vstars Chapter 24 Mutually Beneficial Negotiations
Chapter 24 Mutually Beneficial Negotiations
It was a week later that Tony agreed to work with Steve.Making such a decision is not easy and is tantamount to kowtowing to others who are used to being at the top of power.But the situation forced Tony at this moment to face two serious crises.
One is that there is no personal freedom.
Tony was forced to cut off all contact with the outside world. He had no communication equipment or internet connection, and even newspapers from outside were rarely sent in.His room under house arrest is like a sterile room in a laboratory, which isolates everything that may become "viruses" and "bacteria" from the outside world.Even if Tony tried his best, he punched the air in vain.
Those well-trained HYDRA soldiers have always been reluctant to talk to him, or even respond to his words and deeds.Presumably Steve had warned them—as long as there is information exchange with Stark, there is a possibility of being diverted—so they came in like robots three times a day, but they didn't make a sound.
Second, there are no available resources.
Disconnected from the outside world aside, if Tony still had the metal in him, he might have fought back against Steve.Even if he can't defeat Captain Hydra, he can make metal come out of his body, and it's not too difficult to adjust door locks or something.
But now liquid metal is like parasites that freely travel through limbs and bones. They live in the same body as him, but they don't listen to his command.
In addition, since the last assassination failed, Steve's extremely high vigilance and physical skills also sounded the alarm for Tony.This is a suspicious person, so suspicious that even if he is about to make ///ai with himself, he will not relax in the slightest.If that chance didn't kill Steve, there wouldn't be another chance to kill him the same way.
Based on the above two points, Tony believes that only cooperation is the way out to change the status quo.
But before they actually talked to Steve about it, they had a meeting.This made Tony understand that Captain Hydra is a very unstable individual.There are two personalities in his body, each of which wants to occupy the only body.
So as long as you don't offend the other party's minefield, most of the time Captain America's character has the upper hand.And once he stepped on a landmine, when the Hydra captain's character turned back, the bright side would be eaten up a little bit.
This is an irreversible process, which allows Steve to gradually become stable and complete as one side of his personality is swallowed up.
Steve was out of uniform that day, just a plain shirt and a pair of slack jeans.His figure was so good that it hurt Tony's eyes, and the changes in his body made him no longer fasten the buttons carefully, but unbuttoned a few buttons on his chest, so that the skin and muscle lines inside were looming.
Steve carried nothing, no gun, shield, or dagger, just a thin, large booklet tucked under his arm.
Tony glanced at it and knew what it was - it seems that Steve in this world also likes to draw, especially likes to draw Tony Duck and Iron Man.
Sure enough, Steve looked like a different person compared to the day before.He took Tony to sit down, and showed Tony the figure formed by thoughts in the days of separation.The paintings inside are all about Tony in this world, drinking coffee, playing games, falling asleep on the sofa, falling asleep at the table, and of course lying on the bed lying on his back.
Page after page, full of Tony.Occasionally there are one or two more Avengers, but none of them can occupy the main body of the picture.
Steve was babbling on and on about something, but he wasn't interested.
Tony doesn't like this kind of Steve, yes, this kind of Steve reminds him of the one he sacrificed.After so many years, the most unbearable thing for Tony is guilt.That's why he rushed over to kill the Iron Man here, and he used this as a touch point to completely change Steve.
But what is Steve doing?Reminding him that no matter how shattering he made this contact, Captain America will always love the red tin can in his heart—the one who is as wobbly and weak as Steve, and can clearly stand on the top of the world with his ingenuity , A guy who runs forward with the whole earth, but is stopped by the so-called morality, pretending to be stupid.
That's right, even if the white Tony hated Captain Hydra, he still dismissed Captain America.This kind of dismissiveness made him judge that the other party was not worthy of existence, so he decided to turn over his palms and help Captain Hydra defeat Captain America.
Tony's eyes scanned the paintings indifferently, and the orange juice in the paper cup was right at hand.Then he knocked down the orange juice unintentionally and deliberately, and the whole album was soaked.
"Oh, how careless I was."
Seeing the astonishment on Steve's face suddenly froze, Tony hooked the corners of his mouth, and he squeezed the album and shook it, shaking off the wet juice and pulp, and threw it into the trash can.
Looking back, Steve's eyes lit up with anger.But he didn't stop him did he?He was genuinely shocked, surprised, puzzled, but he let Tony do it anyway.So Tony believed that Steve would not explode. After all, it was the real Tony who did this, not the empty and cold pictures in the painting.
Stark didn't give too much explanation, he raised his legs and sat back in his original position.He just looked into Steve's eyes quietly, watching the flames in his eyes ignite and then slowly go out, and the color of the lake changed from light blue to blood red with black.
"You're jealous." Steve's voice has returned to calm, and now it's Captain Hydra speaking—"I'm more or less relieved that you're jealous of my love for him, Stark."
"Jealous? No," Tony sneered and shook his head, "I am indeed more entitled to your love than him, but your love...is that something important?"
