Marvel: The Imposter Inventor

Chapter 367 Revenge? Don't die!
To be honest, Luca really has no idea what to do about the current relationship problems between Tony and Pepper.

He himself is still entangled in an ambiguous relationship with Gwen, and the progress bar is slowly but surely not increasing.

Rather than letting Luca figure out how to handle the emotional and psychological issues between the two, it's better to...

He felt it would be more reliable to simply write an intelligent program that relies on big data to provide solutions.

'Or... why not just use the Mind Stone to perk Tony up? Wouldn't that be more effective than a therapist?'

Of course, these were just words spoken in anger.

Early this morning, Pepper called him with tears in her eyes, asking him to keep an eye on Tony. In addition, this guy had been acting like this for the past few days, and as his friend, Luca really couldn't stand it anymore.

Why not try to provoke Tony and hopefully make him change?

"Come watch the video!"

After making his decision, Luca tossed a virtual projector in front of Tony in a somewhat unfriendly tone.

Tony, still somewhat dazed, first looked at Luca with some confusion, but soon his attention was drawn to the content playing in front of him.

"I recognize this road!"

Tony looked at Luca blankly again, but quickly looked away.

The projection screen is currently displaying a surveillance camera view with noticeably outdated image quality.

In the footage, it wasn't just the scene captured by the surveillance camera that felt incredibly familiar to Tony.

More importantly, the time is displayed in the lower left corner.

'December 16, 1991!'

It was the deaths of both his parents that made him an orphan, a day he would never forget.

At this moment, the first thing he saw on the screen was a car accident, a collision, and a fire, something he should have been familiar with.

But what followed was completely different from what he knew.

The extra motorcycle, and the figure that stepped off it, cruelly and mercilessly killed his parents, who should have survived.

"This is Sergeant Barnes?! My parents didn't die in a car accident?!?!"

In that instant, Tony's previous dejected mood vanished abruptly. His chest heaved violently, and an uncontrollable rage seemed about to erupt. He stared intently at Luca and asked, word by word.

"Where did this video come from?!"

Luca, having already presented the video, naturally wouldn't hide anything about Tony's question.

In fact, Luca had already obtained these video materials stored in the Hydra base when he awakened the Winter Soldier.

Luca's original plan was to inform Tony of the relevant information as soon as Tony was rescued.

Based on the principle of distinguishing between close and distant relatives, and always helping his own people regardless of right or wrong, he never intended to cover up this matter for Captain America and Winter Soldier.

As for revenge, Luca's view is that there are no bottom lines and he doesn't care whether innocent people will be implicated.

All he could do was intervene and stop Steve when Tony tried to kill Bucky.

Lest this guy get killed by Tony too.

However, because Tony's condition remained so lifeless after waking up, Luca hesitated for so long before showing him the video.

'If revenge can motivate Tony, at least he'll have a goal.'

'Hmm, maybe we should inform Steve first and have him run away with Bucky. That way, Tony's revenge will take longer, which should help him get through this current period of depression?'

At this moment, Luca, who was not good at this kind of thing to begin with, started to let his mind wander.

However, this did not delay him, and he briefly explained the whole story to Tony.

However, things didn't go as Luca had anticipated.

After hearing the whole story, Tony didn't rush to put on his armor and go straight to Bucky for revenge.

He, who had been furious, fell silent again, his eyes becoming vacant once more. This near-death silence lasted until Luca was almost unable to contain himself and wanted to ask a question, at which point Tony finally spoke in a hoarse voice.

"Does anyone else know about this?"

Luca was taken aback at first, but he immediately gave a reply.

"As for the video, I'm probably the only one who knows about it."

After another moment of silence, Tony's voice was still hoarse.

"Naba... does he still remember these things?"

"Perhaps? Even though he was brainwashed and controlled, he should still retain some memories."

At this moment, Luca was also somewhat unable to fathom Tony's inner thoughts and could only offer an answer based on his own understanding.

There was another long silence.

The silence was so profound that Luca could even sense Tony's aura weakening.

Finally, Tony looked into Luca's eyes and spoke slowly.

"Please keep this a secret for me. He... he was just caught in a situation he couldn't control."

After saying those last words, Tony Stark in front of Luca tilted his head to the side, closed his eyes, and dropped the half-eaten bun in his hand.

This scene startled Luca so much that he cried out in surprise.

"Holy crap! Don't you dare die?!"

As he spoke, Luca stepped forward, grabbed Tony who was slumped over, and reached out to check his breath.

As a result, perhaps because his actions were too rough, Tony, who had been grabbed, immediately opened his eyes again.

After looking at him, she said weakly.

I'm sleepy. I'll take a nap.

Tony then looked at Lucan's mechanical right hand, which was frozen in front of his nose, and said with a rather helpless tone.

Can a metal hand check someone's breath?

After venting his frustrations, Tony promptly closed his eyes, though his lips still moved almost imperceptibly.

Looking at Tony, who had fallen asleep, Luca first awkwardly withdrew his arm, then carefully and gently moved him to the sofa next to him.

He then looked at his mechanical right arm and muttered something with a hint of disdain.

"And you're supposed to be a physics major? You don't even know that if you breathe, water vapor will condense into white mist on metal!"

"Alright, now you're the great philanthropist, forgiving past grievances and repaying evil with kindness. I've become the villain who sows discord and undermines internal unity!"

He muttered these things to himself, but Luca first put away the video projection equipment next to him.

After thinking for a moment, Luca decided to use the energy of the Mind Stone to give Tony a calming effect before taking a blanket from the corner of the lab and covering him with it.

Considering that he couldn't possibly keep watching the guy sleep, Luca simply took out a Baymax-style home medical robot and a Conan-style anesthesia watch that he had made himself.

He then gave instructions to Jarvis inside the laboratory.

"Jarvis, this robot has body detection and nursing programs. If this guy still doesn't go to sleep on time, control the robot and give him anesthesia with the anesthetic watch. I guarantee he'll sleep soundly until dawn!"

As he spoke, Luca took out a large box containing thousands of anesthetic needles and stuffed them into the hands of the medical robot.

Only then did he leisurely sit down in front of the computer and quietly continue the work that Tony had messed up.

Seeing this, Jarvis simply quietly connected to the medical robot control program.

And through the robot's audio equipment, it whispered the last sentence that Tony hadn't said, which had been read by the lip reading scan.

"Thank you!"

(End of this chapter)