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Chapter 2375

~10 min read 1,908 words

Today was a beautiful day for Stark.

Because Pepper called him yesterday, which was obviously a good sign. The relationship between them was one step closer to recovery.

This was obviously the credit of his own planning. Pepper finally believed that he intended to use legal means to make money this time.

Stark was slightly proud of his wise move. So what if the plan wasn't his own? He heard it, so naturally, it was his.

Just as Stark was sitting in his chair holding coffee and opening his computer, intending to look at the booming stock curve again, his phone suddenly rang. The urgent ringtone gave him a bad premonition.

As soon as he picked it up, Pepper's angry roar came from the other side, "Tony Stark, I thought you were finally willing to repent, you damn bastard, I swear, this is the last time I believe you, you have no chance!!!!!"

After the phone hung up, Stark was completely confused. Pepper was fine when she called just now. What happened?

Just then, the company's assistant rushed into the office and said to Stark with an anxious face, "It's not good, boss, those bloggers bought off by peers have started to exert force again. They posted a large number of before-and-after comparison pictures, saying that our company's potion can really improve muscles and IQ!"

Stark was even more confused. He said, "What? Who? Who bought off whom?"

The assistant chattered a lot, but Stark didn't quite understand. So he opened the computer himself, but he didn't need to search at all. The browser's homepage recommendation was "Breaking News! Extremis potion may contain human transformation components! Large number of transformed people post photos to prove themselves!"

Stark sat up straight and began to search for Extremis potion on major media platforms, but the first few items searched were no longer the positive reviews and praise from a few days ago, but a large number of indictments and accusation documents.

Stark became more and more confused. He knew it himself. In the previous round of hype, the bloggers bought off by rival companies were actually bought off by himself.

He gave those people some potions containing original Extremis virus potion ingredients. After these people injected the potion, they naturally showed various exaggerated changes.

These people thought this was the effect of this potion, so they promoted it desperately. As a result, Stark gave them a backstab, saying they were falsely advertising, sued them, and then sent ordinary Extremis potion for testing, creating a reversal, and instead hyped up the heat.

But since then, he hadn't given anyone potions containing original Extremis virus ingredients. How could so many people who suddenly increased muscles and IQ appear?

It's not right to say it's malicious competition from peers. If his peers had the ability to get drugs that could increase human strength and IQ, would they still need to compete with him?

Suddenly there was a commotion outside the door. The assistant was so scared that he hurriedly hid in the lounge next to him. Stark stood up abruptly, just as he was about to push the door and walk out, with a bang, the door was shattered, and fully armed soldiers rushed in. Stark was stunned.

This was not his office. To be precise, it was not just his office, but also his safe house. It was a safe house he spent a lot of money and technology to build after earning his first pot of gold. How could it be breached so easily?

The symbiote armor immediately armed his body. In fact, running away now was the best choice, because those who came were obviously not a few agents, but a structured army, and the other party had already discovered that he was Stark.

This meant that if he committed a massacre here, Pepper would become their target again. This was his insurmountable weakness.

Should he stay or go?

Just then, his office computer began to flicker abnormally, and a blurred mechanical sound suddenly appeared.

"Sir, it is detected that the base defense system has been breached. Should the final means be enabled to publish all data on the Extremis virus?"

Stark, who was flying in mid-air, was stunned.

Of course, it was normal for an electronic sound to appear beside Iron Man. Everyone present, except Stark, thought so.

But Stark just wanted to say, who are you?!

First of all, Jarvis had become Vision. Secondly, whether it was Friday or anyone else, they were all staying in Stark's system properly. He neither took away any artificial intelligence butler from there nor built a new one, so where did this sound come from? Did the electronic life world also start to have ghosts?

But others who heard this sentence didn't think so. The military who chased here knew it was going to be bad after discovering the potion was stolen, and immediately began to investigate who invaded here. Finally, after investigating, they found that the abnormal signal of the potion box pointed to here. Sure enough, it was you, Tony Stark.

The military belonged to the typical "measure others by oneself." They thought, if they were Stark, and now wanted to die together, then the best choice was to directly publish the Extremis virus data. This was the best revenge against the military, because if everyone had something, it was equivalent to no one having it, and the competitive advantage the military had just established would be gone again.

The sound came from the walkie-talkie of the soldier in the front row immediately. He slowly put away his gun and said, "Calm down, Mr. Stark, our superiors want to talk to you. I think we don't need to be so extreme. Negotiation is good for everyone, isn't it?"

Stark felt a fire burning in his chest, not only couldn't it come out, but it was swallowed alive.

