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Looking at what King said to Zhuge Cong on the screen, as well as the combination method, Fujimiya Shu also felt that after all, King was someone who could become the director of S.H.I.E.L.D., so it was normal for him to know some information.
It's clear that Fujimiya Shu didn't know that there really was another element that could replace the palladium in the miniature Ark reactor in Zhuge Cong's chest.
What kind of impact and turmoil will this bring to the world?
"Are you busy? Stop for a moment."
[Shinomiya Un'taka led a person carrying a large suitcase into Akizuki Kozo's work area. Shinomiya Un'taka looked at Akizuki Kozo, who was optimizing a robot, and said...]
Seeing the newcomer, Akizuki Kozo stopped what he was doing, climbed down the ladder, and walked towards Shinomiya Un'taka.
"I brought you something."
After Shinomiya Un'taka finished speaking, the people around him immediately placed a large suitcase on the table.
"Huh? What's that? It doesn't look like a helmet."
[Shinomiya Untaka suddenly noticed the robot that Akizuki Kozo had modified, and out of curiosity, he climbed up and pulled out the robot's head to examine it.]
"What changes did you make, Akizuki Kozo?"
[Shinomiya Un'taka looked at the robot head in his hand and said to Akizuki Kozo.]
"You might have misunderstood me, Akizuki Kozo. I wanted to put a person inside the robot, like the control system in Zhuge Cong's Iron Man armor."
"Instead of changing it to an unmanned, remotely controlled system like a remote-controlled toy, as you've done now."
【"Do you get me?"】
[Shinomiya Un'taka said to Akizuki Kozo, "Shinomiya Un'taka never intended to build robots from the beginning. After all, someone had tried to build robots years ago, but it was shelved for some unknown reason."]
[Shinomiya Un'taka didn't know much, only that the batch of robots they created were quite advanced and seemed to be specifically designed to deal with a certain type of person.]
"Drones are better."
Faced with Shinomiya Un'taka's questioning, Akizuki Kozo simply replied with a curt remark.
"What? Drones are better? Of course I know drones are better, but I want a controllable, armored robot."
"Right now, in the minds of the public and the military, wearable weaponry is the most powerful and best; let's put drones aside for now."
[Shinomiya Un'taka said to Akizuki Kozo, "Drones are better, I know that. It's not Akizuki Kozo's place to tell me."]
"No, people will create trouble and problems. Believe me, drones are far better than that so-called Iron Man suit."
[Akizuki Kozo spoke to Shinomiya Un'yō, offering his advice.]
[Akizuki Kozo did this not for Shinomiya Un'taka's benefit, but for his own.]
[Because he planned to use Shinomiya Un'taka's resources to help him complete his revenge, drones were the best choice. Of course, if Shinomiya Un'taka insisted on choosing something like an Iron Man suit, Akizuki Kozo would compromise.]
However, compromise doesn't mean giving up, because Kozo Akizuki is confident that drones are simply a better option.
Looking at Akizuki Kozo, who was using him, on the screen, Shinomiya Un'taka's face was as black as it could be.
Normally, he hides in the shadows and sabotages others, using them to achieve his own goals. Even when he is being used, it's always by people he can't afford to offend.
Akizuki Kozo was merely a slightly more powerful, unregistered person without an identity; how could he dare to take advantage of me?
At this moment, Shinomiya Un'yō had already sentenced Akizuki Kōzō to death in his heart, and planned to secretly send someone to kill Akizuki Kōzō after the light curtain ended.
"Akizuki Kozo, you know, I have high hopes for you. You told me back then that everything would be fine, right? You told me everything would be fine, didn't you?"
"But halfway through, you turned it into a drone. What I needed was a suit of armor, and that's what the military wanted too, like Iron Man, you know?"
"That's what the military and the public want; that's what will make them happy."
[In the past, Shinomiya Un'ei might not have cared so much, but since his father, Shinomiya Yan'an, died and the head of the Shinomiya family changed, eliminating the so-called struggle for the position, Shinomiya Un'ei has somewhat restrained his ambition.]
In order to temporarily preserve his only and largest enterprise, the Shinomiya Industrial Group, Shinomiya Un'yō had to consider many things, at least until he seized the position of head of the Shinomiya family.
The Iron Man suit is Shinomiya Un'taka's most important bargaining chip in his plan to seize the position of head of the Shinomiya family.
Seeing that he had failed to become the head of the Shinomiya family and that his ambition had been exposed, Shinomiya Un'taka, who was standing in front of the light screen, felt terrible.
