Chapter 113: Where the Dream Begins

Early morning, Bagram Air Base.

The sun has not yet risen, but the air is already filled with the cold of dawn.

At the end of the earth, the convoy on patrol had just returned, the roar of engines broke the silence, and the entire barracks began to wake up.

Some troops had already begun training at this time, and dozens of soldiers took a step forward, shouting slogans, and headed for the intended location.

And Sharon was staring at the ceiling with round eyes, sighing helplessly, another sleepless night...

Since Tony's attack and whereabouts unknown, she has been unable to sleep at night, and even if she is lucky enough to fall asleep, she will wake up from a dream of falling from a height.

In the end, she often had to chew loneliness in the dark, with only some thoughts to accompany.

Sharon didn't intend to continue trying to sleep, she braced herself with one elbow, rolled over, and neatly rolled off the hard camp bed.

Tony has repeatedly complained that she is a workaholic who does not enjoy life, he really does not understand who can sleep in such a hard bed, but what Tony does not know is that Sharon does not know how to enjoy life, she is just completely integrated into the army, can no longer adapt to ordinary life.

She could no longer sleep in the soft bed, and the soft touch would make her feel that her whole person would fall into the ground, devoured by some unknown monster.

On the contrary, the hard camp bed in the barracks made her feel safe.

But now, neither the hard camp bed nor the familiar barracks atmosphere can help her sleep.

Sharon quickly finished putting on her uniform, then quickly left the barracks with the spear and shield placed at hand, the chill in the air made her a little more awake, and her steps became firm and powerful, but the red eyes revealed the fact that she had not slept all night again.

"Good morning, Captain!"

The soldiers they met along the way greeted this legendary figure for them, and Sharon only nodded slightly in the face of the soldiers' warm greetings, she could not care about this now.

She went straight to a bunker and stormed the gate under the respectful gaze of two sentinels.

Inside the bunker is the center of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s operations here.

In the very center of the bunker there is a huge round table, and the surface of the round table is not ordinary lacquer, but a special reflective surface made of glass, at this time the dark red light is rippling on the table, the undulating light after a few flashes actually constitute a topographic map of nearly forty kilometers near the military base, and on the map you can even see lifelike soldiers and patrol convoys that have just returned.

Near the round table, more than twenty technicians are constantly tapping on the keyboard, constantly typing data into the computer, and whispering information through the headset.

Seeing Sharon arrive, a technician pushed away a chair and greeted him, he didn't make any report, just shook his head slightly.

Sharon wasn't frustrated, a scene she had been repeating every day lately, and now she was a little numb, but just as she was about to turn away and follow the patrol convoy to find Tony's tracks, the technician hurried to stop her.

"Captain! He is waiting for you online. "

"Him?"

Sharon frowned, and then looked at the end of the bunker, a huge screen was slowly rising from the ground, and the picture suddenly flashed out of the originally dim screen, and a pitch-black figure appeared in the center of the screen.

"Director Fury..."

Sharon straightened up, hung her shield behind her, saluted quickly and accurately, and then put her hands behind her back.

"Take it easy, Captain."

Nick Fury wrapped his hands around his chest and raised his chin expressionlessly, counting it as a response.

"I've seen the footage of Tony Stark's attack and read your report, but I now need you to report in detail in person so that I can lay out the next steps."

"Yes, Director Fury..."

Sharon looked bleak, this was the first time she had experienced such a complete failure, and worst of all, she had put her childhood sweetheart in danger, she now sincerely hoped that someone would scold her, but Nick Fury obviously had no intention of pursuing the fault at this time, he just stared at Sharon, waiting for her report.

"I found Tony's blood sample at the scene of the incident, but it was not enough to prove that he was fatally injured, I think Tony is still alive and whoever attacked the convoy will certainly not kill Tony after he finds him."

Fury nodded and sneered:

"He should indeed be alive, but the question is what the kidnappers want, and if they wanted a ransom, they should have heard from them, but the situation is silent now, so what the kidnappers want is definitely more important than money."

