stonecrandall Chapter 385 Wednesday
Chapter 385 Wednesday
Chapter 385 Friday
Realizing something was wrong, Tony quickly accelerated and continued flying outwards.
The results from the radar scan inside the suit were alarming—
When I first entered, it was clearly just a small remnant of a huge complex military factory, and the assembly tunnel there should have been only a short distance of a few miles.
Now, Stark has been flying at full speed for five minutes, and all parts of the assembly track look newer and newer, and seem to have no end.
"What's going on here? After I went in and came out, it turned into an endless tunnel?"
As the Iron Man suit's reactor power gradually reached its peak, Tony Stark, certain he hadn't gone astray, prepared for battle: "Am I lost? Am I on the set of The Shining?"
With the firepower Tony currently possesses, even if the nameless fear from Stephen King's stories jumped out of the book, he could blast it to pieces with two shots.
"Based on your description, if it's a circular space," Jarvis corrected Tony's intuitive understanding with information from the database, "the current situation is more like another Stephen King work, '1408'."
"Can't you say something nice?" Stephen King's novels are still quite frightening. Before long, even with his ample firepower, Tony was still getting goosebumps, staring thoughtfully at the Space Stone in his suit's storage box: "The endless looping space, could it be because of the Space Stone?"
But soon, Tony noticed that the scene had changed. The walls around the assembly tunnel were different, with more circuit patterns and pipes.
Tony, drawing on his professional judgment, said, "It seems we've reached the end of the road."
Soon, the light ahead confirmed his suspicions. This assembly line was originally supposed to go directly from the forge to the teleportation matrix. Tony had simply flown from the matrix to the other end.
Tony was also very curious as to why this godforsaken place had become like this.
He carefully flew toward the tunnel exit in the light, and the closer he got, the louder he could hear the sound of metal being forged coming from the other end.
Joey and Professor X had visited this place twice before, bringing news that the multiverse was colliding with each other. The problem is, shouldn't the forge have been blown to pieces along with this Earth long ago?
How did it suddenly reappear and resume operation?
As a genius scientist who almost planned to create a super AI, Tony understood better than anyone how difficult it was to eradicate an existence like Ultron.
When Superman told Tony that Ultron had been blown to pieces by Ultraman, Tony felt that this matter was definitely not over, and now it has indeed come true.
"I knew it! How could such a super AI not have a backup!"
Having made up his mind, Tony activated the disguise mode of his suit, preparing to first scout out the situation.
To their world, this Ultron from beyond was an undeserved disaster. The mistakes of others were being made to bear the burden of neighboring parallel universes, and it was like a stubborn plaster—once it stuck, it was incredibly difficult to remove: "Why couldn't the multiverse collision kill this thing first?!"
After silently cursing Ultron and everyone who created him, Tony furtively peeked out of the tunnel exit—
The scene that came into view was terrible, even 9 out of 10.
The neat and orderly production line is die-casting one mechanical part after another, and then assembling them at the end to create a brand new Aotron unmanned robot.
One drone after another descended the production line and converged on the center of the forging plant. Following their flight paths, Tony looked toward the center of the forging plant, where a towering metal column stretched into the clouds.
wrong.
As the radar waves swept across, the shape of this metal column resembled a —
"leg?"
Belatedly realizing what was happening, Tony tilted his head back and finally saw the thing in its entirety. "My God!"
This is a giant Ultron. Countless Ultrons the size of human bodies are converging on the giant Ultron. The moment the bodies come into contact with each other, they merge together and repair the wounds in other places.
Ultron 30K is still alive!
At this point, Tony could only console himself: "Look on the bright side, at least this is a science fiction story, not a ghost story."
But Tony's smile quickly faded—because just as he was looking at Ultron 30K, whose body still had many holes and gaps, the compound eyes on Ultron's head, which seemed to have been in standby mode, suddenly lit up and abruptly turned in Tony's direction.
"Damn it!" Tony, who happened to make eye contact with him from a distance, immediately broke out in a cold sweat and turned to run away.
This is way scarier than ghost stories!
The scan must have been too inconspicuous; the other side detected the radio waves!
Fortunately, I always had a backup plan. If something went wrong, I could always run away. "Jarvis, activate the emergency teleportation device I left outside the door!"
"Startup failed, distance exceeded."
"What do you mean by 'beyond distance'?!" Tony couldn't recall his device being so flimsy: "That device couldn't possibly exceed the distance even across an entire galaxy!"
Undeterred, he tried starting it remotely again, only to get the same result: "Startup failed, distance too far."
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Too far?
"Damn it! So that's what happened!" Tony realized. "Spatial teleportation! We were already out of our original universe when we retrieved the Space Stone!"
Tony took out the Space Stone from his hand—that wasn't some kind of spatial loop, that was spatial teleportation!
Why did I go in from a ruin and come out to a perfectly intact forging factory? It's because from the moment I saw the Space Stone, I had unknowingly undergone an inter-universe teleportation!
Ultron's factory is a super complex that uses the Space Stone as a transportation hub, spanning several parallel universes of the past and future. At this moment, Tony should have stumbled into one of the still intact parts.
Having observed Iron Man, Ultron 30K also saw through his escape attempt. It raised its hands, still sparkling, and made a loose grip towards Tony.
Just as Tony was accelerating and preparing to escape through the assembly tunnel he had come from, he suddenly felt his Iron Man suit freeze, emitting a sour, fatigued metallic sound. Then, alarms began to flash wildly from the suit itself to its systems:
Warning! Strong magnetic force detected. System is about to fail!
"How can there be such a strong magnetic force?!"
His Iron Man suit wasn't without anti-magnetization treatment, but the magnetic force was ridiculously strong, almost like a directional gravitational pull, keeping Iron Man completely immobile in mid-air even at full power.
This stalemate didn't last long. The propulsion system of the Iron Man armor quickly shut down under the influence of strong electromagnetic forces, and Tony screamed as he was spun around and sent flying backward.
If there is a next time, or rather, in the next life—
Tony was determined to replace all the components of the suit with magnetically inert materials!
Tony, spinning in the air, peered through the gaps in his armor's eye openings, realizing he was flying toward the Ultron 30K itself.
The powerful magnetic force from Ultron 30k pulled Tony into its hand in no time.
When Joey described his battle with Ultron 30K, he did so in a very casual and understated way that Tony never had a clear understanding of the pressure Ultron 30K exerted on him.
Even now, Tony, whose height is not even as long as the other's finger joints and who is held in the palm of his hand like an insect, has a more direct understanding of what kind of battle Joey went through when he was in close contact with him.
Even in his final moments, Tony couldn't resist grumbling, "That damn Joey really took down a formidable enemy! Attack, Ultron!"
Tony, who had just been caught off guard and was waiting for the other party to crush him like a mosquito, was now waiting for things to turn out completely differently than he had imagined.
Ultron 30K’s giant head opened from its mouth, from which flew a mechanical body that was very different in style from the other Ultron robots.
The reason it's described as "unique in style" is because Tony's eyes aren't blind—
Unlike other Ultron robots with their angular, industrial bodies, this machine's curves are smoother, or, as Tony would say, more —
Tony really didn't want to use that adjective, but he had to admit that the robot in front of him was quite curvaceous.
This is an Ultron robot with a female body.
She opened her arms and flew towards Tony, who was already prepared to be reincarnated, her first words being, "My boss, Yao Yao~"
"Wait a minute!" Tony recognized the voice. "Are you... Friday?"