OBS Chapter 2683 Hollywood Rhapsody (41)
Chapter 2683 Hollywood Rhapsody (41)
Chapter 2683 Hollywood Rhapsody (Forty-one)
Turles reached out and touched Stark's forehead, then withdrew his hand in an instant. Stark was now burning hot all over, so Turles immediately picked up the phone to contact his family doctor.
Half an hour later, Howard hurried back. Tulsi was standing by the door waiting for him. Howard's face was rosy now, and it was obvious that he was having a good time. He took off his fishing hat, looked at Tulsi and asked, "What's going on? Why did Tony come back suddenly? Why is Dr. Percy here?"
As the two of them walked inside, Turles explained to Howard, but he didn't really have much to explain. He just told him about Tony's sudden rush into the manor and then repeated the nonsense Tony said while lying in bed.
When Howard heard Tony yelling on the bed not to give the technology to Congress, he was stunned, a look of reminiscence appeared, and then he slowly clenched his fists.
In fact, after Howard returned, all those scenes of long-parted reunion and loving father and filial son did not happen. He and Tony were more like two familiar strangers. They never talked about their relationship directly, nor did they even mention it.
They seemed to have acquiesced to what had happened, thinking that everything in the past was over, and paralyzed themselves with the idea that people should look forward, so they just let themselves go and maintained the relationship between them at a fairly acceptable baseline.
But in fact, it shouldn't be like this. Everyone knows that they are biological father and son, and there are too many regrets to make up for and too many things to explain. Their current relationship is actually a numb escape.
Standing at the door of Stark's room, Howard felt like he had mustered up all the courage in his life, and he finally walked in.
But the condition of Stark on the bed surprised him. He had never seen Tony Stark so embarrassed in his life.
His face was pale, his arms were shaking uncontrollably, and his lips kept opening and closing as if he was muttering something. More importantly, the light that was always flashing in his eyes disappeared and became a little dull.
"Dr. Percy, what is going on?"
"His mind must have been severely stimulated in the past ten hours." The female family doctor standing next to him said: "This is a very typical manifestation of post-traumatic stress disorder. Perhaps what he needs now is a psychiatrist."
"What about the psychiatrist?"
"He said he was seeing a psychiatrist and he wouldn't let any of us call," Turles said, shaking his head as he stood by the door.
Howard walked to the bed and sat down. When Stark saw Howard, he instantly perked up. He even propped himself up and sat up, staring into Howard's eyes with his bright eyes.
It has been a long time since the father and son looked at each other like this. The last time was probably when Stark was 8 years old.
"Are you okay?" Howard managed to say this after a long while. He felt a little bad, so he added, "I heard you were sick? I rushed back immediately."
"You came back because you couldn't catch any fish," Stark said mercilessly. "You never catch any fish."
Howard showed an embarrassed expression, but still whispered: "I caught some today. The fish are good today... I mean, what happened to you? The doctor said you were stimulated."
"Compared to this, I'm more concerned about what happened back then." The previous mental stimulation and the current high fever made Stark a little confused about who he was. He acted completely on instinct and asked this question instinctively.
"You never gave me any explanation," Stark said, with shocking bluntness. "Of course, I didn't ask you, but considering that you are the older one, the responsibility is still on you."
Stark's words were a little confusing, but Howard still understood what he meant. He rubbed his hands, lowered his head and said, "It's not that I don't want to tell you, but this matter is really... I'm really sorry..."
Stark snorted twice. His every move revealed a childish temperament, very much like a child. Howard scratched his head vigorously, and then said, "Well, you have to understand that I was trying to save my own life. More importantly, I had to save your life and your mother's life..."
Stark instinctively felt that something was wrong, as if it was different from some of his memories. He stared at Howard and said, "Save my life and my mother's life? I also want to ask you, if you wanted to die, why did you take Maria with you? She doesn't understand technology, and even if she survived, no one would..."
"Wait, what are you talking about?" Howard said in surprise, "What do you mean Maria survived? Wasn't she always alive?"
Howard then showed a look of sudden enlightenment, and he said, "I know I am sorry for you two. The fake death accident was just to deceive Hydra and Congress. I originally wanted to take Maria with me, but I knew I couldn't leave you here alone, so I went alone."
"Fortunately, you still have Obadiah to take care of you, and he has run Stark Group very well over the years. But unfortunately, Anton still... Never mind, he died on the road of pursuing his faith, so he died without regrets."
