Wanjie Hotel: Iron Man is not allowed to charge

Chapter 267 The Metaverse Stowaways, Kill! (8K votes requested)
Tony pulled Pepper back to the lab, and just as he was about to say something, a beam of yellow light suddenly shot out from Aegis's forehead.

Pepper screamed in terror, and Tony shoved her away, trying to take the hit himself. However, after a tense moment, neither of them noticed the yellow mental energy landing on them.

Tony looked up in confusion and saw the Azure Queen's azure-gold rays clashing with Aegis's.

The two beams of light collided violently in the laboratory, and the huge shockwave blew everything in the laboratory away.

The onlookers all took a few steps back, pressed themselves against the wall, and their hair flew up as they were being ripped apart.

"That was so exciting! I actually saw the Empress Qing go all out!"

"As expected of the Queen of the Blue, she easily suppressed Vision, who possesses the Mind Stone."

"Where did Tony get the Mind Stone from?"

……

"Queen of the Blues, I know you. Tony told me to surpass you, but I didn't expect you to be so strong, so powerful even without the Infinity Stones."

Aegis withdrew his mental power and looked at the Blue Queen in amazement. The Blue Queen also had some surprise in her eyes: "Tony, where did you get the Mind Stone from?"

Seeing that he could no longer hide it, Tony had no choice but to spread his hands and admit: "I scanned the frequency of the Space Stone in the S.H.I.E.L.D. warehouse, then used a large combat power detector to search the entire galaxy, and then found this Mind Stone."

At that moment, a man who claimed to be learned was about to take it, but I snatched it first.

"A learned person?"

Wen Ming quickly found the information in his mind, and then he realized who this person was.

Thanos once discovered a learned man on a desolate satellite. This learned man demonstrated insight into all things around him, revealed to Thanos the origin of the Infinity Stones and their different properties, and disclosed that he possessed the Mind Stone. He kept it in his scepter and used the power of the Mind Stone to bring Thanos under his control.

The learned man explained how he was abandoned in a desolate galaxy by his cousin, who feared Thanos's power, and how he intended to control Thanos in order to bring more and more life forms to him and ultimately control the entire universe.

However, before he could act, he was beheaded by Nebula and Gamora, who arrived just in time.

Thanos took the scepter back to his ship and kept the scholar's head as a trophy. He announced his ultimate plan: to seize all six Infinity Stones and bring balance to the entire universe.

Thanos then stated that, unlike the Asgardians, he would become a true god.

The existence of learned individuals does not occur in the cinematic universe, but rather in the spin-off origin novel, Thanos: The Devouring Titan.

This book tells the story of Thanos's origins and transformation, and explains how the Mind Stone came into Thanos's possession.

"You mean, the gem of the soul that you stole from the hands of a learned man?"

Wen Ming looked at Tony, who had a smug look on his face: "Yes, this is the first Infinity Stone I obtained through my own efforts."

Wen Ming frowned: "Are you sure he didn't give it to you on purpose?"

Tony shook his head and said, "How could that be? I stole it!"

"And then, you created a new Ultron? Hmm, a new Vision?"

Wen Ming then looked at Aegis, who immediately retorted, "I'm not Neo Vision, I am who I am, Aegis!"

Tony looked somewhat embarrassed.

In the original storyline, it was because he created Ultron that the crisis in Avengers: Age of Ultron was born.

He had solemnly assured everyone that such a situation would never happen again.

However, this result made his face burn with embarrassment.

There was no other way; that was the Mind Stone, and I had just upgraded the AI, and recently I had also established good relations with Wakanda.

Fortunately, this Aegis didn't have the desire to destroy everyone; she was just a little jealous.

Yeah, I'm just a little jealous.

It must be because the code I wrote for the emotion system was too realistic.

I'm such a genius.

"So, what are you going to do? Kill Pepper?" Wenming looked at Aegis.

"Of course! I'm not only going to kill Pepper, but I'm going to kill all of you women, so that no one can steal Tony's love from me!"

A mad glint in Aegeus's eyes: "Yes, that's it! Kill all the women in the world, so Tony won't love anyone else!"

"How stupid! Knowing full well that they were going to create a pile of shit, they still did something so stupid again!"

