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Chapter 699 The New Employee Fired by Tony Stark!

Stark Industries Building.

During this period, Stark Industries was incredibly popular.

A few months ago, at a press conference, Tony Stark, the boss of Stark Industries, casually announced to all the reporters present that he was Iron Man.

That moment completely ignited people's worship and yearning for superheroes.

Reporters always lurk around Stark Tower, hoping to catch a glimpse of Tony Stark and secure an exclusive interview with the billionaire.

However, Tony Stark has not appeared in front of Stark Tower in the past few days. He seems to really enjoy flying around in his Iron Man suit, flying directly from his seaside vacation villa to the top of Stark Tower.

Today is no exception.

Suddenly, a cloud of flames appeared in the sky!

Amidst the cheers of amazed onlookers on the ground, the red Iron Man suit traced an elegant arc through the air and landed directly on the roof of Stark Tower.

Tony Stark stretched out his arms and, with the help of machinery, removed the armor from his body. Pepper Potts, the female secretary who had been waiting nearby, hurriedly stepped forward and walked towards Tony Stark to report on the company's situation.

Since Tony Stark recently eliminated the weapons division, Stark Industries' revenue structure has changed, and during this painful period of transformation, the conglomerate has become increasingly busy.

"Pepper, wait a minute..."

Tony Stark coughed lightly, clutching his chest, and waved for Pepper to stop. He patted his chest, trying to appear unharmed. "Jarvis, get me a drink first."

Jarvis is an artificial intelligence created by Tony Stark.

Moreover, in a sense, Jarvis knows Tony Stark's physical condition best. Ever since Tony Stark had the energy core of the Iron Man suit installed in his chest, he has been facing the problem of palladium poisoning, which can only be relieved by chlorophyll.

"Yes, Boss."

Jarvis's mechanical voice remained completely still.

As it agreed to Tony Stark's command, a mechanical arm appeared before Tony Stark, holding a glass of green vegetable juice.

This is extracted from some kind of plant, and just by looking at its color, you can tell this stuff doesn't look like something a human should drink...

It must taste terrible.

And it's not just bad, it tastes awful.

"..."

Even though Tony Stark had been relying on vegetable juice to alleviate his poisoning symptoms, his cheeks still twitched involuntarily when he saw it.

Unfortunately, there is no cure for palladium poisoning; the only relief is through the chlorophyll in vegetable juices. He had no other choice.

Tony Stark reached for the glass of vegetable juice, forced himself to swallow a few mouthfuls, and casually chatted with Pepper next to him to distract himself.

Tony Stark brought up a plan he had once envisioned: "Well, Pepper, if everything goes smoothly next week, everything here will be yours..."

Because of severe palladium poisoning, Tony Stark is unsure how much longer he has to live. He has recently been planning to gradually transfer everything at Stark Industries to Pepper Potts, who is his closest person.

"Tony, no..."

Pepper rubbed her forehead, looking somewhat dejected.

Clearly, this woman was not like the others. She disliked Tony Stark's arrangements and even felt that her boss, after becoming Iron Man, had become even more arrogant and conceited, which only made his already self-centered mind more self-centered.

"Of course, it doesn't matter if things don't go smoothly..."

Tony Stark looked at his helpless secretary and felt a little better. He chuckled and said, "Anyway, no one can stop my decision."

Unfortunately, Tony Stark's mood soon soured.

When Tony Stark and Pepper reached the glass platform, he leaned on the railing and looked down at the office area below, where he saw a dark-haired young man holding a juice.

It's clear that the young man really enjoys drinking fruit juice.

The dark-haired youth seemed to sense someone watching him, and slowly turned his head to see Tony Stark above him, and also the vegetable juice in Tony Stark's hand...

Ok…

At this point, they should be of the same kind.

The young man smiled and raised his glass of juice as a gesture, then happily drank it again through the straw.

"..."

Tony Stark was completely dumbfounded. While everyone else was happily drinking juice, he could only drink the bitter, unidentifiable vegetable juice in his hand…

That guy even raised his glass to him in a gesture of respect!

Isn't this a provocation against him?

Although Tony Stark knew in his heart that the young man was unaware, this subtle contrast still made Tony a little uncomfortable...

"Who is that guy?"

"I don't know yet..."

Pepper Potts shook her head, glanced down at the dark-haired young man drinking juice, and frowned slightly: "He must be one of the new hires recently..."

"Looks like an interesting guy, let me check him out..."

Tony Stark took out his phone, and a virtual screen appeared in front of him. He swiped his finger slightly and took a picture of the black-haired youth.

