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

"Your friend?" Tony asked his boss.

"Remember the Raccoon City I told you about?" The boss gave Leon a thumbs up and pointed at him. "He is a survivor of Raccoon City and participated in the battle against zombies."

"Wow! So you're in touch with that world again!"

"Yes, we have made the contact." After that, the boss asked Tony, "How much did you spend on this electromagnetic muscle research?"

"The investment this time is very low, less than 270 million. The cost of making this set is only million!"

"Why? So cheap this time?" The boss joked, "Tony Stark has also learned to reduce costs and increase efficiency?"

"Please, please!" Tony explained indifferently, "You know that the whole armor is expensive because of the nano-processing of Vibranium and Spartan alloy, a full set of protection and adaptive life support systems, and a miniaturized cold fusion energy module.

But this body does not need micro cold fusion power supply, nor can it be equipped with protection and life support systems. The titanium carbon ceramics used in electromagnetic muscles are also a kind of nano-material with extremely low cost, and the processing cost per gram is less than 80 yuan. "

"It's very light?"

"Titanium-carbon ceramics are not heavy to begin with. The weight of this set is less than 14 kilograms, which is well within the daily tolerance of an adult."

“There has to be a but, right?”

"Yeah, there must be a but." Tony shrugged and said, "But because of the structural problems of the electromagnetic muscle-powered skeleton, it cannot be designed as a frame system like Thor's hammer. That is to say, the outer armor cannot be supported by a single power unit, but can only be a power unit. The outer armor is the outer armor. Although it is not impossible to hang it, the armor hung on it cannot be nano-scaled."

But the boss said with satisfaction: "Fortunately, the defense of this body is very good!"

"Yeah, it might not be enough to fight aliens, but it's definitely enough to deal with ordinary criminals, wild beasts, zombies, mutants, and the like."

"So, this is the labor insurance benefit for the company's employees?"

"That's right." Tony nodded and admitted, "If we simplify the structure and increase the production, I estimate that the average price of each set can be reduced to around 180 million yuan."

180 million!

When this number is combined with the ultra-high performance of the protective suit that is enough to save lives, it is impossible for Leon, who is engaged in dangerous work, not to be tempted.

and so……

"Excuse me, the 180 million you just talked about is US dollars or..."

"Of course it's US dollars!" Tony turned around and asked Leon jokingly: "Otherwise, do you think it's Japanese yen?"

"180 million...US dollars!" Lyon, who had never seen much money in his life (he didn't see the one in 98 that was burned), blurted out subconsciously: "This is too expensive!"

"How is it expensive?" Tony stressed, "It has been priced this way since it was first manufactured. Don't lie with your eyes open. It's very difficult for us to do research and development! Sometimes you should look for your own reasons. Has your salary increased over the years? Have you been working hard?"

"Wait a minute, Tony!" The boss suddenly interrupted and asked, "When did you change your last name to Li?"

"You are a poultry!"

At this time, Leon, who was confused, asked the two again: "But why do you think something worth 180 million US dollars is not expensive?"

Tony stared at Boss Cheng and asked, "You didn't tell him?"

"Tell him what?"

"Tell him we have no concept of money anymore!"

But what Tony got was a look from his boss that said "are you sick?"

Tony shrugged and said to Leon in a lazy and nonchalant tone: "Young man, the people standing in front of you are from two different worlds, but they are both the richest people in their respective worlds!"

Tony pointed at Boss Cheng and introduced him to Leon: "The devil cyborg standing in front of you is probably the person with the most gold in the universe! If he wants, he can smash gold into the price of brass at any time!"

gold?

brass!

Leon unconsciously turned his gaze to the pile of golden "bronze" in the storage area, pointed at them and asked Tony: "Are those all..."

Tony nodded and replied, "They are all leftovers from sales."

In an instant, Leon's worldview about "wealth" collapsed. The boss also saw that the two's worldview had collapsed, but he couldn't persuade them, because the collapsed worldview could only be rebuilt by themselves. But Brock, who had a similar experience, came over and patted Leon on the shoulder. Under the boss's angry glare, he took back the words he was about to blurt out and said:

"It's okay. Once you get used to it, you won't care about it anymore."

