Marvel: Eight Years Until Iron Man's Debut
Chapter 371

The Bet

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As Lin Hai tended to Tony's body, Tony lay utterly relaxed in the recliner, his eyes narrowing slightly in comfort.

Life Force seeped in through the skin of Tony's arm, flowing through his blood vessels and meridians, sweeping away all the fatigue and stiffness he had accumulated from being cooped up in the laboratory lately.

After tending to Tony's body, they chatted in the laboratory about what had happened recently. Tony was immersed in a new project, so he was the first to launch into an animated explanation.

Unlike the previous generations of armor, Mark VII had been designed from the start around the concept of "anytime, anywhere, summoned at will," without needing mechanical arms to help him put it on. He wanted the armor to automatically come to him when needed and complete the equipping process on its own.

To achieve that goal, he had designed a sensor bracelet.

As long as he wore that bracelet, Mark VII could take off from anywhere after receiving a signal, lock onto his location through the positioning signal emitted by the bracelet, adjust its posture during flight, and then automatically equip itself onto him.

The entire process, from activation to full equipping, would theoretically take only a few seconds.

Of course, when he talked about this, he did not reveal any specific technical parameters or data. It was not because he was guarding against Lin Hai and feared Lin Hai might steal something from him; it was because Lin Hai, who came from a biology background, simply would not understand any of it.

So he only roughly explained his design ideas and the effect he ultimately wanted to achieve. His purpose was simple: to see whether he could get some inspiration from Lin Hai.

Besides, Tony did not usually have many friends

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