A moment later.

A black-haired youth with a squinting smile appeared in front of Tony Stark's ID photo. Judging from the image in the photo alone, anyone would surely think that the black-haired youth was a good person.

Uehara.

This is the name of the black-haired youth.

However, the information about Uehara that matched this photo was extremely limited, even including his home address, which was the office apartment provided to him by Stark Industries.

Most of Stark Industries' core employees have impressive resumes and degrees from prestigious universities, but this black-haired youth named Uehara is quite ordinary, with no special characteristics whatsoever; he's probably just an average passerby in society.

Jarvis is a remarkably intelligent artificial intelligence.

In addition to retrieving Uehara's information, they also retrieved all of Uehara's video recordings from the past few days, all of which were videos of him during his work hours.

Most of the time, this guy named Uehara was drinking juice and playing video games, looking out of place with the other employees of Stark Industries.

Without a doubt...

He's a slacker.

This guy isn't working seriously at all, and he seems to be just coasting along at Stark Industries. How did someone like that even get into Stark Industries?

"It seems there's a slight oversight in our HR department..."

Tony Stark's expression was subtly strange. He slowly turned to look at Pepper Potts beside him and couldn't help but ask, "How did someone who spends all their time at work drinking juice and playing video games pass their internship?"

"I have no idea…"

Pepper Potts rubbed her temples, feeling a slight headache coming on: "HR wouldn't send the file of an insignificant employee to my office, especially one whose job seems insignificant..."

"Wait...we have a very serious issue to discuss."

Tony Stark flicked his fingers across the virtual projection a few times, directly hacking into the operating system of a computer—the very work computer used by the employee named Uehara.

The computer's programs are all popular games on the market.

Just a rough calculation of the memory revealed that his work computer was completely filled with games. In fact, to make room for a certain large game, this employee named Uehara had uninstalled several internal Stark Industries software programs.

"Let's discuss this serious issue..."

Tony Stark idly flipped through the games on the computer, slowly analyzing, "You tell me his job is irrelevant... but the issue we're talking about is... do you think this guy has ever actually worked?"

Let's see how many games he's downloaded on his work computer... Hmm... They're all Japanese or Chinese versions... Some of them are quite difficult to play...

But this guy hasn't finished the game yet, so he doesn't seem like a gaming pro. His game record is worse than mine in a few minutes... and these games even come with built-in viruses and plugins...

Fortunately, the firewall we built ourselves is pretty good…

"Stop talking..."

Pepper Potts, unable to bear Tony Stark's sharp tongue any longer, kept rubbing her temples: "I've said it before, I'm no good at being the president of Stark Industries..."

Over this period, Tony Stark gradually handed over all company affairs to her, but before long, this mishap occurred…

Of course, it's a minor issue that a slacker has infiltrated the company.

The question is, how did this kind of person even get into the company?

Does this mean that after she took over the company, the HR and administration departments were perfunctory in their handling of her orders, and were unwilling to even seriously complete the simplest recruitment process?

"alright."

Tony Stark was never used to women showing their vulnerable side. He reached out and gently rubbed her forehead, speaking with a rare tenderness, "Pepper, this isn't your fault. Just fire that guy; it's just a small penalty..."

"He should still be in his internship..."

Pepper Potts was still rubbing her temples.

"Then let's just fire him!"

Tony Stark glanced at Pepper Potts, who was fretting over a trivial matter, patted her bangs, and chuckled, "It's good that we don't even have to pay the penalty for firing him... although it's not really necessary for Stark Industries."

Tony Stark's mood had soured again, but after firing a slacker at Stark Industries, his good mood seemed to return...

Thinking of this, Tony Stark leaned against the glass railing, glanced again at the dark-haired youth still drinking juice, and couldn't resist indulging in a bit of wicked fun.

The work area of ​​Stark Industries.

Uehara leisurely finished his juice. He had just met Tony Stark, a major figure in this world, and it would be just around the corner for him to collect some Iron Man suits.

Uehara is in a pretty good mood right now.

Just as Uehara returned to his workstation, intending to continue playing games and slacking off for the rest of the day, he saw a pop-up window appear on his computer screen.

【Mr. Uehara, you're fired.】

[From your boss, Tony Stark.]

"..."

Upon seeing the dismissal notice in the pop-up window, Uehara's expression turned slightly unpleasant, and he fell into a state of depression.

After a long while.

Uehara finally calmed down. He took out his phone from his pocket and calmly took a picture of the dismissal notice on the table.

and also!

(End of this chapter)