Which Version of Osborn?

Luo Xia asked Violet to help him find a famous surgeon, intending to resolve the shrapnel issue in Tony's chest. Although the Arc Reactor used magnetic force to hold the shrapnel in place, allowing Tony to barely survive, this was merely treating the symptoms rather than the root cause.

Even if Tony upgraded the Arc Reactor to the second generation and solved the Palladium poisoning, he would still die if he were ever separated from the device.

Unfortunately, the shrapnel was located too close to Tony's heart, and there were so many pieces that missing even one would be fatal.

Therefore, Tony had never dared to undergo surgery.

The doctor Violet recommended to Luo Xia, Stephen Strange, was the world's top surgeon. Furthermore, looking at his life history, it seemed that as long as one had money, it was easy to hire him.

Problems that could be solved with money were not problems at all for Stark Industries. Although Tony had announced the closure of Stark Industries' weapons division, causing the stock price to plummet, the cost of a mere surgery was nothing to Tony; it wasn't even a drop in the bucket.

Luo Xia had Violet pull up Tony's medical report and sent an email to Dr. Strange, specifically stating that as long as the surgery was successful, money was absolutely no object.

He slept beautifully; it was the most peaceful sleep Luo Xia had experienced since transmigrating. He didn't even dream, sleeping soundly until dawn.

When Luo Xia woke up, he discovered it was already past ten in the morning.

"Good thing I don't have to punch a clock for work," Luo Xia said, stretching.

"Commander, you have two messages. One is a reply from Dr. Strange, and the other is from S.H.I.E.L.D.," Violet said, jumping onto Luo Xia's bedside.

"Let's hear the S.H.I.E.L.D. one first," Luo Xia yawned.

"Agent Coulson from S.H.I.E.L.D. called you around seven this morning, but since you were sleeping soundly, I forwarded it to your voicemail. Coulson hopes you can meet with him if you have time; he seems to want to chat about Tony Stark," Violet reported to Luo Xia.

"Fine, tell him to prepay some salary, and I'll buy him coffee this afternoon. What about that Dr. Strange?" Luo Xia said nonchalantly.

"Stephen Strange replied to your email. He says the surgery is extremely dangerous; even if he performs it himself, it would only increase the success rate from 10% to 50%. He also mentioned that with current medical technology, this success rate is the absolute limit."

"Did he offer any other suggestions?" Luo Xia pressed.

With only a 50% success rate, it was no wonder Tony could never bring himself to undergo the surgery; it was essentially gambling with his own life.

"Yes, he mentioned that Oscorp seems to be developing a new type of minimally invasive medical device with nanometer-level precision, though it hasn't entered formal production yet. He said if he could have the assistance of this set of medical equipment, he could increase the success rate to over 90%."

"Oscorp?" Luo Xia felt a faint sense of familiarity upon hearing the name.

"Isn't that the Green Goblin's company?" It took Luo Xia a moment to recall the company's significance.

Before transmigrating, Luo Xia had only watched a few Marvel movies and didn't have a deep understanding of this world. Aside from the most famous Avengers, he wasn't actually familiar with the other superheroes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which was why he hadn't immediately recognized the name Oscorp.

"Spider-Man movies have mentioned Oscorp many times; I wonder which version of the world this is?" Luo Xia grew curious.

If it followed the latest Spider-Man film, Spider-Man would only be about five years old right now, still a child. It was even possible that Spider-Man's parents hadn't died in an accident yet and were still a happy family.

"Send a meeting request to Oscorp, using the name of a technical consultant for Stark Industries," Luo Xia instructed Violet.

"Understood, Commander," Violet replied respectfully.

However, after saying that, Violet hesitated and said to Luo Xia, "Um... Commander, I was wondering if I could take a day off?"

Luo Xia stared at Violet with wide eyes. This robot girl could ask for time off?

"What do you need to do?" Luo Xia asked.

"Well... I found out there's an offline World of Warcraft event today, and I want to go check it out."

Luo Xia nearly spat out his saliva, asking in surprise, "You play World of Warcraft?"

To be fair, if you counted her age, Violet hadn't even been born for many days.

"I'm a max-level Fury Warrior!" Violet projected her account details directly to Luo Xia.

This time, Luo Xia really did spit out his drink.

How did Violet manage to reach max level in just a few days? One had to remember that it was 2008, and the level cap was only 70, not the version from the future where you could pay to boost to level 100.

Even with high-level players helping her power-level, it shouldn't have been possible to reach the cap this quickly. Plus, looking at the account stats, she had already collected the full tier set.

What kind of drop rate was this? Was she the luckiest person on the planet?

"Wait, where did you get this account? Don't tell me..." Luo Xia asked.

"I hacked the server and modified the data. Don't worry, I used S.H.I.E.L.D.'s resources; no one will ever find out," Violet said without any attempt at secrecy.

Luo Xia: "..."

It was just a game; was it necessary to go to such extremes? If the people at S.H.I.E.L.D. knew their systems had been breached and massive resources were being used to hack Blizzard's World of Warcraft servers, he wondered if they would shut Blizzard down.

Violet blinked at Luo Xia, looking pitiful; it seemed she really wanted to go to that offline event.

"How are you going to go? Aren't you afraid of being bought and taken home as a collectible figure in that state?" Luo Xia said to Violet.

That was quite possible; in her robot form, Violet looked like an incredibly detailed figurine, and she would likely be snatched up the moment she appeared.

Upon hearing this, Violet immediately stiffened as if she had rusted. Seeing her looking so pathetic, Luo Xia had no choice but to say, "Since there's nothing urgent today, I'll take you."

As soon as she heard Luo Xia's words, Violet jumped off the bed and hugged one of his fingers: "Commander, the electric sparks dancing at your fingertips are the eternal faith of my life!"

"Hey, hey, I've watched that Railgun anime too!" Luo Xia retorted.

Putting on Violet, who had transformed into watch-mode, Luo Xia left the apartment and, under her guidance, headed toward the venue for the World of Warcraft event.

However, as Luo Xia left the apartment, a black business van quietly followed from behind, and Luo Xia seemed completely unaware.