Bruce pressed his belt, and a suit of bat armor appeared on his body: "You think you're a god? That you can create life?"

Tony's face flushed with frustration, but he couldn't refute it. He could only weakly argue, "Aegis is only a half-finished product. I haven't fully programmed her yet..."

Just then, all the women in the room suddenly glared at each other with reddened eyes.

"Kill you all, kill you all, and the boss will be mine alone!"

"If I kill you all, then no one will be able to compete with me for the boss's position!"

"Kill you all, and I will be the Queen of All Realms!"

……

The scene immediately descended into chaos.

Even though the women had undergone several mental enhancements, they were still no match for the Mind Stone. Even the Azure Queen looked at all the women present with a strange gaze: "Kill you all, and the boss will be my master alone!"

The men present went completely mad, all staring at Tony and Wen Ming: "Kill them both, and we won't be ignored!"

Inside the enormous laboratory, the sounds of weapons being drawn and loaded echoed throughout. The Supergirl sisters' eyes began to turn red, and Superman was about to unleash his heat rays at any moment.

The only two unaffected were Frigga and her daughter Hela.

Well, there's one exception.

Index!

Wen Ming's voice suddenly rang out. Index, who was thinking about how to use magic to kill Misaka Mikoto, her little rival who liked to fawn over Wen Ming, felt as if her brain had been stabbed and she suddenly woke up. She looked at Wen Ming blankly, only to see him make a gesture towards her.

Index immediately formed hand seals: "Seal!"

A golden energy appeared out of thin air above Aegis's head, and the next second, the fluctuations of the Mind Stone were blocked.

The group, who were about to turn on each other, almost simultaneously came to their senses.

Everyone looked at each other, still shaken.

Everyone broke out in a cold sweat.

In that situation, if everyone had unleashed their full power simultaneously in such a small laboratory, I doubt anyone would have survived.

"Wen Ming, I can't hold them off for long," Index shouted a warning.

Wen Ming nodded and reached for Aeges' body with one hand. Aeges was furious and shot her yellow mental energy towards him. However, a blue-gold figure transformed into a blue-gold data stream and rushed into her body: "That was just a warm-up. Now comes the main event!"

The Mind Gem on Aegis's forehead immediately stopped activating, and she became dazed. Wenming's hand landed on her at that moment.

"Tony, I'm sorry."

Wen Ming looked at Tony, who raised his hand as if to say something, but knew it would be useless to say anything. He understood that Wen Ming wanted to destroy Aegis. He hesitated for a few seconds, then nodded.

Wenming and Aeges suddenly disappeared from the spot.

Everyone present breathed a sigh of relief, and Pepper hugged Tony, comforting him, "It's not your fault."

"I... I don't know what happened. I didn't intend to activate Aegis so early. I haven't programmed her yet, and I'm not ready to wake her up."

Tony looked somewhat lost; he knew he had let everyone down.

"You mean, you didn't plan to activate Aegis beforehand?"

Just then, Bruce's voice suddenly rang out.

Tony nodded and said, "Of course, although her AI is programmed, its various settings are not perfect. I want her to surpass the AI ​​levels of YoRHa and the Sea Queen and Blue Queen, so her body has always been in an inactive state..."

"Prepare for battle!"

Bruce interrupted Tony abruptly, quickly activating the combat capability detector: "I suspect that learned man is hiding in the lab."

The sounds of weapons being drawn and chambered rang out again, and everyone glared around hatefully, trying to find the culprit.

Tony quickly donned his Iron Man armor, eager to teach that scoundrel a lesson.

"No need to look anymore, I've already looked, it's not here."

Hela's languid voice rang out.

Bruce's eyes flickered slightly: "They ran away?"

"We've relied too much on the combat power detector. He must have been hiding among us just now, and the Mind Stone must have been taken by him..."

John had only spoken halfway when he suddenly vanished from his spot: "Everyone back to the hotel!"

Everyone was stunned for a moment, then realized what was going on, and disappeared from their original spot, returning to the rooftop of Building 1 of the hotel.

Here, Wen Ming is confronting someone.

Yuan She, Yuan Long, and Yuan Bao pointed their guns at each other, ready to fire at any moment.

2B and A2 have also drawn their longswords, ready to strike at any moment.

