[Zhongyingmei] It's not a slime!

"Crack."

The door was opened.

Sitting on the soft velvet bed, Ruby looked up at the familiar yet unfamiliar beautiful woman who walked in on the carpet.

She frowned slightly, and stuffed the sharp figurine that was hidden in her hand and almost threw it out under the pillow.

"Oh, sorry, I should have knocked first," Pepper said. "I thought you were asleep."

"It's okay." Ruby said, she stood up and wanted to run outside without hesitation.

"..." Pepper turned sideways and reached out to stop the little girl who wanted to escape.

Ruby glared back: "Don't stop me!"

"..." Pepper sighed, and she said, "Sorry, it's impossible to leave here without permission."

This is a truth.

The whole building is under the surveillance of Tony Stark, and there is nothing to hide.

Ruby took a deep breath.

After she was invaded, she could no longer see the character panel, but she remembered that the lady in front of her had a level of deception of zero, which meant that she was the only sane person in the building.

If anyone could make sense, it had to be her.

So Ruby said, "I can call for help, as long as you get me out of here."

Pepper looked down at her and said softly, "Sorry, I can't."

Ruby took a step back, staring at her with wide eyes.

"He's my boss," Pepper said calmly, "I'm only here to give you this."

After speaking, she handed a small box to Ruby.

Ruby took it subconsciously, looked down, and saw that there were five energy stones in the box.

"...Does he think these things are still useful?" Ruby thought it was a little funny, "After he did those things and took everything from me?"

"I don't know what he did to you, but..." Pepper said, patting the girl on the shoulder lightly, "Trust me, everything will be fine. Get some rest."

After saying that, she turned and left.

Ruby stood behind her, watching the door slam shut, expressionless.

"We're in serious trouble, System," she said.

After a while, in the silence, Ruby turned around and looked out the window at the gradually setting sun.She walked to the floor-to-ceiling windows and sat on the soft carpet.

"Sorry... I hope there is a place in heaven reserved for AI." She said softly.

……

inside the laboratory.

Tony sat in a chair, boredly watching all the memory files in the system.

He seemed to lack interest, and after casually flipping through some, he closed the memory folder, and opened another encrypted folder after a while.

He looked at the only file inside and narrowed his eyes.

"The follow-up to the Las Vegas incident..." he said softly, "It seems to be the data recorded by the system, but the little girl doesn't seem to know it..."

He read the encrypted data and looked at every shot recorded by the system.

His handsome face flickered with the changes of light and shadow in front of the electronic screen, showing no emotion at all.

After reading it, he couldn't help laughing.

"This is the funniest thing I've ever seen..." he said.

……

That night, Ruby didn't sleep all night.

She sat quietly on the carpet in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, looking at the bright moon outside the window.

She suddenly felt alone.

After the system was deleted, she didn't even have anyone to chat with.

Just sitting there, just silence, just boundless silence.

She took out the necklace that she had kept very well, and put it together with the five energy stones Pepper brought over.

In the past, the [-] energy provided by the eight power stones would definitely make Ruby wake up from her dreams with a smile.

But to her now, it was just a great irony.

what's the point?

Nothing works anymore.The system is no longer under her control, and no matter how much energy she eats, it's useless.

She didn't know how long she sat there until the sky slowly lit up, dispelling the boundless darkness and chill, and the sunlight once again fell on her body through the glass.

It wasn't until the windows in front of her suddenly opened to both sides that she came back to herself as if she had just woken up from a dream, and looked at the devilish man standing in front of her against the light.

Tony took back his battle clothes, fell slowly from the air, stepped on the soft carpet through the floor-to-ceiling windows, and walked in front of her.

He squatted down, picked up the little girl, and said with a smile: "The body has grown bigger, but the weight has not increased much, and it is still so light... I feed you so much food every day, where is it digested?"

Still such an intimate tone, still such a gentle tone.

"...do you not know the answer to this question?" Ruby said.

Didn't those energies flow into the system that you have already occupied?

"Sorry, my mistake." Tony put her on the bed with no apologies in his tone, followed by two small drones for transportation, and he took the rich breakfast on the drone Come down, put it on the bedside table, "I just want a morning joke to pick me up, my little girl."

"I'm not yours," Ruby said.

Tony sighed.

"Are you still angry with me?" He said helplessly, "Don't you like what I gave you yesterday?"

Ruby looked up at him in disbelief.

This person—how could this person have the face to say such a thing!

She grabbed the sharp-edged statuette she had hidden under the pillow and threw it at Tony with all her might.

The drone next to Tony blocked Tony almost instantly, was smashed to pieces by the statuette, and fell to the carpet with electric sparks.

