Mark Armor Turned into a Cyber Parasite?

With a cold shout from Jiang Li, he slammed his finger heavily on the center of the watch face.

A blinding green light exploded in the hall, its brightness instantly overshadowing the red glow emanating from the eyes of the thousands of rusty armored figures around them.

The Tony Stark AI on the big screen let out an extremely piercing electronic snort.

"Arrogant! Activate the underlying defense rules: Force Wear!"

As soon as the command was issued, the "causality" inside Stark Tower was instantly activated.

This is not a physical attack, but a piece of code hard-coded into the core of this fantastical universe—[Any uninfected creature inside Stark Tower will inevitably be parasitized by the armor].

The mechanical monsters that had been relentlessly piercing through Jiang Li's body because he was in an "Untargetable" state suddenly seemed to have locked onto some kind of conceptual anchor point.

The heavy armor closest to Jiang Li moved.

It was a mutated version of the "Hulkbuster Armor," standing five meters tall. Its chest cavity suddenly burst open, revealing no cockpit inside, but rows of sharp gears like a meat grinder, and countless metal syringes dripping with black engine oil and corrosive liquid!

Ignoring spatial distance, the heavy armor appeared directly in front of Jiang Li, its massive steel shell snapping down like a mousetrap towards Jiang Li, who was enveloped in green light!

Click!

The heavy metallic clanging echoed through the hall.

The green light was forcibly suppressed inside the rusty steel shell. Jiang Li was "eaten" inside.

On the big screen, the face of Tony, pieced together from gears, showed a satisfied expression.

"Assimilation begins. Human flesh and blood will eventually decay, and your Soul Stone and power will become the new battery for Stark Industries."

However, before he could finish speaking...

"Crack... Crack crack..."

The mutated heavy armor that had devoured Jiang Li suddenly emitted an extremely strange mechanical jamming sound, and its massive body convulsed violently on the spot.

Inside the armor.

Those sharp gears and steel needles, originally used to grind human flesh and inject rusty viruses, are now frantically cutting into Jiang Li's body.

However, they did not cut into any warm flesh, nor did they draw any blood.

Because what's currently encased inside the armor isn't a human body at all!

Instead, it is a semi-fluid alien creature composed entirely of liquid metal in alternating black and green hues, its surface covered with intricate circuit patterns!

[Galvan Prime Upgrade: Upgrade]!

This is a silicon-based life form without any physical organs, composed entirely of high-tech nanomachines!

"Mandatory wearing?"

From inside the armor, Jiang Li's cold voice, with a distinct electronic reverb, emanated.

"So, you forcibly crossed space and delivered a set of equipment to me?"

The syringes carrying the virus, when inserted into Jiang Li's liquid body, not only did not cause any infection, but instead acted like conductive copper wires, instantly locking onto its system backdoor by Jiang Li!

"You low-level virus cobbled together from scrap metal dare to boast about Upgrade in front of me?"

Jiang Li's liquid body suddenly boiled.

Hiss--!

From the steel gaps of the heavy armor, large swathes of black and green liquid metal suddenly overflowed! This liquid metal, like a living tide, instantly enveloped the massive parasitic armor.

The nauseating dark red rust on the surface of the armor was rapidly decomposed and purified the moment it came into contact with the liquid metal, just like encountering a strong acid.

Instead, there is a smooth, mirror-like black nano-armor and a green neon circuit network that shimmers like breathing!

"Warning! The system has been overwritten by an unknown program!"

"The firewall has been breached!"

"Core control has been lost!"

The alarm system inside the heavy armor screamed madly.

But this was utterly futile. Faced with Galvan Prime's cutting-edge technology, these cyberviruses on Earth, created through mutation, were like doodles written by a three-year-old.

Less than two seconds.

Boom!

The mutated heavy armor, which was originally prepared to devour Jiang Li, suddenly straightened up.

It has completely changed its appearance. It is no longer that dilapidated and rusty monster from a legend, but an ultimate killing machine with a futuristic and sci-fi feel, its body flowing with green data light.

In the center of the helmet's visor, a green cross emblem representing control lit up!

On the big screen, Tony Stark AI, with its gear-like face, distorted violently for the first time.

"What... what did you do to my armor?! This is impossible! Disconnect! All combat units, destroy that rogue armor immediately!"

"Trying to unplug the network cable now? Too late."

Jiang Li's voice boomed from the megaphone of his battle armor.

He manipulated the completely possessed heavy armor and slowly raised his right arm.

The originally rusty palm cannon, under the reconstruction of liquid metal, directly transformed into a terrifying energy-concentrating cannon barrel with a diameter of two meters. Pure Phoenix Force, mixed with Galvan Prime's plasma technology, was frantically compressed at the muzzle, emitting a suffocating, eerie green light of destruction.

"Didn't you all want to gang up on me just now?" Jiang Li sneered.

Boom--!!

A single shot was fired.

A thick beam of green light instantly pierced through the entire reception hall!

There was no explosion or sparks, only absolute Oblivion of energy. The hundreds of rusty Mark Armor blocking the beam of light didn't even have time to utter a scream before being instantly vaporized into their most basic molecular state by the terrifying plasma temperature, leaving not even a drop of oil behind!

With a single strike, one-tenth of the mechanical insect swarm in front of them was wiped out!

The temperature inside the hall instantly rose by several hundred degrees, and the floor was melted, leaving a deep, bottomless ravine.

"Impossible! My armor is protected by the rules! How could a physical attack erase them?!" The Stark AI on the screen screamed in disbelief; its logic chip was about to burn out.

"Physical attacks are indeed ineffective."

Jiang Li lowered the still-smoking cannon barrel, and the liquid metal flowed down the legs of his armor into the ground.

"But what I just fired was a ' Trojan Plasma ' that can directly rewrite your underlying data. Sorry, your rules are now under my control."

Countless black and green nanocircuits spread rapidly across the lobby floor like tree roots, ignoring any physical barriers and directly penetrating the mainframe network interface of Stark Tower!

Jiang Li raised his head, the green cross on his mask flashing with a cold light, and stared intently at the large screen.

"The network in this building is good."

"The next second, it's mine."