Even though the sun is setting, the June date is still steaming, and walking down the street is no different from a sauna, making you want to take to the street with an air conditioner or ice cube on your back.

It's been more than half a year since the battle that caused great trauma to Manhattan, but it's not enough time to restore Manhattan to its original state, especially the ruins of the collapsed buildings, which are still being cleaned up and rebuilt in the long run.

However, this is not the case for all of Manhattan, except for the most severely damaged Midtown area, the rest of the area has basically completed the initial repair work, and with the strong support of the city government, Manhattan has gradually prospered again.

From time to time, you can see scaffolding erected on the streets of Manhattan, workers standing on them installing shop signs, and there are many more pedestrians on the road, although it is not as good as before the war, but it is much better than after the war.

Greer drove out of the gas station and headed in the direction of New Jersey, Daisy, who was sitting in the passenger seat, took out her mobile phone, looked at the screen, and said: "Oil prices have risen by another 5%, and they have been rising for a month, you see, compared to a month ago, they have almost doubled, and now one of the hottest posts on YouTube is to teach people how to safely store gas at home." ”

"It will continue to rise, and it will be good if it can go down next year." Grell said as he drove the car onto the interstate, which used to be a busy highway now seemed a little empty, and the traffic volume was more than half less, especially the reduction in the number of trucks transporting it was the most obvious.

Since the release of the "Mandarin Teaching Video" a month ago, the Ten Rings Gang has been active in the Middle East, wantonly destroying oil fields, refineries and other facilities, causing oil production in the Middle East to fall off a cliff.

This has made the international oil price go all the way crazy, and the polar bear, which is also a major oil exporter, has made a lot of money, and I can't wait to cheer up the Shijie Gang in person, let him support more, and make the oil price higher.

But the people of other countries are uncomfortable, although the world is technologically advanced, the energy field is no longer dominated by oil, there is Osborne Group's biopower generation, and then Stark Group's Ark reactor, but oil still plays an important role.

In particular, the heavy oil used by ocean-going ships can not be cheaper than other energy sources, and it is not at all replaced by other energy sources in a short period of time, but now oil prices are rising, transportation costs are increasing, so that prices are also increasing, which is equivalent to a decline in purchasing power and a shrinkage of their own wealth.

Although countries have also begun to adjust the production of oil fields, nothing can be done overnight, and it takes time to turn reserves into production, and this period is naturally the most uncomfortable. Both consumers and producers alike hate the actions of the Ten Rings, especially the OPEC members, which have made their fortunes, not only stationed troops to patrol the oil fields, but are also preparing to deploy troops to encircle and suppress the Ten Rings.

The imminent war has received strong support from Western countries, providing intelligence, sending staff committees, and selling all kinds of advanced weapons and equipment, so that arms dealers have made a lot of money.

The Osborne Group has not only sold a large number of weapons and equipment, but also received more attention, and even the White House has sent people to the Osborne Group to investigate the feasibility of the artificial sun plan, hoping that it can succeed, so as to accelerate the pace of phasing out traditional energy sources such as oil and coal.

On the day the news broke, the stock price of Osborne Group rose by more than 3% for the first time since the accident, and it is still rising, surpassing Stark Industries.

'Buzz! Airplanes! Airplanes! ’

Suddenly there was a dull sound all around, and then the viaduct across Manhattan shook, and the cars in front and behind all braked suddenly, and the people in the car jumped out of the car in a hurry, scurrying like headless flies.

"Another earthquake?" Greer quickly stopped at the first moment of the tremor, opened the door and got out of the car, and looked around, the tremor was stronger than before, and the building was shaking slightly.

Daisy squatted down, put her palm on the bridge deck, felt the vibration, and after more than ten seconds, the vibration stopped, and Daisy stood up, turned her head to Grell and said, "It's still that frequency." ”

"It doesn't look like a natural earthquake." Greer nodded, counting this time, it is already the sixth earthquake in the past month, the level is not very high, but the frequency of the vibration is exactly the same, and only Manhattan has a tremor, no matter how you think about it, it feels abnormal.

But there is no villain in the movie who wants to destroy Manhattan with an earthquake, it won't be a villain who jumped out of an unknown corner, in this case, it is necessary to investigate, Manhattan has a population of one million, and once a strong earthquake occurs, it will definitely kill and hurt a lot, and it will definitely be more serious than the invasion of the Zetarians.

Thinking of this, Grell was not in the mood to go to New Jersey, so he beckoned Daisy to get in the car and returned to Stark Tower as fast as he could, ready to discuss with Stark to determine whether the earthquakes were natural coincidences or deliberate.

At this time, part of the exterior wall glass in the Stark Building is still being installed, but the interior decoration and more advanced equipment have already been installed, debugged, and put into use, and the top few floors that were blown up before have also been rebuilt, and they have been rebuilt like a three-story villa, integrating leisure, entertainment, conferences, and research.

Stark is standing alone in front of the new generation of holographic projection system, surrounded by holographic screens one after another, displaying all kinds of information and materials, all about the Ten Rings Gang, Manchurian, AIM, and Killian, two of the screens are all the official information of Quinn International, and the screen in the far corner is the earthquake information of Manhattan in the past month, but from the point of view, it is obviously not taken seriously.

When Grell and Daisy came up by elevator, they saw Stark, who was concentrating and watching these materials, waving his hand from time to time, controlling the holographic projection system, opening more detailed folders, occasionally linking the two documents, and also marking the relationship between the two parties, making the relationship between these materials like a fishing net, densely intertwined, and the entanglement could not be solved.

"Mr. Stark, are you still reading these materials?" Grell stepped forward, greeted Stark, and began asking for information about the Manhattan earthquakes.