When Boss Cheng's eyes became "kind" again, he suddenly realized that Tony's new powered exoskeleton had not yet been tested in actual combat. Leon, who was about to go to Spain to perform a confidential mission, just provided a very good testing platform for this exoskeleton. And the mission of saving the president's daughter just happened to serve as a testing scenario.

even!

The boss also contacted the tournament organizers to ask if they were interested in a possible single-player adventure map.

[It has to be you, the deputy minister! You always come up with something new for us! ]

0374 A small village with simple folk customs

Now the little girl with a side part just feels that the whole afternoon was magical!

He first met two super-rich people from different worlds, then saw the gold neatly stacked in the warehouse, which might be 100 million tons. Then he saw the two super-rich people sighing that the equipment worth 270 million US dollars was so cheap!

Then, two people passed through a flashing door frame and appeared out of thin air in the base. After the two people appeared, they first said a lot of words to the boss and Tony that he couldn't understand at all, and then came over to shake his hand. The two people said that they would not cause trouble for his next work.

And then……

Leon followed his boss and Tony to another New York, and put on a newly assembled electromagnetic muscle exoskeleton on the top floor of a shabby (Stark) building.

You ask why this second exoskeleton was produced so quickly?

The reason is simple. This thing is just like the fighter jets and mechas used for technology verification. Before assembling the first one, two or three times the parts are always prepared. In other words, the new electromagnetic muscle exoskeleton on Leon was assembled by Tony using the remaining parts.

Of course, the quality and performance of the one assembled with the leftover parts are naturally inferior to the one on Tony. However, just like the RX-79[G] compared to the RX-78-2, even if it is a second-rate product assembled with second-rate parts, its "second-rate" is "second-rate" that does not meet the highest specification standards, not "second-rate" that does not meet the mass production standards after the specifications are reduced.

"The output of the electromagnetic muscles has been reduced from 133 kilonewtons (about 13.5 tons) in my body to 46 kilonewtons (about 4.7 tons)."

"The output is reduced by 2/3?" The boss thought about it and felt that there was nothing unreasonable. "I think the output of nearly 5 tons is enough for a combat suit."

"Indeed, I think it's enough." Tony nodded and continued, "In addition, after its output was reduced by 2/3, its power consumption also dropped significantly. The power consumption level after reducing the output is only 7% of the high-output version. That is to say, we don't need to equip the electromagnetic muscle with high-power, high-energy storage batteries. Even if it is equipped with a general fuel cell, it is enough to allow it to run at full power for 500 hours!"

“Sorry, why can’t I understand what you are saying?” Leon, who was showing off enough in his electromagnetic muscle exoskeleton, said helplessly: “Although I can understand every word you say, when these words are connected into a sentence, I can’t understand it at all.”

Tony shrugged and said bluntly, "Maybe it's because our scientific level is much higher than yours."

But Tony's blunt words deeply hit the 27-year-old Leon. Before meeting Tony, the little split head was actually quite confident in his scientific literacy. He never expected that one day when he met a real technology giant, he would be so ruthlessly crushed.

Fortunately, Leon is good at adjusting. He immediately realized that one of the two people in front of him was from 2015, and the other was from 2026. Nowadays, technology is changing with each passing day. Who knows to what extent technology will develop in 10 or 20 years!

Although Leon didn't know it before.

But now he saw it clearly, even though he still knew nothing.

"Then what are you going to do?" Tony pointed at Leon who got the exoskeleton for free and said, "I mean to record the process of him saving Commander Ami's daughter."

"Observe in secret." The boss explained, "The optical camouflage module you gave me is quite useful. Even if it is integrated into the Berserker Armor, it can still be used normally. When the time comes, I will bring the equipment of the event organizing department, scan the terrain and building structures, and follow him in stealth to record his adventure."

