the next day.
"Hi!"
"Hi!"
Lake picked up Rachel, who had rushed over from Washington early in the morning, in the airport parking lot. He hugged and kissed her, then looked behind him, as if looking for something.
Rachel smiled and said, "What are you looking for?"
Lake took Rachel's hand luggage: "Where's Helen."
Rachel rolled her eyes. "Come on, I took the earliest flight in the morning. Your daughter is still asleep. I don't want to be kicked off the plane for complaining."
Lake shrugged: "So I said, I'll send a special plane to pick you up."
You don't want it yourself.
Lake thought to himself as he got in the car and drove away from the airport. He then said to Rachel, "The guy you want to interview owes me three thousand dollars last night. I promised to give you an exclusive interview. Just ask any questions you have. And by the way, ask about his gossip from the past few years. That way, we can report on him in 24 installments over 12 months, and then you can take a break this year."
It was that guy who broke his sofa just to show off.
Lake was not blackmailing Tony. After receiving Rachel's call, he wanted to find an opportunity to make Tony accept it. Who knew that this guy would come to him on his own initiative.
The same thing.
Lake once said to Rachel, you are my woman, you have the qualifications and the right to share all my glory and rights.
Of course.
Except for the most core part of Lake.
Rachel seemed a little surprised to hear this and looked at Lake: "Last night, don't tell me that you were with Stark when I called last night?"
Said.
Rachel seemed to have thought of something and nodded to herself. "That's right. Something so serious happened in New Jersey. It must have alerted Homeland Security... How about you tell me the current results of the investigation?"
Lake laughed. "I really want to tell you, but the investigation has just begun. Besides, shouldn't you be focusing on whether Tony Stark is the Iron Man?"
"Iron Man!"
"right."
Lake nodded and said, "When I left this morning, the New York Daily News had already picked the nickname. It was so fast it was terrifying."
Tony's identity was revealed at four o'clock last night.
The New York Daily News appears on newsstands on the streets of New York at six o'clock.
In other words, the manuscript had already been rewritten as soon as his identity was exposed, and the nickname was taken out almost half an hour later.
This speed is extremely fast.
Stark Industries Building.
bite!
When Lake and Rachel walked out of the elevator, Jarvis's welcome voice rang out immediately: "Welcome, Mr. Edwin."
Tony, who was getting his makeup done by Pepper, looked at Lake with some displeasure as he walked in: "Why would my smart butler welcome you?"
Lake smiled and said, "It's obvious that Jarvis has evolved. Politeness is the first characteristic of an ape-man evolving into a human. Perhaps you can learn from Jarvis."
Although he has been in contact with Tony for so many years, to be honest, the rude aura that he exudes from time to time makes Lake always have the urge to kill him at any time.
Pepper walked over and hugged Rachel: "Tony has to attend the press conference first, but I have reserved two hours for you after the press conference."
Rachel thanked Pepper.
Since the last time she met Pepper in Santa Barbara, Rachel and Pepper had gone shopping together several times during the time Rachel stayed in New York. As a famous reporter in Washington, Rachel's emotional intelligence must be sufficient. Otherwise, frankly speaking, a woman with low emotional intelligence would not have been able to hook up with Lake.
Tony became even more displeased when he heard this: "Hey, hey, I only agreed to one hour. Three thousand dollars for one hour, this is a bloody business."
When Tony thought of the sofa that was broken last night, he was full of resentment. After all, if the sofa had not been broken, there would be no doubt that Lake would have come to beg him for help.
Just then.
Jarvis said to Tony, "Sir, you have a visitor who wants to see you."
Tony said directly: "No, refused."
Lake raised his eyebrows and looked at Tony: "The other party is here."
Tony nodded.
Lake laughed and said, as expected, SHIELD will only be late, never absent.
but...
Jarvis spoke again two minutes later: "Sir, it's Ms. Peggy Carter calling."
Tony was slightly stunned and looked at Lake.
Lake, who was sitting on the sofa, said, "Reasoning won't work. Now, it's time to appeal to their emotions."
Tony's face darkened. He grabbed the phone, walked into the inner room, and answered the call.
Five minutes later.
Tony walked out of the inner room again with a dark face. Judging from the situation, it was obvious that Tony had compromised.
Lake laughed in his heart, stood up, and said to Tony: "Okay, I'm leaving first."
