Once all the plans had been made, Chen Mu promptly became a hands-off boss. He dumped all the miscellaneous matters onto his father and had him liaise with Stark Industries, while he returned to his room, locked himself inside, and prepared to take out the things in his warehouse for research.
There was a great deal of technology in Huaqiangbei that Chen Mu needed to sort through.
"Xiao Ai, has the portable Arc Reactor been made?"
Chen Mu had already used the Huaqiangbei Space production line to manufacture it earlier. He had also had Xiao Ai integrate the existing technologies and create an Iron Armor.
However, the armor made this time was almost no different from Obadiah's Iron Monger. It was practically identical. But without Jarvis's intelligent support system, operating it relied entirely on manual control, which made it rather troublesome.
So, he had not taken it out. It was not very convenient, either.
Still, to Chen Mu, the existence of that armor could guarantee his safety.
In the current world, very few people could threaten the Iron Monger. Even if he could not win, he could always just run away.
"What a pity I don't have enough room to use it. Otherwise, it would be fun to take the Iron Monger out somewhere for a spin."
Besides, the Iron Monger was simply too outdated. Other than making it for fun, Chen Mu had little interest in it. What he truly wanted was Tony's Iron Man armor.
"Now, all I can do is wait..."
Holding a small Arc Reactor that radiated blue light, Chen Mu curled his lips into a faint smile.
At this point, Chen Mu had more or less finished everything he needed to do. All that remained was to wait.
"I am Iron Man!"
Half a month later, Chen Mu, far away in China, smiled knowingly as he watched the news online.
Iron Man had finally been born!
Just like in the original story, Tony wore his Iron Armor to the Middle East to destroy Stark Industries' weapons. He also instructed Little Pepper Potts to copy information from Obadiah's computer and investigate all the arms deals. Unexpectedly, she discovered that Tony's earlier kidnapping had been planned by Obadiah from the start. He had even intended to bribe terrorists to get rid of Tony.
After Obadiah learned that the truth had been exposed, he got ahead of Tony and snatched his Arc Reactor, using it on his Iron Monger.
In short, Tony and Obadiah fought a battle that caused quite a stir.
Afterward, Tony even publicly admitted that he was Iron Man!
At that moment, the curtain on the Marvel World had finally been formally raised.
"It's time to go to America again."
Chen Mu rubbed his hands together. Iron Man's birth meant that the technology behind the Iron Man armor had finally been perfected.
Chen Mu had coveted it for a long time, so naturally, he could not wait to go to America and obtain the technology.
By coincidence, Xiao Mu Technology had also been preliminarily established with his father's help. Chen Mu had used the Huaqiangbei production line to manufacture the first-generation Xiao Mu Phone, the first smartphone to use the Android system, with MOS as its operating system. He could take it to Stark Industries and prepare to officially launch the phone.
"While I'm at it, I can also analyze Jarvis's technology."
Pushing open the door, Chen Mu left his room and headed outside.
"President Chen, do you have something to take care of?"
When he opened the door, a beautiful and capable-looking girl outside stood up with a stack of documents in her arms.
Her name was Xu Xujia. She was the "financial expert" sent by Director Zhang. Of course, that was only her public identity. In reality, she was also responsible for Chen Mu's security. Put bluntly, she was Chen Mu's bodyguard, the close-protection kind...
At the same time, she naturally had the responsibility of monitoring Chen Mu.
Chen Mu was fully aware of that, but he was not worried. Monitor him if they wanted. Could they possibly discover his Huaqiangbei System?
Still, to avoid appearing too abnormal, Chen Mu occasionally conducted some research, intending to show off his "genius."
Although he knew Xu Jia would also "steal" his technology and hand it over to the state, Chen Mu did not care too much. He had intended to give those things to China anyway. He had been worried about finding an excuse, but Xu Jia handing them over actually saved him quite a bit of trouble.
"I'm going to America."
Chen Mu said it directly. There was no need to hide it. If the state was keeping an eye on him, there was no way they would fail to notice.
"America?"
Xu Jia furrowed her brow. This would be rather troublesome for her mission.
"What? I'm not even allowed to go to America?"
Chen Mu gave a bitter smile. "The previous agreement didn't say my freedom would be restricted..."
"Besides, I'm going to America for the company's business. I also have some research that requires Stark Industries' help. It's not like I'm not coming back."
"I'm sorry, President Chen. That's not what I meant. It's just that your safety would be difficult to guarantee in America."
Xu Jia set down the things in her hands and spoke with a frown.
"You don't need to worry about that. I'll be fine."
With the Iron Monger armor still in his warehouse, Chen Mu truly had nothing to worry about in America.
"That still won't do. I need to report this to my superiors." Xu Jia sighed, took out her phone, and headed outside.
Clearly, she was indeed going to file a report.
"..."
Chen Mu sighed, speechless, then sat on the sofa with the remote control and began watching television.
Ever since Xu Jia had been assigned to him, she had remained by Chen Mu's side at all times except when he bathed or used the restroom.
Normally, any man would be delighted to have a pretty, voluptuous girl like Xu Jia following him around at all times. But unfortunately, she was a "spy." She constantly reported Chen Mu's situation to her superiors, leaving him with no privacy whatsoever. It made him feel quite conflicted.
More importantly, Xu Jia was extremely skilled. He definitely could not beat her in a fight, and more importantly, he could not outrun her either. Escaping her was basically impossible.
That left Chen Mu conflicted. He did not know whether putting himself before the state had been the right choice or the wrong one.
"Whatever. This is the Marvel World. I don't need to have so many reservations. As long as I show enough patriotism and act for my country, that will be enough!"
As long as he was patriotic, even if he made some mistakes, he could be forgiven.
Once he developed Iron Armor, he could just fly away whenever something happened. Could Xu Jia fly after him then?
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