Chapter 245 Prelude to the Battle of New York

"What should I do with this thing?"

Inside Maggieson's secret base, he was staring at the snake charm in a trance.

Since the philosophy class he took after returning to school a few days ago, Maggieson rarely went to New York University.

Anyway, he had already completed most of the credits for this quarter in Gotham, so he could do whatever he wanted with a few insignificant elective courses.

But there was always one thing that bothered Maggieson.

That was the problem of how to deal with the snake charm.

Invisibility is a very practical skill, but it was useless to Maggieson.

Before getting the snake charm, he knew the magic of invisibility, although he had hardly used it, after all, there was no place where he needed to use invisibility.

As for now, it was even more useless. He stole the snake charm and was rewarded with a supreme magic ring, which had many functions that far surpassed the snake charm.

Maggieson really couldn't think of what use he had for the charm?

It's not that he hadn't thought about returning the charm as he always did.

The only problem was, who should he return it to?

Because the curator's embezzlement was exposed, he had to spend the rest of his life in jail, and the museum he managed had officially closed down.

Later, Magison tried to investigate who the original owner of the snake charm was, and guess what happened?

The reason why the snake charm appeared in the museum was that an unknown child picked it up at the beach, and then took it to the street to play with it and happened to be seen by the curator passing by.

Although the charm looks like an ordinary stone, it is absolutely true that it is very old, and it can barely be considered a cultural relic.

So the curator exchanged the charm from the child for ten dollars.

To be honest, this story is quite far-fetched.

These days, Magison went to many places to investigate, and after a lot of effort, he finally figured out the "origin" of the snake charm.

Then Magison became even more entangled.

The snake charm is a chicken rib to him, but it is a supreme treasure to others.

Maggieson had seen the Black Hand Gang and the Shadow Corps. They even killed more than 30 federal police officers to seize the talisman!

If the snake talisman was really returned to the child, it would only harm the other party.

And the most important thing is that the curator tricked the snake talisman into his hand three years ago, and no one knew who the child was and what his name was!

It was impossible for Maggieson to sneak into the prison to ask the curator for this, right?

Besides, he didn't think the curator would specifically ask about the identity of the stupid child.

Give it to Chen Long Xiaoyu?

Even without communication, Maggieson discovered through some observation that Chen Long and his gang and the Black Hand Gang were collecting talismans, and the Black Hand was obviously a villain.

In the end, all the talismans would naturally fall into Chen Long's hands.

Then the question is, Maggieson doesn't know where Chen Long lives!

He only knows that Chen Long is an archaeologist who travels around the world all day long. Who knows where he is now?

Unless Maggieson sneaks into the New York Police Department to find Chen Long's information...

"No, no, how can I do something illegal?"

Maggieson shook his head. He didn't want to go through so much trouble for this broken stone.

"Forget it, let's talk about it when we have a chance to meet them in the future. As for you..."

Maggieson put the snake charm on his hand, "I can't use it, but maybe it can be used by others..."

At the same time, Stark Tower.

"Tony, have you really decided?"

Little Pepper looked thoughtful and asked the playboy in front of him.

"Of course, such a big incident happened before, but because of Bane's threat, I had to deal with the media every day. I couldn't get involved from beginning to end, and even let that guy steal all the limelight in the end."

Tony pretended to be unhappy.

"The closure of the weapons department caused the company's stock to fall by more than ten percentage points. If I don't come up with something good, I'm afraid we will go bankrupt in a few days."

"Ha, you can actually know that it is your behavior that caused the company's losses. This makes me start to look at you with a new eye."

Little Pepper complained.

"You have done everything you wanted to do before, and you won't listen to anything I say. Is my advice really useful to you?"

"So I have to make up for the losses, right? There is one more thing I need to remind you, now you are the CEO of Stark Industries."

Tony said it easily, but in fact, Stark Industries' losses in the past six months are not ordinary.

The loss of funds is just a drop in the bucket. What really hit Stark Industries hard is that people gradually lost confidence.

At the beginning, the situation could be maintained with the super high popularity of Iron Man, but the appearance of Whiplash showed the world that the Iron Suit was not exclusive to Tony.

In addition, when Tony was most discouraged, he contributed Mark II to the military for free, which is now the War Machine.

People gradually began to realize that Iron Man was not so unique.

Although many people don't realize it, Tony Stark is truly unique.

This is the reality. Smart people are always a minority, so in the end, Stark Industries will suffer.

"Are you really sure? If you fail... I mean, just in case, directly cutting off the power supply to the building will cause huge losses."

No matter how relaxed and confident Tony appears, and she believes in Tony's technology, Pepper still worries.

"Don't worry, Ms. Potts, I have asked Jarvis to calculate countless times. You have to believe in Tony Stark's technology. There is no need to doubt the safety of sustainable clean energy."

"After my calculations, even the trial model used this time is enough to provide Stark Building with electricity for a year, and the cost is only the original one month's electricity bill."

Tony showed a grand blueprint.

"Stark Industries will usher in a new energy era, and the biggest contributor is the current CEO Pepper Potts!"

"Oh, my God, you will be called the greatest entrepreneur of the 21st century!"

Tony exclaimed exaggeratedly.

Pepper successfully made Tony laugh, "Then you must be the greatest inventor of the 21st century."

"I am already."

Tony said seriously.

"Okay, you have successfully convinced me, Tony, do what you want to do."

After getting Pepper's consent, Tony called Jarvis.

"Yes, sir."

A brand new Iron Man suit rose from under the floor.

Mark VIII!

In the original plot, Tony should have just developed Mark VII at this time.

But due to the intervention of Kaito Kidd, Tony discovered the new element much earlier, and later he was inspired by the Batsuit, which led to the update of Mark Suit skipping a generation.