Chapter 369

Tony's heart skipped a beat. He turned his head to look at Maya Hansen on his left...

Her skin was abnormally flushed, and her expression was exceptionally listless...

He stiffly twisted his helmet a bit further back—only to see that the female doctor's back was completely burned...

With such a large wound, she had only a few breaths left in her...

So that was it.

Iron Man had his battle suit for protection, and Pepper had a strong resistance to fire because she had been injected with the Extremis virus.

Only Maya Hansen, with her mortal body...

"Tony..."

Holding onto her final breath, she gripped the steel palm of the Mark 42 and said softly, "I think... I really did make a mistake... now... this can be considered atonement..."

"No..." Stark watched as Maya Hansen took her final breath and slowly closed her eyes; he stood there in a daze for a while...

She was, after all, someone he had once had a one-night stand with.

Although Tony didn't shed any tears or anything of the sort.

But in this situation, with her dying in his arms, it still made his heart ache...

As the flames of the explosion dissipated.

Rumlow saw a few Extremis soldier corpses that hadn't been affected and felt a surge of joy; he took the remaining members of his squad and prepared to go collect them.

As long as they operated carefully, at least one or two corpses would end up in Hydra's hands.

·· ·Seeking flowers·· ······

However.

Just as he reached them—

Click, click, click!

He was blocked by several clone soldiers raising their guns.

Rumlow frowned: "What is the meaning of this!"

"According to the service agreement..."

Stark walked over from a distance to help explain: "... These corpses count as spoils of war and belong to the Silver Sable Security Company under Li..."

"We put in the effort too."

Natasha stopped Rumlow, who was about to say something else, and took control of the conversation: "... Did so many S. H. I. E. L. D. members die in vain?"

Barton also nodded: "Tony, you're a S. H. I. E. L. D. consultant; you're on our side."

"What does that have to do with me?"

Tony said indifferently: "Contact him yourselves."

Hearing this.

Black Widow and Hawkeye exchanged a glance, looking at each other in dismay...

Finally.

Natasha stepped forward to contact Ye Li on the spot—

【Hey, Xiao Na, want to ask me out again? I'm a bit busy right now, I'm afraid it'll have to be later...】

........ 0 0

Natasha: "......" (What kind of address is Xiao Na? Is that a Chinese way of saying it...)

She silently turned down the call volume before explaining the situation to him: 【Mr. Ye... Li, I need to state something seriously to you.......... that is how things are.】

【Oh, just that little thing... you two can just take two of them...】

Natasha: 【Two of them...】

The Extremis virus incident caused by Killian could be considered over.

Natasha, Barton, and the others finished processing the corpses at the scene and prepared to leave after completing the mission.

However.

Just at this moment.

They, including Stark, all received a summons message from Nick Fury—

【Something happened in Greenwich, suspected alien invasion again, Avengers assemble...】

"Hoo..."

Barton finished reading the message, exhaled a breath of turbid air, and sighed, "I thought I could take a few days off after this was over..."

【Being a superhero is really tiring...】

"Alright, stop sighing."

Natasha tidied up her equipment: "The situation is urgent, let's hurry over. Stark, you..."

"Ladies and gentlemen, you go ahead, I..."

Tony finished reading the message and looked at Maya Hansen's corpse, and then at Pepper, whose body still had fire-orange veins appearing from time to time...

"... I'm afraid I still have some things to do. If the situation becomes serious, I will head over."

Under the metal mask.

His usually casual face was uncharacteristically gloomy—

【These dangerous events are endless; there needs to be a way to deal with them...】

An idea that had surfaced after the Battle of New York was dug out from the depths of Stark's heart.

【Perhaps a force like Li's is a good idea... I can use an intelligent coordination system similar to Jarvis... It needs more powerful computing power...】 ===== CHAPTER 371 =====