Chapter 141

A while later.

Seeing the man's eyes look somewhat intoxicated, Matsuoka Maki couldn't help but feel smug.

[Enjoy it.... this is the only happy time you have left..... now, everything you have will belong to me!]

Her masseter muscles exerted force in the next second, intending to use her canines to pierce the skin of Ye Li's fingertip!

"Umm...."

[Why can't I bite through it?]

Bullseye didn't believe it and gnawed a few more times with force———

"Umm....! Umm....!"

But it was still futile..

"Is that it?"

Ye Li shook his hand away in disgust and withdrew his finger—[What the heck.... thought she was so powerful, feels not as good as Cindy, whom I just guided.....]

But then again.....

The agility of a Spider-Totem user is not something a mortal can compare to.

"Just stay here and be a test sample."

Ye Li left a disdainful remark, abandoned the sluggish Japanese woman, and turned to leave.

Zzzzz———

Zzzzz......

In a dark room.

The Iron Patriot was suspended by chains, and several technicians were surrounding it with rotary cutters, cutting away.

They wanted to open it, but Rhodey was still inside controlling the Iron Patriot, so they could only use this clumsy method.

"Good afternoon, gentlemen."

Killian walked in quickly and handed his coat to a subordinate: "We need to hurry, Stark is already charging around with his little friends."

"Hello, Colonel."

He greeted them, placed his hand on Rhodey's Patriot armor, and his palm lit up with a scorching glow, beginning to heat the armor———

Wuennnn———

[WARNING!]

As the outer armor of the Iron Man suit became redder and redder.

Rhodey also heard the constant alarms from inside, his head covered in beads of sweat......

Bang!!——!

The armor couldn't withstand it after all and automatically ejected the person inside, Rhodey, in an emergency.

Killian laughed heartily: "Listen, what a beautiful sound!"

Dozens of seconds later.

Tap tap tap.....

Figures in silver-black combat uniforms filed in.

However, the dark room was empty, leaving only a helpless Rhodey.

Clearly, Killian and the others had left in a hurry and couldn't care about him.

"Hey, Rhodey."

Tony removed the faceplate of the Mark 42 and greeted him: "You look very disheveled."

"Tony, now is not the time to joke about me."

Rhodey said irritably: "That guy snatched my armor and just left, if you go out now, you might still be able to catch up. By the way, I heard those guys chatting and saying that Pepper seems to have been captured by them too....."

"Oh! Shit! Why didn't you say so earlier!"

Tony didn't even have time to put his mask back on and hurriedly ran outside.

Hwu———bang!

Just as he rushed outside the factory area, he saw the red, blue, and white Iron Man suit streak across the sky above———

There was no need to say who was inside.

"Killian!"

Stark shouted and immediately chose to activate the flight function of the Mark 42: [Jarvis! Let's go!]

Hiss... hisshiss——

Hisshiss! Whoosh———

The suit's thrusters expelled some air, and then there was no movement........

Jarvis: [Sir, flight module activation failed]

"Oh.... useless...."

Tony stood there dejectedly, with strength but nowhere to use it, and could only watch helplessly as Killian was about to fly away.

Whoosh——!!

At this moment.

An arrow suddenly pierced the sky and accurately pierced the thruster of the Iron Patriot!

Bang!!

A spark exploded behind the Iron Patriot, and it wobbled as it fell.

Clang!

After standing firm on the ground.

Killian twisted the head of the suit to look to the right———

And saw a man carrying a bow and arrow and a graceful woman with brown straight hair.

"¨． Avengers? S.H.I.E.L.D.?"

No sooner had Killian finished speaking.

Ta! Ta! Ta!

Rumlow led a S.H.I.E.L.D. combat team, surrounded him from all directions, and aimed their guns in unison.

"Seeing Seeing Natasha? Barton?"

Tony saw this formation and was both surprised and happy, "Whoa~ how did you guys come? Did Fury find his conscience and finally know to send people to help me?"

Hawkeye just nodded slightly in greeting: "Stark."

