Three days had passed since the press conference ended.
For New York, a city that never quieted down, those three days had seemed no different from any others.
The sun still rose, the subway was still crowded, the smell of coffee still drifted from cafés, and office workers and students were as busy as ever.
On the news, Iron Man remained a hot topic, but celebrity gossip, sporting events, and political issues had begun to crowd him out.
The world had not leapt into a turbulent new era just because a billionaire genius inventor had publicly admitted to owning a cool suit of Iron Man armor.
Most ordinary people carried on along their usual paths, and everything seemed calm. The undercurrents surging beneath that calm simply had not reached their daily lives yet.
Lin Hai's routine had also remained largely unchanged.
Every morning, he would travel through a Portal to the Chen-Style Chinese Medicine Clinic to help his master, Chen Bing. He filled prescriptions, greeted patients, or simply chatted with him, listening to his experiences in martial arts and medicine and the occasional reflection on life.
Unless something came up in the afternoon, he would usually return to his home in Brooklyn Heights or stay in the clinic's backyard for his unfailing Spear Zen practice. It tempered his mind while steadily infusing the weapon in his hands with Life Force.
He also set aside time each day to watch the price of Stark Industries stock.
Since deciding to buy enough shares in Stark Industries to become shareholders with a voice in the company, he and Harry had begun making purchases with the help of Matt's law firm.
With Foggy and Elektra's help, things had gone more smoothly than expected. They were not far from owning enough shares to attend shareholder