Chapter 22: Saving Tony and Ethan

After hearing what Li Heng said, Pepper just thought he was comforting her and wanted to help, so she didn't take it to heart. She just forced a smile and expressed her gratitude.

When Li Heng saw Pepper's reaction, he knew that she didn't believe him, but it didn't matter, he would wait until he brought Tony back.

Then Li Heng prepared to set off.

He found the approximate location of the Middle East from the map and teleported directly to the Middle East.

However, after landing, Li Heng was silent for a long time as he saw himself in an endless desert:

"Where do I even begin to look? It's all desert, and they all look the same."

But there is no other way, I still have to find it, so I can only do a slow and thorough search.

Originally, Li Heng wanted to use satellites to directly find the base where Tony was kidnapped, but after being reminded by Xiao Zhuge, Li Heng realized that since the US military had not found Tony for such a long time, it meant that searching through satellites would not work.

So Li Heng could only activate the power of space and teleport continuously to search for where Tony was.

In a blink of an eye, Li Heng had been in the desert for almost half a month. During this half month, Li Heng had almost searched the entire desert.

Fortunately, Li Heng could teleport back to New York at any time to have a good rest and eat. This was the reason why he was able to persist in looking for Tony for so long.

Li Heng looked at the valley formed by the sand dunes in front of him and thought: This is another place that looks suitable for being a base, but I don’t know if Tony was tied up here.

Li Heng appeared on the big sand dune next to him in a flash and looked inside.

Li Heng saw Stark missiles and weapons spread all over the ground, as well as terrorists patrolling constantly, and people constantly coming in and out of the cave over there.

Li Heng became excited. Finally, after searching for such a long time, he finally found this place in the desert. It seemed that this should be the place where Tony was kidnapped.

Li Heng sneaked in, then found a corner, took out the invisibility cloak from the space and put it on. The next moment, Li Heng disappeared.

Then Li Heng swaggered into their camp. He just had to avoid the patrols and avoid running into them.

In this way, Li Heng carefully checked outside the cave and confirmed that this was the place where Tony was kidnapped.

Then Li Heng walked into the cave carefully, ready to go in and find out where Tony was.

After entering the cave, the number of terrorists increased, and Li Heng became more cautious, fearing that he might bump into something or make a noise and be discovered, so he would wait until people passed by him before continuing to walk.

Not long after, Li Heng was at the innermost part of the cave. Through a small window of a large iron door, he saw Tony and another middle-aged man inside. If Li Heng remembered correctly, that man was Dr. Ethan.

Li Heng observed for a few minutes and saw that Tony already had an arc reactor on his chest, and he and Dr. Ethan were busy welding it.

It seems that Tony is already making the armor, and it has reached the final stage. As long as the armor is welded and the program is loaded, Tony will start his escape plan.

Seeing this, Li Heng couldn't help but think: Fortunately, I arrived in time and just caught up with the most important time point, so now I just have to wait for Tony's action.

Thinking of this, Li Heng returned to the outside of the cave by the same route, because he found that in the cave, the terrorists always went to check on Tony's condition after a while, which made Li Heng unable to stay there for long, so Li Heng decided to wait outside.

It won't be long anyway, so just leave a small eavesdropper to know the exact time when Tony will take action.

Sure enough, just two hours after Li Heng came out, he heard some noise from the monitoring device he left behind.

. . .

"Ethan, hurry up! Put on your armor now! Only in this way can we have a chance to escape from here!"

While Tony urged Ethan to help him put on his armor, he kept an eye on the situation outside the door.

Ethan helped him put on a leather suit first, and then put the armor on Tony.

While helping Tony put on his armor, Ethan told Tony how many steps it took to get to the door and how many steps it took to get to the turning point from where they were imprisoned, and he repeated all the distances to the outside of the cave.

At this time, the leader of the terrorists had discovered something wrong from the surveillance camera and sent people to check the situation.

Tony had prepared the bomb in advance. When he wanted to open the door, he detonated the bomb, directly blowing the iron door away.

"Oh my goodness! Looks like it worked."

Ethan stretched his head and took a look.

"Of course, I did it."

Tony showed a proud expression.

"Okay, Tony. So what do I do next?"

Ethan asked anxiously after helping Tony put on the armor.

"Look here, function key 11. After pressing the button, a progress bar will appear. That's the loading program. As long as the progress bar is complete, it's done."

Tony adjusted the position of his armor while instructing Ethan to start loading the program.

At this time, more and more people were coming over to Tony and his friends. Tony comforted Ethan and said:

"Don't worry, just tighten all the screws. Make sure there are no mistakes in the procedure, and then you can follow me out."

But at this time, Ethan looked at the slow progress bar and said:

"We need time."

Then he turned and looked at Tony:

"Hey, I'm going to go buy you some time."

As he said this, he picked up the gun of the terrorist who was killed in the explosion, and ran outside while shooting, trying to attract attention and buy more time for Tony.

"Go according to the plan! Go according to the plan! Hey! Ethan!"

Tony could only watch Ethan rush out with a gun, but he had no way to do anything. Tony's eyes suddenly turned red.

At this time, Li Heng, who had heard the noise, had already teleported in wearing an invisibility cloak and ran into Ethan who was running outside with a gun.

When Ethan ran past him, he suddenly stretched out a hand from his invisibility cloak and grabbed Ethan, stopping him from running any further.

Then, in front of Ethan's surprised eyes, he simply waved his hand and killed all the terrorists who had just shown up and buried them underground.

"Who are you?" Ethan asked.

"Don't be nervous, Dr. Ethan. I'm here to save you and Tony."

After dealing with this wave of terrorists, Li Heng explained to Dr. Ethan why he was there and that he was here to save people.

I think Tony can still hold on for a while with the help of the armor, and then Li Heng pulled Dr. Ethan and teleported directly outside the cave, where Li Heng had been before.

"Doc, please hide here for a while while I go back to rescue Tony."

After Li Heng finished speaking, he left the invisibility cloak for Ethan to put on and let him hide. Then he turned around and went back to the cave to rescue Tony.