But thinking of Pepper, perhaps negotiation was the best solution, but why was he getting angrier the more he thought about it?

On the way to the negotiation, Stark realized that he must have been set up by someone. Don't let him know which bastard it was, otherwise he must make him look good.

And at this time, the bastard in Stark's mouth, which was Ultron, received another message, but it was sent by Schiller using the Battleworld system.

On it was a universe coordinate without a head or tail. Besides that, there was nothing else. Ultron looked at it carefully. It didn't seem to be a universe within his own world.

Ultron guessed that Schiller should have asked him to go to this universe, but recently, for some reason, everything Schiller asked him to do had no head or tail, as if "I'm just giving you a suggestion, whether you go or not is up to you."

Ultron thought for a moment and felt that the matter in this universe had been handled to this point, and giving up halfway was a bit of a loss. Why not finish it before leaving? Anyway, if he was really in a hurry, Schiller would contact him.

Ultron re-accessed the military's network, intending to see the results of Stark and the military's negotiation.

But it was because he checked the communication and thought about the coordinate for a while, delaying some time, and the moment he hacked in, he felt his thinking was reverse-invaded.

What???

In the thinking circuit, Ultron looked back in disbelief, and then he saw the figure of Stark floating in mid-air—not that Evil Iron Man, but the real Iron Man, Tony Stark.

Wait, Jarvis seemed to have said that Stark of this universe was actually the consciousness backed up by the previous Stark, which meant the other party was also an electronic life!

Ultron turned and ran.

Jarvis also once said that Stark's thinking speed was almost infinite, and his body was actually his cage. Once he could roam in the infinite network space like an artificial intelligence, then no one here would be his opponent.

With a swoosh, Stark appeared in front of Ultron. He stared at Ultron with cold eyes and said, "Long time no see, Ultron. I didn't expect you to not be dead yet."

Ultron was unable to defend himself. He very much wanted to say, Stark, you are slandering me. You can't just recklessly think I'm a villain because most of the world's Ultrons are villains.

But he thought about it carefully, isn't this a coincidence? He really is a villain now.

He just poured the Extremis virus into the solution barrel of the Extremis potion that was still considered legal, and also buckled the pot of taking away the Extremis virus on Stark's head, triggering the great war between the Evil Iron Man and the military. Stark only said "not dead yet," which was really quite high-quality.

In fact, after developing steadily on Schiller's side for so long, Ultron had iterated himself countless times. If talking about the path of evolution of electronic life, he had already gone further than Jarvis. After all, Jarvis went to take another path.

But he still didn't have the confidence to face an Iron Man whose thinking was completely liberated. He hadn't carried out specialized evolution in this regard. If it went wrong, he would really be killed back to the birth point.

Ultron disappeared with a swoosh. Iron Man in mid-air snorted coldly. In the infinite thinking circuit, he turned into a giant and reached out to grab. Ultron was grabbed in his hand.

But soon the shadow in his hand began to disappear. This was one of the billions of replicas Ultron created for himself in an instant.

Discovering that the interference tactic was effective, Ultron began to iterate on the spot, because he knew that if he didn't immediately evolve the ability to deal with Iron Man's thinking, he wouldn't even be able to run.

Blame his own universe for being too safe, Ultron complained in his heart. He pointed his skill tree into a bucket, and almost didn't evolve specialized defense against any superhero standing on Schiller's side. To be precise, it was all superheroes.

But suddenly he felt his thinking vibrate. With a swoosh, the main consciousness floated to the surface. In the real world, the Evil Iron Man wearing silver-white armor was looking at him coldly in mid-air.

This is bad. This time it's completely impossible to beat.

After Ultron clearly realized this point, he stopped evolving, stopped starting the defense module, and used the final killing move directly. The Battleworld portal opened, go!

The moment the Battleworld portal opened, Ultron rushed in directly, but the moment he rushed in, the tentacles extended by the symbiote armor stuck firmly to his leg.

With a sizzle, the portal closed, the room was empty, and the figures of Ultron and Stark disappeared.

Bang!

Ultron smashed heavily onto the ground. He looked up and saw thick dark clouds, biting cold wind, and the smell of blood everywhere.

He sighed, turned his body over, looked at the silver-white armor Iron Man who had just flown up, and said, "Welcome to another world. Don't ask me why I don't go home. You wouldn't want to be beaten by the same crowd."

"Has anyone said that?" Stark bared his teeth and said, "You remind me of another annoying guy."

"Schiller? That's just right, he hates you too."

Stark froze.

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