Upon arriving at the exhibition, Tony suddenly plummeted, transforming from mid-air to a position just over two meters above the ground.
He led a squadron of battle armors straight toward Qin Xiao.
The relentless barrage of bullets behind him forced Qin Xiao to instinctively shield his head.
The sheer density of the attack blinded him.
As Tony roared overhead, Qin Xiao blindly reached out, yanked down one of the armors, and slammed it violently to the ground.
"Damn it, wrong one!"
Qin Xiao watched the downed armor continue firing at him from the ground.
With a flick of his wrist, he plunged his Tang Dao into the armor's Arc Reactor, instantly shutting it down.
"Can't you aim better?"
"I don't have a face shield! Try again!"
As they exchanged frantic insults, Tony quickly stretched, executed a sharp turn, and charged at Qin Xiao again.
This time, Qin Xiao didn't disappoint. The moment Tony's armor flew overhead, he leaped and tackled Rhode's armor.
To prevent Rhode's armor from resisting, Qin Xiao plunged his Tang Dao into its Reactor.
*Clang!* The ordinary metal alloy of Rhode's outer shell was easily pierced.
But the gold-titanium alloy within stubbornly resisted the blade.
"Looks like I need to earn some points quickly to upgrade my weapon!"
Qin Xiao muttered to himself, lowering his head and putting all his strength into a punch at the hilt of the Tang Dao.
*Thud!* The Tang Dao sank more than ten centimeters into Rhode's chest.
The blade pressed against Rhode's T-shirt, nearly impaling him through the chest.
Fortunately, the Reactor section of the armor was only protected by a thin layer of gold-titanium alloy. Had it been any other part of the armor, Qin Xiao might not have been able to punch through so easily.
And thanks to that thin layer of gold-titanium alloy, Qin Xiao likely couldn't have stopped his momentum, or he might have impaled Rhode to death.
"Qin, Rhode, are you okay? Did you resolve the issue?"
"We're fine, just that Qin Xiao almost stabbed me to death!"
Rhode stared at the blade protruding from his chest, even breathing carefully, afraid that any sudden movement might drive the blade deeper and kill him.
"You two should lie down and stargaze for a while. Don't even think about standing up!"
As soon as Tony finished speaking, he circled in the air and landed not far from the two.
When the battle armors behind him descended, Tony straightened his arms and swept them in a wide arc.
Two crimson laser beams traced circles around the area, slicing the surrounding battle armors into three perfectly even sections.
Qin Xiao followed the path of the lasers with his eyes. Even trees a hundred meters away had been cut into three segments.
"That move was incredible! Couldn't it last a little longer?" Qin Xiao marveled.
"No choice," Tony shrugged. "That's how ultimate moves work. If you could use them freely, they wouldn't be ultimate anymore."
"Hey, could someone pull this damn knife out? The main villain hasn't even shown up yet!" Rhode groaned from the ground.
"Alright!" Qin Xiao stepped onto Rhode's chest and, with a grating metallic screech, slowly began to extract the Tang Dao from his chest.
"Is it over? Tony! Are you all okay? Is Rhode alright?" Pepper, dressed in a white professional suit, suddenly appeared, with Black Widow at her side.
"Pepper? What are you doing here? I told you to stay at the company!" Tony asked, bewildered.
"You didn't tell me you were using yourself as bait today! I thought it was just a normal exhibition. When I saw battle armor flying all over the sky, I had to come check it out! Wait a minute, are you blaming me?"
"You told her?" Tony glared at Black Widow.
"Can someone just help me get out of this battle armor!" Rhode interjected at the opportune moment, but no one paid him any mind.
"What choice did I have in this situation? Besides, she's already here!" Black Widow spread her hands in a gesture of innocence.
"Tony, stop changing the subject and blaming others! For God's sake, can you at least tell me in advance next time you make a decision? I don't want to be stuck in my office watching TV like an idiot and only find out what's happening after the fact!" Pepper said firmly.
"I was trying to keep you from worrying, Pepper. You know how dangerous this is!"
"Hey! I want to get up!" Rhode's voice was ignored again.
Tony and Pepper were arguing, while Qin Xiao and Black Widow stood by watching the spectacle, too preoccupied to notice him.
"Oh, that's a *perfect* excuse! You were afraid I'd worry, so I ended up pacing my office and rushing here anyway. Next time..."
"What was that sound?"
A sharp, piercing sound cut through the air.
"Ivan Vanko's here. You guys should..."
"Rat-a-tat-tat!!"
Before Tony could finish, the battle armor in the sky had already opened fire on the ground.
Qin Xiao darted forward, shielding the two women with his body!
"You two go on ahead!"
Without waiting for their opinions, Qin Xiao scooped them up, one under each arm, and carried them horizontally. He leaped a hundred meters straight out of the battle zone before setting them down.
"Stay safe—run as far as you can!"
He exchanged a cautious glance with Black Widow, a silent warning passing between them. Qin Xiao then turned and returned to the battlefield.
As expected, Tony, having exhausted his ultimate attack, was no match for Ivan Vanko.
Here, Vanko's battle armor was even more formidable than in the movies. Three Arc Reactors were integrated simultaneously into his chest and shoulders—one for power, the other two dedicated to fueling the energy whips in his hands. After all, his moniker was Whiplash, and whips were his specialty.
By the time Qin Xiao returned, Tony's neck and feet were tightly bound by two energy whips. The whips crackled with violent energy, each surge causing the armor to crack and splinter.
"To counter you, I deliberately sacrificed the battle armor's mobility. If you'd run just now, I wouldn't have had any good way to stop you. What a pity..."
The energy output of an Arc Reactor was staggering. Powering three of them simultaneously put immense strain on the battle armor's power lines.
It was like a Gatling gun: the extreme rate of fire required six rotating barrels, and even then, the barrels would overheat after a few minutes of continuous firing, forcing a cooldown period.
The battle armor's design was even more complicated. Adding two reactors more than doubled the complexity of its power lines.
Qin Xiao didn't understand this as well as Tony did. Seeing Tony being slowly dragged closer to Ivan Vanko, Qin Xiao leaped up and plunged the Tang Dao into the back of Ivan Vanko's neck.
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