I Am Gwen's Spider-Man Mentor.

Chapter 104 Is Ross innocent?

Putting down the phone, Raymond murmured:
"The Stark Expo is finally here."

When it comes to the Stark Expo, we have to mention the large Ark Reactor - in addition to Howard Stark, the founder of this thing is also a defected Russian scientist Anton Fanko.

According to the original plot, the external explanation of SHIELD and Stark Industries was that Anton Fanko tried to take the Ark reactor technology as his own, so he was kicked out by Howard Stark and even sent him back. his country - and then he ended his life in poverty.

How should I put it? This explanation is full of Americans’ “beautiful” understanding of the political “holy nature as before”. From the perspective of Tony Stark, this is a man who tried to seek freedom but was ultimately hurt by his own greed and deserved it. The American story is a heart-wrenching tale.

But the problem is, if Howard Stark really cares about the technology of the Ark reactor, when Anton Fanko betrayed him, he did not choose to send him to a prison in the United States, but handed over such a People who possess important technical intelligence are sent back to countries that are rivals of the United States...

This is a bit too unreasonable, right?
In Raymond Xu's view, Anton Fanko defected from that country but was not executed in the end, and it involved such critical technology, and Howard Stark also held an important position in SHIELD... …

This made him have to doubt that in fact all this was Howard's original intention——

You know, unlike Tony, Howard Stark, who became one of the founders of SHIELD, is a real political and technical all-rounder.

Furthermore, considering all the strangeness in this matter, Anton Fanko's "defection" and repatriation are more like a double act played by Howard Stark and the Russian intelligence agency.

In other words, perhaps, Anton Fanko was the "messenger" for private transactions between S.H.I.E.L.D. and the KGB. As for his final poverty, it was probably deeply related to the drastic changes in the 90s.

Further speculation is that Howard may have been aware of SHIELD being infiltrated by Hydra, and he may have tried to introduce the power of the Russians to create a trap to eliminate SHIELD's internal enemies, but in the end, his The attempt failed——

The final price was Howard's own life.

The truth of the incident has disappeared with the wind as the mysterious death of Howard Stark in a car accident. No one knows what he was thinking at the time.

But this matter will never be as simple as the movie shows - Professor Xu can be sure of this.

So when the world line has been changed by myself, leaving Captain America aside, and when Gwen Stacy accidentally became the first positive superhero in this universe——

Whether SHIELD will be involved in this matter, and how deeply it will be involved; whether other mysterious forces are involved in this matter, has become a question that the professor has to worry about.

In this case, many seemingly feasible actions must be carefully considered.

First of all, Raymond Xu didn’t think about going to Russia to recruit Ivan Fanko as a laboratory team member. After all, Ivan Fanko is also a guy who can single-handedly rub a small Ark reactor. After all, guys like Quentin Baker They were all stuffed into the laboratory by him...

But unlike Quentin Baker, who wants to be famous, Ivan Fanko doesn't care about worldly things like fame, wealth and honor. All he wants is revenge. Only this kind of person cannot be bribed or subdued.

In addition, considering the all-pervasive Snake Shield, it may not be feasible to monitor or kill him.

First of all, except for Gwen, he has no reliable assassination and surveillance forces at his disposal - as a ghost spider, Gwen Stacy will definitely not listen to his words and kill a person before he can do evil. A good person.

Secondly, Raymond is at the center of the storm, and his every move attracts attention from all parties. The professor can certainly equip himself with pretty good equipment and go to Russia to chop this guy up...but, what's the point?

Obadiah's downfall paved the way for Raymond Xu to come to power. Why can't Ivan Fanko's revenge plan be used by himself?

Pull out the radish and bring out the mud. If Ivan Fanko is really related to Snake and Shield or other mysterious forces, maybe you can get unexpected joy through him.

If he is really just a small character who only thinks about revenge, and when he sees a villain showing his fangs, even if Tony Stark has little fighting experience, Spider-Gwen will solve the trouble.

Raymond figured out whether there was a bigger conspiracy behind the villain, Gwen dealt with the villain, and then he helped Gwen sort out all kinds of troubles that might arise——

This model sounds good!

----split line----

Kingpin was more or less surprised that Raymond Xu wanted to meet with one of his little-known minor characters - he was not unaware of Richard Brown's identity as a 911 firefighter, but he was not familiar with Ross, who was his real friend back then. Jin was not the same as Jin who ordered to deal with some people... How much inside information could a fire captain know?
But this at least proves that Raymond Xu sincerely wants to get rid of Thaddeus Ross, which is the same as his current purpose...

