Chapter 304 Asking for Vibranium
One month later.
Malibu Street, 10880.
This is a luxurious villa built on the seaside. It covers a large area. The underground garage alone covers an area of more than hundreds of square meters. There are seven or eight limited edition luxury cars parked in it.
There is no doubt about it.
The extremely ostentatious sea-view villa in front of you is the residence of Iron Man Tony Stark.
It is also the place where Tony has lived the longest so far.
Because his personal studio is next to the garage, Tony has spent most of the past month in the laboratory researching new energy sources in an attempt to solve the problem at its root.
The result is regrettable.
He has made numerous attempts at new energy sources, and although he has found a variety of new raw materials for making micro-Ark nuclear reactors, these elements, without exception, pose great safety risks.
What Tony needs is clean energy, the kind where radioactive materials will not cause harm to the body.
However, none of the known elements on earth can meet the requirements, even the minimum requirements cannot be met.
"Are we really going to ask him?"
Tony's best solution now is to hire the best doctor to perform the highest-level surgery to remove the remaining shrapnel in his body.
But this surgery is extremely risky.
In the plot line of the original movie, Tony was also delayed until the third part. After experiencing many life and death crises, he dared to make up his mind to take risks.
It was different now. Cheng Long suddenly came to visit a month ago and confidently told Potts that he could solve his problem from the root.
This is a man who has mastered microwormhole transport technology and is fully capable of using this technology to transport shrapnel out of his body.
Tony also thought about doing his own research at first, so he kept the stray cat that Cheng Long had replaced with his substitute technique that day, because this cat had been in and out of microwormholes and might be of some help to his research.
However, the stray cat was too wild and sneaked away half a month ago.
"Jarvis, what has Cheng been busy with recently?"
Tony finally decided to let go of his arrogance as a scientist, follow his heart, and seek help from the outside world. He felt quite uncomfortable with a big hole in his chest.
If we don't find a cure, the nuclear reactor in the chest will be covered with granulation.
“Set up a stall!”
While playing the relevant footage, Jarvis said: "Half a month ago, Mr. Cheng and his landlady bought a food truck, selling sour plum fried rice, scallion noodles, fried beef balls and other foods. The business was quite large. Hot, demand exceeds supply every day.”
At this time, the surveillance footage played on the light screen in front of Tony came from a merchant surveillance camera in a certain neighborhood. The footage was not very clear, but there were two lines in front of the window, and business was indeed booming.
"I didn't expect our Mr. Cheng to be a great chef..." Tony raised his lips slightly, stood up and took care of himself a bit, then went to the garage, drove the latest Bugatti, stepped on the accelerator, and drove away.
……
Manhattan, near Central Park.
Aunt Mei, who was wearing a red sweatshirt and tight jeans, after giving change to the customer, looked back at Cheng Long, who was moving smoothly and in an orderly manner, and shouted: "Long, there are more and more customers, how much fried rice is left?" ”
"There are five portions left, and three portions of noodles are left..."
After receiving the exact news, Aunt Mei looked decisively at the food outlet and said to everyone: "Sorry for those behind the fourth row, the fried rice and noodles will be sold out soon. Please hurry up early tomorrow."
"Farke, you're late again!"
"Can't you prepare more fried rice and noodles?"
"Really, I don't even know how to make money..."
Dozens of customers behind the fourth row cursed and left.
At least half of them queued for three days in a row and never got to eat the sour plum fried rice or scallion oil noodles that they had been craving for.
Cheng Long's mobile stall has a particularly booming business. Even on the first day, it was not very popular for a while, but once people try it, the business will soon become popular.
There is no way, who makes Cheng Long's cooking skills superb?
Even though his peeing beef pills have not yet reached the level of the God of Cookery, they do not have additional functions, such as curing anorexia patients or nourishing the stomach.
But the food he cooked tastes first-rate.
Anyone who tastes it once will never forget it.
Therefore, Cheng Long will not set up a stall in a fixed location and change the venue every three days, otherwise there will be too many people queuing up and it will easily cause chaos.
After all, when he bought the food truck, he didn't really want to set up a stall, but just to have nothing to do and find a high-paying job for the landlady.
Aunt Mei has always been doing the preliminary preparations and subsequent cleaning work.
Cheng Long only needs to cook beef balls, make sour plum fried rice and noodles.
