He observed from a hundred meters away.
Watching the mountain-sized starfish Starro on the ruins of Jotunheim, it was almost instantly consumed by the mysterious Black Cat-shaped entity.
The surviving members of the X Task Force, namely Captain Robert, Second-generation Ratcatcher Cleo Cazo, Harley Quinn, and King Shark Nanaue, all showed astonishment.
Evidently, they had underestimated Composite Xinian's abilities.
But before they could feel relieved, the X Task Force members saw an Iron Man descend from the sky into the battle.
Although the Iron Man's armor had a platinum base coat and its design differed from the World-renowned standard appearance, the stark, metallic luster of the steel armor, along with the bright White light emanating from Iron Man's chest arc reactor and square eye-slits, undoubtedly proclaimed his unique Superhero identity—
Iron Man, Tony Stark!
He rose to fame as a mortal with a heart of steel, New York's eternal god!
"Another heavyweight has arrived," Captain Robert said, taking a deep breath as he watched the battle.
"He's not coming for us, is he?" Cleo asked, a little nervously.
Harley chuckled, shrugging her shoulders and saying self-deprecatingly, "You can rest assured, we probably aren't important enough for him to target. He's most likely after that cute Black Cat."
"Cute?" The others looked at her with an odd gaze.
"It's a shame it's just a cat. But even if it's a cat, as long as there's love, it's fine, right?" Harley stuck out her tongue, licking her sensual, dark red lips.
"Chomp chomp…" King Shark Nanaue continued to grind his teeth… Above the ruins of Jotunheim, a pile of rubble and scrap metal.
"Excellent. You haven't left yet, otherwise, this Anti-Black Flash armor would have been a waste." Iron Man slowly stood up from his kneeling position. In the bright sunlight, the platinum and White armor, interwoven with lightning patterns, shimmered with cold arcs of light.
Xi Nian, in the form of the Composite Black Cat, stared intently at Iron Man. His eyes, which had originally glowed with a faint green light, now had one side tending towards a White void.
Although he was still the dominant party in the Three-in-one existence, he was increasingly losing human emotion and inner rationality.
Since he had found the target he was looking for—Starro—
Xi Nian's original intention was to withdraw from the island nation and return to Washington, but facing Iron Man's provocation, how could the short-tempered Three-in-one possibly endure it?!
If you don't agree, then fight!
And so, without many words,
Xi Nian suddenly bared his teeth in a sinister grin, and in the next instant, the floor beneath the Black Cat was directly shattered.
The streamlined, dark cat body, trailing wisps of afterimages, accompanied by exploding air and whistling gusts of wind, transformed into a Black lightning bolt and charged directly towards Iron Man!
Iron Man, wearing the Anti-Black Flash armor, was confident, but he also knew that Black Flash was by no means easy to deal with. So, from the moment Xi Nian moved, his body and mind were tensed to an unprecedented degree: "Jarvis, all engines at maximum power!!"
"Yes, sir…"
Before the artificial intelligence Jarvis's words could finish, the Black lightning bolt was already upon him!
The Black Cat swung its dark Talon at Iron Man. In the nick of time, the power engines in Iron Man's steel armor—neck, arms, waist, legs, feet, and even palms—all simultaneously spewed a blast of hot air, causing Iron Man, who had been standing on the ground, to suddenly accelerate upwards, leaping into the air. In the sunlight, a dynamic blur appeared, and he narrowly dodged the Black Cat's incredibly fast and powerful strike!
That's right!
To cope with the Black Flash memory entity, which easily broke the sound barrier in terms of speed, Tony Stark specifically pursued the ultimate burst and speed of his steel armor, allowing the Anti-Black Flash to continuously operate at full engine maximum power for a period of time!
Of course.
This also meant that the energy consumption per second of the Anti-Black Flash armor was astonishing. Even the small nuclear reactor energy core on his body could not sustain the Anti-Black Flash in prolonged combat for more than ten minutes!
Furthermore,
The wear and tear on the Anti-Black Flash armor components was more than ten times that of conventional armor. This suit, built with hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars, was clearly a one-time-use item, only fit for recycling as scrap after a single battle!
This was truly "pay to win"!
"It's working!"
As Iron Man dodged the Black Cat's strike, he suddenly dived down, delivering an armored punch powered by the engine!
Bang!
The Black tail behind Xi Nian reacted incredibly fast, whipping upwards. The steel fist and the dark tail collided, and in the end, it was Iron Man, who had launched the attack, who was sent flying!
"Indeed, even if I can match its speed, the strength is still too far off…"
Iron Man was not surprised by this. His armored punch was merely a feint. His true means of dealing with the enemy was—
With a "whooshing" sound!
Parts of the outer casing on Iron Man's Anti-Black Flash armor arms opened, and an internal strategic device activated at that moment, immediately spraying a large cloud of White, misty gas forward, instantly covering the Black Cat's body!
This was high-density tear gas!
The White, misty tear gas not only enveloped the Black Cat but also quickly spread to cover most of the Jotunheim ruins, making it impossible for the X Task Force, a hundred meters away, to see what was happening inside.
Composite Xinian, inside the tear gas, was completely unconcerned. Not only did he not cover his mouth and nose, but he deliberately bared his gaping maw. The Black hole inside his mouth immediately generated a powerful suction, swallowing all the surrounding tear gas.
Seeing that the tear gas would be swallowed in less than two or three seconds,
Above the battle, twenty meters in the air,
Iron Man, about to be exposed from the gas, suddenly raised both hands in his signature attack pose, and the engine lights on his armored palms also lit up. But this time, instead of shooting the usual piercing White laser beams, he projected a continuous ice-blue laser and an unknown gas emitted in a spray—
Splash!!!
When the ice-blue laser and the unknown gas landed on Xi Nian, the surrounding air immediately plummeted below Zero degrees, forming a layer of frost on his dark body and the ground nearby!
Laser cooling, high-concentration liquid nitrogen!
Under two extremely high-intensity cooling methods, the Black Cat was quickly frozen into an ice sculpture, and the ground within a five-meter radius was also frozen!
Iron Man still seemed uneasy, continuing until all the cooling tools he carried were exhausted, freezing a layer of actual ice within a ten-meter radius before stopping.
Zero-degree rapid freeze.
This was one of the main offensive methods that the Anti-Black Flash armor adopted, abandoning conventional laser methods and specially modified to deal with small-sized, high-strength supernatural creatures!
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