"Wow, your face is so ugly."

In the smart tower of the Eichenwald Smart Industrial Park, Tony finished typing a character, and he turned his head to look at Mandarin, and found that the latter's expression was as gloomy as a storm was coming.

Moreover, his body seemed to tremble abnormally, as if there was some kind of regularity and some kind of pain.

"Do you need to see a doctor?"

Tony asked with concern.

"Do your thing!"

Mandarin's tone was no longer polite this time, he seemed to tear off all the disguises of appearance, and roughly pushed Tony to the console, and he ordered:

"Give you another 10 minutes! Solve the problem at hand! ”

"10 minutes? Are you kidding? ”

Tony retorted:

"I can't do it in 10 minutes! Are you blind? Can't you see how much data I'm going to process? ”

"That's your problem! Ahem..."

Mandarin replied brutally, but the next moment, he began to cough violently.

Back then, when he obtained the Ten Rings, he was given great power, but this power was not without a price, his soul and life were bound to these ten rings in an indescribable way, and if the Ten Rings were no longer complete, his power would be greatly weakened, and even his existence itself would be affected.

Once, Mandarin thought that was only the price necessary to gain power, but as he grew stronger, especially after the peak of the Ten Rings, Mandarin also realized the shackles that the Ten Rings had imposed on him.

A king's life should not be manipulated by some rings.

Therefore, outside of the Ten Commandments, Mandarin was also seeking a new source of power, and luckily, he found a scroll from the ancient and mysterious Kunlun Holy Land in the ancient Eastern Kingdom, which was said to come from the true heaven.

Unfortunately, it was much more difficult to learn this power than it was to manipulate the Ten Precepts, and it took him a lot of time to get started, and it took him decades to complete his first "rebirth".

That made Mandarin's dying body return to the youngest age like a dead tree in spring, but unfortunately, with his current attainments, he could not get rid of the shackles of the Ten Commandments.

Merlin's thump of the Lightning Ring from afar was like a sword slashing at Mandarin's soul, and the pain was indescribable.

He knew, that cunning bastard, that Merlin who stole his ring. Riley, in this way, was urging him to make a decision.

Is it to be a smart machine center? Or do you want the Ten Precepts?

He had to make a choice right now... The perception that came from his spirit told him that the Lightning Ring could not withstand too many blows.

Although theoretically speaking, it is impossible for the Ten Rings to be destroyed, but the theory also needs to be combined with reality, with Merlin's current rank, plus a long sword made of pure vibranium, it is not impossible to destroy the Ten Rings.

"You've only got ten minutes!"

In the smart tower, Mandarin brutally grabbed Tony's neck, and he shouted with red eyes:

"Otherwise, die!"

At this time, even if Tony was stupid, he realized that something very beneficial to him had happened, and the smart man immediately put on the appearance of a dead pig who was not afraid of boiling water, and said:

"Then kill me, you can't finish it in ten minutes!"

"You !!"

Mandarin really had the idea of killing Tony at this moment, but the plan had come to this point, and it would be too difficult to let him give up.

"Smack"

He threw Tony to the ground, his fingers pressed against Tony's chest, and between the cyan energy lingering, he said to Tony:

"You've only got 25 minutes... After 25 minutes, your heart will stop beating and no one will be able to save you! Tony. Stark, if I die, you will die, and if you die, it will only be a small failure for me, and I have many more opportunities to do such a thing. ”

"And Potts, if you dare to play tricks, I assure you that the woman you love will definitely live a very 'happy' life under the care of many men for the rest of her life!"

Mandarin's eyes shone with an undisguised cold light, and he said:

"Go and do your thing."

With that, he dodged and disappeared into the smart tower, Tony clenched his fists, and he stood in front of the console, as if he had given in again, until 2 minutes later, he looked left and right, and then shouted to the two thugs guarding the control room at the door:

"You two, come here, do me a favor."

Thirty seconds later, under the tower, Tobiang, who was replacing the tower's energy hub, suddenly heard a call from the communicator:

"Toby! Come up with the reactor! Fast! ”

"Tony? Hell, only friends can call me Toby... Also, shouldn't this reactor be ...

The short old engineer was a little puzzled, but was soon interrupted by Tony, and the playboy called out weakly:

"That's not for smart towers at all, that's just a lie to the layman, hell, is your brain kicked by a donkey, the models of the two don't match at all, bring it up... Quick, I can't hold it anymore. ”

Tobion immediately grabbed the beautiful palm-sized, blue-glowing, crystal-like reactor in his hand, and rushed into the control room a few minutes later, only to see two corpses lying on the ground of the control room.

While Tony is leaning against the edge of the room, clutching his abdomen, he has been stabbed, fortunately, the intelligent tower's artificial intelligence "builder" has been restarted, and a drone healing robot is treating Tony's wounds.

"Bring it over and do me a favor."

Tony beckoned to Tobiang, he pulled back his shirt and pointed to the heart, where a strange light was shining, and Tony said to the old engineer:

"I've set up instructions that the builder will perform a heart operation for me, but the energy left behind by Mandalin is weird, and I need a high-powered burst of energy to destroy the energy that wraps around my heart... I have less than 15 minutes left, Toby. ”

"You're crazy!"

The old engineer screamed:

"Burst of energy above your heart, that will tear your heart apart, and you will die!"

"No, I won't!"

Tony gritted his teeth and pointed to the console:

"I've calculated the most accurate burst frequency, which would send me to near death, but it only takes a super electric shock for me to come back to life and get rid of that demon completely..."

