Stubborn Tony and Lu Mingyu

Doctor Strange looked at Wong and realized something was wrong. He toyed with the Sling Ring in his hand and watched the spell projection Wong had reopened. Suddenly, he saw someone he was not particularly familiar with, though he did know a little about him. It was Quicksilver, who was searching for Lu Mingyu. Moreover, this spell projection was a live broadcast. He pointed at Quicksilver in the projection and asked, "Where is this?"

Wong shot him a sidelong glance. "You can't just picture the scene and use the Sling Ring to go there. Didn't you learn that?"

"Uh, yeah, I learned it, but don't forget I'm still not very familiar with it." Doctor Strange smiled awkwardly, then put the Sling Ring on his hand. He had kept the Eye of Agamotto around his neck and did not dare take it off. "Watch the Sanctum. Keep Mordo from coming here to cause trouble."

Wong nodded deeply. Naturally, he knew about Mordo's fall to darkness. He simply did not know how to tell the students. In their eyes, Mordo held the same status as Doctor Strange. Back then, it had been Mordo, Wong, and Doctor Strange who had stopped Dormammu's minions and Dormammu himself at the Hong Kong Sanctum.

Doctor Strange knew Wong was thinking about Mordo. He shook his head helplessly and patted Wong on the shoulder before leaving. Leaving behind fragments of a crimson-gold, spark-like portal in the center of the Sanctum, he departed.

Lu Mingyu grabbed Tony's hand, but no matter how hard he pulled, Tony would not budge. He tugged with all his strength and said, "We need to go. We can't stay here long."

Tony refused to leave even if it killed him. He argued reasonably, "The most dangerous place is the safest place, okay? Besides, my armor is almost here. If we leave now, it'll have to lock onto my location again. I can feel it—my signal has already broken through his interference. I know my own inventions best."

"Are you a one-year-old? Hurry up and go, I'm begging you. If we don't leave now, we're both dead!"

"What are you afraid of? Can't you keep up with Quicksilver's speed? Stall him when he gets here and wait for me." Tony spoke with immense confidence, but Lu Mingyu did not loosen his grip. He did not trust Tony's technology. That dark blade was truly bizarre, and the more mysterious something was, the more it frightened Lu Mingyu.

He clearly remembered that when he had encountered the dark blade, the speed in his body had been absorbed into it. From that moment on, his stamina had rapidly drained away. Lu Mingyu had never seen such a thing before, but he knew the speed in his body was the Speed Force. He could not imagine what kind of equipment could absorb the Speed Force.

"I'm telling you, rather than waiting for your armor, you might as well wait for the Avengers." Lu Mingyu tried to persuade Tony to stop being so stubborn.

Tony looked at Lu Mingyu as if he were an idiot. "Do you have a communication device?"

"No."

"Then do you have a signal? Can you send a text, make a call, or shout across the distance? Or can you communicate telepathically?"

"No."

"Then how are you going to call someone to save us? This place is completely blocked, okay? What use would a communication device be? Avengers? More like the Idiots Alliance."

Lu Mingyu smiled faintly. "Since you said this place is blocked, then come with me. Stop being an idiot and run for your life with me."

"I won't."

Lu Mingyu hissed through his teeth and said helplessly, "Look at you! Why are you so hard to convince? My god."

"Hmph. You little rookie, just wait and see. I'll show you that even if Quicksilver comes, he'll still lose to my Iron Man Armor."

Tony actually had more to say, but his gaze suddenly went blank, and he could no longer speak. Blood stained Quicksilver's lips, and the dark blade in his hand gleamed coldly beneath the night sky. It was as though all the starlight had fallen upon Quicksilver. White light burst from his body as he opened his mouth, his face twisted in ferocity. "Tony, we're friends. Why are you running? Why are you trusting this stranger?"

"If you were alive, maybe we could be friends. But now, absolutely not. I regret your death." Tony's tone abruptly changed. He saw a faint light flickering on his arm and said with a solemn expression, "So I don't want you to die a second time. I'll give you two seconds to leave."

"One." Tony smugly counted to one, but when Quicksilver showed no reaction, he added, "Seriously, if you don't leave in one more second, you're dead for sure!"

"Two!" Tony said.

Quicksilver looked at Tony as though he were an idiot. He licked the blood from the corner of his mouth with his tongue and watched his surroundings. Yet nothing happened. Pretending to be innocent, he said, "Why won't you believe me? I'd always wanted to kill you before, but even when we worked together, I never made a move. Listen, if I really wanted to kill you, I would have done it when we fought Ultron."

He hoped the past would make Tony lower his guard, even if only a little. At the same time, Quicksilver's eyes fixed on the young man behind Tony.

"Listen, that was an accident." Tony raised his hand, sensing the location of the Iron Man Armor, but there was no response for a long time. He continued, "Really, I'm not lying this time. Give it a few more minutes. If you still don't leave, don't blame me for being ruthless!"

"Fine, you're still not leaving?"

Tony suddenly moved, only to return to where he had been. He mocked Quicksilver's exaggerated movement and said, "So you're this scared. If you hadn't set my armor on fire, I'd have sent you to hell already!"

It turned out that the instant Tony moved, Quicksilver had changed his stance and made a running motion. Yet he had been knocked down by a sudden punch. By the time Tony reacted, Quicksilver was already lying on the ground. Lu Mingyu stood behind Tony as though he had done nothing at all.

"Looks like if I want to kill you, I'll have to kill the one who keeps helping you escape first!" The Black Lantern Ring on Quicksilver's hand buzzed like a warning. At the same time, Quicksilver moved at high speed. As he ran, he grabbed a stone from nearby and hurled it viciously at Tony. The stone was aimed directly at Tony's right eye. Everything around them slowed down, and Quicksilver clearly knew that if Lu Mingyu did not stop that stone, its impact would blind Tony in one eye.

But Lu Mingyu would be too occupied with Quicksilver's pursuit to knock the stone aside. Quicksilver smiled cruelly as the blade in his hand turned into a cold streak of light, leaving an afterimage in place just like Quicksilver himself.

Lu Mingyu charged madly toward the stone, but Quicksilver's dark blade came straight at him. He barely dodged it, only to be thrown much farther from the stone. At the same time, everything around them returned to normal. They seemed to be statues trapped in place as cyan energy enveloped Quicksilver and Lu Mingyu, while the dark blade broke through the cyan power and shot into the distance.