Cold, hard… Chen Yu woke up to find himself lying on a cold, hard stone, his whole body aching terribly.
This damned familiar pain, this damned game.
“Cough cough… An unfamiliar ceiling… cough… there isn’t even a ceiling.”
What greeted Chen Yu’s eyes was not a ceiling, but a strange darkness.
A gloomy and desolate atmosphere enveloped the entire space.
Above, faint sunlight filtered through cracks in the rock, outlining the cavern’s shape.
“Child, you’re finally awake…”
Chen Yu saw a balding middle-aged man with glasses standing quietly beside him, his eyes shining brightly in the darkness.
His forehead was very noticeable in the dim cave.
The faint incandescent lamp in the corner of the cave made his bald forehead appear even brighter.
He was clearly a “brilliantly smart” person.
“Cough cough, where is this?”
After two dry coughs, Chen Yu looked at the other person warily, beginning to survey his surroundings.
He was undoubtedly in a cave; Chen Yu saw a burning furnace, twisted iron, and the casing of a missile that was only half-complete.
Crude forging equipment and a simple working environment made it look like a black-hearted hot weapon workshop.
“This is Afghanistan, my name is Yinsen, you can call me Dr. Yinsen. Listen to me, our situation is very dangerous, but don’t worry, we will definitely escape and find a doctor to treat you.”
Dr. Yinsen was a kind man. In the plot of Iron Man 1, he used a car electromagnet to extract the shrapnel from Tony Stark’s body, saving Tony’s life. He also assisted Tony in developing the initial MK1 Iron Suit, and tragically sacrificed himself to buy Tony Stark time to put on the Iron Man Armor.
Seeing the man in front of him introduce himself as Yinsen, Chen Yu knew that the timeline he had arrived in was likely the period when Tony was about to become Iron Man.
“Child, two days ago, you suddenly fell from the sky, landing right at the entrance of the terrorist base,” Dr. Yinsen said. “Those people saw you fall from the sky, bloody and half-dead. To save bullets, they hit you twice on the head with a rifle butt, then threw you aside to fend for yourself. Tony and I saw that you still had a breath in you, so we carried you into the cave. Child, how do you feel now?”
Damn system, another low-health start.
Chen Yu assessed his physical condition; it could only be described as terrible.
Multiple bone fractures, lung contusions, diaphragmatic rupture… that he was still alive could only be attributed to the wizard’s incredibly tenacious vitality, plus the passive strengthening of his physique by the Carnivore, otherwise he would have directly used the Resurrection Cross to enter a revived state.
“To be honest, I don’t feel so good…”
Chen Yu shook his head, adjusting the pain to 10%.
“How’s the little guy doing?”
Another person emerged from the darkness.
The newcomer looked disheveled. His thick hair covered half of his forehead, his features were deep and Stereo, and stubble lined his jaw.
He wore a greasy old T-shirt, and a strange blue glowing object was embedded in his chest.
His handsome face, combined with his messy attire, made him look like a textbook example of a brooding, handsome older man.
Looking at the familiar appearance, Chen Yu knew this was Tony Stark, CEO of Stark Industries, the world’s largest arms dealer.
Even though he was a tiger in a flatland, his outstanding aura made him look like a fallen prince or a wealthy man.
As for Dr. Yinsen next to him, if one didn't know he was a doctor, purely from his appearance, he looked like a weary, balding programmer who often worked overtime, was middle-aged with a mortgage, and worried about milk money for his children.
“He’s awake, and seems quite energetic.”
Dr. Yinsen was very happy that Chen Yu was alive.
Tony glanced at Chen Yu lying on the rock and said to Dr. Yinsen, “Yinsen, we don’t have time. We need to hurry and complete the final assembly. Today is the deadline; they could come in at any moment!”
Hearing Tony’s words, Dr. Yinsen sighed sadly, patted Chen Yu’s little head, and stood up: “Child, we will definitely escape, definitely!”
Terrorists were constantly monitoring the place, and with the crude equipment, Tony could only build the Iron Suit in separate parts to avoid suspicion. After assembly, the power drive program still needed to be activated to start the Iron Man Armor.
To prevent immediate detection during assembly, Tony and Yinsen specifically built a temporary makeshift shelter with debris to block the view of the monitors.
This way, assembling the Iron Man Armor would not be immediately discovered by the terrorists.
Although not appearing on the monitor would still arouse the terrorists’ suspicion, these terrorists would not immediately suspect Tony’s escape plan. Instead, they would first come in to check the situation, buying them a precious moment.
After speaking, the two went to a spot covered by debris and began to busy themselves.
Seeing the two start working and no longer paying attention to him, Chen Yu pulled an apple from his backpack and quickly began to eat it.
After eating an apple, he felt a surge of vitality within him begin to rapidly repair Chen Yu’s damaged organs.
One apple could only restore 300 health points.
Although the system didn’t display health points, Chen Yu estimated his current health to be between 400-500 based on his recovery.
Otherwise, he wouldn’t feel almost completely recovered after eating just one apple.
Watching Tony and Yinsen begin to put on the Iron Suit, Chen Yu guessed that the group of terrorists should be about to notice something was wrong.
Sure enough, after a while, a violent knocking sound came from outside the iron door.
“Yinsen! Yinsen! Stark! What exactly are you doing! Answer, give me an answer now!”
Although the other party spoke Hungarian, Chen Yu still understood what they were shouting.
The universal language translator was still working its magic.
Chen Yu heard Professor Yinsen also replying in Hungarian, perfunctorily answering their questions while accelerating the assembly of the Iron Suit.
The terrorists eventually lost patience and prepared to open the door directly to check the situation.
The moment the door opened, it triggered a bomb tied to the bolt.
The three terrorists who opened the door to check the situation were directly blown away, falling to the ground, their fate unknown.
The violent explosion also severed the monitoring lines.
Seeing the monitor lose signal, the terrorist leader immediately sent a large number of his subordinates to check the situation.
Although a few small tricks successfully bought them a precious moment, this amount of time was not enough for the Iron Suit to activate.
Watching the power drive program load little by little, and hearing the increasingly close shouts and footsteps in the cave, Yinsen was now frantic with worry.
Finally, Yinsen glanced at the half-loaded drive program, made up his mind, and said to Tony, “I’ll go buy you some time.”
He grabbed the weapon carried by a fallen terrorist and rushed towards the cave entrance.
The few terrorists who had just rushed in were mere trash. Hearing the gunshots from Yinsen’s hand, they fled in a panic.
Yinsen chased them, firing as he went.
All to buy Tony time.
As Yinsen chased the few men near the cave entrance, he found that a large group of people at the cave entrance were already pointing their firearms at him.
At this moment, he thought of his deceased family, of Tony, and of the child who had fallen at the entrance of the terrorist base two days ago.
To allow Tony and the child to survive, Yinsen unhesitatingly chose to open fire.
Tongues of fire spewed from the firearm, instantly taking down five or six of the opponents.
But these terrorists also carried firearms and were numerous. Seeing Yinsen open fire, they naturally all returned fire.
Yinsen roared, venting the anger in his heart with the firearm in his hand.
He knew he would surely die this time, but he felt that trading one rotten life for two lives was worth it!
Bullets ricocheted everywhere in the cave.
Yinsen seemed to feel time slow down. He seemed to see a hallucination, seeing the trajectories of the opponents’ bullets slow down, seeing an invisible wall appear before him, blocking the opponents’ bullets, preventing them from advancing further.
Yet his own bullets could penetrate this invisible wall and directly attack the opponents.
“Obstacle Course!”
“Armor of Agathys!”
The child behind him said so.