Marvel: The Alchemist Just Wants a Peaceful Life

Sherlock didn't need to say so much to a puppet; repairing the woman's face was just a warning to the High Table not to have any improper thoughts about him.

This is especially true for the people around him. Whether it's Zhao Weike or Tony, Sherlock doesn't want them to suffer anything they shouldn't have because of him.

Sherlock may be a laid-back person and like peace and quiet, but he doesn't want to be the only one enjoying peace while watching his friends and family get bogged down in trouble.

The last of the three options also served as a reminder to Sherlock that while he was indeed a superhuman and possessed the power of alchemy, not everyone around him possessed such power.

Especially Zhao Weike, although he carries the name of Night Demon, he is essentially just an ordinary person!

Sherlock didn't want Zhao Weike and Helen to encounter things they shouldn't have because of him!

After seeing off the so-called judge, Sherlock's expression gradually relaxed. He didn't rush to open the documents the judge had left on the coffee table, but instead opened the invitation in his hand first.

Although it's called an invitation, it's really just a metal electronic card. The card is very well made, about the size of a bank card, and has intricate patterns etched on its surface.

This thing should need to be activated at the mainland hotel, or rather, it should be activated with the help of the Judge, but because of Sherlock's threat just now, this matter has been forgotten.

However, Sherlock didn't care. After all, he probably wouldn't have any contact with the Continental Hotel anymore. Even if he did, he could just take the card and have Zhao Weike take him to the Continental Hotel in New York to activate it.

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Sherlock casually put the metal VIP card into his wallet before opening the information left by the Arbiter to read it.

It turns out that sometimes people can actually laugh when they're speechless. The document details exactly how Obadiah hired the Continental Hotel to assassinate his parents, who the person who accepted the order was, and how the assassination was carried out.

Most importantly, this is almost entirely filled with Obadiah's outrageous antics, leaving Sherlock utterly speechless.

Well, Tony's investigation was correct. Obadiah did not come into contact with any suspicious persons, because Obadiah only contacted his subordinates!

It's just a small cleaning company belonging to Obadiah!

Furthermore, according to Tony's information, the purpose of this cleaning company is quite simple: to clean Obadiah's estate.

Of course, these are just the surface-level things. The truth is that this cleaning company is essentially a cleaning team affiliated with a hotel in mainland China.

Although there is also regular cleaning service, this part of the business is mostly just cleaning Obadiah's estate.

That's right, the one who took the order wasn't an assassin, but Obadiah's own scavenger team!

This scavenger team belonging to Obadiah was not only responsible for their own scavenging duties, but also secretly helped Obadiah collect 'evidence' so that he could 'threaten' those high-ranking officials or shareholders.

As for why all of them are Obadiah's own people, why they have to be seconded to the Continental Hotel, and why Obadiah specifically designated the cleaning team at the Continental Hotel to be assigned tasks by name.

It's simple: Obadiah needed to help his cleaning team gain a reputation within the Continental Hotel in this way, making it easier for him to gather intelligence! Coincidentally, the Continental Hotel actually condoned this.

As for intelligence gathering, it's important to understand that in the scavenger's domain, anything left at the scene is essentially extra income for the scavenger, which is a normal practice.

As for intelligence gathering, it's fair to say that this cleaner has a bad reputation, but it doesn't mean their business is bad. In fact, the opposite is true; their business is top-notch.

It can only be said that Obadiah had calculated everything and truly maximized his interests. He just never expected that these things would fall into the eyes of S.H.I.E.L.D., and even into the hands of Sherlock, his victim.

Without pausing to read the contents of the document, Sherlock immediately packed up, drove off, and left.

Now that they know who the other person is, Sherlock has no reason to let them live, does he?

They sped along the road and soon arrived at the cleaning company that the cleaners used to conceal their identities. After entering, Sherlock did not hesitate at all and immediately pulled out the black gun that Tony had made at his house, and decisively fired a few shots into the air.

As the gunshots rang out, the ordinary workers who were unaware of the company's true situation screamed and fled. Sherlock did not stop them at all. Although there might be some who slipped through the net, Sherlock himself was not particularly concerned.

