Chapter 436 Crisis! That Iron Patriot Is a Fake! (Two in One)

An air force base somewhere in the United States——

For his own safety, the President finally adopted the Secretary of Defense's advice and prepared to take Air Force One and hide in the sky.

Unless Air Force One is low on fuel and needs to land at a military base for refueling, Mandarin will never find a way to attack President Ellis at an altitude of 10,000 meters.

"Mr. President, this way please!"

Stepping on the red carpet arranged in advance by the military, the President, protected by a group of bodyguards and soldiers, nodded and slowly boarded the passenger elevator of Air Force One with a calm expression.

But at this moment, a blue and two-color figure suddenly appeared in the distant sky, dragging its tail flames and approaching Air Force One at high speed.

"Colonel Rhodes?"

The person in charge of the military frowned upon seeing this. It seems that Colonel Rhodes was not required to participate in the plan?

But now that he came on his own initiative, the military naturally couldn't refute his reputation, so he had to tell his deputy to ask Colonel Rhodes later.

The movement in the sky also attracted Mr. President's attention, and the bodyguard on the side quickly reminded him.

"Mr. President, this is Colonel Rhodes."

President Ellis heaved a sigh of relief and felt at peace in his heart.

With what happened before, he already had a fear of that crazy Mandarin.

As the saying goes, those who are bold are afraid of being stunned, and those who are stunned are afraid of losing their lives.

The President of the United States is used to being rude, and he is naturally not afraid of anyone under normal circumstances.

But the only thing I'm afraid of is life-threatening!

He is barefoot and not afraid of wearing shoes. He is a lonely guy with nothing. If he really trades his life with the President of the United States, isn't it obvious who will lose?

Therefore, being able to see Colonel Rhodes coming to protect him, President Ellis suddenly felt full of security.

Dang!

After a brief deceleration, the brightly colored Iron Patriot armor landed steadily in the middle of the military escort team.

"Colonel Rhodes!"

When the steel suit in front of him stepped forward and stood in front of him, President Ellis smiled and took the initiative to raise his hand to salute the other party.

Logically speaking, as the president, he does not need to be the first to do so. Lower-level military officers should be the first to give military salutes to their superiors.

As the commander-in-chief of the three armed forces, President Ellis naturally only needs to wait for Colonel Rhodes to salute and then return the salute.

But this operation was not part of Colonel Rhodes' plan. The other party came to protect him so proactively. Naturally, President Ellis would not continue to put on any presidential airs. It was natural for him to take the initiative to show his kindness.

Upon seeing this, the Iron Patriot quickly stood at attention, put on a standard military posture and returned the military salute.

"Mr. President!"

Roddy's voice came from inside the armor, and his voice still sounded so sonorous and powerful.

The surrounding military personnel were naturally reassured when they saw this. The voice was absolutely unmistakable. It was Colonel James Rhodes!

Although he didn't take off his helmet, maybe for safety reasons, the military personnel around him didn't care anymore.

"It's great to see you here. With you here, I feel much safer now."

President Ellis did not doubt his presence, smiled and extended his right hand to Colonel Rhodes.

"It is my honor to serve you, Mr. President!"

The two clasped their hands together, and President Ellis smiled heartily. Now he no longer had to worry about his safety.

So, the two of them took firm steps and boarded the cabin of Air Force One.

…

"You actually secretly recorded my audio!"

Roddy, who was tied to the steel frame, had eyes wide open as he looked at the unsuspecting back of President Ellis on the screen in front of him. At this time, he only regretted that he had not discovered the secrets of these guys earlier!

"It's not that difficult."

Seven chewed gum, the expression on his face became more playful.

"Compared to restoring the data in that document and creating a set of qualified samples, arranging for someone to secretly record an audio next to you and then simulate and analyze it is not worth mentioning at all."

The information Severin mentioned refers to the "Iron Soldier" information worth 1.5 million US dollars that Skye hacked into the Hammer Industrial intranet a year ago!

After obtaining that information, the AIM think tank spent more than a year successfully cracking the key to the core "Ark Reactor" technology of the armor.

In just over a month, he successfully copied a set of "Hammer Industrial" steel soldiers.

The main technical parameters are all derived from that confidential information!

