Chapter 919: Chapter 782: The Trouble That Came Knocking_2
“The email says the sender is a fan of yours and would like to get your autograph,”
“Haha, isn’t he in Mexico? I’m not going there.”
“He just said he’s about to sneak across the border and will look for you in New York…”
Jarvis’s words left Tony with a stunned expression.
Although he knew that there were many illegal immigrants from Mexico, the idea that a die-hard fan from there would blatantly smuggle himself to New York to meet him was indeed a first…
“If he does show up, then we’ll meet.”
The Tony of the past wouldn’t waste time on such things. The boss from Iron Man 3 who released the Extremis virus had once sought a meeting with him, and nearly committed suicide when Tony stood him up.
But now, in this moment when life and death seem trivial, he found the idea somewhat meaningful.
“Alright, I’ll remind you then. Do we need any arrangements for tomorrow’s hearing?”
“A rabble of nincompoops.”
Tony’s face was full of disdain, those old chaps on Congress Hill, besides acting like financial wizards and pulling strings for their own backroom power blocs, were almost utterly useless.
The seemingly fair and just congressional elections were almost hereditary in nature, or it’s better to say, each seat is controlled by specific financial conglomerates. It became even more apparent after Anbrella started wreaking havoc.
But the more it was so, the more Tony felt repulsed by them…
“Getting across turned out to be much simpler than I thought.”
Tao Yu and his group, plus a dog, effortlessly climbed over the border wall with their agile moves. Landing on the other side, Tao Yu didn’t see the legendary immigration officers, making it all seem so ordinary.
But this kind of crossing at an unguarded stretch in the middle is not something ordinary people can do.
On his way here, Tao Yu saw many immigrants who had made it to the border being packed onto buses and sent back to the start to retake the journey they had just completed.
“But there’s plenty of blood donation centers, and lots of advertisements for them.”
Looking down at a flyer underfoot, he saw the alluring prices for selling blood.
Being capable of supplying 70% of the world’s plasma, the great beauty Blood Plasma Inc. has practically covered the Mexico border with donation centers.
Even with regular scandals about selling contaminated plasma, it’s always been hushed up.
All bought with money— if a batch of plasma gets contaminated, they’d act as if they didn’t know!
Moreover, the treatment for these diseases itself entails continuing to pay their pharmaceutical companies. It’s a case of profiteering…
“Building dams along the way and cutting off Mexico’s water supply, leading to land desertification and making life impossible, then setting up blood-buying stations… Wow, they’ve really made a closed loop…”
Looking up at the blood donation station, Tao Yu shook his head and clicked his tongue.
“Let’s go, there’s still a distance to New York from here, we need to find a local gang to borrow a car from.”
Minato Namikaze and Inuzuka E stayed in Mexico.
Now, with only Minato Namikaze, Akimichi T and Airi Suzuki tagging along, one car should be just enough.
Local gangs ought to have some manners, they wouldn’t refuse to lend a vehicle, right?
An old pickup truck raced down a highway in New Mexico, with Tao Yu tuning the car’s radio station to listen to comments on Tony’s performance at the hearing.
“Oh, Tony says that was a prosthetic arm; I feel it’s more like an insult to us.”
“But what can we do? He’s Iron Man, with immense power and influence.”
The voice on the radio carried a hint of sarcasm, apparently with some intentional guidance.
Tao Yu raised an eyebrow as he listened.
The energy behind Stark Group is significant, but since they shut down the weapons division and entered the energy sector, they’ve lost some old friends and made new enemies.
Add to that the allure of the Iron Armor, it isn’t strange for such a situation to arise.
It seems there’s a significant disadvantage in public opinion.
However, it seems like Tony doesn’t care much about that sort of thing—he’s capricious.
Tao Yu, sitting in the front passenger seat and looking at the farms on both sides of the road, couldn’t help but yawn; Airi Suzuki was a steady driver.
“Speaking of which, if nothing changes too much, it won’t be long before Thor’s Meow Hammer should land in New Mexico— just not sure exactly where. His dear CP Jane should also be nearby working on her thesis…”
Tao Yu looked up at the sky, finding that Asgard still had some of its last twilight left.
Odin seated in the palace, with Heimdall overseeing the Nine Realms. Theoretically, Heimdall could notice Tao Yu and his group, though he has strong observation ability, he also lacks computational power, and can’t keep an eye on everything all the time.
He can only see what he focuses on.
“Actually, there are not a few nice things in Asgard, it would be nice if one could blend in…”
Destroyers, the Eternal Spear, the Eternal Fire, and so on, all of them are precious.
Even just an item of Yuan Force would be valuable, at the very least, they could be regarded as Sacred Objects in the current world.
“But I’ll have to let Loki fetch the Mind Stone for the first time; no free rides. I can consider it later.”
As for Tao Yu himself now, it didn’t matter if other things were excessively modified, but nothing could go wrong with Loki—that was the most crucial target.
If he could gather all the Infinite Gems, that would be best; perhaps he could resolve his Talent issue directly. But even if he couldn’t, he had to at least make sure he got the Mind Stone…
Following the traffic into New York and then switching to an old clunker, Tao Yu and his companions breathed a sigh of relief. Meanwhile, Tao Yu had taken over the driving seat.