A DC-3 passenger plane landed slowly in Los Angeles.
Jarvis stood at the disembarkation point holding a parasol in his hand, observing the passengers getting off the plane.
Soon, his eyes were fixed on a tall black-haired lady wearing sunglasses, and his face suddenly became distorted.
"Oh, dear Mr. Jarvis, it looks like you are unhappy to see me?" Just as Jarvis was struggling, the other party had already walked to him and joked with a smile.
"No, I'm very happy. Welcome to Los Angeles, Ida Palmer...oh no, it should be Ms. Dottie Underwood. I didn't expect the CIA to photograph you." Jarvis said with a look on his face.
He greeted awkwardly, but the sarcasm in his tone obviously did not match his words.
Yes, it was Dottie, the former Leviathan agent, who got off the plane - but her current identity is that of a senior agent in the CIA Operations Division, directly under the command of Ophelia.
And this time, it represents Josie coming to Los Angeles to contact Howard.
"Oh, dear Mr. Jarvis, are you still brooding about what happened in the past?" Jarvis on the other side said mockingly in his tone, but Doty was not angry and still had a smile on her face.
There was a reason why Jarvis didn't want to see her, and the reason was the title at the beginning, Ada Palmer.
More than a year ago, when Doty was still a Leviathan agent, she used this identity to get close to Howard, and then obtained a large amount of information from Howard and Jarvis, and together with Leviathan's companions, stole Howard Star
Clark's private vault, which triggered a series of Leviathan-related cases last year, and also made Howard Stark bear the identity of a traitor.
But in the end, after she was recruited by the CIA, she became a tainted witness and restored Howard's innocence.
Of course, Howard lost more than a dozen inventions in the process, as well as a small bottle of Captain America's blood, so he could only swallow tears in his stomach... In the end, the reason for everything was because Howard couldn't control himself.
Caused by the lower body.
Josie sent Dottie to contact Howard not only because it was inconvenient for her to show up, but also because the two of them knew each other's strengths and weaknesses relatively well.
"Haha, I don't dare, Ms. Underwood, please come with me!" Jarvis raised his hand back to greet him, revealing the convertible luxury car behind him.
"...Um, Mr. Jarvis, I know that Howard came to Los Angeles because he accepted a defense order and was preparing to build a space launch center here. You are most likely here to take care of property for him.
...But..." Doty looked at the car not far away with some confusion on her face.
Well, yes, the reason why Howard is in Los Angeles has a lot to do with Josie.
The companies under Josie's command have won large orders from the military many times, especially Boeing's fighter jet orders and space launch projects. Although it did not cause a large-scale commercial impact, it also aroused Howard's competitiveness.
So he has recently joined forces with TWA and Lockheed, which control a lot of shares, as well as the newly established Air Force Department, to build a new space launch center in Santa Barbara County, north of Los Angeles, to enter the aerospace industry.
In order to compete with Joshi's Boeing Company - in 1947, the U.S. Army Aviation Command officially broke away from the U.S. Department of the Army and established the U.S. Air Force.
The newly established Air Force obviously does not want most of its orders to remain in the hands of Joshi's Boeing Company.
Moreover, the Air Force also intends to get involved in the aerospace industry - in the view of the top brass of the newly established Air Force, everything flying in the sky should be under their control.
It's just that the top brass of the two established arms, the Navy and the Army, don't buy their account at all.
It was impossible for Qiao Xi to ignore the cooperation with the Army Department, which he always had a good relationship with, and cooperate with the Air Force - the scale of the US military's orders was too large, and it was impossible for Qiao Xi to do it even with his size.
, can’t do it either.
So the Air Force thought of Howard Stark, who had always cooperated very well with Boeing before the rise of Boeing.
The two parties hit it off immediately.
The location where they plan to build a space center is also the only other space center in the original space and time besides the Truman Space Center that was circled by Josie - Vandenberg Air Force Base.
For such a big project, there is definitely no way to hide it from the CIA... Of course, the other party didn't want to hide it either.
