Marvel: The Alchemist Just Wants a Peaceful Life.

Chapter 136 A Lively Christmas (Part 2)

Sherlock gave out many gifts, and he received many gifts in return.

As always, Zhao Weike gave Sherlock his mission records from when he was a Nightmare, which included action plans, target intelligence, combat videos, and more.

Although it may seem useless and meaningless, Sherlock actually has a deep love for these things.

While not as exciting as watching a movie, this method gave Sherlock a sense of participating in the uncovering of secrets. Whenever Sherlock combined intelligence and his own research to analyze the target's love, hate, and conflicts of interest, and combined this with Zhao Weike's plan and actual action footage, etc.

Sherlock felt as if he were experiencing an immersive murder mystery movie, even though the outcome of the "murder mystery" was almost fixed, it didn't stop Sherlock from enjoying the process.

As always, Helen gave Sherlock a Weasley family-style sweater that she had knitted herself. Unlike Ron, Sherlock showed no aversion to the sweater, which had a large letter "S" embroidered on the chest. In fact, Helen's sweater matched the knitted hat and scarf that Helen had given him before.

Sherlock tried it on and found it very comfortable, growing to like the sweater more and more.

After all, only teenagers care about the beauty or ugliness of hand-knitted items; adults will understand the emotions contained in those seemingly rough stitches.

As for Anna and Mindy, due to their age and experience, they only symbolically gave Sherlock a girl's kiss, and the same goes for Doro.

Sherlock naturally wouldn't refuse, and even used the matter to tease the two girls with a mischievous grin along with Zhao Weike.

In stark contrast to these two girls are Tony and Pepper. As expected of the biggest spenders in the Marvel universe, the gifts they give out are incredibly extravagant.

Tony offered Sherlock a portion of Stark Industries' shares. Sherlock initially wanted to refuse, but Tony countered by saying that these shares belonged to Sherlock's parents.

But Chili gave Sherlock a much more substantial gift, directly gifting him a lifetime membership card to a super famous massage parlor in New York, which she owned, and generously declaring that she would pay for all of Sherlock's expenses at the salon for the rest of his life!

Sherlock was naturally delighted with this; after all, who doesn't love a massage? Even a seasoned shut-in like Sherlock couldn't resist!

It's worth mentioning that Tony's gift to Pepper was making her the CEO of Stark Industries, and Sherlock could see that Tony was leaving Pepper a way out for the future.

Well, Tony is now on the verge of letting himself go, which can be seen from the fact that he gave Pepper Potts shares in the company while promoting her.

The fact that everyone sat around Helen's fireplace after dinner, chatting and drinking beer, was already a sign of what was to come.

Tony actually invited everyone here to watch an F1 race together on New Year's Day!

Although the date is not far from now, just after New Year's Day, the location Tony invited me to was just a little off.

It's important to know that in the movie, Tony's matches took place in Mexico or anywhere else, definitely not in Shanghai, the "shanghai" that Tony is talking about now!

Even Sherlock was somewhat surprised by the so-called plot change, but what surprised Sherlock even more was that after hearing the location Tony mentioned, Zhao Weike rejected Tony without any hesitation.

The reason is simple: Zhao Weike is on the Chinese side's entry blacklist!

Or to be more precise, all registered staff of hotels in mainland China are on the Chinese blacklist for entry!

In other words, besides Tony and Pepper, only Sherlock, Doro, and Helen were allowed to enter the country. Although they could enter using false identities, it was clear that Zhao Weike did not want to cause trouble for Tony.

Fortunately, Anna and Mindy had already taken Doro to play the game console Tony had given them, so they didn't know what they had missed and weren't too upset.

Seeing that her whole family couldn't go, Helen gave up the idea of ​​visiting Rabbit and directly refused Tony's offer. In the end, only Sherlock said he would bring Doro along.

After receiving Sherlock's reply, Tony visibly breathed a sigh of relief.

Although Pepper Potts didn't know why Tony suddenly had the idea to invite everyone to watch the so-called F1 race, she didn't say anything to stop him, but simply silently made plans for Tony in her mind.

After chatting about various things, Tony invited everyone to his mansion to celebrate New Year's Day before they all went back to their rooms to sleep.

Tony and Pepper stayed with Sherlock until the end of Christmas before returning to their mansion to prepare for the New Year.

Sherlock came to the Los Angeles mansion with Tony alone, while Doro stayed at Helen's house. This was partly because Doro had become addicted to video games under Anna and Mindy's influence, and partly because there wasn't much fun for Doro to do here.

After arriving in Los Angeles, Pepper Potts started preparing for the New Year, while Tony hid in the underground parking garage, tinkering with something.

Meanwhile, Sherlock, after helping Pepper prepare for a long time without seeing Tony, finally lost his patience and went straight to the underground parking garage to see what Tony was up to.

However, to Sherlock's utter surprise, when he entered the underground parking garage, he saw Tony with bloodshot eyes, constantly conducting experiments.

As Sherlock walked in, Tony pressed the Arc Reactor, which had just been replaced with palladium, back against his chest.

"Mmm, that familiar smell of barbecue!"

Hearing Tony's words, Sherlock stared speechlessly in Tony's direction, seemingly completely unaware that the legendary Arc Reactor actually had different flavors.

After Tony finished replacing the consumables in the Arc Reactor, he shook his head, a smile returning to his face, and said to Sherlock in a somewhat cheeky tone.

"What's wrong, my dear son? Are you missing your dad? Come here, Daddy will give you a hug!"

Seeing Tony trying to mask his fear and despair with a silly act, Sherlock was speechless. He rolled his eyes and walked towards Tony, casually picking up a wrench from the table. As he got closer, a red light flashed in his hand, and a syringe appeared in Sherlock's palm.

Before Tony could even react, Sherlock had already inserted the syringe into Tony's neck and injected the liquid inside.

The next second, an indescribable feeling swept over Tony's entire body, giving him a feeling of comfort he had never experienced before.

"Fuck, you unfilial son, what did you do to me?"

"Lithium dioxide! It can alleviate your palladium poisoning."

Sherlock spoke to Tony with unusual calm.

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