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"Seriously? It's that heavy?"

Tony watched the burly man, whose whole body had turned purple, sit down on the ground, panting for breath.

He looked so exaggerated that, if his skin hadn't turned purple, Tony would have suspected he was putting on an act.

The hammer rested on a mound of compacted earth. It looked solid, but the amount of weight it could actually support was limited.

The ground beneath the hammer had cracked, but that still didn't seem to match its weight.

It was just that the mysterious aura Tao Yu had given the hammer made Tony naturally walk over and say,

"Let me see if it really is that heavy."

Tony stepped up to the hammer and tugged hard. Sure enough, it didn't budge.

And it wasn't just that it wouldn't move. It was absolutely immovable—not even the slightest wobble.

Tony quietly took out a pair of experimental sensor gloves, put them on, and tried again.

Then J.A.R.V.I.S.'s voice sounded in his ear.

"Sir, according to the limits of our current sensors, the hammer has not moved at all. Its physical properties are similar to those of a rigid body."

"A rigid body?"

Tony's voice came out a little strange.

Rigid bodies, zero friction, perfectly sealed containers, and vacuums often appeared in high school physics problems, but in reality, many of them couldn't exist.

Rigid bodies in particular had only existed in textbook problems since the advent of quantum mechanics.

And now J.A.R.V.I.S. was telling him that, within the limits of their current detection range, this hammer was a rigid body?

"You could detect a difference with Jack's vibranium spear, right?"

"Yes, sir. It's a mysterious metal that doesn't exist on Earth."

Only then did Tony truly take the matter seriously.

The onlookers nearby couldn't hear him muttering