Su Zheng: Tony, You're Going to Die, So Leave Pepper to Me!

[Ding! Divine Choice System activated.]

[One, be helpful and assist Tony in removing the shrapnel near his heart.]

[Reward: A branch of magnetic abilities: precise control over small metal objects.]

[Two, what did other people's lives and deaths have to do with me? Let Tony fend for himself.]

[Reward: Constitution +2.]

[Three, tell Tony: You're about to die anyway, so your company belongs to me. I'll take good care of Pepper.]

[Seize Tony's Stark Industries and forcibly kiss Pepper in front of Tony.]

[Reward: Cao Cao trait. Equipping this trait increases command ability by 20% and gives you a future preference for married women.]

Su Zheng looked at the options on the pale blue panel.

He was somewhat speechless.

Was the third option serious?

And what use was command ability now? This wasn't ancient times.

He had no interest in married women.

At least, not yet.

Constitution +2 was useless too. It would only make him a little stronger, not even enough to reach the limits of human capability.

A value of 20 was the limit for an ordinary human.

The first option was still pretty good.

Wouldn't that mean he could control bullets or tiny pieces of metal in the future, firing them out at supersonic speeds?

He could even make bullets curve.

However, according to the system's detailed explanation, curved bullets would not have nearly as much kinetic energy.

"I choose one."

Su Zheng immediately felt refreshed, and his perception of metal became much more precise.

He could clearly sense tiny bullet fragments on the ground within a three-meter radius.

The location of every fragment shone like white light in the darkness.

They formed a three-dimensional image in his mind.

He could never have sensed things with such precision before.

Now, he was also a master marksman.

He could accurately fire a bullet into the center of an enemy's forehead.

Of course, Su Zheng also sensed the three small bomb fragments near Tony's heart.

Su Zheng said, "I can help you remove the shrapnel near your heart."

Tony had just been about to say, How is that possible?

Then he remembered that Su Zheng could control magnetic fields. Using a magnetic field to control metal would be simple enough.

But the shrapnel inside him was extremely close to his heart. One careless move, and he would be dead.

It would be fine if it succeeded, but what if it failed?

He could not trust his life to a stranger, even if that stranger had come to rescue him.

Tony was just about to say, "No need..."

Before he could finish, Su Zheng ripped off all his upper clothing.

He stared intently at Tony's upper body, as though there were flowers growing there.

Even though he had gained the ability to precisely control small metal objects, this was still his first time using it.

If he accidentally killed Tony, that would be quite the joke.

Tony looked at Su Zheng's burning gaze fixed on his half-naked body. He unconsciously took half a step back, wariness flashing in his eyes.

Su Zheng was so handsome, with skin so fair he looked almost like a woman.

Who knew whether he might have ideas about Tony's perfect physique?

There were plenty of gays in the United States.

Even if Su Zheng told him right now that he liked men, Tony would not find it strange in the slightest.

Tony said, "Actually, I can wait until we get back to the United States and have top doctors take a look."

Su Zheng ignored him and directly pulled the Arc Reactor out of Tony's chest.

Tony instantly became like a fish out of water. His face turned pale, and his lips gradually lost their color.

He collapsed to the ground, gasping desperately, yet it still felt as though he could not get any oxygen.

His movements became sluggish. In the instant he fell, he tried to grab Ethan beside him but failed.

Soon, he was lying on the ground, looking at Su Zheng with the instinctive desire to survive in his eyes.

Ethan watched Tony anxiously from the side and wanted to help him up, but he could not move at all.

The heavy Iron Suit was on him, but he did not have enough momentum to operate the armor.

At that moment, he was like a man trapped inside an iron box.

The large hole in Tony's chest was now exposed to the air.

It was not actually very large, but on a human body, it appeared enormous and horrifying.

The organs inside, along with his beating heart, were clearly visible.

It even seemed as though they could hear blood flowing through his veins.

Su Zheng crouched down and sensed the shrapnel deep inside the hole.

It really was extremely close to Tony's heart. The nearest fragment was only two millimeters away.

Tony truly had a lucky life!

Then, the three irregular fragments with sharp edges slowly pierced through Tony's flesh and flew out.

