Marvel: I am Iron Man

"Connection lost."

A line of large, eye-catching words was displayed on the monitor in front of Princess Su Rui, as if mocking her.

Wakanda's number one genius girl stared wide-eyed at the words on the screen, her hands still on the joystick, unable to come to her senses for a long time.

I was shot down?

Piloting the Eye of Nile, the world's most advanced fighter jet, an aerial marvel crafted entirely of vibranium...

...It was shot down!?

Why? How did you do that?!

Boundless shock, a strong sense of defeat, and deep doubts filled her mind.

She couldn't understand what had just happened.

A sonic cannon. Of course, only a sonic weapon could disintegrate a cutting-edge vibranium fighter jet. But what she didn't understand was why the sonic barrier hadn't worked.

The sonic barrier she designed herself could effectively reflect all sound frequencies that might affect vibranium. However, the sonic barrier failed to activate during the opponent's final attack.

This means that the user of that suit of armor found a way to bypass the sonic barrier, and it also means...

...The other party is stronger than me.

This was the part that shocked Su Rui the most and found the most unacceptable.

She is Wakanda's number one genius. In fact, many voices in China call her "the smartest person in the world."

From a young age, Shuri displayed extraordinary scientific talent. Coupled with her noble birth and the constant pampering she received, it was inevitable that she would become arrogant and would begin to subconsciously accept the claims within Wakanda that she was "the best in the world."

Wakanda has long considered itself the world's leading technological power, and Shuri is the smartest person in Wakanda. Therefore, it's not an exaggeration for her to believe that she is at the forefront of Earth's technology.

Today marked the first time in her life that she had suffered a setback in the area she was most proud of. It felt like being hit on the head, leaving her dizzy and disoriented.

"Su Rui? Su Rui, are you still there?"

On the other end of the call, her brother T'Challa's voice pulled her back to reality.

"Yes...yes." Su Rui snapped out of her daze and hurriedly asked, "Are you all alright?"

Black Panther had just woken up from his coma. It was thanks to his super soldier-level physique that he was able to wake up so quickly.

He looked around; the soldiers of Dora's Guard were still unconscious. However, upon waking, he immediately confirmed that there were no casualties.

T'Challa immediately understood that the other side had shown mercy.

Otherwise, none of them would have left this junkyard alive tonight.

"It's okay... but the goods are gone."

T'Challa's tone was somewhat somber. He looked up at the spot where Klaue had stored the vibranium vault, which was now completely empty.

It's obvious that the other party carried the entire cabinet away.

This made T'Challa feel very down.

In this operation, he successfully located Klaue's hideout and eliminated Wakanda's enemy, the world's largest vibranium dealer. But even so, the operation can hardly be called a success.

Because they encountered a new force, someone a hundred times more dangerous than a clown like Klaue. This opponent already possessed such unimaginably advanced armor, and now he'd also stolen so much vibranium...

It's no exaggeration to say that if the other side were a terrorist group with such advanced technology and so much vibranium, they could easily establish a country—and might even quickly develop into a very powerful nation.

"Who exactly is that person?" Su Rui asked, puzzled.

Black Panther frowned and pondered for a moment, then said in a deep voice, "When we were fighting just now, when I approached that suit of armor, even if it was only for a moment, I saw the mark on the chest of the armor... I think I've seen that mark before."

"What mark?"

Su Rui was taken aback. She then remembered that there seemed to be some kind of mark on the chest of the opponent's armor during their earlier exchange, but she hadn't paid much attention to it and didn't recognize the logo.

"The last time I saw that mark was in a history book, belonging to an organization that should have been buried in history long ago and should have disappeared."

Black Panther's face was ashen, and he uttered the name in a low voice.

"...Hydra."

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Tony is in a pretty good mood right now.

He overcame the sonic barrier, but it wasn't an idea that came to him on the spur of the moment. In fact, he had already anticipated the possibility of encountering a sonic barrier when designing weapons equipped with sonic weapons.

This is only natural. Sound waves are vibranium's greatest weakness, and if he knows how to counter them, then vibranium users will certainly know how to defend against them.

So, shouldn't it be a natural idea for weapons developers to plan ahead for targeted defenses during the weapon design process?

To anticipate all possible scenarios and make contingency plans for all possibilities. This has been Tony's idea since the beginning of his journey, and it hasn't changed.

Rather than risking his life and improvising on the battlefield, he prefers to prepare for situations he can anticipate in advance.

That way, when the time comes, he won't have to rack his brains. He can simply choose the most suitable one from a dozen pre-set plans, execute it step by step, and then leisurely enjoy watching the enemy's shocked, terrified, or furious expressions.

Tony's final design involved mounting miniature sonic amplifiers inside the armor.

Shuri's sound barrier cannot possibly react to sounds of all frequencies, because if it were designed that way, even the slightest sound fluctuation, or even the sound of an aircraft's own engine, would cause it to be accidentally triggered.

Therefore, it was only natural that she would design the barrier to only react to sound waves of specific frequencies that could interfere with the properties of vibranium.

Tony anticipated that someone might do this before encountering this barrier, because if the goal was to eliminate the sound defects of vibranium, this was exactly what he might do from the perspective of a weapons developer.

Therefore, he deliberately kept the final sonic wave he released from Shuri's "Eye of Nile" outside the threatening frequency range. The frequency of the sonic cannon was not high enough to cause vibranium malfunction, which is why the sonic barrier of the Eye of Nile was not triggered.

But before the sonic cannon fired, Tony installed a "sonic amplifier" on the outside of the Eye of Nile. The amplifier had already been adjusted to be able to instantly amplify the sound waves when hit by specific sound waves, and then tune them to a frequency that could destroy vibranium.

When the sonic cannon fires, its frequency is too low to trigger the sonic barrier's defenses. The sound waves are only amplified to a threatening frequency when they hit the amplification device, which is already attached tightly to the vibranium fighter jet, essentially injecting the sound waves directly into the aircraft's interior right next to its outer shell.

By then, it was too late for the sound barrier to reactivate; the deadly sound waves had already bypassed the barrier and penetrated directly into the vibranium structure inside the machine. This led to the shocking scene of Tony destroying the Eye of Nile with a single shot.

Tony had a premonition.

That little girl named Su Rui probably won't be able to sleep tonight.