It's none of my business. I'm just a lunch box seller.

In fact, from the Death Eaters and the two robberies a year ago, we can see that the hotel's defense system is a typical one that protects the outside but not the inside. However, this design also makes sense. Otherwise, just like the explosion just now, if the store door was not blown away, the shock wave generated by the explosion would bounce around in the room, and the result would basically be that everyone in the room would be wiped out.

If you switch the perspective to Manhattan's Central Park at this time, you will find that after the explosion in the Box Restaurant, the entire glass door disappeared.

The members of the Ten Rings Gang hiding nearby had planned to wait until the hotel door was blown up before rushing in to kill the guys who hadn't been killed yet. But after the hotel door disappeared, they didn't hear any explosions.

But the hotel's lobby was covered in thick smoke from the explosion.

Afterwards, these members of the Ten Rings Gang rushed into the restaurant amidst the billowing black smoke, and within a second of entering, their heads hit the earthen wall in the room. There was no other way, the smoke was too thick, and they couldn't see the extra circle of earthen walls in the room at all.

And at the same time.

【Beep! 】

[Level of encounter inside the hotel: Level 3 attack. ]

[The attacker has been captured alive, and no casualties have been caused so far. ]

Indeed, those Ten Rings Gang that rushed into the hotel were suppressed by Denise without even making a wave. And the guys who attacked the hotel this time did not show any signs of self-destruction. To be more precise, those who rushed into the hotel with guns were all normal people.

Boss Cheng soon realized that the attack on the restaurant was most likely a trick set by the Ten Rings Gang to lure the tiger away from the mountain.

Because not long ago, when Tony learned that Maya Hansen's boss "happened" to be Aldredge Killian, he immediately realized that Dr. Aldredge Killian had been hanging around Piper for the past month, and he would never be content to be just a "little licker".

Then, when Tony called Piper and asked her to stay away from Killian immediately, Tony couldn't contact Piper no matter what.

When Tony immediately flew to the California branch of Stark Industries where Piper was, he found that it had just been attacked by militants.

At the same time, Boss Cheng received a risk notification from the system. The armed men who attacked the hotel were all captured alive, but the one who attacked Tony's girlfriend not only succeeded, but also kidnapped her!

Tony checked the surveillance video and saw that it was not only Piper who was kidnapped by the armed men, but Killian was also kidnapped.

"Ms. Hansen, does your boss know that you are planning to come see Tony?"

Maya shook her head at Boss Cheng.

"I'm sorry, it's not that I don't believe you, but I'm just afraid of complications. So..."

Boss Cheng pressed lightly on Maya's neck and she immediately fainted.

"I guess the original plan of that guy named Killian was to steal your girlfriend after your death. But the plan to kill you failed, so Killian became the Mandarin's spy, and then pretended to be an innocent person and was kidnapped with her in front of Piper."

Tony said: "But the premise of all this must be based on the fact that Maya Hansen did not lie."

"Then let's just assume she didn't lie!"

"Why 'just as'?"

"Because my store was just attacked, too."

“Your shop!”

"The losses are unknown at this time, but the attackers were all pinned down on the spot."

"Are you going to find a way out of them?"

"That's right." Boss Cheng nodded. "I plan to start with them and force them to reveal their specific plans and hiding places, and then rescue the kidnapped Piper and Killian, and find the one behind the scenes."

"Are you going to act with that Killian?"

"What else? Since he wants to act, I will just accompany him to satisfy his acting addiction!"

So Tony and Boss Cheng made a decision that was likely to be unexpected by the enemy:

Based on previous investigation results, Tony will go to Rose Hill, Tennessee, where the first explosion occurred, to find out the real cause of the human body's self-explosion.

Boss Cheng immediately returned to Manhattan and conducted a surprise interrogation of the captured militants. Then he searched for the whereabouts of Piper and Killian based on their confessions.

Of course, the upgraded Jarvis is also helping to find the whereabouts of Piper and Killian. In fact, Boss Cheng could have asked 550A to help search, but Sweet Cheese stopped him. Sweet Cheese 550A spent too much time in the online world of 2012, and I'm afraid he would hide his subroutines all over the Internet like he did in 2024.

After hearing the explanation, Boss Cheng was stunned.

Soon after, when Hydra's reconnaissance satellite captured something that was rushing out of the atmosphere at the first cosmic speed, Pierce knew that Boss Cheng was going back to New York. And Pierce was also very glad that he decisively gave up the insight plan at this wise stage.

After all, when faced with a power gap that is enough to crush you, you can't win if you can't win.

When Boss Cheng returned to the hotel, Denise had not only called the hardware store that made stainless steel doors and windows, but also called the decoration company. As for the militants who were captured alive, they were also thrown into the underground base. The interrogation experts of Rain Ninja also took advantage of the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to interrogate people from another world, and were conscientiously conducting various small experiments on these people to force confessions.

