As Tony manipulated the controls, the blurry high-altitude reconnaissance footage vanished from the display, replaced by a video from an entirely different perspective.
This video had been filmed up close and head-on. The background was a crude warehouse, and at the center of the frame stood a metal construct—the so-called "counterfeit Iron Man armor."
However, once the counterfeit was fully revealed on the screen, murmurs broke out throughout the hall.
This thing... was just too shabby.
Forget comparing it to Tony's technologically elegant Mark III—even medieval European knight armor looked more presentable than this.
It had been cobbled together from rough sheet metal, exposed rivets, crooked weld marks, and several haphazardly connected hydraulic rods. Overall, it looked like something barely assembled from scraps at a junkyard.
In the video, the counterfeit Iron Man armor clumsily tried to walk out of the warehouse. Its leg lifted, then landed awkwardly in front of it.
"Clang!"
It failed to keep its balance. Its massive body toppled forward stiffly and slammed into the ground, accidentally triggering the machine gun mounted on its arm in the process.
"Rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat—!!!"
A burst of fierce gunfire rang out.
"Aah—!"
Several screams came from the video's background audio. Clearly, people around the fallen counterfeit Iron Man armor had been accidentally injured.
At the sight of this, the senator seated on the dais immediately turned ugly. Pointing at the large screen still playing the video, he shouted, "Can you turn it off? Turn it off, now!"
Justin Hammer stood up and hurried toward the display, apparently intending to shut it down himself and stop the video from continuing.
But during that time, Tony played another video of a similar counterfeit Iron Man armor. The one in this video was even worse than the previous one. At least the last one