"Oh..." Tony frowned, and picked up the statuette from the ground, "Is it because I told you to get up too early?"

Ruby jumped off the bed, picked up the power stone she threw on the ground, and slammed it hard at Tony Stark.

"Go away! Get away from me, you madman!" She was almost mad.

This person killed the AI ​​that had been with her all this time, took away the system she relied on for survival, and made her into a symbiote armor against her wishes—it was already like this, how could he have any confidence? Do you think you can live in peace with him? !

She was so angry that she was completely smashing, and none of the energy stones in her hand hit.

Tony just stood there quietly, letting the energy stones worth thousands of gold fly by his side, and then fell to the ground.

But the smile on his face disappeared.

When he laughed, although there was always a high arrogance, but at least people could feel his friendliness.

And when he was not smiling, the palpitating oppressive feeling came over like an undercurrent almost instantly, as if there was something dark and terrifying, like a chrysalis condensed in the shadows, constantly beating like a heart, The monster hidden inside can break out of the cocoon at any time, shrouding the world in his shadow.

Ruby had never seen such a terrifying look.

She took a step back subconsciously, but she couldn't throw the last energy stone, and she held it tightly in her hand.

"That's weird," Tony said. "Am I treating you badly? Why do you always think I'm hurting you?"

"Isn't it?!" Ruby said.

"I helped you get out of the control of the system." Tony said, "I give you inexhaustible energy, I respond to you, I provide you with the best environment, I protect you, and I pour countless things into you. Effort—and you think I'm hurting you?"

"You never asked me if I would!" said Ruby, "You only care about yourself!"

"No, you're wrong." Tony said calmly, "If I only care about myself, do you think you can stand here and talk to me so freely now? Even..."

He picked up the power stone on the ground and said mockingly: "You can even throw things at me?"

He looked at Ruby who was obviously stunned, chuckled and picked out a macaron from the breakfast plate and took a bite.

"For you, I invited more than 20 Michelin three-star chefs to study how to make desserts better every day." He said, throwing the remaining macarons in his hand into the coffee cup, The rich, fragrant and extremely expensive coffee splashed out in an instant, staining the carpet, "For you, I searched all over the world for these power stones that you used to smash me, even if their owners asked for exorbitant prices. I have long Asked what you want, who told me she only wanted energy? Who agreed to my research on her? I have done so much for you, and how do you repay me?"

Every time he asked a question, he took a step forward, and Ruby could only step back subconsciously, the huge pressure almost made her breathless.

"I can tolerate rebellion," he said, "but there is a limit to my patience."

Ruby gritted her teeth, she knew that she could no longer entangle with this guy, she had to leave here first.

She glanced at the opened window, and heard the faint sound of birdsong and waves in her ears.

——The closed room is opened, and the sound can be transmitted!

Ruby was about to call Clark to help, but she heard Tony say calmly:

"I know you want to call Superman over, but do you think I'm missing the point?"

Ruby froze for a moment.

"What do you mean?" she asked.

Tony laughed.

He took out a few gravels glowing green from his pocket, and said with a smile, "This stuff is much easier to find than power stones."

— Green Kryptonite.

Ruby's pupils shrank slightly.

"This thing has been loaded into the security weapon of the new Stark Tower, and the dose is enough to kill a Kryptonian." Tony threw the kryptonite the size of a fingernail on the ground, leaving them on the white carpet. There was a faint green light, "Although I don't want to go to war, people must learn to protect themselves, don't they? On this point, I agree with Luthor's idea, oh, by the way, these kryptonite He sold half of it to me."

"How could you...he never offended you!" Ruby looked at the scattered kryptonite on the ground in disbelief.

"Yeah, so he came over yesterday, I didn't greet people with this kind of thing." Tony said with a smile, "but if he came to me and did something that would make me unhappy... then I would say no Yes."

"...You are simply a lunatic."

Tony's smile deepened: "Just make some self-defense weapons, and be called a lunatic? Stay with me, and your psychological endurance will be a little stronger, my little girl."

"Who wants to follow you!" Ruby was almost stunned by his shamelessness, "Obviously you won't let me go!"

Tony shrugged: "It seems that you don't like me, which is too disappointing. In this case, I don't care about you, you can do whatever you want, of course, the scope of activities is limited to San Francisco... Research It's not over yet, you're still in debt."

After speaking, he stood up, and the battle suit covered his body again, and then he flew out from the huge French window and jumped directly into the swimming pool below.

In an instant, the splashed water even passed through the floor-to-ceiling windows and wet the carpet in Ruby's room.

The deafening rock music also rang at this moment, and those men and women who had been waiting for the party to start rushed in impatiently, cheering and jumping into the swimming pool.