"A learned person?"

"Yes, it's me!"

The person opposite Wen Ming was wearing a hoodie and holding a book. His face was hidden under the hood and could not be seen clearly.

"Damn it! You actually used me?"

Tony was furious when he saw the learned man. He never expected that Wen Ming would guess correctly!

The other party had set a trap for him from the very beginning.

He was so foolish as to think that he had stolen the Mind Gem.

"Thank you, Tony."

If I hadn't met you, I would never have known such a wondrous place as the Metaverse existed!

The learned man bowed very politely to thank Tony, which made Tony even angrier. He raised his laser cannon to blast the man.

Seeing the other party's behavior, Hela couldn't help but scoff, "Sneaky and pretentious."

The learned man smiled slightly: "Hello, Hela, I didn't expect that the strength of your avatar is already no weaker than that of an ordinary god. I suppose that after Odin's death, your strength when you are freed will surpass that of any previous king of Asgard."

"So, you think you're very smart?" Hela ran her hands through her hair, and her black antlers stood up. Two swords of the night sky appeared in her hands.

"Fool, do you know who you've messed with?"

"No, no, no, I'm not an idiot, otherwise how would I have managed to sneak into such a magical universe?"

The learned man smiled slightly and looked at Wen Ming: "I know all the secrets of our universe, and I want to exchange them for one..."

"You want to eat shit?"

The Spear of Eternity appeared in Wen Ming's hand. The learned man looked at Wen Ming with some surprise and doubt: "You actually obtained Odin's Spear of Eternity. This is the symbol of Asgard's power. Has Odin chosen you as the successor of Asgard?"

No wonder Hela, Thor, Loki, and Frigga all have a good relationship with you.

Well, not necessarily!
Wen Ming, I'm willing to trade a secret with you as a ticket to enter the Metaverse!

The learned man pointed to the Eternal Spear in Wen Ming's hand: "This spear is not what you imagine..."

"Zi-"

Wen Ming, too lazy to listen to the other party's rambling, suddenly unleashed a golden light from the Eternal Spear. Hela's Night Sky Sword, Qing Hou's heat ray, Yuan She's plasma cannon, Yuan Long's laser cannon, and all the weapons on the rooftop immediately followed suit, focusing their fire on the learned man.

"Let me finish! Why do you always stop me from speaking? Do you know how important this secret is to you? Odin would never do this..."

The learned man formed hand seals and quickly unleashed magic to resist the attacks, but Emma, ​​the flower fairy Salvador, and the butterfly Becky's mental attacks immediately interrupted his magic.

The next second, this mysterious and learned man was blasted into dust.

"So weak?"

Hela was somewhat surprised.

She thought there would be a big battle, but it ended so quickly.

That wasn't enough.

"He could be killed by Nebula and Gamora, so how strong can he be?"

Qinghou sneered, "He can only do things secretly."

"receive!"

Wen Ming summoned the divine beast White Tiger with his thoughts, and a beam of shimmering white light descended, swallowing the souls and bodies of the learned man, Aegis, and the Mind Gem.

Aegis was controlled by the Queen of the Blue Queen from beginning to end and had no idea what was happening.

As for the powerful vibranium body, the white tiger didn't even need to chew it; it swallowed it whole.

Seeing Wen Ming so decisively eliminate the learned man without listening to his so-called secrets, Tony and Bruce were both somewhat surprised: "You really don't care about the secrets he mentioned?"

"Why should I care?"

Wen Ming looked at the two of them strangely: "All I know is that someone has smuggled themselves into the metaverse. All we need to do is kill them."

Loki opened his mouth: "That's a secret about the Spear of Eternity, aren't you curious?"

"What kind of secret is it if he knows it?"

Wen Ming waved his hand, about to say something, when the familiar dizziness immediately struck. Harley reacted quickly and pushed hard, and Jane Foster involuntarily opened her arms and hugged Wen Ming.

"what--"

Jane Foster was completely stunned. Harley quickly shouted, "Hold the boss tight! After absorbing the Mind Stone, the hotel will definitely be upgraded again. The boss will probably be dizzy for a while."

Upon hearing this, Jane immediately hugged Wen Ming tightly. Seeing that Jane was a bit flustered, Poison Ivy Pamela also gave her a push. Daisy, who was watching the show, also involuntarily opened her arms and hugged Jane.

