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July 1, 2006: You stood penniless and alone on the streets of New York, right next to Flushing, a hub for Chinese and Asian immigrants. With a few simple dice-shaking tricks, you earned your first pot of $300 and decided not to cause any more trouble there.
July 2, 2006: You spent $170 on a Glock pistol. As an honest person, it was necessary to be prepared. You arrived in the Clinton District on the west side of Manhattan, also known as Hell's Kitchen. You continued your small dice-shaking stall here, earning $400.
July 3, 2006: You were finally targeted by the local thugs. In just one day, you were robbed seven times, acquiring $3200. Bah, poor!
July 4, 2006: You continued your 'fishing for law enforcement' — no, 'acting righteously' — and were robbed four times in one night, gaining $1600. The last time, you even encountered a pervert in a blue bodysuit calling himself'Super Dick Man' who mistook you for a robber. You were too lazy to explain and just beat him up too.
July 5, 2006: Still 'fishing for law enforcement,' but the public order was unusually good today; you were only robbed once all night. You finally accumulated $5000, and you also maintained community order. (Family wealth +1)
Late July 2006: You found a way to locate John Wick. Through your deliberate efforts to befriend him, you became friends. Although you didn't have much money at the time, you still advised him to pay attention to his wife's health. A few days later, John Wick found you, embraced you, and told you that you had saved his wife. She had been diagnosed with early-stage cancer, which was not difficult to cure. You didn't know how John Wick truly fared after your accidental death in your previous life, but you smiled and told him that it was good as long as she was alright.
August 2006: At your request, you continued to learn shooting techniques from John Wick. By the end of August, you once again found Martin Li in Chinatown and spent $3000 to purchase an SSN. You now had a legal identity in the United States.
September 2006: With an initial capital of $5000, you placed staggered bets in over a dozen casinos across New York's Long Island and Queens districts, carefully controlling your wins and losses. With your superb gambling skills, you quickly accumulated a very substantial fortune. Also, by the end of September 2006, you established a small research laboratory and began research into energy. (Family wealth +2)
October 2006: After careful consideration, you still chose the mobile phone industry as your entrepreneurial goal. After a period of research, you published a paper on graphene material research in the journal 'Nature,' causing a sensation in the scientific community. You believed that graphene batteries represented a revolutionary disruption to lithium-ion batteries.
November 2006: You spent $2000 to register a mobile phone company, naming it Pineapple Company. This time, you quickly produced a finished mobile phone. The most crucial research point was how to utilize the free 'intercalation' and 'deintercalation' phenomena of lithium ions on the graphene surface and electrodes to create a battery that was 15 years ahead of the world's technology. Since similar products had appeared in 2021 before your transmigration, having a concrete reference made it no challenge for you, a Research Genius. After more than a month of research, you finally succeeded in developing the graphene battery.
December 2006: You once again published your research findings in the journal 'Nature' and announced that mobile phones equipped with the graphene battery would soon be on the market. Besides their novel design and ultra-high specifications, the battery's storage capacity was three times that of the best products on the market, and charging time was less than 15 minutes. The entire world was shaken by your words.
January 2007: Your pineapple phone was launched. Its other parameters were based on data from your previous life; it not only featured a Retina display and IPS screen technology, but its PPI parameter was also three times that of contemporary phones, and the phone battery was converted to a graphene battery. As you expected, although this launch was 4 months earlier than in your previous life and had 2 fewer months of advertising, the advertising effect of this phone, which was four years ahead of world technology, and the two 'Nature' journal papers quickly attracted public attention.
February 2007: Your venture was successful once again. Your pineapple 1st generation sold even better than in your previous life. Even though the price was 20% higher than before, it still overwhelmingly suppressed Nokia, which held 75% of the US mobile phone market, becoming a luxury item among phones, because this phone truly came from future technology. (Family wealth +8)
Late March 2007: Your entrepreneurship was so successful that, like every lucky person riding the crest of a wave, your wealth expanded at an incredible rate. In the United States, your phone had already become a symbol of fashion and status. Even tycoons Norman Osborn and Tony Stark were using this phone. (Family wealth +11)
March - April 2007: You found the impoverished Ivan Vanko in Russia and spent a huge sum to buy the Arc Reactor technology from him. In mid-March, you built a larger research laboratory and began recruiting scientists for secret research on artificial intelligence and improving the Arc Reactor. You now lacked neither money nor equipment; nothing could stop you, not even God.
