Under the resentful gazes of the workers, Du Mu strode confidently towards the elevator. The guards, seeing him with Stane's face, naturally didn't dare to question or stop him, allowing him to smoothly swipe his access card and enter the elevator without hindrance.
With the perfect cover of Stane's identity, Du Mu had a green light all the way and soon arrived at Tony's luxurious office.
He walked directly to the desk, opened the computer on it, and inserted the silver U disk Tony had given him into the host interface.
A prompt immediately appeared on the screen.
"Cracking security protocols..."
"Cracking successful, searching for hidden drives..."
Soon, a deeply encrypted hidden drive was unlocked, and a large number of confidential documents popped up.
One video was particularly conspicuous; it was footage of Tony being kidnapped by Terrorists in the Middle East.
According to the video, the mastermind was none other than Tony's uncle, Stane. He had not only been involved in long-term arms deals with Terrorists but had also directly orchestrated the attack on Tony.
"Good heavens, is this the unpretentious workplace struggle of America?"
Du Mu exclaimed at the excitement, but more excitement was yet to come.
Stane, using unknown means, had collected the Mark I wreckage created in the Middle East and secretly mobilized Stark Industries' top engineering team to conduct reverse engineering, with the goal of building a steel armor named 'Iron Monger'!
Judging from the engineering progress and blueprints in the documents, the development of this steel armor was nearing completion.
After browsing through them, Du Mu reported it to Nick Fury.
Nick Fury was silent for a moment, then said seriously, "The strategic significance and potential threat of steel armor technology are too great. We absolutely cannot let it fall into the hands of an ambitious person like Stane, or any other malicious force. I will immediately send Coulson to lead a team to Stane's research factory. S.H.I.E.L.D. will take over and protect the facility and all its technology."
As for the place of protection, although Nick Fury didn't explicitly say it, his intention was obvious: to bring it back to S.H.I.E.L.D.!
Nowhere was safer than S.H.I.E.L.D.!
Whether others believed this or not, Du Mu certainly did, after all, HYDRA was not to be trifled with.
According to Nick Fury's instructions, Du Mu copied all the hidden files twice, then pulled out the U disk and left the office.
As soon as he pushed open the door, he saw a sexy woman in office attire walking towards him.
"Mr. Stane, I heard you're back. There's an urgent funding request for an important research project here that needs your signature and approval."
Du Mu, seeing her attire, guessed she might be Stane's assistant. He took the document she handed him and looked at it.
Good heavens, a full fifty million U.S. dollars.
"Ahem!"
Du Mu said sternly with a straight face, "This research project is temporarily shelved. Transfer all the money to this account; I have a new project that needs funding even more."
With that, he pulled out a pen and paper, quickly wrote down his bank card number, and handed it to the beautiful assistant.
The beautiful assistant was clearly stunned, and asked in confusion, "Shelved? Mr. Stane, this project has a very high priority... What is your new project then?"
"Researching hair growth technology."
"...Alright."
The beautiful assistant looked at Du Mu's bald head and understood completely. She then said, "Oh, by the way, you haven't forgotten about tonight, have you?"
"What about tonight?"
"The date, of course. Didn't we agree to have dinner together tonight?"
The sexy woman licked her lips, revealing an alluring expression, clearly implying a seafood feast for tonight.
Du Mu inwardly exclaimed, "Good heavens!"
Do the executives of Stark Industries have some special tradition? Why do they all like to have office romances with their female assistants?
Du Mu replied perfunctorily, "Another day. My wife is coming home tonight."
"You're lying! Mom clearly told me she's on vacation in Hawaii this week!"
"???"
Is your circle really that messy?
...
After a great deal of effort, Du Mu finally shook off Stane's female assistant... or rather, daughter.
Subsequently, he returned to Tony's seaside mansion.
"Jarvis, open the door!" Du Mu arrived at the mansion gate and habitually called out.
However, Jarvis did not respond.
Du Mu immediately felt something was amiss and quickly pulled out a diamond pickaxe from his game inventory, fiercely striking the nearby wall a few times.
The hard wall shattered like tofu before the diamond pickaxe, instantly creating a square hole.
Du Mu squeezed through the opening into the living room and saw a bloodless figure crawling dimly on the floor, its chest hollow, which was quite frightening.
"Holy crap, Kayako?" Du Mu was startled.
The figure on the ground heard the sound and weakly uttered, "It's... it's me... quickly... help me get the Arc Reactor from the lab..."
"Tony?"
Du Mu recognized the voice: "Alright, wait for me."
He immediately wielded the diamond pickaxe, broke through the floor, and jumped directly into the lab below.
Soon, he found the old-style Arc Reactor that Tony had originally used, immediately returned the way he came, and jumped back into the living room through the hole.
"Here! Catch!" Du Mu tossed the Arc Reactor to Tony.
Tony used his last ounce of strength to catch it, as if grasping a lifeline, and with trembling hands, pressed the Arc Reactor into the hollow in his chest.
Light shone from his chest once more, and a hint of color finally returned to Tony's pale face. His breathing gradually stabilized, and he collapsed onto the floor, gasping for air, his clothes already soaked with cold sweat.
"Phew... Phew... Thanks, buddy, you saved my life again," Tony said gratefully.
"No big deal."
Du Mu waved his hand dismissively and asked curiously, "By the way, how did you end up looking like this? Where's your Arc Reactor?"
Tony's eyes instantly turned cold and angry, and he gritted his teeth, saying, "It was Stane! He broke into my house and stole my new Arc Reactor!"
Du Mu asked again, "Then why weren't you wearing your armor?"
"I didn't have time..."
A hint of embarrassment flashed across Tony's face. This was the second time he had been attacked without wearing his steel armor.
Thinking of this, he said resentfully, "Damn it! I'll develop an armor that can be worn close to the body and activated at any time, sooner or later!"
"Perfect, I've also completed your mission."
Du Mu pulled out the silver U disk and threw it onto Tony: "Everything was done by Stane, including instigating the Terrorists to kidnap you. The evidence is all inside."
"Mission 'Stark Industries' Mole' settlement complete!"
"Reward received: Experience +500, Tony's Favorability +10, Item 'Truth Serum Dumpling'"
"Item: Truth Serum Dumpling (After eating the Truth Serum Dumpling, you will uncontrollably speak the truth for one minute)"
"That scoundrel! I'll make him pay!"
Tony took the U disk, an uncontrollable rage surfacing on his face.
He immediately reactivated the Jarvis system, which Stane had shut down, then struggled to his feet and quickly headed to the underground lab, preparing to don his Mark III armor.
At the same time, the system's voice rang in Du Mu's mind.
"Player, please note, BOSS activity officially begins!"
"Target: Defeat 'Iron Monger' Obadiah Stane!"
"Reward: Based on the damage dealt to the BOSS by the player. The higher the damage, the richer the reward!"
"BOSS activity!?"
Du Mu's eyes lit up, and he immediately became excited.
Having played this game for so long, and defeated so many miscellaneous mobs, was he finally going to face a true BOSS battle?