"All set, the boss is safe now."

Halle clapped her hands and gave Pamela a high five.

Bruce's eyes flickered slightly when he saw this.

Seeing this, Loki glared fiercely at Harley, his meaning clear in his eyes.

That's my sister-in-law!
Harley shrugged, her meaning quite clear.

My hand slipped.

……

This time, Tony had no time to be jealous of Wen Ming; he was engulfed in deep self-reproach.

He thought he would do better than Tony in the original storyline, but he never expected that he would be even worse than him. How could this be?

I have a God's-eye view, how could I possibly make a mistake?

Pepper looked at him with some concern. As the person who knew Tony best, she knew very well that Tony was suffering from self-blame.

She held him tightly, whispering words of comfort.

"Actually, this incident has served as a wake-up call for all of us."

Bruce Wayne suddenly said, "Because we know the whole plot, we think we have a God's-eye view, but this makes us lose our vigilance towards other things and enemies."

We thought we could control the situation and avoid repeating our previous mistakes, but we ended up making another mistake.

We are human, not gods.

Batman's words silenced everyone present.

Tony's mistake may well be a mistake that we might all make in the future.

The euphoria brought on by the successive enhancements over the past few days felt like a bucket of ice water had been poured over my head.

Everyone gradually calmed down.

"Tony, you're banned from participating in group enhancement storylines next time."

Wen Ming's voice suddenly rang out, and everyone turned to look, only to see that Wen Ming had returned to normal at some point.

Jane Foster and Daisy Lewis stood behind him, their faces flushed.

"I see!"

Tony sighed with relief.

If Wen Ming didn't scold him, he would feel uncomfortable all over.

Although he lost an opportunity for collective enhancement, he now understood Wen Ming's meaning.

That matter is over.

“I was also at fault in this matter. I shouldn’t have brought Aeges back to the hotel directly.”

I hope everyone will learn from my experience and not believe in free lunches or sweet talk. If you discover anything suspicious, be sure to investigate and correct your own behavior, and seek help from your companions.

Wen Ming's expression was very serious: "If learned people can smuggle themselves across the border, others can too. This is the first time, and it certainly won't be the last."

The hotel will strengthen its management of people entering and exiting, especially the verification of personal robots and AI. This must be improved. John, Hill, and Qinghou, you need to come up with a new security plan.

"Roger that, boss!"

John and Hill stood up straight at the same time.

Wen Ming also felt guilty this time because he admitted that he had lost his usual caution and prudence after seeing the Mind Gem.

Even though she already knew that everyone was being controlled by the Mind Stone, and that she herself might also be controlled by it, she still took Aegis back to the hotel without doing any checks.

That's too unstable.

Fortunately, the opponent only possessed a wealth of knowledge. If the opponent were a powerful boss like Thanos, Galactus, Arithmour, or Darkseid, the Flatiron Hotel would be facing annihilation today.

"From now on, you are not allowed to bring any life forms you have created, including AI-type electronic life forms, into or out of the Metaverse without a valid application. If discovered, you will be penalized the same as Tony, with a collective enhancement penalty. If it happens a second time, your right to enter the Metaverse will be revoked."

Wen Ming's rule caused the time travelers present to cast strange glances at Tony and Bruce, followed by Lex Luthor.

The three of them remained expressionless, but anyone could tell that they were somewhat uncomfortable.

Lex wanted to curse. "I'm not as unreliable as Tony."

I'm a serious person.

I've reformed.

Pshaw, I've never been evil.

The evil one is Luther from movies and TV shows.

However, Wen Ming was very serious this time, so serious that everyone understood that this matter had crossed Wen Ming's bottom line.

"Don't think I don't have the ability. I can make any one of you never be able to set foot in the metaverse again, including the Ancient One."

The time travelers immediately averted their gazes from Tony and his two companions, realizing for the first time just how terrifying Wen Ming could be when he was serious.

"Should we then prohibit time travelers from researching the creation of life?"

Natasha raised her hand, and Tony's face immediately darkened.

Wen Ming shook his head and said, "Your universe is your own to decide. If the life forms you develop destroy your own universe, then it is your own fault."