Under Su Zheng's precise control, not a single blood vessel was ruptured. Only a little muscle was turned outward as the shrapnel pierced through it.

After the three bloodstained fragments emerged, Su Zheng pressed the Arc Reactor back into Tony's chest.

Tony was like someone who had been suffocating and had just taken in oxygen. He gasped in great lungfuls.

His entire body was covered in cold sweat, and dense beads of perspiration on his forehead glimmered beneath the sun.

Even the hair on his chest was plastered tightly against his skin.

After recovering for a while, Tony gave Su Zheng a slightly resentful look and said,

"Next time, you can warn me before you do something."

He had nearly thought he was going to die just now.

Su Zheng shrugged.

If I warned you, you'd be too scared to let me do it.

Tony stood up and looked at the three fragments floating before him, shock, delight, and lingering fear in his eyes...

Tony looked seriously at Su Zheng and said, "Thank you!"

He was astonished that Su Zheng had really done it.

He was also delighted that he could finally live.

And he was still a little afraid. If anything had gone wrong just now, his life would have been over.

At that moment, he felt light all over, as though his heart were beating more strongly than ever.

Perhaps because of the intense tension earlier, he now felt as though he had been reborn.

Tony looked deeply at Su Zheng and said, "From now on, you are Tony's friend."

It seemed that aside from Rhodey, he had no friends.

But now he had one more.

Su Zheng shrugged. Gaining Tony's friendship was not bad.

At the very least, he would not have to worry about money in the future!

He could also have Tony help him get a legal United States ID.

Next time, he did not want to ride in an illegal car across more than six thousand kilometers.

His butt had gone numb from sitting.

The fragments floating in the air slowly drifted into Tony's hand.

Su Zheng said, "You can have these three fragments."

Tony directly tossed the shrapnel onto the ground.

He did not need such things.

Su Zheng found a one-square-meter iron plate nearby. Then he controlled the automatic rifles scattered across the ground and gathered them onto the iron plate.

They formed an approximately four-square-meter "floor"!

It was just that this floor was an irregular shape, covered with black gun barrels and jagged edges.

Su Zheng stepped onto the metal "floor" and said, "Get on."

"I'll take you out of here."

Tony stepped onto it with some hesitation. After Ethan took off the Iron Suit, he came up as well.

Su Zheng ignited the camp's explosives depot.

A large number of corpses were blown to pieces.

Massive flames shot into the sky, and a violent shockwave spread outward. The explosion covered a wide area, with a radius of more than ten meters.

The blast wave from the explosion happened to propel Su Zheng and the others forward.

Su Zheng controlled the "floor" beneath them as it sped through the air.

Several hours later, they arrived at a city on the edge of the Sahara Desert.

Then they had military personnel come pick them up.

The three of them arrived in New York. Tony gave Su Zheng and Ethan a card each, then left with Pepper.

Su Zheng immediately went to the bank to check the balance on his card.

"Ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousand, one hundred thousand, one million."

"I'm rich, I'm rich!"

There were three million dollars in the card.

He had never seen so much money in his life.

If converted into Chinese currency, wouldn't that be nearly twenty million!

Wow!

If he went to China, wouldn't he be living the dream?

But this was the Marvel universe.

The important plotlines all took place in the United States.

If he wanted to trigger the system's choices, he still had to stay in the United States.

Compared to Thanos, his strength was still far too lacking.

He needed to become stronger.

Thanos would arrive in 2018.

It was now 2008, so he had ten years left.

He had to become powerful enough within those ten years.

Otherwise, he would not even be able to protect himself.

He did not want to transmigrate here only to live for ten years.

Time was still a little tight, but he believed that with 99% hard work and 1% help from the system,

he could kick Thanos and punch Thor in 2018.

After Tony returned to New York, the first thing he did was hold a press conference.

He shut down Stark Industries' weapons division.

As a result, Stark's stock plummeted, diving wildly downward like a straight line sinking into water.

After renting a house, Su Zheng invested all his money into stocks.

He bought Stark Industries stock.

As for a United States ID, Tony had already taken care of it for him.

From then on, he was an American.