Among these rumors was that a certain big shot had been attacked by terrorists in Afghanistan, as well as a name that Luke was a little familiar with — Jericho missiles.
Tony and Afghanistan were the protagonists and the location.
The Jericho missile and the terrorists were important plot props and supporting villains.
Putting all these conditions together, a certain tycoon would use the excuse of building a missile to secretly build an Iron Man prototype that could be called a "fat ball."
This was the origin of Iron Man.
Not long ago, Tony had actually created the Iron Man armor in advance because he was jealous of Batman.
For a time, Luke thought that the original Iron Man story wouldn't happen again.
After all, Tony, who had the Iron Man armor in advance, might not go to Afghanistan. He might not be injured in Afghanistan, and even if he was injured, he might not have a hole in his chest.
If the tycoon injured his head and became a real patient with a hole in his head, he might put an arc reactor on his head and pretend to be an LED version of Bullseye.
Now. Again, by some strange coincidence, all the conditions had come together.
It was hard for Luke not to suspect that a certain tycoon would still become the superhero with a hole in his chest.
Luke subconsciously complained about the unreliable tycoon, then immediately retracted his thoughts and continued to search for relevant information.
He wasn't sure if Tony would sell himself again after selling a missile.
Even if that happened, Tony wouldn't be directly killed.
Tony wasn't stupid. In fact, he was a child of destiny who often turned the tables in desperate situations.
Luke believed that if something really did happen to Tony, he would be able to come out of Afghanistan alive.
Time wasn't particularly tight. He still had to gather enough information and confirm the specific situation before taking action.
That being said, he had already booked a flight to Afghanistan the next day using a fake identity.
With money, it wouldn't be a waste to buy a spare ticket every day.
A day later, Luke finished his resignation and turned into an ordinary-looking, middle-aged Caucasian man, before he boarded a flight to Afghanistan.
Selina, on the other hand, would return to Shackelford to visit her family on this rare vacation.
After going to New York, she would have fewer opportunities to see her family. Naturally, Luke didn't want to take up her rare vacation.
Although she said that she could go with Gold Nugget to help, Luke smiled and refused. He said that he was going to deal with a small situation caused by a guy she didn't like.
Selina didn't ask any more questions.
Recently, she and Luke often went out to "see the night view," which showed that he didn't mind her knowing or even participating in certain things.
He naturally had his reasons for not wanting her to participate.
She happily packed her things and returned to Shackelford with Dollar and Gold Nugget for the holidays.
Her father's purchase of the ranch had been settled. This time, she could visit the Hayek family's new ranch (Selina's surname was Hayek).
Previously, when Luke went to Mexico to clean up the drug lord Dito Flores, he had done it in the name of saving his colleague, which had dealt a heavy blow to Selina.
She would definitely find it hard to understand that he was taking her to Afghanistan to kill for Tony.
This was purely Luke's personal decision, because he was kind and didn't want to take advantage of Tony. It had nothing to do with how valuable the terrorists were.
When Selina went to the airport, Luke had finished investigating the tycoon's private security team.
Pretending to be credit card companies and insurance companies, he would call the security guards' families and lie that a certain credit card under their name had been swiped or that a certain car had been involved in an accident somewhere. Their families would then subconsciously tell him where the security guards were to prove that it had nothing to do with them.
All the intelligence combined could only prove that Tony had run into a big problem in Afghanistan.
Otherwise, a military supplier like the tycoon would be protected by the military, and there would be no need to deploy so many private security guards.
The biggest advantage of the private security guards was that they completely obeyed Stark's orders. The fact that they were going to Afghanistan in large numbers only proved that the tycoon needed a lot of help.
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When the flight landed in Afghanistan, Luke bought a secondhand pickup with cash after he left the airport.
When night fell, he arrived near an American base.
Putting on the Big Dipper Armor again, he waited quietly on the side of the road outside the base for a moment. A military vehicle sped over.
Luke activated the optical camouflage and nimbly jogged in the direction of the vehicle. As he ran, he grabbed the edge of the military vehicle and flipped into the back.
The driver didn't notice anything and continued to speed forward. He soon reached the entrance.
The guard at the entrance checked his ID and looked at the empty back and bottom of the vehicle with a flashlight before he let the car in.
Ten minutes later, Luke walked into a separate ward.
A woman was sleeping soundly on the bed, covered in gauze.
He walked forward and injected a small amount of the inducer into her. Then, he moved his mouth close to her ear and whispered softly.
A moment later, he was surprised.
This woman actually had a strong resistance to the inducer. Even with the combination of drugs, hypnosis, and Mental Communication, she was still resisting his questions.
Luke could only inject her with a normal amount of the inducer again and repeat the hypnosis process by her ear.
This time, the woman, who was in an extremely poor state, was finally hypnotized successfully. She entered a half-asleep, half-awake state and soon confessed everything.
This woman was the only survivor in Tony's convoy, and the female soldier who had been in the same car as Tony.
Her name was Barbara Poppy Morse.
In fact, she wasn't from the US side, but an agent from SHIELD.
SHIELD, which had been keeping an eye on Tony Stark, had secretly planted an agent around him when the tycoon came to a dangerous place like Afghanistan.
Barbara had been heavily injured after she saved Tony from the explosion of the rocket.
She barely managed to activate the distress signal and enter a state of suspended animation to escape the ambushers' attack.
As the only survivor in the convoy, she had received a lot of attention.
It was too sensitive for SHIELD to plant an informant around Tony through the military.
SHIELD, which didn't want to expose her identity, could only wait for this matter to pass before they transferred her to another hospital.
It just so happened that it was inconvenient for her to move around due to her severe injuries, so she continued to receive treatment here.
Barbara had graduated from college two years ago, and was only twenty-four.
She was naturally outstanding for being sent to carry out such a top mission at such a young age. She was good at covert operations and spying.
S.H.I.E.L.D. had sent her here because they wanted her to use her expertise to find out some information about Tony.
Tony's kidnapping had started because the tycoon's itinerary had been leaked and he had been ambushed. She hadn't neglected her duty at all.
It was beyond the capabilities of a normal person to fight hundreds of criminals on her own.
But Barbara had done her homework before this mission, and was very familiar with the situation around the base.
She was calm and intelligent, and had observed a lot of details in the short time she had been ambushed.
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