So it's normal for Dottie to know what Howard is doing.
And what surprised her was obviously not this.
"Yes, I know what you are going to say. It's because of the flamingo, right?" Jarvis said with a hint of helplessness on his face.
"Yes, a flamingo..." Doty looked at the back seat of the luxury car speechlessly. There was a huge transparent display case, and inside the display case was a pink flamingo.
Well, alive.
"I'm sorry, you are not the only guest Mr. Howard will entertain... Come and meet the new member of Stark Mansion Zoo, his name is Bernard..." Jarvis introduced with a look of despair.
.
"Perhaps this is a quirk shared by rich people like them..." Dotty twitched her lips and said.
"Them?" Jarvis couldn't help but raise his eyebrows when he heard this.
"Yes, my current boss, Mr. Josh Kahn, has a white lion and a silverback gorilla in his yard..." Doty complained helplessly.
Well, this is actually quite normal. Dottie will not tell Jarvis that there are some dinosaurs raised in a certain manor of Josie...
In fact, not to mention the dinosaurs, just the lions and silverback gorillas made Jarvis's expression change.
What kind of person would keep lions and gorillas in his yard?
In such a comparison, it is so peaceful for my boss to raise a flamingo.
"Lions and orangutans? Oh, Mr. Kahn is more elegant than I thought. Jarvis, please remember it for me. When I take my next vacation, I will also go to Africa. Well, since Kahn has raised
I can’t raise a lion or a white lion, but I can get a few cheetahs or leopards, and some zebras... Rhinos and elephants, hornbills, ostriches, by the way, these are pretty good!" Half of them!
After an hour, Howard muttered something in his mouth.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Jarvis on the side has almost fainted. Why did he have the thought of his boss being peaceful before?
"Ahem, Mr. Stark, should we talk about business first?" Doty glanced at Jarvis sympathetically, interrupting Howard's self-pleasure.
"Ah, that's right, zero matter... Dottie, I don't think we should be so different from each other, just call me Howard!" Compared to Jarvis, Howard, who has always been tolerant of women, is obviously not so tolerant of women.
He hated Dottie and was even happy to see Dottie.
As for the reason...well, I understand.
"Okay, Howard!" Dotty also understood Howard's little thoughts and would not expose them.
"Excellent...what do you want to know about zero matter?" Howard gave a thumbs up and asked.
"It's very simple, how can we resist the invasiveness of zero matter, or eliminate it," Doty said.
As soon as Doty's words came out, Howard's expression immediately became serious, "What happened?"
When Josie was acting as CIA before, he just said that he needed to know about some research on zero matter, so although Howard didn't refuse, he didn't take it too seriously.
But now that Doty is talking about how to deal with the invasiveness of zero matter, the situation may not be that simple.
"In that case, I won't hide it anymore. Howard, you should know about the social competition club, right?" Seeing that Howard seemed to have guessed something, Doty said bluntly.
"Of course, of course I know!" Howard shrugged, his expression a little unnatural.
The Social Competition Club is the external business card of the Nine-member Council. It is public and aims to attract elites in various fields in the United States. This kind of recruitment is not to recruit these people into Hydra, but only to exchange interests.
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The real Hydra is limited to the Council of Nine.
However, the club only recruits white male elites as members, and the conditions are very harsh.
Howard obviously met all the conditions, so he had been invited. Huw Jones also became good friends with Howard at that time, so there was no doubt that he didn't know about this club.
However, it was obvious that the economic and social club, which was mainly composed of old men, did not suit Howard's taste. After joining for a period of time, he quit.
However, the reason why he quit was not only because he didn't like the atmosphere inside, but also because of his character in Huahua Company - which made him become enemies with many members, including Huw Jones - most of the members were
Older rich people, and these rich people often like to raise young girls.
Compared with these old and frail old men, the young and handsome Howard can obviously easily seduce the hearts of the canaries in these rich families.
In this case, there will be ghosts if there is no enmity.
