One day later, the Amazing News building, secret lab.
"The toxicity in the blood is 24%... Oh, Ron, there's a car race in Monaco, Europe, the day after tomorrow. I'm planning to go have some fun. I remember your driving skills are pretty good. How about it? Do you want to go to Monaco with me?"
Tony handed Ron a small tube of his blood, then gave him an invitation, saying.
'It's only been two months, and Tony Stark is already going to the Monaco Grand Prix?'
Hearing Tony, Ron mumbled to himself with some doubt, not taking the invitation, but directly refusing Tony.
"I won't go. Such an exciting thing as racing is only suitable for 'Iron Man' like you, not for someone who likes peace and quiet like me."
"That's true, you clumsy guy really isn't suited for racing. But I remember your old broken Mercedes CLS seems pretty good. How about it? Sell it to me. I'll air freight it to Europe for the race. What do you say?"
Tony shrugged, casually tearing up the valuable invitation in his hand and tossing it into the trash can, seemingly indifferently, and said to Ron.
"I've told you, Mr. 'Iron Man,' my Mercedes CLS is no worse than your Iron Man suit. It's a good thing, you can't handle it."
Ron didn't even look at Tony. Instead, he put Tony's blood into a small container filled with purple liquid, allowing the purple liquid and dark red blood to mix, waiting for the changes that would occur in the container.
"Tsk, you always say your broken Mercedes sports car is better than my Iron Man suit, so why don't you show it to me?" Tony said disdainfully.
"Why should I show it to you? Who are you? What if I lend it to you and you steal my technology?"
Ron chuckled, looking at Tony with a disdainful gaze, as if Tony really was there to steal technology.
"I'll be damned..." Tony took a deep breath, calmed himself down, and stopped discussing cars with Ron. Instead, he looked at the container next to Ron, where an experiment was underway, and said.
"Ron, I really doubt your ability. It's been over a month, and you still haven't developed an antidote to completely suppress palladium poisoning. If you don't succeed before I die, you can forget about that million dollars!"
After saying that, Tony sighed disappointedly and continued, "I don't know what I was thinking at the time. A genius like me actually asked you to develop an antidote for me. I could have solved this completely myself. It's truly disappointing..."
"Oh, alright then, you go research it yourself. Don't blame me if you turn into a lizard monster!" Ron didn't care what Tony said at all. He directly picked up the experimental container and threw it into Tony's arms, saying.
Tony, holding the container, snorted, "I'll research it myself, I'll research it myself. It's just biochemistry, I could make circuit boards when I was four. I don't believe developing an antidote to suppress palladium poisoning is that hard!"
"Please, I wish you a smooth journey and to disappear halfway!" Ron extended his hand towards the laboratory door, making a gesture of shooing someone away, and said.
"Tsk, I don't know what you're talking about. I'm going on a trip to Europe, goodbye!" Ignoring Ron's obscure and difficult-to-understand words, Tony, holding the container with the unknown liquid, left Ron's laboratory through a secret passage and arrived at his parking spot downstairs at the Amazing News building.
This was his third time coming to Ron's secret lab. Each time, he would draw some of his blood and give it to Ron, asking Ron to help him develop an antidote that could completely suppress palladium poisoning.
Unfortunately, although the antidote Ron developed had some effect, it couldn't completely suppress palladium poisoning.
And as he used the Iron Man suit more and more frequently recently, the symptoms of palladium poisoning had become increasingly severe. If he didn't stop using the Iron Man suit, even if Ron had developed a successful inhibitory antidote, it would be impossible to completely cure his palladium poisoning.
Tony also knew this, so while he asked Ron to develop an antidote, he was also thinking of using other elements to replace palladium, but the results were not ideal.
Looking at the strange greenish liquid in the container he held, which hadn't turned purplish-red as purple and red merged, but had started to become greenish-blue, Tony smiled.
"It's successful, just like before. Let's try the effect."
Tony opened the lid of the container, drank the green liquid directly, lifted his clothes, and waited for the antidote's effect.
At this moment, starting from the arc reactor in the center of Tony's chest, the surrounding skin had clearly developed raised red and black blood vessels, looking as if they were about to burst.
And just after Tony drank the greenish-blue liquid, those raised blood vessels actually began to rapidly return to a flesh color and started to disappear.
After a while, Tony took out another small device for testing toxins from his pocket, lightly pricked his finger, and looked at the toxin concentration displayed on the device.
"Blood toxicity — 03%!"
Seeing the toxin concentration displayed on the instrument, Tony shrugged: "It seems this time the effect should be much stronger than last time. I can go wild for a few more days, haha..."
After speaking, Tony laughed happily, found his Audi R8, opened the car door, and wanted to drive back.
However, just as Tony was about to get into the car, his eyes suddenly caught sight of a Mercedes CLS coupe parked on the other side.
Tony immediately recognized that this CLS was the one Ron had driven. He thought for a while, made a decision, directly threw his Audi R8 car key onto the Audi, and then walked towards the Mercedes CLS.
"I want to see what kind of car this guy Ron says is even better than my Iron Man suit!"
As a super genius in mechanics and a car enthusiast, Tony's research on cars was absolutely thorough.
After walking to the CLS, Tony directly brought his watch-wearing hand close to the CLS's car door.
The next moment, Tony's watch actually emitted a beam of light, scanned the car lock, and then the watch immediately began to transform, changing from a smooth surface into a complex key.
"This car actually uses an old-fashioned car lock. I thought it was some high-tech thing, tsk!" Tony snorted disdainfully, but he didn't stop. Instead, he opened the cover, intending to insert the watch-turned-key into the keyhole, open the car door, and get in.
As before, Tony scanned the car's ignition hole, easily started the car, and drove it away.
Tony felt very good. Although he didn't know how to accelerate the car like Ron did before, as long as he took the car back and disassembled it for careful study, none of this would be a problem.
Most importantly, he drove away the car that Ron had always refused to sell him and even used to provoke him. That was the most satisfying part.
Meanwhile, on top of the Amazing News building, Ron looked at his car being driven away by Tony, smiled with some anticipation, and then spoke.
"Source, the first trial run of the 'Transformer Project' officially begins!"
"Okay, sir." After Ron's words fell, a neutral voice, from somewhere unknown, responded to Ron... Soon after, the radio in the car Tony had driven away suddenly began to play songs intermittently and change stations automatically, which was very strange, for some unknown reason...