amaotonovel Chapter 2677 Hollywood Rhapsody (35)
Chapter 2677 Hollywood Rhapsody (35)
Chapter 2677 Hollywood Rhapsody (Thirty-Five)
Stark sighed through his nose, placed one hand straight on the edge of the table, and tapped the surface with his fingers.
"We all feel very sorry about this." Natasha supported her head with her hands and said, "But everyone has misfortunes in the past. In order not to affect the future, we can never make up for the regrets by traveling through time."
Stark looked up suddenly and saw Natasha had stood up from her chair and began pacing behind her desk, with Stark's eyes following her movements.
"All employees of the Time Management Bureau follow this rule: we can only be bystanders of time and must not influence the people in the timeline. This is because once the fate of someone is changed, everything related to him in the future will also change."
"This change may not necessarily be for the better. In many cases, it may bring about greater disasters. It is nothing more than the difference between long-term pain and short-term pain. A moment of weakness will only create more tragedies..."
Natasha has never been a talkative person, and Stark's heart was filled with alarm.
In the past, Stark's intelligent and genius brain would never turn in this direction. He never used his wisdom to solve those complex interpersonal communication problems. He just let them flow past his eyes like water. Even if the torrent of noise had completely drowned him, he could still enjoy himself with the genius ideas in his brain and didn't care about it.
He is such a person, who pays special attention to other people's eyes and is complacent with other people's praise, but in fact he doesn't care about them at all, treats them as if they were trash and turns a blind eye to them.
But now, at this moment, a certain area in his brain lit up, and the answers to the social codes that were originally more complicated than any mathematical formula for him became clear to him.
"Yes." Stark stared at Natasha and said, "Interfering with the past can easily lead to a time disaster, but if it doesn't actually change the outcome, isn't that the same as not interfering at all?"
"This is pure sophistry," Natasha said. "As long as you are involved in the past, it is impossible not to have an impact."
"You said we were alike."
Natasha also turned to look at Stark, who crossed his hands in front of him and said, "Especially our childhood and teenage years are very similar, the most similar thing is that both the Hamiltons and the Starks died at the hands of Hydra."
"In that case..." Stark also stood up, lifted the hem of his suit, put his hands in his pockets, leaned forward and stared at Natasha and said, "Does it matter whether he was adopted by the Hamiltons or the Starks?"
Natasha smiled widely and said, "I can't be sure. After all, I'm not Stark, who has genius intelligence. I'm just a small SHIELD agent."
Stark also smiled, stretched out his hand and pretended to raise a glass and said, "To this little agent, ma'am, goodbye."
Stark turned around and lowered his eyes. Countless key words began to echo in his mind. Finally, one of the key words caught his eyes.
"Helen!! Helen!!!"
Standing on the roof of Stark Tower, Stark took off his mask and shouted at Helen. Soon, a small black shadow fell from the sky and pounced into Stark's arms.
"what happened?"
"What are you doing?" Stark said after he took her a little further away, "Going to eat snacks again?"
"No, I just had some solar wind and afternoon tea." Helen jumped to the ground, looked up at Stark and said, "Why are you still here at this time? Shouldn't you be accompanying Pepper for a physical examination?"
"She went shopping." Stark took Helen's hand and walked towards the door of the rooftop and said, "I have something to ask of you."
"what?"
"Where's Loki?"
"Her? She's been very busy lately." Helen scratched her head and said, "And she's so secretive. She didn't even take me with her and didn't tell me what she was going to do."
"Do you know when she's free?"
Helen shook her head, looked up at Stark, and asked, "Do you have something important to talk to her about? It's not impossible to find her if you really want to, but you have to write a letter to Thor. Only he has Loki's emergency contact information."
Stark thought for a moment, then said, "I just heard that she is very familiar with the employees of the Time Management Bureau, and she can also do magic."
"What's so special about this?" Helen patted her chest and said, "I am also familiar with the employees of the Time Management Bureau, and I can also do magic."
"You know magic? When did you learn it?"
Helen sighed helplessly and said, "Have you forgotten? I have the blood of the Aesir, I have divine power! And don't you also know magic?"
Stark suddenly realized that after staying on Earth for so long, he had forgotten that he was a demon.
However, there are still many people in the universe who are paying attention to the Iron Devil. It is better for him not to show up easily to avoid causing panic. So he said to Helen: "Can you take me to the Time Management Bureau?"
"Of course you can, but why are you going there?"