However, I will not provide shelter for such time travelers.

"If you destroy life in a universe, then you shall be buried with that universe."

Natasha nodded in satisfaction. She glanced at Tony, who remained silent.

However, Wen Ming didn't completely rule out the possibility: "If your universe faces annihilation, you can issue a mission at the hotel, and if people are willing to help you, that's fine too."

Everyone breathed a slight sigh of relief.

Although everyone knows that Wen Ming is not the kind of person who is cold and indifferent, they are still worried that this smuggling incident will have an impact on him.

"Without learned individuals, would Thanos have had no chance to learn about the Infinity Stones, and would he no longer embark on the path of collecting them?"

Natasha continued with another hypothesis, but Wen Ming quickly dismissed it: "Without the learned Thanos, could Thanos from other timelines travel across time and tell the Thanos of the main universe?"

Natasha stretched helplessly: "Looks like we'll have to fight him again. I wonder if Thanos can beat our Superhero Council now."

"Alright, let's go back to the party. Peter is going to kiss Mary Jane."

After finishing the important business, Wen Ming clapped his hands, making everyone excited again.

Uncle Ben rubbed his hands together: "Hey everyone, don't forget to record this for me."

"Don't worry, we all recorded it."

Yuan Ying chuckled and said, "We're prepared to sell each of us to Peter for $1000."

Uncle Ben's smile froze instantly, and then he snorted, "Yuan Ying, there have been more guests lately. Your room is a bit close to Yuan She, the three sisters Arcee, and Yin Ji. I'm going to change your room."

"Wow? Ben Parker, you've gone too far!"

Yuan Ying was furious!

Uncle Ben looked at Yuan Ying with confidence. Yuan Ying clenched his claws, gritted his teeth for a long time, and finally said, "Free."

Uncle Ben immediately laughed: "What a coincidence, quite a few people just checked out, so you don't need to change rooms!"

Enraged, Yuan Ying flapped his wings and entered the Marvel Universe, then found Wen Ming and cried, "Dad, Ben Parker bullied me! He blackmailed me!"

"You must have done something to make him angry."

Wen Ming ruffled Yuan Ying's white head: "For an honest man like me to blackmail you, it seems you've already incurred the wrath of both heaven and man."

"what?"

Yuan Ying was completely dumbfounded: "Is my reputation that bad?"

"Smells just like Tony."

Yuan Bao added insult to injury, and the three Arcee sisters burst into laughter.

Yuan Ying gritted his teeth and walked to the side: "It must be you bunch of stupid people who are jealous of me and ruin my reputation."

Yin Ji glanced at him disdainfully, then walked up to Wen Ming: "Boss, I'd like to report some recent intelligence to you."

"Okay, let's go outside and talk."

Wen Ming led Yin Ji to the outside of the Superhero Council hall. Yin Ji connected to Wen Ming's combat power detector and whispered quickly in his ear: "Recently, many people have been eyeing the Hamilton family. Many have sent out handsome men of all types, ages, and backgrounds to attract her attention in various ways when she goes out to attend parties, fashion shows, art exhibitions, and bars."

In addition, someone is forging documents in an attempt to create an heir for the Hamilton family out of thin air and oust Winnie.

Meanwhile, some people want to overturn the verdict and classify Winnie's previous retaliation as murder.

Some people are even contacting immigration 911, trying to classify Winnie as an illegal immigrant and prepare to deport her.

Oh, by the way, she's not an immigrant, but they want to prove her identity is fake, to establish that she's an illegal immigrant, so they can deport her.

As for the assassination attempts she has faced, there have been no fewer than 20, and her chefs have been replaced three times.

Now she only dares to eat and stay at our hotel; she doesn't dare to go home.

It's fair to say that Winnie was surrounded by danger, and her nerves were stretched to the limit.

"I see."

Although Wen Ming had long anticipated that Winnie, the widow, would attract a pack of wolves, he never expected that the methods of capital would reach such an extreme, resorting to any means necessary.

"Emma!"

Wen Ming called out, and the White Queen immediately appeared beside him: "Boss."

"You will personally lead the team to protect Winnie. Amelia, Semira, and the 18 vampire warriors can all help you. I allow you to use extreme measures."

