The particle accelerator explosion in Central City is the big news of the year in physics.

Or the Great Tribulation.

Before the experiment began, Interstellar Lab conducted many simulations with a quantum computer, but it turned out that simulations and facts can never be equated.

In the real world, there will always be unexpected situations of one kind or another.

It is known as the "key" to unlock the future energy technology, but the moment it is turned on, there is a big explosion, which is undoubtedly a hard slap in the face of the cheering physicists.

The day after the Big Bang, the "physics is dead" argument once again made headlines in major media outlets.

But fortunately, for unknown reasons, there was not a single casualty in the explosion that was so serious that it almost destroyed most of the interstellar labs...

This has to be said to be a great blessing in misfortune.

People who escaped last night's explosion were in shock.

Some say that Starlab has special defenses, others say that God has blessed it, and some physicists have sworn that they have made a hellish model to prove that dark matter is harmless to the human body.

In fact, only a very small number of people know that the reason why there were no deaths in such a horrific explosion was only because an idle Lord of Hell happened to pass by that place at the time of the explosion.

Well, Merlin's date with the glasses lady Icarus unexpectedly ended in saving hundreds of lives.

I have to say...

It's perfect!

However, while Merlin used the magic of the Elder Body to protect the unlucky ones who might be killed, the dark matter that erupted from the particle accelerator still caused many unavoidable injuries.

In the wreckage after the Starlab explosion, Tony, who received the news and rushed back from Raccoon City. Stark stood in the broken hall with a sad face.

He watched as the firefighters around him cleaned up the rubble while listening to the report from his bodyguard and good friend Happi.

Tony is an honorary trustee of the Future Technology Foundation, and Interstellar Labs is a pilot facility under the Future Technology Foundation.

Whether this matter is accidental or man-made, the final pot will fall on the head of the Future Science and Technology Foundation, and among the people who take the blame, Tony can't escape.

Iron Man is now extremely grateful for Merlin's rescue last night.

Since there are no dead people, it can make the subsequent processing work much easier.

Harrison, who is hosting the project. Dr. Wells is in a pretty bad situation at this point..."

Harpy looked at Tony, who was so bad-faced, the chubby, burly bodyguard and whispered:

"At the time of the explosion, he was the closest person to the particle accelerator, and he was exposed to the strongest dark matter radiation, and he is still in a coma."

"Although his life was saved, according to the judgment of the doctors, he may have to spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair."

"In addition, for unknown reasons, this doctor's brain waves are abnormally silent, as if they have been hit by energy, and in the worst case... He may become a vegetative person. ”

"What else?"

Tony bent down and picked up a shattered frame of his glasses from the shattered earth, and he asked, slightly irritatingly:

"Are there any other wounded?"

"Well, the rest is not serious."

Harpy looked at the briefing in his hand and said:

"One woman broke her foot while fleeing, Dr. Harrison's assistant was hit by dark matter and had a concussion, and many others claimed to have lost something."

"Oh, and there's bad news."

Harpy flipped to the last page, his expression changed a little, and he said to Tony:

"About Dr. Stone, his son... It's a bad situation. ”

"Stone's son? Victor? ”

Tony looked up in surprise and said:

"Isn't that a football star? I had dinner with him the other day, and the kid was a little silent, with some adolescent hatred for his father, but he wasn't interested in the scientific stuff. ”

"How did he get caught up in this explosion?"

"It is said that before the explosion, Victor. Stone and his father get into a fight in Starlab. ”

Harpy scratched at his messy hair, and he said:

"No one knows why the father and son were arguing, but he wasn't able to leave the lab at the time of the explosion."

"The particle accelerator explosion destroyed the physical structure of the lab, causing Victor to be crushed under the rubble, which was just dug up by rescue teams this morning."

"But he's alive..."

At this point, Harpy's gaze became strange as he looked at the briefing.

He hesitated for a few seconds and said to Tony:

"Dr. Stone refused to take his son to the hospital, and he locked himself and Victor in another lab, and the old doctor said he was going to save his son, and modern medicine couldn't help."

"Huh?"

Tony's eyes blinked, and he rubbed his chin to feel that it wasn't going to be easy.

"Where's Dr. Stone?"

Tony asked:

"I think I should go over and have a look."

Ten minutes later, Tony Nala's silver sports car stopped in front of another laboratory in Central City, which is the mechanical engineering department of Interstellar Laboratory, which specializes in the design and development of precision mechanics.

Dressed in a trench coat, Tony put on his sunglasses and relied on his high authority from the Future Technology Foundation to enter the deepest part of the laboratory unimpeded.

Then he saw Silas crouching on the ground, holding his head, as if crying bitterly. Dr. Stone, and the curtain being drawn up in the lab.

On the floor of this high-end precision laboratory, there is a series of oozing blood.

Tony could even hear the patient's groans of pain.

"Stone!"

Iron Man pushed the door open, and he shouted to the agony Dr. Stone:

"Why don't you send Victor to the hospital? You don't have an MD degree! ”

"Tony?"

Dr. Stone, who was crouching on the ground, looked up sharply, and the usually calm black doctor was already in tears.

When he saw Tony, he seemed to see a savior.

He immediately stood up, and with his bloodstained hands, he took Tony's wrist, and he said to Tony in a hurried tone:

"Come and help! You can save him, I know, your wisdom, your talent in engineering, you can save him, save my son! I can't afford to lose him! ”

"So what the hell is going on?"

Tony was a little confused for a moment, and Dr. Stone was obviously a little emotionally broken, but seemed to stay awake again.

"I can't tell! See for yourself. ”

Dr. Stone turned, grabbed the veiled curtain, and pulled it back, revealing the patient lying on the hospital bed, moaning in pain.

That is, his only son.

Central City's college football star, Victor. Stone.