Soon after all the ordinary people had left, Sherlock did not hesitate at all. He took out his Spear of Longinus and started playing 'Battle Royale' in the small cleaning company.

These ordinary people could hardly cause any harm to Sherlock, so anyone Sherlock discovered was basically strung up by him.

After walking and stopping along the way, Sherlock soon arrived at the door of a room with the door tightly closed. When Sherlock opened the door, he was immediately stunned by what he saw.

This is a filing cabinet; almost every time a cleaning task is successfully completed, the process and thought process are left here.

On the one hand, it serves as a record, and on the other hand, it also acts as a learning room for newcomers.

And it just so happens that Sherlock found his parents' files inside, finally learning how these guys had killed them.

It's ridiculous, and even seems incredibly simple.

All you need to do is mix some other liquid into the aviation kerosene!

After a plane takes off normally, changes in the environment at high altitude can alter the liquid, making it almost easy for the plane to lose power and crash.

Once a plane crashes, its liquid state makes it extremely difficult to detect in the surrounding environment, thus enabling the assassination to be carried out.

What angered Sherlock was that these people were so ruthless that they would sacrifice an entire plane full of people just to kill his parents!

Such incidents are even commonplace in this document room!

Hearing the increasingly loud and approaching sirens outside, Sherlock thought for a moment, then casually packed a few documents, and with the packed documents and his parents' documents, he opened the Anywhere Door and disappeared from the spot.

Chapter 45 The Rampage of Obadiah

Sherlock did not choose to go to Tony, but went straight back to his rented apartment.

Unlike Tony, Sherlock, having decided to take revenge on Obadiah, intends to ensure that Obadiah dies penniless and disgraced.

Therefore, the first thing Sherlock did upon returning was to mail the packaged materials in batches to various television stations in Los Angeles.

Not only that, but even bloggers and bloggers who are keen on exposing secrets on the internet were not spared.

Given the nature of the US media and those cryptic bloggers, by that afternoon, the Cleaner Company incident had generated a massive public outcry, directly impacting the Los Angeles police.

It even reached the highest levels of the intelligence community, prompting the FBI to investigate.

Unlike the local police department in Los Angeles, the FBI, or Federal Bureau of Investigation, has nationwide law enforcement powers.

This means that even if Obadiah could influence the investigations of local law enforcement agencies, he would not be able to influence the FBI's investigations into the cleaning company.

What? You're saying Obadiah isn't a Stark Industries executive? Given Stark Industries' close ties to the military, can't Obadiah really influence the FBI?

The truth is, it really doesn't have any impact!

Even if Tony had already shut down Stark Industries' weapons manufacturing division, effectively severing ties with the military, the group would still be called Stark, not Obadiah.

Therefore, when faced with the FBI investigation, all Obadiah could do was to fully utilize his 'connections' and 'resources' to distance himself from the cleaning company.

Sherlock wasn't stupid; he knew perfectly well that this so-called 'cleaning company' couldn't possibly have any real impact on Obadiah. But what Sherlock wanted was the process of Obadiah mobilizing his 'connections' and 'resources'.

You have to understand that Obadiah used to do a lot of work that offended people. When it comes to connections, people probably only dislike him. Even though things have gotten better now, it's hard to change the impression left by the first impression.

Therefore, Obadiah's 'connections' and 'resources' are essentially mostly things stored on the computers in his manor.

If these things are not exposed, it will be fine. But as long as Obadiah uses them, it will inevitably make those who are forced to become Obadiah's 'connections' and 'resources' feel disgusted.

This will inevitably make these people see Obadiah as a thorn in their side.

The more Obadiah uses his connections, the more enemies he makes, and the more enemies he has, the worse his life becomes.

This has almost become a dead end for Obadiah.

But if he didn't do this, the FBI would be watching him closely, and Obadiah couldn't bear to give up his current life of nightly revelry, nor could he imagine what he would encounter if he really went in.

The idea of ​​someone committing suicide after being shot seven times in the back is all too common in the United States.