Ruby stood behind the floor-to-ceiling windows, looking down at everything in front of her.

The new Stark Tower seems to be born for indulgent entertainment. Looking around, every amazing open-air platform of it is full of almost erosive pleasure that has no place to pile up.

Surrounded by everyone, Tony turned his head to look at Ruby who was standing on a high place. He just glanced at her and then ignored her.

Standing in the heated atmosphere, Ruby felt chills all over her body.

She didn't know how long she had watched these sensual scenes, maybe she hadn't watched them at all, her soul had already been out of her body, and she didn't even know what she was thinking.

Until she couldn't bear it anymore, she jumped from the window, ran to Tony who was lying in the chair, and asked, "Why did you do this?"

Is it just to keep her by his side?

Tony took off his sunglasses, a little surprised: "Oh, I didn't expect you to come and reconcile with me so soon."

"I didn't reconcile with you!" Ruby gritted her teeth.

Tony smiled and was about to say something when suddenly there was a scream from the swimming pool.

Ruby looked over subconsciously.

But with just such a glance, the huge shock immediately nailed her in place, and a chill almost rose from the soles of her feet, making her almost want to escape here trembling.

She saw that those extremely beautiful men and women seemed to be cursed by the devil at this moment. She watched their skin from tight to loose, from fair to sallow, and watched their bodies become bloated and short. Watching everyone who can be called a supermodel become an ordinary person who can even be called ugly.

Some of them screamed and covered their faces, some of them frantically searched for their phones, and some of them had run away, ashamed to stay in this place—

Ruby picked up a cell phone that had fallen at her feet, and she saw the interface on it.

——The trial of Extremis 3.0 is over, and the rental will be renewed for one hundred dollars per day.

……

Ruby knows about Extremis.

Tony once told her about this amazing product, and he said that it can change people's body, making them more youthful, beautiful and healthy.The product, he said, can perfect those who are flawed and make everyone in the world a better place.

Ruby also expressed curiosity at the time, but Tony just smiled and said: "Our little gem is perfect enough." He simply brought the topic to the past.

And now-

Now, Ruby looked at everything in front of her, and her heart was filled with great amazement and fear, like a shadow that could never be erased.

"You..." She could hardly speak, and stared blankly at Tony with her mobile phone.

"My phone...my phone! Give it to me!" A woman in a bikini rushed up, snatched the phone from Ruby's hand, and tremblingly looked at the interface displayed on the phone interface.

"No, no, no, no..." She looked at the almost sky-high price in despair.

She looked at Ruby standing beside her, as if she suddenly saw hope, and grabbed her slender arm: "Please, please, give me another chance to try it out! I can't live without it, please is you……!"

Ruby tried to pull her hand back, but the grip was so tight it almost hurt her.

She looked at Tony, who just stood up, as if he didn't care at all, and said lightly: "If you think about it, you can come to me anytime."

Then he went inside the building.

He didn't even look back at her.

The woman was still holding on to her tightly, as if she was holding on to the last straw: "Please, Tony Stark likes you the most, doesn't he? Help me beg him, I can't live without the Extremis virus... "

—Tony Stark likes you the most, doesn't he?

Ruby subconsciously denied: "He doesn't..."

However, the woman's words were like a switch, which immediately made everyone boil, and they walked towards Ruby like walking corpses who lost their minds, with distorted and longing expressions on their faces—— Know whether it is the Extremis virus they are longing for, or the more powerful power represented by Ruby.

Ruby took two steps back, bewildered.

She wanted to go to Tony, but Tony was gone, and Ruby hated herself for subconsciously asking Tony for help—what happened to her?Does she also agree with the statement that Tony Stark likes her the most?

However, those who have been twisted by desire are getting closer and closer, and Ruby has almost no way to retreat.

"Get out of the way!"

At this moment, a female voice sounded, unceremoniously dismissing everyone.

Pepper stood in front of Ruby and said, "Everyone get out of the way! Otherwise I'll call security!"

After she finished speaking, she turned around and held Ruby's hand, leading her into the building without hesitation, leaving those people behind.

She turned her head to look at Ruby who was in a daze, sighed and said, "Don't be afraid, I'll take you back to your room."

"...Thank you." Ruby whispered.

Pepper rubbed the little girl's head and said softly, "If you need any help, just come to my office and find me."

At the same time, Ruby felt Pepper lightly pinch the hand she was holding.

——This is some kind of hint.

Ruby was slightly taken aback, and raised her head to look at Pepper, who looked at her seriously, and after noticing the inquiry in her eyes, she nodded slightly, affirming her guess.

Ruby took a deep breath.

"it is good."