After Chen Changsheng and Tony Stark had a brutal hand-to-hand battle between an enhanced human and the Iron Man Armor, Tony came up with many more ideas about how to improve his Iron Man Armor.
Of course, what Tony Stark felt most deeply at that moment was that the most important ability of his Iron Man Armor should be its shock resistance.
After all, with Tony's small frame, if he were struck by tremendous force, even inside the Iron Man Armor, he would probably be in serious trouble.
After putting in some effort, Obadiah finally got all the data on the Mark I Iron Man Armor Tony Stark had left behind in the desert from the terrorists.
Looking at the rather crude armor in the data, Obadiah was amazed by Tony Stark's intelligence. He had managed to assemble such a pile of junk into the most advanced individual armor. His future truly seemed limitless!
However, aside from being amazed, Obadiah was also somewhat annoyed. Why couldn't this playboy use his intelligence for something proper? Wasn't making money enough? He had to spend every day carousing and wasting his time. Having someone like that as the chairman of Stark Industries was practically an insult to the Stark Industries Obadiah had worked so hard to build.
After secretly deciding that, once he dealt with Tony Stark, he would rename Stark Industries, Obadiah summoned the engineers from the weapons manufacturing department and ordered them to recreate an armor based on the Iron Man Armor.
With ready-made images and design data, recreating such a crude Iron Man Armor was naturally no difficult task for the engineers at Stark Industries.
The exterior, structure, mechanical transmission, and such were all simple. Everyone present was an expert, and any one of them could design something roughly equivalent, or even better.
But the most important part of this armor was not its appearance or structure. It was the control software. After all, the key was how to link a pile of heavy steel components into a single whole and control it smoothly.
Obadiah said they did not need to worry about the software for now. They only had to refer to the images and build a prototype first. He would find a way to handle the operating software.
Obadiah took the most difficult problem upon himself with a slap to his chest, and the engineers all breathed a sigh of relief. The rest was simple. In fact, to show off their professional abilities, the engineers immediately promised Obadiah that if they could get the sample as soon as possible, they could build something larger and better.
Compared with the confident answers Obadiah had received from the weapons manufacturing department, the energy department was rather awkward. The plan to miniaturize the Arc Reactor was going extremely poorly.
The moment Tony Stark had first shown Obadiah the Arc Reactor in his chest, Obadiah had realized that the Arc Reactor was absolutely the key to the future. Compared with Stark Industries' enormous reactor, a miniaturized Arc Reactor clearly had limitless potential.
After saying goodbye to Tony at the time, Obadiah had immediately ordered the engineers to study how to miniaturize the Arc Reactor. Unfortunately, his subordinates were simply too incompetent, and they still had nothing to show for it.
After harshly scolding the head of the energy department once again, Obadiah left in disappointment. Obadiah was actually highly capable. The fact that he could stabilize the stock price in such a short time was not something just any ordinary person could do.
Back in his office, Obadiah opened his computer again and prepared to contact the terrorists in the Middle East. After all, he had already provided them with plenty of weapons and funding, yet the terrorists had taken no action at all. Tony Stark was still living comfortably in his mansion, and this left Obadiah feeling furious at having been deceived.
More importantly, the terrorists still had not delivered the Mark I Armor to Obadiah. After so much time, even a tank should have arrived by now. It seemed the terrorists had been developing other ideas lately. Obadiah had his own ways of dealing with people like that.
One thing after another had made Obadiah exceptionally angry, to the point that his rage had caused him to lose some of his reason.
Obadiah prepared to contact some mercenaries and personally make a trip to Afghanistan to retrieve what rightfully belonged to him from the terrorists.
Being led around by the nose by terrorists was hardly pleasant. Obadiah would make the terrorists in Afghanistan understand that once they took the money, they had to get to work. If they could not do that, they had to be prepared to be eliminated.
Meanwhile, the terrorists in Afghanistan were using the weapons and funds provided by Obadiah to recruit troops and expand their forces, preparing to regroup before causing trouble for Tony Stark again.
As for how they would do that, they would have to consider it carefully. Tony Stark was still far away in America, and it was not as if they could swim across the ocean.
To restore their organization's strength as quickly as possible, the terrorists used the weapons provided by Obadiah to launch a massacre, driving the Afghan government forces and the US Military into retreat after retreat.
Naturally, these actions also provoked a fierce response from the military, but the government was always slower to react than the terrorists.
Every time the army arrived to attack, the terrorists had already fled with the civilians in tow, leaving behind a complete mess for the government and military to clean up.
