Marvel's Kryptonian Slacker
Chapter 588

Wakanda Forever

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Tony Stark's cryptic remarks suggest that he knew some of the facts from the beginning and then guessed the parts the informant hadn't mentioned.

Although no one admits it, and there is no evidence to confirm this speculation, once this part is filled in, everyone's behavior becomes reasonable.

And once again, he was used as a pawn. This infuriated Tony Stark.

Henry ignored which way the young master's fragile heart was about to crack again. With his mouth stuffed full of potato chips, he mumbled, "Last time we met, they didn't even say 'M3BMHM'..."

They didn't even say "sorry" in English.

"Even if I wanted to pretend to be magnanimous and forgive them, I couldn't. Besides, if apologies were effective, we wouldn't need police and judges, would we? Right?"

Tony Stark's attitude had changed, but he still disapproved of doing the dirty work himself. "Do you really have to solve it this way? Aren't there any other options?"

A pair of meaningful eyes looked through the glasses at the young master who had just shed his naivety.

Henry said, "You'll understand sooner or later. Some problems are personal and shouldn't be interfered with by others, or have their course of action decided by them. I can let go, but I'm not required to let go."

Henry, who was about to leave, suddenly stopped and turned back to look at the eldest son, who was still standing in front of the desk with his back to him. "By the way, do you believe in magic?"

Will you become Iron Man or the Sorcerer Supreme someday?

"Magic? Is it appropriate for you or me to say such an unscientific term?"

It didn't seem like an excuse to cover up. Henry nodded, feigning agreement, "Yeah, I also think it's quite inappropriate to forget magic, but I still remember who my enemy is. How exactly did this guy make his wish when he snapped his the Snap? Henry really wants to dissect this guy's brain to see."

"Why do you ask that?" Tony Stark regained his usual shrewdness; he didn't think the man in front of him would ask such useless questions.

"That's the question you asked me, left on a message board sometime in a certain year. I just don't know if that record still exists," Henry answered honestly, not intending to cover for someone behind the scenes.

He'll be leaving today, and it would be a lie to say he has no resentment towards Tony Stark or the Ancient One. But this poor kid was also someone who was manipulated. They're in the same boat, so let's not take our anger out on him.

When the office door was opened, there was no sign of a group of people crowding around it to eavesdrop. Happy Hogan was dutifully standing guard at the door.

The door opened, and the increasingly large Bodyguards stepped aside.

Henry turned to his visibly uncomfortable, plump female secretary and said, "Julianne, please process my resignation. I don't want any of my personal belongings in the office. You can take anything you like, but just throw the rest away as trash."

"Oh, right. Also, please notify the IT department to cancel my company account and permissions. And thank you for your help during this time. You've been a huge help."

Julianne Williams, true to her working-class duty, took note of Henry's instructions. But as she watched him leave without looking back, the plump, dark-skinned woman called out, "Boss, where's your paycheck for this month?"

"Please donate this to United Nations Children's Fund for me. Just don't let it end up in Wakanda." Henry stepped past Tony Stark's large entourage and pressed the elevator button.

The next muttered remark startled Julianne, who turned pale. Feigning composure, she said, "Boss, what are you talking about? I don't understand."

"Haha." Henry turned around, pointed at the chubby black girl with the hand holding the Otaku happy water, and made a "gotcha" face.

He then made a gesture of crossing one arm over his chest, barely managing to cross it with the arm that was embracing the large glass bowl. It was the same greeting that Audrey Hepburn had made when she met with the Wakanda representative to the United Nations.

This made the chubby girl even more panicked. But Julianne's acting skills were impeccable. She pretended to tidy up the desk briefly, picked up her notebook, and said, "Boss, I'm going to inform the departments of the matters you assigned." After saying that, she ran off down the stairs. The cheerful Henry didn't chase after her or expose any more secrets. He simply waited for the elevator to arrive and went inside.

Happy Hogan, who was standing guard in front of the CEO's office, looked at his boss, who was sitting at his desk, with a questioning look in his eyes, as if asking whether he should stop the man.

Tony Stark simply waved his hand dismissively, indicating that he should leave it to him.

The situation is not as simple as it seems on the surface. Tony Stark is having a hard time figuring it out.

What's the best course of action? For a moment, he couldn't unravel the tangled web of clues and the relationships behind them.

As Henry leaves the Stark Studios building, he thinks of the chubby, black woman who has always been his secretary. He discovers that she is Wakanda spy planted outside the city, possibly a member of the legendary "War Dogs," all by chance.

Although the supercomputer "Hollywood Kid" was nominally used by Stark Studios ' information department, it was actually used most by Tony Stark and Henry Cavill.

If you can internally determine when each department will use a large amount of computing power, then the rest of the time is your own playtime.

Neither Henry nor the young master Stark had the habit of hoarding such a powerful resource and being reluctant to use it.

In "Hollywood Kid," both men secretly deployed other virtual machines in addition to the publicly accessible virtual hosts managed by the information department. They would also periodically hack into each other, leaving traces like dogs urinating, to see how long it would take to be discovered.

If a third or fourth player joins at this point, will it attract the attention of the other two?

No doubt about it, of course it will!

So finding out who this person is is a matter of course. Most of the time it's an employee of our own cybersecurity department; sometimes it's an accidental triggering of an alarm, and sometimes it's a genuine discovery of a secret deployment.

Most of the time, Henry and Tony Stark's approach was to cancel their own secret plans and start afresh. They were essentially playing hide-and-seek with their own people, much like the rivalry between Henry and Tony Stark.

What If...? someone can catch up with the two in terms of information exchange and defense, doesn't that mean they are at least a person of equal ability, and of course they should be given important responsibilities?

Unfortunately, most people don't even manage to breach the firewall; they just trigger alerts.

Then a little mouse scurried in and then silently slipped out. This piqued the curiosity of both of them.

The third player thought he had concealed his information trail well, but little did he know that everything he did was being done under the watchful eyes of Henry and Tony Stark.

This was an external Hacker who didn't launch any destructive attacks; they just sneaked in to spy and probably stole some data.

After several investigations, it was discovered that the little guy's location was in Wakanda, a small country in East Africa that borders Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, and South Sudan.

The person providing internal support was the CEO's secretary, Julianne Williams. Henry then used his X-Ray Vision to see a row of Fang Metal tattooed characters on the inside of her lower lip. However, this happened before the Sentry War.

Because there was no reference material, Henry couldn't translate the text. But besides that Africa country, he couldn't think of anyone else who could use the Fang Metal tattoo technique.

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