If the kidnapper's purpose is to threaten Tony to make a weapon, the situation will be very bad.

And..."

"Are you worried that Tony Stark would sell sensitive information to terrorists for self-preservation?"

Sharon couldn't help but interrupt Fury, her hands gripping the spear tightly, her fingers rubbing the lines of metal.

"Of course I am worried about this, it will cause immeasurable and great harm to our country, and I sent someone to get information from Obadiah Steini as soon as possible."

"Uncle Steiny..."

Sharon couldn't help but lower her head, if Tony had an accident this time, she really didn't know how to face him in the future.

"His original words are that although Tony Stark is elusive, he does not have many secrets to leak, Tony usually only cares about inventing weapons, other work is basically thrown to himself or his assistant to do, terrorists call him to ask for the access code of the mansion maybe he can't give it, if the company's military, surveillance and other satellite passwords are even more impossible."

This was in line with Sharon's consistent impression of Tony, but she asked in disbelief:

"He's the one who loves Tony the most, doesn't he have any other feelings about Tony's disappearance?"

"Of course he doesn't express his feelings, because he only acts."

Nick Fury sighed rarely.

"We have always known that there was a problem with Stark Industries' financial accounts, that he had money deals with many terrorists, and this time he probably contacted all his trading partners to find Tony Stark for him."

Sharon was relieved when she heard this, she felt guilty for suspecting this beloved uncle for a moment just now, and at the same time she said helplessly:

"But he is not destined to gain anything by doing this, I have inspected the scene of the attack, there are only fragments of Stark Industries' weapons, unless the attacker does not rely on weapons, only stones to complete the attack, otherwise the attacker must also use Stark Industries' weapons, which means that he spent a lot of money to find the murderer, but did not expect that the person he hired was one of the murderers."

"It's not completely useless."

The corners of Nick Fury's mouth rose contemptuously.

"We have already compared his transaction records, just now we have locked the Ten Rings Gang, but we are not yet sure of the location of the Ten Rings Gang headquarters, but we are now inducing Obadiah Steini to make a deal with them as soon as possible..."

Sharon jerked her head up and looked into Nick Fury's only remaining eye,

"Get ready, Captain, I don't want to fall asleep on the battlefield."

"Always ready!"

The blood in Sharon's eyes has not yet retreated, but she is no longer tired, and the fire in her eyes flashes, burning more and more.

...

...

In the cave, Tony suddenly shivered, but he still suppressed the discomfort of his body and continued to disassemble a small missile produced by Stark Industries, he skillfully used backward tools to disassemble the missile step by step, and finally only a pile of scattered parts remained, while throwing aside the expensive parts that were no longer needed by him like garbage.

And Wanda and several people are also learning his appearance to disassemble missiles, and the ground is already a mess.

Since being "inspired" by Wanda and the middle-aged man, Tony also changed his decadent appearance, took the initiative to ask the bearded leader for various resources to turn this gloomy cave into his studio, and then worked day and night, or in this cave that did not see the light of day, they could not tell whether it was day or night without a clock.

With a soft "pop", the warhead of the missile was easily removed, Tony took out a very complex part from the inside of the missile, and then took the part to the workbench, and removed a tiny part from the complex part in three or two strokes.

With the whisper of "we don't need this", another part was scrapped, and a missile worth millions of dollars is now left with a tiny piece less than the size of a fingernail.

Then Tony held up the small bright silver fragment in front of his eyes and calmly introduced:

"Palladium, 0.15 grams."

Wanda gathered a bunch of bright silver fragments together in a bad mood, and said dissatisfied:

"This is the 1.6 you want, you better not mess this up, otherwise I will go crazy if I dismantle a full four missiles for you!"

Tony didn't speak, just raised his hand in surrender, and then took out the mold that had been prepared, gathered the pieces in a small iron cup, and put them into the raging flames.

