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Chapter 181 Veronica
This Hulk's runaway was unexpected to everyone in the Avengers, and it caused unexpected huge losses.After Tony introspected carefully, he felt that in addition to Hulk himself being too powerful to stop, their insufficient preparation was also one of the main reasons for this incident.

Tony's previous thoughts were a little too optimistic.He felt that with so many powerful Avengers gathered together, even a monster as terrible as the Hulk would not be unstoppable, but now he realized his mistake.This kind of mistake of taking it for granted is just like he naively thought that all the disputes in the world can be resolved and world peace achieved with only his steel armor. He can't make this mistake again.

"Veronica" is the project born for this.After the actual combat, Tony found that all the weapons on his armor had no effect on Hulk, and even the recoil cluster gun with the maximum output power of the arc reactor just blasted him a little.The consequence of this is that his armor was dismantled by Hulk desperately.

In order to ensure that the next time this situation arises, he will not be as helpless as he is now, Tony decided to develop the most special suit of all current models, like the heavy firearms in the steel suit, specially designed to fight against A heavyweight like the Hulk.

According to his idea, this set of armor must have the defensive power to be able to resist the Hulk's fists head-on, and must have a power output that can at least match Hulk's. At least it cannot be caught immediately like the conventional armor. Hulk was dismantled into scrap iron.However, in this way, the armor must be very bulky, and it is inevitable that the flexibility will be affected.And "Veronica" is a satellite that can provide support for the armor at any time. It should carry parts that can replace the whole body parts of the armor, and have an independent energy system and instant communication system.

Since this set of armor is currently designed to fight Hulk, Tony named it "Anti-Hulk Armor" and the number is MK44.

If the anti-Hulk armor is compared to field agents performing front-line confrontation missions, then "Veronica" is a logistics base that can provide it with immediate support.

But Hulk's terrifying physical fitness Tony has already experienced it personally, and it is impossible to compete with the power of his existing armor.In fact, it is too difficult to achieve that level with existing technology, and the energy required to provide that level of power for an arm of the armor is unimaginable.

But he is Tony Stark after all, a genius known as "future scientist", he can always go further than the times.He also quickly came up with a solution to this problem.

The most fundamental difference between the design of the anti-Hulk armor and the previous model is that Tony plans to use decentralized energy supply.All functions of the previous Iron Man armor were powered by the arc reactor on the chest, and in addition to the main reactor on the chest of the Anti-Hulk, every part of its body will also have at least one arc reactor.Those reactors operate autonomously, powering the operation of their respective components, which are equivalent to the hands and feet of the Hulk armor, and the main body armor is each equivalent to a set of normal-sized Iron Man armor in the past.But they are not completely separated, and if one part is damaged, the reactors of all other parts can distribute part of their own energy to the damaged part.

In this way, the anti-Hulk should theoretically be able to obtain horsepower comparable to that of the Hulk, and because multiple arc reactors work together and have sufficient energy, the power of the repulsive cannon on the anti-Hulk armor can also be much higher than that of the normal model times.

Of course, whether it is the satellite "Veronica" or the anti-Hulk armor itself with a curved reactor, the cost is absolutely astronomical.But as we all know, for Tony Stark, problems that can be solved with money are not considered problems.

Tony spent almost a full day in the lab to complete the basic skeleton of the satellite and armor design.After finishing the work, he saved the design, rubbed the bridge of his nose, and asked, "Jarvis, the message I asked you to decipher the source earlier. Has there been any progress?"

"No, sir. The other party's encryption is flawless, and the source cannot be cracked." Jarvis said.

Tony was silent.

"Be careful Bruce Banner", just before Hulk lost control and ran away, someone sent him this message, and it was still sent to his private mailbox, and the identity of the sender was unknown.

If it is impossible to trace back to the source even with his technology, it means that the opponent's technical means must be quite sophisticated.

No matter what method the other party used to learn that Banner might lose control, at least this message shows one thing-Hulk's rampage was not accidental, it was premeditated.And if you find the person who sent the warning, you might be able to know more details.

So now the question is, who is he (or she)?

***
"Mr. Stark's team doesn't seem to be having a good time recently, sir."

At the same time that Shirley spoke, a debate about the Avengers accident last week happened to be playing on the TV screen that was turned on in the laboratory.

Michael, who was fiddling with a complex structural diagram on the projection interface, didn't turn his head: "People who stand at a high place will always be remembered, and such things will always happen sooner or later."

Michael actually has a good impression of superhero groups like the Avengers. He believes that such a group is necessary—it can stand up when necessary, so that people always have a goal of hope in difficult times, which can give people hope. With the belief that "everything will be fine".

A belief, this is what the Avenger means, symbolizing the guardian of light and hope.

But even so, Michael doesn't think this style suits him.The world needs bright superheroes to show people the way, but it also needs people who don't mind doing things that bright heroes can't.Michael is more inclined to be the latter.

"The equipment is going to be upgraded, sir?" Shirley asked.

Michael finished modifying the drawing in his hand, checked it twice and clicked Save.

"Those Cree technologies have given us a lot of good ideas. Thanks to them, the performance of the new armor has huge room for improvement."

Michael paused for a moment, then asked, "That witch in God's Domain, did the magic power search yield any results?"

"Not yet, sir. Perhaps she has left Earth?"

"Maybe." Michael shrugged.He didn't expect to be able to find Amora with such a large-scale magic power scan. If she could be found so easily, she wouldn't deserve to be called one of the most powerful witches in Asgard.

"Contact Doctor Strange." He said, "Tell him that there may be a witch in God's Domain on Earth, this is their job scope, let them pay attention."

"Okay, sir." Shirley changed the subject, "Also, sir, I checked all aspects of the data of the Avengers Building before the incident according to your requirements, and I did find some findings. Just in Banner 10 minutes before Mister lost control, an encrypted message was sent to Tony Stark's personal mailbox, the content was 'Beware of Bruce Banner'."

"Oh? Where's the sender?"

"Unknown, the source cannot be deciphered."

"Got it. Remember it first, and pay attention to whether there are other similar messages."

(End of this chapter)