Amid this chaos, Obadiah took equipment Stark Industries had provided to support the US Military and flew by private plane to the turbulent region of Afghanistan.
Several dozen elite mercenaries Obadiah had hired from Blackwater Company in America arrived with him. All of them had experience participating in wars, and in Obadiah's view, dealing with these terrorists would be more than easy.
The terrorists had not expected Obadiah to come personally to Afghanistan to conduct the exchange. In the terrorist leader's eyes, they had already made so many deals with Obadiah that their relationship was extremely close. He was not worried that Obadiah would try anything, since if their relationship were exposed, it would look bad for everyone involved.
Therefore, the terrorist leader brought only a few trusted subordinates and took the Iron Man Armor to the agreed meeting place to make the exchange with Obadiah.
By the time the terrorist leader arrived, Obadiah had already grown somewhat impatient from waiting. When Obadiah saw the Iron Man Armor the terrorists had brought, he indicated that the terrorist leader should ask his men to wait outside. To show his sincerity, Obadiah also sent his own men outside.
The terrorist leader assumed Obadiah had something important to discuss with him, so he waved his hand and had his trusted men wait outside.
Once everyone had left, Obadiah crouched down and studied the battered Iron Man Armor for a while. Then he pulled a handkerchief from his chest, wiped his hands as he walked over to the terrorist leader.
Obadiah walked around the sofa and came up behind the terrorist. As he walked, he said, "You know, we've been working together for a long time. Every time I gave you an assignment, you handled it well. And I never held back when providing you with money and equipment. So I'd say our cooperation has always been very pleasant. But why did you have to come up with so many unnecessary ideas?"
At first, the terrorist leader listened to Obadiah with considerable interest as he recalled the history of their cooperation. They truly had developed a deep bond. But when he heard the final sentence, his expression changed drastically, and he prepared to call his trusted men outside in to protect him.
Obadiah did not give the terrorist that chance, because he was holding a high-tech weapon inside the handkerchief: a Sonic Nerve Paralysis Device.
By emitting specific sound waves, it could temporarily paralyze the nerves in the human body in an instant, depriving the target of the ability to resist. The price was that it caused immense damage to the human body, which was why the US government had never approved its production. The device in Obadiah's hand was the prototype that had been produced back then.
Looking at the terrorist leader, who was twitching continuously and glaring at him in fury, Obadiah laughed mockingly. He waved the Sonic Nerve Paralysis Device and said sarcastically, "This is what you wanted but could never obtain. I call it technology. People like you will never understand what technology represents."
After silently dealing with the terrorist leader, Obadiah wiped his hands and walked out of the room. Outside, the terrorist leader's trusted men had also been subdued by the mercenaries Obadiah had brought with him, obediently kneeling in a heap.
Obadiah did not even spare the terrorists a glance before getting into his car. As he walked, he said, "Clean up the battlefield. We need to head back."
As soon as he obtained the Mark I Iron Man Armor, Obadiah sent it to Stark Industries' weapons research department and gave it to the engineers as a prototype, hoping they could produce a more powerful Iron Man Armor.
The engineers were also greatly shocked when they received the crude equipment. After all, its rough workmanship made it obvious that it had been cobbled together by hand. Every one of them could design a more refined mechanical device than this, but the key issue was that none of them could build an Iron Man Armor by hand.
As usual, Obadiah went to the energy department and found William, the chief consultant of the energy department, to ask about the progress of the Arc Reactor miniaturization plan.
But the result infuriated Obadiah. After all this time, he had already obtained the prototype, yet the energy department had not made the slightest progress.
Angry, Obadiah pointed at William's bald head and shouted, "William, the technology you need is right there. You can see it every day. All you need to do is miniaturize it. What's so difficult about that?"
The chief consultant, William, did not want to bother with this idiot of a leader. He retorted, "In fact, building an Arc Reactor is simple. The difficult part is miniaturizing it."
"The difficult part is miniaturizing it? You know Tony Stark completed the miniaturization in a cave using that pile of crude junk. And you're telling me the difficult part is miniaturizing it?" Hearing William's rebuttal, Obadiah burned with even greater fury. He grabbed William by the collar and shouted at him.
William truly had no way to refute that. But as the chief consultant of the energy department, William merely said calmly, "I'm not Tony Stark."
Those words completely enraged Obadiah. He shoved William aside and said, "You're fired."
As the chief consultant of Stark Industries' energy department, William naturally had real ability, and capable people often had tempers to match.
After Obadiah told him he was fired, William simply turned and left. As long as one had the ability, there would be a place for them anywhere in the world. There was no reason to stay under Obadiah and stew in anger.
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