A few days later, Iron Man's private laboratory was packed wall to wall with the most advanced medical equipment currently available on Earth. There were even some devices from other planets, as well as equipment made by the Guardians of Sky City.
Although the riots sweeping across the United States had yet to subside, some of the equipment had nearly been looted by black people taking part in the "zero-dollar shopping" spree along the way.
Fortunately, when they opened the back doors of the trucks and saw those instruments—which they had no idea how to use and had no use for anyway—they quickly left in disappointment.
Those people, who likely had not even finished elementary school, had no idea that the few devices they had thrown away were worth over a billion US Dollars.
And they usually were not available off the shelf. They had to be ordered well in advance.
In order to obtain those instruments as quickly as possible and give Allen a full-body examination, Tony Stark had paid a premium to intercept a shipment belonging to another medical research institution.
Luckily, they had not been destroyed along the way. Otherwise, they would have had to wait at least another two or three months to buy them.
The riots had also left some areas without water or electricity. Even New York, the financial capital, had not escaped unscathed.
One only had to look at the vast stretches of paralyzed skyscrapers and communities in the distance outside the window to understand how serious the situation had become.
Although some cities had begun gradually restoring order, repairing the damaged infrastructure to its former state would likely take years.
Allen had never really understood why people in Europe and America always resorted to smashing, looting, burning, and destroying public facilities and