He didn't bother to confront S.H.I.E.L.D.
Even if I want to...
That will have to wait until the Paranormal Activity Detection and Action Bureau is officially unveiled. By then, no one knows what facial expressions everyone in SHIELD will have. Lake is looking forward to it.
Tony has expressed his willingness to lend Gardners Island as the headquarters base of the Superintendent's Office. At present, the demolition team has already arrived on the island. At the same time, the design drawings of the headquarters base have been anonymously entrusted to Yale University.
Since Lake graduated from Yale, anyone can make this design, but it must be designed by someone who graduated from Yale.
soon.
Almost as soon as Lake arrived at the office building, he saw his assistant Tiffany eating French fries and staring at her computer screen.
Seeing that the assistant didn't notice his arrival, Lake walked behind Tiffany and looked at the computer screen in front of Tiffany.
The computer screen displays the live broadcast.
In the picture.
Tony looked at the small note in his hand, then faced the camera and said expressionlessly the sentence that began and ended with the curtain of Marvel.
I am Iron Man!
The press conference scene was instantly boiling.
Tiffany couldn't help but clench her fist and yelled "yes": "Wow, so domineering."
Lake asked curiously from behind: "So, your boss is not domineering anymore?"
The young assistant Tiffany jumped up in fright like a rabbit, turned around and looked at Lake who had appeared behind her out of nowhere, and shouted, "Sir."
Lake smiled and walked towards his office.
After being turned down, Coulson finally met the real boss through the director's connections. Thinking he had won, he opened his mouth wide behind the stage, then came to his senses and called their director Nick Fury helplessly.
"Sir."
Even though Nick Fury is now the director, Coulson, who is good at licking the black, still likes to call him "Sir" because it makes him closer: "Tony Stark didn't follow our script."
Nick Fury, who was far away in Sanfeishi but also took time out of his leisure time to pay attention to the press conference, said in a deep voice: "I know, I'm watching, come back."
Finished.
Nick Fury hung up the phone and took out a document from his drawer, which contained the Avengers Project.
Open.
A lonely name, and below it, there are some names that have been crossed out.
for example...
Frank Custer (unable to recruit, refused to join, and is the focus of military attention.)
Lake Edwin (Recruitment plan failed, enemies, military personnel.)
Bruce Banner (Military system, temporarily unavailable.)
Tony Stark...
Nick Fury thought about it and finally gave up the urge to cross out. After all, Tony Stark was different from the others. In a sense, the Stark family was supposed to be part of S.H.I.E.L.D.
so...
Nick Fury recalled Tony Stark's information. After a while, he decided to send his strongest undercover agent to contact Tony Stark, so he called Natasha Romanoff.
In the afternoon.
When Lake returned to the Star Building, Rachel had already returned and was cooking delicious food in the kitchen with Sky, who had also returned home from school.
It seems that the two of them also took time out to go to the supermarket to do some shopping.
Rachel handed the two cantaloupes she had bought to Skye to put in the refrigerator, then said to Lake who came in and took off his coat, "Are you back?"
Lake hummed, "How was the interview?"
Rachel smiled and said, "There's no doubt that I'll be on the front page tomorrow."
So what if the press conference was held?
She got a full two hours of exclusive interview. No matter whether your statement is published in today's evening paper or tomorrow's newspaper, I, Rachel, have already reserved the front page headline.
Rachel thought so, and then said to Lake: "Thank you, dear."
Lake shrugged.
Just as night fell and New Yorkers began to return home, the New York Police Department received a case. George, who was just about to go home from get off work, heard what Joe said, sighed, apologized to his family, said that there was another case at the last minute, and said that he would go home later.
Wow wow wow.
The New York Police Department has many precincts, each with its own homicide detective. But just like the FBI handles cases outside the state, the homicide squad is responsible for cases outside the jurisdiction or for major cases.
This case occurred in an apartment in a slum area in Queens, which is the kind of slum area that is just one step away from being homeless.
The person who reported the case was a resident who was planning to move into the apartment today. According to him, he made several calls this morning, but no one answered. Then he planned to come over and consult in person after get off work in the afternoon.
Who knows...
As soon as he entered the apartment, he felt something was wrong.
Empty.
The kind of dead silence.
And then.
The person who reported the case planned to take the elevator to his third-floor apartment to check, but when he got out of the elevator, he saw... mummies in the corridor!
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