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This was because Henry was not distracted by listening to the two women talking about him, otherwise he would definitely be surprised that Catherine saw through his otaku nature at a glance.

Now, he was alone against one of the universe's rarest geniuses. Despite using his X-ray vision multiple times, he couldn't see if there was an extra gem in the other person's head. Henry didn't dare to let his guard down.

Conversations with Tony aren't all that high-brow, irrelevant. But this guy, in Buddhist terms, suffers from a heavy burden of karma. This applies to all superheroes and villains, regardless of their origins.

Just coming into contact with such a person made Henry feel terrified. This was also why he was always so rude and wanted to stay away from this young master.

Now that we have decided to cooperate, it is of course impossible for us to bear all the consequences that may be brought about by the other party.

If one could just reap the benefits without being involved in the consequences, that would be ideal, of course. But even a simple thought would tell him that such a thing would be impossible.

So Henry had to listen carefully and think carefully about the impact of each of Tony Stark's requests.

But after entering the study, Tony found a seat and said nothing. He looked at Henry, as if they were competing to see who could hold their breath longer.

After a while, there was a knock on the closed door.

Henry just looked over. Tony said, "Come in."

She was one of Tony Stark's entourage, a very beautiful secretary who not only wore a business suit that showed off her curves, but also had some parts of her body that were so bulging that they were about to burst out.

The secretary held a silver tray with a bottle of premium whiskey and two empty glasses on it and placed them in front of Tony Stark. She didn't touch the bottle or glasses at all, and then left.

It was just that the female secretary was flirting and showing off her figure, and this young master was like an old monk who had no eyes for women, which made Henry feel quite strange.

Could it be that the Tony Stark in this world has been turned gay for unknown reasons and loves chrysanthemums more than red makeup!

This speculation made Henry's buttocks inexplicably tighten, and a sense of crisis emerged. Perhaps it was time to consider letting the legend of Iron Man die before it even began.

"I have a feeling you're thinking something very rude with that expression on your face. Maybe I should go out and get a gun, and shoot you a few times when I get upset. Anyway, bullets can't penetrate your skin, so will it hurt?"

"Whether it hurts or not is a very mysterious question. Maybe it does, maybe it doesn't. Which answer do you want?"

"Forget it, don't tell me. I'm not interested. Anyway, I can save the money for bullets. That's what you mean, right?"

Henry shrugged, not wanting to continue the conversation. Tony certainly wasn't interested, or else he wouldn't have pressed the issue.

Chapter 314: Disguise in the Jungle

To change the subject and also for my own curiosity.

Henry asked, "I thought the playboy Mr. Tony Stark would pick a bunch of beautiful female secretaries to surround him so that he could easily access resources. But now it seems that they all have complaining expressions. Don't they usually do some irrigation?"

Tony wore the same rueful expression. "When you're dealing with endless little tricks, you just want to mow down everyone with your M61 Vulcan cannon. You don't have the energy to beat a woman."

"Besides, I hired them to handle things, not just women. I put them in that position because I value their ability. Ordinary prostitutes are not worth my money."

Looking back at the newspapers of the past few years, there really isn't much about Tony Stark. He's not the playboy who frequently appears in the entertainment pages, with a changing scandal cast.

But he wasn't some hyped-up young entrepreneur. He hadn't even seen any news about him being controversial or compared to the elder Stark. It was as if all news related to him was deliberately downplayed.

"Have you ever thought about a question?" Henry suddenly brought up a topic.

Tony, sipping whiskey, pretended to be nonchalant, took out the jammer again, and turned it on. "Tell me."

"People without weaknesses are not trustworthy. Because people don't understand what you are going to do or what you want to do, that's why you are in this situation today."

"Well, continue."

He poured himself a glass of wine to moisten his throat. "I have to say first, I don't know what your current situation is, nor do I know what other people think. I'm just speaking my mind, so just listen to me."

"Just like soldiers wear white gear in the snow, brown camouflage in the desert, and dark green camouflage in the jungle. Is it because you stand out so much that you get into so much trouble?"

"You want to persuade me to go along with those people?"

"If you can't distance yourself from that circle and stay within it, you'll need some necessary disguise. Otherwise, everyone will worry that you're out to cause trouble. Do you know the so-called 'loyalty certificate' in Eastern culture?"

"what is that?"

Henry used "Water Margin," one of the Four Great Classical Novels, to explain it briefly. "In short, if you want to enter a certain circle, whether through a pledge of allegiance or some kind of ritual, the main purpose is to tell the people in that circle that you're on their side.

"And you have to demonstrate a shared destiny. That way, people won't worry that you're joining the group just to break the rules, or even to expose someone inside. The deeper the collusion, the more disgusting the actions might be.

"Of course, this doesn't mean you should go along with them. Rather, I'm picking things you can accept and creating weaknesses in the eyes of outsiders, so they think they can buy you off or get rid of you with this trick.

