[Zhongyingmei] It's not a slime!

"No!" Dick resolutely expressed his objection.

"Why?" Ruby and Peter expressed confusion at the same time.

"He...he's a playboy, you all know that!" Dick said while eating the cherry cream trifle angrily, while holding the small spoon tightly, "Who knows if he has any perverted hobbies..."

"Hey, hey, I don't like it when you say that!" Peter almost turned his face on the spot, "Mr. Stark won't have any perverted habits, he is the best person I have ever met!"

After he finished speaking, he paused and added two words: "...One."

"Trust me, kids." Dick put on a straight face, trying to look very serious, "The world of adults is much more rotten and dirty than you imagine."

"Are you saying that you changed three girlfriends within a month?" Ruby said while pinching the necklace in one hand and resting her chin in the other.

Dick: ...

Dick: "How do you know that!"

After a pause, he was furious: "Did Jason tell you that!"

"I didn't say that." Ruby quickly denied.

Dick took a deep breath, and made a note of Jason in his small notebook, then put on a serious face again, and said, "Anyway, I don't suggest you go to Tony Stark's place, you go and read it for a while." Just look at the news related to him, this guy's character is simply ridiculously bad, exactly the same as Bruce in front of people."

"..." Peter wanted to open his mouth to refute, but after hearing Dick's words, he fell into subtle doubts.

If this person scolded Mr. Stark, he could just scold him, why did he even bring his own father to scold...?

But what should be refuted is still to be refuted, Peter said: "That's just a part of what people have shown before, Mr. Stark has saved the world so many times, he even almost died several times - without him, the aliens would have broken through The defense line of the earth is broken, you can't always talk about some insignificant shortcomings of him!"

"Inconsequential little flaw, ha!" Dick repeated with exaggeration. "Did you see the way he looked at Ruby? Hell, he's not holding back at all!"

Pure Peter: "...? What look?"

Dick: ...

This, how should he describe this?

Dick: "...I can't believe I'm talking to two kindergarteners like this."

……

That hiccup aside, Ruby and Peter are having a really good time in New York.

There were times when Ruby even thought it was fine to just be with her friends.

But on the way back to Gotham, she took out the precious necklace she hid, and when she saw the orange light refracted by the power stone on it in the setting sun, her bright ruby-colored pupils moved slightly, In the end, he took back the idea just now.

——In any case, she has to solve the energy problem first.

At least, she has to make herself strong enough.

Strong enough, strong enough that no one has the ability to hurt her.

Dick on the side looked at Ruby who was staring at the necklace in a daze, and snorted softly: "You said you like this kind of shiny necklace, I can bring you a box."

When it comes to money and extravagance, how can it be Stark's turn to play in front of their Batman.

Infuriating!

Ruby smiled and put away the necklace in her hand, and said softly, "I don't like it that much either."

Ruby didn't eat the necklace on the spot.

On the one hand, she felt that there was no need to rush to eat what she had already obtained; on the other hand...

She didn't know what Tony Stark's purpose for giving her this necklace was, at least, she wasn't so sure.

She no longer casually believed in the benefits of falling from the sky.

This was an important lesson Constantine taught her.

"balance".

——All the gifts of fate are secretly marked with a price.

She had to know what the price tag of this necklace was.

……

It was already after eleven o'clock in the evening when we returned to Gotham. Jason and Bruce were not there. They seemed to be out on a night patrol. Alfred was also working in the Batcave. The huge Wayne Manor was deserted, so quiet that it seemed empty. no one.

Because Dick had to go to work the next day, he rushed back to Bludhaven overnight. Before leaving, he told Ruby to go to bed early.

"Otherwise, be careful not to grow taller." He said very caringly.

Ruby looked at the back of him leaving, and didn't know where to spit out the trough in her heart for a moment.

"Did he forget that my limbs can stretch freely?" she said.

"Regarding this, maybe you can discuss your experience with Mister Fantastic?" the system suggested.

Ruby didn't bother to share her experience with Mister Fantastic, she had other things to do now.

Under the light she produced the business card that Tony Starks had given her.

The business card seemed to be bronzing, and the material reflected golden light under the light, full of luxury and nobility.

"Do you want to contact him?" the system asked.

"Of course." Ruby said without hesitation, "Who would let go of an S-class host body with such a high initial bewitching degree? Isn't this just a free resource?"

System: "...You have figured it out now, who still remembers the Red Skull by the Daming Lake? The initial deception level was also very high back then."

Ruby smiled and said, "Oh, it's different, Iron Man is so handsome."

system:"…………"

"But it's weird..." Ruby muttered, "Why is the level of bewitching so high...?"

This doesn't look like a serious superhero, this looks like a villain dominated by infinitely expanding desires...

But she took another look at the necklace on the table, and finally took a deep breath.

