this was the sweetest sleep Tony Stark had had since being captured by terrorists!
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“You’re awake~”
Exactly six hours she had passed.
Six hours of deep sleep were much more refreshing than a whole day’s sleep!
Hearing the mechanical sounds behind him, Qi Jun knew Tony Stark had woken up.
After all, with the rescue thwarted and without new orders, Jarvis would not manipulate the Mark armor on its own.
“Thank you!”
Though he had just woken up, Tony Stark had already heard everything from Jarvis from start to finish.
Although he still didn’t know Qi Jun’s motives, being informed about the factual circumstances of his parents’ death warranted a thank you.
Iron Man was not too proud to say thanks.
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“Is there anything else you want to know?” Qi Jun nodded slightly and turned to ask.
Having quietly waited six hours, Qi Jun naturally had his purposes. If Tony Stark had no more questions, it was time for him to make his requests.
“Of course!”
“I want to know, who was the assassin who killed my parents?”
“To what organization did this assassin belong?”
“Also, the organization you mentioned, S.H.I.E.L.D.? What kind of organization is that?”
Tony Stark naturally knew that since he could freely ask questions, he would inevitably have to address the concerns raised by Qi Jun, so he didn’t hold back.
He asked very calmly, as if the person who couldn’t accept all this before wasn’t him, Tony Stark at all.
But Qi Jun still saw a trace of sorrow deep in Tony Stark’s eyes.
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“James Buchanan ‘Bucky’ Barnes, nickname Bucky Barnes.”
“Yes, he’s the one you remember as the supposed-to-be-deceased friend of Captain America, Sergeant Bucky!”
“In fact, Sergeant Bucky, who fell off the cliff back then, did not die.”
“Instead, he was found by a search team sent out by HYDRA.”
“Since Sergeant Bucky was on the brink of death at the time, HYDRA didn’t want to retrieve a corpse, so they injected him with a super-soldier serum developed by HYDRA.”
Seeing that Tony Stark wanted to speak, Qi Jun gestured for him to wait until he was finished.
“Of course, since the original super-soldier serum documents were destroyed long ago, and its creator ‘Abraham Erskine’ was killed by HYDRA.”
“So, the HYDRA super-soldier serum was a flawed version.”
“Even so, it saved Sergeant Bucky at the time.”
“And one of Bucky’s arms, due to the fall off the cliff, was already shattered beyond repair.”
“HYDRA simply replaced it with a mechanical arm, and after decades of development, crushing a rocket grenade with his bare hand was no problem!”
“Later, Bucky was brainwashed by HYDRA and turned into a killing machine exclusively for HYDRA!”
“However, because the super-soldier serum was not complete, Bucky was not entirely controllable.”
“So, HYDRA only activated him whenever there was an assassination mission and froze him the rest of the time!”
“As a result, in HYDRA, Bucky had another nickname, called the ‘Winter Soldier.'”
“Of course, from the end of WWII to the present, although the frequency of Bucky’s activation was not high, it was not low either, and he had killed nearly a hundred people.”
“Now, Sergeant Bucky is probably frozen in a secret HYDRA base.”
“Well, that’s about the life of the man who killed your parents if nothing interferes.”
Qi Jun nodded to Tony Stark, indicating that he had finished talking about the assassin part.
But Tony Stark was dumbstruck, overwhelmed by the amount of information, hardly able to believe it!
Iron Man Tony Stark was actually shocked.
“Sergeant Bucky?”
“Flawed version of the super-soldier serum?”
“HYDRA?”
“HYDRA!”
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