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After learning about Tony's dark past, Sherlock used it as "blackmail" to stay in Tony's studio for three more days. During those three days, Tony was practically running around non-stop.

On one hand, he needs to improve the production of his own armor, and on the other hand, he needs to constantly meet Sherlock's various requirements regarding the mechanical arm.

Fortunately, on the third day, Sherlock finally managed to shove that damned mechanical arm back onto his own arm.

Honestly, Tony almost cried when he saw this scene. It was the first time in his life that he had been "bullied" like this. The most important thing was that the person who "bullied" him was his legally recognized eldest son.

This also earned Sherlock a new nickname from Tony: the rebellious son!

Of course, because of his dark past, Tony didn't dare to call Sherlock that in front of him at all, but that didn't stop Tony from venting his anger by calling him a rebellious son after Sherlock left.

That's why Sherlock didn't know. If Sherlock knew about his new nickname, he would definitely sneer and tell Tony to save the nickname for his own armor.

After all, not everyone can pull off the feat of creating a suit of armor that is designed to counter their own.

After spending about half a day having Tony make some minor adjustments to his mechanical arm, Sherlock used alchemy to revitalize it before finally getting satisfied and driving Tony's modified Raptor away from Tony's mansion.

Sherlock had promised the original owner of this body that he would investigate the truth behind his parents' deaths, and having made that promise, Sherlock would never break his word.

As for Sherlock's investigation method, it was very simple. After leaving Tony's villa, Sherlock said goodbye to Pepper Potts, rented a house in Los Angeles for a short period of time, and then took the Stark Industries offer given to him by Pepper Potts and went to work for Stark Industries under the alias Shire.

The reason for doing this is quite simple: Sherlock needs to get close to Obadiah to find out the secrets he is hiding, and before joining the company, Sherlock had also done a brief investigation of this old fox, Obadiah.

Obadiah is in charge of business operations at Stark Industries, making him a master of both sales and external business. In addition, he was a business partner with Tony's father, Howard Stark, which gives him considerable influence within Stark's group.

Moreover, his responsibilities for sales and international business are the lifeblood of the entire Tony Stark Group.

However, getting close to Obadiah and obtaining his information under such circumstances is by no means an easy task. Therefore, Sherlock decides to take a daring step, which is to join the business and sales department that Obadiah is in charge of!

Sherlock's past experience as a corporate slave taught him one thing: sometimes, secrets that a leader thinks they've kept well hidden are actually no secrets at all within their department.

Or to put it more bluntly, it's an "open secret" if you want to find out.

Of course, this is on the premise that you have truly integrated into the group.

As for whether Pepper Potts' offer would arouse the suspicion of Obadiah's men, Sherlock was not worried at all.

The reason is simple: Little Pepper has issued countless offers like this in a year, which are distributed across various departments of Stark Industries.

After all, even a behemoth like Stark Industries is not immune to nepotism. Don't assume that foreigners don't engage in nepotism; in fact, nepotism is even more prevalent in foreign countries. Just look at how popular recommendation letters are in the US to know this.

Especially within Obadiah's Ministry of Commerce, it was perfectly normal for anyone with any background to appear without attracting any attention.

Not to mention Sherlock, the "rich second generation" who drives a heavily modified 6x6 Raptor pickup truck.

Of course, even though there are so-called "nepotism" connections, being proficient in a foreign language is still one of the necessary conditions for getting a job in the Ministry of Commerce. Otherwise, even with so-called "nepotism," a rich kid wouldn't be able to get it.

Fortunately, in addition to English, Sherlock also knew the rabbit's language, so he passed the interview in a flash. He even "arrogantly" pointed out more than ten grammatical errors in the Chinese document used for translation to the interviewer.

And so, almost without attracting anyone's attention, Sherlock actually entered Obadiah's Department of Commerce, specifically the department responsible for rabbit relations and import/export trade.

In less than three days, Sherlock successfully integrated into the department by leveraging his past life's accumulated work experience, money, and the persona of a rich second-generation heir.

However, despite the integration, the so-called "intelligence" obtained was of no use other than letting Sherlock know that Obadiah, this old man, was even more extravagant in private than Tony was before he went to the Middle East.

Not only that, Sherlock couldn't find anything wrong with the daily work of the entire business and sales departments. The sales of weapons and the quantity of imported and exported parts all matched up.

It can be said that Obadiah is a saint-like figure here!

However, this is a normal phenomenon. After all, if Obadiah could not have such a "saintly" image, he probably would not have been able to gain such a good impression from Tony, so much so that Tony has never doubted Obadiah over the years.

But this was not good news for Sherlock. He could only contact Pepper Potts after get off work and ask her to cooperate in staging a clumsy drama of "colleagues having a conflict that happens to be seen by the boss".

Pepper, under the guise of handling colleague relationships, directly "demoted" Sherlock to the records management department.

For someone in the workplace, such punishment is practically a fixed punishment. For a "rich second generation" like Sherlock, the so-called file management department is no different from exile.

At the same time, thanks to Pepper Potts' impatience and slightly disgusted attitude in dealing with Sherlock's affairs, no one in the company, from top to bottom, or even Obadiah, doubted Sherlock's identity.

After all, such things have happened far too many times here, so many that they've lost count.

This was exactly the result Sherlock wanted. In the archives department, Sherlock began searching for everything about Obadiah almost without stopping.

However, the results of the search made Sherlock gasp in shock.