- What are you afraid of!Anyway, he was the one who was bewitched. No matter what, she had the initiative, and a mere human being should not be able to cause any substantial harm to her.

It's a big deal to cheat some energy and run away!

System: ...It's been a while, and she's starting to show her true colors as a scumbag again, right?

Ruby: Well, life forces it, life forces it.

……

The next day, Dick told Bruce what happened after Ruby went to New York.

Bruce frowned after hearing this.

He has automatically removed all subjective negative emotions from Dick's description, such as: "That nasty arms dealer is still touching Ruby's face with his hands that don't know how many lives have been stained" "Did you see that?" Seeing his eyes is like a weasel seeing a white and fat chicken." "This guy has no good intentions, I swear on the back of my head" "He actually bought that dessert shop one step ahead of me. Sure enough, there is an artificial intelligence. The butler is amazing”…

"Strange," Bruce said, "Why is he so interested in Ruby all of a sudden?"

He remembered that the last time he contacted Stark, the other party only expressed a little interest in Ruby, and the intensity of this interest was almost equal to his interest in female models on the cover of magazines. If you can have the best, it doesn't matter if you can't. Anyway, there are more fun things in the world.

And the attitude he's showing now doesn't look like he's just "a little interested"... Could it be that he just wants to snatch Ruby away from him?

The more Bruce thought about it, the more it seemed possible, after all, Tony Stark was such a boring and wicked person.

"I don't know." Dick said, "Maybe it's because our Ruby is cute and wants to grab it."

"What did Ruby say?" Bruce asked.

"She didn't say anything." Dick shrugged, "Sometimes I really don't understand what the little girl is thinking, she really has the attitude of 'not taking the initiative, not refusing, not being responsible'... To be honest, this It’s a bit like me, and it’s also like you.”

After he finished speaking, he couldn't help laughing, but seeing Bruce's face as dark as the bottom of a pot, he put his smiling face back angrily.

"I'll ask Stark about this." Bruce said, "Ruby...she can do whatever she wants, let's not interfere too much."

Bruce knew exactly what Ruby's problem was, and he would never make the same mistake as Clark.

"It's hard to imagine that you would let an alien do what she likes to do, it's not like you." Dick rubbed his chin thoughtfully, "Could it be that you have mastered something about her that we don't know about?" weakness?"

"Yeah," Bruce said.

"I don't think you'll tell me either, will you?" Dick asked.

Bruce glances at him.

Dick: ...

Dick: "Okay, I get it. Why am I asking?"

"It's for safety, Dick," Bruce said. "The defenses of the brain are weak."

Dick shrugged: "Okay, it's all up to you."

For the peace of Gotham, Jason must not know about this, he thought to himself.

……

"This is all the alien energy bodies we've found so far." Pepper put the small box on the table, "It's 11 yuan in total, plus the last three yuan, the total is 14 yuan, and there are two left outside. The other party’s asking price is too high, and we are still negotiating.”

"Well..." Tony sat in a soft chair, and threw the finished wine bottle into the trash can, "Don't talk about it, just buy it at their asking price."

"Are you sure?"

"Of course I'm sure." Tony stood up, walked to the experiment table, and said while putting on the goggles, "This is a necessary scientific research investment."

"...I thought you had given up drinking." Pepper said, looking at the mess of wine bottles in the trash can.

"Really? I don't remember." Tony said nonchalantly, "Also, can I ask you out for a while? I'm working."

Pepper pursed his lips, trying to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything.

She turned and left the room.

Tony picked up the small box containing the power stones and took a look inside. The precious 11 yuan power stones were neatly placed inside, shining with a mysterious and strange luster.

As an ordinary alien energy body, it can quickly and efficiently recharge the armor, but this is far inferior to its other function - to make the cute little symbiote girl happy.

At this moment, his cell phone rang.

Tony glanced at it and chuckled.

"I thought it would be later." He said softly.

At the same time, he got on the phone: "Hey, Bruce, what's up, your academic paper on "Research on Alien Characteristics Based on S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Confidential Information-Taking Symbionts as an Example" is finished?"

"Stark." Bruce ignored Tony's nonsense, "You invited Ruby to Demon Island."

"Yeah, but I've been thinking about changing my name to Stark Island recently... What, are you unhappy because I didn't invite you?" Tony asked with some confusion, "Oh, don't worry, this isn't neglecting you , but I consider that you are usually very busy, so..."

"Your interest in her wasn't as strong and obvious as before," Bruce said. "What changed your mind?"

"Don't worry, Batman." Tony smiled on the other end of the phone, although the smile didn't go deep into his eyes, "It's just a little curiosity and an exploration of academic research... I won't It hurt a hair on her."

Tony gently closed the small box containing the energy body in his hand, and hid those strange crystals inside.

"On the contrary," he said. "I'll give her the best of everything in the world... I'm sure she'll like it."