Chapter 564

"You still remember the fact that you stood Loki up, right?"

Stark nodded very stiffly and said, "But I didn't mean to. Jarvis told me that news too suddenly, and I still had to go order a cake, and I still had to notify the other members of the Avengers..."

"No need to explain." Schiller stretched out a hand and said, "I'm just asking you, did you stand her up or not?"

"What does me standing her up have to do with this?" Stark pointed his finger at the little girl; his highly intelligent brain hadn't been this muddled in a long time.

"Loki is very angry; she's about to go crazy with rage." Schiller placed the little girl on the desktop, reached out to wrap his arms around her to keep her from running off, and then said very seriously, "You also know that Thor dotes on his sister very much; he lent his own weapon, Mjolnir, to Loki for self-defense."

"Previously, Thor became the God of Light, and he integrated the first thunderbolt in the universe into Mjolnir, enhancing the power of this divine artifact. At the same time, the first thunderbolt often signifies rebirth, which gave Mjolnir's thunder the function of igniting the fire of life."

Stark's gaze fell upon the little girl. At this moment, he gradually recovered from his shock and then began to observe the little girl carefully.

She was very young, looked like she couldn't walk yet, and was pretty and cute, like a doll, but it was just hard to shake the feeling that she was a young Loki.

At the same time, what made Stark feel somewhat puzzled was that this little girl had some sharp spikes on her shoulders, neck, and ankles, which made her look less like a human and more like some kind of strange beast. Moreover, her eyes were slit-pupiled, and when she opened her mouth to smile, she revealed a mouthful of sharp teeth.

The characteristics of Doomsday were well-reflected on her; except for not being as robust and brutal, she had all the features she should have.

When looking at the little girl more closely, Stark finally focused his gaze on the reactor on her chest. He was puzzled for a moment and said, "Wait, this isn't the latest version of the reactor... This... isn't this the one you took to use as a lobby lightbulb?"

"That's where the problem lies." Schiller said very innocently, "Previously, I obtained a monster egg, but the monster's soul inside the egg had already vanished, so it couldn't hatch. So, I put it in the basement of my sanitarium."

"I installed your reactor in the very center of my lobby, but who would have thought that when Loki came looking for you with a hammer to settle a score, the landing point of the Bifrost was closer to my sanitarium. She mistook this lightbulb for your armor and raised Mjolnir to strike at the lightbulb."

"But who would have thought that after the lightbulb hanging on the ceiling was struck down, it smashed through the floor of my sanitarium and smashed directly into that egg."

"And what's more coincidental is that Mjolnir possesses the rebirth power of the universe's first thunderbolt. That egg, which had already lost its soul, had its soul fire reignited, and thus it hatched."

"However, your reactor smashed into its embryo. Perhaps this new life didn't know how to deal with this lightbulb, and in the end, she turned it into a part of her body."

"Since the person who reignited the soul fire was Loki, she looks more like Loki, and because your reactor coincidentally smashed into her body, so..."

Schiller stretched out his hand and pointed at the little girl, signaling to Stark that this was the situation.

"Wait! What did you say before you called me over? You want to give her to me?? Damn it, stop joking. I haven't even gotten married yet, how can I raise a child?!"

"It doesn't matter. If you don't want her, I'll take her for a flight over New York. Anyway, more than 90% of New York citizens recognize your reactor. Tomorrow's front-page headline will be: Iron Man irresponsibly produces an illegitimate daughter and heartlessly abandons her, causing her to wander the streets..."

"I..." Stark was choked up. He said, "But they should know, how could a daughter born to me be born with a reactor??"

"Fairy Wood Romance"

"You go explain that problem to those reporters and media..."

As he spoke, Schiller was about to leave holding the little girl. Stark hurriedly walked up and stopped him, saying, "No! Don't! Wait! You can't damage my reputation like this!... Alright, I know I don't have much reputation, but it can't be like this either..."

Schiller directly shoved the little girl into Stark's arms. Stark held the child in a flurry, but he actually didn't know how to hold a child at all. When he held the little girl in his arms, it was like holding a mechanical part.

After fiddling for a long time without adjusting his posture, Stark simply held the little girl by her armpits with both hands. He first straightened his arms to hold the little girl as far away as possible, then pulled his head back hard, even squeezing out a double chin, and then squinted his eyes to look at the little girl.

Suddenly, he poked his neck forward again, widened his eyes, and observed her carefully, looking just like he was observing a toy he had just gotten his hands on.

"You don't need to worry too much about the details, because the matter is already irreversible. Do you have a way to stuff her back in? Anyway, I don't."

Stark turned his head to glare at Schiller again. Schiller shrugged and said, "From an ethical standpoint, you indeed should be her parent, because previously, the soul in that egg had already vanished, which means the embryo originally in the egg had already died."

"The software equipment that resurrected this embryo was the thunderbolt Loki struck down. She reignited the soul fire of this embryo, and the hardware equipment was your Arc Reactor. Although I don't know why she absorbed this lightbulb, perhaps this is the fate between you as father and daughter..."