"Another benefit of doing this is that it lets the enemy know to attack your weak points instead of probing you from all sides. This way, you'll know which points you should defend most.

"Instead of being clueless and suspecting that the other party is trying to harm you."

Tony tapped his fingers on the table. "Is this your attitude too?" he asked suddenly.

"I usually choose to stay away from the circle. I can't see him, he can't see me, and everyone is happy. On the other hand, it's also because I have no need for that circle, so of course there's no need to make such a fuss. It's better to stay away from it."

Tony tilted his head and suddenly asked, "Have you ever trusted anyone?"

"If trust were so easy to give, I would have become a guinea pig for the US military long ago. You're not going to tell me that the US military is kind and won't use special individuals for experiments, are you?"

Tony was speechless. Judging from the information he had, he couldn't say that without lying.

"But today you have a need." The hidden line is 'and an additional weakness'.

Bringing the topic back to its original direction abruptly, Tony looked at the man in front of him.

Henry admitted graciously. "Yes. But I'd also have to see if the benefits are equal to the costs. After all, it's not a necessity. I absolutely must have it."

Tony didn't continue the conversation, but instead brought up the old situation and proposed a new condition. "To become the CEO of Stark Films, I don't need you to proactively investigate anything.

"Since you're at that height, you'll naturally see and hear some things. All you have to do is be my eyes and ears and help me write them down. I'll do the intelligence analysis myself.

"After all, if that incident wasn't an accident, I don't think it was a large-scale conspiracy. Actively seeking information would only attract unnecessary attention, and might not even lead to the right direction, and could even lead to misleading people.

"Other remuneration conditions remain unchanged. The contract period is tentatively set at three or five years, with the option to extend. If you want to leave, you can do so at any time. There are no liquidated damages or non-compete clauses. Similarly, if I no longer feel the need for you, I can ask you to leave at any time."

Henry nodded. "Well, that makes sense, I can accept it."

Rather than any salary guarantee, Tony accurately grasped Henry's real needs, which was the right to escape at any time.

Perhaps it is strange to give a soldier the right to desert in battle, but if you think of the other party as a spy deep in the enemy camp, then the right to make arbitrary decisions in the face of danger is the key to saving his life.

The so-called "Man of Steel" wasn't an invincible ability in the eyes of these people. It was just that people weren't fully committed to researching it.

Without this consensus, the name 'Henry Brown' wouldn't be on so many lists.

Tony was surprised by Henry's easy approval. "You just nodded like that?"

"I have another question. Was this a deliberate trap set for you? Have you figured this out?"

"Probably not."

"Your tone isn't quite certain. Otherwise you wouldn't have used 'should'."

Tony replied, "The person who told me this is a trustworthy friend of our family. But I can't place the same trust in the organization behind them. After all, I only learned about that organization after the old man died."

In fact, he should not even ask, but Henry couldn't help asking, "That organization... do you know what it's called?"

"I didn't ask for details, and they didn't tell me. I think the old man has been involved since World War II. Although they did ask me to replace him, I refused."

Henry looked at the young master curiously.

Tony's skin wasn't tough enough to block out such a burning gaze, so he explained, "They're my comrades-in-arms. To me, they're just a bunch of uncles and aunts, and I might not even recognize them all. After you go in, you'll be treated like my grandson everywhere. Would you like that?"

Well, this is the case of the second generation not knowing the suffering of the first generation.

They've paved the way for you, and you're still not happy? Do you really have to carry you across in a sedan chair?

Forget it. Isn't it normal for someone born with a silver spoon to treat a silver or iron spoon like trash? Blame it on your own poverty for cherishing even an iron spoon.

Chapter 315 Whereabouts Finally Revealed

In the FBI Los Angeles office, Special Agent Jack McCann takes the newly acquired intelligence to his partner Maris Horvath.

The content is about the key figures in the disappearance of California Congressman Mike Liddell Horton.

They have been trying to find the person to question, but they can never find him. And because of insufficient evidence, they cannot issue an arrest warrant or search warrant, which has delayed the case to this day.

Now they finally see an opportunity, but the occasion is not right...so they can only find the boss of the Los Angeles office, the assistant director in charge, Owen Davis.

The two of them came to the boss's office together and knocked on the door.

A voice immediately came from the office. "Come in."

The two people who pushed the door open said straight to the point: "Boss, the key person in our case has appeared. It's just a small problem, and we need your help."

"What case? Who?"

"The disappearance of the Halton councilman, Henry Brown, whom we have never been able to find."

When Owen heard that this case was about to turn two years old, he felt a headache.

He knew very well that this wasn't a disappearance; it was the annihilation of his entire family! His family, entourage, and close associates were all wiped out.

The one who took action was the Continental Hotel!

But the mainland hotels' backing is so strong that they dared to ignore the FBI's demands and refuse to hand over the killer. Besides, they're just a platform. What if they were shut down? Would it be difficult to start over?

This is not asking mainland hotels to cut off their operations to survive. As long as there is a scapegoat and everyone can save face, the matter can be reduced from a big matter to a small matter, or from a small matter to nothing.

