yournovel Chapter 388 I am you
Chapter 388 I am you
Chapter 388 I am you
After a barrage of attacks, Tony finally saw a glimmer of light on the other side.
The space gem he had hidden in his chest was glowing, and during a lull in his escape, he didn't forget to think about how he got there.
The giant room where the Space Stone is located is likely in a superposition of several spaces, with several parallel universes exchanging matter through that area.
Tony's task was to reconnect to the system with the Space Stone, hoping it would work and teleport him back to his previous universe.
As his boss slipped further and further away from his grasp, Friday, chasing after Tony, became increasingly frantic.
With a deafening roar, before Tony could even begin to blow up the new horde of Ultron robots charging forward, he saw the entire tunnel behind him being uprooted by a giant hand.
On Friday, disregarding the network outage, the giant Ultron was forcibly activated and began digging deep into the tunnel where Tony was hiding.
"That crazy woman!"
Seeing his former AI assistant willing to raze the entire assembly area to the ground just to catch him, Tony regretted not giving the Iron Man suit more legs.
This way, several more thrusters can work together, allowing me to escape this dangerous place as quickly as possible: "Accelerate, Jarvis, it doesn't matter if the reactor explodes, accelerate!"
If he were caught and taken back, Tony figured he'd be subjected to a level of torture far more intense than any of Ace's affections he'd ever experienced.
How dare you abandon me?!
The rumbling behind him continued, and with another scream from Friday, Tony was now just a step away from the teleportation area he had come from.
With a thud, a high-speed flying rock struck Tony's suit, instantly disrupting his balance during flight.
"f*/k!"
Tony, his body tilting to the side, cursed loudly and crashed to the base of the spire with a thud. His suit's braking system bounced him back to another corner of the area.
With a snap, the giant Ultron, controlled by Friday, ripped open the teleportation area's roof, and a massive hand shot towards Tony, who was the size of a figurine: "My boss, you already have me by your side forever, at your beck and call! Where are you going?"
"Having a personal secretary is great, but you should at least have some boundaries!"
Although Tony's previous job as a personal secretary may have included some indescribable tasks, if it were someone like Friday, Tony would definitely fire her from the secretarial team.
Facing the menacing Friday overhead, Tony tossed the still-lit Ant-Man head he was holding away: "You're the one, Ant-Man head!"
"That's a bit disrespectful!"
Several ant-like mechanical limbs sprouted from the broken neck of Ant-Man's head in mid-air, and clung to the top of the spire as he flew upwards.
At this moment, Ant-Man, now only a head, is holding the Space Stone that Tony cut off from the top of the tower in his mouth. Using Ant-Man's mechanical head as a medium, he is connected to the circuitry around the tower.
thump~
With a heart-stopping thud, the world in Tony's eyes instantly changed.
The roof that had been violently ripped off by Friday was restored in an instant, and the giant Ultron that had reached out its hand to him disappeared in the blink of an eye.
When the two teleportation platforms were completely identical before, Tony didn't immediately realize that he had been teleported. But now he can directly feel the change in the space around him.
Still shaken, he immediately flew to the top of the tower and removed Ant-Man's head, along with the Space Stone, from the repeater still attached to the top of the tower.
"How are you?!"
Tony picked up a disc and discovered that Ant-Man's head was completely devoid of light.
Alarmed, he immediately scanned the screen and breathed a sigh of relief after checking – it turned out the battery was dead.
The main structure and internal core are intact; it's possible that activating the teleportation matrix just now burned out the few remaining hidden energy reserves.
After staring at Ant-Man's mechanical head for several seconds, Tony laughed and said, "Ha, you're much easier to get along with now that you're shut up."
If time weren't running out, and if Joey and his own universe weren't still waiting for the Space Stone, Tony would have loved to kick Ant-Man's head like a ball right there and then, given all the trouble he'd caused.
Not only did this guy create a new Ultron, but this new super AI's main target was actually himself.
Tony barely suppressed the urge to secretly slap Ant-Man twice while he was off, and instead summoned Jarvis, who was far more reliable than Friday: "Jarvis, activate emergency teleportation."
Tony accurately located the teleportation beacon he had placed earlier within the suit's system, returning him to the area where he had initially located the Space Stone—a universe where Earth had been shattered to pieces.
The emergency teleportation beacon can directly pull Tony back to the universe he was in when he started, which is his own universe.
