Chapter 304 Request for Vibranium
A month later.

Malibu Street, 10880.

This is a luxurious villa built on the seaside, covering a very large area. The underground parking garage alone covers an area of ​​more than 100 square meters, and there are seven or eight limited edition luxury cars parked in it.

no doubt.

This 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, trying to solve the problem from the root.

The result is regrettable.

He has conducted countless attempts at new energy sources, and although he has found a variety of new raw materials for making miniature Ark nuclear reactors, these elements, without exception, pose great safety risks.

What Tony needs is clean energy, the kind that contains radioactive substances that won't cause harm to the body.

However, the known elements on Earth cannot meet the requirements, even the minimum requirements cannot be met.

"Do we really have to ask him for help?"

Tony's best solution now is to hire the best doctor and perform the highest-standard surgery to remove the remaining shrapnel in his body.

But this operation is extremely risky.

In the original movie plot, Tony was not able to make up his mind to take the risk until the third film, after experiencing many life-and-death crises.

It is different now. Cheng Long, who suddenly came to Potts a month ago, told him confidently that he could solve his problem from the root.

This is a man who has mastered the micro-wormhole transportation technology and is fully capable of using this technology to transport the 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 that day using the substitution technique, because the cat had been in and out of the micro wormhole and might be of some help to his research.

Unfortunately, the stray cat was too wild and sneaked away half a month ago.

"Jarvis, what has Cheng been busy with lately?"

Tony finally decided to put aside his arrogance as a scientist, follow his heart and seek help from outside. However, he felt very uncomfortable with a big hole in his chest.

If we don't find a way to cure it, the nuclear reactor in my chest will be covered with granulation tissue.

“Set up a stall!”

Jarvis played the relevant footage and said, "Half a month ago, Mr. Cheng and his landlady bought a fast food truck, selling sour plum fried rice, scallion oil noodles, exploding beef balls and other foods. The business is very hot and the demand exceeds supply every day."

At this moment, the surveillance footage playing on the light screen in front of Tony was from a surveillance camera of a business in a certain block. The footage was not very clear, but judging by the two lines in front of the window, business was indeed booming.

"I didn't expect that our Mr. Cheng is actually a great chef..." Tony raised the corner of his mouth slightly, stood up, dressed up a little, then went to the garage, drove the latest Bugatti, stepped on the accelerator, and drove away.

……

Manhattan, near Central Park.

After giving change to the customer, Auntie Mei, who was wearing a red sweatshirt and tight jeans, turned around and looked at Cheng Long, whose movements were smooth and orderly, and shouted, "Long, there are more and more customers. How much fried rice do you have?"

"There are five more, and three servings of mixed noodles left..."

Aunt Mei received the exact information and decisively looked towards the food outlet. She said to everyone, "Sorry to those behind the fourth row. The fried rice and mixed noodles are almost sold out. Please come early tomorrow."

"Fuck, you're late again!"

"Can't you prepare more fried rice and noodles?"

"Really? You don't even know how to make money..."

Dozens of customers behind the fourth row left cursing.

At least half of them queued for three consecutive days without being able to eat the sour plum fried rice or scallion oil noodles they had been craving for.

Cheng Long's mobile stall is very popular. Even on the first day, it was not popular for a while. But after people tried it, the business quickly became popular.

There’s nothing we can do about it, since Cheng Long is such an excellent cook!

Even though his exploding and peeing beef balls have not yet reached the level of a god of food, they do not have any additional benefits, such as curing anorexia patients or nourishing the stomach.

But the food he cooked was delicious.

Anyone who has tasted it once will never forget it.

For this reason, Cheng Long does not set up a stall at a fixed location, but changes the venue every three days, otherwise there will be too many people queuing, which will easily cause chaos.

After all, he bought the food truck not because he really wanted to set up a stall, but because he had nothing to do and wanted to find a high-paying job for the landlady.

