Chapter Forty-Eight: Phone Booths and Snipers

Tony Stark finds himself in a series of big troubles.

According to his original schedule, he came to Afghanistan only to demonstrate and sell weapons, but the reality is that he was attacked on his way back from the demonstration, and he became a prisoner of an organization called the Ten Rings.

For Tony, his money and position are meaningless at this moment, and the only thing that guarantees his survival is the brains and skills he possesses.

The reason why the bald head of the Ten Rings caught Tony was because of Stark's superior technology in the field of military industry, and he believed that as long as he could hold Tony in the palm of his hand and let the genius boss keep creating new weapons for himself, he would be able to do whatever he wanted.

In the past, Tony would have been triumphant at this compliment, but now...... He had truly felt the power of death.

Tony Stark began to reflect.

Two days ago, he was a staunch egoist, convinced that his weapons would only be sold to the U.S. military or some other righteous person, and that those who died at the hands of his weapons deserved it, and that he only had to sell them and collect the money himself.

But now...... Tony's mind changed.

He saw real death, and he saw the Stark-emblazoned weapons crates that dotted around the secret base of the Ten Rings.

He finally realizes the mistake he has made, and the ideas he has always thought are self-defeating have caused an unknown number of innocent people in the world to die under the weapons developed by his company.

Even he himself is being threatened by the guns produced by his own company.

But Tony Stark is a genius who deserves to be, and it's true that he's a playboy, but his talent in science is unmatched, and he comes up with a plan that will help him escape under the control of the Ten Rings.

That was to create an external armor that could resist firearms and arm weapons so that he could safely escape from the depths of the Ten Rings base, and in addition to that, a jet set would be needed to allow him to rise into the air as soon as he returned to the ground to escape the terrorists' pursuit.

And it is well known that this thing that Tony created in this terrorist organization was the original model of the steel suit.

In fact, this thing is even stronger than Tony imagined, wearing such a set of braking metal armor, he seems to have become a mutant-like existence, and the threat to him from ordinary people is almost zero, even a large-caliber machine gun cannot tear his body.

But only a little problem arose during the flight.

As Tony rose into the air in the flames of the explosion, his thrusters went wrong, causing his body to arc in a long arc in mid-air, smashing into the sand like a cannonball, and shattering his armor.

So, when Tony got back up in the endless desert, all he saw was a pile of scrap metal.

It wasn't far enough from the base of the Tenth Ring, so Tony had to embark on another journey, intending to find out if anyone could give him a ride—whoever he was willing to pay a million dollars in reward for helping him.

Unfortunately, this place is deserted and close to the lair of terrorist organizations, so it is impossible for anyone to be there.

He could only drag his tired body through the desert with little difficulty.

However, those who have watched the movie know that Tony was eventually found by Rod, who was searching for his traces in the desert.

But...... Things are a little different here.

Because Tony had just walked up a sand dune, he saw a phone booth.

That's right, it's a phone booth.

A fully transparent old-fashioned telephone booth with glass walls on all sides stands out above the sand dunes, which is extremely abrupt.

When things go wrong, there must be demons.

Tony hadn't heard such an Oriental slang, but he understood it, especially since he had just escaped, and he just wanted to avoid complications, even if the phone booth might have allowed him to reach the rescuers.

But if there is a phone booth here and now, it is better not to go close.

That's what Tony thinks, and that's what he does.

But he had barely taken two steps when a slightly shrill phone rang in the phone booth — as if someone had called.

And this also means that this lonely phone booth standing on this sand dune can really work.

Then, there are two choices in front of Tony at this moment, first, to call the reinforcement with that phone that will definitely work, which means that he can be rescued and leave this hellish place in the shortest possible time, and he doesn't have to worry about those terrorists chasing after him; Second, stay away from that phone booth, the appearance of this phone booth is too coincidental, and too weird, no government will build a phone booth in the middle of the desert, and pull a telephone line thousands of miles away to ensure that it is easy to use, but it is still on its own way, but if you choose this one, Tony is likely to die without touching anyone, and will be consumed alive in this desert.

Although everyone who has seen the movie knows that Tony will be rescued eventually, Tony himself at this time does not know this.

But he stared at the phone booth not far away for a long time, and finally planned to leave.

He always had a feeling that this phone booth that suddenly appeared here was probably a set.

Then he walked forward.

The phone rang nonstop.

And then......

The ground in front of Tony exploded.

He saw a light shoot from a long distance and fall in front of his eyes, but it was like a missile landing, and the sand in front of him was lifted up, and in the dust, Tony was forced to fall to the ground.

Tony's reaction was also fast, he got up and rushed in the other direction as soon as possible, however, the same as before, he had only rushed out a few steps, and there was another loud bang, a thunderous whistling sound came from the air, and the sand in front of him exploded as if a bomb had been planted, and Tony was once again overturned by the shock wave and air waves, splashing his body with wild sand.

Then Tony saw a red dot.

It was a red dot that came from an unknown distance, and it stopped on his body, as if he had noticed the existence of the red dot that Tony had noticed, and it began to move slowly, and Tony gasped and followed the red dot all the way to the phone booth not far away.

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