"I've added some new stuff to the builder's crafting program, but I need you to help me finish it, you're a weapons designer, right? Then go and help me design the weapon to use against the Mandarin. ”

Tobiang immediately ran to the console, he looked at the data that Tony had written earlier, and after a moment, he let out a wild laugh:

"Haha, you're not changing the thinking module of the AI at all, you're designing a set of weapons... Hell, I almost thought you gave in, you're yours, Tony. ”

"Haha."

Tony, who had only 15 minutes left to live, also let out a hearty laugh, and he sneered:

"Fools should read more, but it's a pity that fools like Mandarin don't understand this, they don't know what I'm doing, they just see a cloud of data beating, this is the power of wisdom, the power that they can never understand... Toby, I'm going to have surgery, I'll leave the rest to you, I promise to help you rescue your daughter, I promise. ”

"Wait, Tony."

Looking back at Tony, who was lying on the ground and letting three medical drones perform heart surgery on him, he said:

"You're going to put the reactor in your body? Hell, there's palladium in there, and that's deadly... You're going to get infected. ”

"I can't do that much now, Toby."

Tony gritted his teeth and said:

"This is our last chance."

"But there's also you woman, that Potts chick, isn't she still being ...

Tobiang asked again, and then he heard Tony's deep voice:

"No, Potz and Harpy must have been rescued, Mandarin is just bluffing!"

"Although I hate Merlin... But I have to admit that if I had to choose between Mandarin and Merlin, I would 100% choose to trust Merlin... Ah, it was only in such a desperate time that I realized why so many people would choose to follow that nasty guy. ”

"It's really reassuring to have him behind me..."

"Go ahead, Toby, finish my design, and wish me survive."

Tony closes his eyes, a drone injects him with general anesthetic drugs, and the other two drones, controlled by the AI builders of the smart tower, slice Tony's chest with a laser knife, and they seem to be intending to put a strange object into Tony's body.

On the other side, Tobiang sat in a hovering chair, his only five fingers tapping quickly on the keyboard, and on the projection in front of him, a slightly strange weapon system of intelligent combat armor was being completed, and some conservative designs were abandoned by Tobiang in favor of more powerful weapon systems.

No one is worried that this design won't come to life...

Please, these two self-saving creatures are now in the world's most sophisticated manufacturing workshop, and as long as their wits can keep up, the Smart Tower will make them weapons that can destroy the world...

Although it is not designed for this purpose.

The dwarven-like engineer gritted his teeth, his eyes full of stubbornness and madness.

"Little Brigitte, I promised your mother... I'll take care of you, I will..."

"Wait for me, daughter, dad will save you soon!"

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On the other side, on an island in the Atlantic Ocean, the gloomy Mandarin tearing space appeared on the sea in front of Merlin's eyes, and he watched Merlin in a trench coat constantly hitting his lightning ring with his long sword.

Sparks flew around, like a blacksmith's shop.

It was the first time the two had met in the true sense of the word, even though they had played each other several years ago.

That time, Merlin lost and almost died, but he still bit Mandarin hard and kept him in pain until now.

"Oh, the guests are here."

Merlin flicked his wrist, he raised his head, and gave Mandarin a gentle smile, and said:

"I know that when we are faced with two difficult choices, a lot of people like to flip a coin, and that's really the best way to decide, not because the coin gives us the right answer, but the moment the coin flies into the sky, we know what we really want."

"Looks like you've just finished tossing your coin, Mr. Mandarin, and unfortunately you've made the wrong choice..."

"But there's nothing surprising about it, because you speculators can't be reasonable, and you're going crazy trying to take every opportunity, like you're addicted. You've lost, Mandarin, and your plan is bankrupt. ”

"I think I can take both."

Mandarin raised his ten fingers, and the power of the Nine Rings became active, and he looked at Merlin, and he said sharply:

"I will win, in both battlefields, I will!"

"Oh, then I'm afraid you're underestimating Tony. Stark. ”

Merlin swung his sword, he didn't care at all about the power of Mandarin's call, he said:

"The guy who doesn't like it, but has enough wisdom to change the world, will definitely surprise you in a moment, but I suspect you won't see it... Hehe, now, please wait a minute, I have to finish one last thing now, you see, this ring is crying, maybe the next hard blow, it will be shattered. ”

"Say goodbye to your darling."

In the midst of a vicious chuckle, Merlin's longsword slashed down, and the power gathered by Mandarin, storm, gravity, fire, mind, ice, shadows, beams, electromagnetic fields, and even mysterious material reorganization, these complex and chaotic energies also gathered together, and in Mandarin's roar, they smashed towards Merlin.

"Boom"

The terrifying collision of energies made the sea wail at this moment, and Merlin was knocked back several steps between the clash of energies that could melt everything, but his sword was less than an inch away from the nearly shattered Ring of Lightning.

"Smack"

Mandarin's fingers grasped his last ring at the moment when the long sword fell, and the ten rings were united again, and the scars on the ring began to recover rapidly.

However, at this moment, Mandarin saw the smile on the corner of Merlin's mouth.

"Trap complete... Prey into the net. ”

"Buzz"

The only magic on the Lightning Ring was activated at this moment, and Mandarin felt an invisible hook slam into his navel, so fast that he didn't have time to react, and the next moment, he was thrown into a space that shone with magical light.

He began to fall rapidly, but relying on the complete Ten Commandments and his own strength, he came to a steady stop on the ground of this strange land, and before his eyes, Merlin was suspended in the sky, and behind him was an endless dark red earth, a red desert, so barren that it did not look like the human world.

Well, it's really not human.

Merlin's trench coat swayed in the air like open wings, and he pulled a golden warhammer out of his pocket, and in the beating of eerie purple lightning, he opened his arms to Mandarin as if he were welcoming guests.

"Welcome to Hell..."

"Friends."