A Marine Admiral in the Marvel Universe

"What's more, that bastard, he actually threatened me! Threatened me!"

At this point, Tony Stark gritted his teeth, extremely angry, and his mustache twitched rapidly.

"Uh... sir, forgive my bluntness, but you were the one who tried to kill him first..."

"Shut up! Who's on your side?" Tony Stark said irritably.

“Yes, sir.” Jarvis fell silent immediately.

"This suit of armor has a 100% success rate against the masked man. Hmm... reduce some of the excessively high performance parameters, such as the output arm strength, and add more cushioning and protective materials. Also, add external weapons..."

"Write all of these down; they are precious inspirations and ideas."

"Okay, sir."

At that moment, Pepper, dressed in a business suit, came down the stairs carrying a folder:

"Tony, you should be on the other side of the world right now. Your plane has been waiting for you for an hour and a half."

"Oh? Is that so?" Tony Stark didn't even look up.

"I don't understand. Since it's my private jet, it should be waiting for me. Why should I wait for him?"

"Dear Miss Potts, could you please answer my question?"

"..."

Little Chili was speechless after hearing that, and had no choice but to bring up another matter:

“Tony, the Jericho missile has been developed. The board of directors asked you why so many expensive materials were used. Also, they want a detailed financial statement from us regarding the company’s cash flow.”

“Tell them I’m working on a project that’s more profitable than the Jericho missile, and as for the financial statements… I don’t have time for that.”

"Tony, you can't do this..." Pepper was speechless; having a boss like this was just too infuriating.

"Alright, reply to them as I said. Now, dear Miss Potts, I'm off."

……

The Bahamas, in the waters surrounding New Shenzhou Island.

A white, medium-sized yacht floated on the sea. At the stern, two huge, silver-white, angled cylinders were slowly inverted and lowered into the sea.

This thing is called a "mailbox," but it's actually two powerful sand blowers. Its purpose is to blow away the sand on the seabed, which helps in discovering shipwrecks buried deep in the ocean.

In most people's imagination, once a shipwreck sinks to the bottom of the sea, it will remain there on the seabed for thousands of years.

But in reality, it depends on the situation. If the sunken ship lands on solid seabed rocks, that's true, without considering mass and ocean currents.

However, this area consists of vast stretches of seabed sand, which is extremely soft and has strong ocean currents. Under the combined effect of these factors, a shipwreck will be completely buried in the seabed sand within two or three years.

Treasure hunters must use large sand-blowing machines like "mailboxes" to process the thick sand on the seabed; otherwise, it would take forever to dig it out by hand.

"God, I hope we won't fail this time." The two little boys simultaneously made the sign of the cross on their chests while closing their eyes in prayer.

Over the past four or five days, they have tried to access the mailbox more than ten times, but each time to no avail.

"Don't worry, it will succeed." Helen comforted her son, holding a camera and taking pictures of the gold dagger, silver pistol, cannon barrel, and ballast stones they had found earlier.

Treasure hunting is legally recognized, but treasure hunters must provide solid evidence to prove that they found the treasure.

"Mom, you can start the mailbox now." Gwen's voice came through the walkie-talkie.

"Ok."

Beneath the sea, Cao Gui, George, and Gwen were wearing heavy diving suits and large diving masks.

They marked the sand and calculated that the approximate location of the West Wind shipwreck should be here... but this sentence has been said no less than ten times.

buzz~

The ship's large sand-blowing machine started up, and the seawater began to churn, surging towards the surface. Instantly, the sand tumbled, and the originally clear and transparent seawater became murky, so dark that you couldn't see your hand in front of your face.

Gwen swam away with her flippers, picked up her underwater camera and started pressing the shutter button repeatedly, as she always does, to take photos as evidence.

About ten minutes later, the "mailbox" slowly came to a stop, and the sand churning on the seabed slowly settled down. The previously marked location was blown away by half a meter of sand.

"Dad, Cao, did you find anything?" Two little kids asked incessantly through the earpiece.

George glanced at the sand pit and shook his head helplessly: "No, it's all sand, nothing at all."

"hateful……"

"If we can't find it soon, we'll have to go back to New York. Do we really have to go back with regrets?"

"Ugh, I'm so upset!"

On the ship, the two little boys were almost going crazy. They had found everything except the treasure, which was the most despairing part. It felt so close, yet they couldn't find anything at all.

However, in the sand pit, Cao Gui took the suction tube off his back and kept poking at it. He had calculated the data and was confident that he wouldn't make a mistake... cough cough, the first few times don't count. After all, there are typhoons in the western Atlantic, and who can say for sure about such unstable factors?

dong dong dong~

At that moment, a deep, ethereal voice rang out, and Cao Gui perked up: "Guys, I think I've found something."

