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Chapter 1910: The Tin Can Rings (Part 8)_1

The moment he saw Shiller, Stark's curiosity and anger surged simultaneously. He had too many questions to ask. However, before he could fly down, he heard Shiller's last words and a horrifying scream.

Just as he landed, he saw a bizarre-looking robot standing opposite Shiller. Unexpectedly, as the face guard's light blinked and opened up, it revealed a face precisely identical to his.

Wait, this is another universe. So, is the one opposite me the Iron Man of this universe?! And he and Shiller are enemies?!

Stark was immediately dazed. Clearly, in that universe, he and Shiller were friends. He felt that they got along well, so why would Shiller be his enemy in another universe? Was there some misunderstanding?

Before he could ask, he heard a growl that rose from low to high-pitched from the device behind him, revealing hysterical pain.

Stark immediately rushed towards the device and smashed his fist on the hatch, creating a dent in the silver metal door and causing a bit of gas to leak out.

"Shiller, Shiller! What's wrong? Answer me!! Dammit! Open this thing!!"

Stark was yelling and hitting the door when suddenly, he felt a gust of wind behind his head. An alarm went off, and Jarvis controlled the battlesuit to retreat quickly— a rocket hit the floor right where Stark was standing, breaking the metal floor apart.

Ultimate Iron Man had put on his face mask, and a cold light flashed in his eyes. Floating mid-air, he looked at Stark and said, "No matter where you, an imposter, came from, get lost!"

Anger erupted in Stark's heart. He spun in the air and surged forward at low altitude. In an instant, gunfire filled the air, and the two Iron Men battled without clear advantages.

Ultimate Iron Man extended his arm, and several rockets shot out in succession, hitting Stark instantly and sending him flying several meters back, crashing into the wall behind him. Although the wall was smashed into a deep pit, Stark's vibranium armor was unscathed.

At this moment, Jarvis's voice rang in Stark's ear, "The enemy is charging up a high-frequency oscillation weapon. Be careful!"

But Stark didn't avoid it. Instead, he adjusted his position immediately, knelt, and extended his hand, firing a laser before his opponent. The laser left a black scar on the ground.

After all, it was a laser weapon. Ultimate Iron Man promptly closed his full body armor to avoid high-temperature damage from the laser, preparing himself to fly at any moment with powered legs.

After dodging the laser, a silver substance suddenly flew out of Ultimate Iron Man's armor, hitting Stark's armor like a bullet. A smirk appeared beneath the face mask of Ultimate Iron Man.

The greatest advantage of Symbiotic Armor is the strong penetration destructiveness of the symbiotic factor, which can corrode all metal armors instantaneously. He can easily deal with the version of himself from the past.

After a puff of smoke, there was no movement from the other side. Ultimate Iron Man landed on the ground and slowly walked over to check.

However, at this moment, the red and gold armor suddenly bounced up from the ground, making a spiraling dive at lightning speed, and rammed into Ultimate Iron Man's chest. Stark, holding onto him, rushed out, and both of them crashed into the wall beside the device.

Ultimate Iron Man had underestimated the strength of the opponent's armor shell. The symbiotic factor hadn't fully penetrated the vibranium armor at first, meaning Stark's vibranium armor could still fight.

Stark, suppressing Ultimate Iron Man, threw a punch, hitting hard on his silver face guard. However, the damping capacity of the symbiotic armor was also top-notch. Seeing that Ultimate Iron Man didn't react, Stark followed up with several more punches in quick succession.

"Enough!" Ultimate Iron Man roared.

He grabbed the wrist of Stark's hand and swung a punch at his face guard, twisting and fighting together.

However, at this moment, a bright portal suddenly appeared in the middle of the empty base. A roar emanated from the portal: "Shiller! Shiller! Peter, let go of me! Today, I must settle this with him. Even if he saved half of our universe's population, he cannot act without our consent..."

An Iron Man rushed out from the portal, followed by a Spider-Man with a helpless face. Just as Spider-Man was about to come out, Iron Man pushed him back into the portal and yelled towards it: "Close the door!!"

With a rustle, the portal closed. Only then did the newly arrived Iron Man turn around to look for Shiller.

Then, he was stunned.

Iron Man looked left and right only to find no one standing. Taking a closer look, why were there two "tin cans" wrestling in the corner?

As soon as the life scanning device turned on, both figures across were wearing Iron Armor?

Just in time, Jarvis said in Iron Man's ear: "After scanning, sir, they both have almost identical physical characteristics. The data shows that they are both Tony Stark."

Iron Man was thoroughly stunned. Still, instinctively he asked, "Is Shiller here?"

"Yes, he is inside the device on your left, but the machine seems to have failed to…"

Just as he was saying this, the portal behind Iron Man sprung open again. Spider-Man lunged halfway out, pulling Iron Man's arm and saying, "Mr. Stark, hurry back, you can't mooch off my route. If they find out, it will be disastrous. Go!"

Iron Man only reacted when he was dragged to the edge of the portal. He tried hard to shake off Spider-Man's hand that was gripping his wrist, but he didn't dare to use too much force. Although he knew that Spider-Man was powerful, he was still worried about hurting him due to his metallic casing, afraid that it might scratch Spider-Man.

