Shadow of the Beautiful World

The big explosion at the particle accelerator in Central City is the biggest news of the year in physics.

Or call it a catastrophe.

Before the experiment started, Interstellar Lab used quantum computers to conduct many simulations, but it turns out that simulations and facts can never be equated.

In the real world, there will always be unexpected situations of one kind or another.

It is known as the key to unlocking future energy technology, but a big explosion happened at the moment it was turned on. This is undoubtedly a severe slap in the face of cheering physicists.

On the second day after the big bang, the argument that physics is dead once again appeared on the front pages of major media.

But fortunately, due to unknown reasons, there was not a single casualty in the big explosion that almost destroyed half of the interstellar laboratory

This has to be said to be a blessing in misfortune.

People who survived last night's big explosion are still in shock.

Some people say that the interstellar laboratory has special defense devices, others say that it is God's blessing, and physicists vowed to make a hell model to prove that dark matter is harmless to the human body.

In fact, only very few people know that the reason why no one was killed in the terrible big explosion was just because an idle lord of hell happened to pass by that place during the explosion.

Well, Merlin's date with Icarus, the spectacles, accidentally ended with saving hundreds of lives.

have to say

This is so perfect!

However, although Merlin used the magic of the ancient body to protect those unlucky ones who might be killed by the blast, the dark matter surging out of the particle accelerator explosion still caused many unavoidable injuries.

Among the wreckage after the explosion of the interstellar laboratory, Tony Stark, who had rushed back from Raccoon City after receiving the news, stood in the broken hall with a sad face.

While watching the surrounding firefighters clearing the ruins, he listened to the report from his bodyguard and good friend Happy.

Tony is an honorary director of the Future Technology Foundation, and Interstellar Lab is a test facility under the Future Technology Foundation.

Regardless of whether this incident was accidental or man-made, the final blame will fall on the Future Technology Foundation. Among those responsible, Tony cannot escape.

Iron Man is now extremely grateful for Merlin's casual rescue last night.

Since there are no dead people, the follow-up processing work will be much easier.

Dr. Harrison Wells, who is in charge of this project, is in a pretty bad situation at this time

Happy looked at Tony with a bad face, the fat, burly bodyguard said softly:

At the time of the explosion, he was the closest person to the particle accelerator, and he received the strongest dark matter radiation. He is still in a coma.

Although his life was saved, according to the judgment of the doctors, he may spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair.

Besides, due to unknown reasons, this doctor's brain waves are abnormally quiet, as if he was hit by energy to the brain. In the worst case, he may become a vegetable.

anything else?

Tony bent down and picked up a shattered spectacle frame from the broken ground. He asked a little annoyed:

Are there any other wounded?

Uh, the rest are not serious.

Happy looked at the briefing in his hand and said:

A woman sprained her foot while fleeing, Dr. Harrison's assistant was hit by dark matter and suffered a concussion, and many people claimed to have lost things.

Oh, and there's bad news.

Happy turned to the last page, his expression changed, and he said to Tony:

About Dr. Stone, his son is doing badly.

Stone's son? Victor?

Tony raised his head in surprise, and he said:

Isn't that a rugby star? I had dinner with him the other day, and the kid was kind of silent and had some adolescent resentment for his father, but he wasn't interested in the science stuff.

How did he get involved in this explosion?

It is said that before the explosion, Victor Stone and his father had a quarrel in the interstellar laboratory.

Happy scratched his tangled hair and said:

No one knows why the father and son quarreled, but he was not able to leave the confines of the laboratory when the explosion occurred.

The particle accelerator explosion destroyed the physical structure of the laboratory, causing Victor to be crushed under the rubble and was just dug out by rescue teams this morning.

But he's alive

Having said that, Happy looked at the briefing with strange eyes.

He hesitated for a few seconds, then said to Tony:

Dr. Stone refused to send his son to the hospital. He locked himself and Victor in another laboratory. The old doctor said that he wanted to save his son, and modern medicine could not help.

Um?

Tony's eyes blinked, and he rubbed his chin, feeling that this matter didn't seem simple.

Where's Dr. Stone?

Tony asked:

I think I should go and have a look.

Ten minutes later, Tony's silver sports car stopped in front of another laboratory in Central City. This is the mechanical engineering branch of Interstellar Laboratory, which specializes in the design and development of precision machinery.

Wearing a windbreaker, Tony put on his own sunglasses and relied on his high authority in the Future Technology Foundation to enter the deepest part of the laboratory unimpeded.

Then he saw Dr. Silas Stone who was squatting on the ground, holding his head, and seemed to be crying bitterly, and the curtain in the laboratory was pulled up.

On the ground of this high-end precision research room, there are still a series of seeping bloodstains.

Tony could even hear the patient moaning in pain.

Stone!

Iron Man pushed the door open, and he shouted to the painful Dr. Stone:

Why didn't you send Victor to the hospital? You don't have an M.D. degree!

Tony?

Dr. Stone, who was squatting on the ground, suddenly raised his head. The usually calm black doctor was already in tears.

When he saw Tony, he seemed to see a savior.

He immediately stood up, held Tony's wrist with his blood-stained hands, and said to Tony in a hurry:

Come and help! You can definitely save him, I know, your wisdom, your talent in engineering, you can definitely save him, save my son! I can't lose him!

So what's going on?

Tony was a little confused for a while, and Dr. Stone's emotions were clearly broken, but he seemed to remain awake.

I don't know! See for yourself.

Dr. Stone turned around, grabbed the covering curtain, and then pulled it away, revealing the patient lying on the hospital bed, moaning in pain.

