Breaking the Conspiracy with a Few Words

This so-called Mandarin was merely a puppet arranged by Killian. He used beautiful women and drugs to control him, then had him film threatening videos, making the whole world believe he was the one pulling the strings behind everything.

Presumably, one purpose was to borrow the Mandarin name and cause a sensation, while the other was to divert the attention of S.H.I.E.L.D. and other agencies.

This actor playing the Mandarin was, in a way, a fool blessed by fortune.

As a puppet, he had beautiful women attending to him wherever he went. Aside from being under house arrest, he lived an exceedingly carefree and pleasurable life.

More remarkably, despite being involved in something so major, he not only survived but barely spent a few days in prison.

He even appeared later in Shang-Chi, where he became good friends with an Eastern divine beast named Dijiang.

Thinking of this, Apocalypse asked Pepper Potts, "Did Killian come looking for you?"

Pepper Potts said strangely, "You know about that too? He did come to see me. I was afraid Tony would misunderstand, so I haven't told him yet."

"He showed me a neural network technology. But I felt that technology leaned too heavily toward weaponization. Tony doesn't allow the company to develop weapons anymore, so I sent him away."

"Hahahaha," Apocalypse laughed. "Do you know that he's the mastermind behind all this? That Mandarin is nothing more than a puppet he pushed out to divert attention."

Iron Man, Pepper Potts, and Happy all wore expressions of utter disbelief.

Iron Man asked, "How is that possible? Why would he do all this? What does he gain from it?"

Apocalypse glanced at Iron Man. "Besides wanting to plunder more wealth, the most important thing to him is revenge!"

More than a decade ago, Killian had