Tony Stark

Boom!

The moment he entered the atmosphere, a sonic boom generated around Leon.

His speed even exceeded the second cosmic velocity.

Upon entering the atmosphere, his figure split the entire sky in two.

The massive atmospheric pressure produced by the ultra-high speed sliced open the sea of clouds.

The invisible wave of air tore apart the floating clouds all over the sky, suddenly taking shape at this moment, swirling around Leon like an air shield and dragging a long trajectory high in the sky.

It looked just like a world serpent descending from the sky, plunging into the mortal world, about to swallow everything in its path.

Upon approaching the ground, Leon began to decelerate, with an acceleration exceeding minus five thousand meters per second squared.

He had to decelerate.

If he landed at full speed, even if he used his Biological Force Field for protection, it would cause widespread destruction to the surrounding terrain.

The thirty thousand kilometers of distance from the spaceship to the ground, and the tens of thousands of kilometers from the skies above North America to Afghanistan.

He used less than twenty minutes.

Leon hovered high above Afghanistan, all the floating clouds overhead pushed far away by the shockwave.

There was not a single cloud in the sky here at this moment, and it was around ten o'clock at night.

Leon did not linger, twisting his figure in the air and continuing to fly east.

This time his speed was very slow, a little over two hundred meters per second, not even exceeding the speed of sound.

Like an invisible ghost, he flew above the cave where Tony was currently imprisoned.

Tony, it's time to wake up, Leon whispered upon using X-Ray Vision to see Tony sleeping with a frown inside the cave.

Then he plummeted downward at high speed like a shooting star.

Boom!

The hard rock-strewn mountain was little better than thin paper before Leon.

Over ten meters thick of rock and soil, he pierced straight through it in one go, entering the interior of the cave.

Leon dropped from the cave ceiling, landing in a half-squatting position in front of Tony's bed with a theatrical flair, looking very much like the posture Tony made when debuting in his armor in the movies.

At the breach in the cave roof, chunks of rubble also fell down along with him, big and small, creating a succession of impact sounds inside the cave.

Thud! Bang, bang, bang!

Vibration, a loud noise, continuous vibration and continuous loud noises.

Anyone woken from sleep by such a commotion would surely think the world was ending.

"Ahhh!" Tony was no exception.

He was already sleeping very lightly, instantly startled awake by the sound of Leon piercing through the cave.

Then he screamed in terror at the continuous loud noises.

"Those guys are attacking?!" Panic covered his face, instinctively thinking the terrorists couldn't wait any longer and had broken in.

A terrorist organization had kidnapped him, and the leader of the organization demanded that he build a batch of Jericho missiles.

Tomorrow was the final delivery date he and the other party had set.

According to plan, tomorrow he would put on the finished Mark armor and take his assistant Yinsen to fight their way out of the terrorist organization.

That was going to be a hard-fought battle.

To that end, just a few minutes ago, he had even offered a prayer before going to sleep, hoping tomorrow's plan would go smoothly.

If it didn't go smoothly, he also hoped Pepper and Leon could take care of themselves in the future.

As a result, just a few minutes after finishing his prayer and falling asleep, these terrorists couldn't wait and attacked?

"Damn it, even when that kid Leon was wetting his pants he wasn't this rushed!"

Tony subconsciously uttered a low curse, looking left and right in panic while shouting, "Yinsen! Yinsen, are you alright? Those guys are com—wait, why did this damn cave collapse? Oh, Leon, go check on Yinsen... Wait a second, Leon?"

Tony stared wide-eyed at Leon, who was half-squatting beside his bed.

The kid was wearing only a pair of pants, and rubble rustled down from above his head, yet not a single grain of dust landed on his body.

"Leon, you! What are you doing here?"

Tony tilted his head back, almost unable to help rubbing his eyes with his hand, suspecting he was hallucinating before death.

Shock and confusion intertwined in his eyes.

Tony's heartbeat accelerated, his hands trembling slightly.

He felt that he was definitely hallucinating.

The scheduled return time for Leon's spaceship was clearly two years later.

So how could that kid possibly appear before him at this time.

Still, not gonna lie, even if it were a hallucination, Leon's posture really looked quite handsome, the kind of look only he, Tony, could come up with.

However, the "hallucinatory" Leon stood up and smiled as he looked at Tony.

"Because I heard you missing me in the middle of the night, constantly calling my name and saying you couldn't sleep without seeing me, so I just came."

"To be honest, I'm quite surprised that my thirty-nine-year-old big bro still needs a bedtime lullaby service."

Leon joked, "I can sing lullabies and hum country folk songs, Tony, which kind of bedtime soothing method do you like? Oh, let's make it clear first, I can't hold you and rock you back and forth; that's Pepper's job."

Tony was stunned, reflexively talking back.

"Hey, kid, I'm the one who used to hold you and rock you to sleep; Pepper hasn't held you as many times as I have." Tony implied that the kid was rebelling against his elders.

The interaction mode between the two had always been like this.

Tony had a haughty personality, and Leon loved to make jokes to tease the proud Tony.

Please, an old man approaching forty who would still say with his lips, "I'll reluctantly accept the holiday gift you sent,"

and then display it in his vault like a treasured possession.

Very cute, wouldn't you say.

Tony reacted right after talking back.

He widened his eyes, his body trembling slightly with excitement as he stood up.

"You! Leon! You really came? How could this be? I mean... how did you do it, considering you should be in space three hundred kilometers away right now..."

He even reached out to pinch Leon's arm.

The solid muscles felt like pieces of marble to the touch, and the sensation was so clear.

This wasn't a hallucination! Leon was really here, this kid had come to save him!

Tony was immensely shocked, yet at this moment his entire body relaxed, and his nerves, tense like a bowstring, suddenly went slack.

An indescribable sense of security welled up spontaneously, and the exhaustion of the past few months suddenly surged into his heart all at once.

He couldn't help smiling, retreated, and collapsed onto the bed, letting out a long breath of relief.

No one understood Leon's strength better than he did.

During testing half a year ago, Leon already possessed five hundred tons of strength, and his defense was so great that even sniper rifles could only leave a scratch.

Now with Leon, the terrorists outside would no longer be a problem.

Leon raised an eyebrow. "To be precise, in satellite orbit over forty thousand kilometers away from here."

"I heard your voice crying out to me about being wronged while I was sleeping, and I rushed right over."

He blinked. "After all, besides Pepper, no one is allowed to let this big brother of mine be wronged."

Tony was covered in black lines. "Whoa, whoa, whoa, you've got that wrong; even Pepper can't let me be wronged, nobody! Besides, I wasn't wronged!"

"So you're saying you spent a very relaxing and pleasant time in this cave? Huh? Traveling thousands of miles on a business trip, and then taking a vacation at a terrorist organization's base?"

Leon looked Tony up and down.

Tony's charming, large eyes were still bright, but the heavy fatigue within them could not be concealed no matter what.