That is his only son.

Central City's college football star, Victor Stone.

this!

The moment he saw Victor Stone, Tony took several steps back in shock.

The well-informed Iron Man was a little overwhelmed by the sight in front of him!

He already knew that the poor man Victor was crushed by the collapsed ruins, and he must have bad injuries on his body, and Tony was ready to see the bloody scene.

And indeed it is.

Vidok's lower body was almost completely crushed.

The flesh and blood are bloody, and you can even see the pale bone stubble, but Iron Man's reputation as a superhero these years is not in vain. He has seen worse situations on the battlefield.

He was not frightened by this injury.

What really scares Tony from the bottom of his heart is that there is a moving machine in the scar on Vidok's chest!

Metal machinery and silver-white mechanical modules seem to grow in Victor's flesh and blood, and as if they have their own life, they are constantly reproducing themselves along Victor Stone's wound .

The scene was like a group of ants made of metal, rapidly removing the broken flesh and filling it with a steady stream of machinery.

Vidok was in a painful faint, but under this mechanical transformation, he still let out an overwhelmed groan.

Most of his chest and left arm have been transformed with silver metal.

In the tumbling of flesh and blood, Tony could even see those mechanical modules covering Victor Stone's bones and heart bit by bit.

Tony took a deep breath, trying to calm himself down in this bloody laboratory.

He pushed his sunglasses and looked up along the mechanical module that transformed Vidok's body. On the young man's shoulder, he saw a very familiar thing.

that box!

That weird box he was working on with a bunch of scientists the other day.

The heavy silver-white box has been opened.

The weird instruments inside form metal limbs and tentacles. On the one hand, it penetrates into Victor's heavily injured body to transform flesh and machinery, and on the other hand, the mechanical tentacles crawl like snakes in the laboratory.

It's looking for more mechanical artifacts.

Just like it swallowed omnics that day, this weird thing keeps assimilating other high-end experimental equipment with various functions in the laboratory, and then assimilates them and converts them into more mechanical modules to fill Vic. Much flesh and blood.

It was activated?

Tony looked at Dr. Stone, and he said:

How is this going?

big Bang!

Dr. Stone clenched his fists and said to Tony:

The big bang of the particle accelerator released energy-rich dark matter. At least one-third of the energy of last night's big bang was absorbed by this box. That energy activated it.

And my Victor had a fight with me, and he was about to leave the lab when he was pinned down by a collapsing wall.

When I found him, the box had already begun to co-exist with him

The old doctor choked up a few times.

He said:

Although I don't want to admit it, that weird box saved him. If there is no conversion of the mechanical module to keep him alive, my seriously injured son will not be able to survive the rescue.

The problem is, it's turning your son into another creature!

The data on the lenses of Iron Man's sunglasses continued to emerge, and he said to Dr. Stone in a cold tone:

Creatures similar to omnics, but retaining human thinking, the symbiosis of flesh and blood and machinery reminds me of some very radical ideas that the omnics of Mechanicus have been promoting.

Perhaps, that box has something to do with Mechanicus.

I don't care what it has to do with it, Tony.

Dr. Stone gritted his teeth and said:

I just want to save my child now, if Mechanicus can save him, then I

etc!

Tony stretched out his hand suddenly, protecting Dr. Stone behind his back.

The golden-red Super Mark armor extended from the watch on his wrist and quickly covered Tony's wrist.

In the lenses of his sunglasses, special energy fluctuations were coming from the other side of the laboratory. Under Tony's vigilant gaze, a white crack appeared in front of the two of them.

The next moment, a female swordsman in white with a long sword on her back jumped out of the gap.

Shiriya looked around, not paying attention to Tony's raised hand and the laser cannon covered on his palm. Her gaze passed Tony and Dr. Stone, and landed on Victor Stone on the hospital bed.

Her Royal Highness Princess Ciriya's expression changed a bit.

She took a step forward wearing high riding boots. Under Tony's surprised gaze, the white-haired female swordsman disappeared in place, and then her breath appeared behind the two of them.

Turning around, Tony saw Siria stretching out her hand, trying to touch the mechanical box that was co-existing with Victor Stone.

Don't touch it!

Tony and Dr. Stone spoke at the same time, and tried to grab Cilia's arm.

But the female swordsman just waved her hand lightly, and the two were knocked back a few steps.

Without saying a word, she reached out to touch the surface of the mechanical box that was beating like a heart, she pursed her lips, and then sighed.

Well, I found it, but Merlin will probably be disappointed.

Merlin?

Tony, who was ready to fight, raised his eyebrows. He looked at the female swordsman who suddenly appeared in front of him, and said:

Does this have anything to do with Merlin?

Which thing in this world has nothing to do with him?

Ciri looked back at Tony, she looked at Tony's face, and she said:

You're Howard's son, right? When I was on missions with him, that guy kept talking about you

You know my father?

Tony looked even more surprised.

It's more than acquaintance.

Ciri curled her lips, and opened another rift with a wave of her hand. She flicked her long white bangs, and said:

I was the one who brought him and Nathaniel to this era. I have to send them back in a few days. You wait here, don't disturb the mother box. I'll go find Merlin.

After speaking, Shiriya jumped into the crack, and the white crack quickly disappeared.

Tony and Dr. Stone looked at each other, and after a few seconds, the white rift opened again, and the projections of Siria, Icarus, and Maharaja walked out of it.

Merlin saw at a glance the flesh and blood body being transformed, and the steel mother box that was being integrated into Vidok's body.

He frowned and said:

Is this the mother box kept by humans?

It's all like this, can it still be used?