I sparked a mysterious resurgence in Marvel.

Chapter 209

"Who?"

After being abruptly awakened by a bucket of cold water, Tony Stark jolted awake and rolled off the ground.

Upon seeing the basin that Erin was still holding and the water droplets still clinging to his face, Tony Stark immediately understood what had caused the bone-chilling cold he had just felt.

After wiping the water droplets from his face, Tony Stark said to Arryn with annoyance, "Damn it, couldn't you have woken me up in a different way?"

Upon hearing this, Erin placed the basin he was carrying on a shelf next to him.

Then he slowly said, "I called you, but you didn't wake up, so I had to splash water on you to wake you up."

After replying, Erin's expression hardened, and she said seriously, "What happened to you all? Why were you all unconscious on the floor when I opened the basement? Do you remember what just happened?"

Although Arryn's words inevitably seemed like a way to change the subject, Tony Stark's expression quickly turned grim as he recalled the scene before he lost consciousness.

After a few seconds of silence.

He looked at Erin with a serious expression and said, "I don't know!"

"After hearing the gunshots upstairs, I took the pistol from Happy and stood guard at the entrance to this basement. But I had only just started guarding this spot when I suddenly passed out..."

At this point, Tony Stark paused, a thoughtful look appearing in his eyes, before saying somewhat uncertainly, "By the way, before I passed out, I seemed to sense a chilling aura. It was after sensing that aura that I passed out."

A chilling atmosphere.

What Tony sensed was probably the eerie wind that swept in before the strange gray fog descended!

In other words.

They were knocked unconscious by that eerie gray-black mist.

Upon hearing this, Erin nodded thoughtfully.

Just then, Tony Stark suddenly stared at Arlin and asked, "By the way, how's that lunatic who was chasing me? Did you take him down?"

In Tony Stark's opinion.

Now that Erin had appeared before them unharmed, the fate of the madman who had been chasing them was clearly sealed.

He asked this simply to confirm with Erin.

However, Arlin's next answer left Tony Stark stunned.

"That guy who's been chasing you!"

"It should have been resolved, but now I'm not so sure."

Upon hearing Arryn's reply, Tony Stark asked, puzzled, "What do you mean?"

"I had already shot and killed the guy who was chasing you, but as soon as he died, a strange gray-black mist suddenly descended. After that mist corroded the guy's body into a pile of ashes, it swept away his soul and disappeared, so..."

Erin shrugged. "I don't know if I've taken care of that guy."

"By the way, before that eerie gray-black mist descended, I also felt a gust of cold wind. If I'm not mistaken, you were probably knocked unconscious by that gust of cold wind."

"Wow? Are you kidding me?"

After hearing Arryn's explanation, Tony Stark stared in disbelief, dumbfounded. "How can such a bizarre thing exist in this world?"

"Strange, isn't it?" Arlin looked Tony Stark up and down with a meaningful gaze for a moment before slowly saying, "In fact, this isn't the first time I've seen this strange fog."

"The last time I shot Obadiah outside your seaside villa, and took back the Arc Reactor from him to keep you alive, that strange fog also appeared..."

"etc!"

Upon hearing this, Tony Stark couldn't help but interrupt, "So that's how you got that Arc Reactor back then? But if you shot Obadiah back then, then who was that guy in the Iron Monger later?"

Erin shook his head: "I don't know about that. At that time, the gray mist that suddenly appeared also turned Obadiah's body into a pile of ashes."

"Then, not long after I saved you, I heard Obadiah driving that huge Iron Monger chasing Aunt Pepper."

"However, the Joker once said that after he cut off the Iron Monger's head, he didn't see anyone driving it inside. The Iron Monger that chased Aunt Pepper, in his words, was more like a mechanical life form."

"So... this time, I'm not sure if that guy who was turned to ashes by that strange black mist will ever reappear."

"Moreover, Obadiah, and this madman, both of those guys who wanted to kill you, left behind this strange black mist after their deaths. I think Tony, while you're taking precautions, you should also think about what connection that strange gray-black mist has with you."

"Why does it appear every time your enemy dies?"

Finally, Arlin gave Tony Stark a deep look.

After listening to Erin's words...

Tony Stark's expression also turned extremely ugly.

Who knows what connection that eerie black mist has with me?

If it weren't for Erin suddenly telling me today...

He himself was unaware of the many hidden details surrounding the Obadiah incident.

Although he realized that the Iron Monger was just an empty shell after he woke up from the Joker's "Desperate Gaze", he still thought that the mysterious Joker had taken Obadiah, who was piloting the Iron Monger.

Surprisingly, there was no one among the Iron Mongers back then.

"Drip~woo~~Drip~woo~~Drip~woo~~"

Just as Tony Stark was feeling a bit confused by this sudden information...

A series of sirens wailed on the street where Erin was located.

After hearing the siren.

Erin said to Tony Stark, "Aunt Pepper is still bandaging Happy's wounds. You can deal with those cops who came upstairs. By the way, don't involve me in this. I don't want to give any more statements."

"By the way, Happy..."

When he heard Erin mention Happy, Tony remembered that Happy had also suffered a serious injury on his back when they escaped together.

Just as he was about to ask Arryn to treat Happy as well, Arryn interrupted Tony Stark as if he had foreseen it.

Then he repeated the same explanation he had given to Aunt Pepper to Tony Stark.