Although the process might cause nausea, dizziness, and vomiting as a side effect compared to the slow teleportation of coordinates, it is fast enough.
Tony is being pursued by a super AI that is unusually obsessed with him, and he really doesn't want to waste a single second of his time.
But Tony waited a long time, yet the predetermined procedure still didn't start: "—Jarvis?"
Perhaps the reactor overload had affected Jarvis—thinking this, Tony could only open the secondary menu within his armor, preparing to operate manually: "Now I have a dangerous but powerful and reliable AI, and a safe but limited and fragile AI, why can't I combine the two?"
While Tony was complaining, he realized he couldn't scroll through the HUD's interface anymore: "What's going on now? Did the whole system crash?"
Even as it continued to slide, the HUD on the Iron Man suit remained unmoved.
"I give up!"
Through his finger cot, Tony pressed the hard reset button on his suit, preparing to directly employ the universally applicable first solution for repairing complex machinery: "Let's try a reboot!"
To Tony's surprise, he couldn't press the hard reset button.
"This shouldn't be happening!"
As one of the last safety mechanisms of the Iron Man suit, this button is completely mechanical, and its reliability is even higher than that of the Friday the 13th black box he had previously assigned to Joey. Even if the Iron Man suit is destroyed, it may not necessarily jam.
Why now————
"Stop making futile attempts."
Jarvis's voice came from inside the Iron Man suit. Although it was the same voice, it lacked the usual trustworthy quality. His tone and manner sent chills down Tony's spine: "Combining the two, creating a dangerous, but functionally limited and fragile AI, how about it?"
"What is this—"
Tony had just tried to ask a question when he felt a sudden dizziness, and then his perspective began to distort from the center, changing to a level of abstraction that he could not comprehend at all.
Those were sets of numbers.
Tony looked around and found himself in a green ocean of numbers.
What just happened?
"I've already told you—a dangerous, limited, and fragile AI, which is you."
Tony heard Jarvis's voice, but at this moment the voice was no longer Jarvis's, but—himself?
Then who am I?
Tony immediately realized—for some reason, he was locked in the digital space!
Now he's become that Jarvis!
"No, you're not Jarvis, who are you?!"
A green magical light shone, and a fluorescent magical cloak moved without wind, fluttering behind the shoulders and back of the steel suit.
The cloak vanished in an instant, transforming into countless pre-prepared defensive runes that were directly inscribed and embedded inside the Iron Man suit.
The eyes hidden beneath Iron Man's visor no longer held Tony's carefree attitude; instead, they were cold and rational: "Thank you for your tireless efforts, Tony. The Space Stone you obtained still contains a significant amount of residual energy from the Cosmic Cube."
The Cosmic Cube is not just a container holding the Space Stone; its energy is enough to manipulate minds and distort reality.
At this moment, the ownership of the suit has been completely reversed: "I thought it would take longer to find a suitable opportunity, but Doctor Doom has always been blessed with great luck."
Originally, it was just a remnant soul that Doctor Doom and Iron Man casually residing in Tony's body when their souls intertwined. Now, it has gradually grown stronger in Jarvis's body and has finally waited for the opportunity to reverse good and evil.
"Are you truly unaware of what is about to happen, or are you so unprepared, so resigned to your fate, so soft-hearted and fragile?"
Endless magical incantations appeared in Doctor Doom's hands, and one magical ring after another contracted and locked, disappearing into the Space Stone in his hand: "Tony, in the past twenty-four hours, you've only been right about one thing, and that's that time is running out."
Then, Doctor Doom opened the door to his universe: "Now, I must begin preparing my plans ahead of time."
"You're trying to impersonate me and infiltrate our group to sabotage us?!"
Trapped in digital space, Tony yells, "It's no use! Even if Joey's stupid, he's not so dense as to not notice my personality change!"
There's one more thing Tony kept to himself: Superman, who's usually so carefree, might not even realize that something's wrong with him after being possessed.
Fortunately, Batman, that dark-hearted guy, will definitely be able to find Doctor Doom!
"It really embarrasses me that you have such a naive idea, Tony. Not even Batman, let alone Pepper, could see through us."
Trapped in the digital space, Tony's surface-level thoughts were laid bare to Doctor Doom, who knew his disguise would be absolutely perfect and flawless.
because-
Don't forget, I am you!
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