Although the final Iron Soldier did not meet Killian's expectations, it is not a problem to achieve the purpose of replicating it based on its appearance alone.

Coupled with the fact that AIM later took advantage of the situation to become the largest arms supplier in the United States, they had more and more opportunities to come into contact with decent war machines, and the data they mastered gradually became closer and closer to the real steel suit parameters.

But what was unexpected was that a while ago Roddy suddenly announced that he had changed into a new suit, and in the witness of all media, he renamed the war machine "Iron Patriot".

The unprepared AIM was forced to abandon its previous plan to replace Roddy's war machine suit with a civet cat.

But how could Killian give up so easily?

In a rage, Killian immediately decided to set a trap to capture Roddy, intending to directly snatch Roddy's Iron Patriot uniform.

This is why Roddy was in danger and surrounded by three women.

"Are you going to overthrow the United States?"

Roddy endured the pain from all parts of his body and almost squeezed out this sentence from his teeth.

"Who knows?"

Seven was still in that careless look.

"You should take care of yourself. The second stage of the desperate virus is not so easy to survive~"

...

"Roddy?"

Fitz, who was always paying attention to the situation of all parties, suddenly noticed a description in the military intelligence about "Colonel Rhodes driving the Iron Patriot to Air Force One to escort the President."

"Huh? What's wrong?"

Noticing the strange look on Fitz's side, Simmons on the side came over and took a look.

But when she saw the content of the military briefing clearly, her face also showed the same strange expression as Fitz.

"It's a big trouble! We have to notify Lainie and others immediately!"

Fitz was the first to come to his senses. Realizing that something was wrong, he quickly connected the radio communication with Lainie and others.

"Laini, something bad has happened!"

Laini, who was driving the Quinjet towards Miami at an accelerated speed, frowned when she heard the words.

"What's going on?"

"Just now, the military has received news that Colonel Rhodes, driving the Iron Patriot armor, has appeared at a certain air force base and has now boarded Air Force One with the President's team!"

Fitz repeated the briefing as quickly and clearly as possible, and everyone present who heard the content of the briefing couldn't help but take a breath.

"What did you say?"

Laini's eyes suddenly widened, and her heart was full of shock.

She was not unaware that there would indeed be such a scene of a wolf in sheep's clothing and a snake hiding in a turtle shell in the original plot.

But Jarvis had clearly confirmed that the Iron Patriot's Ark reactor had been destroyed, and the iron suit was now just an empty shell, without any combat power.

Without sufficient energy support, what was the difference between the suit and a decoration?

"The intelligence is accurate, Miss Lainie."

Jarvis' voice sounded, and at the same time, the holographic screen in the cabin also showed a video clip that Jarvis had just obtained.

Tony looked at the red and blue two-color suit that was clearly displayed after being magnified in the picture, and his expression became more and more ugly.

"Jarvis, can you link to that suit!"

"No, Sir."

Jarvis still insisted on his judgment. He is an artificial intelligence and only believes in data and information.

A picture of the damage to the suit suddenly popped up on the holographic screen in front of Tony, which clearly marked that the propulsion system and auxiliary flight stability system of the Iron Patriot suit had been completely damaged!

Even the part of the Ark reactor on the chest was marked as "core damaged and cannot be repaired!"

"Colonel Rhodes' Iron Patriot suit no longer has the flying ability shown in the picture. This suit is not Iron Patriot."

As soon as this was said, everyone was shocked again, and they all thought of a terrible guess in their hearts.

Tony Stark's Iron Suit technology was successfully copied!

"This is impossible. With current technology, even if they are given ten years, they can never replicate a set of Iron Man suits with similar functions to Mark II! Unless they get the information of Iron Soldier from Ivan Vanko."

"But this is even more impossible! We cleaned up all the information held by Ivan Vanko and Hammer Industries at that time, and destroyed all their production lines and databases!"

Laini rubbed her sore eyebrows, and kept thinking about the whole process after Justin Hammer was arrested.

Due to the urgency of the situation at that time, for the safety of the information, she, Tony and Rhodey almost cleared out Hammer Industries overnight, and even SHIELD could not intervene in the whole process.

