Peter and Ned looked outside. The visiting audience had already run away, and they didn't see the rampaging drones, only mechanical wreckage sparking with electrical fires on the ground. Peter and Ned exchanged glances, seeing the shock in each other's eyes. They mustered their courage and walked out, finding that indeed no drones were attacking them anymore.
"What happened? Did Iron Man save us?" Peter murmured, looking at the mechanical wreckage all over the ground.
"I don't know, Peter. Should we go out and see?" Ned, seeing the situation, was also unsure, but feeling safe, his curiosity took over, wanting to see what had happened.
"That's too dangerous, Ned, but I also want to see what happened." Peter was a bit hesitant at first, but then he saw many people behind him also coming over, wanting to go outside and see. Seeing so many people, he instantly felt more confident.
Subsequently, a group of people walked out of the room. Some wanted to leave this dangerous place, while others, wanting to leave, also wanted to satisfy their curiosity by filming videos for YouTube. Peter and Ned were sandwiched among the crowd, walking out together.
Along the way, the group saw many drone wrecks: some cut in half, some blown to pieces, and some drones with a large hole in their chest, as if punched through. Peter shivered, wondering who had done this.
As the group advanced, Noah unleashed a sword qi, splitting a drone that was about to launch a missile. He was already outside the exhibition hall. As soon as he stepped out, he saw that besides the fleeing crowd, there was also a group of drones that had already started attacking humans.
The launchers on the backs of several Navy drones aimed forward and began firing many missiles. Their targets were the many people fleeing ahead. If this round of bombardment were to land, there would certainly be heavy casualties.
Seeing this, Noah's magic surged within him, amplified by the armor, transforming into wind elements. He raised his hand and waved, and a wind wall dozens of meters long rose from the ground. The missiles fired by the drones were all blocked by this wind wall and then swept into the sky.
"What the f—?"
Tony was just circling with a bunch of drones when he passed by and saw a bunch of missiles flying up, nearly hitting him. Fortunately, he was agile and dodged in time, but the group of Air Force drones chasing him weren't so lucky and were directly hit by the incoming missiles, exploding in mid-air.
"What is this thing? And who is this person?" Tony flew over, looking at the wind wall on the ground and Noah, who was standing there wearing the Source Project Armor. Tony, seeing this stranger wearing armor with a different style than his own, asked questions.
However, before Tony could ponder, another wave of drones chased him from behind, their machine guns wildly strafing him. Tony could only put aside his questions for now and begin another round of chase.
Far away in Hammer Industries, inside the room where Justin Hammer was holding Ivan, the two security guards sent by Hammer to guard Ivan were now hanging by their necks from the ceiling. Ivan Vanko was operating a computer, inputting commands to control the drones.
"What happened?"
Ivan frowned deeply. He noticed that the number of drones was rapidly decreasing. He didn't know what had happened; perhaps Iron Man had used some weapon to clear out a large wave of drones.
At this moment, Ivan heard sounds from outside. He knew certain people were coming for him, so he quickly entered some commands, making all the remaining drones ascend, and then went to put on his armor.
This was his modified armor, different from the first generation he used to attack Tony at the racetrack. This time, he made it similar to Iron Man's Iron Man Suit. He was going to personally deal with Iron Man!
A few minutes later, the room door was kicked open. Black Widow Natasha burst in, guns in both hands, with Happy close behind. But the room was empty; only the two security guards' bodies hanging from the ceiling and the running computer remained.
Seeing this, Natasha went to the computer. The enemy had escaped, so she could only do something else. Natasha began operating the computer; she was going to restart Rhodes's controlled armor.
Meanwhile, Tony, holding Rhodes in the armor, crashed into an ecological park. They landed heavily in an artificial stream, splashing water everywhere. Rhodes, manipulated by the armor, stood up and punched Tony. The two wrestled again, and finally, Tony subdued Rhodes. Rhodes lay in the stream, and the armor went still.
"Phew~"
Tony took a breath. Before he could check on Rhodes, his faceplate display connected to an unfamiliar channel.
"Your good buddy is back," Natasha's voice came through the channel.