Yeah, that's not a big deal.It's just that these two mentally distorted people don't know, perhaps it's this sense of mutual repulsion and mutual attraction that makes them unknowingly and slowly entangled together.
No one would admit that a strange emotion had begun to grow in their hearts, which was neither hate nor love.It is an opportunity to trigger the game, and in the process of fermentation, it makes the participants addicted.
Both Steve and Stark want to be the ultimate winner, although the best outcome is a tie.Because victory or defeat will bring the death of one of them, and death will end this hunting game that adds color to each other's lives.
So just a few days after the awkward meeting between Steve and Tony ended, Tony took the initiative to find Steve.He took the initiative to mention the manufacture of weapons, and also expressed his intention to cooperate.
Although, the cunning Stark also has additional terms——
"Research, design, manufacture, repair, this is a complicated process. If you want to use a weapon to deal with all the Avengers, then the biggest advantage of this weapon is not to enhance your physical skills - your physical skills are already insurmountable — but in resisting their attacks."
Iron Man's laser cannon, Hawkeye's arrow, Scarlet Witch's magic, Black Panther's physical attack and so on.
Among them, the phantom gem is an unfathomable power. Instead of resisting his attack, it is better to say—"Use electromagnetic waves to stun him, take off the gem if you can, and freeze it with extreme liquid nitrogen if you can't." Him. I'm not sure how to build armor against his attack, so I can only make him not attack."
Steve can still do this.
Although Vision has very powerful power, he is a bionic person after all.His understanding of human nature is like a child who is just getting into the world. Gaining his trust and using it to capture him is the most cost-effective way.
But, of course—"After separating him from the other Avengers, it will not be a problem for you to capture the other Avengers one by one. I will go to see them after they are locked up, and I promise you to use my position to make as much as possible They belong to you."
Steve nodded, thought for a while, and still added one more word with concern—"For those who don't want to belong, I will lock them up—"
"It's about the day my armor is finished." Tony didn't need to finish his sentence, Stark and Steve had the same opinion on this aspect.
"No matter how strong a person is, there are weaknesses. Those who have family members take their family members over to eat and drink coffee. Anyway, as long as the armor is made, they can be subdued by force. What you want is not to be convinced - no ruler can To get everyone's heart - you just need them to be willing to kneel to you, don't you?"
Yes, Steve agrees very much.
In fact, as long as Starkey is willing to cooperate, it is not difficult to achieve the above conditions.This is what Steve has been doing, and with his own strength, he has only captured two members of the Avengers until now, not to mention that these two have not yet fully surrendered.
But Steve doesn't trust Tony completely either, so -- "I'll let you meet them, but not before we've established trust in each other."
Tony raised his eyebrows, noncommittal.
To be honest, Tony didn't expect the Avengers to help him at all, and he didn't expect Steve to let him contact the outside world before the situation was not [-]% under control.Tony can only rely on himself, and only himself, the bargaining chip for Steve to let go.
"But I want to go back to the Stark Building." Tony raised his hand and made a gesture out of thin air. "I haven't visited your organization. I don't know how advanced your equipment is. I can do some preliminary designs here, but Only in the Stark Tower is there a special metal that is more beautiful and lighter than the material from which your shield is made, and is also stronger--it can make the uniform you want, invulnerable."
The perfect uniform.
It sounds dangerous, but it's also very tempting.
Steve nodded again involuntarily, without speaking.He can't guarantee what Tony will do when he returns to Stark Tower, but it is true that as Tony said, the other party can make plans and designs in the base first, and this period of time is suitable for them to rebuild trust.
After a stalemate for a while, as if he realized that his expression was stiff, Steve suddenly laughed and said——"It's better to be like this."
It was only then that Tony discovered that those natural smiles were actually fake smiles, but Steve could use them so well that outsiders felt the breath of sincerity.
"Oh, probably more than 'this', and I'm not sure if the Tony of this world lost or used up all my metal, you know, I'm only acting from memory, and in my memory, At this point in time, the metal is still in reserve."
Tony pursed his lips, crossed his hands and sat down on the sofa.
Now, the initiative has finally returned to Tony's hands reluctantly.
Steve will not disagree, because since the days of entering Hydra, Tony has clearly seen how strong the Hydra captain's ambition to control the world is.
Plus, taking another [-] steps back, even if Steve really didn't dare to act rashly because he couldn't trust himself, it didn't matter.Tony just had to come up with the blueprints, and during the design process he at least had a chance to get out of this room.
After going out, everything is variable.
He can gradually push forward and ask for more freedom, and if he can't, stop his own research and development.
Once a hungry person can see a corner of the cake, he will never forget the sight of delicious food.They will walk towards the cake step by step, tear off the corners of the packaging little by little, seeing more and more delicious food exposed, and then take a bite, and then take another bite.
Until it is poisoned by cake.
Knowledge is power, which is Tony's most original and most loyal belief.
Now his faith is going to repay the piety of the believers. Seeing Steve dare not take the first step but has to stretch his feet, Tony feels extremely happy.
TBC