Marvel: Eight Years Until Iron Man's Debut
Chapter 210

Where the Dragon Bones Lay Buried

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A few days later, Lin Hai was tending medicinal plants in the Herbal Plant Shop next to the Chen-Style Chinese Medicine Clinic when Kingpin called.

Kingpin had barely had a moment to breathe lately. He had to absorb the vast "inheritance" left behind by Alexandra and Madame Gao while also rooting out The Hand's remaining forces in North America.

If he had made time to call personally, it had to be important.

Lin Hai answered, and Kingpin's voice came through. "Dr. Lin, am I interrupting?"

"No, Mr. Wilson. Go ahead." Lin Hai stood before several potted plants, holding a watering can in one hand and his phone in the other.

Kingpin's voice turned solemn. "My people thoroughly searched Alexandra's properties using the information Madame Gao provided. Just now, deep beneath the financial tower she used as her headquarters, we found a place that may contain Dragon Bone."

Lin Hai was not particularly interested in the Dragon Bone's ability to prolong life or even revive the dead.

But as Ta Lo's Divine Dragon emissary, he could wield Dragon God's Power and possessed the Divine Dragon Heart. Anything connected to dragons stirred his curiosity.

Judging by what Dragon Bone could do, the energy within it was likely connected to Life Energy. And from what Lin Hai remembered, the Dragon Bone beneath New York was the body Shou-Lao, K'un-Lun's guardian, had left behind during one of his cycles of death and rebirth.

Taken together, those factors made the Dragon Bone well worth studying.

His thoughts raced. "Please wait a moment, Mr. Wilson. I'll be right over."

After hanging up, Lin Hai found his master, Chen Bing, and briefly explained that he needed to go out. Without wasting another moment, he raised his hand and opened a Portal to the top-floor office of Fisk

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