First Meeting with Visitors from Another World

Fang Bie spotted the two of them just after setting down his bucket and getting ready to fetch another.

He vaguely saw two people suddenly appear beside his house. Of course, he didn't think they were people. His first instinct was that they were two Zombies, so he hurried over from a distance, sword in hand.

But when he reached the house, he realized that the two looked somewhat familiar. The person on the left was holding something like a gun, so Fang Bie didn't dare approach carelessly.

Fang Bie immediately pulled out two blocks and stacked them in front of himself. He had specifically chosen two blocks of Stone, which would do a better job of stopping bullets.

The main reason the two left such a strong impression on him was that the man on the left had a shiny, bald head. The man on the right looked rather down on his luck, but that face of Robert Downey Jr.'s was practically a household name in China.

"Hello!" Fang Bie heard the person across from him speak, but aside from the first word, he couldn't understand much else.

He'd taken the college English exams and had spent several years slogging away as an overworked office drone, but he'd long since forgotten everything his English teacher had taught him. How could he possibly have a pleasant conversation with them?

But seeing the two figures together immediately cleared up his hazy memories. Unless these were actually Robert Downey Jr. and the actor who played Yinsen, the two people who had arrived in his world had to be Tony Stark and Dr. Yinsen from the first Iron Man movie.

He immediately called out, "Hello! Can you speak Chinese?"

Fang Bie didn't let his guard down just because they seemed familiar. He didn't want to stick his head out and get shot. But in that brief moment, he had also figured out their situation.

In fact, he didn't need to think too hard. There was only one point in time when these two could have appeared together: the beginning of Iron Man, when they were living in a cave.

Anyone who had seen the movie would know that after Tony Stark was attacked by missiles he had built himself and captured by the group calling themselves the Freedom Resistance Army, he and Dr. Yinsen built the first Iron Man suit of his life.

While Fang Bie was trying to recall the plot, the two men standing by the stone doorway also heard him.

Tony Stark had been attacked earlier, and his body hadn't fully healed. He couldn't make out what Fang Bie was saying, so he turned to the man beside him and asked,

"What's he saying?"

Yinsen rubbed his bald head, but didn't lower the gun in his hands. "He's asking if we can speak Chinese."

"Yes. Can you tell us where we are?" Tony Stark immediately replied in Chinese. As a top-tier superhero with an IQ of seven points, his ability to learn was, of course, unmatched. Chinese was one of the languages he had to learn.

"First, put down the gun and throw it down the mountain!" Fang Bie said again. "This is my world. I don't want you damaging it!"

"What do we do? Throw it?" Yinsen asked, gripping the gun tightly.

Tony Stark scratched at the Arc Reactor in his chest. The new flesh growing around it always made his chest itch unbearably. "Throw it! He's alone. Could things really be worse than they were out there? We know nothing about this world, and we've already lost our way back. We can only talk to him!"

"Fine! We're throwing it!" Yinsen said. As he spoke, he put all his strength into hurling the gun down to the bottom of the mountain.

Only then did Fang Bie slowly emerge from behind the Stone. He still held a block of Stone in his hand, ready to raise it in front of himself as quickly as possible. At least if gunshots rang out, he was confident he could build a defense around himself in an instant.

"Good! Stay right there and don't move. I'm coming over!" Fang Bie cautiously approached the two men. Seeing how wary he was, they knew they hadn't earned his trust.

"Fine." Tony Stark seemed tired of the standoff. He suddenly raised his hands, then slowly placed them on his head.

Fang Bie tensed. Two blocks of Stone appeared in front of him at once, but then he saw what Tony did next and couldn't help blushing.

Yinsen noticed what his companion was doing and hurried to follow suit. They had done this countless times in the cave. After all, if they wanted to stay alive, they couldn't offend the people in charge.

Fang Bie finally relaxed a little, but he still kept his guard up. Only after reaching the two men and seeing that they had nothing on them did he let out a slow breath.

Two against one should have given them the advantage, but he could pull a sword out of his Backpack at a moment's notice. He didn't think that put him at a disadvantage.

When Fang Bie approached, the two men kept their hands on their heads. Even now, the famous playboy didn't show any sign of his usual arrogance.

Fang Bie gathered his thoughts and asked, "Who are you? Why did you come here?"

But Tony Stark didn't seem inclined to answer. Instead, he asked, "We listened to you and threw away our weapons. Shouldn't you answer our questions first?"

He really was good at reading people. He could see a trace of goodwill in Fang Bie's eyes, unlike the bandits from before, whose gazes were full of nothing but greed and murderous intent.

"Fine." Fang Bie nodded. He didn't really care about that. He could already feel a strange force around him. It seemed that as long as he wanted to, he could expel the two men from this world.

"This is my world." Fang Bie spoke with a double meaning. "Welcome to My World."

"Your world?" The two men looked at him in surprise.

"Yeah! You came through that portal. Haven't you noticed?" Fang Bie knew that his earlier display of extreme caution had given them the wrong idea about him, but he still wanted to reinforce his position in this world.

"So that's a portal. Is this the legendary magic?" Tony asked curiously, turning to touch the stone doorway behind him.

"I've answered your question. Now it's your turn to answer mine." Fang Bie smiled. "Since you've shown goodwill, I won't do anything to harm you. Let's go inside and talk."

"Fine!" The two exchanged a glance. In the end, Tony took the lead and followed Fang Bie into the little wooden house beside them.