Of course, Aunt Mei is not yet up to the task of beating beef balls. Her arm strength is completely incomparable to that of a double-knife turkey.
Cheng Long didn't want to spend a lot of time beating the beef balls, so he exploded and peeed on the beef balls. The limit was thirty servings per day.
Sour plum fried rice and scallion oil noodles, 150 servings each.
Beef balls cost US$20 each, fried rice and noodles cost US$10 each, and are sold out every day. The revenue is US$3,600. After excluding labor and raw material costs, the net profit is as high as US$3,000+.
Cheng Long's salary for Aunt Mei is 20% of the net profit, with a daily income of 600+.
Even if Mei works ten days a month, her income is more than working as a waiter in a coffee shop.
This also makes Aunt Mei full of motivation. She has to get up early every day to pick fresh ingredients. After everything is ready, she has to run upstairs to provide warm services and use various methods to wake up Cheng Long.
"Sir, your scallion noodles..."
Aunt May handed the last bowl of noodles to the customer and was about to close the window when she saw Tony Stark with a mustache walking towards him, accompanied by his bodyguard Happy.
Almost everyone at Citigroup knew about this playboy. When May recognized Tony, she was particularly surprised. However, considering that she was doing business, she smiled very officially and said apologetically: "Mr. Stark , Sorry, we have sold out of food.”
"It's really a pity that I can't taste the delicious food you cooked for me, miss..." Seeing Aunt Mei with a graceful figure and bulging front and back, Tony's old habit of being carefree relapsed.
"Come again next time!" Aunt Mei smiled sweetly.
"Wait~~" Tony stopped Aunt Mei from closing the window again and turned to look at Cheng Long, "Mr. Cheng, I want to talk to you."
"The price negotiated now is not the same as a month ago!"
Cheng Long took the initiative to come to discuss cooperation, which was different from Tony's coming to ask for his help.
If Tony hadn't been so arrogant at the beginning, he would have only asked for a green card, a house and millions of dollars.
There are not a few sets of steel armors or other precious items now, so there is no need to continue talking.
"No problem, as long as we have something to discuss."
"Wait a moment~~" Cheng Long turned to look at Aunt Mei and warned: "Mei, you drive back first."
Aunt Mei nodded and asked: "Will you come back for dinner tonight?"
In the past month, she and Cheng Long had been like a loving couple. After work every day, they would go home and prepare a sumptuous dinner to reward each other.
The ten-year-old little spider is like their child.
She thought this life would go on forever.
She never thought that Tony's appearance would interrupt her beautiful fantasy...
"Of course, I can't get used to eating outside. Wait for me at home." Cheng Long rubbed Aunt Mei's head and walked out of the food truck with a smile.
……
A quarter of an hour later.
Central Park, in a secluded corner.
Tony organized his language and said straight to the point: "Mr. Cheng, I want to know how your treatment plan is suitable. If there are not many risks, the price can be whatever you want."
"I have two plans here..."
"Option one, I will provide you with a piece of news that can completely solve the problem of palladium poisoning and at the same time increase the energy of your micro-ark reactor by more than ten times. The disadvantage is that the shrapnel is still there and you need to hire another doctor to take it out at risk. "Speaking of this, Cheng Long paused deliberately.
"What about the second option?"
"I personally took out the remaining shrapnel in your body and restored your wounds to their original state in an instant..." Cheng Long's words were not shocking and he would not stop. In just one sentence, Tony and Happy showed a shocking look.
Let the wound recover instantly, are you sure it's not a joke?
"Mr. Cheng, are you sure you can recover my injury quickly?"
Tony said in disbelief.
If Cheng Long can really do it, then the person in front of him must be a god from the east. Only an omnipotent god can cure all diseases instantly.
"I won't talk about things that can't be done. If you believe me, everything is easy to talk about. If you still have doubts, there is no need to continue talking, because I don't want to waste time explaining."
Cheng Long was not trying to curry favor with Tony when he was treating him, but just wanted to make it easier for himself. Without a green card and a driver's license, it was really inconvenient for Aunt Mei to drive when setting up a stall.
It is obviously not feasible to apply for a green card through normal channels.
He doesn't even have an identity in this world.
"Mr. Cheng, it's not that I don't believe you, it's just..." Tony finally didn't have the nerve to argue, shrugged, and said bluntly: "I'm just worried about my own safety. After all, this is the second time we've met."