"Thank you so much, Agent Romanoff." Tony recognized the voice. Although he was still a little bothered by her previous deception, he still thanked her.
"Your body data looks much better. Vital signs are normal," Natasha said.
"Yeah, I won't die for now," Tony said casually.
As soon as Tony finished speaking, he didn't realize Pepper was also on this channel, and she heard what he said. Pepper was instantly surprised and angrily questioned Tony.
"Okay, okay, it's my fault. I want to ask if you are safe over there now?" Tony didn't know what to say, so he could only ask Pepper if her current situation was safe.
"I'm... very safe here, Tony. There's also a person wearing armor here. Is that your new invention?" Pepper knew that Tony couldn't explain the current situation clearly. After this was over, she would talk to Tony about it properly. She then asked about the Mysterious Man wearing the high-tech armor at the exhibition.
"No, this matter, I..."
"Hey, stop chatting, Stark, enemies approaching." Natasha interrupted their conversation. She saw many drones approaching Tony's location on the computer's scan.
Tony could only temporarily interrupt the chat, promising to apologize to Pepper specifically after the matter was over, and then began waking up his brother.
Natasha looked at the signals displayed on the radar, one by one flying towards Tony. Those were Hammer drones, but suddenly Natasha frowned, and the panel changed.
The signals coming from behind on the radar were disappearing one after another. Natasha looked at the situation, somewhat puzzled, and began operating the computer. She didn't know what was happening.
Returning to the exhibition, Noah watched Iron Man fly across the sky, and then the bombs swept up by the wind wall scored another wave of kills. Noah nodded in satisfaction.
Then he continued to have Lissandra lock onto the next target. Just as he was about to speak, Lissandra interrupted him.
"Noah, I've detected that all remaining drones have activated flight mode and are flying into the sky, targeting Iron Man Tony Stark," Lissandra said to Noah.
"Hmm, I understand. It's good they're flying up; it saves me the trouble of finding them one by one." Noah heard this and thought it was quite good. All the drones flying into the sky would allow him to catch them all in one go.
Noah looked at the scene; there didn't seem to be anything threatening left. He had also destroyed the explosive drone cores when he destroyed the drones. His Hextech missiles and wind sword qi could suppress core explosions, preventing the core from exploding while being attacked. Don't ask for the principle; if you ask, it's magic and Hextech.
After a quick scan, Noah's back transformed with thrusters. He crouched slightly and shot into the sky. The people who had just gathered nearby were hit by the rising air current from Noah, waving their hands and coughing, then looking up at Noah in the sky.
In the sky, Noah accelerated, quickly catching up to the last wave of flying drones. He extended his hand, magic converging in it, then fired a magic beam that pierced through a drone ahead. The hit drone instantly lost power and plummeted to the ground.
Noah charged again, firing several beams. After shooting down a few drones, the drones ahead finally turned around and began to counterattack.
A storm of bullets came, and Noah twisted and dodged, feeling like he was playing Thunder Fighter. After dodging several rounds of shooting, Noah felt that if he let them keep shooting, someone on the ground might get hit by a bullet. He immediately drew his battle blade, magic surging in the blade. Noah swung, and a huge wind blade roared, directly cutting down all the armors in front of Noah. For a moment, it rained machinery from the sky.
"Lissandra, help me pinpoint Tony Stark's location."
"Okay, Noah, searching... search complete, location marked." Lissandra quickly found Tony's current location.
After Noah saw the location clearly, he accelerated directly towards the target. On the way, he encountered drones flying towards the target, and Noah tried out an item he had previously drawn: the Kircheis Shard, a component for Electrocution Blade.
After taking out the orange-yellow arrow, Noah's right arm guard automatically transformed, creating a slot for the arrow. Noah placed the Kircheis Shard into it, and the arm guard closed, perfectly embedding the equipment within Noah's arm guard.
Noah aimed his arm at the flying drones, and a yellow lightning bolt shot out, directly piercing through the flying drones.
Subsequently, yellow lightning bolts flashed across the sky, and drones fell one after another.
After dealing with the drones in front of him, Noah accelerated towards Iron Man's direction.
Soon, Noah saw the location of the ecological park where they were.