"This may be my last birthday party, and I hope you'll be there."

Thanks to Tony's invitation, Eric finally puts down his Sky Palace design and goes to Playboy's house.

As soon as he entered his playroom, he was greeted by loud music.

"Welcome to my birthday party, Eric." Tony, who was also wearing a steel suit at home today, turned the lights in the room to the lowest level to put himself in the center of everyone's sight, and now saw Eric enter the door from a distance, and immediately pointed at the visitor with the microphone in his hand and shouted to the crowd below. "This is my friend, the new Magneto!"

The crowd immediately screamed, Eric, who had always kept a low profile, had only saved more people in the city than Tony, and he didn't need to play himself in a flashy style to still have a lot of supporters here.

After hugging and taking pictures with the lively and enthusiastic girls, Eric finally went to the corner of the room with the help of Pepper and watched Tony play crazy from a distance through a translucent Japanese screen.

"Look at him, he's crazy, he can't control himself at all, I thought he was drinking or using some inappropriate drugs at first, but I didn't expect it to be like this all this time." Pepper looked back at Tony, who was frolicking with DJ, and waved his arms vigorously to vent his resentment.

"Or maybe I never really got to know him. Maybe for an ordinary girl from the countryside like me, the world of a metropolis billionaire is still too far away. Pepper's tone was full of resentment.

"I think he just wanted to let off steam." Eric replied casually with a shake of his glass.

"What pressure can't be said and borne together?" Pepper immediately retorted.

"That's the stress that can't be solved." Eric said in a very low voice, continuing to taste the icy liquid.

"What the hell is wrong with you two, all of you are mysterious, last time Tony said that he would not tell me the truth, you must give me an answer today, otherwise I will never believe your words." Pepper shook her head violently, her golden head glowing softly in the dim light, and the pearl necklace on her chest swayed as her body writhed. When she finally stopped, grabbed Eric's hand and demanded an explanation, her breath became a little short.

"Actually, this question is obvious, with your wisdom it is impossible not to guess, you dare not face it, so you have to say it through my mouth?" Eric looked at Pepper silently, and Miss Potts' hands on his arms tightened violently, then let go weakly.

Pepper is not a fool, Tony is a successor again, and he behaves so perversely. She could see what it meant for him to act like this, and with Eric's hints, she had already had terrible suspicions, but Tony had been avoiding them, and she didn't dare to face them, and today she was finally about to come into contact with that terrible reality.

For a moment, her heart panicked, her face was as pale as blood loss, her blood pressure dropped sharply, her body was cold, and her body couldn't stop sweating a lot after wiping antiperspirants.

Eric could feel the tide in her palms.

"Men's psychology is different from women's. The more people care, the less they want to worry. You think we're not stressed, but we just don't want you to show up. He said slowly, and the words drifted into Pepper's ears.

Pepper mechanically took the Martini from Eric. After drinking it all, she coughed violently, and she was so nervous that it was difficult to accept this quiet elixir.

"You guys?" Pepper asked subconsciously, her legs a little weak now. I don't know how to face Tony, so I can only take the opportunity to talk to Eric to adjust my mood.

"Of course, you don't think I'm really made of steel." Eric. He withdrew his hand and tapped Pepper's vest and toasted Tony through the screen.

"Now everyone in New York knows that I'm a hero, I'm the leader of my countrymen, and I'm going to fight for them, but I'm afraid no one knows that I don't like to take on too much responsibility. I am used to fighting for myself and am happy to protect the people around me, but I am not the kind of saint who will spare any time for my compatriots, and I never have been. ”

"And what kind of person are you?" Pepper looked at Tony, then at the man next to him.

"Actually, I'm a very selfish person." Eric replied slowly as he looked at the dim light. "My world revolves around myself, and outside of me are my dearest relatives, parents, children, wife, etc., and I will love them in my own way without any reason; Then there were my best friends, including my students, whose shared experiences and mutual understanding gave them an important place in my heart, but at a slightly lower level than the previous one. ”

"Then there are the other people I know and like, and so on, when I call my compatriots, they are just symbols to me, I don't even know them, I sympathize with their plight, and feel pity from the bottom of my heart, but this feeling is not so much that I care about their fate as it is out of concern for myself, and I don't really intend to give up a piece for them."

