American comics: I became a god at the beginning, I chose to practice both science and magic

"No! I'm here to be your personal bodyguard!"

"You can't even beat me, yet you have the audacity to say you'll protect me? Who gave you the courage?"

"The role of a bodyguard is to protect the person from bullets at critical moments. Don't you know that?"

"I spent so much money training you, just to let you take the blame for me? You're wasting my money!"

"You! Then I don't care about you anymore!"

Yelena walked out of the office angrily, closing the door loudly.

A few seconds later, Pepper walked in, not without gloating: "You should know that the girl likes you very much."

"I know, but what does that have to do with me?"

He was as cold as an ascetic, but Pepper knew he wasn't. She just rolled her eyes and said seriously:

"I just received an invitation from Roxxon Company."

"Roxxon?" Dane whispered to himself.

Rockson is a large group company that started out in oil. It was established in 1932. The founder made his fortune through an oil field, and his development trajectory is very similar to that of the first generation of Rockefeller family.

But the difference is that Roxxon developed faster and more successfully than Standard Oil because the current owner was not a mortal, but a minotaur.

Dario Agger is a Minotaur, possessing the long lifespan of a mythical creature, as well as the strength, speed, and physical strength of a monstrous Minotaur, and can transform himself into a towering minotaur.

Dane suddenly realized that the other force that the Rockefeller family mentioned that day that was higher than theirs was this?

Roxxon Corporation usually exists in the MCU in the form of Easter eggs. In the news, you can often see "Roxxon" Lo283go, which is the trademark of Roxxon Energy Corporation.

This is a large group that can rival Stark Industries, representing a consortium in itself, and its owner, Dario Ager, is a man with an extreme greed for energy.

If oil is about to be eliminated by the times, then he will definitely want to take control of new energy and try every means to create a monopoly.

In the comics, this guy even set his sights on other planets, attempting to control their energy.

It turns out that investing in Matthew is very useful. Look, isn’t the return here?

As long as Dario's true identity is exposed, he will inevitably become a super villain that everyone will hate. What qualifications does a villain have to occupy human resources?

It was easy for Dane to find allies in both the political and business circles to initiate the dismemberment of Roxxon Energy.

"Pepper, notify Yelena later and ask her to find a way to go undercover at Roxxon and find out the CEO's true identity."

Otherwise this damn girl will always be idle and have nothing to do.

"Okay...By the way, are you coming to my place tonight?"

"I need to meet with that Stark guy first."

"You're not going to spend the night with him, are you?"

"...I'll go after we finish our business."

"Okay, I'll wait for you~"

Watching Pepper's swaying figure as she walked away, a strange thought came to Dane's mind. Was he cheating on Iron Man?

To quote Janet, the original Wasp: As adults, who doesn't have normal needs?

Chapter 741 Kosovia

When Dane arrived at the location indicated in the invitation, Tony Stark was already waiting there.

"I never thought that Mr. Stark, who even missed the awards ceremony, would actually wait for someone one day."

Tony was a little unhappy: "You should know that before this, you didn't even have the qualifications to see me, kid."

"My pleasure, Iron Man."

"Want me to sign an autograph for you?" Tony said without any hesitation.

Dane didn't continue, but sat down in front of him, raised his hand, and a waiter immediately came trotting up from the distance.

"Gin.Fizz."

"Okay, sir."

After the waiter left, Tony couldn't help but ask, "Natalie is yours?"

Dane didn't say yes or no, but it didn't matter whether he answered or not, because Tony's real question was:

"Did you make that microreactor?"

This time Dane spoke: "That's right."

"You were able to completely bypass Stark's patent barriers and find another possibility for cold fusion reactions."

Tony's tone was a little strange when he said this, and it was hard to tell whether he was admiring or jealous.

You have to know that his ability to miniaturize the Ark Reactor is based on the fact that the technology of large-scale Ark Reactors has been fully mature. Although there are still difficulties, it is completely incomparable to the difficulty of Dane's almost creating something from scratch.

It can be said that even Tony Stark has to humbly ask the other party for advice if he wants to understand the operating principle of the galaxy reactor.

Dane shrugged. "Science and technology should be the wealth of all mankind, right?"

Tony's face looked a little unnatural when he heard this: "Do you believe in communism?"

"Don't worry, I also want to make money, otherwise I wouldn't apply for a patent."

"Then can you sell me the patent for silver?"

"...Mr. Stark, do I look like a fool?" Dane was speechless.

Tony didn't look embarrassed at all. It wouldn't hurt to try it, so what if?

Since we cannot directly purchase the other party's patented technology, we can only settle for the next best option.

"Then I would like to ask for authorization. Can Umbrella disclose the Shiloh technology to me?"

Dane smiled. "To you, not to Stark Group?"

Tony nodded. He didn't mind the other party knowing his purpose. Rather, didn't the other party throw the bait just to catch him, the "fish"?

Although he was a little unhappy, this was a normal strategy. It didn't matter if he was not as skilled as others. He just had to admit it.

But what he didn't understand was when did the other party know about the problem with the palladium reactor?

You know, before this, he rarely showed the reactor on his chest to outsiders.

Oh, and Natalie is on the other side.

But even if Natalie leaked the news, it would be too late!

Tony was willing to believe that Dane had the ability to build a miniature cold fusion reactor on his own, but he was unwilling to believe that he had completed the entire process in less than a month.