Black Widow stepped forward, looked at the Iron Patriot, and explained: "The pressure from above is very high, Director Fury needs someone to be responsible for the casualties caused by the {Manhattan Midtown explosion}."

"Pfft~"

Killian sneered, his voice coming from under the armor, "So that person is me, is it? I don't even know where the guy who caused that explosion got the Extremis virus..... As expected of S.H.I.E.L.D., this is your style~"

(Image: Iron Patriot)

"Huh? Are you trying to argue at a time like this? Behind those terrorist attacks, it has always been you pulling the strings!"

Tony raised his repulsor and fired a shot at Killian with a bang——.

——"Tell me, where is Pepper?"

"Pepper? Hehe...."

The Iron Patriot, which had been knocked to the ground, suddenly pointed to the sky, "Isn't she right there?"

DuDuDu——!

The sound of helicopter rotors.

Listening to the movement, it seemed to be a heavy armed helicopter..

Everyone looked up and saw it was indeed an armed helicopter; Killian's subordinates were mounting several Vulcan cannons and aiming them at them———

Rumlow's eyes narrowed, and he hurriedly ordered: "Everyone scatter and take cover!"

Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat——!!

The machine cannons opened fire fiercely!

Bang!

Killian also took the opportunity to control the Iron Patriot to fire a repulsor blast, blowing away a S.H.I.E.L.D. combatant!

Clang! Clang-clang!!

Several rounds of bullets hit the outer armor of the suit, leaving only a few shallow bullet craters on it!

The Iron Patriot grabbed another S.H.I.E.L.D. combatant, snapped his neck, and successfully broke through the encirclement!

800

Bang!

Iron Man aimed at him and fired a shot, making him stumble again.

This made Killian angrily order his subordinates on the helicopter via comms: "Give our Mr. Stark a little surprise!"

Whoosh!

A mounted missile was launched from under the helicopter and shot straight toward Iron Man——

"This thing again!"

Tony had been traumatized by explosions in Los Angeles and was about to hurry and hide inside the factory area.

Ding!

The cylindrical arrowhead popped out small hooks and latched onto the missile.

At the same time, the blue light on the arrowhead stopped flickering.

Boom!!

Hawkeye predicted the shot, detonated the missile in advance, and didn't stop his movement; he ran quickly, climbed to the top of the corridor, changed to a good firing position, and aimed at the helicopter's rotor for another shot——

Whoosh!——Bang!

The helicopter was forced to land.

However, more than a dozen Extremis soldiers poured out from it.

They were all glowing with fire and charged toward the Avengers and the S.H.I.E.L.D. combat team!

"They actually just charged over like that?..... Open fire!!"

Seeing this, Rumlow led everyone to open fire on them in unison——

.....But the small wounds caused by the bullets didn't have much impact on the Extremis soldiers.

Unless it was the special elephant-hunting gun that Ye Li had prepared in advance, it couldn't cause effective damage.

Soon, the Extremis soldiers engaged in close-quarters combat with the S.H.I.E.L.D. combat team.

The unequal vitality made their casualty ratio widen.

"Damn it!"

Watching the team members fall one by one.

Rumlow's expression was gloomy......

Within this team, there were quite a few people planted by Hydra.

However.

Seeing the rapidly healing wounds on the Extremis soldiers, his eyes flickered uncertainly.....

[This thing looks pretty good.... if I could get my hands on it.....]

On the other side.

Bang! Clang!!

Iron Man also engaged with Killian, who was piloting the Iron Patriot.

It was just that Stark's suit had only just been repaired, and Killian himself was the most successful Extremis soldier, so Tony fell into a disadvantage for a time.

"Your armor...."

Killian twisted Tony's wrist, suppressed him, and said arrogantly: ".....doesn't seem to be much, Tony."

"Hey! This suit you're wearing is also something I made!"

Tony's chest lit up brightly———

Wennn——Bang!

Killian was temporarily repelled by him, but this strike also caused his suit, which hadn't replenished much energy, to emit some electrical sparks.

Clang! Clang! Clang!