Chapter 26: Performance

Kada Ember stood on the top floor of the skyscraper and waved to the crowd gathered below.

With a smile on his face and an elegant posture, as he himself said, the actor who walks on the stage is an artist with a burning bearing.

The show was long overdue, but the crowd below seemed to be busy with something, and curiosity caused Ember to postpone the show and lean over the fence to look down.

"Don't be impulsive, friends above!"

Some police officers shouted at the roof of the building with new PA equipment, buying time for their colleagues who had installed life-saving air cushions on the side.

"Nine times out of ten, things don't go well in life. ”

"As long as you live, you will definitely encounter ups and downs of one kind or another. ”

"But let's not run away, don't give up, one day, you will find that those ups and downs are just to make you better!"

"Don't be impulsive, friends above!"

......

Ember retracted his head to look down, feeling for the first time how friendly the Ionian crowd was to the artist.

However, he is a seasoned performer, with a unique experience in controlling the stage, and his raised right hand rises upwards as if conducting a symphony orchestra, and then falls violently.

Just when the people below were unknown, the earth followed the commander's movements and let out a roar.

The straight pavement of the asphalt road was cracked in a large area, and there were collapses in many places.

Out-of-control cars hit lampposts on the side of the road, and green trees planted on both sides of the road fell in large areas.

The sound of wails and sirens sounded one after another, and an opera called "Suffering" was played.

"Thank you all for taking the time out of your busy schedule to join me in my show, and I, Kada Ember, an artist from afar, promise to make your trip worthwhile!"

Standing steadily on the fence, Ember bowed to the panicked crowd below, and the aria-like voice sounded clearly in the ears of every "audience": "I have divided New York into four areas with this as the center, and in each area, I have left a bouquet of delicate roses, and the center of the rose is a thumb-sized detonator." ”

"Press it, and the corresponding area will bloom with flame-outlined stamens due to the explosion of the gas pipeline, and the scorching lotus of the pure world will turn the area into a sea of fire. ”

"Some people will fear for their safety, but there is no need at all. ”

"I can guarantee that the detonator will not correspond to the area where the detonator is located, and similarly, the explosion of gas pipelines elsewhere and the burning of flames will not spread to other areas. ”

"Weird?" the performer continued, "If I say it's an exercise of willpower, you wouldn't understand it, so you might call it a superpower." ”

There was a certain convincing power in Ember's words, and the disjointed streets added to the credibility.

"Go find the detonator, folks, and it's better to hold it in your own hands than in someone else's hands. ”

"I must give you a kind piece of advice, though, before you decide to press or not press the detonator. ”

The masked man's voice was still polite, but to the panicked residents of New York, it was no less than the whisper of a demon: "The detonator in another area may not correspond to your area, and the detonator in your hand does not necessarily correspond to the place you want to blow up or don't want to blow up." ”

"This is a group play, you have enough room for self-play, you can choose to strike first, stifle a possibility and danger, or you can choose to pray for God's mercy and surrender your fate to the goodness of others. ”

"Also, the districts are not equally divided, and it is likely that there are only one or two houses in one area, and more than half of New York in one area. ”

"Perhaps, your family members who go out to work and school belong to a different area than you, and you choose to blow up exactly where they are. ”

"Or maybe the detonator that detonated your loved one's area is in the hands of a tyrannical and cruel guy, and the detonator that blew up where he is is is in your hands. ”

"Because of your hesitation, your loved ones died in the fire, and because of your grief and undeserved kindness, the discarded detonator allowed the murderer to escape from your fingertips. ”

Ember chuckled, enjoying the pleasure of the show's success in advance: "Snatch and give up, beg and kill, give or be selfish, and...... The interweaving of emotion and reason!"

"You have an infinite number of options, I look forward to it, I look forward to it!"

As he spoke, Ember's form suddenly vanished, and then appeared on the other side of the roof, flashing a beam of electricity that struck him.

Casting his gaze into the air, a red-and-gold iron man hovered there, driven by a jet of anger.

"Who are you?"

Ember really didn't know the one in front of him, but listening to Iron Man's ears became some kind of provocation.

In other words, Tony's trash talk can definitely make the other party doubt his life, but this time, Tony Stark didn't say a word and launched various attacks on his own.

He needs to hurry up and take down the other party, press out the relevant arrangements, and save New York, which has lost order because of his description, from chaos.

......