"Do you mind if I do a little experiment on your bodyguard?" Cheng Long looked up at Happy, one of the people Tony cared about most.
"Happy~~"
"Sir, please feel free to do so."
After Happy heard Tony's words, he immediately came to Cheng Long and took the initiative to extend a hand.
Then Cheng Long raised his little finger and lightly scratched Happy's palm with his fingertips. The movement was obviously very light, but Happy felt as if someone had slashed him with a knife. His facial features were wrinkled in pain, and his palm was also bruised. The fingertips pulled out a wound deep enough to show the bone.
"Mr. Cheng, you..."
Just as Tony was about to say something, an extremely horrifying scene happened in front of him.
Wisps of thick fog overflowed from Cheng Long's fingertips and wrapped around Happy's palm.
After a few seconds, the black mist dissipated, and Happy's bone-deep injuries had recovered as before.
"Happy, were you really hurt just now?" Tony's eyes widened and he asked in disbelief.
"I think so. When my palm was cut open, it hurt so much that I shed tears." Happy wiped the sweat from his face, looking like he was still frightened.
Any other person, any other time, Tony would have questioned it, suspecting that he was hallucinating.
But now, I have to believe it.
First of all, he came very suddenly, and it was impossible for others to prepare means in advance to cause him to hallucinate.
Secondly, Happy is extremely loyal and will never join forces with outsiders or cheat him with money.
"Mr. Cheng, please take action. I don't know what it will cost?"
Tony subconsciously used honorifics and expressed unprecedented respect for Cheng Long. Although this was not Tony's character, who asked him to ask for help?
"I need a green card, a driver's license, and three sets of box-type steel armor that can automatically cover my body."
The box-type armor that Cheng Long was talking about was the Mark 5 suitcase armor. It was not particularly powerful and was mainly used for emergencies.
He definitely won't need it, but taking it back will allow his woman to have more defense methods, and she will feel more at ease when she goes to the dungeon world to experience in the future.
"There's no problem with your green card and driver's license. I can arrange for someone to apply for it now, but I can't give you the armor. The technology involved needs to be kept confidential..."
"However, I can compensate you in US dollars, one billion or two billion."
The core technology of Tony's armor is actually a miniature Ark reactor. Although other technologies are also very advanced, they can be copied by recruiting some scientists with real materials, but it will take a long time.
For example, Tony's uncle 'Obadestan' summoned more than a dozen relevant scientific researchers and spent more than half a year researching before producing an enlarged version of the armor.
And it’s the version without the Micro Ark.
For the energy core, Obadestan needs to go to Tony's house to snatch it.
"I have more money. Since you are not willing to give me the armor, then I will change my request. You can give me 5 kilograms of vibranium afterwards." Cheng Long really doesn't care about U.S. dollars. After all, he can't take it back no matter how much he wants. , Vibranium is different. Whether it is used to forge weapons or taken back to Dr. Sala for research, it is of extremely high value.
"Five, five kilograms?" Tony said in shock: "Since you know about vibranium, you should know that vibranium is not a product of the earth. The total amount of vibranium in the world may be less than five kilograms."
"You are wrong about this. In fact, there is so much vibranium in a certain place in Africa that it would take hundreds of years to mine it. However, the military strength of that place is stronger than that of Citigroup. You can pay attention to a man named Crow Arms dealer, he stole a lot of vibranium from there.”
Cheng Long asked Tony to contact Crow, the vibranium dealer, in advance. On the one hand, he wanted vibranium, and on the other hand, he wanted to test Gu Yi's attitude.
As long as Gu Yi doesn't care about these little things, then many things can be planned.
For example, go to live in a small town in New Mexico for a while and wait for the hammer to fall from the sky, or go to Sokovia and find Wanda and her brother in advance to adopt the sisters.
Even go to Western Europe and release the goddess of death!
"How much is no less?"
"Probably a few hundred pounds!"
Ultron in the Avengers once robbed the arms dealer Crowe and used the stolen vibranium to build his body. The remaining vibranium can also be used to create an anti-gravity device to lift the entire Sokovia into the sky. It is dangerous. All mankind.
Cheng Long contacted Tony for this reason, trying to change Tony's mentality of being wary of danger in times of peace. Ultron was completely caused by Tony looking for trouble...
(End of chapter)