Chapter 218: Farce at the Expo (Part 1)

The Stark Industries Headquarters Building, also known as the Stark Tower, is located on East 45th Street of Grand Central Station in Manhattan, New York, USA. It was completed in the 1990s and is approximately 350 meters high with a total of 89 floors.

Howard, originally the founder and owner of Stark Industries, bought a piece of land on the east side of Grand Central Station with the intention of building a new headquarters for his automobile company, which was later built at Obadiah's suggestion. It became the tallest building in New York City at the time and one of the most famous sights on the New York skyline.

But it is a pity that Howard was not able to see the completion of this building. After Stark grew up and took over the Stark Group, the building was repaired many times. Now it has become a high-tech laboratory, It is a giant building integrating the group headquarters and commercial office building.

Many New Yorkers also like to jokingly call this the "Triangle Tower" because the shape of the Stark Tower is a right-angled triangle. The building on the east side is taller. From the 79th to 89th floors are Stark's personal laboratories. The building on the west side is shorter and is a commercial office building, where Stark Group employees work.

Although this design makes the appearance of the building look a bit weird, it is very practical in terms of practicality. The two buildings are connected to each other but do not interfere with each other. Although it was criticized by many landscape experts when it was built, they believed that this strange-shaped building It ruined the beauty of the New York skyline, but to this day, the Stark Tower has become an indispensable part of the New York travel strategy.

The first Stark Industries Expo was organized by Howard Stark in 1981. Before the 20th century, the Stark Industries Expo was the largest industrial expo in the world.

After Howard's death, Tony Stark, who inherited the Stark Group, did not like to hold industrial expos very much. Therefore, from the late 1990s to the early 21st century, the Stark Industrial Expo no longer flourished. To this day, Tony Stark said in front of flashlights and microphones at a press conference in Stark Tower:

"I am not to blame for the fact that the most important part of humanity's industrial development has been forgotten for many years. I am very disappointed that after the death of the founder of the Stark Group, I have never heard of any industrial fair in the world. , can stand up and fill this gap..."

"And now, what I want to tell you is that you will receive an invitation that may be the most important in your life. You will witness with your own eyes how much human industrial development has taken a step forward. If in the past few decades, The blank period is my negligence, so I will use a Stark Industries Expo to tell you..."

Stark looked around, and the reporters around him looked at him without saying a word.

Reporters are very familiar with Stark, but most of the time, Pepper stands in front of reporters and explains to reporters that the bad things Stark did will not have any big impact, and then the drunk Tony is removed. He was dragged up from behind the scenes and said a few perfunctory words to reporters.

But now, all reporters can see that the Mr. Stark in front of them is somewhat different.

Stark was also very arrogant before. He often said something like "Ordinary people can't understand me", "You never know what kind of changes my invention will bring to mankind" or "Those small things are not important at all. I am about to change mankind." The process of industrial development" and other words are on the lips.

Defiant is his business card, and frivolousness is his byword. But this time, Stark's tone was very different, and even reporters who had heard various celebrities' sophistry focused their attention on him. on the body.

"There are many rumors in this world that are difficult to distinguish between true and false, and your job is to spread them, but these things can never really change the world. You can't do it, and that Yin Fan Vanke can't do it. Behind his back Neither can the standing air force, army and navy."

Finally, Stark said into the microphone: "...but I can."

Stark picked up an invitation from the table, showed it to the reporters, and said: "This is the ticket for Noah's Ark in the new century. If you don't want to board the ship, then stay in the decaying waves and wait to die. ”

Countless flashes lit up, and the sound of filming boomed along with the noisy questions. Stark's calm face was photographed and fixed on one newspaper after another.

The newspaper screen flickered, the hand holding the newspaper was put down, and Peter's face was revealed behind him. He took a bite of the hot dog and said to Gwen next to him: "I didn't expect you actually got tickets to the Stark Industry Expo. I thought …”

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Gwen shrugged and said, "Recently there have been overwhelming reports about Stark. I happen to be very interested in the Industrial Expo, so I asked my dad to get me two tickets. Let's go together."

Speaking of this, Peter became a little angry, "I think some reporters are distorting the facts..."

