When the signature sonic boom echoed through the night sky.
Not only Harvey, but everyone on this cargo ship—including Killian, who was still burying his head and working hard between Pepper's legs—understood that Iron Man had definitely arrived.
Over the years, Pepper had heard the sound of this armor flying at high speed countless times.
Therefore, when she heard the familiar sound penetrating through the porthole, her body stiffened, and then she reacted intensely, beginning to struggle frantically.
Killian was clearly even more aroused by the reaction Pepper displayed.
"Hahaha! Ms. Potts, the more you resist, the more turned on I get. Come on, don't deny what your body wants. Enjoy this moment to the fullest with me!"
"No! Get the fuck off me!"
...
Harvey had no interest in the ensuing scene.
He left the bedroom and arrived on the deck of the cargo ship.
Just in time to see a gold-and-red figure stick a standard superhero landing.
At this moment, beneath the metal faceplate, Tony Stark's face was incredibly ugly. Without saying a word, he immediately began clearing out the small fry.
"Bang, bang, bang!"
Repulsor blasts blew the enemies holding assault rifles clean in half.
The scene instantly became extremely bloody.
This cruel scene of flying blood and gore made even Harvey frown.
"Good lord. Tony Stark is clearly killing to vent his anger. Whatever happened to the superhero no-kill rule?"
"Sure enough, as long as it touches a man's bottom line, even Iron Man's rationality will crumble."
Unable to bear watching, Harvey silently turned around.
Fortunately, even though Killian's subordinates were all injected with the Extremis virus, they still weren't enough to face an enraged Iron Man.
In just three short minutes.
Before Killian had even finished his business in the bedroom, Tony Stark had completely slaughtered all the small fry on the deck.
Following that, realizing there was more entertainment to be had, Harvey followed him to the door of the Captain's Cabin.
Tony Stark raised his hand, firing a repulsor blast that completely obliterated the metal door of the Captain's Cabin.
"Boom—"
Such a massive commotion nearly scared Killian into going limp.
And when Tony Stark saw Pepper's face covered in tears, shrinking under the covers and looking incredibly pitiful, the fire of rage burned furiously in his heart.
The armor's faceplate clacked open, revealing Tony's livid, ashen face.
"You damn piece of human garbage. If you want revenge, come at me. You're actually shameless enough to force yourself on a woman?"
Hearing Tony Stark's furious tone, Killian unhurriedly explained, "What do you mean 'force'? Ms. Pepper Potts was clearly cooperating quite well."
"Stark, who told you to constantly wander through beds of flowers, leaving you unable to satisfy a woman as ravenous as a wolf like her? I was just kindly helping out. You should be thanking me."
Tony's temples throbbed violently as he listened. He had also seen the video spreading like wildfire on the internet just now, and he had to sadly admit that the other man's words held some truth.
"Cut the crap. If you're a man, let's take this outside and fight!"
Killian bared his teeth, feigning surprise as he said, "Why do we have to fight? Ms. Pepper Potts can help me prove whether I'm a real man or not!"
Hearing these blatantly humiliating words, the string maintaining Tony's rationality in his brain instantly snapped.
"Fuxx! Go to hell!"
Seeing red, Tony Stark raised his hand and fired a high-energy laser beam.
Killian flipped and leaped off the bed, dodging the laser attack.
Looking at the bed that had been sliced in two and was still sizzling with black smoke, he said with great pity, "You really don't know how to take care of public property!"
Hearing his deliberately emphasized words 'public property', and seeing Pepper, who was nearly sliced in half by the laser, roll onto the floor screaming in terror...
Fire shot from Tony Stark's eyes. He charged forward, swinging a metal iron fist fiercely toward Killian's face.
"Bang!"
Killian let out a disdainful scoff and activated his ability, his skin turning into molten magma.
He easily caught the incoming punch, and with a backhand throw, he slammed Stark heavily into the floor.
"Boom..."
A large hole was forcefully smashed into the steel floor, and Stark fell into the empty crew recreation room below.
Killian cracked his knuckles, didn't even glance at the terrified Pepper, and jumped directly down the hole after him.
Not long after, Harvey heard the chaotic clatter of things being smashed coming from the hole.
He couldn't be bothered to watch the fight between Iron Man and Killian. Taking advantage of the opportunity, he searched the bedroom and finally discovered a safe hidden inside the wardrobe.
"Alohomora!"
The titanium alloy safe clicked open on its own.
Harvey completely bypassed the neatly stacked bundles of US dollars, gold bars, and gemstones.
He finally looked at a gray file folder.
He opened it and took a few glances.
He discovered that this was not the Extremis virus experimental data he was looking for, but rather blackmail material concerning Vice President Rodriguez.
It included call recordings, video footage, and backup files of bank statements.
Harvey had absolutely no interest in this kind of blackmail material. This little scandal was nothing to the Vice President.
In America, even political donations are legal, let alone merely exchanging favors with terrorists.
He believed that even if he posted this blackmail material on the internet, the Vice President would at most temporarily resign to take the blame, then come back out to run for Congress once the heat died down.
So it would be better to simply destroy this blackmail material, letting America have one more high-ranking official who doesn't do a damn thing right—which would be a good thing for the whole world.
Thinking of this, Harvey tossed the file folder into the air.
Fiendfyre materialized out of nowhere, burning the file folder to ashes in seconds.
After dealing with the blackmail material, Harvey cast a Stunning Spell, knocking out the annoyingly loud Pepper Potts, and then lowered his head in deep thought.
"It seems my line of thinking was wrong. How could Killian possibly store a precious serum like the Extremis virus in paper documents?"
"I should go directly to his laboratory to find the finished serum, and then search the memories of the Extremis virus's inventor, botanist Maya Hansen, for the serum's manufacturing method."
Acting on his thoughts, Harvey followed the original plotline and opened a portal to the Advanced Idea Mechanics (A.I.M.) company in Austin, Texas.
Crossing thousands of kilometers.
He once again entered the company building invisibly. The blonde sweetheart receptionist at the front desk on the first floor was drowsy, and the security guards were standing idly by the door.
Harvey smoothly bypassed everyone, finding the Extremis virus laboratory located on the 15th floor of the A.I.M. building.
Seeing bags of red serum stored in the low-temperature sample storage cabinets, his eyes lit up.
He had just cast the Sectumsempra curse to shatter the tempered glass of the storage cabinets and placed all the finished products into his spatial bag, when a piercing alarm immediately sounded.
But when the security guards rushed into the laboratory, they found it completely empty.
The guards looked at each other in dismay. Remembering the terrifying scenes of their tyrannical Boss losing his temper at them, they all shivered collectively.
"What do we do? The intruder escaped!"
"Fuck it! I don't care anymore, I'm not risking my life for this measly paycheck. Let's run too!"
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