Dad? You're Finally Back!

More than 200 kilometers west of New York, in a wilderness in New Jersey, stands a large radio telescope array belonging to NASA.

Dozens of enormous radio telescopes are neatly arranged in the wilderness, their bowl-shaped reflectors, like magnified satellite receiving antennas, angled towards the sky, receiving radio waves emitted from different celestial bodies in the universe.

This radio telescope array is not alone. Not far in front of this huge radio telescope array is a base complex that is not much smaller than them. This is the research base of NASA's secret research project, "Pegasus Project".

Deep beneath this building lies an even more secretive and unknown underground base, the experimental site for the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division's "Phase Two" plan!

The fact that the research base for the Cosmic Cube was hidden under NASA's secret research project demonstrates the importance that Nick Fury and the World Security Council placed on it.

The Cosmic Cube is, after all, the treasure of the legendary All-Father Odin, containing incredibly powerful energy. If the correct method to use it can be found, it will surely unleash tremendous power!

After Thor's appearance, Nick Fury and the World Security Council, who thought they had the world situation under control, felt a great threat. Given the terrifying power Thor had shown in his previous battle with Destroyer, they were not confident that they could deal with him.

They not only learned that other life forms exist in the universe, but even that the gods in myths and legends actually exist. Moreover, even the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division, which possesses the most advanced technology and combat power on Earth, is still far behind others in terms of military strength.

Therefore, they urgently need a stronger military to ensure the safety of the Earth, and under this premise, the "Phase Two" project was born!

World-renowned physicist Eric Sevig was brought in by Nick Fury to lead this research. In order to ensure the safety of the project, or rather, to protect the most important Cosmic Cube, in addition to a large number of ordinary agents from the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division, elite senior agent "Hawkeye" Clint Barton was also assigned by Nick Fury to monitor the entire project and protect the Cosmic Cube.

Just as the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division was fully engaged in researching the Cosmic Cube, hoping to use it to create even more powerful weapons of mass destruction, Chen Mo, dressed in Iron Man suit and equipped with a stealth device on his back, quietly appeared above Tony Stark's hillside mansion by the sea.

Hovering above the villa, Chen Mo sensed the situation inside, but couldn't help frowning.

With a teleportation, Chen Mo appeared directly in the laboratory on the ground floor of the villa.

With a thought, he stored the external stealth device into his spatial storage. Then, accompanied by a low hum of machinery and a crisp metallic clang, the jet-black Iron Man suit quickly opened, and Chen Mo out. At the same time, with another thought, the unfolded Iron Man suit was also retracted into his spatial storage.

Chen Mo quickly took two steps forward and reached out to support Tony Stark, who was struggling to support himself on the table with a pained expression.

"I'm fine, Yinsen. It's just that the reactor is out of power and we need to replace the palladium plates!"

Tony's swaying body was supported by Chen Mo, which finally prevented him from collapsing to the ground from exhaustion. However, he explained nonchalantly and even made a joke.

"You know, I survive on batteries!"

"Yeah?"

Chen Mo, however, spoke in a deep voice with a displeased expression.

Tony Stark's body stiffened upon hearing this, and he turned around abruptly, looking at Chen Mo with a face full of surprise.

"Dad? You're finally back!"

Chen Mo glared at him, but he didn't like it.

"If I hadn't come back, you would have been dead!"

Tony Stark's eyes immediately darted away, and his expression became somewhat unnatural, but he still tried to sound relaxed as he spoke.

"It's just that we forgot to replace the palladium plate, it's not as serious as you're making it out to be, Dad."

Chen Mo glanced at Tony immediately looked Stark guiltily, not daring to meet Chen Mo's gaze.

Chen Mo didn't say anything, but helped Tony sit down on a chair next to him.

Tony immediately disregarded everything else, lowered his head, reached into his clothes, and took the Arc Reactor from his chest. The mechanism at the bottom of the reactor opened, and a groove appeared in the closed metal plate in the middle, allowing the palladium metal plate inside to pop out. However, along with the palladium metal plate, wisps of white smoke also popped out.

Seeing this, Chen Mo frowned even more deeply.

Tony didn't notice Chen Mo's expression. He held the reactor in one hand and reached for the cigar box on the table with the other, where the spare palladium plate was kept.

Seeing Tony Stark struggling, Chen Mo simply reached out and took the Arc Reactor from his hand, pulling out the palladium metal plate that had popped out of it.

The original silver-white rectangular palladium metal plate has now become pitted and uneven, as if it has been severely corroded, and its color has changed from silver-white to a rusty yellowish-brown.

Chen Mo, who frequently used the Iron Man suit, knew that this meant the Arc Reactor had run out of energy and the palladium metal plate was no longer usable.

Chen Mo's expression darkened as he glanced at the purplish-black veins that stretched up Tony Stark's neck like tiny tentacles.

Without touching the cigar box, Chen Mo took out a palladium plate from his spatial storage and inserted it into the groove. The palladium plate automatically retracted into the reactor, the groove closed, and the opening mechanism around it returned to its original state. The blue light that had gone out after the palladium plate was removed shone again, even brighter than before.

After replacing the palladium metal plate, Chen Mo handed the Arc Reactor to Tony. He watched Tony put the reactor back into his chest from under his clothes, but his expression didn't improve much.

With some effort, Tony reached for a glass of dark green liquid on the table, opened it, and gulped down several mouthfuls before his complexion improved.

Only then did Chen Mo speak again.

"How far has it gotten?"

Tony Stark paused upon hearing this, but still pretended to be nonchalant as he put the lid back on the water glass and said.

"Dad, what are you saying?"

However, he didn't dare look at Chen Mo when he spoke.

Chen Mo knew this guy's personality—he was so proud he'd suffer for it—so he didn't bother beating around the bush and just got straight to the point.

I'm saying you have palladium poisoning!