Superman, the Man of Steel, female, 6 years old!

As she spoke, she pointed at two of Obaday's bodyguards who were walking towards her from the other end of the hall.

"..."

"..."

Quiet.

At the small bar, it was as if someone had pressed the pause button. Then Anna, the bartender, and the female reporter all started staring at each other.

After confirming that the brat wasn't joking, the bartender who was wiping the glasses turned around and gestured in the direction of the two bodyguards...

Then, Obaday's two bodyguards were suddenly caught by four people from the left and right sides, and were dragged away without attracting the attention of the people around them.

The smooth and flowing movements stunned the female reporters standing next to him.

After that, Anna, who was sitting at the bar, smiled and raised her glass to Obaday, who had been paying attention to them.

However, after seeing the little brat's demonstration, Obaday, the charismatic old man, did not show any angry expression. After all, he had already passed a restraining order against Stark at the board meeting these days.

The negative information about Stark Industries in Afghanistan in the hands of those female reporters would be useless even if Stark knew about it...

Because now that the restraining order has been passed, Tony Stark can no longer make any changes to the company's business.

Now Tony Stark can't even get within 500 meters of his own company. If he doesn't want to be treated as a violent psychopath by the guards and the police and locked up in a mental hospital, then even Tony Stark... he has to endure it until the judge's restraining order is lifted.

Moreover, after stripping off the company's "outdated production capacity" and inventory weapons in these days, old man Obaday has long wanted to confront Tony, whom he has tolerated for 30 years, and the time is not a day or two.

Therefore, the old man did not say much about the protests of the minor character, the female reporter who failed to deal with Vanity Fair, and Anna, the 'daughter of a senior CIA official'.

However, after Obaday noticed that some unfamiliar faces began to appear in the hall, he slowly walked to the middle of his bodyguards at the door of the hall and dealt with the reporter from XXX newspaper who came to bother him.

The reason why Anna is so blatant is naturally because she has her reasons.

As soon as she arrived in the hall, Anna knew who the bartender next to her and those people wandering around the hall were.

Just the CIA documents these guys have in their pockets, and the way they look at my family...

Anna knew that these people were Lorraine's mother's men.

In other words, Lorraine's branch of Hydra is different from others. For them, only Lorraine's orders need to be obeyed, and the beliefs of other Hydras are bullshit.

Otherwise, Coulson had come alone to this "snake nest" full of CIA agents. He would be lucky if he could see the sunrise tomorrow.

Today's party seems to be just an ordinary charity party.

But in fact, both Anna and Lorraine knew that today was actually a very important day for Tony Stark.

The reason why Tony, the originally hated playboy, was able to transform into the Iron Man familiar to time travelers in the end was actually because he went through several key moments in his life.

It can be said that without these key time points and events, there would be no Iron Man, who is so famous in the Marvel world in the future.

The first time point was when he woke up after being ambushed by terrorists, which made this playboy realize that the world does not revolve around him, and he is not an invulnerable son of the world.

Moreover, those terrorists and small fry whom he had originally ignored were not completely powerless to resist.

The next time was in the cave, when Dr. Ethan died in front of him.

The death of this scientist, who had been his mentor during their months together, made him understand the meaning and value of life. And the value of life is not based on the cold numbers and profits on the company's financial statements.

The impact of Ethan's death in the cave on his heart was definitely not as great as the nonchalant and nonchalant attitude he showed in front of Pepper and the others after he escaped.

And if it weren't for this huge mental shock later, then Stark would have escaped in the end...

He also couldn't become the Tony Stark he is today, who could calmly sit in the basement lab and chat with a little kid like Anna. Most likely, he would just remain the same as before, a hated playboy and egomaniac.

If it weren't for this reason, do you really think that little brat Anna had no way to save people when she was in the cave?

Is she just a little brat who would rather sleep in the desert of Afghanistan and remain indifferent until Dr. Ethan in the cave is turned into a hornet's nest by terrorists?

The answer is of course not.

Not to mention that Dr. Ethan's wife, son, and daughter had all been killed. After he assisted Stark in creating the Mark Armor and knew that he had a chance of revenge...

Dr. Ethan had already made up his mind to die the moment he rushed out. He didn't want or want to be rescued by others.

In fact, even if Anna wanted to take action at that time, she didn't dare to do anything rash under the watchful eyes of the bosses.

Because in the eyes of those big guys, Ethan's life is just a tool for Tony Stark to transform.

Only after this tool has worked will they allow bystanders like Anna to come to the rescue.

So Anna, who was only a few kilometers away from the cave at the time, had no choice but to use another method to rescue Dr. Ethan and his family.

It was just like the key point of Dr. Ethan's death.

This evening party is actually a key moment in Tony Stark's transformation into a superhero in his life.

It was the female reporter's questioning of Tony with the photo, and Obaday's ruthless showdown afterwards...

This tore apart the last bit of warmth between the two of them for thirty years, and made Tony Stark understand his responsibility.

Only after these two things happen, will Tony transform from the tech geek who comes to the party to pick up girls for fun into a great man who knows his responsibilities in life.