"Wow, this guy really loves what he does and has a spirit of research!"

When Denise saw Boss Cheng coming back, she raised her eyebrows and asked Boss Cheng: "Tell me! Who is the woman in your arms!"

"Uh...this..." Boss Cheng put Maya Hansen on the collapsed sofa, and then told Denise everything that happened today.

Only then did Denise realize that behind the half-collapse of Tony’s big house, there were actually so many conspiracies and secrets!

Just as Boss Cheng finished chatting with Denise, the craftsman who made stainless steel doors and windows came to measure the dimensions of the hotel's main entrance.

"Boss, what's wrong with the front door of your restaurant? Why does it look like it has been repaired several times? Look, the edges of the grooves are all chipped." After saying that, the welder took a look at the restaurant lobby that was blown to pieces, then looked across the street and saw that the hotel's front door was still embedded in the artificial colored steel plate wall.

"Why is it so serious? Did the gas tank in your store explode?"

Boss Cheng's eyes turned and he said to the other party, "If I say... not long ago, a few people who practiced Falun Gong here went crazy while practicing, and several of them exploded and died, would you believe it?"

0227 The Howling of the Lumbar Spine

December 12th, the end of the world, level 24 city.

Heavy snow, strong winds of level 6-8.

At the edge of the sixth floor of the apocalypse, four Yuyin jonins wearing goggles and warm cloaks were looking at and suppressing six guys who were almost inhuman. These six guys were the armed men who launched the attack but were knocked down by Denise alone.

Now they had explained everything they could, and the jonin were ready to send them off as they had promised.

However, the ones who sent them off were not the ninjas who interrogated them, but Boss Cheng, whose lobby and gate they had blown up.

Boss Cheng tore open a brand new box of Hongtashan cigarettes and put a cigarette in the mouths of the "death row prisoners" kneeling on the snow. Then he took out a lighter and lit cigarettes for each of them.

However, several people spit out the cigarettes after taking a puff, and said to Boss Cheng while coughing, "Please give us a quick bite, this junk is too hard to smoke."

"Ok."

“Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!”

Six clean shots, each bullet accurately hit their brain stems, ensuring that they left quickly and easily. And this was the greatest mercy that Boss Cheng could give to these damned people.

After the six people were shot, their bodies also fell down the edge of the sixth floor. Perhaps when they touched the ground again, their bodies would turn into a pool of bloody meat paste.

In fact, even if the wind was strong on a snowy day, the sound of a .45 bullet firing was enough to be heard one or two kilometers away in an open area. So when Boss Makoto and the jonins of Yugakure left, the guards stationed at the airport on the 6th floor dared to drive to the scene of the "murder case".

"From the traces, at least five people died."

"Six gunshots, of course six people. You don't think the boss would fire a blank, do you?"

"Are those foolish people daring enough to mess with the boss again this time?"

"Who knows! His restaurant connects to so many worlds."

"But he... is too unscrupulous!"

"You don't think that the boss who always smiles is an innocent little white rabbit, do you?"

"Haha, come to think of it, we should be thankful that the boss is not doing whatever he wants in our world."

After a few sighs, a few people left the "execution" scene as if nothing had happened here.

At the same time as they left, Boss Cheng also left the hotel and went to Miami, Florida, which the six people had confessed to.

Boss Cheng found the news that "Mandarin is in Florida, in Miami" both incredible and understandable.

What Boss Cheng found incredible was that he never expected that this fake Mandarin actually dared to hide in Amecia instead of in a criminal paradise like Mexico or Haiti.

But, Boss Cheng has to admit that the fake Mandarin who messes up his job every day has a temperament very similar to the people of Florida. After all, you can live without a life in Florida, but you can't live without a job.

When Boss Cheng arrived in Miami in his spaceship, it was already past 5pm. At this time, in the high-dimensional Birch Forest City, the sun had basically set. But in Miami, which is at a relatively low latitude, it was still a large golden sunset.

Then, Boss Cheng put on the Thor's Hammer 0.7β version power armor that Tony made for him, jumped down from a height of more than 3 meters, and smashed directly towards the position pointed out by Jarvis in the armor.

When it freely fell to a height of about 2000 meters, it suddenly turned on the armor's propulsion device to slow itself down, and finally crashed into the flower bed where "Mandarin" was hiding at a speed of nearly 50 kilometers per hour.

"Fuck, I should have started 500 meters earlier."

"Yes sir. But you ignored Jarvis's advice."

"But the armor isn't broken yet, is it?"

"Yes sir, your Quake 0.7 beta version is still functioning properly."

