Turning the Tables! Stark Industries' "New Abnormal CEO"
Liquid metal, black and green in color, was frantically injected into Stark Tower's mainframe network through physical interfaces on the lobby floor.
This is a war without gunfire, but its danger far exceeds that of physical brawls.
Galvan Prime's most advanced technological achievement, [Upgrade], clashes with a mutated, bizarre AI from Earth. This is not a contest between equals, but a dimensional attack.
"Aaaaaah--!"
On the holographic screen that occupied the entire wall of the hall, the giant face of "Tony Stark," pieced together from gears, emitted an extremely shrill electronic scream.
As Jiang Li's data flooded in, the originally scarlet code on the screen seemed to have encountered strong acid, collapsing and melting in large areas. In its place was a dense array of Galvan Prime's underlying logic code, shimmering with an eerie green light.
[WARNING! Fatal logic virus detected!]
[Prior privileges are being overwritten!]
[Defense mechanism activated: Invoking Article 3 of the <New York Citizen Survival Rules>: Stark Industries is the only legal...]
"Are you still trying to scare people with your ridiculous rules?"
Jiang Li's voice came through the loudspeaker of the heavy armor, carrying a dull, mechanical reverberation.
His liquid metal traveled along the network cable, directly entering the root directory of this super AI. In the data vision, Jiang Li transformed into a giant cross badge radiating green light, slamming it heavily onto the core code wall of the Stark AI.
"Stark Industries is legitimate? Okay."
Jiang Li sneered, and with a slight thought, the green torrent of data transformed into countless sharp scalpels, beginning to surgically dissect the code of this bizarre universe.
"Then I'll just change your company's legal representative."
Tony's giant face on the screen twisted wildly, and his originally cold, mechanical voice was now filled with extreme terror.
[No! You can't modify the underlying settings! This will cause the Cosmic Firewall to crash! Stop!]
[I am the founder! I am the sole controller of this anomaly!]
"It won't be like that soon."
Jiang Li completely ignored his impotent rage, and the green waterfall of code rapidly scrolled across the screen.
[Delete: Founder Tony Stark]
[Insert: New Jiang Li]
[Update: The absolute allegiance of all aberrant mechanical entities has been redirected to the new CEO.]
Snap!
Jiang Li pressed the Enter key heavily on the data dimension.
Code compilation, overwriting, and application activation.
It took less than three seconds.
Buzz--!
The entire Stark Tower, this 108-story steel hive, fell into absolute silence in an instant.
The nutrient solution bubbling in the blood pool in the hall stopped boiling.
The thousands of rusty Mark Armor that were about to pounce on Jiang Li seemed to have their power cut off instantly, freezing in place. The nauseating dark red rust on their surfaces began to peel off at a visible speed, revealing the smooth metal armor plates underneath.
The mechanical tubes that had pierced human flesh and forcibly parasitized them stopped strangling and instead injected a green repair fluid, saving the lives of those half-human, half-machine hosts.
Inside and outside the building, the monstrous, distorted battle armor on tens of thousands of bodies simultaneously extinguished the ferocious red light in their eye monitors.
The next second.
Swish! Swish! Swish!
Tens of thousands of eyes lit up again. But this time, it wasn't blood-red, but a ghostly green that represented absolute obedience!
The Arc Reactor on his chest had all transformed into a cross emblem flashing green light.
Jiang Li slowly turned around, maneuvering his heavy armor.
"Now, who's in charge of this lousy company?" Jiang Li asked calmly.
Boom!
Inside the hall, the row of heavy armor closest to Jiang Li, without any hesitation, its massive mechanical right leg abruptly took half a step back, slamming heavily onto the floor.
Kneel on one knee!
Immediately afterwards, it was as if Domino were being toppled.
Thousands of suits of armor in the lobby, hundreds of suits of armor in the corridors, even the rusty Iron Man patrolling the skies surrounding Stark Tower...
At this moment, they all knelt down on one knee in unison, facing the direction where Jiang Li was, lowering their once arrogant mechanical heads.
The sound of steel hitting the ground converged into an extremely powerful torrent, almost shattering the building's windows.
"Welcome to the new CEO—the boss."
Tens of thousands of mechanical beings spoke simultaneously. Their synthesized voices overlapped, devoid of emotion, conveying only absolute loyalty and submission.
This is not a containment anomaly at all.
This is a forced merger with someone else's ghost story company!
Looking at the magnificent sight of ten thousand soldiers submitting before him, Jiang Li snapped his the Snap in satisfaction.
"That's what you call efficiency. Using living people to forge armor? Too inefficient. Rewrite a line of code and get an entire legion for free. That's what hackers should be doing."
Jiang Li looked up and gazed back at the holographic screen on the ceiling.
At this moment, the giant Tony face had disappeared.
In its place was a tiny pixelated figure, no bigger than a palm, its color a ghastly green. It was the last remaining consciousness of the Stark AI after Jiang Li stripped it of all its privileges.
It's like a desktop pet infected with a Trojan virus, trembling in the corner of the screen.
"[You... you have completely destroyed my system...]" the pixelated figure uttered in an extremely faint voice.
"Don't talk to me like that victim."
Jiang Li, clad in a heavy black and green battle armor, walked to the bottom of the screen. Liquid metal gushed out from the gaps in the armor, transforming back into the appearance of a young man in a black trench coat.
Jiang Li transformed back into human form. He dusted off non-existent dust from his body and looked up at the remaining AI on the screen.
"You are now the former head of the bankrupt company I acquired. According to regulations, the handover procedures are not yet complete."
Jiang Li extended his right hand, palm facing upwards.
"Hand over the 'abnormal source of rules' that supports your large-scale mechanical assimilation—that is, the core of this building."
The pixelated figure on the screen flickered violently, as if it wanted to refuse.
Jiang Li's eyes turned cold, and his fingers clenched slightly.
A green trash can icon instantly appeared on the screen, sucking half of the pixelated figure inside.
"I'm not negotiating with you. If you don't hand it over, I'll empty the recycle bin right now, so you won't even be able to finish this last bit of code."
I'll hand it over! I'll hand it over!
The Stark AI completely collapsed. Faced with absolute dimensional reduction code, its prized supernatural rules were utterly worthless.
Rumble...
As the AI compromised, the huge pool of blood filled with severed limbs in the very center of the first-floor lobby suddenly began to split apart to both sides.
The foul-smelling red liquid was quickly drained.
At the very bottom of the blood pool, a metal platform, entangled with countless black cables, slowly rose.
In the center of the high platform, a core silently floats, emitting an extremely eerie light that is a mixture of dark red and ghastly green.
It was a severely contaminated "Arc Reactor".
Instead of providing clean energy, it continuously emits abnormal fluctuations of "Mechanical Flesh Assimilation." This is the source of the entire Stark Tower, and even the entire area, becoming a cyberpunk legend!
"The first fragment of the rule has been found."
Jiang Li stared at the core; he could sense that it contained a mad power capable of altering reality.