It is because this party is so important that Anna and her two mothers came here to join in the fun.

And Lorraine also arranged so many people for the party.

So although this party seems to be nothing happening on the surface, it has actually become a battlefield where Anna and Obaday's bodyguards are secretly fighting.

She knew what Obade had done.

And let things happen according to the original key points.

And after Anna raised her glass, the old man Obaday now knew what she knew...

PS: Dr. Ethan will appear after the events of Iron Man 1. He's not dead, but he's not alive either. He can be credited with the second treasure Anna found on the farm.

I wonder if any book lovers can guess what it is.

Chapter 046 It only takes 4 hours to get to Afghanistan~

"Is this what you call responsibility?"

"This is a town called Gemilla... Have you heard of it?"

I just did that kind of dance with Pepper in a backless evening gown...

Then the two Tonys, who almost kissed each other on the balcony, took the opportunity to calm down and went to the bar to order two drinks. He was then questioned by the female reporter next to him with a stack of photos and was speechless.

“When was it taken?”

"yesterday."

……

Seeing the corpses scattered all over the place in the photo, the latest issue number of Stark Industries on the weapon box, and a familiar bearded man commanding the terrorists...

Stark could only respond silently in front of the aggressive female reporter.

"I didn't approve..."

"Your company approved it."

“My company doesn’t represent me.”

"But you have a responsibility..."

……

"Is this true? ...Anna!"

Seeing that the female reporter looked like she wouldn't leave until she got an answer, Stark could only ask Anna who was sitting at the bar.

Because after Tony Stark's observation and Jarvis's reminder, he knew the moment he entered the hall that there were dozens of CIA personnel lurking in the party, and all of these CIA personnel were agents from the department of Anna's mother Lorraine according to their resumes.

Without the permission of Anna and her family, this female reporter named Christina...would never be able to get within 10 meters of him, and would never be able to show him a single photo.

So asking Anna about the authenticity of these photos is the fastest way for Stark to get the answer now.

"Of course it's true."

"Because these were taken by my mother's agents themselves...Christina was just a messenger to get them to you."

Anna, who was sitting at the bar, spread her hands, which immediately broke Stark's fantasy.

"and……"

"You should know why it's the town of Gemilla?"

"..."

"I do know why it was Gemilla."

"I just didn't expect your mother's agent to be so involved..."

Seeing the dead bodies and traces of slaughter in the photos, and under the questioning of the female reporter, Tony now only felt a burning pain on his face.

Because after closing the weapons department, he was full of hope that he would bring peace to the world, but he didn't expect that the first thing he would bring to the world was massacre and destruction.

What he couldn't accept was that this small town that was the first to be massacred and destroyed was also the hometown of his life mentor and friend Dr. Ethan...

"You'll find out how controlling my mother is later."

"So you're going to ask Obadiah now, Tony..."

"I want you to be ready now."

Anna smiled and spoke to Stark, who was silent at the bar. At that moment, she felt like a life mentor and guiding light for the superheroes in the Marvel world.

Not to mention that Coulson-like smile and the kid's self-satisfied friendliness...

Ugh! ~ If you ignore her pretentious words and inspirational quotes...

The act of stealing another sip of juice was perfect.

"I'll ask him now..."

Under the gazes of the female reporter and Anna, Stark hurriedly walked towards Obaday who was being interviewed at the door with the stack of photos.

It just wasn't two minutes later.

The female reporter who was following Tony and standing a few meters away only vaguely heard a few words of conversation between Obaday and Stark.

"Tony...you can't be so naive."

"How do you think the board kicked you out?"

"I personally issued the restraining order! I personally kicked you out of the company!"

"I'm doing this to protect you..."

……

After Obaday mercilessly exposed the false peace and the little remaining warmth between the two, the old man left the party under the protection of a large number of bodyguards.

On the steps at the entrance of the party, only Stark was left standing there in a daze.

It was as if his entire worldview had been shattered by Obaday's words.

After five full minutes of standing still, Stark finally came to his senses and saw Anna's family and the female reporter standing behind him at the far end of the stairs.

"You knew this would happen... didn't you?"

Looking at the smiling little kid in front of him, for some reason, Stark always unconsciously treated her as a peer, forgetting the fact that she was only 6 years old.

When faced with Stark's problem, although the little brat had known that it would turn out like this, even her and Lorraine's mission tonight... was to let things develop as they are now.

But Anna still did not give a direct answer to Stark's question.

Because if many people have not personally experienced the ruthless confrontation and showdown like that just now by Obaday, they will not rise up to the sense of responsibility in their hearts.

There will also be no experience of a thunderbolt striking your heart and giving you a sudden enlightenment in life.

Tonight's questioning by the female reporter and Obaday's showdown have an impact on Tony that is even equivalent to the famous saying "With great power comes great responsibility" that has not yet appeared in this world.

To put it in a more pretentious way, this is the growth of a superhero. And Anna is now the one who helps Iron Man grow smoothly.

Now Anna can proudly say to the big guys in the Marvel world who have been paying attention to Iron Man’s growth in the timeline and the multiverse.

The photos were provided by her.

She protected the female reporter.