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Time passed like a fleeting white colt, and in the blink of an eye, three days had gone by.
Over those three days, Li Si had remained a shut-in in his lab. He had not even gone to join in the excitement of last night's Stark Expo opening ceremony, focusing only on painstakingly completing his special method of "persuading" Ivan Vanko.
Well, it had indeed been quite exhausting. Sleeping was exhausting.
The best thing about Pandora's birth was that he no longer had to suffer as a code monkey. Pandora could independently handle all the coding work; all he needed to do was give orders, wait, and sleep.
After grinding himself into the ground for over two months, he had thoroughly made up for all the sleep he had missed over the past three days.
Enough idle chatter.
Li Si got up at dawn that morning and flew to Washington to attend a hearing held by the Senate Armed Services Committee.
To put it bluntly, it was a meeting intended to force Tony Stark to hand over the Iron Man Armor.
Tony Stark was not nearly as low-key as Li Si. He flew around every day, fighting crime in countries across the world. Iron Man had now become a strategic deterrent in many nations, second only to nuclear weapons. Countless countries were trying to replicate the technology, and naturally, the United States was coveting it as well.
It would have been one thing if Tony Stark had produced and sold some of them, but he stubbornly kept everything to himself without even offering a weakened version. It would be stranger if the United States could tolerate that.
But... emmm, not tolerating it was useless. This hearing was destined to end as nothing more than a farce.
Stark was deeply