"Your guess was right. Three Synthetics had gone missing."
Earth's Synthetics were now managed uniformly by Stark Industries. They were Stark employees, but they took orders from Norman, making them outsourced workers. However, this outsourcing arrangement came with far better benefits: they could collect two salaries, one from Stark Industries and another from Norman.
After Tony's investigation, it was confirmed that Synthetics had indeed disappeared.
Something like that should have been completely impossible within the Osborn Group. If a Synthetic vanished, OIS would have detected it immediately.
Even in the United States, where Osborn technology had been adopted on a massive scale, achieving that level of oversight was unlikely. This was no longer merely a technical issue.
Ultron had exploited his advantages to secretly fabricate the illusion that the Synthetics were still alive. But such a disguise could not withstand investigation. Even if Tony had not looked into it himself, A would soon have noticed the reduction in available labor.
According to the report, aside from the first missing Synthetic, the others had all disappeared in remote areas. Yet most of their jobs were in the city center. Even predictive algorithms could not deduce why they had gone to those places.
And the place where the first Synthetic vanished was exactly where Ultron had first appeared and caused the disturbance.
"This Synthetic was named Conner. He was a Police Synthetic and had been patrolling the streets that day. Ultron probably abducted him during the chaos."
At the scene, A used Holographic Projection technology to reconstruct what had happened that day.
Thanks to the ctOS system and AL's immense computing power, A could reconstruct the course of events with nearly one hundred percent accuracy.
Conner was an auxiliary officer. On the day the battle broke out, his primary directive had been