Showing Off

For an entire week, Chen Mu stayed in the laboratory in the industrial park. Xu Jia took care of all his daily needs, while he remained in the lab all day, making it seem as though he was researching something.

At last, on this day, Chen Mu finally emerged, carrying a brand-new suit of armor.

In truth, this suit was still an upgraded version of Mark 2. However, thanks to the Huaqiangbei System's production function, the material he had used to make it was vibranium!

Huaqiangbei's production line was simply unreasonable. It required no consumption whatsoever, yet it could produce anything he wanted.

Of course, the armor had actually been finished days ago, but Chen Mu did not want to reveal it too soon. He had waited a few more days before taking it out.

With the extra time, Chen Mu had actually made several more identical suits of armor in case of emergencies.

"It's about time I had a little chat with Tony Stark..."

Chen Mu had never forgotten how, a month ago in America, Tony had mocked him and looked down on him, saying he could never make Iron Armor. Chen Mu had not said anything at the time, but he had been determined to slap Tony in the face and had never forgotten it.

Therefore, these vibranium suits looked almost exactly like Mark 2 and were essentially identical to Tony's armor. The only difference was their color: the dark black sheen of vibranium.

Of course, the paint job could be changed at any time. It would not affect anything.

"Hongmeng, call Tony."

With a fire still burning in his chest, Chen Mu had Hongmeng place the call to Tony.

"Hi, Chen Mu. Good to see you. How's the phone production going?"

Just like the projected screens at Stark Industries, a screen appeared before Chen Mu, displaying Tony's image.

At the moment, he had an arm around a beautiful blonde woman and was clearly fooling around in a bar. It was nighttime in America on the other side of the planet, so it was perfectly normal for Tony to be at a bar.

"The phones are doing fine. Inventory has reached five million units, and daily production capacity is two hundred thousand. We can begin a global release at any time."

The phone partnership had been ongoing all along. Chen Mu had left the matter to his father, and according to Chen Mu's plans, they had built more than ten new production bases across China, greatly increasing their output.

"China really is impressive!"

Tony clicked his tongue in amazement. As expected of the world's factory, China's industrial capabilities had truly opened his eyes.

If phone production had been left to American factories, they likely would not have been able to reach that level.

"Good. The launch event is in three days. I hope you can come to America. This time, together, we'll definitely carve out a place for ourselves in the phone industry!"

Tony was extremely confident. In recent days, he had been using a Xiao Mu Phone himself and could hardly put it down, let alone ordinary people. He had no doubt that the Xiao Mu Phone would seize the market.

"Of course."

Although Stark held seventy percent of the shares, it was not much of an issue to Chen Mu. Whatever Tony swallowed now, he would naturally spit back out later.

"By the way, it's so late. What did you call me for?"

Tony asked curiously. He could not help wondering about it.

"Didn't I tell you a month ago that I wanted to make a suit of armor for fun?"

Chen Mu smiled and looked at Tony meaningfully.

"What, did you give up?"

Tony nodded, an amused look on his face. "You should have given up on something like this long ago. There's no need to waste your time on it. Rather than spending time on that, you'd be better off thinking about how to design a new phone."

Even Tony had to admire Chen Mu's talent for phone design. The Xiao Mu Phone really had been a breath of fresh air.

"Hehe... take a look. What's this?"

Chen Mu chuckled and aimed the camera to the side. A pitch-black, menacing suit of armor stood there.

This was the vibranium armor Chen Mu had made. Its appearance was very similar to Tony's Mark 3, though the materials were completely different.

"This... you made a model?"

Tony could not help being surprised, but he still did not believe that Chen Mu could have made Iron Armor.

Combined with vibranium's dark black color, he could only assume that the suit was actually a toy model...

One that had not even been painted.

"What do you think?"

Chen Mu asked teasingly. He snapped his fingers and activated the armor. Its eyes lit up, while the Arc Reactor in its chest began to glow blue.

The Arc Reactor had already been activated.

"This!"

Tony was startled. He had been sitting on the couch, but upon seeing this, he could not help standing up. He even pushed away the woman beside him as he stared at the image on his phone in disbelief.

Chen Mu had really made a suit of armor?

That alone was not much in Tony's eyes. Iron Armor was not particularly difficult to make; it was merely a matter of physical structure. What he found truly unbelievable was that Chen Mu had managed to make an Arc Reactor.

With his experience, Tony could naturally tell that the triangular Arc Reactor on the black armor was not for show. It was a real Arc Reactor, and it even seemed more advanced than his own Arc Reactor!

"How is it? Cool, right?"

Chen Mu looked at the dumbfounded Tony, utterly pleased with himself.

"Th-this... how is that possible?!"

Tony was so shocked that he could barely speak. "How could you possibly make an Arc Reactor?"

The Arc Reactor was an extremely classified piece of technology even within Stark Industries. He simply could not imagine why someone else could make one!

Especially someone he had never thought highly of—a Chinese man.

"This isn't an Arc Reactor."

Chen Mu gave Tony a disdainful look, feeling somewhat speechless. This guy really had no shame. He had directly claimed the Arc Reactor as his own?

Although it was true that Chen Mu had obtained the thing from Stark Industries, Tony had no proof!

"This thing took up quite a bit of my time. I looked up some information on Wikipedia and originally wanted to try making an Arc Reactor, but I could never get it to work. So I tried developing a new element instead. Who knew? Heh, it actually worked!"

"..."

Of course he could not make an Arc Reactor from information on Wikipedia!

But he had merely tried developing a new element, and then succeeded?

At that moment, Tony was speechless. He fell silent, not knowing what to say.

Was he supposed to accuse Chen Mu of stealing his technology? Chen Mu's was clearly even more advanced than his!

Tony simply could not bring himself to say something so shameless!

He was currently troubled by Palladium poisoning and was trying to find a new element to replace palladium. Yet Chen Mu had suddenly claimed that he had wanted to study the Arc Reactor, failed, and then accidentally created an element that made an even more powerful Arc Reactor!

Tony stared at the armor on the phone screen, at the triangle on its chest shining with a deep blue light, and fell silent.