The days when I fought monsters and upgraded in the Marvel world

Stark Industrial Park.

The black bulletproof Rolls-Royce stopped, the driver and bodyguard Hogan opened the door, and a woman in a delicate suit got out of the passenger seat.

The woman is Pepper Pepper, the acting CEO of Stark Industries and the only person Tony Stark can currently trust.Of course, Wang Dali is currently regarded as Stark's trustworthy friend, but this friend is a Chinese pastoral dog and cannot be called a human.

Holding the special USB flash drive given by Stark, Pepper took a deep breath, as if a child was about to do something bad for fear of being discovered by his parents, and his heart was filled with tension.

After all, it is better to copy confidential illegal and criminal documents without anyone noticing. Once someone discovers it, especially if the person involved in the crime is caught, his life may be lost.

The group of bad guys lurking in the shadow of the group even dared to smuggle weapons to terrorist organizations, and hundreds of civilians died at the hands of terrorists. In the eyes of those guys, human life was simply worthless. She couldn't She felt that if she was really discovered, the other party would be kind enough to spare her life.

Therefore, Pepper was very nervous at the moment and his heartbeat was accelerating rapidly.

Fortunately, she adjusted her condition in time, which temporarily relaxed most of her tense nerves.

"Hogan, you stay here and wait for me, start the car and keep it running." Pepper ordered the bodyguard driver Hogan.This Hogan has been Mr. Stark's friend since childhood. He has served the Stark Group diligently for more than 20 years and is still very loyal.

Realizing that Pepper might be in danger, Hogan began to remain vigilant, nodded and said, "Okay." Then he warned Pepper, "Be careful in everything!"

"Yeah." Pepper nodded in response, and then walked into the gate of the industrial park as the acting CEO on her high heels.

The journey was smooth, and occasionally there were a few employees passing by. When they saw that it was their acting president, they all greeted him knowingly.

Don't think that Pepper is just an assistant or a supporting role in the movie. This is the real world now. In the entire Stark Industries, she is actually the top executive now, although her qualifications are not as good as Obadiah's. Among their few major shareholders, at least in name, she has the highest position in the entire huge group, and basically no one dares not to give her face.

Soon, Pepper walked straight into Stark's office.

This office is Tony Stark's personal office. Only Stark, his assistant Pepper, and Obadiah, whom Stark regards as his life mentor, have permission to enter.

However, since Stark was kidnapped by the Ten Rings Gang in Afghanistan three months ago, he has never been here again, and as his assistant, Pepper has rarely been here.

So today, Pepper was walking in a hurry, and as soon as he entered the industrial park, he went straight to the BOSS office. He looked a little sneaky while walking, which immediately attracted the attention of a middle-level manager.

This middle-level manager, a fat middle-aged man with a big belly, is one of Obadiah's confidants.

When he realized something might be going on, Fatty immediately called and reported the situation to Obadiah in time.

"Okay, I get it. You did a good job."

After hanging up the phone, Obadiah left the "No. 16 Area" base, the industrial area where he spent a lot of research and development funds to build the Iron Overlord armor, and hurried to Tony's office.

At the same time, Pepper had inserted the high-tech USB flash drive that could easily hack into almost any computer system in the world, and was doing the "copying" and "pasting" that elementary school students would do, transferring all the group's shipping manifest information in the past year to the USB flash drive. Copy inside.

While copying, suddenly, her eyes inadvertently glanced at the corner of the screen, a confidential project document called "Area No. 16".

"No. 16 District? Why haven't I heard of it?"

Pepper's beautiful eyes narrowed slightly, with a trace of confusion flashing in her eyes.

As the acting CEO of Stark Industries, she has almost all the power, but she has never even heard of the "No. 16 District" project. It's hard to believe that there are no ghosts here.

So Pepper curiously clicked on the project file while the file was being copied.

It was okay if she didn't click it, but when she opened it, Pepper opened her mouth in an instant. She covered her mouth, her eyes full of surprise, and her face full of expressions of disbelief.

She saw several terrorists pointing guns at Mr. Stark on the screen, and the guy leading the video threatened Obadiah in Middle Eastern language, saying that he was short of money, something like that. Yes, there's a price increase or they won't let Tony Stark die.

"Oh my God! I must hand this document over to Tony with my own hands!"

With that said, Pepper clicked the copy button again.

However, at this moment, Obadiah, whom Pepper was most afraid of seeing, suddenly appeared.

What a coincidence!

But is it really such a coincidence?

No, that was because an informant tipped off Obadiah in advance.

Seeing Obadiah coming, Pepper took a deep breath, stayed calm, smiled and moved the newspaper on the table to the side of the computer, covering the high-tech USB flash drive.

Then Obadiah and Pepper chatted wordlessly. By the end of the conversation, when they estimated that they had almost finished copying the required documents, Pepper made an excuse and said she had something to deal with, got up and left.

As soon as Pepper left, Obadiah quickly came to the desk computer, shook the mouse, and woke up the computer screen from the screensaver interface to the normal working interface.

Pepper's behavior just now looked different from usual. He was a little restrained, nervous, and serious. He noticed something strange and wondered if there was some little trick that was being hidden from him.

When he saw the prompt message "File has been copied" displayed on the screen, Obadiah immediately rubbed the hair on his head angrily, but when he thought that he didn't seem to have hair, he became very angry. He patted the table.

"Those idiots in District No. 16 spent so much money on me, but they still haven't successfully developed the Ark Reactor!"

Project No. 16, in other words, is actually the "Iron Overlord Armor Manufacturing Plan."

The early stage of the project plan was going very well. With the help of the design drawings snatched from the leader of the Ten Rings Gang, Obadiah invested a lot of research and development funds, and set aside a sub-factory workshop dedicated to the project, under various favorable conditions, In just a week, the Iron Overlord armor shell has been completed.

Of course, this does not mean that this group of second-rate scientists can build armor faster than Stark.It was obvious that an entire R&D team and hundreds of assembly workers worked together to build it. In this case, it only took a week. Although it took Stark longer, it was built by him alone. Yes, the nature is completely different.

However, at present, the project progress has been stuck at the bottleneck of "small Ark reactor" for more than three weeks.

For more than three weeks, the R&D team had no clue. Even if the huge Ark reactor was right in front of them, they could not reduce it to the size of a fist.

This made Obadiah very angry and felt that a lot of time, energy and money he had invested had been wasted.

The most important thing is that if the results are not seen for a long time, the old foxes on the board of directors will not be willing to surrender to him.And without the small Ark reactor as a bargaining chip to get the Stark group back on track, once the evidence of his crime is exposed, no one will be willing to protect him.After all, a person who has no use value is not worth their contacts and resources to keep.

"It seems that we can only activate the backup plan..."

Obadiah turned off the computer, and a murderous look flashed in his big eyes.

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