The BOSS Who Appeared for Less Than Two Hundred Characters

[Mission "Hulk's Rage" completed!]

[Rewards obtained: 3000 EXP, 50 S.H.I.E.L.D. reputation, equipment "Hormone Gun", item "Unassailable", item "Invisibility Potion"]

[Equipment: Hormone Gun (Fires multiple tracking healing bullets, providing slow healing to the target while briefly suppressing various abnormal statuses)]

[Item: Unassailable (Negates one instance of any attack; can be negated by Unassailable, or can negate Unassailable, or can negate Unassailable Unassailable...)]

[Item: Invisibility Potion (Upon use, the entire body enters an invisible state, lasting for half an hour)]

The rewards this time were quite good!

Du Mu was very satisfied, especially with Unassailable; blocking any attack without taking damage was truly a god-tier item.

He would definitely leave a good review for this game once he got back!

"Um, could you please help me find some clothes and pants?" Bruce said, feeling a bit awkward.

Due to the Hulk transformation, Bruce's underwear had stretched to an XXXXXXL size, and he had to hold them up with his hands while walking to keep them from sliding off.

"I see. Follow me." Du Mu nodded and turned to walk toward a nearby alley.

Bruce didn't understand why, but he followed anyway.

Soon, they encountered a few sleazy street thugs in the alley.

Seeing the two appear, the street thugs seemed to trigger a fixed program and immediately surrounded them.

"Hey, lend us some cash... Big brother, don't shoot!"

Seeing the Golden Desert Eagle in Du Mu's hand, the street thugs immediately raised their hands with practiced ease.

Du Mu turned back to look at the dumbfounded Bruce and said, "Come over and pick one out. Take whichever set you like. By the way, do you have any specific requirements for the style of your underwear?"

Bruce: "..."

Soon, Bruce changed into a new outfit, a classic West Coast style.

Afterward, Bruce stated that he had to leave; he had a very important matter that must be completed.

Seeing Bruce's firm attitude, Du Mu dialed Nick Fury and relayed Bruce's words to him.

Nick Fury thought for a moment: "Let him go. I will have people monitor all of his subsequent actions."

"Understood, Director."

"And my car..."

Du Mu hung up the phone decisively.

Just kidding. There was no way he was returning a car he had driven off with, not even for the director of S.H.I.E.L.D.!

The next day.

Du Mu was at home flipping through a comic book, reading with great interest.

He had inadvertently discovered that DC actually existed in this game world.

One had to know that DC and Marvel were famous rivals; after all, both were superhero companies, so some competition was natural.

To think that in a Marvel-themed game, a DC comic book would actually appear!

Was this some kind of game Easter egg?

To be honest, Du Mu was quite familiar with Superman.

In his era, DC had already rebooted its universe for the 28th time and was about to film New New New New New New Superman: Prequel.

With a Superman movie coming out every year, it was hard for Du Mu not to know about it.

Out of curiosity, Du Mu opened the DC comic book and ended up reading for half the day.

He found that the superheroes in DC had some similarities to the superheroes he had encountered in this game world.

Especially Batman and Daredevil.

Both guarded chaotic areas, wore pointed-ear cowls, and liked to appear at night.

And they both had an underlying code they couldn't break... oh no, a bottom line, which was the no-killing principle.

It was just that Matt the lawyer wasn't as rich as Bruce Wayne; after fighting criminals at night, he still had to go to work in the morning to earn money, which felt pathetic when he thought about it.

But come to think of it, Batman's arch-nemesis Joker did have a bit of a player vibe.

Crazy enough!

Just as Du Mu was engrossed in his reading, the system's voice suddenly rang out.

[Player, please note: The BOSS event has officially begun!]

[Target: Defeat "Whiplash" Ivan Vanko!]

[Reward: Depends on the damage dealt to the BOSS by the player; the higher the damage, the richer the reward!]

"Hmm?"

Du Mu raised an eyebrow.

Who triggered the boss fight in secret?

New York, Stark Expo.

Tony Stark was streaking through the air in his iron suit.

Behind him, over a dozen Iron Soldiers were in hot pursuit, firing attacks at him incessantly.

Leading the charge was his good friend Colonel Rhodey, now known as War Machine.

BOOM!!

Tony narrowly dodged a missile and shouted to Rhodey through the internal comms: "Rhodey, are you sure this isn't a personal vendetta?"

Rhodey replied helplessly: "Ivan Vanko hacked into the Hammer Industries system and took control of this suit. What was I supposed to do?"

Hearing this, Tony's mouth twitched: "You shouldn't have let Hammer Industries touch your suit! Don't you know their system is like a public restroom? Anyone can walk right in!"

Except for Rhodey's War Machine, the rest of the Iron Soldiers were products of Hammer Industries, built by that Russian man named Ivan Vanko.

This guy had previously attacked Tony on the F1 track in Monaco, nearly electrocuting him to a crisp.

Now, he had seized control of War Machine and the other Iron Soldiers to collectively besiege Tony, determined to put him to death.

Fortunately, thanks to the life-extending intervention of Du Mu, Tony had enough time to research a new energy source to replace the palladium, giving his suit a more stable power supply and preventing him from being worn down by these Iron Soldiers.

Just then, Natasha's voice came through Tony's earpiece: "I have hacked into the Hammer Industries system and am preparing to reboot Colonel Rhodey's suit."

Tony felt a surge of joy: "Nice work, Agent Romanoff."

He was right after all—the Hammer Industries system was a total toilet!

To prevent Rhodey from crashing, Tony immediately maneuvered his suit to land in the Simulated Ecological Park below, with the Iron Soldiers diving down right behind him.

As soon as War Machine touched down, Tony shouted: "Now!"

The next moment, the War Machine system rebooted, finally breaking Ivan's control.

Tony and Rhodey exchanged a glance; no words were needed. They immediately turned their weapons and opened fire on the remaining Iron Soldiers.

Boom! Boom! Boom!!

Explosions rang out one after another!

Soon, under the combined assault of Tony and Rhodey, the Iron Soldiers were blasted into a pile of smoking scrap metal.

However, their own suits were severely damaged, their surfaces scorched black and riddled with bullet holes, making them look exceptionally disheveled.

Before Tony could even catch his breath, Jarvis's voice suddenly sounded: "Sir, there is a high-energy fluctuation above. The readings far exceed the peak values of the Iron Soldiers."

"Ivan Vanko!!"

Tony didn't need to guess who it was.

Sure enough, a few seconds later, a massive suit of armor descended from the sky, slamming heavily onto the ground before them.

The giant helmet slowly opened, revealing Ivan's unkempt face.

He looked down at Tony Stark from his height and said in broken English with a thick Russian accent: "It is good to be back."

With such a stylish entrance, Ivan expected to see a look of shock on Tony's face.

Instead, he found Tony looking at him with a bizarre expression.

Ivan frowned: "Stark, have you been scared stupid?"

Listening to a voice suddenly echoing in his ear, Tony's mouth twitched: "Have you ever heard a certain saying?"

"What saying?"

"Who pilots a mech without wearing a helmet?"

"?"

BANG!

Before Ivan could even process what was happening, he heard a gunshot!

And then.

There was no then.

Under Tony's helpless gaze and Rhodey's bewildered stare, Ivan's head was blown wide open, and he collapsed heavily to the ground along with his freshly minted Whiplash Armor.

A generation of supervillains.

Less than ten seconds after his debut, he was gone just like that!