Rhodes felt an intense dizziness overwhelm him at this moment. Even as a veteran pilot, he couldn't withstand it. His brain spun, the world faded. Just before he hit the ground, the radio system in his armor recovered. He heard Tony's heart-wrenching exclamation, "NO!!!" His beautiful life flashed before his eyes like a revolving lantern. With his eyes closed, Rhodes saw his long-dead great-grandmother.
Looks like this is the end of my life, Rhodes muttered to himself. Is every pilot destined to die in an accident? If only Tony had equipped his armor with a parachute. That way, the next time he lost power, he wouldn't fall and die like me! He was confused, But why am I thinking so much? Why haven't I fallen yet? Does the outside world stop time when someone's life flashes before their eyes before they die?
Thump thump thump!
"Huh?" Rhodes was startled. "I should have fallen by now, right? Why do I feel someone knocking on my helmet?"
Thump thump thump!
"Hey, black brother, are you really unconscious?"
Rhodes, who had his eyes closed, opened them. The familiar armor operation interface was right in front of him. The faceplate in front of him lifted, and he found himself being held upside down by someone. He could only see the shoes of the person holding his legs, and those shoes were about to kick his face!
"Hehehe!!! I'm awake! Quickly let go!" Rhodes watched the pair of boots getting closer to his face and could only cry out helplessly. Then he was thrown into the air by the person and returned to his normal posture with the help of the Iron Man armor. He landed on the ground in a superhero landing pose, and after standing, he saw a familiar face!
"Kurohane?! Why are you here?"
"Took the stairs," Kurohane replied lightly.
Kurohane had already changed into his Batman costume, but he hadn't had time to put on the mask. Just as Natasha was operating the computer, he had already changed his gear. He also took down the bodies of the two unfortunate people hanging from the ceiling beams. Not for any other reason, it was just to cause trouble for S.H.I.E.L.D. during their investigation, deliberately leaving his fingerprints on them.
Then he knew that Tony would have trouble here. After all, Tony should have already been dealing with the machine soldiers behind him at this moment. Rhodes should have been fighting the machine one-on-one, but the plot didn't follow the original story. So Kurohane hurriedly opened a portal leading to Rhodes. He hadn't even gone through it yet, Rhodes crashed into the portal head-first. If Kurohane hadn't quickly grabbed his legs, he would have crashed into the ceiling of Hammer Industries by now!
Holding Rhodes's legs like that, Kurohane walked towards the other side of the portal. The portal closed as he stepped through, leaving only Natasha operating the computer by herself. Oh, and the bodies of the two unlucky individuals.
It actually sounded complicated, but from the moment Kurohane caught Rhodes to the moment Kurohane left and closed the portal, the total time wasn't even three seconds. Except for a piece of the floor that Kurohane broke because the armor was too heavy, no traces were left at all, so Natasha hadn't even reacted. Kurohane was already gone!
Natasha was shocked. "Did something just appear? Kurohane opened a portal and ran away?! Leaving me alone here?!"
"Kurohane, you dare leave me alone here and run away?!" Natasha yelled into the radio without any graceful demeanor, startling Tony and Rhodes!
Kurohane had just finished putting on his Batman mask when he heard Natasha's roar. He could only scratch his head apologetically, then said in a low voice, "I'll take care of everything here first, then I'll come back to pick you up when I'm done!"
"Hmph!" Natasha still looked very angry. A normal man would say something like, "I'll take you shopping for clothes again" at this moment. But Kurohane was no ordinary person. He cured Natasha's 'illness' with just one sentence.
"I'll open a portal for you, can you come now? There are at least a dozen fully armed machine soldiers in front of me, the kind with artillery."
"Not coming. You three, have fun!" Natasha refused, her tone flat. She had seen the locations of the robot soldiers on the screen, a dense cluster of location markers. They had surrounded Kurohane and the other two. She didn't have any superpowers. If she went now, she would be riddled with machine-gun fire like a sieve!
"By the way, I suggest you deal with those robots quickly, because another huge wave of robots is heading your way."
"Alright, I'm really busy right now. So, I won't talk to you anymore." Kurohane grabbed Rhodes as a shield and quickly approached the machine soldiers one by one. His Edman Alloy Knife was incredibly sharp, able to cut through the machine soldiers' armor like tofu. He penetrated their power cores or cut off their weapons.
Initially, when Rhodes felt himself being used as a human shield by Kurohane, he resisted! But then, he found it quite enjoyable. He just needed to aim and shoot. The armor Tony had given him could deflect the machine soldiers' bullets. But the weapons in his hands could pierce the machine soldiers' armor. So this could only mean two things: first, the armor protection Tony built was too strong, it was the most robust shield in the world. Second, the weapons Hammer Industries installed for him were not bad quality, but the sharpest spear in the world—that knife was in Kurohane's hand!
But what Rhodes couldn't understand was why the defenses of Hammer Industries' machine soldiers were so poor?! Even if they bought from the U.S. Military, the shortcuts were too serious, right!?
Tony in the sky also saw Kurohane using Rhodes as a shield, so he decided not to land. He began fighting the robots in the sky, sparks flying everywhere. Machine soldiers turned into scrap metal scattered everywhere, and some almost hit Kurohane on the ground!
However, Kurohane didn't care at all. Instead, he dismantled robots and laughed at the same time. He had originally given up on the justice points here, but he didn't expect it to happen after clearing the Hammer Industries dungeon. He could still gain experience in this dungeon. He was extremely happy!
"Kurohane, can I borrow the knife in your hand for research? It looks like a material I've never seen before!" Tony shot down the last machine soldier in the sky with his repulsor palm and said, watching Kurohane finish them off, "Just like the stockings you gave me that day! They're definitely not from Earth!"
"Stockings?! What stockings? What color are they black?" Before Kurohane could even answer, Natasha managed to catch the keyword in Tony's words! Remembering her missing pair of stockings, she was now 100% certain that Kurohane had stolen them!
Kurohane looked at Tony in the air with a black line across his face, and then through his Super Vision. He saw a large man approaching rapidly while spewing blue fire from his backside!
"Is this the time to talk about stockings? Can't you see the big guy with blue fire in the sky?!"
"Where's the big guy... Ah—!"
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