"They're pretty, aren't they?"

In this unknown mansion hall, there is still a trace of blood, or the smell of death, perhaps more appropriate, after all, the corpses and blood stains on the ground have been cleaned up.

Mandalin stood beside Tony, pointing at the doll maid who was kneeling on the ground and wiping the floor, he said:

"In most men's eyes, they symbolize perfection, lust and reproduction, and a group of people dominated by desire, which is so sad."

"But if your ambition is high enough, you will not be fascinated by these things that fascinate ordinary people. They are nothing more than a talented body. The soul is the same. In my eyes, there is actually no difference between people, but some people are better, such as you and me."

Mandalin was like chatting with friends, he said to Tony:

"We are really similar. We were born to be at the end of the struggle of others in our lives, but we were not fascinated by those wealth. We are all eager for something more important than wealth... Of course, you are in love with technology, and I chose another way by chance."

“Because we are so similar, we can be friends.”

Mandalin glanced at Tony's expression. The guy was still staring at the cleaned ground. This ignorant attitude made Mandalin a little dissatisfied, and he strengthened his tone.

"Well, it seems you don't want to talk to me about your ideals? It doesn't matter, so let's go back to reality."

"Miss Potz is a smart lady. Although she is not perfect, she has a characteristic that cannot be ignored. She is a woman you love, so happy... Tony, do you want Miss Potz to obey you? Do you want her to be a perfect lover? Do you want her to have no secrets to you? I can help you..."

"Enough!"

Tony suddenly turned around, he looked at Mandarin and said:

"Don't threaten like a gangster, let's be more decent. I know what kind of terrible consequences will bring to Potz if I refuse you...I know."

"So what? Would you reject me?"

Mandarin asked:

"Maybe you should refuse to cut off your greatest weakness. Tony, let me tell you that no matter what era or world you are in, the person with the least needs will always be the happiest person because they rarely have weaknesses... just like me."

"I said, enough!"

Tony took a step back and said, gritting his teeth:

"Have anyone ever told you that your persuasion skills are simply terrible! I no longer want to hear these damn words, I will help you."

A trace of cold light flashed in Mandalin's eyes, but after hearing Tony's answer, his expression became gentle and elegant again. He clapped his hands with appreciation, and the light of the nine rings flashed, dazzling.

“It’s so wise.”

As he spoke, Mandarin waved to his subordinates, and he said:

"I already have the wisest people in the world to be friends, and Lord Tony's talent in weapon design is no less than this irritable and irritable dwarf. He's useless, let's deal with it."

"No!"

Tony grabbed Mandalin's hand, and this action made Mandalin very disgusted. When he waved his hand, Tony was as if he was hit by an invisible punch, and he flew out and smashed on the ground in a mess.

"Oh, sorry, I don't like people touching me."

Mandalin said sorry, but there was no apology on his face, but Tony didn't care. He rubbed his painful shoulders and stood up and said to Mandalin:

"I need Tobion, you need him too... IMHO, the idea of ​​you trying to seize the SMART Centre is great, but you underestimate the difficulty of capturing it. Without Tobion's assistance, I and the others couldn't handle it at all."

"oh?"

Mandalin raised his hands with interest, and the thugs who were about to kill Tobion immediately put away their weapons, but the short and old engineer was still pressed to the ground.

"Say it, point out the loopholes in my plan."

The tyrant of the Ten Rings Gang said to Tony:

"If you can convince me, then this disgusting dwarf may see his daughter again."

"The intelligence center exists to cover up some things, and you obviously don't know these things."

Tony glanced at Tobion, and he gritted his teeth and told the information that SHIELD would not allow to leak at all, he said:

"Intellectual machinery was not created by humans. They originated from mysterious alien technology..."

"Wow, this is surprising news."

Mandalin narrowed his eyes. He actually did not doubt what Tony said, because a person who is rational enough, a person who knows enough about the intelligent machine program can always detect the weirdness of the artificial intelligence industry and intelligent machine projects that have developed rapidly in recent years... They have developed a little too quickly, so quickly that they are already challenging the laws of previous scientific development.

"Alien technology?"

Mandarin touched his beard and said softly:

"I guess, Cybertron?"

"You know this too? That's great, it's avoiding my time to explain."

Tony breathed a sigh of relief and said to Mandalin:

"I just said that the existence of the Intelligent Machinery Center is to allow humans to accept such existence as Intelligent Machinery, and to make people believe that it was created by humans. In short, you may not care about these political matters, but what I want to say next is that you will definitely care about it."

"We call the artificial intelligence that is equipped with the Intelligent Machinery Center ". It is responsible for controlling the operation of the entire intelligent tower, including the production of intelligent machinery, including brainwashing of intelligent machinery born in nature, etc. If you want to seize the Intelligent Machinery Center, you have to deal with the builder first, but the builder's program database is directly connected to the large database of SHIELD, and any disturbance will directly alarm SHIELD."

After Tony said that, Mandalin nodded in agreement:

"Well, it sounds like a cumbersome, but I'm sure you'll get it done for me, right?"

"I..."

Tony really felt like he wanted to curse at this moment, but considering Potz and Hapi, he finally nodded:

"Yes, I will help you with it. I have also participated in the design of the architect's thinking module. I have relatively high authority. I can temporarily close it to give others time to rewrite it."

"so what?"

Mandalin asked with interest:

"If you can get everything done, why do I have to leave a hidden danger of refusing to cooperate?"

"Because things are not as simple as you think!"

