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Although the archives do not store specific information about Obadiah, they do contain all of Obadiah's administrative orders since he joined Stark Industries.

From these decisions, Sherlock almost clearly pieced together a living, real-life Obadiah.

It's true that Obadiah co-founded Stark Industries with Howard, but Howard has always kept a firm grip on both the technology and the company's decision-making.

During this period, Obadiah dealt with matters that Howard did not want to handle.

Or to put it more bluntly, Obadiah during this period was actually Howard's black glove, handling all the tasks that Howard couldn't handle himself and that would offend people.

It's no exaggeration to say that at this time, Obadiah was definitely the most unpopular person in the entire Stark Industries, but also one of Howard's best partners.

Everything changed after Howard's death.

At that time, Tony was too young and had no concept of company management at all. It was Obadiah who stepped forward.

Leveraging his status as Howard's partner, coupled with the "prestige" he had accumulated over the years as the Black Glove, Obadiah successfully "stood beside Tony" and became the new Stark's right-hand man.

At the same time, he shed his identity as the "black glove" and began to stand in the spotlight again. He and Tony addressed each other as uncle and nephew, a relationship that continues to this day. Based on Tony's trust in him, he even directly took charge of the business and sales departments.

Among this vast amount of information, Sherlock also saw his parents' names and roughly deduced a conclusion.

At the time, his parents were undoubtedly among the most opposed to Tony and Obadiah getting too close within the entire Stark Group, and even among the people who hated Obadiah the most.

This can be seen from the signatures on the frequently changing government orders during that period.

After his parents died, Obadiah clearly succeeded in carrying out all his plans and seized power within Stark Industries.

Nevertheless, these can only be considered as 'reasons' for Obadiah to kill his parents, not as evidence.

Sherlock had neither found out how Obadiah smuggled Stark Industries' weapons nor found any evidence that he had murdered his parents. Three days of working tirelessly to sort through intelligence had left Sherlock extremely exhausted.

Having gained nothing, he simply resigned from his job at Stark Industries and drove back to Tony's mansion.

By this time, Tony had completed most of the Mark I armor. He was extremely welcoming to Sherlock, who had been working for almost half a month, and his first words to him were...

"Welcome home, my dear Mr. Charles!"

Unfortunately, Sherlock had no interest in joking with Tony. He sat silently on the living room sofa, rubbed his temples wearily, and then asked Tony a question.

"Tony, let's get down to business. Tell me everything you know about my parents' murder, okay?"

With Tony's intelligence, coupled with Sherlock's recent actions, Tony almost immediately deduced who Sherlock suspected.

"Are you doubting Obadiah?"

Sherlock did not deny Tony's question, but stared at Tony silently for a while before rubbing his throbbing temples and speaking to Tony.

"Yes, not only that, I suspect that the arms smuggling in the Middle East is also Obadaiya's doing."

"Impossible! I've checked almost all the processes and raw materials in the department under Obadiah's control, and I haven't found any evidence of Obadiah smuggling!"

Tony dismissed Sherlock's conjecture almost instantly, but seeing that Sherlock clearly didn't want to talk to him, Tony quickly fell silent again.

After a long while, Tony sighed helplessly and began to tell Sherlock about what had happened in the past.

Obadiah and his father Howard Stark founded Stark Industries. Sherlock's parents were among the first employees, and Tony's father Howard was also an extremely family-oriented person.

That's why Tony often saw Howard having meetings at home with Obadiah and Sherlock's parents.

To Sherlock's surprise, Tony had a good relationship with the people who often came to his house for meetings, and among them, Sherlock's parents were the closest.

Especially Sherlock's father, although not much older than Tony, always made Tony feel a kind of inexplicable fatherly love, or rather, the care of an older brother, when he and Sherlock's mother were with Tony.

Obadiah is Tony's favorite uncle, he has been since he was a child, because Obadiah always gives Tony some of his favorite things whenever they see each other.

It wasn't until Tony's father, Howard, passed away, and Tony, who was in turmoil because of Stark Industries, felt like he couldn't go on, that Sherlock's parents stepped forward and, in the name of Sherlock's godfather, helped Tony to pull himself together again.

The rest is history. Sherlock's parents died in a plane crash, and Tony theoretically adopted Sherlock. Obadiah became Tony's only "supporter" during that period, which led to Stark Industries' current success.

What Tony didn't know was that his original idea was to make Sherlock understand that Obadiah couldn't possibly harm his parents, but judging from the dusty documents Sherlock saw in the archives, it was clear that wasn't the case.

Obadiah is actually more of a suspect in Sherlock's case.

Seeing Sherlock's silent demeanor, Tony became somewhat angry. He immediately had Jarvis pull up his investigation into the plane crash and throw it at Sherlock, while he angrily went off to improve his armor.

Sherlock didn't pay any attention to Tony's little temper; instead, he looked through Tony's condiments.

This is the investigation report after the plane crash, which includes the pre-flight inspection and the landing inspection.

Both reports indicated that there were no problems with the aircraft's fuselage, ruling out mechanical failure as the cause.

But when Sherlock looked through the data report generated by the black box, he felt uneasy. The black box showed that the pilot had made no operational errors and had even performed standard rescue operations after the plane lost power.

In short, there were no useful clues in this air disaster. The plane was fine before the flight and fine after takeoff. The pilot was also very professional, but it just crashed inexplicably!

Most importantly, the document also includes an investigation report commissioned by Tony and provided by a detective, which details Obadiah's interactions with Sherlock's parents before and after the plane crash.

There were no suspicious individuals on this list! Not a single one!