Chapter 1905 - Cute? Ugly Cute

Once the evacuation started, everything went according to plan.

News of the monsters finally elicited a reaction from the American government – a fleet of warships from the closest navy base in San Diego had already been dispatched.

In response, Luke simply sent Tony a ??? meme.

Tony could only send back a shrug and bitter smile.

These were all emojis which Mindy used in the Ursa Minor group, which had now spread to their own group.

Luke had nothing to say.

The American government probably felt that the test with the two fighter planes hadn't been conclusive enough, and now wanted to try with warships. Also, it seemed that the SAS was about to arrive.

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The only one that was missing was the Marine Corps.

Luke couldn't be bothered to worry about the losses that the navy would incur – who knew, maybe it was counting on these warships to be damaged so that new ones could be built.

Without construction, there were no profits.

Without profits, there were no kickbacks.

Tony had no interest in wrangling with the government.

He tossed the government's nonsense about withdrawing and letting the troops handle things to the back of his mind.

It was up to the government whether or not to send in the troops; they didn't need Tony's permission.

By running over to ask him, they were clearly prepared to shift the blame after all this was over.

If the government was trustworthy, then pigs could climb trees.

If these troops entered San Francisco, their biggest purpose would be to suppress riots.

Help the citizens evacuate? The people didn't have any such expectations.

Tony stood on the Golden Gate Bridge, cars hurtling past behind him every now and then.

It was risky to evacuate via the bridge, but it was indeed a faster way to leave San Francisco for Sausalito, where there were fewer people. Or, people could just camp out in Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

As for the Bay Bridge, the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge, and the Dumbarton Bridge, they were all chock full of traffic which couldn't move quickly at all.

Most of the cars sped up when they saw Veronica standing near the south end of the Golden Gate Bridge.

For Iron Man to mobilize this colossal suit, it couldn't be a small matter.

But there would always be those who had a death wish. Many people still stopped their cars to film and upload videos and images to F2F to show that they were 'together' with Iron Man.

Thankfully, there was no traffic here, and Tony couldn't be bothered with these guys.

He had also been influenced by Luke.

He wasn't their father – if they insisted on courting death, who was he to deny them?

Besides, he was busy improving the algorithm for mental access so that he could keep up a steady transmission of images and signals over the internal comms.

Luke and the deep sea Mark suit were observing the monsters, and this was a very valuable research opportunity.

Veronica wasn't built for underwater combat, nor was Tony inclined to go into the water, so he could only do his best to improve the quality of this 'live stream.'

His cheat-like genius flared up again, and he constantly revised the program so that it was as if the quality of the live stream changed from 180P to 720P.

Although Tony wasn't satisfied, it was enough.

He would need to spend a lot more time on it if he wanted to make further improvements, which might delay his study of the monsters.

He had also put together two new drones made from special materials, and Luke released them from Space 2.

Everybody was relieved when the comprehensive map which the Bat Squad was best at putting together was finally restored.

In the last hour, they had only been able to communicate verbally, which was too inconvenient.

At that moment, Luke frowned. "Something's wrong 200 kilometers west."

Tony said, "Let me see."

Luke shared the readings, which was from the underwater monitoring equipment that the Level 1 clone had released not long ago.

These were initially meant for the giant octopus, and were now coming in handy in passing.

They would be destroyed by the bat monster's EMP, but at the same time, would also expose the monsters' location.

One monster had already become two; he didn't want two to turn into four.

However, the abnormal readings detected by the monitoring devices weren't affected by EMP, and were sent back intact.

Tony quickly replied, "I would ask if there's a problem with these readings, but it's unlikely. Take a look for yourself. I need to calm down."

Looking at the data sent back, Luke soon replied, "I also want to ask if you calculated wrong, but that's also unlikely."

Tony asked, "What do you think? Should we intercept it in advance?"

Luke frowned and thought hard. For a moment, he didn't know what to do.

He wasn't sure if taking action against the new monster now would trigger an overreaction from the two bat-headed monsters.

San Francisco wouldn't be evacuated so quickly.

"Let's wait." He finally made this decision.

Nobody could guarantee that they wouldn't make any mistakes.

After the Ultron incident, Tony would now hesitate whenever it came to making such a major decision, which was why he had left the decision to Luke.

On the other hand, Luke's thoughts weren't too complicated. Based on his calculations, it was better to wait, and he didn't mind acting a little more cowardly for now.

A moment later, Tony sent another question. "Are we really not going to do anything? This new guy seems even fiercer."

Luke said indifferently, "Its physique is clearly different from those two bat-headed monsters, and it doesn't have that annoying EMP ability. They might not be on the same side."

Tony said, "What if they are? This appearance is too much of a coincidence, and it's coming this way. How about I give it a try first?"

Frowning for a moment, Luke finally said, "Let Big Dipper do it. He's more suitable for the job."

Tony: "What? How is he better than me?"

Luke said, "He has mental abilities; you don't."

Tony: …

I hate people like you the most – you have superpowers but you still play with tech! The tycoon cursed inwardly and could only give up.

After all, Big Dipper had used Mental Resistance to get rid of Wanda's mental interference.

As they spoke, Big Dipper swiftly rose to the water surface and headed west.

Two minutes later, Tony looked at the image which Big Dipper was sharing. "…Is this a kid's cartoon? Why has something like that shown up?"

Ignoring the tycoon's nonsense, Big Dipper carefully observed the gigantic creature 200 meters away. Suddenly, he said, "Why do I find it a little… cute?"

Tony: …

In fact, Luke wanted to say "ugly cute," but it was a pain to explain the concept to Tony.

To the tycoon, ugly things were garbage and had nothing to do with being cute.

However, Luke really felt that the big monster in front of him was so ugly it was a little cute.