I Am Gwen's Spider-Man Mentor.

Chapter 158 Assassination of Pepper Potts (1)

Raymond's statement, which can be said to be irreverent, caused a stir in the American media, business and even political circles.After he finished speaking, he went into seclusion and no one saw him, but this did not prevent him from becoming a legend through word of mouth.

In the entire West, the last such heavyweight figure was King Edward VIII of England. He gave up the throne of the British Empire for a woman, which caused a worldwide uproar. Compared with his position as president of Stark Industries and his position as professor at Empire State University, De Xu gave up his position as president of Stark Industries for Gwen.

Netizens who did not take it too seriously to watch the excitement opened Raymond Xu’s resume, pointed to the professor’s Oxford University degree and said: “Look, you don’t want the country but the beauty. The British thing really has a historical tradition! "

The comment section below replied: "But an airport can't be considered a beauty anyway?"

——It can only be said that fortunately Gwen has been busy recently and has no time to read through the comments one by one.

Of course, it was from this speech that the media really fell in love with New York’s “uncrowned king”—which is what Jonah Jameson now calls his biggest patron.

Raymond can always create topics and traffic for the media, and these topics and traffic are always eye-catching in this world that is not yet filled with superheroes. The news dug out of him alone can feed the entire New York City. For a whole year, large and small media outlets, and even many reporters who were on the verge of unemployment, came back from the dead.

They wanted to make a bust of Raymond and take him home, praying to him every day before dinner: "Please, please make a few more big news, so that my year-end bonus will be secured!"

Raymond's seemingly reckless "public confession" also caused a lot of discussion among the citizens of New York. They argued about the right and wrong of Gwen Stacy, and from time to time sighed - "Raymond Xu is like this" Love brain is really rare in the world."

Although many newspapers tried their best to exaggerate that Raymond Xu was a well-dressed beast who deceived ignorant girls, the professor's bold and frank confession did make him gain a relatively good reputation among the broad audience in New York and even the United States, where he was already careless. Pretty good reputation.

"From now on, I will be free and a human being chasing the light I see."

Listen to this!For the sake of love, wealth and status can be thrown away. This is the 21st century. How long has it been since people have seen such stupid "idiots"?

How long has it been since I saw such a sincere "idiot"?

The pure love warriors of American conservatism who believed in "family, honor, and responsibility" fell to the ground. The girls cheered and screamed for the young and talented professor, and they all began to be jealous of how Gwen got such a boyfriend——

In addition, people's reputation for Miss Gwen Stacy also began to rise sharply with the spread of Raymond Xu's speech. At least no one anymore regarded Gwen as a model of "scheming superiority". Whipped.

——Even though they have never even met Gwen, let alone spent time with her.But language has charm, and Raymond’s language undoubtedly makes Gwen Stacy full of charm in people’s eyes.

People even found Gwen's Internet account that she didn't talk much about, and filled her mailbox with all kinds of emails, forcing the girl to log out and run away. She also said with emotion that she was lucky that she had posted Spider-Woman's social media a long time ago. The account was separated from Gwen Stacy’s social accounts.

Sitwell watched the public clamoring for Stark to keep Raymond, saying that they could trust a man who was willing to sacrifice his family and career for his "wife" and believed that he would not let down the trust of his shareholders - this was really true. The bald agent was furious.

Raymond Xu is now being protected by Stark's industrial security system. Their original plan was for Stark to kick out the shrewd professor and then use force against him at the minimum cost.

After all, S.H.I.E.L.D. is still in a de facto "shutdown" state, and public actions may arouse the suspicion of the US government, so the scope of impact must be kept to the smallest possible extent.

Snake and Shield still have to find ways to continue to "parasitize" on the body of the superpower and feed their own ambitions with the flesh and blood of the United States. How can they flip the table?
But in this situation, Raymond could actually make a comeback in America, where teacher-student romance is considered an absolute taboo, relying on the so-called "sincere confession". It really made Sitwell scratch his head and couldn't figure out how he did it.

The strong national power of the United States of America has gradually degenerated the agents from all-round talents with both wisdom and courage into clowns who can only use brutal force. When force cannot solve the problem, they begin to use their claws——

Sitwell did not dare to ask for advice from Alexander Pierce, which would expose the fact that he had messed up the so-called "Valkyrie Project", so he could only ask for advice from his new think tank, Mr. Wilson Fisk.

