One day later, in a Desert in the Middle East.
"Ptooey, ptooey, ptooey!"
Standing outside the makeshift tent, Sean spit out a mouthful of sand with a disgusted look: "This damned sand and heat! Next time, I'd rather go to the North Pole for a mission than come back here."
Facing Sean's complaints, Lynn Hall, who was sitting in the tent playing on his phone, chuckled: "Alright, when we get back, I'll promote your rank by one and send you to the North Pole to catch polar bears with your bare hands."
"If you can't get me a hundred bear pelts, don't even think about coming back in this lifetime!"
Hearing Officer Lynn's words, Sean wasn't worried; he knew his boss was joking with him.
After a chuckle, Sean entered the tent and said, "Boss, it's been a day already. That Middle Easterner isn't going to come back, is he? Can the armed forces behind him really cooperate with us?"
Seeing Sean's somewhat worried expression, Alice, a senior Agent, walked over and handed Lynn Hall a cup of coffee.
At the same time, she looked at Sean and said, "They will definitely come. According to that Middle Easterner's confession, the armed forces using Stark Industries weapons not only annexed other factions but also drove them out of their homes."
"Now, their chance to reclaim their homeland has come, and with us providing them 'help,' they wouldn't refuse if they were smart."
"Moreover, they also understand that the reason our Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking for them is to use them to rescue Tony Stark, not to covet this place."
Hearing Alice say this, Sean nodded: "To put it bluntly, it's mutual exploitation!"
"Nonsense. You should be glad you're following our boss. If you were following other Officers, you might have been directly ordered to attack the armed forces that kidnapped Tony Stark!"
At this point, Alice sneered: "Our Agents, plus the brothers from the action team, only number a few dozen."
"Although the equipment we have is enough to launch a small war, even if we successfully rescue Tony Stark, we'd lose half our men. After all, this isn't the United States!"
Taking the coffee from Alice's hand, Sean chuckled and didn't continue speaking.
Yes, Lynn Hall had never thought of directly attacking those armed forces with his dozens of subordinates.
So, when he took off from New York, Lynn Hall had already devised the strategy of 'driving the tiger to swallow the wolf.'
Using the armed forces behind the two Middle Easterners he captured to fight the armed forces that kidnapped Tony Stark.
No matter who eliminated whom in the end, he could take advantage of the chaos to lead his men to rescue Tony Stark!
Lynn Hall had no intention of using this opportunity to secretly support Terrorists in the Middle East to bring benefits to the U.S. or anything like that.
After all, his soul was not American!
What he truly cared about were these subordinates with 7 favorability, who could continuously provide him with gifts!
"Boss, those people are here!"
Hearing the message through his earpiece, Lynn Hall said, "Time to get down to business!"
"Understood!"
Hearing Lynn Hall's order, more than a dozen sniper rifles hidden under camouflage suits, along with various high-lethality weapons, were simultaneously aimed at the armed forces arriving in their dilapidated vehicles.
If these armed militants showed even the slightest abnormality, they would be met with a baptism of bullets and explosions.
At the same time, inside a cave in the Middle East!
The spoon in his hand continuously stirred the sticky food in the bowl, but Tony Stark had no appetite at all at this moment.
"I now miss the taste of a cheeseburger so much that even if someone sold me one for a hundred thousand U.S. dollars right now, I'd buy ten!"
Hearing Tony Stark say this, Ethan smiled.
He picked up a spoon and ate a mouthful of the potato-mash-like food, then said to Tony: "Cheeseburger? I haven't had one in a long time."
"However, you'd better figure out how to escape from here. You should know that even if you build the Jericho missile, they will definitely not let you go."
"Of course I know that."
He glanced at the car battery on the table, which provided him with life support.
Tony Stark forced himself to eat a spoonful of food, suppressing the discomfort in his heart.
"That's right, only by filling your stomach can you figure out a way to escape from here."
"In fact, I've already thought of how to escape from here!"
Holding his breath, Tony Stark quickly finished the sticky food in the bowl, then casually threw the bowl on the table and said, "Ethan, we can build a big guy."
He glanced at the monitor at the entrance, then Tony Stark got up, took out blueprints, and spread them on the table.
Seeing Tony's actions, Ethan also put down his bowl and walked over curiously: "Isn't this the blueprint for the Jericho missile?"
"That's right, on the surface, this is the blueprint for the Jericho missile, but Ethan, vision can be deceiving!"
Saying that, Tony Stark stacked several blueprints together, then pulled a desk lamp over and shone it on the center of the blueprints.
Soon, an armor pattern appeared in Ethan's sight.
"I no longer expect the Military or other forces to find this place and rescue me, so I've been thinking about how to escape during this time."
After scrambling the blueprints again, Tony Stark looked at Ethan and said excitedly: "Ethan, I need your help!"
"Believe me, I can definitely get both of us out of here!"
Seeing the excitement in Tony's eyes, Ethan was silent for a moment, then nodded and said, "Of course, I'm also tired of life here."
"Perhaps after your big guy is built and we escape from here, I can go see my wife and children. I miss them very much!"
Tony Stark didn't notice the slight melancholy in Ethan's tone when he mentioned his wife and children.
At this moment, his mind was completely focused on how to build this big guy.
"Oh, right, besides the Military, don't you also have the CIA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the United States? Do you think they can find this place?"
Perhaps worried that Tony would notice his slightly low voice, Ethan proactively changed the subject.
"CIA, FBI? Heh, don't be fooled by movies. Those idiots aren't that powerful. If they could find this place, I wouldn't have been locked up here for two and a half months."
Saying that, Tony looked at the car battery: "Ethan, we have to find a way to replace this thing first."
"FUXX, just thinking about how I was harmed like this by my own developed weapons makes me feel absurd!"
After speaking, Tony Stark picked up the old car battery and then prepared to knock on the door, to play along with these Terrorists.