"Your people will be disappointed when they hear this, they see you as a savior. While most of us are like this, few of us have the courage to speak so clearly and directly as you do. Pepper shook her head and sighed, she finally relented, and now she picked up a glass of whiskey herself without Eric handing her a drink to be alarmed.

"No, they won't." Eric said indifferently. "I'm not going to inspire them and send young people to war, I want them to survive and become the tide of the world. In the process, everyone will interpret the world according to their own needs, and they will give all kinds of reasons for my words until they interpret my original meaning more in line with their position. ”

"Sounds like an egoist." The alcohol soothed the nerves, the tension and annoyance were hazy like a layer of mist, and Pepper stared out at Tony, who was shooting the bottle with his palm cannon like a madman, for a moment, her legs cocked, and the beautiful and clear lines of her legs were exposed.

"Actually, that's what I am." Eric admits it. "So when I'm on the side of being wary of the conspiracy of the ill-intentioned guys, and at the same time I have to arrange my life for these people I don't know, I'm under a lot of pressure, because I've never had a sense of divine mission to help me ignore the difficulties, I just want to change their fate and avoid one day I'll end up in this quagmire myself - so you see, Tony and I are both under pressure, but I'm more likely than him to find a way to send me that suits me."

"How did you do that? Teach me, I'm also distressed. Pepper leaned over and asked, her cheeks flushed a little, and her breath smelled of wine.

"Do you really want to know?" Eric looked at her deeply, his bright eyes reflecting a sparkling light.

"No, I don't want to ......".

Pepper wanted to say this, but her throat seemed to be dumb, and her body was limp and weak.

After a moment of confusion, her person had been held in Eric's arms and kissed softly.

"Don't do that, Eric." Pepper gasped, and soon fell into Eric's hands again.

The string of kisses made Pepper relax, and she felt guilty as if she had betrayed poor Tony. It was a remote corner, a thin screen that cut off the rising cheers outside, and she was terrified that she would be unable to help but dive into it.

Eric ignored her and kept his head down until he kissed her so hot that his face was hot.

"Are you feeling better now?" Eric asked softly.

Pepper's eyes were confused and a little uneasy, but fortunately outside had changed dramatically, Tony's friend Roddy put on a spare steel suit, angrily broke in and mingled with his uncompetitive friends, and the people who had been cheering fled in all directions, just in time for no one to show their business.

Helping a delirious Pepper to the break room, Eric walked back in, and when he entered the game room, Tony and Roddy were fighting until the last minute, and the palm cannons collided with each other to send out a huge shockwave that shattered all the glass inside and outside the room.

The fluctuations in energy parted automatically in front of Eric, and now it was empty, except for the faint light from the ceiling.

Roddy got up from the ground, glanced at Eric, and said nothing, and under his control, two flames erupted from the soles of the plane's feet, carrying him through the large hole in the roof and flying into the night sky.

Tony lay motionless on the ground, in fact, he was not seriously injured, the steel suit protected his body well, but he just didn't have the strength, and his eyes didn't fluctuate when he saw Eric coming over, as tired as someone who was about to take his last breath.

"Are you happy with a birthday party like this?" Eric asked, looking down at him.

"You don't understand, Eric."

Tony was silent for a moment before half-sitting up: "When you look down on all beings in the sky, it's just a talent you were born with, you can feel bland, but I can't do it." Powerful, free, unrestrained, I can't let go of this feeling. It's all amazing, and only then do I feel alive. ”

He sighed deeply, then his chest tightened, half of his body sat up, and in his stunned gaze, all the shredded shrapnel that had accumulated near his heart that even the most astute cardiac surgeon could not completely remove melted, and turned into a stream of metal mist escaping through the muscles and skin of his chest.

"I can relate to your feelings, that's why I'm here." The metal mist turned into a smooth bead and floated up, and Eric stared at it faintly, his eyes a little dark, Tony was like a mirror to him, from which his alter self was reflected.

"Thank you." Although he didn't understand what he was talking about, Tony expressed his gratitude and it was a good thing to be able to escape these pesky pieces of metal before he died.

Then he heard Eric's Tiyì.

"Now sue me if you're still going to risk your life to be your Iron Man if I give you the chance to choose from scratch."

Tony looked up for a moment, and the eyes on it were as cool as water. (To be continued!)

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