May 2007: Kingpin seemed to have some ideas about you. You hired John Wick as your bodyguard, and he was happy to help you. At a party, you once again met Tony Stark. Just like in your previous life, similar personalities and nearly identical abilities still made you rivals and good friends. Friends are friends, but you, having been tricked before, wouldn't be soft-hearted.
June 2007: Your Pineapple Company successfully listed on NASDAQ. On the first day of listing, it rose by 40%, and your wealth grew astonishingly.
July 2007: After half a year of research, your artificial intelligence research was completed first. You named it Kiwis. After its success, you immediately shared your achievement with Tony Stark. Although he was quite unhappy, he admitted that it was no worse than his Jarvis.
August 2007: Due to John Wick's presence, several attempts to attack you were unsuccessful.
November 2007: After more than a year of repeated practice, you finally made great progress in shooting! You learned the skill: C.A.R Shooting Method (Intermediate), and you learned the Mozambique Drill (Beginner).
December 2007: With the combined efforts of over 30 scientists, the new Arc Reactor was finally successfully developed. As the lead researcher, you designed the micro-reactor to be rectangular, still using palladium as the main material. You had a vague idea for a new element to replace palladium, but this might require more financial resources and luck.
January 2008: Your career was flourishing. You recruited a large number of employees to work for you, and your pineapple phone was already in its third generation, with sales remaining very high.
February 2008: The new Pineapple Company headquarters, pineapple Tower, was completed.
March 2008: Based on the Mark 2 prototype you saw in your previous life, replicating a finished product was not difficult for you, a Research Genius. Using the movies you saw in your previous life as inspiration, you even preemptively created a portable briefcase armor. Upon manual activation, the briefcase first expanded into an open state. Then, it waited for the user to manually grip the glove structure, after which the back armor steel skeleton and chest armor steel skeleton automatically positioned themselves correctly. The arm armor skeletons for both hands also automatically conformed to the arms. After closing the outer armor layers, the main energy was activated until the suit was fully donned—truly a genius concept. You named this Iron Suit 'Kema 1'. Oh, just for fun! You learned the skill: Precision Mechanical Manufacturing (Expert).
April 2008: A man named Wesley visited you again, representing Kingpin, wanting to buy shares in your company. But you didn't want him to take advantage, so you decisively refused him. In late April, several of your phone experience stores were smashed and robbed, and your car was even riddled with bullets by several gang members. Even John Wick was injured. In the darkness, from the Pineapple Company building, an Iron Robot soared into the sky.
April 2008: Kingpin's gang forces were largely destroyed by your Iron Suit, and he himself was seriously injured and fled. You began doing world-saving work in New York. People started calling you Iron Man.
May 2008: You called Tony Stark to your home and showed him the Iron Suit you invented. His shocked expression made your stomach ache from laughing.
Late May 2008: S.H.I.E.L.D. still set its sights on you. A beautiful woman named Natalie Rushman applied to be your secretary, and you were well aware of it. Wasn't this Black Widow?
June 2008: In a clash of hormones, you slept with Natalie Rushman. After some time spent together, you felt as if she had truly fallen in love with you. So, after one last intimate moment, you exposed her identity: S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Black Widow Natasha Romanoff. Her expression, like she was looking at a scumbag, left a deep impression on you.
Mid-July 2008: Natasha Romanoff visited again with an invitation from S.H.I.E.L.D., asking you to join the future Avengers and giving you a speech to deny your identity as Iron Man. But facing interviews from media worldwide, you completely disregarded the speech and instead declared to the entire world: "I am Iron Man!" (Legendary +1). You earned the achievement: Iron Man.
Seeing this, Zhou Ning finally couldn't help but slam the table and burst out laughing. Truly, if he had transmigrated, he would have done the same. Isn't this 'in front of the husband'? Let Tony Stark pretend to be cool at my grave again!