"I know you are a fan of Stark. You said that he was nice to you when you were an intern at the Stark Group." Gwen turned to look at Peter. Peter sighed and said a little frustrated: " Do you also think he is a bad person? But..."

Gwen patted Peter on the shoulder and said: "The Stark that many people know from reports may be different from the Stark you know, but this is normal because people are multi-faceted."

"You think they are smearing your idol, but they also think you are whitewashing him. But no matter what, I am more concerned about whether Stark can really fulfill the bold words he said in the press conference."

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Gwen took down her schoolbag, and then took out two invitations from it, handed one to Peter, and said, "Take it apart and take a look. If the design is too ugly, we won't go."

Peter turned the invitation upside down and said, "From the outside, it doesn't look special..."

As he said that, he opened the invitation, and Gwen did the same as him, and then said a little disappointedly, "The design of the invitation is quite ordinary. There is a card inside, saying 'Please go to the 90th floor of the Stark Group Headquarters Building, East 45th Street, Central Station in Manhattan'..."

"Wait!" Peter interrupted Gwen. He picked up the card in the invitation in his hand and looked at it carefully. He said in surprise: "90 floors?? Where is the 90th floor of the Stark Building? That building only has 89 floors!"

Gwen also took a look and said puzzledly: "You must have counted wrong?" After that, she put her eyes back on the invitation and said, "Our two cards It says 90 floors on the film, so it shouldn't be a mistake. "

Peter scratched his head, and said uncertainly: "I remember there should be only 89 floors? At least the elevator must go to the 89th floor."

"Is he planning to let us visit on the roof?"

"And I remember..." Gwen took the newspaper that Peter put down, pointed to the picture of Stark Building in one of the reports and said: "Shouldn't the exhibition hall of Stark Building be on the top floor of the shorter building on the left? How can this building have 90 floors?"

"Indeed, I have also been to that exhibition hall. It is really big, and it should be more than enough to hold an industrial expo."

Just when Peter and Gwen were confused, other people who received the invitation had the same doubts as them. Even if they stood on the roof of other buildings and looked at Stark Building with a telescope, they counted one floor at a time, and there were indeed only 89 floors, not 90 floors at all.

Many reporters seized on this point and began to attack Stark. They claimed that this was a bad joke of a playboy, saying that he did everything to attract attention and gain publicity. Some people also mocked him for being at the end of his rope and struggling before death.

Indeed, after Stark made those bold words, most industrial groups and large enterprises were angered by his arrogant attitude. If Stark's words were more like a nouveau riche bragging before, the ridicule launched by Stark, who was now serious, broke many people's defense.

Because a fact was in front of them: such a rotten person still came up with a cross-era mecha technology, and even wore that handsome mecha to be a superhero in New York.

Many scientists and leaders of industrial groups who were not living a satisfactory life could not help but fantasize that if they developed this technology, they would not be as naive as Stark and wear a battle suit to be a superhero.

They fantasized about cooperating with the military, increasing production, controlling the mechanical army and even ruling the world.

Therefore, they ridiculed and mocked Stark with more confidence, thinking that his choice was extremely naive.

Many people said that Stark made the most wrong choice in every link, which led him to fall into such a quagmire. If it were them, they would not only cooperate with the military, but also with their peers. Everyone would join hands to use this technology to seize the market, divide the monopoly profits, or participate in international political games.

But no matter what they do, it must be much more mature than putting on an iron shell and doing justice in New York.

The most ironic thing is that the objects of Stark's chivalry are ordinary people who are protected and saved by him. They don't appreciate it. In fact, the voices of the people against Stark and Iron Man are more intense than those of Stark's peers.

In short, whether it is peers, the military or ordinary people, after receiving this invitation, they still plan to go to participate.

Most of them are looking for fun and want to see how this playboy, whose reputation has been so bad, plans to make this gimmick.

There are also many self-proclaimed professional scientists who intend to use their professional knowledge to expose Stark's scam. Many young people who feel that their talents are not recognized intend to watch Stark's jokes to comfort themselves. These rich people are just lucky.

People like Peter and Gwen who are simply interested in industry and machinery and want to learn and visit are actually a minority.