Chapter 169. Insane (Part1)

With Ivan's command.

All the cyborg soldiers began to change their stance, with their dense cannons aimed at Tony.

In the next moment, fierce gunfire surged toward him.

Facing the powerful firepower from the cyborgs, the most sensible thing to do was naturally to take advantage of flight and avoid it. However, thinking of Happy and Shell behind him, he had to block the bullets while standing in place. He shouted, "Happy, remember the red button in the truck?"

"I do. But you told me not to press it under any circumstances!" Happy poked his head out of the truck and shouted back.

"This is the circumstance! Press it!"

Tony raised his palm and blasted away a cyborg with the repulsor. However, he saw that the cyborg stood back up. The expression under Tony's mask turned even more serious.

These cyborgs' defences were tougher than Tony had predicted.

"All right! "

Hearing Tony's answer, Happy, who was sitting in the truck, took a deep breath, then opened the lid and pressed a red button marked 'Caution'.

In the next moment, the truck started to change form. All of the sudden, the previous stall mode turned into a sports car mode. The cooking stove directly turned into the car's jet booster, from which a powerful fire emerged.

Tony turned and looked at the silent Shell, saying, "I had a few materials left in the shop, so I made a few more adjustments for fun. I was saving it up for a surprise, so I never thought I would show it to you like this."

While saying that, Tony blocked the bullets that kept flying in front of him carefully for Shell. He also shouted to Happy inside the food truck, "Happy, take him with you. You guys need to leave now!"

"On it!"

Hearing Tony's words, Happy didn't hesitate anymore. He quickly drove the food truck to get closer to Shell.

In that regard, Ryan didn't have any excuses. With the situation in front of him, there was no meaning in keeping Shell on the battlefield. There was even the possibility of unpredictable risks of exposing the identity of the clone, so he directly went into the food truck.

Seeing Happy driving away with Shell in the sports 'truck', Tony silently withdrew his eyes.

"Alright, my turn..."

When the worry in his heart was relieved, Tony then controlled the armour to fly into the air.

Being passive all the time wasn't his style.

However, before Tony launched his own counter-attack, he saw that the cyborgs started to do the same thing. Flames started to spew out of the soles of their feet, and one by one, they flew into the air.

"..."

Gazing at the cyborg army that was surrounding him, there was an awkward smile under Tony's iron mask, "Well, I might have said that too soon. What I mean to say is ...."

Looking around at the muzzles of the guns surrounding him, a smile curled up on Tony's lips, "... Take this, gentlemen!"

As his voice dropped, a huge white shockwave was emitted from the arc reactor on his Mark 6's chest, and all the cyborgs around him were blown away.

"Looks like you failed again, Ivan."

"Don't worry, this time I'll definitely find you a room you can't escape from."

Seeing that the army of cyborgs was defeated, Tony slowly landed back down on the ground. He looked at Ivan and spoke with an indifferent expression.

"Are you sure, Stark? "

In the face of Tony's ridicule, Ivan opened his mouth with a ferocious smile. He directly tore off the lab coat he had been wearing.

"That's it, you really are crazy!!"

Seeing the scene before him, Tony's face changed. He couldn't help but blurt out his thoughts.

In front of him, Ivan, who wasn't wearing a top, exposed a similar cybernetically enhanced body as the cyborgs.

It seemed that Ivan was crazier than anyone had expected, not only modifying other people's bodies but also his own.

"No... I just got a new lease on life, Stark." Turning his wrist, two whip cords extended from his arm and turned into two electric cords. Ivan tugged at the corners of his mouth with a crazy expression on his face and spoke with a big smile, "Freed from the fragile human body, I am now stronger than ever."

"You're completely insane."

Listening to Ivan's crazy remarks, Tony frowned and answered with a deep voice.

"You disappoint me, Stark." Shaking his head, Ivan's expression revealed some regret, "I thought you would understand me. Looks like you're just a normal person after all."

"I never thought I wasn't normal."

"In that case, die a normal, lacklustre death!"

Disappointed, Ivan shook his head. He waved the electric cords in his hand and viciously whipped them towards Tony.

Snap --

When the powerful electric currents from the cords touched Tony's armour, he could feel the shock. Tony couldn't help but frown. After a complete transformation, Ivan's strength and speed were no longer the same as in the past. If the Mark 6 he was using weren't the upgraded version, perhaps Ivan's whip would have been enough to destroy the armour's defensive capabilities.

Controlling his armour, he fired a miniature rocket from his arm and hit Ivan.

However, in the face of the explosion at hand, Ivan's expression didn't even change. Ignoring the burnt-off hair and scorched cheeks in the explosion, the two whipcords in his hands burst out with an even stronger current and attacked Tony.

Bang --

Confronting Ivan's electricity with a shockwave from the Mark 6 armour, Tony gasped slightly.

In the next moment, he saw Ivan, who was knocked down by the shockwave, standing back up with the cyborgs that had recently fallen. They neatly surrounded him again.

Like I said, Stark. You're going to die today."

Ivan controlled the army of cyborgs to form a perimeter around Tony while grinning viciously.

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