As for which of his elder brothers became the head of the Shinomiya family, that was no longer so important to Shinomiya Un'yō.
Because Shinomiya Un'taka knew that after seeing the contents of the light screen, the only thing he had left, the Shinomiya Industrial Group, might be forcibly taken away.
After all, one of his older brothers, who would later become the head of the Shinomiya family, might see him as just a harmless employee, but he probably wouldn't think that way now.
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At the same time, both Shinomiya Huangguang and Shinomiya Qinglong had made a plan in their hearts: they would not leave Shinomiya Yunying with anything in the future.
"Mr. Shinomiya Un'yō, you don't need to be so obsessed with material possessions. You need to learn to let go."
[Akizuki Kozo spoke to Shinomiya Un'yō, and for some inexplicable reason, Shinomiya Un'yō agreed with Akizuki Kozo's idea.]
"You'd better be able to guarantee those drones will get the most attention and that there won't be any problems."
"Got it? It has to be good enough to outshine Iron Man's suit."
[Shinomiya Un'taka's request is like you being an employee in a small company, and your boss suddenly asking you to say you want to hire a top-tier celebrity to do an advertisement.]
[Akizuki Kozo watched Shinomiya Un's retreating figure, a barely perceptible ruthlessness flashing in his eyes, before opening the briefcase Shinomiya Un's had brought.]
The briefcase contained stacks of documents. Looking at the documents, Akizuki Kozo showed a satisfied expression, feeling more confident about his plan.
"Unbelievable, this is enough to get those senators to let me go."
Inside the military base, Hachiman Hikigaya pulled back the safety door, revealing his Iron Man armor to his superior.
"Yes, then you can let me and Zhuge Cong go too."
Meanwhile, Hachiman Hikigaya silently thought to himself.
"Can it be used normally?"
The lieutenant general asked Hachiman Hikigaya, "..."
"It can be used to perform tasks normally."
"Very good, now it's time for Shinomiya Industrial to properly install and modify it."
Hearing this, Hachiman Hikigaya frowned and spoke to his lieutenant general superior.
"Sir..."
"Shinomiya Un'taka wants to showcase his weapons at the exhibition, and we plan to use it for that."
"Sir, I don't think the Expo..."
[Hachiman Hikigaya didn't want Shinomiya Industries to touch the Iron Man suit, and even less did he want the Iron Man suit to be revealed.]
"Lieutenant Colonel Hachiman, we need to get the world to see it as soon as possible. We must do it."
"Yes, General, but..."
[Hachiman Hikigaya wanted to say something more, but the vice admiral cut him off.]
"There aren't many 'buts', this is an order."
"Yes, sir."
"Well done, Lieutenant Colonel. We need people like you. Keep up the good work."
After finishing his speech, the lieutenant general turned and left, offering a few words of encouragement to Hachiman Hikigaya before departing. However, Hachiman Hikigaya clearly didn't heed the lieutenant general's words of encouragement.
"Thank you, sir."
[Hachiman Hikigaya seems to feel that he has become the kind of adult he used to hate.]
"This is the adult world."
Looking at the bitter-faced Hachiman Hikigaya, Kagamihara Nadeshiko then thought about her own future.
Inside the dark and gloomy factory, which was like a prison, or even worse than a prison.
I was forced to work on that assembly line, doing tedious and repetitive manual labor all day long.
With their meager salaries, they could only afford to eat hard and unpalatable food from those unscrupulous factories.
When it gets cold, the only way to keep warm is by burning solid fuel from unscrupulous factories, and you have to wear a gas mask to prevent yourself from being poisoned. Moreover, even burning four or five pieces of wild fuel at a time is not as gentle as burning a single branch.
After a grueling 12-hour workday, we returned to the staff dormitory but there were no beds to sleep in. We had to sleep in cardboard boxes with foam as mattresses.
There was no vacation all year to allow myself to go camping or traveling.
It not only torments one's mind, but also one's body.
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Thinking about this, Kagamihara Nadeshiko felt that growing up a little wasn't good either, and she froze in place, feeling utterly listless.
"That thing on your chest is based on unfinished technology."
"No, it's complete, just not very efficient, until I shrunk it down and put it into my..."
Zhuge Cong directly refuted Kibg's statement.
"No, your father said the Arc Reactor was a stepping stone to even greater inventions. He was originally planning an energy race, and he was researching some huge project, something so big that it could make a nuclear reactor look like a 3A battery."
"Really? Was it just him, or were there others involved?"
[Zhuge Cong poured himself a cup of wine and then spoke.]