"This!"

See Victor. At Stone's moment, Tony was so startled that he took a few steps back.

The well-informed Iron Man is a little overwhelmed by the sight in front of him!

He already knew that Victor, the poor man, must have terrible injuries on his body when he was crushed by the collapsed ruins, and Tony was ready to see the bloody scene.

In fact, it is.

Vidocq's lower body was almost completely crushed.

The flesh and blood are blurred, and even the miserable white stubble can be seen, but Iron Man has not been a superhero for nothing over the years, and on the battlefield, he has seen even worse situations.

He wasn't going to be intimidated by the injury.

What really scared Tony from within was that among the scars on Vidocq's chest, there was a moving machine!

The metal machine, the silver-white mechanical module, seems to grow in Victor's flesh and blood, and as if it has a life of its own, it is along Victor. Stone's wounds are constantly "multiplying" on their own.

It was like a swarm of metal ants, quickly removing the broken flesh and filling it with a steady stream of machinery.

Vidocq was in a painful state of syncope, but still let out an overwhelmed moan under the mechanical transformation.

Most of his chest and left arm had been transformed into silver metal.

In the tumbling of flesh, Tony could even see the mechanical mods, covering Victor bit by bit. Stone's bones and heart.

Tony took a deep breath and let himself try to calm down in the blood-soaked lab.

He pushed his sunglasses and looked up at the mechanical module that had transformed Vidocq's body, and on the young man's shoulder, he saw something very familiar.

That box!

He was working on that weird box with a bunch of scientists the other day.

The heavy silver-white box has been opened.

Strange instruments inside are metal limbs and tentacles, one side penetrates deep into Victor's badly injured body to transform flesh and machinery, and the mechanical tentacles crawl like snakes in the laboratory.

It's looking for more mechanical artifacts.

Just as it swallowed up the sapient machines back then, this strange thing continued to assimilate other high-end experimental equipment in the laboratory with various functions, and then "assimilated" them into more mechanical modules to fill Victor's flesh and blood.

"It's activated?"

Tony looked at Dr. Stone and said:

"What's going on?"

"Big Bang!"

Dr. Stone clenched his fists, and he said to Tony:

"The Big Bang of the particle accelerator released energy-rich dark matter, and at least a third of last night's Big Bang was absorbed by this box. Those energies activate it. ”

"And my Victor had a fight with me at the time, and he was about to leave the lab when he was crushed by a collapsing wall."

"When I found him, the box had already begun to live with him..."

The old doctor choked up a few times.

He said:

"I don't want to admit it, but that weird box saved him, and if it weren't for the conversion of the mechanical module to keep him alive, my seriously injured son wouldn't have survived the rescue."

"The problem is, it's transforming your son into another creature!"

Data kept popping up on the lenses of Iron Man's sunglasses, and he said to Dr. Stone in a cold tone:

"A creature similar to a sapient machine, but retains the human mind, the symbiosis of flesh and blood, and the machine... It reminds me of some of the radical ideas that the robots of the Cult of the Mechanicus have been preaching. ”

"Perhaps, that box has something to do with the Cult of the Mechanics."

"I don't care what it has to do with it, Tony."

Dr. Stone gritted his teeth and said:

"I just want to save my child right now, and if the Mechanicus can save him, then I..."

"Wait!"

Tony suddenly reached out and held Dr. Stone behind him.

The golden-red Super Mark armor stretched out of the watch on his wrist and quickly covered Tony's wrist.

In the lenses of his sunglasses, special energy fluctuations were coming from the other side of the laboratory, and under Tony's wary gaze, a white crack appeared in front of the two of them.

The next moment, a white-clothed female swordsman with a long sword on her back jumped out of the crack.

Ciria looked left and right, not caring about Tony's raised hand and the laser cannon covered in the palm of his hand, her gaze passed over Tony and Dr. Stone and landed on Victor on the hospital bed. Stone.

Her Royal Highness Princess Siria's expression changed slightly.

Her feet in her high riding boots took a step forward, and the white-clad white-haired female swordswoman disappeared in place as Tony watched in amazement, and her aura appeared behind them.

Tony turned around and saw that Ciria was reaching out and trying to touch the one who was in the middle of the day. Stone's symbiotic mechanical box.

"Don't touch it!"

Tony and Dr. Stone spoke at the same time, trying to grab Ciria's arm.

But the female swordsman only waved her hand lightly, and the two of them were knocked back a few steps.

Without saying a word, she reached out and touched the surface of the heart-beating mechanical box, pursed her lips, and sighed.

"Well, I found it, but Merlin is probably going to be disappointed."

"Merlin?"

Tony, who was ready for battle, raised his eyebrows, he looked at the female swordsman who suddenly appeared in front of him, and said:

"Does this have anything to do with Merlin?"

"What's in the world that doesn't have anything to do with him?"

Ciri looked back at Tony, she looked at Tony's face, and she said:

"You're Howard's son, right? When I was on a mission with him, the guy kept babbling about you..."

"Do you know my father?"

Tony's expression was even more surprised.

"Don't just know."

Ciri pursed her lips, she waved her hand to open another crack, she flicked her long white bangs, and said:

"I brought him and Nathaniel into this age, and I'll have to send them back in a few days... You wait here, don't provoke the mother box, I'll go find Merlin. ”

With that, Ciria jumped into the rift, and the white crack quickly dissipated.

Tony and Dr. Stone looked at each other, and after a few seconds, the white chasm opened again, and the projections of Ciria, Icarus, and the Maharaja stepped out of it.

Merlin saw at a glance the flesh and blood being transformed, and the steel mother box that was merging into Vidocq's body.

He frowned and said:

"Is this the mother box that was kept by humans?"

"It's all like this... Can it still be used? ”

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