As for the scandalous things that Richard Brown did under his own hands, at least Raymond Xu met with this person through his own channels, which showed that he did not want to expose these things.Even if something is revealed, Fisk, as a philanthropist, has his own way of letting Richard bear all the responsibility alone - so Kingpin readily agrees.

Of course, at the beginning, Richard Brown was not willing to have a heart-to-heart relationship with Raymond Xu - after all, Professor Xu was different from the Ghost Spider. The latter was the hero of the civilian class and blue-collar workers, but the former was their opposite.

However, when he saw the fire captain's current miserable situation, the professor couldn't help but feel a little pity - he began to think that Stark Industries might be able to intervene to help improve the living conditions of these firefighters.

Tony Stark himself would certainly not object to this plan.

So the professor said to Richard, "If you're willing to help me, I might consider helping your colleagues."

When Richard Brown, who had an ashen face at first, heard these words, his face that was as sharp as a knife finally relaxed a little, and he said with some caution and careful words:
"What can I do for you?"

"You can tell me as much as you know about 911/[-] and Ross." The professor went straight to the point coldly. He may have "group sympathy" for these low-level people, but when it comes to individuals, he still puts interests first.

——He could sympathize with the entire group of firefighters, but for this guy who was suspected of murdering a family and became Kingpin's leading "drug dealer", his disgust was inevitably greater than his pity.

Richard lowered his head, he thought carefully, and then told the professor exactly what he said about Spider-Woman - the difference was that Gwen was concerned about the doubts in the former fire chief's words, and the professor was more concerned about it. What matters is the person mentioned in his words.

Because it is a subjective narration of an incident, most of the so-called doubts are unreliable - but if you can string together the names of the people mentioned, then it is a clue.

He keenly caught one thing - on the day of 911/[-], the firefighting facilities in the World Trade Center complex were not functioning properly.

Wilson Fisk watched all this with a cold face - he had decided to bring down Ross, his front and back man, and decided to stand with Professor Xu, so he needed Raymond Xu to understand the intelligence he already had.

So, when Wilson Fisk came out with Raymond Xu, who was brewing the "Ex-Firefighter Rescue Plan" in his mind, he looked at the professor with a pensive look on his face and said suddenly:
"We might as well use more direct methods to deal with that guy Ross."

Wilson Fisk, who has publicly announced that he has tied himself to Raymond Xu's chariot, can now finally rebel openly!

"A more direct method?" Professor Xu frowned, "He is a three-star lieutenant general in the U.S. Army. What do you want to do?"

"Ha——!" Seeing Raymond's vigilant look, Jin couldn't help laughing:

"What are you afraid of? Are you afraid that I will attack Thaddeus Ross directly? I'm not that stupid!"

"what do you mean?"

"I need the help of your friends in Congress. I have enough evidence here to bring down Ross." When Kingpin's fat face smiled, it always lacked the sinister flavor of conspiracy. On the contrary, it was very honest——

But if anyone really believes in this honesty, I'm afraid he will suffer the same crime:
"In 00, as a member of the civilian experts invited by Ross, I participated in a homeland security exercise organized by the U.S. Army War College..." Kingpin recounted without reservation.

There was aftertaste in his eyes - this was a rare time when Kingpin looked like a human being instead of a piece of cold steel:
"Our mission is to create trouble for the military. The idea I proposed at the time was to hijack civilian airliners and crash them into important landmarks..." In front of Raymond, Kingpin rarely fell into memories, "The scale of our hijackings at that time was much larger. If there are more, the damage caused will be much greater.”

"But Ross, in his final report, he blurred this unfavorable part..." At this point, Kingpin laughed inexplicably - after all, he was still the same person who had his own wife and son, and had not yet evolved into a fully cold-blooded person. Jin Bin people:

"I handled the beginning and end of this matter for Ross, and handled the witnesses for him after 911/[-]. Therefore, he also decided to support me with the resources of an Army major general and became the so-called 'Emperor of New York.'"

"You mean, Lieutenant General Ross just concealed this matter? Is it just an oversight?" Raymond frowned. He originally guessed that all this was a conspiracy of the US military, and Ross was just the lowest-ranking executor. Now let’s see…

It seems that there is something else hidden?

(End of this chapter)