Chapter 1886: The Madman's Journey (Sixty-Four)

After Schiller called Obadiah to inform him that Tony Stark had learned about his assassination, the kidnappers commissioned by Obadiah would certainly take action again, but this had one advantage, that is, they would come out in full force from the nearby base, so they would no longer have the spare energy to monitor the movements of local terrorists.

Simply put, Schiller used a trick to lure the tiger away from the mountain. The Ten Rings had few people stationed in Afghanistan. After the failure of the first operation, they would definitely add enough people to ensure that the second operation was foolproof, which meant that they would definitely not have time to cause trouble for the local rebels.

Once the pressure on the rebels was reduced, more people could be freed up to kidnap Tony Stark. The locals must know the terrain and routes here better than the cult members who parachuted here. In this way, the rebels quickly caught up with Stark and Eric's car.

Schiller's target was not Eric, so Wakanda would naturally deal with it. As long as Tony Stark could be kidnapped to the cave, the plan would be successful.

But what Schiller still didn't expect was that Eric actually chose to abandon Stark and run away, which further lowered his expectations for Eric's professional level. Obviously, the other party didn't see Stark's hero complex at all.

Based on this, Schiller lowered the plan to deal with Eric as much as possible to prevent him from dying too quickly and thus unable to give an explanation to T'Challa.

After Stark was kidnapped to the cave, the natural closed environment formed a series of psychological methods for Schiller to deceive the ignorant Iron Man, so that he could not forget it. Whether from the perspective of interests or emotions, he regarded Schiller as the most steadfast ally.

But the plan also has the most critical link, that is, they must create a strong enough common enemy for them. Otherwise, Tony Stark would not have enough pressure to complete the transformation.

Playboy Stark and Iron Man are completely two different people. Before awakening, Tony Stark was still immersed in the fantasy of his childhood and adolescence, pinning the plot of superheroes on others, while the latter had already recognized the reality and chose to become a superhero to save others.

If the pressure is not great enough, Stark will not have such awareness, so this person must be strong enough and occupy a sufficiently important position in American politics, then Alexander Pierce is the best choice.

This cannot be said to be deception, because Pierce himself is a hydra, and he is definitely not compatible with a hero like Stark who has justice in his heart.

Out of trust in Nick, Schiller believes that even in just a few days, Nick must have put enough pressure on Pierce, so he chose a very clever location.

In Pierce's career, he certainly knew a lot of illegal experiments by the military and mastered the contact methods of certain bases, and an abandoned base in Afghanistan was one of the clues Pierce had.

If it was just to attract rescue, Schiller would not have had to lead Stark to such a far place. The purpose was to keenly perceive some unusual signals from an abandoned base when Pierce was monitoring the movements in Afghanistan due to pressure.

In other words, it was not an accident that Pierce found the coordinates, nor was it that he took the initiative to monitor Schiller's communication channel, but Schiller found a secret military experimental base that Pierce had previously mastered the contact information, and took the initiative to pass the information to him.

Pierce was fooled. He thought that as long as he could arrive before Nick and put the blame on Schiller, he could prove his innocence, but he didn't expect that all this was actually a trap set by Nick and Schiller.

Pierce hurried to Afghanistan to take Stark back to New York, but Schiller hinted through a series of words and actions, making Stark suspect that Pierce was the biggest Hydra.

This not only put pressure on Stark, but also made Stark's actions against Pierce put enough pressure on Pierce. For example, Stark would ask Schiller to go to court in order to save Schiller and to bring Pierce down.

It seems like a relatively mild method, but in fact, letting Schiller go to court means that the agents cannot use some special torture methods on him, but Pierce has fallen into the dilemma mentioned earlier. He must pry some information from Schiller to obtain the results of fighting Hydra and keep his career.

Pierce and Stark formed a natural opposition, which was of course the result of Schiller and Nick's design. Nick forced Pierce inside SHIELD, while Schiller used his remaining influence to force Stark. They couldn't help but become opponents.

Becoming an opponent is not the end but the beginning. Schiller did not intend to let Tony Stark rush into SHIELD and shoot Pierce directly. On the one hand, this might put Iron Man in jail, which is not what Schiller wants to see. On the other hand, it is a bit too cheap for Pierce.

Schiller has always disliked Pierce, but not because he is a Hydra, but because Pierce, as a Hydra, holds a high position but does nothing. He is a conservative among conservatives. If it weren't for his extremely conservative actions, Schiller and Nick in their universe would not have to worry about the manpower of Hydra.

If Hydra Pierce, who has been in power for 30 years, had done more, would Schiller and Nick have been so exhausted? This wave, this wave, is a revenge for personal vengeance.

After successfully establishing the antagonistic relationship between Stark and Pierce, the whole plan has just begun.

This plan, named "Domino" by Schiller, Nick and T'Challa, is obviously as its name suggests, one link after another, one link falls, and the other will be triggered.

