American comics: Starting as the Jinchūriki of the One-Tailed Beast

Chapter 73 Justin's Kidnapping

Norman is dead?

Did he discover that Parker was Spider-Man?

Upon learning of Norman's death, Roy's first thought was that Norman, just like in the movie, had kidnapped Mary Jane, forced Parker to choose between Mary Jane and a group of innocent children, and ultimately died in his own glider.

"How did he die?"

Roy asked Gwen.

"The specific cause of death is unclear; the official statement is that he died suddenly from a serious illness despite all efforts to save him."

Gwen replied with a frown.

Upon hearing Gwen's reply, Roy took out his phone and started searching for news about Norman's death.

Norman is not as wealthy or famous as Tony.

But he remains a well-known American billionaire.

His death was reported by almost all major news websites and channels.

Just as Gwen said, Norman's exact cause of death is unclear; all reports have stated that he died from a sudden illness that could not be treated.

After searching for news about Norman's death, Roy began searching for reports about the Green Goblin.

Compared to the news of Norman's death, there was very little coverage of the Green Goblin.

The most recent report was from several months ago.

After searching through the Green Goblin reports, he was basically certain that Norman had not forced Parker to choose between Mary Jane and a group of innocent children.

If Norman had pressured Parker like in the movies, the Green Goblin story wouldn't have remained just a few months ago.

After dinner.

Roy and Gwen did not return to the villa immediately, but instead went to the forest outside the city.

Gwen was curious about what exactly the Destroyer was.

To satisfy her curiosity, Roy didn't mind showing her the abilities of the modified Destroyer.

After arriving in the forest using the Flying Thunder God Technique, he retrieved the Destroyer from his system space.

The system space cannot accommodate living creatures.

However, the Destroyer is not a living being and is not much different from intelligent robots created using technology.

"It looks a bit ugly!"

Gwen looked up at the Destroyer and spoke slowly.

"Well, I wouldn't call it ugly, it's just a bit rugged."

Roy replied.

From a personal perspective, he quite liked the Destroyer's rugged design.

After he finished speaking, he explained the Destroyer's abilities to Gwen while giving the Destroyer orders.

Before the modification, the Destroyer could only fire high-temperature beams.

The current Destroyer can fire both high-temperature beams and ice beams.

When using chakra as its energy source, the Destroyer fires high-temperature beams.

When powered by frost energy, it emits a frozen beam.

After demonstrating the Destroyer's abilities, Roy said to Gwen, "Besides my commands, the Destroyer will also take your commands from now on."

"I plan to leave it in the garage of the villa so that it can serve as the villa's guard."

Gwen nodded and replied, "Okay!"

Roy recalled the Destroyer into the system space, once again embraced Gwen's slender waist, locked onto the Flying Thunder God Technique in the villa, and began to cast the Flying Thunder God Technique.

In just a moment, they were back in the villa's living room from the forest outside the city.

After chatting for a while on the living room sofa, Gwen blushed and headed towards the bathroom.

Roy followed without hesitation.

As the saying goes, absence makes the heart grow fonder!

Soon, inappropriate panting sounds filled the bathroom.

Justin Hammer has had mixed feelings over the past month.

A month ago, after seeing the makeshift armor and arc reactor made by Ivan Vanko in Monaco, he made a decision: he would get his hands on the arc reactor technology no matter what.

As a result, before he could carry out his prison break plan, Ivan Vanko was kidnapped by a group of heavily armed soldiers.

This was definitely bad news for him, who wanted to possess the Arc Reactor technology.

However, a few days later, he met Ivan Vanko and a stranger in New York whom he had never met before.

It was an ordinary Wednesday night.

After a busy day at work, he returned to his villa, took a bath in the bathroom, and relaxed his body and mind.

Then, he was kidnapped.

A group of mysterious men wearing black masks sneaked into his villa and went to the bathroom without alerting any security personnel or equipment.

Before he could do anything, he was shot in the neck with an anesthetic.

When he regained consciousness, he found himself kidnapped and taken to his own factory.

To be precise, it's a factory located in Queens.

In the factory office, he met Ivan Vanko, and a masked man whose face was obscured, who called himself "Crossbones."

Although he was inexplicably kidnapped to his own factory, he quickly calmed down.

He didn't know who Crossbones was.

However, he was certain of one thing: he was not in immediate danger.

So he took the initiative to ask Ivan Vanko and Crossbones why they had kidnapped him.

Crossbones didn't keep anyone in suspense and stated the reason directly.

"We're going to requisition your factory to manufacture Iron Man suits."

"You now have two choices: cooperate with us or refuse."

"We know that after the hearing, the military canceled the order, and you have always wanted to get the order back and make Hammer Industries the military's largest supplier."

"If you cooperate with us, we can guarantee that the military's order will return to your hands."

"If you refuse, tomorrow's headlines will be about the chairman of Hammer Industries dying under mysterious circumstances in his factory office, allegedly suffering inhuman abuse before his death."

You have ten seconds to think about it.

"10, 9, 8, 7——————"

Justin disliked this "do or die" negotiation style.

Despite his dislike for it, he ultimately chose to collaborate with Crossbones.

What happened next was quite simple.

Ivan Vanko and several heavily armed, mysterious soldiers remained at the factory.

Crossbones then left with the others.

Justin initially thought Ivan Vanko and Crossbones were in cahoots.

But when he saw that Crossbones had left several soldiers to monitor Ivan Vanko, he knew he was wrong.

It is clear that Ivan Vanko was also forced to cooperate with Crossbones.

In his capacity as chairman, Justin instructed his secretary to send a notice to all factory employees to temporarily halt operations and upgrade the factory's equipment. Then, he revoked other employees' access to the factory, effectively "shutting it down."

A week later, after his poor performance at the hearing led to the cancellation of his order, he received a notification from the military that he could reclaim his previous order.

He was initially somewhat skeptical that Crossbones was trying to fool him.

As it turned out, Crossbones was not lying and kept his promise to return the military order to him.

Although he was curious about how the crossbones did it, Justin knew that excessive curiosity could get him killed.

Clearly, Crossbones didn't want him to know his true identity.

If Crossbones discovers that he is secretly investigating his true identity, he would not hesitate to kill him to prevent his identity from being exposed.