Form Switch! [Upgrade]
The black and green liquid metal circuits, like living plant roots, spread wildly along the floor of the lobby and mercilessly penetrated the main network interface of Stark Tower.
This is not destruction in a physical sense.
This is a cyber intrusion at the level of dimensional reduction.
As the pinnacle of the entire universe's technological tree, Galvan Prime's creations, the Upgrade [Upgrade], are inherently the absolute nemesis of all electronics, mechanics, and digital logic.
The instant Jiang Li's liquid metal came into contact with the host network.
On the holographic screen in the hall, the giant face of "Tony Stark" pieced together from gears emitted an extremely shrill electronic scream.
"Aaaaaah--!!"
[WARNING! The underlying core code is being forcibly overwritten!]
[WARNING! Administrator privileges have been revoked by an unknown program!]
On the screen, Tony flickered and distorted wildly, his electronic eyes filled with extreme fear of the unknown code.
In his digital world, a vast, green data stream was violently tearing apart his proud "Urban Legend Causality Firewall" with overwhelming force. Those bizarre viruses that could instantly rust ordinary humans were forcibly translated into a bunch of meaningless gibberish the moment they came into contact with this green data.
"Activate self-destruct program! Physically cut off power to all servers! Quickly!"
Tony's AI consciousness was making a last-ditch effort, trying to cut off the power to the entire building to stop the plague-like green invasion.
Jiang Li's voice, carrying a heavy mechanical resonance, reverberated throughout all 108 floors of Stark Tower.
"Too late. I'm now in charge of the building's physical infrastructure as well."
Boom!
The entire Stark Tower shook violently.
Following the underground network interface, Jiang Li's immense liquid metal essence transformed into countless nanometer-level currents, directly and physically taking over the building's energy center—the giant Arc Reactor located underground!
The reactor, which originally emitted an eerie red light, was forcibly transformed into a deep, ghostly green within a second.
Immediately afterwards.
Cyber possession erupts in full force.
Click click click click...
Inside the reception hall on the first floor, the thousands of rusty Mark Armor that had been surging toward Jiang Li like a tide suddenly froze in place, as if a pause button had been pressed.
Their electronic eyes, flashing a brutal red light, went out instantly.
"No... stop! That's my legion! My life's work!" Tony roared desperately on the big screen.
But it had no effect.
The next second.
The eye monitors on thousands of suits of armor in the hall lit up again. But this time, instead of the bloody dark red, they glowed a ghostly green, representing absolute control!
Not just the first floor.
From the basement to the top floor, the more than 10,000 mutated armors roaming Stark Tower simultaneously ceased their slaughter and parasitism.
The nauseating dark red rust on their surfaces, as if exposed to strong acid, began to peel off in large areas. Black and green nano-circuit networks, like tattoos, rapidly covered the steel shell of each suit of armor.
The energy core in his chest had completely transformed into a dazzling green cross emblem!
"Your system is so poorly written."
Jiang Li, controlling the heavy armor, slowly raised his head and looked at the large screen.
"Since the rules of your universe are 'forced wearing' and 'mechanical assimilation,' I'll slightly modify the code and switch the subject and object of assimilation."
Jiang Li snapped his the Snap.
"Now, I am the mother."
Swish!
As Jiang Li snapped his the Snap...
The thousands of Mark Armor that had just been "greened" in the hall turned around in unison. They did not attack Jiang Li, but instead faced the heavy armor where Jiang Li was, knelt on one knee, and lowered their once invincible mechanical heads!
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The clanging of steel, the clashing of thousands of armored soldiers, echoed like a chilling cyber symphony within Stark Tower.
This is not a fight at all.
This is an unreasonable, one-sided bullying.
The AI version of Tony Stark AI on the big screen could no longer maintain his facial features, turning into a jumbled mess of mosaics.
[What... what exactly are you? Physical immunity... causality invalid... you can even steal concepts...]
"I'm a hacker here to clean up your garbage code."
Jiang Li, clad in heavy black and green armor, slowly walked to the front of the large screen and raised his right arm, which was covered in liquid metal.
Five mechanical fingers were inserted directly into the physical cabinet beneath the holographic screen!
Pfft!
The green data tendrils instantly located the abnormal root directory hidden deep within the motherboard.
"Found you."
Jiang Li suddenly pulled.
Boom!
The entire server rack was forcibly removed and smashed.
Amidst the flying sparks, Jiang Li gripped the core of the Arc Reactor tightly in his hand, a piece emitting an eerie dark red light and constantly pulsating.
This is the culprit that turned Stark Industries into a "flesh-and-blood parasite" – the source of the abnormal rules.
The moment this core was pulled out.
The large screen on the ceiling went completely black; the mutated Tony Stark AI had been completely erased from this universe.
At the same time, the Omnitrix on Jiang Li's chest emitted a deafening alarm.
[Ding! A core abnormal contamination source detected!]
[Forced parsing... Parsing successful!]
[Congratulations, host! Successfully contained the first fragment of the rules: Mechanical Flesh Assimilation (Incomplete)!]
[Dial database Upgrade. Host has gained: Causality-Level Cyber Control.]
Jiang Li casually pressed the dark red core into the watch face on his chest.
With a "click," the core was instantly crushed and absorbed by the Phoenix Vortex within the dial.
Jiang Li deactivated his [Upgrade] form, and the green liquid metal covering the building and all the armor receded like a tide, returning to his left wrist.
He reverted to his human form, now wearing a black trench coat.
The thousands of rusty armors, out of control, scattered across the ground like Soul Stone scrap metal, turning into nothing more than true scrap metal.
Stark Tower, the infamous Hell on earth that strikes fear into the hearts of retro New York, was completely cleared in less than ten minutes.
He strode out of the Stark Tower, stepping over the piles of scrap metal.
The sky remained a ghastly green.
Jiang Li looked up at the horizon, recalling the rules on the blood-written flyer.
"I've forcibly uninstalled Iron Man, this rusty antivirus software."
"Next, let's meet that silk-spitting ' Good Neighbor ' in Queens."