When the palladium in it was completely melted, Tony took the initiative to ask:

"Which of you has the steadiest hand? We only have one chance. "

The middle-aged man who was a doctor stepped forward without hesitation, Tony stretched out his finger to the mold, and hesitated for a few seconds before asking awkwardly:

"What's your name?" I seem to have missed the self-introduction at the beginning of school. "

"He's Dr. Hou Yinsen, and he's the one who saved your life."

Wanda's criticism made Tony hurriedly raise his hand in surrender, but he didn't have time to apologize now, his attention was all on Hou Yinsen's hand, and he saw him holding the small iron cup and slowly walking towards the mold.

And Hou Yinsen also saw Tony's nervous appearance, and calmly opened his mouth to comfort:

"Don't worry, my hand is very stable, or how did you survive?"

The palladium, which had been melted into liquid, also flowed into the mold steadily, perfectly forming the shape of a ring, and Tony's face finally relaxed a little at this time.

He immediately explained the requirements he needed for the next step, and Wanda and Pietro, although dissatisfied, honestly began to collect materials, and Tony finally found an opportunity at this moment, and he reached out and grabbed Hou Yinsen, who also planned to collect materials, and whispered the question that had been accumulated in his heart for a long time.

"Who are these brothers and sisters? Can we really trust them? "

Unlike Hou Yinsen, the treatment of the brothers and sisters was very different from that of the two of them, not only would they not be treated rudely by the soldiers who watched over the crowd, but they would sometimes talk secretly with a female leader, and Tony also noticed that they could even enter and leave the cell at will, which was obviously not the treatment of prisoners.

Although the girl named Wanda had "inspired" him and asked him to do something, the killing intent in the eyes of the brothers and sisters at that time could not be fake, if this group of terrorists just imprisoned two people who were full of hatred with themselves to monitor themselves, then sooner or later their plans would be exposed, and he would have to prepare early.

Hou Yinsen was stunned for two seconds after hearing Tony's question, although he and the two siblings had a much better relationship than Tony, but in fact, he didn't know much more about the siblings than Tony.

He couldn't force himself to trust the two, and the treatment they received and their whereabouts were indeed suspicious.

After a few seconds of silence, Hou Yinsen looked at Wanda, who was complaining about Tony's style and Pietro, who looked unhappy.

"I don't know where they came from, but I know that they have a good partnership with the leader here, Laza, so they are probably not prisoners, but they can't leave this base at will."

As for whether you can trust them..."

Hou Yinsen really couldn't find a suitable adjective, so he had to say with a wry smile:

"If they want to kill you, I'm sure they will have killing intentions against you, but they will definitely not be in league with Laza."

He remembered the eyes of the two when he and his brother and sister had surgery together that day, especially Wanda's appearance of trying his best to save the nameless boy, and Hou Yinsen said firmly:

"If you can launch a counterattack against Raza and destroy his plot, then they will definitely fully support you even if they suppress hatred and killing intent."

After speaking, Hou Yinsen thought for a moment and then added:

"They... In fact, they are all good boys. "

"Huh, good boy? So these two good boys not only really want to help me, they will not hesitate to kill me if I strike, these two good boys are really perfect overseers and allies, which gives me a lot of motivation. "

Tony picked up the cooled ring with tweezers, and although his tone was mocking, his eyes were not dissatisfied or hateful towards the brother and sister.

On the contrary, what annoys him at the moment is the series of decisions he has made in the past, and the proud thoughts of his past, he put the ring firmly into a container, and he has also made a decision in his heart...

Three days later, Tony finally assembled a series of parts, stared with bated breath at the somewhat strange-looking ring, he slowly twisted the knob, and the ring also emitted a steady dreamy blue light, his face finally showed a faint smile, and he didn't know, in the watch, Peter who had been watching him was also relieved.

At this time, Peter finally witnessed the birth of Iron Man and came to the place where the dream began.

(End of chapter)

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