The fat man in a white suit who was sitting in an outdoor cafe was not surprised when he received a call from Sitwell. He even shrugged: "Mr. Sitwell, our opponent Raymond Xu is not one of those people in the Middle East wearing robes." The Arab 'fellow' is not an honest farmer wearing a bamboo hat. His methods of playing with politics and people's hearts are only slightly better than ours. I advise you to be more cautious."

Sitwell became even more furious when he heard this - SHIELD never negotiates. According to his past temperament, he would have taken away the annoying professor's life with a straight A.But now the situation is complicated. The Insight Project is still just a rough draft, the Pegasus Project is being executed in a mess, and even the Space Carrier is only building its first prototype.

In this state, Hydra can no longer fully expose itself to the US government.

Therefore, when Alexander Pierce and Sitwell couldn't figure out the extent to which Raymond Xu represented the will of the U.S. government and who was standing behind him, they had no choice but to take action. Yu began to play political tricks that he was not good at.

"I have long said that Mr. Pierce's plan to attack Raymond Xu as a teacher-student relationship will not have any effect. This matter is really big or small..." Jin Bing sighed, "It's just that even I I didn’t expect that guy Xu could actually make a comeback, and he even turned his disadvantage into an advantage.”

Sitwell also fell silent. Maybe Kingpin still understands a little bit about the value of "true love". After all, he has not evolved into a complete body that strangled his wife and children with his own hands, but a lonely agent like Sitwell doesn't understand it at all. Raymond Xu’s thoughts and feelings.

Both of them were silent for a while, but Sitwell broke the silence first: "Then what should we do now?"

"In political action, every move you make has pros and cons." King did not directly answer Sitwell's question. Instead, he led the bald agent in circles, "Don't look at Lei Mond Xu’s behavior this time was unexpected and seemed to bring temporary benefits, but it must also have corresponding disadvantages.”

"Disadvantages?" Perhaps because he has been with Pierce for a long time, Sitwell has consciously become a flatterer.

The fat man in a white suit stood up from the chair. His men put a windbreaker on him. He held the phone and his voice did not stop: "After our combination, Raymond was almost forced to the edge of the cliff." ...If he was just one person, maybe he could continue to deal with us, but he has brought too many irrelevant people into this life and death battle..."

Kingpin sneered twice: "So, he will definitely pay the price!"

----split line----

Pepper Potts looked anxiously at the reporters gathered under the temporary headquarters building of Stark Industries in New York. For the first time, Pepper began to lament how he had such a hard life.

It's just a matter of wiping Tony Stark's butt. After all, she has been secretly in love with Tony for a long time. Apart from not having the name of husband and wife, the two of them now have everything a couple should have. No matter how much they worry, they still take care of their own home. thing.

She had thought that Raymond Xu was someone who could save her worries and could even help her take care of Tony - so that she could finally take a breather from the tension all day long.

But I didn't expect that this young man in his twenties, who pretended to be mature all day long, took off the mask of disguise, and turned out to have the same look and behavior as Tony!
Raymond Xu's speech was not informed to Pepper in advance, and Pepper fully thought that Raymond would respond to the media in the "deny the facts" way they had agreed upon - but he didn't!
Although for a moment, Pepper Potts couldn't help but feel her heartstrings being touched when she looked at Raymond Xu's sincere black eyes on the TV, she was still the rotating CEO of Stark Industries after all, and she had to transfer Tony's Putting profits and the interests of Stark Industries first requires her to overcome her emotions.

So she turned around and shook her head helplessly: "Look, you have succeeded in getting your little girlfriend's reputation back, and your reputation has also improved a lot..."

Pepper's voice suddenly rose: "What about Tony and I? Didn't you force Tony and I into a dilemma?"

"It's not your job to be reinstated now, and it's not your job not to be reinstated. Whatever you do will lead to scolding..." Little Pepper turned around again, turned her back to Raymond and covered her forehead, sighing: "Oh my god, I really don't Now that I know what to do, maybe I should resign.”

"Ms. Potts -" Raymond stood up, "At least protect yourself wisely and cut me off in time. Isn't it a middle strategy for Stark Industries?"

"Cutting?" Little Pepper frowned and shook his head: "This is no longer a question of whether we want to cut it... things have developed to this point, and Tony and I can't control its direction."

"No matter what..." Pepper Potts cheered up again, "I'm going to Empire State University now. At least on this matter, they and we have to make progress together!"

(End of this chapter)