Although a long time has passed, she can still remember everything that happened at that time, and she is very sure that she and others have definitely not left any place behind!

But at this moment, a timid voice suddenly came from the communication channel:

"That... maybe... there is indeed a piece of information that has not been destroyed by you..."

Time goes back to a year ago, Flushing, New York-

Following Adam's advice, Skye finally posted the information anonymously on the dark web, hoping that the mysterious employer "Z" would contact her after seeing it.

Of course, Skye was also careful and did not mention any words about Hammer Industries and the Iron Soldier Project in the auction introduction, but only explained that this was a confidential document from the military.

Intended to use this to dissuade those guys who were just curious to join in the fun.

However, the offer of 1.5 million US dollars was obviously not something that those guys could touch casually just out of curiosity.

Dingling!

The message alert sound of the dark web sounded, and the person who sent the message was Jungo.

Jungo: "Sky, did you auction that confidential information?"

Skye was stunned for a moment, thinking that she forgot to be anonymous. After confirming again and again, she was sure that it was not her mistake.

Sky: "How did you guess that? I'm clearly anonymous?"

Jungo: "My intuition is that there aren't many documents on the dark web that can be sold at such a high price, and this is the only one that's been listed recently. By associating it with the price of $1.5 million, it's easy to guess that you're the seller of that document."

Sky: "Okay, you're awesome! But please keep it a secret. This information is too hot to handle. The fewer people who know it, the better."

Jungo: "I understand. Don't worry."

Looking at the "I'm reliable" emoji sent by the other party, Skye breathed a sigh of relief.

But then she thought that POP and others should be able to guess that the seller of this information would be herself, so she immediately sent a message asking them to keep it a secret.

POP: "Don't worry, we all do this, but next time there is such a good thing, you have to tell me. 1.5 million US dollars, I'm almost drooling with envy."

Adam: "I know the rules. You, just put your heart in your stomach and wait to count the money."

"..."

Looking at the replies from these guys, Skye finally felt relieved.

Adam was right. Everyone did this and nothing happened. What was there for her to be afraid of?

However, when Skye was about to lie down comfortably for a while, the dark web message prompt came again.

"Lot number: JM67Y1583 has been successfully bid by buyer [Mia]! Bidding price: $1500000.00"

Seeing this prompt, Skye was completely stunned.

"It was already sold? So quickly?"

According to habit, Skye skillfully searched for information about the buyer, but found very little usable information.

The buyer's nickname is Mia, which is [Mia], which is a very common female name.

The gender annotation on the other party's dark web is indeed female, but Skye was not able to lock the other party's IP address immediately.

It seems that he is also an expert in the Internet, but his strength is obviously not as good as Skye and POP.

Skye is planning to continue to investigate along the IP clue.

Unexpectedly...

The perspective turns back to the present, inside the airbus——

"...Unexpectedly, Hammer Industries exploded suddenly. I was in the vicinity of the Hammer Industrial Park at the time, and I was immediately startled, so I drove away quickly.

As for what happened later, you know..."

Skye carefully and softly recounted what happened before. After that, she knew she was guilty, and she lowered her head and waited anxiously for Lainie's scolding.

In fact, when she first joined SHIELD, she also mentioned this matter to Lainie and others.

But seeing that Lainie and others did not react strongly later, she did not take it too seriously.

In addition, she was suddenly taken to the North Pole by Coulson and Lainie, and Skye was in the excitement of accepting new things, so she naturally forgot about this seemingly unimportant thing.

After listening to Skye's story, Lainie felt the veins on her forehead throbbing.

"Such an important thing, how could this girl forget it until now?"

Resisting the urge to curse directly, Lainie took a deep breath and asked with suppressed anger:

"So, the information you told me at the beginning was actually a complete set of Iron Soldier information?"

"I, I don't know, I didn't look at it carefully at the time, the information was too much and too complicated, I couldn't understand it, I only knew it was about Iron Soldier, I didn't expect it to be so..."

Skye's voice became lower and lower, until it was so low that no one could hear it.

"You really know how to cause trouble for me!"

Let's leave it like this for today. The pit dug in more than 100 chapters is basically almost filled, but there are still some details and some problems. Orange needs to think about it again.