"During these years over there, I have always missed you guys. I also secretly sent Tours to visit you several times and took photos of you. I was going to come back as soon as this was over, but I can't just leave little Xier alone. I have to wait until he grows up..."
Stark instinctively felt that something was wrong, but now his brain was in a mess and he had a splitting headache whenever he recalled his memories.
No, that's not right. Something is wrong! Stark was almost going crazy. What was the fake death? How did Maria stay? Where did Howard go? What happened to Seal?
At this moment, Stark burst out with amazing willpower, resisted the interference of hallucinations, and dug out clues from the fragments of memory.
Then he discovered that he had many more memories that he didn't have before.
One day he heard the sad news that his loved ones had met with a car accident, but the news reported not Mr. and Mrs. Stark, but Howard Stark, and the person standing beside him and crying with him was not Obadiah, but Maria Stark, his biological mother.
It was not Obadiah but Maria who presided over the funeral. After that, Maria handed over the management rights of Stark Group to Obadiah and always accompanied Tony Stark.
After Tony Stark recovered, he returned to Stark Group. From then on, Obadiah was responsible for the management of Stark Group, and Tony Stark was responsible for technical research. The two have always cooperated well.
It was not until later that Schiller got through to the other side of death, and Stark asked him openly and secretly whether Howard could be resurrected, but Schiller said nothing.
Later, when Stark went to find Death himself, he learned that Death had not received Howard at all, which meant that Howard was not dead at all.
Howard returned, but he refused to mention the accident that year. Because of this, the relationship between the two became increasingly strained, and finally they became strangers.
Stark thought Maria would stand on the same side with him and reprimand Howard for such irresponsible behavior, but he did not expect Maria and Howard to reconcile.
Schiller also kept silent about what happened back then, and Stark felt that everyone was hiding it from him. That was why he had no one to talk to when Pepper was pregnant and he felt anxious.
It shouldn't be like this, Stark shook his head vigorously, and suddenly he had an idea. Yes, this memory was not real, it just appeared, because the stories he saw in other universes after he was promoted to the Iron Devil were not like this.
He had another way to confirm. Stark picked up his phone and sent a message to Peter, asking Peter to ask other Spider-Men, and then let the other Spider-Men ask the Iron Man in their universe.
The answer he got was exactly as he expected. It was the Starks who died that year, not Howard alone. There was no fake death accident. He had been alone for all these years.
What happened to this sudden extra memory?
Stark's hand holding the phone suddenly paused. Timeline! Someone changed the timeline!
He turned to Howard and said, "What's going on? Tell me everything you know!"
Howard knew he had to say it, so he lowered his head, sighed, and said, "Back then, Hydra and Congress pushed too hard. Even without the model of the Ark reactor, they thought that my genius brain could create more killing weapons for them..."
"That's not it!" Stark said, "I've heard this story before. I'm talking about fake death. Why would you..."
"I'm not someone who will just sit there and wait for death." Howard's brows flashed with a hint of ruthlessness, and his voice turned cold. "I originally gave them some face, but I still need to make money here. If they want to use you to threaten me, don't blame me for being rude."
"I don't know if you still remember the kidnapping case. You were terrified at the time. Your state was almost the same as it is now. You kept muttering something about red fish. Maria and I guessed that you might have been frightened by the scene of another group of Hydras that broke in and slaughtered their colleagues."
"Although I haven't seen the scene, I know from the description of the police that it was a very tragic scene. The Hydra group didn't look like members of a terrorist organization. Instead, they looked like terrible serial killers. He left the bodies..."
"Okay, okay, I won't mention it, but you should also know how angry I was at that time. If they have anything to do, they can come to me, but if they want to attack Maria and you, I must teach them a lesson."
Stark looked at Howard's violent expression in a daze. In his impression, Howard had never shown such a cruel expression. After all, he was a businessman, and the smiling and flattering mask had never gone wrong.
After all, Stark is Howard's biological son, and he knows his father's character. Although Howard also does unethical things like buying and selling arms, he is not a hero at all. He can even be said to be a little cowardly and unable to hold his bottom line. He has no means to turn the tide, otherwise so many Howards in so many universes would not have been plotted to death.
But now the Howard Stark in front of him has a bit of a hardcore ruthless demeanor. What is the problem?
Stark was startled. He looked at Howard and asked, "Schiller... I mean, what's going on with Schiller?"