However, having witnessed how the six-winged angel summoned by Erin instantly healed everyone in an entire block, Tony didn't believe that Erin truly lacked the power to heal Happy.

"Don't look at me like that. Holy Light Healing has a limited number of uses. Even I can't use this power frequently. Besides, when Happy carried you in, someone must have seen the injury on his back. It would be good for us if he went to the hospital now."

"Got it, so you really do have some reserves left, right?"

She gave Erin a resentful look.

Before Arlin could even roll his eyes, Tony Stark glanced at Pepper, who was bandaging Happy, and then said to Arlin, "You just said that the madman who was chasing me, after being swept away by that strange fog, might come back again."

"So I'd like to ask you to look after Pepper until that guy reappears. I don't want anything to happen to Pepper, and I especially don't want Pepper to be hurt because of what happened to me."

Seeing Tony Stark's pleading expression, Erin rolled her eyes.

"Aunt Pepper is my family. You, an outsider, don't need to ask me for help with this."

"Me, an outsider?"

Seeing the disdain on Erin's face, Tony thought angrily to himself:

If that lunatic hadn't interrupted my confession to Pepper tonight, you'd at least be calling me uncle by now!

[You just wait, kid. After this is all sorted out, I'll confess to Pepper as quickly as possible, and then we'll see what you have to say.]

"Ha, outsider, you'll have to call me uncle then!"

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After receiving Pepper's report.

The attack on Tony Stark immediately drew the attention of the New York Police Department.

Within minutes, more than a dozen police cars had completely surrounded Erin's house.

And this number is increasing rapidly.

Even among these dozen or so police cars, there were several vehicles carrying fully armed special police officers.

The person in charge of this operation was none other than George Stacy, an old acquaintance of Erin's.

When Erin saw the figure talking to Tony Stark from afar, he was a little surprised.

After all, Chinatown is not George's jurisdiction.

Shouldn't the people here be from the Chinatown Police Department?

What Erin didn't know was that it was because of the previous case involving the textile factory.

George Stacy became the rising star of the NYPD, and that's why, after Tony Stark's incident, the first thing the NYPD leadership thought of was to send George to rescue Tony Stark.

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at the same time.

After receiving Pepper's 911 call from the New York Police Department.

S.H.I.E.L.D. also received news of Tony Stark's attack immediately.

As the world's first publicly known superhero, Tony Stark is Nick Fury's primary focus.

He is also an important member of the Avengers in his plan.

So Nick Fury, who had been wanting to go to New York to talk to Captain America in person after receiving news of Tony Stark's attack, was already planning to do so.

Using his authority as bureau chief, he dispatched an armed helicopter, which landed on the top floor of the Tri-Wing Building.

Next, the armed helicopter will take him to New York as quickly as possible.

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A dozen minutes later.

As the propellers spun rapidly, the helicopter's altitude continued to rise.

After ascending to the designated altitude, the helicopter pilot adjusted the helicopter's direction and flew towards New York.

The upper floors of the Tri-wing Building.

Alexander Pierce stood in front of the huge floor-to-ceiling glass, raising his glass towards the helicopter flying into the distance.

Goodbye, Fury!

After Nick Fury finds himself and hopes to use his delayed insight project, Alexander Pierce realizes that Nick Fury may have discovered something else.

Given Nick Fury's suspicious nature, if he were to actually investigate the Insight Project in detail...

It's possible that Hydra's meticulously crafted "Operation Insight," which involved a huge investment of manpower and resources, is about to go down the drain.

So Pierce pretended to agree to Nick Fury's request to help persuade the Security Council to suspend "Project Insight".

Shortly after Nick Fury left, he had an assassination plot devised.

"Project Insight" is about to launch, and Hydra's ideology is about to dominate the world. Pierce will not allow anyone to ruin the plan he has fought for his entire life.

So Pierce chose to strike first.

After taking a sip of his red wine, Alexander Pierce pulled a remote control from his pocket, pointed it at the brightly lit helicopter in the night sky, and pressed the red button on it.

"Beep..."

With an electronic beep, a red signal suddenly lit up on the indicator light of a remote-controlled bomb that had been specially disguised and almost blended into the helicopter's fuel tank, which had just flown away from the Tri-Wing Building.

"boom!"

A loud bang followed.

A huge flame suddenly lit up the sky not far from the Tri-Wing Building.

The helicopter, along with its fuel tank, exploded like a dazzling firework, completely illuminating the night sky above the Tri-Wing Building.

With the huge commotion caused by the helicopter explosion.

A piercing alarm soon blared from the Tri-Wing Building, the headquarters of S.H.I.E.L.D.

When they learned that Nick Fury, the director of S.H.I.E.L.D., was on the exploding helicopter.

The once quiet S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters was suddenly filled with a great uproar.

Just when everyone was in a panic and at a loss.

With a grim expression, Alexander Pierce entered S.H.I.E.L.D.'s control room and yelled at the panicked S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, "What's the panic?!"

Using the remaining influence of the former director of S.H.I.E.L.D., he managed to quell the panic.

Alexander Pierce quickly issued orders.

"Immediately dispatch a team to salvage the helicopter wreckage and do everything in our power to search for survivors."

"Once a survivor is found, provide them with the best possible treatment immediately. I need to know exactly what happened in this helicopter explosion."

"And no matter what, we must find Nick Fury, alive or dead!"

"As the director of S.H.I.E.L.D., he can't just die without knowing why."

(End of this chapter)