After asking, Tony worried that Leon would be annoyed, and even actively cracked a joke.
"For example, actually become a Superman to save the world, dragging all the nuclear missiles to outer space to destroy them?"
"Or find a few more girlfriends and pass down your powerful Kryptonian Gene?"
"Come on, tell me, you don't look confused at all, you must have your own ideas, come and satisfy your big brother's curiosity!"
Tony guided the conversation with sweet temptations.
"Anyway, if I had this ability, I'd date ten cover girls in one night, then fly out of Earth into the Solar System to see if there are any aliens or something, preferably running into a few alien beauties!"
Leon chuckled dryly, as this was indeed something Tony would do.
"There are probably no alien beauties, only Facehuggers waiting for you."
He played along with the joke.
"I'm a bit different from you. I actually don't have that many thoughts to begin with. How I lived before is how I'll live in the future."
"In the past, I was the second young master of Stark Industries. Everywhere I went, I met smiling faces, and the whole world gave me goodwill."
"Now I've gotten stronger, but these things won't change along with it. I have absolutely no reason to do bad things, don't you think?"
"Right, well said, kid." Tony nodded, his gaze full of the relief of "my cub has grown up."
Leon took a deep breath: "Tony, if you look at me with that look again, I'll definitely use the slippers Pepper just bought to beat your butt hard!"
"I'm just your younger brother, you shouldn't always try to treat me like your son, OK?"
Now Tony wasn't having it: "Leon, look at you always being so sensitive. Come on, maybe clinking glasses can make you feel like you're already an adult."
"Look at what you're saying, someone like me not being an adult, could it possibly be you instead." Leon clinked glasses with Tony, but didn't fall into the trap of Tony's words.
He continued: "I haven't finished what I was saying just now."
"Although I don't plan to change my daily life, I'm also going to start embarking on another path!"
"What path?" Tony straightened up in the water with a splash.
"The path of chasing strength." Leon drained the red wine in his cup in one gulp.
"Just this? But you're already strong enough!"
Tony was extremely astonished.
"There's no Kryptonite in this world, nor anyone you can't beat, why get even stronger?"
Leon smiled and said: "There isn't any now, there always will be in the future."
Tony was noncommittal: "Then how do you plan to get stronger? Keep sunbathing?"
Leon shook his head.
"Sunbathing is a must, of course, but relying solely on sunbathing, the height I can reach has a limit!"
"So I plan to improve my strength from multiple aspects!"
"Learn a bit of magic, learn a bit of qigong, and learn a bit more knowledge in science."
"Then when I have enough knowledge, perhaps I'll be able to raise my body's upper limit by studying genes!"
The bright moon was reflected in the water, and Leon gently clenched his fist in the water.
"Studying genes? The Super-Soldier Serum like Captain America's?" Tony had a bad premonition. "That stuff shouldn't be useful to you, right?"
"It's indeed useless, but what I want to study is my own genes!"
Leon looked at Tony: "Kryptonian genes!"
Tony froze for a long time, his expression changing slightly: "Are you sure you want to do this?"
"Those people in the comic books who study Kryptonian genes all end up creating Doomsday!"
It was clear that Tony had indeed read quite a few DC Comics recently, as he even knew about Doomsday.
"That's a biological weapon of the Kryptonians, knowing only slaughter and bringing nothing but destruction to the world, and even Krypton itself couldn't master that power!"
Tony's expression was serious: "This is not a smooth path, nor is it a wide and open road!"
"If Kryptonian genes were that easy to study, with all their Super-Brains, they would have made every Kryptonian a god long ago!"
"Leon, maybe you should think about it again. You don't have to study genes, there are many ways to get stronger, I can help you look for them!"
Leon shook his head: "I'll try other methods, but I won't give up starting from genes to fundamentally improve my strength."
Tony submerged his face in the water with a headache to wash it.
Right now, he felt just like those parents facing their rebellious teenage children, his mind full of wanting to persuade them more, yet not knowing where to start persuading.
"How about this, Leon, have you ever thought about what would happen if there was an accident during the research, and you turned into Doomsday?"
Tony guided him: "As I just said, no one on Earth can stop you, you can do whatever you want."
"And a you like that, if you turned into Doomsday, what would happen to Earth?"
"Is there any second ending other than destruction?"
"You're being a bit extreme now, Leon!"
"This..." Leon stared blankly at Tony, falling into deep thought.
In the original movies, Tony was actually a relatively radical person.
When it was time to forge ahead, he never retreated, and when facing major choices, he would stick to his own decisions.
Just like the birth of Ultron and the Civil War of the Avengers.
Part of the reason these events happened was that Tony's personality was too radical, and once he made up his mind, he never looked back.
And now, Tony, such a radical person, was actually telling him that he was being a bit extreme!
This forced Leon to start reflecting on whether he really was being somewhat reckless for the sake of power.
"Alright, I admit, directly studying Kryptonian genes is indeed a bit extreme."
After a long time, Leon slowly nodded, making Tony breathe a long sigh of relief.
But the next second, Leon changed the subject: "However, once I get some Kryptonite, I'll still start this research!"
Tony widened his eyes: "Wait, Kryptonite? There's Kryptonite in our world? Are you kidding?"
"Of course there isn't any in our world." Leon looked at Tony strangely. "I mean going to the DC Universe to get some Kryptonite."
Now Tony was confused: "Go to DC... No, no, are we seriously starting to talk about dream content at night now?"
"...\nI'm serious." Leon shook his empty glass.
"I have a hunch that my Space-Time Travel ability should be able to travel to the DC Universe."
"So once I get the Kryptonite, I'll leave it in your hands. If I really turn into Doomsday, you deal with me."
Tony directly ignored Leon's second half sentence.
He was completely baffled: "Leaving aside Kryptonite. Space-Time Travel? You even have this kind of ability? Does the DC Universe actually exist as well? Although theoretically this is indeed possible..."
Black lines covered Leon's head: "I remember telling you on my birthday that I awakened the Kryptonian Bloodline and Space-Time Travel ability, and it turns out you didn't believe a single bit of it?"
In fact, Tony had never believed that Leon awakened the Kryptonian Bloodline.
He only thought he was getting stronger from sunbathing due to a genetic mutation.
It was only when Leon returned from space this time, displaying more and more abilities similar to Superman's, that Tony truly believed it.
However, Leon's other travel ability, which was also mentioned at the very beginning, was something Tony had long since forgotten.
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