"Of course, I'm going to do business. Let's go."
The two soon arrived at the Time Management Bureau. As expected, Nick was not there, and it was Mobius who received them.
Helen was indeed very familiar with Mobius. While they were chatting, Stark walked around the corridor and, as expected, saw a time affairs management office.
His eyes were focused on the time machine hanging on the employees' waists. If he remembered correctly, this thing could travel through time.
Soon, Stark called Helen out on the pretext of visiting the Time Administration. Helen pulled his sleeve and asked, "Why are you sneaking around? What are you doing?"
"I want to travel through time, but I don't want anyone to know. Do you think the time management machine they have is useful?"
"That one? Those are all locked and useless." Seeing Stark's slightly disappointed expression, Helen giggled and said, "But I have a useful one here."
Helen vomited out a time machine, apparently the one she swallowed when she and Loki first came to the Time Bureau. She handed it to Stark and said, "I have unlocked the lock on this thing. You can travel through time freely."
"But you should know the rules of time management. If you rashly change the past, it will lead to the future..."
"Don't worry, I have a way." Stark happily took the machine, but still said to Helen: "But there is one more thing. I need to change my appearance and go back to my childhood. Can you use magic to help me?"
“Okay, but you have to remember what you looked like when you were a child, otherwise it’s easy to become weird,” said Helen.
"Come on." Stark clenched his fists, obviously full of determination.
Stark smoothly returned to his teenage years, around the age of 13. His parents were still alive during this period, but later Howard and Maria were also resurrected. Stark was not very excited, at most he just felt a little emotional when looking at their young faces.
Howard during this period was still relatively sober, not in the alcoholic state he later was. At this time, he could be considered a good father and a great hero in Stark's mind.
However, this good time did not last long. Stark remembered that when he was about 15 years old, just when he entered Harvard, everything began to change. According to the current timeline, it was about two years later.
If it is delayed until then, nothing will be able to be changed, so Stark must take action immediately.
It is rather difficult to find Schiller, after all, he is just an ordinary orphan. But it is much easier to find the Hamiltons, after all, they are well-known scientists and can be contacted in the name of a related project team.
Stark did not intend to let his parents participate in this stage. After all, he could not rashly tell them to adopt an orphan. This was too weird. He had to let them realize it and propose it themselves.
Stark quickly contacted the Hamiltons, of course in the name of the Stark Group, and used technical means to determine their whereabouts. He also learned that they had close communication with the director of an orphanage.
It seems that this orphanage should be the one where Schiller is. But the problem is, they have already decided to adopt the child, so what reason do the Starks have to steal the child away?
It seems I still have to figure it out myself.
After a few days of observation, Stark discovered that he was indeed young and ignorant, so he did not realize the changes in his parents at all. As early as two years ago, everything had been foreshadowed.
Howard's work became very busy, and he had less and less time to accompany him. Maria was also busy traveling for some things and her return home time was uncertain, so she often left Stark to Obadiah's care. Then Obadiah also became very busy, and he and his old butler were the only ones left in the entire Stark Manor.
At this time, the old butler Jarvis was already very old, and it was inevitable that he was unable to take care of the children. This was also the main reason why Stark later became very rebellious. During his most sensitive teenage years, no one cared about him.
Although Stark missed the time he spent with the old butler, he had not forgotten that he had important things to do. He picked a day when Obadiah was free, asked Obadiah to give him a computer, and then started tinkering with it in his room.
Stark thought that if Schiller couldn't attract the attention of his parents, then he would find a way to get their attention. The best way was to create the image of a young genius.
Stark knew Schiller's scientific research level very well. At his age, he probably couldn't even turn on a light bulb properly, but it didn't matter. It was just to create a god, right? With his genius and wisdom, couldn't Stark come up with something that would surprise Howard?
Howard was indeed surprised, but not because of what Stark had created, but because his hover car had found a very matching built-in software system, which seemed to be tailor-made for Stark Industries.
After some investigation, Howard discovered that it was actually a little boy from an orphanage who made this using an old computer. He was immediately shocked and asked Obadiah to investigate what was going on with the boy.
The results of the investigation also surprised him. The little boy named Shil showed astonishing talent in computer engineering.
Howard is a pure businessman. He will not hesitate to make profits, so he immediately contacted the staff of the orphanage to find out about the boy's situation.
After learning that he might be adopted by the Hamiltons, Howard immediately discussed it with Maria and Tony and finally decided to adopt him.