The antagonistic relationship between Pierce and Stark allows Coulson to gain Stark's trust in a very simple way, that is, when Stark feels isolated and helpless, he points out that Nick has already noticed that Pierce is wrong.

This is another psychological hint. Simply put, when a person feels isolated and helpless, revealing to him that someone may be his accomplice will make him immediately like that person and partially accept the other party's arrangement.

Sure enough, Stark accepted Nick's offer of a deal. In order to get Schiller out as soon as possible and let Nick take over, he is willing to go to Eastern Europe to eliminate the Hydra gang.

At this point, the arrangement for Stark in the entire plan has been completed, which can be said to be linked together. Generally speaking, no one can escape such a careful design, even if he is the smartest scientist in the world, but he is still far behind in terms of power and game.

If you want to sort out the Stark line, you can simply summarize it as: Schiller goes to pua Stark, Nick goes to hold Pierce hostage, and then through a series of arrangements between the two parties, the two people are made to oppose each other and fall into a situation of isolation and helplessness, thus taking an extremely risky step.

Then the next is Eric's line, which is much simpler than Stark. Schiller doesn't even have to go out in person, just create some opportunities, and Eric will mess everything up himself.

For example, the first condition for Schiller to cooperate with the local rebels is that Schiller helps them to clean up the troops and arrange patrol routes. Since even the patrol routes are arranged by Schiller, Schiller naturally wants whoever he wants to enter to enter, and whoever he doesn't want to enter cannot enter.

But Schiller did not choose to shut Eric out, but did the opposite and let Eric in twice.

As Schiller expected, Eric messed up everything himself.

As T'Challa judged, Eric was in urgent need of opportunities to rise, but he was too proud. He always wanted Stark to beg him and give him benefits, which led to a strong sense of disobedience in all his actions.

He clearly said that he was just trying to save Stark, valued friendship, and was not interested in fame and fortune, but he made repeated requests when Stark clearly refused.

When one plan failed, he came up with another. When he failed to play the role of a savior hero, he turned his personality around and pretended to be pitiful to gain sympathy, and then wanted to seek common interests. In short, he used the exhaustive method to repeatedly test.

But Stark is not a character in the game. He is the smartest scientist in the world. Even if he is not good at human relationships, Eric's action of choosing the correct option by exhaustive method like the protagonist of the game will definitely arouse his vigilance.

The two of them are destined to go further and further, but Eric will not give up.

Schiller learned from T'Challa that Eric's situation in Wakanda is very bad. It's not that Wakanda oppresses him, but Eric wants too much, but he doesn't have the ability to match his ambition. Being expelled is just the result of his own death.

But because his heart is higher than the sky and his life is thinner than paper, Eric will definitely hold on to himself and use the opportunity he finally found to turn over. As the saying goes, a pig on the wind will not feel that he is blown up by the wind, but only that it is his ability, and he should have gotten more.

But the pressure that Schiller and Nick put on Stark worked. Stark chose to cooperate with Obadiah instead of expelling him. Then Obadiah became a springboard for Eric to use the Stark Group, a hurdle that he could not cross, and the two of them were destined to be in opposition.

It was impossible for Eric to use ordinary methods to overcome Obadiah. He had too few talents and wanted too much. So he could only choose one way, which was to kill Obadiah with the simplest and crudest method. He would do it sooner or later.

At this time, Schiller's sight returned to Pierce. Pierce was forced to jump off the wall. He had only one choice, which was to use all the cards in his hand to solve the Hydra in Eastern Europe to get his promotion back on track.

But he didn't have many cards to use. Nick was destined to be his opponent, not a pawn in his hand, so he naturally thought of Tony Stark, who he had saved before.

Pierce knew what kind of person Stark was. He hurried to Afghanistan to get Stark's favor. When the situation had become extremely critical, this card was not used at this time, and when would it be used?

Schiller also knew that Pierce would not take legitimate means to drive Stark to Eastern Europe, because Nick had already taken this path, and Pierce did not have enough banners to drive Stark.

Then he could only resort to slightly despicable means, and Stark only recognized one relative, and that was Obadiah.

Eric and Pierce's men were destined to gather at Obadiah. One of them regarded Obadiah as his opponent on the road to promotion and must kill him, while the other wanted to kidnap Obadiah to Eastern Europe to threaten Stark to rescue him and solve the problem of Hydra.

Just as Schiller expected, the two parties met at Obadiah's villa.

Schiller knew very well that Eric was not given for nothing. The technology of Wakanda and his own desperate idea made him inevitably eliminate the target in front of him, so Obadiah died.

But after killing Obadiah, Eric could not resist the attack of the agents, so Pierce's goal was also achieved. Although he could not kidnap Obadiah, he could kidnap Stark's savior.

Therefore, after learning of Obadiah's death, Pierce did not give up his plan and changed the target of kidnapping to Eric.

So, Obadiah was killed by Eric in his villa, and Eric was also kidnapped to Eastern Europe by Hydra agents under Pierce.