Spider-Man also didn't dare to exert too much strength. He knew he was powerful enough to even swing Iron Man around by his wrist and throw him away if he wanted to, but he was worried he might damage Iron Man's battlesuit. They were both in a stalemate.

"Spider-Man, you can't stop me. Why are you turning against me?" said Iron Man, somewhat infuriated. "That damned psychologist has taken away half of the resources of the Three Great Empires, and I'm going to have to confront him about it..."

"Alright, Mr. Stark, I'm here for official business with Dr. Schiller. Please go back. If the other Spider-Men find you here, my mission will be ruined."

Spider-Man was also in a bind. He had previously ended up in the Zombie Universe with Helen, and together with Zombie Spider-Man, they had saved another zombie universe. That was supposed to be the end of it, but Zombie Spider-Man had suddenly noticed some abnormalities in the antidote used to treat the zombie virus.

Spider-Man had a bad feeling about it and wanted to consult Dr. Schiller. Unexpectedly, his universe's Iron Man was mad because Schiller had exploited the chaos caused by Thanos in the movie universe to evacuate a large amount of remnants of the Three Great Empires' war. Seizing an opportunity when Spider-Man was not looking, Iron Man slipped through the channel.

The Spider Legion was currently cracking down on illegal channel crossings. Spider-Man didn't dare to let the other Spider-Men know that he had let Iron Man in, and so he desperately tried to pull him back.

As the two of them were tussling, the two cans in the corner were not idle. Stark punched the Ultimate Iron Man first, who retaliated by flipping him over and striking him twice. Stark then turned things around and semi-kneeling on the ground, tossed him away by yanking at his waist.

As they say, humans only know how to swing random punches when they're emotionally agitated. Even though the two JARVIS-controlled battlesuits were shouting incessantly, the two Tony Stark's were not listening to a word.

The Ultimate Iron Man was actually much more powerful than this younger Iron Man. But he had been clouded by the emotional turbulence caused by Schiller and had a bump on his forehead. After cooling down a bit, he used his suit's maximum thrust to fly into the air while holding Stark. He crashed into the instruments.

There was a spark from the instruments, and the Ultimate Iron Man turned his head to look. He quickly grabbed Stark and slammed him into the nearby wall, moving away from the instruments.

The ability extraction program that the Ultimate Iron Man had set up in the instrument was still operating normally. But at that moment, Schiller let out a painful roar.

The pupils of the two Iron Men instantly shrank. The Ultimate Iron Man couldn't help but turn his head to look. Stark, who was pinned to the wall, immediately saw his chance and kicked the Ultimate Iron Man in the lower abdomen, and then with a punch, caused him to stagger away.

This completely infuriated the Ultimate Iron Man, as he extended one hand to tightly grasp Stark's neck, lifted him from the ground, and then flew up. He was about to slam Stark onto the ground.

Spider-Man and Iron Man, who were tussling at one side, finally realized that something was wrong. Iron Man folded his arms and flew up into the air, firing several rockets at the Ultimate Iron Man.

The moment the Ultimate Iron Man turned his head, he saw a flash in Stark's eyes. Stark yelled at JARVIS, "High-frequency Oscillation Electricity!"

"Sir, you will also..."

"Do it!"

"Zzzz -"

A dazzling bolt of electricity erupted from the two of them. The Ultimate Iron Man couldn't avoid it and his battlesuit immediately started to smoke. But Stark's battlesuit also lost control, and they fell straight down.

Rigth below them was the instrument where Schiller was.

It was only then that Schiller's eyes widened. He tried to open the hatch in a hurry, but it was too late.

The screams from before were all false alarms. The so-called ability extraction device of the instrument had no effect on him. The Ultimate Iron Man fell for his lies, thinking that he was a mutant. In reality, Schiller didn't have the X-gene at all. How could an ability extraction device targeting the X-gene work on him?

He knew the fish he baited would come. In other words, he left clues to lure Stark to find him. He also knew they would start a fight.

But he didn't expect that these two guys would engage in hand-to-hand combat instead of using their suits, and were even charging straight at him.

Schiller's hatch was only slightly open. He didn't have time to squeeze out, and the two human-formed missiles slammed into the top of the instrument.

When Stark broke in earlier, the top of the instrument was already hit by building debris from the explosion. The two iron cans, both heavier than the other, broke the outer shell of the instrument upon impact. Unfortunately, there was still some undissipated electricity on Stark's battlesuit.

"Zzz - Boom! Boom!!!"

An asteroid slowly drifted under the cold glow of a distant star. Suddenly, a point on the other side of the asteroid emitted an extremely dazzling light, rapidly escalating into an intense explosion.

The celestial body of the asteroid was completely shattered. The explosion's shockwaves swept across all the small celestial bodies in the surrounding area, causing chaos in an instant.

Back on Earth, in the lab of Stark Industries, the instrument suddenly emitted a piercing alarm. Stark turned his head to see the red dot representing Schiller's life signs flashing frantically.

In an instant, Iron Demon God descended.

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