Hearing the word "father and daughter," Stark curled his lip. He pulled the corners of his mouth down hard, forming an inverted U-shape that only appears in cartoons, and then continued to stare intently at the little girl.

"What kind of egg was that, anyway?" Stark asked.

"If I said I don't know, would you believe me?" Just as Schiller finished speaking, Stark kept staring at him, so Schiller could only continue, "I can only tell you that it was originally a very, very powerful monster, but for some reason, it died in the egg. So, her physical body is still that monster, it's just that the soul has gained a new rebirth."

Stark put the little girl down and covered his forehead with a headache. He said, "If I had known earlier that something like this would happen, I shouldn't have given you that Arc Reactor..."

"But the culprit of this matter is still you yourself. If you hadn't stood Loki up, would she have struck you? If she hadn't struck you, would she have struck the wrong person?"

"No, I don't mean the birth of this child, but that the Arc Reactor I gave you isn't the latest version, and it has many problems." Stark stared at the reactor on the little girl's chest and said, "Besides, she's still just a child. Don't you think this reactor is a bit too big for her?"

"Mechanical implantation in carbon-based organisms has to consider many problems, and subsequent maintenance is also a troublesome matter. Even if she isn't a human, such a forced combination of a reactor and a physical body will definitely cause problems."

Considering that Schiller really only knew how to screw in lightbulbs, Stark had to explain this matter in more detail. He said, "After obtaining the material Melted Steel, I discovered that it combines very well with the physical bodies of carbon-based organisms. Many structures that couldn't be realized before due to weight, density, or safety can now be made with it."

"So, after obtaining this material, I fully upgraded the Arc Reactor. Although the overall appearance looks about the same, the interior is far different."

"And the one on her body is the old version of the Arc Reactor. The whole thing uses Vibranium alloy. Because it has too many shortcomings, it has already been phased out by me. If it weren't for you saying you were just taking it to use as a lightbulb, I wouldn't have given this thing to anyone."

Schiller also leaned over and looked down at the thing on the little girl's chest.

This Arc Reactor actually isn't big. The one on the chest of the Iron Man suit looks big because Stark added many external mechanical structural parts; to put it bluntly, it was just to look cool. The part that is truly useful can be held in one hand.

This size is nothing for an ordinary adult. If it can be successfully implanted, it basically won't affect daily activities.

But this little girl who turned from Doomsday is even smaller than Aisha, who turned from Parallax. Perhaps it's because the Parallax that turned into Aisha was already an adult, while Doomsday was still in the egg. So, this little girl who turned from Doomsday is about the age of just learning to walk, even younger than Aisha.

In this case, the fist-sized Arc Reactor takes up a very large proportion of her body. Her entire chest cavity is that Arc Reactor, and judging from the way it's combined, it's obviously not very scientific.

Schiller also didn't expect that the Doomsday embryo would actually fuse with the Arc Reactor on the shell. The process he told Stark also has a certain rationality, because Schiller suspects that it might have been that thunderbolt that struck this Arc Reactor from the outside into the eggshell.

And the Doomsday that was in the process of hatching might not have known how to deal with this foreign object, so it combined it into its own body, which also conforms to Doomsday's characteristic of infinite evolution.

Stark frowned deeply and said, "Regardless, this method of combination isn't very feasible. Even if it is feasible, it's best to change her to the latest version, otherwise, when this technology is phased out, I won't have the parts to maintain it."

"So, you've agreed to adopt her?"

"Uh..." Stark was choked up. His expression changed several times, and a complex look appeared on his face. He reached out and pinched the bridge of his nose, saying, "No, I'm not prepared at all. I know I will have a daughter in the future, but not now. It's too early now, I simply..."

"But now, only you can adopt her. She inherited the Arc Reactor on your chest. Just as you said, it might need improvement and maintenance. This isn't something that can be finished in one or two times..."

"If you're sure you can't, I'll go find Loki and let her take this child back to Asgard."

"No." Stark refused subconsciously, and after the refusal, he himself was stunned for a moment, and then instinctively spoke his thoughts:

"Asgard is simply not a good place. The education there is a mess. Thor is reckless, Loki is starved for love, Odin is still that kind of patriarchal father, and Queen Frigga might also be an overindulgent mother. No..."

Afterward, he took a deep breath and said, "Alright, this is a mess I caused, I'll clean it up myself."

He was silent for a while and muttered to himself in a low voice, "Stark... of course you can. You won't become a rotten person like him. You will do better than him, you will definitely teach a more excellent child..."

"In fact, you don't need to have too much pressure. This child's talent might be even better than you imagine." Schiller lifted her up again and then shook her up and down gently. The little girl seemed very happy; she raised her hands high and wailed loudly.

Then, Stark saw that her eyes and hands both lit up with a brilliant glow—

That was the radiance of magic.