pertwk Chapter 461 Hostage Exchange
Chapter 461 Hostage Exchange
Chapter 461 Hostage Exchange
A sneeze!
Tony, who was lying in his office chair, sneezed and felt himself wake up from a daze.
Looking up, he saw the steel skeleton, now with eight arms, spinning around the lab, having mastered multi-threaded operation.
"woke up?"
Cyborg, who always had a clear view of the entire laboratory, immediately greeted Tony, who had taken a short nap.
Although the situation is urgent, it's not a mistake to take a nap. After all, Tony and Reed are made of flesh and blood, unlike Cyborg, who is a machine that can run non-stop 365 days a year.
It's important to know that before Superman appeared in the world, after the conflict between Paradise Island and the seabed broke out, Cyborg spent more than half a year doing the same thing.
Realizing he was awake, Tony sprang up from his chair with a huff: "How long have I been asleep?"
"Don't panic, it's only been less than five minutes, to be precise, 4 minutes and 43 seconds."
With its built-in supercomputer, Steel Bone effortlessly calculated Tony's sleep time, accurate to the second, and even monitored his sleep patterns: "Your sleep quality is pretty good; you can dream as soon as you wake up."
"That's not a dream!"
Tony, still shaken, got up and turned to walk towards the crystal ball: "I'm basically possessed by an evil spirit right now!"
These magical contraptions are so bizarre; even with Doctor Doom in his current state, they still manage to haunt me relentlessly.
As for the method Doctor Doom mentioned, Tony seemed quite interested: "You said you had a method, you'd better tell me now!"
Because their research on time machines stalled from the very beginning, this path might be feasible, but it certainly wouldn't be something that could be accomplished in just seven or eight hours.
As for using the Time Stone to increase one's time again like last time?
Having learned from the previous experience, Tony didn't think this would be an option again.
If used again, perhaps the two worlds will collide instantly.
But this time the crystal ball was unusually quiet. No matter what Tony said, or even when he started attacking the other's groin, there was no response from inside the crystal ball.
"I'm going crazy!"
Realizing he was grasping at straws in his desperation, Tony put the crystal ball down again: "How could someone have such a crooked idea?"
This is a crystal ball containing the super threat Doctor Doom, not some genie lamp that can grant any user's wish by rubbing the outer wall three times.
No matter what Doctor Doom was planning, Tony was determined from the bottom of his heart not to let him succeed!
But perhaps the other party has already achieved their goal?
Tony couldn't help but speculate in his mind, because his mind was already in turmoil.
Although Tony firmly chose to believe in Superman just now, humans have never been binary machines that can be clearly divided into 0 and 1, or between truth and falsehood.
The thought of Doctor Doom's prediction of the destruction of a thousand universes made Tony even more uneasy.
Upon closer reflection, Tony realized that Doctor Doom might not have been lying after all.
He said that Tony's universe would collide with Spider-Man's universe in 2099, so he destroyed the 2099 universe first, and the collision did not happen.
In the same universe as the cyborg Iron Man, Doctor Doom also visited, but the difference was that the destruction of that universe was prevented by Superman and Tony. Then, what happened next was a collision between the two universes.
Did the destruction of 1024 worlds really buy the possibility of one's own universe surviving a little longer?
How could he make such a decision without hesitation?
Tony put himself in Tony's shoes and wondered what he would do in that situation.
—I really can't think of anything.
Tony felt that some things could only be truly chosen by the person involved when they happened.
Even so, Tony felt there must be more to the story.
Doctor Doom clearly didn't tell me the whole story; what happened was definitely not as simple as the other person made it out to be.
For example, the most crucial missing link—
"Tony!"
Tony, who was lost in thought, suddenly heard someone calling his name: Reed.
Mr. Fantastic stretched out his rubber body, circled the room, and then went to the adjacent computer room to remove a few graphics cards to serve as temporary computing power to solve some minor, peripheral problems.
"Stop spacing out, we need you!"
"good!"
After responding, Tony casually tossed the crystal ball into the trash can and quickly returned to his experimental post. Reed undoubtedly needed Tony to share the burden.
Since the appearance of the zombie sentinels, Reed's workload has been almost at its maximum.
Tony estimated that the other party had probably only rested for a short while during this series of events—if that brief period of unconsciousness after Batman erased his memory could be considered rest.
This kind of research on time is the most mind-bending. Tony saw that even the research fanatic Reed couldn't stop yawning on the way back, and he was naturally annoyed to see Tony slacking off like that.
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"Hmph, what's with the swagger? You Kryptonian traitor! Earthling spy!"
On the other side of Earth, back home, the white-haired Kara from the universe is standing outside the door with Joey, coming to see their Kryptonian acquaintance who has been captured.
Meanwhile, Lor Zod, who was imprisoned in the same cell as Kara had been, pointed at the former and cursed, "I told you long ago that a girl like you, with your wavering stance and weak heart, wasn't suited to join the Sword of Raoh. If you weren't also named El, you wouldn't have had a place in the army back then!"
Despite the attack, the white-haired Kara remained unperturbed; she was no longer the person she once was.
After all, once she made up her mind to stand on Kal'el's side, the so-called honor of "Sword of Raoh," as well as the rank and recognition within the Kryptonian military system, became irrelevant to her.
"Little dwarf, if it weren't for your surname Zod," Kara chuckled, seemingly unfazed by the attack, gesturing to indicate Lor's height. "At your height, you wouldn't even be able to get through the fleet's gate!"
"you!"
Enraged by being attacked in two sensitive spots, Lor Zod charged forward and, despite the red sunlight, used his Kryptonian strength to slam the cell door shut with a loud clang.
Then, unsurprisingly, Lor grimaced in pain.
This was inevitable. Ever since the accident where Kara, who was trapped inside, dragged Joey in through the laser-sealed isolation door and beat him up, the door had been replaced with an indestructible Inetrol metal.
If he were under yellow sunlight, he might have some hope, but under red sunlight, the Kryptonian would definitely have no chance.
Joey, however, was more concerned about something else—emotional weakness?
Is this word used to describe Kara, this crazy woman?
Why didn't she show the slightest weakness when she beat me up back then?
However, upon closer examination, it's not impossible to spot some clues; the white-haired Kara appears somewhat disjointed in most situations.
The extreme ideologies spurred by Krypton's impending destruction made her radical and belligerent, but she still had a relatively happy childhood living in Krypton's metropolis.
"Does he have a problem with everyone in the El family?"
Joey had a feeling that Lor Zod's hostility towards him stemmed not only from his being a traitor to Krypton, but also from his surname.
"normal."
This was confirmed by Kara herself: "Not to mention him, the entire Kryptonian military system dislikes members of the El family, because our kin are basically all against Jor El."
Most members of the El family, who value peace, reason, and hope, dislike Joe El, an outcast.
At the pinnacle of Kryptonian power, Jor-El seems to have lost all sense of reason, a reason so profound that it frightens everyone.
It's not just the El family who think this way; many people in Kryptonian society also have a strong aversion to them.
"Oh, right."
When Joe Al was mentioned, Joey recalled what the other man had told him before, about the hostage exchange between the two sides.
The Kryptonians are busy stopping the Green Lantern Corps and may not have time to deal with this for the time being, so Joey might as well show some sincerity first.
He instructed Kara to run a errand for him: "Go and release Fiora and Nam."
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