However, although Boss Cheng's power armor withstood the test, his secret infiltration plan was completely ruined. But Boss Cheng didn't think the failure of the plan would have any impact on the next action.

"Infiltration! Isn't it just about being unnoticed? I can make everyone who sees me speechless. Isn't that also true that I can be unnoticed in reality?"

But just based on the "boom" sound when Boss Cheng fell down, it was destined that many of the "Ten Rings Gang" guards in this ancient manor would be in trouble.

Then, Boss Cheng left the power armor and unlocked 30% of the system's capabilities. He was seen speeding along the way, pinching the carotid sinus of everyone he met. The guys whose carotid sinuses were pinched by the boss all rolled their eyes and fainted on the spot.

There is no need to kill people at this time, because killing people will definitely make a louder noise and make the blood smell everywhere. According to human instinct, people are naturally sensitive to the blood smell of their own kind. By then, the alert level in the old manor will not be as relaxed as it was after the boss fell down with a "bang".

In this way, Boss Cheng ran and pinched all the way, and finally arrived at the master bedroom of the manor by intuition.

Just as Boss Cheng raised his big foot to kick the door open, he heard a voice that was obviously powerless but had to pretend to be tough coming from the crack of the bedroom door. People always say that an old man pushing a cart is a posture and an action, but in the master bedroom in front of Boss Cheng, this "old man" is really an old man in the true sense of the word.

Boss Cheng couldn't even tell whether the creaking sound in the bedroom came from the shaking of the bed or from the wailing of the old man's lumbar spine.

"Come on girls, get ready for my attack..."

“Squeak, creak, creak, creak…”

"Damn it, who is it? Didn't you look at me..."

"BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!"

After a six-shot stun grenade, Boss Cheng walked into the bedroom where "Mandarin" was. It had been about 15 seconds since the last stun grenade was fired. The girls who were dizzy from the shock had shown signs of improvement, but the old and frail "Mandarin" was lying on the bed vomiting non-stop.

Normal people who are shocked by stun grenades will generally just feel nauseous but won't vomit.

Unless he drank a lot of alcohol or took some drugs that can promote capillary blood circulation before he was "shocked". Looking at the small round table in the bedroom, there is not only unfinished champagne, but also a few small blue pills scattered on the table.

"vomit!"

Boss Cheng quickly walked to the bedside of "Mandarin", raised his fist and "gently" hit the old man's back. The old man felt as if all the bones in his body were about to fall apart, and not a single bone joint was not trembling.

At this time, a blonde girl who was wearing very cool clothes, so cool that she was wearing nothing at all, finally woke up completely. When she saw Boss Cheng "committing a crime", she opened her red lips and was ready to shout at the door.

Boss Cheng, whose male hormones can almost burst out of his pores, just made a "hush" gesture to the girls and made them fall in love with him. After all, tall men are common, and strong men are also common.

But a man who is tall and strong, more handsome than Dwayne Johnson, and can be called a "walking hormone machine" is rare! Especially the big toe below the belt of Boss Cheng that is about to burst out...

It is said that people who compare themselves to others will die, and goods that are compared to others will be thrown away. At this time, looking at the old man lying on the bed, being hit on the back by the boss, it seems particularly unappetizing, even disgusting.

Of course, they felt nauseous at this time, which was more likely due to the shock of the stun grenade just now. There was also a small probability that it was due to pregnancy reaction.

Who knows!

"Girls!"

Boss Cheng pointed to the door in the master bedroom leading to the next room.

"For your safety."

The girls nodded happily, and then a large, trembling white area flashed before Boss Cheng's eyes.

Boss Cheng did not help "Mandarin" to induce vomiting anymore, as he was afraid that if he continued filming, inducing vomiting would become a form of death-threatening behavior.

The "Mandarin" who was no longer being tortured immediately begged for mercy: "Please, please, don't torture me anymore. You can take whatever you want, just don't hit me anymore."

"OK, I'll give you a chance to put on your clothes and talk to me. But please be careful, if you dare to point anything perpendicular to your body at me when you stand up, I promise to break it at the roots!"

"Damn it, damn it, I promise I won't dare, I promise I won't dare."

The old man hesitated and crawled his body back into the quilt. Then he lay there for a while. When he came out again, he was not only wearing his pajamas, but also his shorts.

"Excuse me sir, are you here to rob? Maybe you should get a gun, they're in the bedside table. But they're all fake, because those bitches didn't believe me and refused to give me a real gun."

"I know you're a knockoff, a not-so-successful actor."

"Okay." The old man tilted his head. "Thank you for being so tactful."

"From now on, I ask questions and you answer them. You are not allowed to say anything else without my permission."

The old man was very sensible and didn't say anything, but kept nodding.

"First question, where is the real Mandarin?"

"I don't know. I was just hired to act."