The trench coat flicked and detonated the miniature homing missile far away, and the blast pushed the embers away in the opposite direction.

The current beam appeared at the end of its regression, forcing him to use "flash" to leave.

Looking at the messy rooftop, the face under the ember mask flashed a trace of anger and impatience, the opponent's armor is quite good, but the lack of combat experience seems to be a child, but this kind of recruit-like goods forced him to be in a hurry, unable to enjoy the repertoire with peace of mind.

A recruit who relies on reminders of external help to fight himself?

Although he didn't understand artificial intelligence, the dramatist with extremely strong consciousness perception still guessed the other party's dependence.

But this did not help to improve the current situation, he was not a Jinx who played the police as a fitness sport, and grappling has never been liked by him, nor is he good at it, not to mention that most of his attention during the fight is on perceiving the "performance" of the people of New York, the filth and brilliance of human nature, which makes his soul intoxicated.

"Bang-"

Another beam of light flashed through the embers, striking the roof of the building with a roar.

Tony didn't care about the damage caused by the explosion, which belonged to him, and had already told the staff in the building to evacuate after choosing it as a battlefield.

At the moment, this mansion is the most suitable battlefield, and he can unreservedly use the full strength of the new warframe.

With his father's research manuscript on new energy provided by S.H.I.E.L.D., Tony not only solved his own palladium poisoning problem, but also upgraded the steel suit, equipped with a lot of laser weapons, as well as a coordinated fire control system, and the combat effectiveness was more than twice as strong as the previous one.

"I hate being interrupted when I'm admiring art, and you well-dressed iron man interrupts my perception one after another......"

Ember was awakened from her intoxication by the roar and the continuous attacks of laser weapons, and there was a flash of murder in her eyes.

It is not difficult to kill the other party, as a top killer, when Ember shows his killing intentions to a person, not to mention just an ordinary person who relies on a battle suit, it is Victor in his heyday...... Well, even Rambo in its heyday, be careful!

However, Ember eventually gave up on the idea of killing the other party.

He hated killing for no reason, because there was no beauty in it, especially at the beginning of the play, when the gore of the play would dilute the cruelty and artistry, making his work and performance less perfect, which was unbearable for the ember of the artist to flaunt himself!

"What convinced you that I didn't have the general detonator to detonate everything?"

Not wanting to let worthless battles affect his intoxication with beauty, Ember glanced at the pestering Red Gold Iron Man and threatened, "Don't disturb my appreciation of art anymore, vulgar fellow!"

"If you force me to kill you, then my art is no longer perfect, and imperfect works should not exist in the world, so I will destroy it with my own hands, and destroy the whole of New York by the way!"

"You lunatic!"

Tony could hear that the other party was not just talking, so he could only reluctantly stop in the air and let Jarvis scan all the natural gas pipelines under New York little by little, in order to discover the relevant design and arrangement of the other party.

"Crazy?" Ember nodded in agreement: "A lot of people call me that, of course I'm crazy, artists are crazy!"

"I'm so curious if you grew up eating paint, and looking at all this you caused, you can still lick your face and call yourself an artist?"

Resisting the urge to shoot the other party with a miniature missile, Tony used his words to attract the attention of the other party, buying Jarvis time.

Ordinary speech can't affect Ember's consciousness perception, and he can still immerse himself in his flawless works, so he doesn't mind talking to each other about his ideas.

As for the other strange consciousness of finding the blasting point, Ember ignored it, he had never done anything on the gas pipeline, but had made a few strange plastic products and prepared a set of descriptions about it.

If you think about it, you can know that how can a guy who walks on weekdays be a stage style, how can he deign to drill underground pipes.

Moreover, he has no intention of destroying New York, and those rhetoric are like a set on the stage, but they are only to deepen the sense of immersion in the play.

"Art requires a fair degree of cruelty!"

Feeling the smell of blood and chaos blowing in the wind, Ember said with an emphasis akin to chanting: "The stage is ready, the curtain is open, this performance led by me is the true art that all works without painless embellishment need to be admired, and her beauty is incomparable!"

"I didn't see any art, I just heard a madman muttering to himself!" Tony Stark scoffed.

"How many times have I told you, Iron Man, feel it with your heart!"

There was a certain joy and frenzy in Ember's voice: "This is a wonderful performance, the name of the play is called 'Human Heart'!"

PS: It took many deletions and revisions to complete the draft, so everyone waited for a long time.