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Chapter 130

In Virginia, Betty Ross was just discharged from the hospital, greeted by her father. Thanks to the timely assistance and rescue efforts of the Alliance, even without the use of special medications, her recovery was much faster than in the original timeline, and she was discharged after only four days.

However, she still had a worry after being discharged from the hospital.

This worry naturally stems from Bruce Banner.

After that accident, she completely lost contact with Banner, and when she asked her father, he wouldn't say anything.

This worried Betty a lot.

However, just as she followed General Ross out of the hospital, she saw Tony Stark standing in the parking lot.

Betty was quite surprised to see Tony, but General Ross's face immediately darkened.

"Tony Stark, what are you doing here?" Before Betty could react, General Ross had already stepped forward and questioned Tony.

“Oh, General Ross, is this how you treat your savior?” Tony didn’t mince words when General Ross questioned him.

Although, in principle, he "snatched" Banner, an important military experimental subject, from General Ross.

The problem is that the experiment itself was problematic—because Banner had no idea about the actual situation of the study.

Moreover, the agreement between Banner and the military was merely a research agreement, and it did not contain any content that allowed Banner himself to be used as a test subject.

This is why Tony dared to confront the military on this matter.

General Ross himself is another story; he and his daughter were saved by members of the Alliance.

The alliance is nominally commanded by Tony, and its members are all Tony's friends.

Therefore, Tony was essentially the father and daughter's savior.

Therefore, upon hearing Tony's words, General Ross immediately felt his spirits weaken.

What angered General Ross even more was that his own daughter was speaking up for Tony.

“Yes, Dad, Mr. Tony saved us, we should thank him…” Betty Ross was surprised by her father’s reaction.

In my memory, although my father had a rather irritable and stubborn temper, he was not an unreasonable person.

Clearly, General Ross had not told her about Banner's situation in the past few days.

“Hmph, what do you know… he…” General Ross didn’t know what to say for a moment, because no matter what he said, he couldn’t get around Banner.

He didn't want to mention that man in front of his daughter.

But just because he doesn't want to bring it up doesn't mean Tony won't.

“It’s alright, ma’am. I’m not here to take advantage of your kindness, but to convey Dr. Banner’s greetings!” Tony said frankly.

"Damn it, don't mention that guy, Betty, come back with me!" Hearing Tony mention Banner, General Ross's anger intensified, and he immediately grabbed Betty and tried to leave.

Unfortunately, Betty Rose couldn't move after hearing Banner's name.

Although she is mostly an obedient and gentle daughter in front of her father, the Hulk's "First Lady" is quite stubborn when it comes to her own feelings.

Indeed, it is said that daughters resemble their fathers. Given General Ross's stubborn personality, how could his daughter possibly be a well-behaved girl?
More importantly, she realized from her father's attitude that he had been hiding a lot about Banner.

So she immediately broke free from her father's arm and ran to Tony, asking, "Mr. Stark, what's going on? Where's Banner?" "Let's find a place to talk this out. General Ross, you should come too. Perhaps after you hear this, you'll have some new perspectives on the 'Army Biochemical Capabilities Enhancement' project!" Tony said calmly to the parents.

"Damn it, what did Bruce Banner tell you? Tony Stark, that's a top-secret military project. You're playing with fire." General Ross was both shocked and furious when he heard Tony mention the name of the military project directly.

"...General Ross, you really don't need to get so angry... In fact, I know more about your so-called biochemical power enhancement project than you do... Don't tell me you don't know what the prototype of this project is!" Facing the furious General Ross, Tony remained completely calm.

If it were another top-secret military project, Tony wouldn't really know what to say. Knowing too much, even if he's the world's richest man and a key partner of the Pentagon, would still be a taboo.

However, with the Super Soldier Serum project, as long as Tony brings up his father, no one else in the world would dare to criticize him.

After all, the existing related project results all belong to Howard—unless someone can travel through time and bring Dr. Erskine or the original version of the drug to the present day.

Upon hearing Tony's words, General Ross was immediately rendered speechless.

As the highest-ranking military officer, Ross knew a great deal.

Not to mention that he is of the same generation as Howard and has collaborated with Howard on many occasions.

Therefore, he was well aware that, as Tony had said, the other party was the one with the most say in this project.

"Hmph, who knows how much you know? You were just a child back then!" But despite knowing, General Ross refused to admit defeat.

However, she tacitly agreed to Tony's suggestion to find a place to talk.

He also wanted to see what Tony could come up with.

In fact, Tony didn't really come up with anything new.

It simply explained Banner's actual situation and some of the theories behind the Super Soldier Serum.

“So General Ross, you really don’t need to keep chasing Banner. His existence was just an accident—if you still have ideas about this project, why not just follow Banner’s steps again… although I think the probability is about the same as with the previous Super Soldier Serum.” Tony said to General Ross after finishing speaking.

The probability he was referring to was the success rate of the military's previous super soldier drug.

In fact, the military's previous super soldier drugs were not exactly a failure—just like in the American TV series Winter Soldier and Hawkeye, there was a retired super soldier.

However, like Hydra's Winter Soldier, he suffers from a low success rate and unstable mental state.

For example, like Bronsky at the beginning of the original story, he was actually successful... He was able to recover from all the fractures he suffered from being hit by the Hulk.

However, the side effect was that it led him down the path of no return, making him a scourge.

"Hmph... I'll have someone verify what you're saying!" General Ross sneered. He was skeptical of Tony's claims, but he certainly couldn't show it on his face.

But this was merely his final act of stubbornness.

Because regardless of whether it's true or not, he can't do anything about Tony.

"I'm going to see Banner!" Betty Ross said resolutely after listening to Tony's explanation, completely ignoring General Ross's objections.

Especially in a public setting like this with Tony present, he couldn't easily take any coercive measures against his daughter.

"Fine, let her be..." General Ross reluctantly conceded, seeing the determination on his daughter's face.

For a moment, Tony even felt that the general seemed to have aged a bit.

(End of this chapter)