Stark lay back on the bed, and with Ethan's delicate operation, the small reactor was installed on Stark's chest.
The moment the shiny reactor was installed, it seemed to emit a strange light. Ethan's eyes blurred for a moment, and when he looked at Stark again, it seemed that Tony had suddenly become different.
Tony stood up and looked at the car battery that had been with him for five days. Now he was finally free from its constraints, but it seemed that it was not just the constraints of the battery.
Touching the cold reactor on his chest, it seemed as if his blood began to boil. This new 'heart' not only gave Tony strength, but also a mission.
Mark I, officially begins.
In the dark and damp cave, the production of steel parts began in full swing.
Ethan, who is also a scientist, can save Tony a lot of effort, and the mechanical parts slowly took shape one by one.
In their spare time, the two of them would relax their tense mood by playing some childish games.
This time, it was Tony who brought up the topic.
"You haven't told me where your hometown is." Tony looked at Ethan and asked.
Ethan paused, licked his lips, and said, "A small town called Gemilla. It's a very good place."
"Do you have any family?"
"Yes, I'll go see them as soon as I leave here!" Ethan said without any hesitation.
Then he asked in return, "What about you, Stark?"
Stark looked at Ethan for two seconds, the corner of his mouth twitched, he lowered his head, and replied softly, "I don't have any family."
"No? So, you have everything, yet nothing," Ethan said to Tony calmly.
Stark smiled slightly, but he didn't know what he was thinking.
...
Two months later, most of the Mark I components had been completed, but some doubts were eventually discovered during testing.
The leader rushed in with a dozen of his men, and the two men became nervous instantly. Just like the first time, Tony raised his hands above his head.
But this time, he didn't threaten Tony, but communicated with Ethan in a language that Tony couldn't understand.
"Why didn't you listen to me!"
"We're working, seriously!" Ethan explained.
The bald boss slowly walked up to Ethan and said, "I spared your life, and this is how you repay me?"
Ethan was forced to take two steps back and tried his best to explain, "The missile is very complicated. He has tried very hard!"
Two younger brothers rushed forward, held Ethan upside down, and made him kneel down.
The eldest brother was tinkering with the wrought iron furnace nearby with pliers.
"Do you think I'm an idiot? You won't tell me!" His voice was full of threats.
Ethan knelt on the ground and said tremblingly, "We work very hard."
He picked up a small red-hot iron ball and smiled cruelly, "Open your mouth!"
Stark, who was standing by, also felt something was wrong and quickly asked Ethan, "What does he want to do?"
The boss twisted Ethan's head and pressed it on the anvil. "Do you think I'm a fool?"
"Tell the truth about what you are doing!"
Seeing this, Stark clenched his fists, as if he had guessed what had happened!
"He's building a Jericho missile!" Ethan seemed to give up struggling the moment his head hit the anvil and shouted.
"Tell the truth!" The red, hot little iron ball was already handed to Ethan's mouth.
"He's building a Jericho missile!"
"Tell the truth!!" The boss seemed like he was going to shove an iron ball down Ethan's throat the next moment.
"He's building a Jericho missile!"
Stark couldn't help but walked forward.
"What do you want? Do you want a delivery date?"
The younger brothers around him immediately pointed their guns at Stark, who was about to walk towards the bald boss, and looked very cautious.
The boss also turned around and looked at Stark, wanting to see what he was going to say, to decide whether Ethan could still keep his mouth shut.
"I need him, he's a good helper!" This was the first time Stark said this. This was the first time the proud Tony Stark said he needed someone!
"Tomorrow, you must install the missiles for me!" The boss dropped the iron block in his hand, looked at the two of them, said threateningly, turned around and left.
Tony Stark looked at the bald man who was leaving, his eyes filled with anger and veins bulging out of his fists.
Two hours later, the sounds of "clang, clang, clang, clang..." resounded throughout the cave.
Tony, wearing only a vest, was sweating profusely as he hammered a metal part in his hand.
Immersed in the coolant, a burst of white steam came out with a "hiss".
The final component of the Mark I, the mask, is completed.
Without much hesitation, Ethan began to assemble Mark I quickly, while Stark conducted the final inspection and made some program corrections.
Time is tight and the task is heavy, so we can't delay for a moment.
Ethan helped Tony put on all the equipment and asked, "Have you written down the route out?"
This is the most useful information Ethan has obtained every time he is led out after being here for so long.
"Walk straight 41 steps, then walk 16 steps to the door, take the right fork, 33 steps, and turn right again!"
"Yes, very good, no problem!" Ethan said panting, already very tired.
On the other side, they also noticed the abnormality of Stark and others, and many people hurried over to check the situation. A Hungarian ran to the iron gate and shouted.
But Ethan didn't speak Hungarian, which aroused their suspicion. He opened the door and came in, but was blown seven or eight meters away by the bomb that Tony had placed long ago.
Both the explosion and the damage to the surveillance camera meant that if they failed this time, both of them would be dead. This was the last chance.
Under Tony's guidance, Ethan activated the power supply program of Mark I, but as the noise outside got closer, he became more and more nervous.
All the hexagonal bolts were tightened. Ethan looked back at the program progress bar, which had just passed the halfway mark, and muttered to himself, "We need more time!"
Looking at Stark who was fixed in the mecha, "Hey, I'll go buy you some time!!"
"Follow the plan, follow the plan! Ethan!!" Stark roared.
Listening to Ethan's voice gradually running away, Tony's eyes became bloodshot, and seemed to be mixed with tears.
As the program started and the voltage was loaded, all the lights went out, and the pair of red eyes fell into darkness.
After a while, someone broke through Ethan and rushed into Stark's cave.
The metal armor was made of steel, and ordinary bullets could not penetrate the defense at all. The huge kinetic energy of the mechanical movement was enough to knock a person ten meters away. The four people who broke in were dealt with in just a few moves.
Following the route Ethan told him, Tony hurried towards the exit, hoping to find Ethan as soon as possible. He still held on to a glimmer of hope.
With his brute force, he was able to knock down anyone who stood in his way, and he could continue to move forward despite being blasted by several rifles. In the small cave, he did not encounter any opponents.
Finally, Ethan was found dying at the entrance of the cave.
"Ethan!" Tony just yelled.
Lying on the ground, Ethan saw the bald boss and shouted desperately, "Be careful!"
The bald boss fired a grenade towards him, and Tony tilted his body and the grenade passed by his head.
He manually fired a micro missile on his arm, but it didn't hit the bald man. Instead, the rock next to him exploded and knocked the bald boss unconscious.
Tony Stark came to Ethan's side, opened his mask, sweat all over his forehead, and looked at Ethan expectantly with wide eyes, "Hurry, we have to go, just think of it as for me, let's go, we agreed to come according to the plan!" At the end, his voice trembled slightly.
"This has always been my plan, Stark!" Ethan said weakly, lying on the ground with a pale face, as if the word "be careful" just now had drained all his strength.
"No, you still have to meet your family! Get up!" Tony said with his eyes wide open.
"My family is all dead. I'm going to see them now, Stark, it's okay!" Ethan looked at Tony, "This is the ending I want, what I want!"
Tony's nostrils began to tremble and his eyes turned slightly red, but looking at Ethan's tears, he tried hard to lift the corners of his mouth and face Ethan with a smile, but after moving twice, he started crying again.
"Thank you for saving me!" She looked at Ethan with moist eyes, mixed with reluctance and pain.
"Then cherish your life and don't waste it!" After saying that, Ethan took two last breaths and then died.
Stark looked at it for a second, then tried to turn his face away, only anger remained inside!