Dane raised an eyebrow. "If Umbrella wants to join your new energy plan, it will invest in Xanadu's technology."

"The new energy plan doesn't require silver yet."

"But Tony Stark needs it. If you don't do this, Iron Man will die."

Kids nowadays are so difficult to deal with!

Tony believed this from the bottom of his heart, and it was clear that the locals were determined to take advantage of him.

He thought about it again and again and understood the other party's purpose.

The other party chose to cooperate with Stark, not because he couldn't do it himself, but because he wanted Stark to be at the forefront and take the blame for Umbrella.

The advancement of the new energy plan is bound to arouse the vigilance and even hatred of many oil industry giants. Tony has recently sensed some undercurrents from the business community.

Even in politics, the interests of the majority still lean towards old money.

It is now 09, and the US dollar and oil are tied together. If Tony had not announced that he is Iron Man and demonstrated enough strength, he might have been shot eight times in the back and "committed suicide"!

Although there are many other companies participating in the new energy plan, Stark is a big tree that attracts the wind. Before it falls, it always attracts the most firepower, and the impact on other companies will be smaller.

Tony said depressedly: "Aren't young people supposed to be enterprising and ambitious?"

"I believe that under Stark's leadership, Umbrella will be able to forge ahead."

Tony had no choice but to agree to Dane's conditions, but the two of them only agreed on the general direction, and the remaining details needed to be discussed by their subordinates. This process would not be too fast and might take a long time.

Then the conversation turned to personal matters.

"Natalie...isn't that the lady's real name?"

Dane smiled and said, "Her identity is classified confidentially, but it's actually very easy for Mr. Stark to find out."

"Oh?"

"All you need is for you to join S.H.I.E.L.D."

Tony's expression immediately changed: "Are you from S.H.I.E.L.D."

Dane shook his head. "I've only heard a little about it."

Tony was skeptical. Even with Stark's ability, he couldn't touch the secrets of S.H.I.E.L.D. Umbrella was even worse than Stark Industries. How much could it access?

"S.H.I.E.L.D. was primarily built by three key figures: Howard Stark, Peggy Carter, and Colonel Phillips.

Its predecessor was the Strategic Science Corps. Mr. Stark should know what the Strategic Science Corps does, right?"

How could he not know?

There is probably no American in this world who doesn't know this, because Captain America was born in an experiment conducted by the Strategic Science Corps.

Howard was even one of the scientists who created the super soldier himself, something Tony had heard so much about as a child that his ears were callused.

The Stark family members have the same characteristics. They are not convinced by anyone and even dare to mock the successive presidents. However, Howard always speaks highly of Captain America when commenting on him.

When he was young, Tony was even a little jealous of Captain America, whom he had never met...

When Dane said this, Tony knew that he really understood S.H.I.E.L.D., because he only knew these things from what Phil said.

His heart was beating a little faster at this moment, because he had a hunch that he might hear some secrets.

".After the war, the United States passed a program called Paperclip, which aimed to recruit German scientists to build American national defense. However, what they didn't know was that Hydra was actually among the people recruited in the program..."

That’s right, Dane is spoiling the plot again!

At the same time, far across the ocean in Eastern Europe, there is a small landlocked country called Sokovia.

Dane had scattered a lot of Black Widows here before.

Sokovia is landlocked, mountainous and resource-poor, and has little value to neighboring countries. Therefore, it has long been ignored by the international community.

This has caused this small country to be in a closed state all year round. Although Sokovia is a small place, its social conditions are very complicated and it is in turmoil all year round.

The reason is that this place is home to a notorious international terrorist organization - Hydra.

In 1990, a baron named Wolfgang von Strucker entered the small country, adding fuel to the already turbulent Sokovia.

He inherited some of the Red Skull's human body technology and began to conduct "human evolution" experiments here, trying to reproduce the "perfect human" that the Red Skull once mentioned.

Therefore, he stirred up unrest, plunging the entire Sokovia into endless war, while secretly letting Hydra quietly capture rioters for human experiments.

Recently, he has set his sights on a pair of twins named "Maximov".

Because he saw the hope of a perfect human being in this brother and sister!

Chapter 742 Maximov Twins

Kosovia, dense forest area.

The young Maximov siblings mixed in with the resistance, crawling under the snow.

Kosovia is sandwiched between Austria and the Czech Republic (according to the coordinates in Avengers 2). It is a small country not much bigger than Liechtenstein. Judging from its area, it is more like a city-state.

Therefore, this country has a small population, and most of them are descendants of Gypsies. Wanda's talent for chaos magic is likely related to her Gypsy ancestry.

In fact, before Hydra entered Kosovia, there was no country here. It was just a camp spontaneously formed by a group of exiled gypsies, without even a basic government organization.

The Hydra leader at the time saw this and realized that this was not acceptable. They believed in absolute order and anarchism was unacceptable. The Hydra masters could not tolerate this.

So they randomly grabbed a poor nobleman with prominent ancestors from Austria and established a monarchy here, naming it Kosovia.

But Hydra developed the order only to better exploit the people here. The long-term oppressive domestic environment made the gypsies, who were free by nature, very oppressed, and thus the society was in long-term turmoil.

Baron Strucker was not the first person to start a war in Kosovia, and this was not the first time that the people here rebelled against Hydra. Of course, here Hydra was carrying out the suppression mission under the guise of a regular army.

"Here they come!" someone in the guerrillas whispered.