In the battlefield filled with debris, Jas Rhodie swallowed dryly, staring intently at the terrifying giant serpent writhing behind the boy in black. He dared not avert his gaze, moving closer to his friend rigidly and trembling, and asked in a voice as faint as a mosquito’s hum.
"Tony, what the hell is that?"
"I don’t know either."
Though it was already the second ti seeing that thing, Tony Stark still felt his skin crawl when faced with the dreadful monster.
What was more terrifying was that he couldn’t understand, nor dared to understand the aning represented by the giant serpent.
In the depths of his consciousness, Tony Stark felt that if he researched and understood the essence beneath the evil exterior, he would be unconsciously polluted, assimilated...
When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you...
With a clarity in his heart, Tony Stark shifted his gaze, no longer staring at the chilling monster.
However, at this mont, his wandering gaze landed on the remnants of the shattered cha, noticing that the reactors on their chests were rhythmically flashing red light.
Beep... Beep... Beep....
The slow beeping gradually beca urgent and sharp, and Tony Stark’s pupils slowly contracted, feeling a chill from his tailbone rushing up to the top of his skull.
Dead Man’s Switch system!
Explodes automatically once it loses the main body signal!
Instantly understanding, the shattered gold and red suit erupted with violent flas, shooting into the sky like a rocket.
"These things are going to explode! Run!"
Thinking of how the debris scattered all over the area, Tony’s anxiety burned, carelessly propelling energy and tracing a sharp arc across the sky.
"Pepper!"
On the other side, Little Pepper thodically helped evacuate the crowd when she suddenly noticed that the scattered machinery not far away seed to be flashing a red light.
But before she could react, a figure descended from the sky and, holding her, shot straight into the heavens.
Boom!
The gigantic fireball expanded on earth, and Zhu Haomiao, imrsed in the lingering aftertaste of deliciousness, trembled, bewilderedly surveying the rolling, expanding flas and shockwaves around him.
What just happened?
A few centiters from his body’s surface, a layer of transparent protective Gang Qi was visible to the naked eye under the impact, rippling delicately like a lake surface ruffled by a breeze.
Bathed in the shockwave and high temperatures strong enough to destroy steel, Zhu Haomiao retracted his Dharma Form and walked leisurely across the explosion zone, unhurriedly.
[Gluttony] devours Source Quality
[All Attributes] 60 (30×200%)
The higher the Heavenly Position, the more abundant the ’food’!
Plus, I’m familiar with the plot, enabling to precisely pinpoint these antagonists rich with [Heavenly Destiny]...
Clicking his tongue... It’s endless, simply endless...
Smacking his lips, savoring the wonderful taste, Zhu Haomiao contentedly curled the corners of his mouth.
Gazing around at the ravaged landscape, the boy in black traced a splendid circle of fire, stepping onto the rooftop kiloters away.
He had just landed when he heard a heated argunt.
"I’ve had enough, Tony, I want to resign! I quit!"
"Why?"
"Every day I wake up, I have to worry about you killing yourself, killing the company. Do you know how much pressure I’m under?"
"But I think I’m doing pretty well!"
"Look at how many people died in the explosions around us!!!"
"......"
......
Initially watching the two argue with interest, Zhu Haomiao’s face gradually froze, the amused grin fading away bit by bit as he watched them draw closer and eventually kiss.
Damn it, when you die, one’s going to be buried in the North Pole, the other in Antarctica!
Serves you right for showing off your love!
However, the pair caught up in their passionate entanglent didn’t notice the boy in black blending into the dim background until much later when they finally pulled apart.
"Tony, how strange..."
"It’s okay, you’ll get used to it after a few tries."
"No, I rembered what Mr. Zhu once said!"
Pushing away Tony, who was leaning in again, Pepper blushed and gave him a coquettish glare.
"He said before that you might find a new elent, and you actually did!"
"Looking back now, he seed to have foreseen today’s outco, watching us worry in vain!"
Hearing this, Tony Stark detached from the enchanting mood, recalling the various signs from before.
As Pepper said, that individual seed to have been overlooking the entire world from a God-like perspective the whole ti, watching the river of ti with a transcendent deanor, intervening personally only at critical monts to guide destiny toward the direction he desired...
Just like today, when he appeared without warning!
"So, he really isn’t an all-knowing and all-powerful deity?"
Listening to Pepper’s dreamy murmur, Tony Stark was speechless, and his heart was equally bewildered.
This existence that seemingly could perceive ti and fate has, in so sense, transcended the scope of mortal understanding.
"Nope."
But just then, a familiar whisper ca from the corner, startling the two.
"I just said it casually, hit the nail on the head by luck, don’t over-analyze it."
From the dark corner, the boy blending into the background walked out slowly, grinning at the two of them.
"Zhu."
"Mr. Zhu."
Quickly, they politely greeted him, exchanging slightly embarrassed glances.
Thankfully, they hadn’t spoken ill of him...
Soon, Tony Stark ca to his senses, solemnly thanking him with a serious expression.
"Zhu, thank you, for saving my life again."
"Ha-ha, no need to thank , we’re rely serving our individual purposes."
Afterwards, Zhu Haomiao shifted the topic with a sly grin, scanning up and down.
"By the way, what made you suddenly decide to save a little boy?"
Clearly being pursued and fleeing hastily, yet in the intense battle between life and death, you managed to precisely capture the accidental occurrence far off in the distance—such unreasonableness was glaringly evident...
For today, there were no less than eight hundred innocent people who died untily deaths in the area, yet Tony just happened to save the future Spiderman while disregarding his own safety. This strong semblance to fate piqued Zhu Haomiao’s research interest.
Yet, Tony Stark only looked bewildered.
"Huh? I just noticed that kid was in danger and saved him on the spur of the mont..."
As he spoke, Tony’s voice gradually lowered, vaguely sensing a subtle anomaly, and his expression slowly beca solemn.
"Does the kid have so issue?"
"Ha-ha, just a clueless little kid, what issues could he have?"
Watching the boy in black casually shrug, Tony Stark couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Indeed, purely coincidence...
I just saw that kid wearing an Iron Man mask, mistakenly identified by the enemy’s AI as , and felt a pang of sympathy...
If he died because he admired , I’d feel guilty for life!
This was my responsibility, to begin with!
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