Speaking in Half-Sentences

Perhaps it was the sudden, unfamiliar voice that startled him, or perhaps it was the miniature reactor so close at hand that spurred him on.

In any case, Tony jolted violently and abruptly came to his senses. He lifted his heavy eyelids and struggled to focus upward. A young man was looking down at him, wearing a calm, friendly smile.

He had a refined and handsome Eastern face, black hair and black eyes. He looked very young and wore simple casual clothes.

Tony's mind was full of questions. Who was this guy? How had he gotten in here? Why was he here?

But the most urgent matter was to put the First-Generation Miniature Arc Reactor back into his chest.

Tony had no strength left to speak. Raising a trembling hand, he took the glass case containing the first-generation reactor from the unfamiliar young man. Without the slightest hesitation, Tony slammed the glass case down onto the hard floor beside him!

"Crash—!"

The crisp sound of shattering glass was especially piercing in the silent laboratory. The case instantly broke apart, exposing the carefully sealed First-Generation Miniature Arc Reactor within.

Lin Hai stood to one side, watching it all with a smile. When Tony smashed the case, he quietly mocked to himself, Good thing Pepper used ordinary glass instead of Huaxia tempered glass. Otherwise, with Tony's current strength, he might really have died here today.

Once Tony had reinstalled the reactor in his chest, his entire body seemed to lose every bone in it. He collapsed backward against the leg of the lab table, tipped back his head, took a long, deep breath, and then heavily exhaled.

His life had finally been saved.

The enormous exhaustion of surviving a disaster swept through him. Tony, now "whole again," remained slumped on the floor.