Turs stretched out his hand to touch Stark's forehead, then withdrew his hand with a swish. Stark's whole body was now hot. Turs immediately picked up the phone to contact the family doctor.
Half an hour later, Howard hurried back, and Turs was standing by the door waiting for him. Howard's face was now red, obviously he was having a good life. He took off his fishing hat, looked at Turs and asked
: "What's going on? Why did Tony come back suddenly? Why is Dr. Patsy here?"
As the two of them walked in, Turs explained to Howard, but he actually had nothing to explain. He just talked about Tony suddenly rushing into the manor, and then repeated the nonsense Tony said while lying on the bed.
.
When he heard Tony yelling on the bed not to give his technology to Congress, Howard was stunned for a moment, showing a recalling look, and then slowly clenched his fists.
In fact, after Howard's return, none of those long-awaited reunions and the drama of a loving father and a filial son were not staged. He and Tony were more like two familiar strangers. They never talked about their relationship directly, or even mentioned it.
.
They seemed to have acquiesced that this incident had just happened. They felt that everything in the past was in the past. They numbed themselves by thinking that people should look forward. They just let themselves go and kept the relationship between them at a tolerable level.
on the baseline.
But in fact it shouldn't be like this. Everyone knows that they are biological father and son, and there are too many regrets to make up for, and too many things to explain, and their current relationship is actually a kind of numb escape.
.
Standing at the door of Stark's room, Howard felt that he had summoned up all the courage in his life, and he still walked in.
But the state of Stark on the bed shocked him. He had never seen such an embarrassed Tony Stark in his life.
His face was pale, his arms were trembling uncontrollably, and his lips were opening and closing as if he was mumbling something. More importantly, the ever-present aura in his eyes disappeared and became a little dull.
"Dr. Patsy, what on earth is going on?"
"His spirit must have been severely stimulated in the past ten hours." The female family doctor standing nearby said: "This is a very typical manifestation of traumatic stress disorder. Perhaps what he needs more now is
A psychiatrist."
"What about the psychiatrist?"
"He said he had seen a psychiatrist and wouldn't let any of us call." Tours stood by the door and shook his head.
Howard walked to the bed and sat down. When he saw Howard, Stark immediately became energetic. He even pushed himself to sit up and stared into Howard's eyes with piercing eyes.
The father and son haven't looked at each other like this for a long time. The last time was probably when Stark was 8 years old.
"Are you okay?" Howard held back this sentence for a long time. He felt a little bad, so he added, "I heard you were sick? I rushed back right away."
"You came back because you couldn't catch fish." Stark exposed him mercilessly, "You never catch fish."
Howard showed an embarrassed expression, but still whispered: "I still caught it today. The fish are doing well today...I mean, what's wrong with you? The doctor said you were stimulated."
"Compared with this, I care more about what happened back then." The previous mental stimulation and the current high fever made Stark a little confused about who he was. He acted completely based on instinct, and also relied on instinct to ask questions.
This problem occurred.
"You never gave me any explanation." Stark was shockingly blunt. He said: "Of course, I didn't ask you, but considering that you are the older one, the responsibility for this matter is still
over you."
Stark's words were a bit confusing, but Howard still understood what he meant. He rubbed his hands, lowered his head and said, "It's not that I don't want to tell you, but this matter is indeed... I'm really sorry...
…”
Stark snorted twice, and his every move revealed a childish temperament, much like a child. Howard scratched his head vigorously, and then said: "Oh, you have to understand, I was also trying to save my life.
, what’s more important is that I have to save you and your mother’s lives…”
Stark instinctively felt that something was wrong, as if it was different from some places in his memory. He stared at Howard blankly and said: "Save me and my mother's lives? I also want to ask you, if
You wanted to die yourself, so why did you take Maria with you? She doesn’t understand technology. Even if she survives, no one will..."
"Wait, what are you talking about?" Howard said with a surprised look on his face: "What does it mean that Maria survived? Hasn't she always been alive?"
Then Howard showed a look of realization and said, "I know I'm sorry for you two. The faked death accident was just to deceive Hydra and Congress. I originally wanted to take Maria with me, but I
I knew I couldn't leave you here alone, so I went alone."
"Fortunately, Obadiah still takes care of you, and he has also managed the Stark Group very well over the years. But unfortunately, Anton still...forget it, he died on the way to pursue his faith, so
It’s a death without regrets.”