If mind control can't solve the problem, then kill them! After all, they've offended the Hamilton family, and they're just being retaliated against by the Hamilton family.

Furthermore, comprehensive oversight and takeover of the Hamilton family's business, using a combination of recruitment and hotel staff involvement, will stabilize and even improve the profitability of the Hamilton family's business, preventing attacks from capital firms. If necessary, hotels under the Hamilton family's name will be acquired and converted into branches of the Flatiron Hotel.

Emma was somewhat surprised by Wen Ming's murderous aura. It seemed that the stowaways had still made Wen Ming very unhappy. However, she preferred her boss to this: "Boss, I like your domineering attitude. Don't worry, anyone who dares to covet Winnie, the widow, will be made to obediently become a slave of the Hamilton family."

"Remember to help Winnie resolve her inner conflict and help her relax."

"I estimate that you, boss, will have to go there in person. The widow needs your comfort."

Wen Ming shook his head and was about to go back inside to watch the commotion when Emma suddenly leaned close to Wen Ming's ear: "Boss, I will keep Amelia and the others under control and prevent them from having offspring."

Wen Ming's lips curled up in a smile.

I like employees who are so sensible.

"What reward do you want?"

"I need to pee, boss, could you help me to the restroom?"

"Time is a bit tight, Peter, you'll be starting soon."

"Don't worry, he definitely won't be that fast, but I will be very fast."

Emma led Wen Ming toward the restroom: "Boss must have been really upset just now, right? Let me give you a good massage using diamond nanochannels."

……

Inside the hall, everyone was watching the large screen with great interest.

Peter invited Mary Jane to the movies, and the two were in a state of ambiguity at the time.

He was completely unaware of what had just happened; he had no interest in watching what was on the screen, his mind was preoccupied with one thing:

Should I take Mary Jane's hand in the dark?

Just as he finally mustered the courage to reach out to Mary Jane, he suddenly felt a violent tremor run through his body, causing him to unconsciously tighten his grip on Mary Jane's hand.

"Oh dear, Peter, you're hurting me!"

Mary Jane gasped, and Peter quickly released her hand, apologizing repeatedly, "I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to."

"Hey, what happened to you just now?"

Mary Jane was well aware of Peter's feelings, but she didn't think Peter was a reckless person. Something must have happened to make him accidentally hurt himself.

Peter's trembling had stopped. Having experienced this many times before, he knew that he had just undergone enhancement.

The problem is, didn't Iron Man 2 just end?
Why is there another round of enhancements?
Could it be that the boss just completed a new storyline in another universe, and we've all been enhanced?

Wait a minute, I wasn't involved in any other storylines.

In the end what happened?
"Peter? Peter?"

Mary Jane was speechless when she saw Peter staring blankly.

This bookworm, he even spaces out when he talks to me?

Peter was woken up and quickly shook his head: "Sorry, I just thought of something. Um, let's continue watching the movie."

……

"Come on!"

"Peter, it's just an enhancement, isn't it? You've been through it before."

"It's over, Peter's confession night is ruined!"

……

In the Superheroes Council hall, everyone was sweating for Peter. Tony, seeing his godson's confession interrupted by the enhancement, regretted it and wanted to slap himself.

Damn it, how did I end up creating Aegis, a composite version of Ultron and Vision?

No, it can't be because of me.

If it weren't for the erudite person's meddling, how could there have been so many unexpected events tonight?

God knows, Aegeus died, and that's how the plot of Avengers 2 ended!

The problem is, the Hulk hasn't even been born yet!
Thor hasn't even raised his hammer yet!

Is it over?

Okay, fine, as long as I can improve, who cares!

"Try again, hold her hand!"

After his initial excitement subsided, Tony whispered to his collar, "This time, gently, and then look deeply into Mary Jane's eyes, and tell her that you just wanted to confess to her but lacked the courage. Now, muster your courage..."

Loki, Thor, Steve, Natasha, and the others suddenly turned around to look at Tony.

Tony coughed lightly and sat up straight.

Why are you looking at me? Look at Peter!

Natasha pointed at Tony with her finger: "If you ruin Peter's confession, believe me, I'll fight you to the death."

Tony shifted uncomfortably. "I didn't do anything, really!"

……

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