Chapter 1395 - Curious About Temporary Teammates
Luke turned around and saw a long streak of light coming straight from Manhattan. A moment later, intense rock music rang out.
Luke’s lips twitched. He ignored the BGM and broke into a run.
Tony was stunned. “Hey, what are you doing?” They hadn’t met in a while. Had he become even more handsome after regaining his health, making Batman uncomfortable?
Luke said, “Let’s save people first. If you want to chat, enter the comms channel.”
Then, Tony received an invitation code. After it was verified, he entered Luke’s temporary comms channel.
Seeing an interface that looked like a chat group, Tony was the first to give his greetings. “Hello, I’m Tony Stark. How should I address you?”
“Wow, Iron Man? Can I have your autograph? I’m Donnie.” The little turtle was the first to expose himself.
Tony chuckled and wrote down the name of this hardcore fan.
Then, Batman’s voice rang out. “Please do not reveal any information about yourself or your real name on the comms channel to avoid being tracked down by unreliable people.”
Tony was stumped for a moment before his face turned dark.
He was probably the only person here who could track down everybody’s identities, because that was exactly what he had been thinking of doing.
Apart from the little turtle who had been too quick to speak, nobody else said anything.
Besides, all the voices in the channel had been switched to electronic ones. It would be impossible to find these people through this.
Tony was annoyed, but soon forgot about it.
Apart from his careless greeting and the little turtle’s reply, the rest of the information was on the battle situation.
Ninja Squad (the little turtles and their master): “Queens Botanical Garden, five test subjects killed.”
Lady Deathstrike (Alice): “Jackson Heights, 34th Street, seven test subjects killed.”
Superhero Iron Whip (Ivan): “New York Museum of Science and Technology, three test subjects killed.”
Blackpink Bears (Damon and Mindy): “Grand Army Plaza, five test subjects killed.”
Iron Cage King (Angel Dust): “Clinton Hill, two test subjects killed.”
Bastet (Selina): “Bedford Avenue station, five test subjects killed.”
Big Dipper (Clone): “East Williamsburg Street, seven test subjects killed.”
Without waiting for Tony to give the instruction, Jarvis had already marked out the locations on the virtual map.
Tony didn’t stop. He shot out with his left foot and kicked the back of the test subject that was chasing him on the street, stomping it into the ground.
The next moment, the jet propulsion under his right foot burst with flames as he raised his left foot and smashed another test subject into a one-meter-tall lump of meat.
Iron Man: “Brownsville, Sutter Avenue, two test subjects killed. Hm, Charcoal Head also killed two just now. I’ll help him report it.”
In the comms channel: …
Luke couldn’t be bothered with the tycoon.
This attack by the test subjects tonight was too troublesome. Not only were there a lot of them, they also killed anyone they saw.
A small delay might mean fewer lives saved.
Technically speaking, he was the one who had caused this.
He wasn’t enough of a saint to blame himself if people died, but he would do what he could to prevent as many deaths as possible.
More than 300 test subjects had been killed from the reports on the comms channel, but there were still plenty of them in Queens and Brooklyn.
They couldn’t count on NYPD at all. The police officers couldn’t use their pistols or rifles to deal with these test subjects; it would already be pretty good if they could kill one with dozens of bullets.
Thankfully, Phil and the others were almost there, and were the most reliable reinforcements.
Luke hadn’t taken Tony into account.
This guy’s whereabouts now were pretty confidential.
Besides, it wasn’t easy to order him around. Luke had pulled him into the comms channel so that he could move freely and act according to the situation.
A moment later, he heard Alfred’s warning. “The communication channel is being hacked. Based on the technology used, it should be Jarvis.”
Luke’s face was dark as he directly contacted Tony. “If you have Jarvis hack into the comms system again, do you think I won’t spread certain photos of you around the whole world?”
The tycoon was silent for a moment before he asked, “What photos?”
Too lazy to say anything else, Luke simply uploaded some of the images he had taken during previous battles.
These images hadn’t been doctored and didn’t seem much, but Luke had captured moments when Tony was either embarrassed or doing something hilarious — like splits in the air.
There had been too many people with these sorts of malicious images in his previous life, and Luke was very familiar with this M.O..
Actually, he didn’t have many images of Tony.
For people Luke was more familiar with, like Claire, Selina, Elsa, Elizabeth, and Dustin, he could create a huge pile of emojis from their “candid” moments.
However, this was clearly Tony’s first time being threatened like this.
Also, if Luke posted these in Batman’s name, they would be real even if they were fake. Tony didn’t want to make headlines.
Alfred: “The intrusion has stopped.”
Luke snorted and dropped the subject.
If it was anyone else, he might still have taught them a verbal lesson.
However, he had nothing he wanted to say to the tycoon.
It was purely Tony’s nature.
It was impossible for Tony to see a secret system and not hack it, just like how a lecher couldn’t resist groping a big beauty in front of him.
Tony was a little embarrassed.
He had wanted to hack into the comms system to see what his teammates looked like, but Batman had sensed it so quickly and even threatened him.
He only knew that Black Cat and Batman were ironclad teammates. He didn’t know about the rest, and had never seen them before.
But all of them had appeared in New York today. How could the tycoon, who was so curious that he could explode, tolerate it?
After stopping Jarvis, Tony rolled his eyes and suddenly changed directions to fly to Clinton Hill in the east.
Ten seconds later, he found his target. “Hehe, you won’t let me hack into the system, but I can see them with my own eyes!”
If they were all in hiding, he might not necessarily be able to find these “temporary teammates.”
But from the battle information and sounds on the comms, it was really easy to find a target.
It was for this reason that Tony knew that what Batman had been unhappy about was him secretly hacking into the system, not that he wanted to prevent him from meeting his teammates.
He nailed two test subjects in an alley below with electric shocks, and they twitched on the ground. Tony looked at the first temporary teammate he was seeing face to face tonight, who should be Iron Cage King.
He wanted to see why these people could be Batman’s temporary teammates.
Pfft! Iron Cage King? That sounded so crude. As he was thinking that, the tycoon saw a test subject fly out of a nearby building and land on the ground..