Of course, Sherlock wouldn't let Obadiah, the old waiter, get away with it so easily. For three whole days, Sherlock hardly left his house, keeping a close eye on how things were going.

Whether it's in the news or online, as long as someone dares to defend Obadiah, the videos and files stored on his computer will almost instantly go viral online.

Without exception, after these people's scandals appeared online, they all turned around and started causing trouble for Obadiah.

After all, in their eyes, I just helped you, and you turned around and betrayed me like this?

You should know that this kind of dirt is only in your hands, and only you have this kind of dirt!

What? You're saying it wasn't you? Then tell me, who else has the exact same dirt on you?

Obadiah felt extremely aggrieved but was helpless. At this point, even if Obadiah was stupid, he probably realized that the contents of the computer in his manor had likely been leaked.

These things, which were originally Obadiah's lifeline, have now become his death warrant, forcing him to temporarily abandon the 'connections' and 'resources' he has accumulated over the years.

Although Obadiah still can't figure out how his secrets were leaked.

The fear of the unknown, coupled with the increasingly clear dead end, fueled Obadiah's increasingly mad behavior.

This kind of performance is also reflected in Obadiah's life and work.

As the leader of the militant faction within Stark Industries, Obadiah began frequently missing company meetings, allowing Tony Stark and his pacifist faction to rapidly erode Obadiah's influence within the company.

Three days have passed, and Obadiah has been almost completely sidelined by Pepper Potts and Tony.

On the other hand, Obadiah seemed unconcerned about this, spending less and less time at Stark Industries.

So where did Obadiah go? It's simple: to his own weapons manufacturing plant!

Although Tony was rescued from the Middle East by Sherlock, the prototype of the Mark I was left in the desert.

Obadiah hired members of the Ten Commandments to salvage these pieces of junk and began repairing and assembling them in his factory.

For Obadiah, there is only one way out left.

He killed Tony, inherited Stark Industries, and then revived the weapons manufacturing division. By leveraging his renewed size within the military-industrial complex, he reached an agreement with the military, who then mediated a deal that allowed him to extricate himself from the situation.

As for how to kill Tony, it's simple: only he can do it himself. On the one hand, it's to vent his anger, and on the other hand, no madman would actually take on a job like assassinating Tony, whether in a mainland hotel or anywhere else.

Moreover, because of Sherlock, the entire mainland hotel industry is currently in complete chaos, and even if they could actually take orders, it would be impossible to complete them in the short term.

Therefore, it was only possible for Obadiah to take action himself.

Moreover, although Obadiah looks down on Tony now, and even resents him, he has never denied Tony's talent. As for the thing that enabled Tony to survive in that hellish place in the Middle East, once it is repaired, it would be a piece of cake for Obadiah to use it to kill Tony.

What Obadiah never expected was that sometimes the difference between people can be even greater than the difference between people and dogs.

Almost every designer who works at Obadiah's contract manufacturing plant is a genius, but even geniuses are just barely able to see Tony's threshold.

Chapter 46 Before the Final Battle

The saying "genius is just the threshold of Tony" is never just a simple statement. Even the Mark I, which Tony considered junk and abandoned in the Middle Eastern desert, was like a foreign language to the experts under Obadiah's command.

All they could do was try their best to repair and improve Tony's technology at the time, or at most replace the original parts with better materials and components.

As for the changes, apart from adding some external weapons, there were basically no changes. In fact, the armor, which was originally only the size of a person, was forcibly enlarged to the size of Hulk.

Clumsy and slow are the hallmarks of the mechs modified by this group. If there is any merit to them, it is probably only the defensive capabilities that are unintentionally created by mindlessly piling up materials.

However, this is not the most despairing thing for them. What makes them most despairing is that they still cannot solve the energy problem.

Don't be fooled by the fact that the Arc Reactor on Tony's chest is just a scaled-down version of the normal size. For this group of people, even if Obadiah had given them the blueprints for the Arc Reactor, they still couldn't get it to be scaled down.

Meanwhile, Tony's armor had completed its test flight. After discovering the icing problem, Tony made improvements, and the official Mark II appeared in Tony's garage.