Laura's Beautiful Journey

After listening to Killian's description of Laura, the Mandarin fell into silence.

He sneered at the term "perfect Extremis virus host". After taking Laura's punch, he was still enduring the erosion of her strange energy. This was completely different from the spicy Extremis virus that Killian studied. The presence.

On the contrary, he seemed to have a vague impression of the Croft family mentioned by Killian, but it was difficult to find the corresponding fragments from the chaotic memory for a while.

After getting the general information about his opponent, there was no point for Killian, the tool man, to stay here anymore. The Mandarin asked him to continue to find people for him and then kicked him out.

"Hmph! Old thing, sooner or later I want to..."

Killian, who walked out from the secret passage, was filled with resentment and at the same time full of envy and jealousy.

He knew the severity of his previous injuries best. First, his arms were cut off, and before he could be repaired, he was quickly forced to self-destruct.

You must know that the self-destruction of the Extremis Warrior at the last moment is uncontrollable and irreversible. In order to squeeze out the last bit of energy, his body was already in the stage of cell collapse. Killian himself had no way to save it.

However, when he woke up in the wooden barrel filled with water mist, he found that his body, which should have been completely scrapped, had recovered to some extent. After a brief observation, he guessed that it must be the effect of the liquid in which he was soaked, so he Before leaving, he secretly packed a test tube and prepared to go back for laboratory tests.

After Killian left, the Mandarin, who rested for another two hours, tried again to expel the foreign energy from his body, but unfortunately the final result failed.

This also made the Mandarin make a rather risky decision. He was going to go back to the Ghost Valley cave to find a solution in the wreckage of the crashed alien spacecraft, where he had most of the knowledge in his mind and hands. The origin of these ten rings.

As for Laura, she went straight back to her biological research base, and met Tony Stark at the door carrying two large paper bags.

"Royal Restaurant? Okay, Tony. When did you start working as a delivery boy?"

Laura was not polite to him, took a paper bag, took out a hamburger from it, and ate it.

“Cheese and bacon beef burger, really good.”

Stark glanced at her slightly speechlessly.

"I'll be squatting here for the past two days. Don't feed me everything in one meal. Save some."

"I have no objection, but Maya is the leader here. As long as she doesn't object. By the way, what will Pepper do if you come here? Just stay in the empty room alone."

Laura swallowed the last bite of beef and smacked her mouth comfortably.

"Pepper went to London for business matters."

Seeing that her food seemed delicious, Tony felt that he was greedy again, but his already full stomach said NO to him.

"Hey, you two came together."

After entering the room, Maya Hansen stood up from her chair in front of the experimental table and stretched. Unknowingly, she had been busy for a few more hours.

"Tony, where are my power-up items?"

The two people at the door raised the paper bags in their hands and shook them at her.

"Nice!"

Dr. Hansen, who was already hungry, ran two steps quickly, supported the experimental table with one hand and made a graceful jump. He took the paper bag in Stark's hand and tore it open with a bang, sat cross-legged on the ground and started eating.

Laura, who was well aware of Maya's workaholic nature, knew at a glance that this guy was very hungry. She put the paper bag in her hand on the workbench, found a chair and sat down and started her own work, while Tony walked straight over. In front of Pig Hogan's medical cabin, he checked various data of his friends.

Since Killian's body had not been found near the waters of Biscayne Island before, Laura directly assumed that he was rescued by the Mandarin, so she directly added him to the monitoring list of the Sky Eye system.

As for the Mandarin himself, who showed various strange abilities after just a few rounds of fighting, Laura found that there was no information about this guy in the database.

Laura, who didn't know the other person's pseudonym, couldn't help but feel numb for a moment, and her hand on the table began to tap rhythmically.

"Emmmm, hands, fingers, rings... By the way, the Ten Rings Gang!"

This time, she was looking in the right direction. Although the Mandarin's deliberate avoidance made him difficult to track, it was not that easy for his numerous Ten Rings Gang to cover up their tracks.

As an organization that has existed since the Middle Ages, Laura found many records about them without much effort.

Unlike Hydra, Holy Trinity, and other large organizations that once appeared on the stage of history, the Ten Rings Gang mostly operates in secret.

Therefore, most of these recorded contents were assassinations, kidnappings, bribery and other actions. It was not until the beginning of the 21st century that a large number of organization members entered the Middle East, attracted a large number of local people to join and actively participated in various war operations, and then they became famous. .

What surprised Laura the most were two declassified documents from Pioneer Technology.

First, the Ten Rings Gang was involved in Tony Stark's kidnapping case in the Middle East, and it was the leader of the plan. She and Tony didn't find out when they were sorting out the files left by Iron Overlord Obadiah Stan. Relevant evidence.

Secondly, when Laura instructed her uncle Ross to go to Eastern Europe to investigate Vanke and his son, there was also the shadow of the Ten Rings Gang behind the action of secretly contacting and taking away Ivan Vanke, and they originally wanted to arrange this guy at Pioneer Technology. Later, for unknown reasons, it was dumped to Hanmo Industry.

After checking this, Laura couldn’t help but feel a little confused.

The purpose of the Ten Rings Gang's two attacks was Tony Stark. If it was for his technical acumen, then why not just leave the whip cord the second time? In Laura's view, if they simply pursue high-tech practicality In terms of weapons, Ivan Vanko is not much worse than Tony.

If it is to control the Stark Group and its assets, then if the first operation succeeds, the biggest beneficiary will be Obadiah Stan, not the Ten Rings Gang.

As for the second operation, Whiplash was completely aimed at killing Stark, and by that time Tony had already designated Pepper Potts as the beneficiary after his death, so the Ten Rings Gang still couldn't get any benefits.

The last possibility seemed even lower to Laura, and that was that the Ten Rings Gang simply wanted Tony's life.

But if this is the case, first of all, Tony Stark and the Ten Rings Gang have never had a conflict, and there is absolutely no need to design two time-consuming, laborious and expensive operations.

Whether it's an assassination attempt before Tony becomes Iron Man, or the Mandarin himself after he becomes Iron Man, this goal can be accomplished very easily.