Tony gritted his teeth and said:

"I have to enter the control room of the smart tower to execute the shutdown command. The worst thing is that once the builder shuts down, the energy center of the smart tower will be locked. I can help you rewrite the builder's thinking module, but I can't help you restart the energy center. A smart tower with locked energy is meaningless to you, it's just a large iron block weighing millions of tons."

"Why?"

When Mandalin asked, Tony finally found a chance to mock him, he said sarcastically:

"Because I don't have enough permissions, I'm a genius..."

"Do you think that for such a big plan, SHIELD will be assured to give me the highest authority to an outsider? My authority is only enough to shut down the smart tower for 10 minutes for routine inspection and maintenance. However, to restart the smart tower energy center, another person must come. As far as I know, even in SHIELD and the World Security Council, there are only three people who have restart authority."

"I think you should have guessed who they are."

After Tony said that, Mandarin's face turned gloomy.

Of course he could guess who those three people were... S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Nick Fury, Chairman of the World Security Council Alexander Pierce, and the last, most difficult deputy director...Merlin Riley!

"So if you want a smart tower that can help you continuously create various war smart weapons and can also help you manipulate all existing smart weapons in the Aishinwald area, and you want your...uh, 'War Temple' and you are unwilling to 'cooperate' with S.H.E.L.D., then you have to solve the backup energy problem first."

Tony spread his hands, and he was like a sophisticated persuasionist, saying with a clever tongue:

"Luckily, I have a way to temporarily replace the energy center of the smart tower. A thing called Ark Energy Heap has a prototype. It is in Stark Industrial's factory. You can search the Internet for a search."

"But unfortunately, the thing was at least as big as a house and was not movable. I need to miniaturize it. I can complete it alone, but it takes time, and what you lack the most now is time. S.H.E.L.D. must have looked for us all over the world, if it drags it for too long..."

Tony didn't continue to say it, Mandalin already understood what Tony meant.

This guy needs Tobion to help him miniaturize the so-called Ark energy reactor, and logically, his request seems to be fine.

But Mandarin didn't feel that.

He looked at Tony, looking at his eyes that seemed confessed and had already surrendered, and he could still feel that one of the smartest guys in the world in front of him still had a rebellious aura.

He didn't like that temperament, he didn't like it now, being taken away by others, and he hoped to control everything. Tony, this guy was undoubtedly the most important part of Mandarin's conquest plan, but also the most unstable part.

Therefore, after thinking for a while, Mandalin decided to add another insurance to Tony.

"Ba,ba,ba"

Mandalin clapped his hands with a smile on his face, as if he was applauding Tony's perfect plan. He walked out of the chair and waved his hand, and the thugs released the suppressed Tobion.

He walked to Tony, with his hands on his back, and said to Tony:

"Your wisdom is indeed amazing. I would like to admit that you are the smartest person in the world. I even think you are the smartest one. Just do it like this, just do it according to your ideas, but I will only give you 2 days..."

"With gritting your teeth and working overtime, and with the materials in place, 2 days is enough. I will hand you the list of materials, and your cruel subordinates should be purchasing things as quickly as they were when they killed people."

Tony shrugged, he smiled at Mandalin, then waved at Tobion, and he said:

"Let's go, short, it's time for us to work."

Tobion moved his shoulders, then turned around suddenly, punched a thug in the crotch of a thug, and the guy immediately fell to the ground, but the short engineer didn't care about the guns above his head, he sneered:

"Come on, shoot me to death...you heard him too, you all the messes!"

The atmosphere in the hall became stagnant again. In this silence, Mandalin suddenly waved his hand, and he said generously:

"Okay, be polite and let our distinguished guests leave."

"Thank you."

Tony and Tobion, one tall and one short, walked towards the entrance of the hall with a pace of recognizing relatives. Just after they took a few steps, Mandarin's voice suddenly rang behind Tony.

"Oh, by the way, Tony, I suddenly remembered...we are already friends, but we haven't given each other gifts yet."

"puff"

As blood splattered, Mandalin's right hand pierced through Tony's back and clamped Tony's beating heart.

But it doesn't hurt...

The cyan energy wrapped around Tony's heart, making the heart feel like it was covered with a cyan shell.

"Swish"

Mandalin took back his hand, no trace of blood was stained on his fingers, and Tony's pierced skin also recovered strangely quickly. However, Tony's face looked extremely pale at this moment.

"By this power, you and I will become true friends."

Mandalin whispered:

"As long as I still exist, your heart will be beating forever. You will share with me the power from the holy land. It will keep you young forever, but if you betray... it will be silent, just like this..."

"Bang"

Mandalin snapped his fingers, and Tony suddenly collapsed on the ground in pain. He breathed heavily, but his heart that had stopped beating was unable to support his life.

"Bang"

With another sound of fingers, Tony's heart began to beat again, but the near-death experience made the playboy feel like he had seen the most terrifying nightmare.

"Although you mocked me just now, I forgive you, Tony. Because now, we are friends."

Mandalin let out a low laugh, and in his laughter he turned around and left the hall surrounded by his followers, throwing Tony and Tobion there as if they were completely thrown into the grave.

"We're done, right?"

The short and old engineer pulled Tony from the ground with difficulty, and he said to Tony in despair:

"Even if we help him seize the smart tower, we will be killed, right?"

"right."

Tony rubbed his heart, he lowered his head, as if he was frightened by Mandarin's power, as if he had completely broken his bones by the coming darkness, as if he could no longer resist.

He whispered:

"So hurry up, Toby, we don't have time to waste it anymore."

"The Ark energy reactor has to be miniaturized...we have to do it, believe me, we have to do it..."

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