"Helen, put the suction tube down, let's look again."

"Okay, coming right away!"

Upon hearing this, the group perked up and quickly put down the sand suction pipe. Cao Gui took the pipe and sucked up some of the sea sand. Before long, a piece of dark wood appeared in their sight.

Cao Gui was overjoyed: "Helen, the punctuation mark is located to the west... about 97 degrees. Use sonar to check, we should find something."

"We've found something!" Helen quickly provided feedback, her voice filled with excitement: "From the outline, it looks a lot like a ship."

"Activate the mailbox, and we should be able to see the shipwreck soon." Cao Gui chuckled. Nice, another treasure found.

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Chapter 187 Norman Osborne's Strange Behavior

Whoosh~

The loud sound from the "mailbox" echoed across the sea, leaving Helen alone on the white heavy yacht.

"Okay, Mom, you can turn off the mailbox now," Gwen's voice came through the walkie-talkie.

"Have you found anything?" Helen asked eagerly.

"Haha, yes, and it's huge!"

"Yes, Mom, we really found a shipwreck!" The voices of the two little boys rang out, their tone full of excitement.

On the seabed, as the murky seawater settled, a dilapidated wooden shipwreck slowly appeared before Cao Gui and his companions.

Its current state can no longer be described as a ship; the sails, masts, keel, and everything else have rotted away and been carried off by the sea to who knows where.

Only the bottom cabin, about two or three meters deep, remained, but even so, it still excited Cao Gui and his companions.

"Quickly, quickly search and see if it's our target, the Zephyr!" Helen urged.

"Okay, let's get started!" The two little kids couldn't wait to swim to the shipwreck and start searching bit by bit.

Cao Gui and George followed behind them and began their exploration, while Gwen remained in charge of taking photos as evidence.

"Hahaha, I found a cannon, just like the one we found before, with the 'Westwind' insignia on it."

"I found a lot of porcelain, blue and white porcelain, wow~, Cao will definitely like it."

On the other side, Cao Gui rolled his eyes. No, you're wrong. I don't like it at all.

The porcelain exported in the 17th and 18th centuries was mostly defective products meant to fool foreigners. At that time, they lacked the technology and even the ability to distinguish between good and bad products. If you gave them inferior items, they wouldn't be able to tell which were good and which were bad.

Cao Gui ignored them and wandered through the cabins. After a short while, he found a small box and some dressing mirrors in a larger cabin.

Cao Gui opened the small box, and a pair of openwork lace gloves floated out with the seawater, along with some women's ornaments, silver earrings, a gold necklace, various gold and silver headdresses, and a gold pocket watch. Inside the pocket watch's cover was a picture of a noblewoman... Cao Gui couldn't tell if it was a picture or a photograph.

However, the appearance of these things proves the authenticity of the story; the ship really was scuttled by two people who eloped.

On the other side, George picked up several bottles of rum from that era, along with several crystal glasses that looked absolutely beautiful.

"Cao, Dad, did you find the gold? We only found some cannons and gunpowder cartridges."

Cao Gui ignored them, grabbed a handful of sand, and was thinking of continuing to examine the cabin, but soon, the hard, lumpy texture reached his brain.

"Come quick, I think I've found something!" Cao Gui said excitedly. Although he had searched for treasure several times before, he was still very excited when he found it.

"Have you found anything?"

"We're here!"

"Bring the sand blower over; there's plenty of sand here," Cao Gui added.

"No problem, Cao!"

Upon hearing this, George quickly rushed over as well.

"Cao, Dad, move aside a bit, we need to use both sand blowers at the same time."

"Got it." George pulled Cao Gui to the other side.

A faint motor sound began to appear on the seabed. Instantly, as before, countless tiny grains of sand were blown and churned up, and Cao Gui and George were surrounded by a yellowish-brown expanse, making it impossible to see anything clearly.

Before long, the sand blowing machine stopped working, and the sea sand slowly settled. Cao Gui and the other three huddled together in the cabin where they had been, quietly waiting for the sea sand to settle.

A moment later, a golden light suddenly flashed in the seabed.

Did you see that?

"I see it, it looks like gold?"

"Really? Cao, Dad, did you see it?"

Cao Gui casually grabbed something from the cabin and placed it in front of them:

"We saw it, and we got it—it was gold, the gold from an entire shipwreck!"

Wow!

"God, we've really found a treasure!" The two little boys were so excited that they couldn't contain themselves, splashing their arms and legs and rolling around on the seabed.

"Oh my god, I really can't believe it. It was only recently that Cao and my sister said they had found the treasure. I thought it would take me several years to succeed."

"Thank God, thank you sister, thank you, Cao!"

"If I weren't wearing a diving mask, I would definitely give you a big kiss. You're so good to us, hahaha."