Tony also suggested: "Have him wear a GoPro or something, let him shoot while walking, and then use an over-the-shoulder perspective to increase the sense of presence."

Boss Cheng and Xiao Fentou both thought Tony's suggestion was reliable, although Xiao Fentou didn't know what GoPro was.

At noon the next day, Leon boarded a plane to Madrid alone. In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, he gave his weapons, equipment and luggage to Boss Cheng. However, since Boss Cheng did not have a legal identity in this world, he could only choose to enter the country illegally and fly to Spain alone.

But compared to Lyon who had to spend 14 hours on the plane, Cheng, who flew by himself, only needed less than 5 hours to reach his destination. Although the two set off at about the same time, Cheng took advantage of the ample time and strolled around Kolkata, India for an hour or two.

Then in Egypt, the boss strolled around Aswan, Kom Ombo, Luxor, Giza and Cairo. After buying a bunch of souvenirs and trinkets in various tourist areas, he left with a sense of satisfaction...

Went to Naples, Italy.

There was no other way. After all, the plane would not land for more than two hours. I might as well take advantage of this time to go to Naples and buy a few hundred Margherita pizzas to store in the battle warehouse. I would share them with people I knew after returning home. Then, it was said that on that day, a restaurant street in the old city of Naples sold out all the pizzas for a long time in the evening.

In this regard, a Naples policeman gestured and told reporters: "It was a very handsome yellow man! He bought all the pizzas! Not all the pizzas from one or two stores, but all the pizzas from all the pizza stores in this block!"

"Excuse me, what did this handsome yellow man say?" asked the reporter responsible for interviewing the pizza out-of-stock issue.

“Yes!” the policeman replied. “He said… Ananas vaffanculo (Fuck the pineapples)!”

Then the whole street was filled with shouts and cheers of “Ananas vaffanculo!”

At 8:3 pm local time in Madrid, the representative of the Spanish intelligence department warmly received the White House special investigation commissioner from the father country, that is, Leon. As for the illegal immigrant boss, after knocking out the three robbers and robbing them of all their valuables, he sat next to the three robbers and ate pizza bought from Naples.

Although the boss's sense of taste is quite dull, his nose is relatively normal. So even if he can't taste the authentic taste of pizza, the rich aroma always reminds the boss: this thing is really delicious.

After the dinner, Leon reunited with Boss Cheng. The three robbers who had been robbed also woke up and took the initiative to call the police, saying that they were robbed by a black-haired "tall Italian". The police who came to the scene to investigate did not find any useful clues except a pizza box of a local brand of Naples.

There weren’t even fingerprints on the pizza box!

“Why the hell is there an Italian pizza box?”

"Looking at the creases on the box, it should be a new box."

"But we are at least 1500 kilometers away from Naples!"

The policeman dropped the pizza box into an oversized evidence bag and cursed, "Damn Italians!"

And then the case basically just went away.

The next day, accompanied by official staff from Madrid, the two drove to the autonomous region of Aragon in northeastern Spain. After Leon and his team arrived in Zaragoza, the capital of Aragon, Leon followed the local police to Ainsa.

Because the intelligence held by the CIA showed that President Graham's daughter was most likely in the Ainsa Mountains, near the Raymond family's private territory. And the area near the Raymond family's territory is a typical French-speaking area. So the local police chief of Ainsa specially assigned two French-speaking old policemen to accompany Leon to the local area for investigation.

Then, when the off-road vehicle provided by the Ainssa Police Department drove into the mountains, Leon, who never got carsick, even began to feel nauseous!

At an altitude of about 300 meters above Lyon's head, the boss cursed as he flew. To be honest, let a person who lives in 2026 and is accustomed to modern life with complete infrastructure come to a remote area in a moderately developed European country in 2004...

"This broken place can't even catch up with the rural areas in Northeast China! At least we have completed the goal of connecting every village with a road in 2010! The village road is 3 meters wide and all concrete!"

Listening to the boss' constant complaints in the headphones, Leon instantly felt much more comfortable. However, he really didn't expect that as a long-established capitalist country, Spain's infrastructure in remote areas could be so poor.

