America's internet erupted once again. This year's waves only grew higher and higher.
"Ha ha, Tony Stark is finished!"
"I believe in Howard Stark. Would an American scientist really need to plagiarize someone else's research?"
"What a joke! American science will always lead the world!"
"Tsk tsk, are you living in a dream up there? Why not look into Operation Paperclip first? Albert Einstein was German!"
"I looked it up. Anton Vanko defected to America in 1963, then was deported four years later after being convicted of espionage. The reason given at the time was that he had stolen Howard Stark's research."
"Ha ha, thief crying thief. So American!"
At this point, Jarvis proactively filtered out the online rumors and displayed only the files on Anton Vanko and Ivan Vanko.
"Anton Vanko was a Soviet physicist who defected to America in 1963, but he was accused of espionage and deported four years later."
"His son, Ivan Vanko, was also a physicist. He was sentenced to fifteen years in Kopeysk Prison for selling weapons-grade plutonium to Pakistan."
"These are the only records that can be found. Neither father nor son left any further traces in the public eye afterward."
Tony Stark sat in a vintage car, staring blankly at the holographic screen.
So his father really had had a colleague like that.
Could what Ivan Vanko said be true?
Was his father really a thief?
Beyond the accusations against his father, the nano armor Ivan Vanko had displayed dealt a heavy blow to the pride Tony Stark had built up over the years.
He had enjoyed the title of "genius" for too long. He had never felt defeated among his peers, but what happened yesterday had shattered his pride.
His body was poisoned, his spirit wounded, his company trapped in