The most likely scenario is that a mainland hotel threw out a name and let the FBI investigate. However, whether there is a real person behind this name, whether he is still in the United States, and whether he is the real gunman are difficult to verify.

As for who the employer was, no one dared to ask. It wasn't because they were afraid the mainland hotel wouldn't tell them, but because they were afraid they would mention a name they couldn't afford to offend either!

This case was clearly a case of political opponents displeased with the actions of the fat black congressman, so they took action to eliminate him. However, they did it very cleanly, and without a body, there was no way to file a case.

The scientific forensic team couldn't even find any bloodstains and had no direction to investigate.

If it's an ordinary person, a missing person, everyone would fake an investigation a few times, then put the file in a box and toss it into the cold case warehouse. After twenty years, if the person hasn't turned up, they'd change the record to death, and the matter would be closed.

Unfortunately, Mike Liddell Horton was a California state legislator and a well-known public figure. His disappearance couldn't remain an unsolved cold case; it needed to be thoroughly investigated, regardless of whether he was dead or alive.

The LAPD readily passed on this hot potato, leaving the FBI in a difficult position, caught in the middle.

Jack McCann and Maris Horvath, who took the case on their own initiative, vowed that the disappearance case could be attributed to a key figure, the mutant Henry Brown with bulletproof abilities.

However, if the detectives only have suspicions and no direct or indirect evidence, they cannot obtain an arrest warrant or search warrant, or even a subpoena, from the local judge. This is without even considering whether the evidence is sufficient.

So they could only find a way to find the other party and extract information from him, turning the witness into a criminal, so that the case could proceed.

That was the problem. Henry Brown had no job, no fixed location, and even though he lived there, he couldn't get anyone to come.

Without court permission, they didn't even have the right to enter the room. Furthermore, without even being able to meet the person, they couldn't use the person's refusal to cooperate as a serious suspicion and ask the court to issue a subpoena or arrest warrant.

If we hadn't received frequent eyewitness reports, we would have suspected that this person had left Los Angeles and California.

But that information couldn't help the FBI catch this person, because every time they rushed to the scene, the person had already run away.

Until today, we finally got some information about the other party's whereabouts. Assistant Director Owen, who should have been relieved, felt terrible when he saw the location.

The inauguration party for the new CEO of Stark Films was held, and the new CEO candidate was none other than Henry Brown, whom they had been longing for.

Arresting an ordinary citizen is completely different from arresting someone of a certain social status. Not to mention that Owen smelled something bad in this case.

If Henry Brown really had a problem, he would definitely agree to put this mutant in prison or even give him to the military for experiments.

But when we know that the murderer is the Continental Hotel, why do we have to involve Henry Brown?

His experience included working on an Alaskan crab boat and as a bit player in Hollywood. His most notable job was as Audrey Hepburn's assistant, assisting with UNICEF visits.

Such a person has nothing to do with the Continental Hotel, nor with Congressman Mike Liddell Horton... Well, the congressman may very well know that he is in trouble, so he needs such a mutant to protect him.

As a result, the Halton state senator and his family became missing persons, while Henry Brown is still active on the road.

According to Irving's intuition after so many years of investigating cases, this Henry Brown is definitely related to the disappearance of the state legislator.

But what role did he play? Why did Jack McCann and Maris Horvat have to bite him? These were the parts that Irving couldn't understand.

There were things he couldn't understand, and jumping to conclusions was dangerous. So Owen threw the intelligence document back on the table and asked, "What do you want me to do?"

"Boss, as long as you can lead us into the banquet venue and ask Henry Brown to cooperate with the investigation, he will have no reason to refuse. As long as we can bring him back, half the problem will be solved."

Hearing this, Owen didn't want to listen any further. What was coming next was definitely an illegal move. If he listened to even one more word, he'd be dragged into this by these two.

"Stop!" Owen stopped his two subordinates from speaking and looked at them seriously. "Have you ever thought about whose occasion this is?"

"Boss, this is just Stark Films. It's not one of the Big Eight in Hollywood, and it's not even a second-tier film company. What are you worried about? A film company of this level will open and close, and then close and close again. It won't even make the news."

: Am I worried about Stark Films? I'm worried about Stark Industries!

People in the market now have doubts about whether a company with the "Stark" brand is actually a "Stark" company. After all, Obadiah Stane's outrageous actions a few years ago led many speculators to take advantage of the situation.

But how could the FBI not know who the boss behind Stark Films is?

The state legislator's case did need a resolution. After weighing the pros and cons, Assistant Director Irving, the head of the FBI's Los Angeles office, said, "I can take you there. But have you considered the risks of taking someone away in this situation?"

"Don't worry, Boss, this is a sure thing. If anything goes wrong, we'll take full responsibility. With the unsolved case of Councilman Mike Liddell Horton before us, even if there are reporters present, they'll just strip the suspect naked. We can't lose."