"I have missed you all these years over there, and I secretly sent Tours to visit you a few times, and even took photos of you. I was going to come back as soon as the matter was over, but I couldn't let it go.
I don’t care about Xiao Xier, I have to wait until he grows up..."
Stark instinctively felt that something was wrong, but now his brain was in chaos, and he had a splitting headache when he looked through his memories.
No, no, something is wrong! Stark is so crazy, what is the fake death accident? Why did Maria stay? Where did Howard go? What happened to Seal?
At this moment, Stark exploded with astonishing willpower, resisted the interference of hallucinations, and dug out clues from the fragments of memory.
Then he discovered that he had many more memories that he didn't have before.
One day he still heard the tragic news that his close relative had suffered a car accident, but what was written on the news was not the Starks, but Howard Stark, and the person standing next to him crying at the same time with him was not Obadiah.
But Maria Stark, his biological mother.
It was not Obadiah who presided over the funeral, but Maria. After that, Maria handed over the management of Stark Group to Obadiah and has been accompanying Tony Stark.
After Tony Stark cheered up, he returned to the Stark Group. From then on, Obadiah was responsible for the business affairs of the Stark Group, while Tony Stark was responsible for technical research. The two have always cooperated very well.
good.
It was not until later that Schiller opened up the relationship with Death, and Stark asked openly and secretly if he could resurrect Howard, but Schiller said nothing.
And when Stark later went to find Death himself, he learned that Death had not received Howard at all, which meant that Howard was not dead at all.
Howard returned, but he kept silent about the accident that year. Because of this, the relationship between the two became more and more tense, and finally became almost strangers.
Stark thought that Maria would stand with him and reprimand Howard for such an irresponsible move, but he did not expect that Maria and Howard would reconcile.
Schiller also kept silent about what happened back then, and Stark felt that everyone was hiding it from him. Because of this, when Pepper was pregnant and he felt anxious, he didn't even have anyone to talk to.
It shouldn't be like this. Stark shook his head vigorously, and suddenly he had an idea. Yes, this memory is not real. It just appeared because he saw it in other universes after he was promoted to the Iron Demon.
None of the stories are like this.
He had another way to confirm. Stark picked up the phone and sent a message to Peter, asking Peter to ask other Spider-Man, and then asking other Spider-Man to ask the Iron Man of their universe.
The answer he got was exactly as he expected. It was the Starks who died that year, not Howard alone. There was no fake death accident. He had been here alone for so many years.
What happened to this sudden extra memory?
Stark's hand holding the phone suddenly paused. Timeline! Someone changed the timeline!
He turned to look at Howard and said, "What's going on? Tell me everything you know!"
Howard also knew that it was impossible not to say anything. He lowered his head and sighed and said: "Hydra and Congress pushed too hard back then. Even if they didn't have a model of the Ark reactor, they felt that my genius brain could build a better one for them.
Many murder weapons..."
"That's not it!" Stark said, "I've heard this story before. I'm talking about suspended animation. Why would you..."
"I'm not someone who just sits there and waits for death." Howard's eyebrows flashed with a hint of fierceness, and his voice became cold, "Originally, I gave them some face, but I just want to make money here, and they want to threaten me with you.
, just don’t blame me for being rude.”
"I don't know if you still remember that kidnapping case. You were frightened at that time, and your state was almost the same as now. You kept mumbling about red fish. Maria and I guessed that you might have been kidnapped at that time.
The scene of another group of Hydras that broke in and massacred their colleagues was horrifying."
"Although I have not seen the scene, I know from the description of the police who entered that the scene was very tragic. The Hydra group did not look like members of a terrorist organization, but looked like a terrifying serial killer. He gave the body to
…”
"Okay, okay, I won't mention it anymore, but you should also know how angry I was at that time. They can come at me if they have anything to do, but if they want to attack Maria and you, I have to let them
Learn a lesson."
Stark looked at Howard's angry expression with some confusion. In his impression, Howard had never shown such a cruel expression. After all, he was a businessman, and his smiling and flattering mask had never gone wrong.
And after all, Stark is Howard's biological son, and he understands his father's character - although Howard also does immoral things such as buying and selling arms, he is not a hero at all, and can even be said to be a little cowardly and unable to control himself.
The bottom line is that there is no way to turn the tide, otherwise Howard in so many universes would not have been plotted to death.
But now the Howard Stark in front of him has a somewhat hard-core ruthless demeanor. What is the problem?
Stark was suddenly startled. He looked at Howard and asked: "Schiller...I mean, what happened to Schiller?"