Aunt Mei has always been the one doing the preliminary preparation work and the 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 capable of pounding the beef balls, as her arm strength is in no way comparable to that of Double-Knife Turkey.

Cheng Long didn't want to spend a lot of time pounding the beef balls, so he made the exploding and peeing beef balls, with a limit of thirty servings per day.

There are 150 servings of sour plum fried rice and scallion oil noodles each.

A serving of beef balls costs twenty dollars, and a serving of fried rice and mixed noodles costs ten dollars. They are sold out every day, with revenue of $3600. After deducting labor and raw material costs, the net profit is as high as $3000+.

Cheng Long offered Aunt Mei a salary of 20% of the net profit, which was over 600 yuan a day.

Even if Mei worked ten days a month, she would still earn more than working as a waitress in a cafe.

This also makes Aunt Mei full of motivation. She has to get up early every day to select fresh ingredients. After everything is ready, she has to run upstairs to provide warm service and use various methods to wake up Cheng Long.

"Sir, your scallion oil noodles..."

Aunt May handed the last serving of noodles to a customer and was about to close the window when she saw Tony Stark, with a moustache, walking towards her accompanied by his bodyguard Happy.

This playboy is well-known to almost everyone in Citibank. When May recognized Tony, she was very surprised. However, considering that she was doing business, she smiled very officially and apologized, "Mr. Stark, I'm sorry, we have sold out of food."

"It's a pity that I can't taste the delicious food you cooked for me, young lady..." Seeing the graceful and curvy Aunt May, Tony's old habit of being a playboy came back.

"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 we are talking about now is not the same as it was a month ago!"

There is a difference between Cheng Long taking the initiative to discuss cooperation and Tony coming to him to ask for help.

If Tony hadn't been so arrogant in the beginning, he would have only asked for a green card, a house and a few million dollars.

Now that we don't have a few sets of iron armor or other precious items, there is no need to continue the discussion.

"No problem, as long as there's something to talk about."

"Wait a moment~~" Cheng Long turned to look at Aunt Mei and said, "Mei, drive back first."

Aunt Mei nodded and asked, "Will you come back for dinner tonight?"

In the past month, she and Cheng Long were like a loving couple. After work every day, they would go home to prepare a sumptuous dinner to reward each other.

The ten-year-old Spider is like their child.

She thought this kind of life would continue forever.

Unexpectedly, Tony's appearance interrupted her beautiful fantasy...

"Of course, I'm not used to the food outside. Wait for me at home." Cheng Long rubbed Aunt Mei's head and walked out of the fast food truck with a smile.

……

A quarter of an hour later.

In a secluded corner of Central Park.

Tony organized his words and got straight to the point: "Mr. Cheng, I want to know your treatment plan. If it is suitable and there is not much risk, you can name the price."

"I have two plans..."

"Plan one, I'll provide you with a piece of information that will allow you to 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 ask another doctor to take the risk to remove it." At this point, Cheng Long deliberately paused.

"What about the second option?"

"I will personally remove the remaining shrapnel in your body and heal your wounds instantly..." Cheng Long's words were shocking. With just one sentence, Tony and Happy looked at him in shock.

Make the wound heal instantly, are you sure you are not kidding?

"Mr. Cheng, are you sure you can make my injury heal 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 say anything that can't be done. If you trust me, everything is easy to talk about. If you still have doubts, then there's no need to talk about it, because I don't want to waste time explaining."

Cheng Long treated Tony not out of currying favor with him, but just wanted to make things convenient for himself. Without a green card and a driver's license, it was really inconvenient for him to have Aunt Mei drive him to set 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 didn't feel like quibbling any more. He shrugged and said bluntly, "I'm just worried about my own safety. After all, this is only 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 the most.

"Happy~~"

"Sir, please help yourself."

When Happy heard what Tony said, he immediately came to Cheng Long and extended a hand.

