Chapter 59 Ivan Vanko Strikes Back

Just as Tony left, Ivan Vanko in prison received a note while eating, which read "Please enjoy mashed potatoes."

Then he found an unused time bomb in the mashed potatoes, and the prison guards sent in a man of similar build and with the same prison uniform number to serve as a scapegoat.

Ivan Vanko knocked down the scapegoat in a few moves, then picked up the key dropped by the prison guard, activated the bomb and ran away.

Immediately afterwards, the time bomb exploded, causing chaos, and Ivan Vanko was blindfolded and taken away.

It turned out that Justin Hammer rescued him from prison with the purpose of hoping that Ivan Vanko would cooperate with him to fight against Tony Stark.

Afterwards, Justin brought Ivan Vanko to his Iron Soldier manufacturing factory, and handed the software that controlled the Iron Soldiers to Ivan Vanko, making him the chief engineer in charge of Iron Soldiers.

Tony returned home and asked Jarvis to look through the information, and finally found Anton Vanko's name.

"Anton Vanko, a Soviet physicist, defected to the United States in 1963, but was accused of being a spy and expelled from the country in 1967. His son Ivan Vanko is also a physicist."

At this time, Rhodes came to find Tony and asked Tony to control public opinion to prevent the army from rushing into the house and snatching Tony's iron armor.

However, at this time Tony was immersed in the process of finding more information about Anton Vanko, so he didn't want to pay much attention to Rhodes.

At this time, Li Heng said:

"Tony, I actually know a little bit about him."

Seeing Tony turned his head and looked at him, Li Heng continued:

"Anton Vanke worked with your father Howard before. They completed the reactor together, but your father wanted something bigger, while Anton Vanke wanted to make money. So they had a dispute, and your father expelled Anton Vanke from the country."

After hearing what Li Heng said this time, Tony finally understood what happened that year.

However, knowing the truth at that time, Tony did not think his father did anything wrong, so he said to Li Heng:

"Oh, it seems I finally share the same opinion as him."

After saying that, Tony took Rhodes and Li Heng upstairs to attend his birthday party. He didn't really care about the military or anyone else coveting his Iron Man suit.

At the birthday party, Tony directly gave Rhodes a set of Iron Man suit, making him the second person after Tony who could wear the suit.

On the surface, Ivan Vanko agreed to Justin Hammer's request and made iron soldiers for him, but in fact he was secretly perfecting his whip armor and secretly took control of the iron soldiers.

Ivan Vanko also called Tony and said on the phone that he would return to Tony everything that the Stark family had done to their family forty years ago within forty minutes.

Hearing Ivan Vanko say this, Tony immediately remembered the expo that was being held, so he quickly asked Jarvis to assemble the suit, and Tony prepared to use the new reactor directly.

Then Tony wanted Li Heng's help to get to the expo site quickly.

Li Heng said it was no problem, they could set off as long as they waited for Tony's suit to be assembled.

At the expo, it was Justin Hammer's turn to hold a press conference.

He first criticized Tony, saying that Tony was unwilling to disclose his Iron Man suit technology, which was unfair and wrong.

Next, Justin Hammer began to introduce the steel soldiers brought by his company.

Then various versions of steel soldiers from the navy, army and air force rose up from under the stage.

While Justin Hammer was still excitedly introducing the characters, Ivan Vanko had already secretly controlled the Iron Soldier.

At this time, Hammer invited Rhodes to come up and drive his battle suit onto the stage to show everyone that besides Tony, there are other people who can drive the armor.

The people below were stunned when they saw this scene.

But the next moment, Li Heng brought Tony to the side of the stage. While Tony was attracting people's attention, Li Heng went straight to the audience and found an empty seat, ready to see what Tony would do.

Tony flew directly onto the stage, and immediately there was warm applause from the audience, which was in sharp contrast to Rhodes' appearance just now.

Tony landed in a handsome posture, then came to Rhodes' side and said:

"Hey, brother, I didn't give you the battle suit so that you can help my opponent. Oh, no, Hammer can't be considered my opponent. So, what benefit did he give you?"

As Tony spoke, he stepped forward and stood with Rod, "waved to them", greeted and responded to the excited people.

At the same time, Rhodes also explained:

"Tony, I'm just following orders, don't be impulsive here."

"Brother, we are in big trouble. Everyone is in danger now. We must let them out. You must believe me."

Just when Rhode was about to ask for clarification, Tony said directly:

“I think Hammer and Vanke have a collaboration.”

Rhodes was stunned for a moment, "Wan Ke is still alive? Didn't his prison explode?"

"Well, he must have run away. He was just talking to me on the phone."

After that, Tony walked up to Hammer and asked him directly:

"where is he?"

Hammer gave a puzzled look, "What?"

Tony asked again, "Where is Ivan Vanko?"

But Justin Hammer was clearly playing dumb: "What are you doing here? Tony!"

Just then, Rhodes exclaimed, "Wow! Wow! Wow!"

A bunch of red words appeared on the display panel in front of him, and then the control of the suit was taken away. Then the machine gun on the shoulder of the suit was directly activated and aimed at Tony in front, and then Hammer's steel soldiers also moved together, pointing their guns at Tony.

Tony asked Rod, "Is that you?"

Rhodes: "It's not me, I can't move, I'm locked! Go, he has control of the entire system!"

Hearing this, Tony took off and flew outside.

The people in the audience also noticed something was wrong and began to hide.

Ivan Vanko controlled all the iron soldiers and fired at Tony who was flying out.

The bullet hit the glass ceiling of the exhibition, and then the glass shattered and fell down.

At this time, people had not completely hidden yet. When Li Heng saw that someone would be injured, he directly used the power of space to teleport all the fallen glass fragments to the corner of the venue, forming a large pile.