"Yesterday, our CIA received a request for help from Mr. Huw Jones. The reason was that one of the members of the club, Calvin Chadwick, the president of Iseldam, like your Stark Group, also accepted the Ministry of War's request for zero
Scientific research orders for matter, and there was a breakthrough not long ago, but Calvin Chadwick did not hand in the research results. Instead, yesterday morning, he used zero matter as a weapon to massacre several members of the club.
Trying to control the club by force and threatening the members to become its vassals... Howard, I think you should understand that as members of the club, if Calvin succeeds... what consequences will it cause!" Doty said yesterday morning
What happened was told exactly as it was, with slight adjustments to the details, such as the fact that Josie was also a member of the club, and the person in need of help was placed on Huw Jones.
This completely avoids Josie's personal debt to Howard and turns the matter into a simple cooperative relationship in which CIA invites Howard to help handle the case.
Hearing Doty mention Huw Jones, Howard's face became even more unnatural. Although he liked to cheat, he still wanted to show his face.
Fortunately, now is not the time to trace his dirty laundry.
"I see, is Calvin actually able to control zero matter and use it as a weapon? This is really bad news, but you came just in time. I do have a way to deal with zero matter, and that is gamma rays
!" Howard nodded and said.
"Gamma rays?" Dotty was slightly startled when she heard the term. She had never heard of such rays.
"That's right, gamma rays! The generation of gamma rays will burst out with intense high-energy photon pulses, and this photon pulse can eliminate zero matter!" Howard explained.
"I see, then do you have the equipment to produce gamma rays?" Doty asked.
"Yes, but the power is not high enough. I have to build a bigger one, but that will take some time!" Howard said.
"How much time is one o'clock?" Dotty asked, frowning.
"If it's quick, it can be done within 12 hours, and I have one condition!" Howard said, just like his son will be able to build a small particle accelerator in just one day in the future, working on a temporary basis
Building a gamma radiation device does not take much time.
"What conditions?" Dottie was puzzled.
"I have to control this thing myself!" Howard said.
"You mean that after the thing is built, it will move with us?" Doty frowned.
"Of course, otherwise God knows what you would do with my things!" Howard shrugged.
"...If you insist, there will be no problem!" Doty agreed without much hesitation.
"Okay, without further ado, I'm going to the laboratory now. Jarvis, come with me. There are some things you need to prepare." After Howard said that, he walked towards his laboratory. Although he is a playboy,
But Howard, like his future son Tony, will instantly become a scientific research madman when he encounters a problem that interests him.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "I'll come right away, sir, Ms. Underwood, please do as you please!" Jarvis also apologized to Dottie, and then hurriedly followed
Go up.
"Okay...Sir, I'll keep an eye on him!" Seeing Howard and Jarvis leaving, a smile appeared on Doty's face, and then she touched her earrings and said.
But the conversation she had with Howard just now was being monitored by Ophelia on the other side, and her earring was a small bugging device.
Ophelia then immediately reported the situation to Josie.
After Josie learned that the best thing to deal with zero matter was gamma rays, he immediately opened the trader and contacted Yuri. Although Josie did not doubt Howard's research and development capabilities, he put all his eggs in one basket.
It's not his character.
"Gamma rays? This is easy! It can be completed in four hours at most!" After listening to Josie's request, Yuri immediately gave a time, which was three minutes shorter than the time Howard needed.
of two.
Of course, this does not prove that Yuri is definitely smarter than Howard. After all, there is a gap in the technological foundation between the two worlds.
In the Marvel world, the research on gamma rays is still limited to a very few cutting-edge scientists such as Howard - which is actually relatively good. If it were the world before Josie traveled, it would not have been discovered until nearly the 1970s.
What about the existence of gamma rays?
But in the world of Red Alert, gamma rays are nothing unusual.
Coupled with Qiao Xi's help in recent years, Yuri's base in Baiji has basically returned to the productivity level in the middle of the war between the red and blue camps. With Yuri's own hands, he temporarily built a gamma ray