Then Cheng Long raised his little finger and gently scratched Happy's palm with his fingertips. Although the movement was very light, Happy felt as if he was stabbed by someone. His facial features wrinkled up in pain, and his fingertips scratched the palm of his hand, leaving a deep wound that could be seen to the bone.

"Mr. Cheng, you..."

Just as Tony was about to say something, an extremely horrifying scene happened before his eyes.

I saw a wisp of thick fog overflowing from Cheng Long's fingertips and wrapping around Happy's palm.

After a few seconds, the black fog dissipated, and Happy's injuries, which were so deep that the bones could be seen, had recovered as before.

"Happy, were you really hurt just now?" Tony said in disbelief, his eyes widened.

"I think so. When my palm was cut, it hurt so much that I cried." Happy wiped the sweat from his face, looking like he was still frightened.

If it were someone else, at another time, Tony would have questioned it and suspected that he was hallucinating.

But right 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 make him hallucinate.

Secondly, Happy is extremely loyal and will never team up with outsiders to deceive him.

"Mr. Cheng, please help me, what will it cost?"

Tony subconsciously used honorifics, expressing unprecedented respect for Cheng Long. Although this was not Tony's character, who told 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 the body."

The box-type armor that Cheng Long mentioned is the Mark 5 briefcase armor. Its functions are not particularly powerful and it is mainly used for emergencies.

He certainly won't be able to use it, but taking it back will give his woman more means of defense, and she will feel more at ease when she goes to the dungeon world to gain experience in the future.

"The green card and driver's license are no problem. I can arrange for someone to help you get them now. But I can't give you the battle armor because the technology involved needs to be kept secret..."

"However, I can compensate you in US dollars, 1 billion or 2 billion is fine."

The core technology of Tony's armor is actually a miniature arc reactor. Although other technologies are also very advanced, they can be replicated by recruiting some talented scientists, but it will take a longer time.

For example, Tony's uncle 'Obadestan' gathered more than a dozen scientific researchers in related fields and spent more than half a year researching before he produced an enlarged version of the armor.

And it is a version without the Micro Ark.

As for the energy core, Obadestan needs to go to Tony's house and snatch it.

"I have plenty of money. Since you are unwilling to give me the armor, I will change my request. It will be fine if you give me 5 kilograms of vibranium afterwards." Cheng Long really didn't care about US dollars. After all, no matter how much he asked for, he couldn't take it back. Vibranium was different. Whether it was used to forge weapons or taken back for Dr. Sala to study, it had extremely high value.

"Five, five kilograms?" Tony was dumbfounded and said, "Since you know about vibranium, you should know that vibranium is not a product of Earth. All the vibranium in the world combined may not weigh more than five kilograms."

"You're wrong. In fact, there's so much vibranium in a certain place in Africa that it would take hundreds of years to mine it all. But the military strength of that place is stronger than that of Citibank. You can pay attention to an arms dealer named Crow. He stole a lot of vibranium from that place."

Cheng Long asked Tony to contact the vibranium dealer Klaue in advance. On the one hand, he wanted the vibranium, and on the other hand, he wanted to test Ancient One's attitude.

As long as Gu Yi doesn't care about these little things, many things can be planned.

For example, he could go to a small town in New Mexico and live there for a while, waiting for the hammer to fall from the sky, or he could go to Sokovia, find Wanda and her brother in advance, and adopt the sisters.

Even go to Western Europe and release the goddess of death!
"How much is no less?"

"Probably a few hundred kilograms!"

Ultron in the Avengers once robbed the arms dealer Klaue and used the stolen vibranium to build his own body. The remaining vibranium could also be used to create an anti-gravity device to lift the entire Sokovia into the sky, endangering all mankind.

This is also the reason why Cheng Long contacted Tony, trying to change Tony's mindset of being prepared for danger in times of peace. Ultron was completely a trouble that Tony created for no reason...

(End of this chapter)