"Hey!" Leon hurriedly stopped the old policeman who was driving and confirmed with him: "Are you sure the suspension bridge ahead can bear the weight of our off-road vehicle?"

"Squeak~Buzz..."

The car stopped less than 2 meters away from the suspension bridge. The old policeman who was driving turned around and responded with a smile: "Since you think it's unsafe, let's park the car here. But the rest of the way, we can only rely on our own two feet. Fortunately, our destination is after crossing the bridge, so we shouldn't have to walk too far."

While nodding, Leon was muttering in his heart: "Are you scared too? If you have the guts, keep driving!"

The two veteran policemen got out of the car and took out flashlights and loudspeakers from the trunk. However, they did not show any intention to take out or carry away the police equipment locked in the safe.

"The people here are simple and honest. If the villagers see us carrying police equipment, especially guns, they will be afraid to come into contact with you."

Another relatively young policeman wearing glasses also said: "They are just a bunch of country bumpkins... honest people. With our police uniforms and credentials, we can get all the information you want to know."

"Really?" Leon asked.

"Of course!" the old policeman assured confidently, "We come to this village once or twice every year. Although we haven't visited here for almost a year, there are still some people in the village, and they are all old faces."

"Don't worry!" Another one said, "Can we joke about our lives?"

0375 Fear comes from insufficient firepower

"Warning! Put down your weapons and retreat immediately!"

"Shh!"

It was not until the old man swung the axe in his hand and brushed past the old policeman's nose that the old policeman realized that he was not only wrong, but also very wrong.

The old policeman remembered clearly that every time they passed by this house, the old man would take out homemade cider to entertain them. But he never expected that after a year, the old man would treat them with a cold axe for chopping wood!

Moreover, the old man seemed to have regained his youth and had a second spring. His physical strength and speed were obviously not in the state of an average 50 or 60-year-old. And after his previous move of splitting Huashan failed, he actually used a move of sweeping away thousands of troops.

Just as the axe blade was about to cut the old policeman's neck, Leon, wearing an electromagnetic muscle exoskeleton, rushed forward. Leon blocked the axe blade with his left arm and kicked the old man's chest. The policeman who escaped death only heard a loud bang, and when he came to his senses, he saw that the murderer had broken through the wooden wall of the wooden house and flew into the vegetable field outside the house.

But in the next second, the old man whose chest was dented by the kick suddenly jumped up and stood up from the vegetable field. His head also exploded with a "pop" at the moment he stood up, and then a disgusting tentacle with barbs "grew" out from the old man's neck and swung back and forth like a cricket pupa.

It makes people feel sick at the first sight.

Seeing this, Leon had to reach into the quick-draw holster under his leather jacket and reluctantly pulled out the strange .50 caliber pistol that his boss had forced on him.

The next second, the two policemen in the room heard a loud bang, and the old man with a bunch of tentacles on his neck completely lost his upper body.

"Damn, is this a rifle?"

Leon shook his right hand, which was numb from the shock. He had been very resistant since the boss forced the M6C Magnum pistol into his hand. After all, no normal person would choose a 12.7*40 armor-piercing high-explosive bullet as a personal defense weapon.

This is a 40mm long 0.5 Magnum high-explosive pistol bullet! Not to mention hitting a person, it is more than enough to hit an elephant. Although Leon, wearing an electromagnetic muscle skeleton, can resist the recoil of the pistol without taking any force-relieving posture, a small amount of force is still transmitted to his hands through the exoskeleton.

But as for the power of this pistol...

Very powerful! Very powerful! With one strike, it took away the upper half of the biological monster’s body.

Yes, based on his professional sensitivity, Leon judged that there was a 9% probability that the villagers whose temperaments had changed drastically and the tentacle monsters sticking out from their necks were masterpieces created by biological weapons.

"It seems that the residents here don't intend to give us a chance to communicate." Leon suggested, "So we have to change our plan a little. Please drive back to the police station immediately and report what happened here to your superiors."