Chapter 104 Rebuilding S.H.I.E.L.D.?
After the hearing, Tony successfully obtained a permit to privately possess armored weapons.
But he didn't take it easy,
Instead, he became even busier.
Every day's schedule is fully booked.
At least ten times busier than when he was a playboy.
The first is the official start of the Sky Fortress transformation plan that he had planned long ago.
He paid high hourly wages to people in black to help with renovations.
The Sky Fortress can now be said to be changing every day.
At the same time, he was also actively participating in the pursuit of Hydra.
As long as a certain Hydra base has a clue, he will definitely be at the forefront.
Of course, the so-called clues.
In fact, after Leon used his super hearing to target all Hydras, he handed them over to the men in black and asked them to solve them according to the list.
And then Tony would tag along.
A few days have passed, and Hydra has only three small and medium-sized bases left to survive.
They try to use lead to block Superman's prying eyes, but unfortunately Superman still has super hearing to use.
Tony's journey of revenge has almost come to an end.
What he is more troubled about now is about SHIELD.
After the Hydra incident.
Nick Fury and his cronies were imprisoned by the Security Council.
When the surveillance period ends, it will be difficult for them to have the opportunity to reorganize SHIELD.
So Nick Fury finally broke the pot.
Choosing the only person he could still grudgingly trust.
——Tony Stark
He strongly recommended Tony to be the new director of S.H.I.E.L.D.
And vouched for him with his past qualifications.
Just to prevent SHIELD from disbanding.
Fortunately, most of the newly appointed Security Council members agree that the world still needs organizations like SHIELD.
They considered Tony's origins and changes after the attack in Afghanistan, as well as his extraordinary talent and world-famous reputation.
Finally, I agreed with Nick Fury’s recommendation.
Just a week ago.
The entire Security Council extended an olive branch to Tony.
Ask him if he is willing to rebuild a new S.H.I.E.L.D. like Howard did.
Of course, there must be no Hydra people mixed in this time.
And in order for Tony to make the wisest decision.
He was given temporary permission to look through past confidential files within S.H.I.E.L.D.
After reading the information for several days in a row.
Only then did Tony realize that SHIELD did have a need for its existence.
People with extraordinary abilities, global abnormal events, ancient high-energy relics... too many things that he had never heard of before were recorded.
New anomalies are appearing on Earth every day.
What SHIELD agents have been doing is to restrain, restrict and contain these abnormal situations.
Tony must admit that in the past, most ordinary people in the world were able to maintain normal cognition and life, and it was indeed thanks to S.H.I.E.L.D.
It's just that under the leadership of Nick Fury and Hydra, SHIELD has done a lot of bastard things.
Therefore, it is still inappropriate for this director to be appointed.
This is what has troubled Tony the most in recent days.
After weighing and weighing for a few days, Tony finally decided to find Leon.
…
"What are you writing about? Himalayan travel plans?"
When Tony found Leon, he was drawing a three-dimensional map of the mountains.
"More or less. There is an area there that I can't see through. There are some mages living there. I plan to visit in a few days."
Leon put down his paintbrush, "Of course it could be to study."
"Mage? There are still mages in this world? Why is there no relevant record in SHIELD?"
Tony took the map and looked at it.
"Is it possible that you guessed wrong?"
"After all, there are many possibilities for things you can't see through. For example, could it be a lead-plated military base instead of a gathering place for mages?"
"As far as I know, after the Hydra incident, everything that was kept secret in the world began to be filled with lead."
"There is even a TV station in Japan that has launched a new program to explore what ordinary people have begun to use lead to store in their homes."
"You would never have imagined that when a family went to search their daughter when she wasn't present, they actually found a stack of Superman fan magazines kept in lead boxes from under her bed!!"
Tony laughed so hard when he talked about fanzines.
He patted Leon on the back hard: "Your super vision no longer works Leon!"
"Because the owner of those fan magazines definitely doesn't want you to know what she is reading!"
Leon's face darkened: "You came to me this time just to talk about this?"
"Ahem, I'm not, hahaha, it's just that Superman's fanzines are really interesting, you know Leon."
Tony burst out laughing.
"The international lead price has tripled because of you. You have promoted the development of an industry!"
In the DC world, Superman's abilities still need to be tested by various parties before he can guess roughly.
But in Marvel, once you open the comics, everyone can understand Superman as well as he himself.
So lead is now sold out all over the world.
People don't need to know whether there is any difference between the real Superman and the comics. In short, they can all guess based on the comics.
Leon took the map back from Tony's hand: "If you keep talking about these boring things, I will throw you out."
He decided to take some time to develop telekinesis-type abilities. Next time he encountered lead, he would use his telekinesis to scan it. What stood out was a surprise.
"Okay, okay, I won't say it anymore. Actually, I came to you because of S.H.I.E.L.D."
Tony briefly explained the problem he was struggling with.
"I think SHIELD still needs to exist."
"And when I reorganize SHIELD, I can cooperate with your men in black."
"You mainly deal with extraterrestrial crises, while SHIELD solves internal threats. What do you think of this idea?"
Leon squinted at Tony: "Are you sure you will lead SHIELD to solve internal threats? Come on, you are obviously the biggest internal threat to the earth."
"Prejudice! You are prejudiced!" Tony jumped up and down, "The last time the aerospace carrier crashed was just an accident!"
"But no matter what you do, accidents will always happen." Leon complained, "And you have made up your mind, why are you asking me?"
"I always felt a little uneasy before I told you, but now it's okay. I feel relieved after I told you."
Tony said that he found someone to back him up, and he could do it freely.
Leon looked at him with contempt: "You wish, I can't help SHIELD."
"Then it will not be called SHIELD, but... Avengers!"
Tony remembered the name he saw in Nick Fury's file.
The name Avenger is good.
His behavior of destroying Hydra is what an Avenger does!
When the outside world knows that there is such a group of people who will avenge the world.
I believe they will think twice before doing evil.
"Avenger... whatever you want, if you want me to help, I will agree if you can study the Cosmic Cube in the SHIELD base for a hundred years." Leon put forward the conditions.
"Cosmic Cube, I remember it was mentioned in the Level 10 confidential file..." Tony frowned and recalled.
At this time, the electronic ring on Leon's wrist suddenly sounded a prompt.
He turned his wrist, and Natasha's image was projected in the air.
"Leon... We found some documents, you'd better come and see." Natasha's face was more solemn than ever.
...
Hydra's Siberian base.
Above the frozen land, Leon and Tony flew over and entered the base.
Natasha took the two to the base's main control room.
Various old instruments were displayed here, covered with dust, and had been out of use for a long time.
Natasha took out a box of videotapes with yellowed and faded labels and put one of them into the machine.
A snowflake flashed across the dark screen of the old monitor.
It began to play a video from who knows how many years ago.
Leon guessed that this was a video of Howard before his death.
He looked at Tony, who was curious, and knew that this curiosity would turn into rage in half a minute.