S.H.I.E.L.D.'s actions were still very swift.
Of course, this was also inseparable from the powerful assistance provided by Tony Stark.
After all, the evidence he provided to Coulson was already very detailed and sufficient, enough for S.H.I.E.L.D. to immediately arrest Obadiah Stane.
And S.H.I.E.L.D. did exactly that.
Just on the third day of Tony Stark's return.
Coulson led a team of heavily armed Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and forcibly entered Obadiah Stane's office.
"Stan, you secretly sold weapons to various terrorist organizations in huge amounts."
"You also hired the Ten Rings Gang to assassinate Tony Stark."
"You are under arrest!"
After grandly pronouncing judgment on Obadiah Stane, Coulson waved his hand.
The Agents behind him said nothing.
They rushed forward immediately and arrested Obadiah Stane.
Obadiah Stane was completely stunned.
He was even apprehended but still didn't react.
???
What the hell?
He clearly did those things very secretly, very meticulously!
He had been secretly selling weapons to terrorists for more than just a day or two, and for such a long time, nothing had ever gone wrong.
How did it suddenly get exposed?
Especially the matter of him hiring the Ten Rings Gang to assassinate Tony Stark, it caught Obadiah Stane even more off guard.
One must know that Raza and those guys he hired were completely wiped out, not a single one left!
Obadiah Stane had already learned all of this through his own channels.
So this matter should have remained unknown to anyone forever.
But how did it suddenly get exposed?
Obadiah Stane was truly confused.
"Wait a minute, is there some misunderstanding?"
"Do you know how absurd the charges you're making are?"
"Which department are you from, and who authorized you?"
But Obadiah Stane quickly calmed down and immediately questioned Coulson, who was clearly the leader, in a deep voice.
"Don't waste your breath."
Coulson, however, smiled, the kind of smile an honest person would have.
"You think your Military friends will protect you, and your senator friends will protect you? Not this time."
"Stark provided evidence that will make even those people abandon you."
"Stan, face the reality, you'll be spending the rest of your life in a 'single room'."
Following Coulson's command.
The Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. stopped talking nonsense and forcibly escorted Obadiah Stane out.
"Wait! Tony?"
Obadiah Stane became even more bewildered.
So his arrest wasn't because this whatchamacallit Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division discovered something.
But because Tony discovered something?
Are you kidding me!
Tony had just escaped from that cave!
Tony Stark's dear Uncle Obadiah was practically full of question marks.
Unfortunately, there was no one to clear his confusion.
Obadiah Stane's arrest also caused a minor commotion.
It added more fuel to the fire for the already precarious Stark Group.
After all, Obadiah Stane was a super general in the Stark Group, and his importance to the group was second only to Tony Stark.
Yet, such an important figure was arrested by law enforcement at a critical moment when Tony Stark had severely stabbed the Stark Group in the back!
No one knew why.
The Stark Group remained tight-lipped about it, revealing nothing useful beyond some superficial official statements.
But this did not prevent the shareholders from continuing to frantically dump their Stark Group shares.
And so.
The Stark Group's stock continued to plummet after a 56-point drop, eventually plummeting a total of 62 points!
It dropped so much that the Stark Group's underwear was practically falling off.
The Stark Group faced its darkest moment in history.
Calling it on the verge of collapse would not be an exaggeration.
Of course.
How miserable the Stark Group was had little to do with Zhou Cheng, and Zhou Cheng wasn't concerned about it.
But Obadiah Stane's sudden arrest still attracted Zhou Cheng's high attention.
Why?
"This isn't right!"
"Even if Obadiah doesn't become Iron Monger, he shouldn't be arrested at this time, right?"
Zhou Cheng was truly caught off guard and, after pondering it repeatedly, he still couldn't quite figure it out.
How long had it been since Tony Stark was rescued by him?
It's impossible for him to have discovered Obadiah Stane's secret little actions so quickly, right?
According to the original plot.
Tony Stark only accidentally discovered everything after building the Iron Man Armor, "acting as a hero" for a long time, and finally investigating Stan's transaction list.
The deviation is a bit too big now, isn't it?
Where exactly did it go wrong?
"Could it be… this isn't the 199999 Universe?"
Because he didn't have a God's perspective, Zhou Cheng couldn't have guessed that the plot changed because Tony Stark read the diary.
The only reasonable explanation he could think of was a parallel Universe.
Anyway, there are so many parallel Universes in Marvel, so it's not surprising for a Universe highly similar to the movie Universe to appear, right?
It should be like this.
Zhou Cheng pondered for a while, convinced that he had found the answer, and didn't dwell on it further.
Just one thing.
It seems he needs to pay more attention to the major events in this Universe from now on.
To see how much this Universe deviates from the 199999 Universe!
"Officer Coulson actually arrested Obadiah so quickly?"
"And it was evidence provided by Tony Stark?"
"This…"
Similarly bewildered and confused by this was Black Widow, one of the diary holders.
After learning about the relevant situation, Sister Widow was more or less caught off guard.
No other reason.
This situation clearly didn't quite match the records in the diary, showing an illogical deviation.
There's no way Tony Stark could have found out about Stan so quickly.
One must know, the Playboy had just escaped!
Moreover, according to the diary's records, Tony Stark should not have possessed evidence of Stan's crimes.
Otherwise, why wouldn't he have directly sent him to prison like he did now, but instead was nearly killed by Stan twice more?
Could it be…
Were the records in the diary inherently biased, inherently not that accurate?
If it were before, Black Widow would indeed have suspected this.
But now?
The events in the diary have been verified one after another!
Whether it was Tony Stark being kidnapped, or him announcing the closure of the weapons manufacturing department, or Obadiah being the mastermind, and so on.
All were accurately "predicted."
Black Widow now basically had no doubts about the diary.
But who would have thought, precisely at this moment, the diary seemed a bit inaccurate!
So~
Where exactly did the problem lie?
Black Widow fell into deep thought.
"Wait a minute!"
After Black Widow's delicate brows furrowed for a moment, they suddenly relaxed.
Could it be that Tony Stark, like herself, was also a diary holder?
If that were the case, his "abnormal" behavior would make perfect sense.
He initially didn't know that Stan was the mastermind, so the original trajectory was that he was nearly killed by Stan three times.
But now?
He knew everything through the diary!
So he preempted, sending Stan in ahead of time!
This way, the logic becomes smooth.
The only problem is.
All of this was Black Widow's speculation, and nothing more.
Besides herself, were there really other diary holders?