Water Torture was an ancient and exceptionally cruel form of punishment.
It was said to date back to the world's first written code of law, the Code of Hammurabi.
Its defining feature was how easy it was to carry out. By using only a small amount of water to force someone into a state of suffocation, it could repeatedly torment a prisoner.
Most importantly, as long as the extent was properly controlled, Water Torture would not cause any permanent damage, yet the pain was not reduced in the slightest.
If someone still had considerable value, Water Torture was the ideal method for forcing them to submit.
Proud and arrogant, Tony Stark had always believed himself to be a tough guy, the sort who could face death without flinching.
But after experiencing Water Torture, he discovered that he had been wrong—spectacularly wrong.
Having never endured the slightest hardship since childhood, he failed to last even ten minutes before the terrorists "physically persuaded" him to agree to build missiles for them.
In truth, torture was called torture precisely because the overwhelming majority of people simply could not endure it.
Aside from a very small number of heroes with unwavering willpower and the resolve to face death, ordinary people's mental defenses would collapse under intense fear before the torture even began.
Of course, Tony Stark had only agreed verbally.
In secret, he had already begun planning to use the materials supplied by the terrorists to build a suit of Iron Man Armor, then carve a bloody path out of this damn place.
Ethan, also a prisoner, naturally joined in as his assistant.
After all, Tony Stark could use all sorts of tricks to deceive terrorists who might not even have finished elementary school, but he could never deceive Ethan, who held a doctorate