Chapter 18: First Flight of the Armor
Returning home and watching Little Pepper Potts wave goodbye, Lan Xingyu felt as if he had been set free.
From now on, he would rather go solo against Thanos than go shopping with a girl ever again; it was too terrifying.
Upon entering the house, he immediately returned to his room and lay down in the soft bedding.
A wave of sleepiness washed over him.
Xingyu pulled the covers over himself, rolled over, and officially turned into a salted fish, sprawling out on the bed.
Before long, he fell into a deep sleep.
When Lan Xingyu woke up again, the sun was already casting slanted rays.
Lan Xingyu stretched his small body and walked outside, only to find that Tony hadn't come out yet, which surprised him a little.
Are these people who do science all this dedicated?
At this moment, Jarvis's voice rang out: "Mr. Xingyu, a notification for you. Your package has arrived."
Oh, that fast?
Lan Xingyu walked to the door and picked up a small express box.
Opening it directly, inside was a glass dome, and within the dome was Tony's first-generation Arc Reactor.
Around the reactor was a message: "Tony has a warm heart."
That's right, this was the first-generation reactor that was originally supposed to be removed by Pepper Potts and then made into a gift for Tony.
However, because Lan Xingyu had helped Tony with a spell when he needed to replace the reactor earlier, he had also added two healing spells: "cure" and "heal," which could treat all external injuries.
And "recovery," a spell capable of removing all illnesses and any negative status effects from a person's body.
Furthermore, Lan Xingyu discovered that this spell could perfectly recover Tony from palladium poisoning.
So, Lan Xingyu had asked Jarvis to contact a workshop to have this made.
He might as well go see how the construction of Tony's armor was coming along.
Arriving at Tony's laboratory, he saw Tony had just finished setting up the propulsion devices on his feet and was preparing for a test.
As Lan Xingyu walked into the lab, Tony spotted him.
"Hi Xingyu, good afternoon. You've come at just the right time. I'm about to start testing the thrusters I just finished."
He then turned to the camera on the side and said: "Alright, initiating manual control. Let's take it slow. Let's see if ten percent thrust can achieve lift. Three, two, one."
Tony wiggled his waist and said.
Seeing this, Xingyu smiled; it truly was better to be lucky than early, and he didn't know if it was his own luck or Tony's luck.
As soon as Tony pressed the switch, he flew backward.
Just as he was about to hit the ceiling, Lan Xingyu flashed over and caught him.
"Hmm! Not a bad backflip. Congratulations on taking another step closer to the road of seeking death and getting beaten black and blue."
Lan Xingyu teased as he put Tony down.
"Ah! Thanks! It seems my step was a bit too aggressive; the stability of the propulsion needs to be increased. It's a good thing you came. By the way, your money has already been converted into Stark stock. Pepper Potts brought it over and left it on the table a while ago; you were resting, so I didn't wake you. Also, have you decided which school to go to? School starts in a month."
"Oh! I'll go check it out later. As for the school, I'm still considering it. There's still a month left, right? No rush. By the way, this is a gift."
Saying this, Lan Xingyu placed the gift on Tony's workbench.
"Don't get too moved. I'm heading out."
Seeing Tony looking a bit dazed, Xingyu said.
"What moved? I remember saying I don't like nostalgia."
Tony retorted stubbornly.
"Yes, yes, yes. I'm off, I'm going to have dinner. Do you want me to bring you something down later?"
"No need, I'll eat later. Bye."
Lan Xingyu went upstairs.
"By the way, Jarvis, can you connect to television programs from China?"
"Yes, sir."
"Then help me search for..."
Eleven days later in Tony's laboratory, Lan Xingyu was watching Tony's experiment.
Tony was struggling to fly around the lab relying on the thrusters on his hands and feet.
After landing, Xingyu walked forward: "Congratulations, Tony, now you can fly."
"Yes, now I can fly."
"Have the others been completed as well?"
"Yeah, they're all done. Xingyu, have you ever flown under the night sky here?"
"Uh... no. Why? Do you want to go play for a bit later?"
"What do you think?" Tony said with a half-smile.
"Alright! Let me see the finished product of your new armor!"
Mechanical arms appeared, helping Tony assemble the armor.
The scene was full of a high-tech feel.
After a series of cool adjustments, Tony took off, with absolutely no intention of waiting for Xingyu.
Xingyu shrugged and turned into a beam of light to chase after him, catching up to Tony in an instant, and then flew at the same speed as Tony.
Tony's excited laughter kept coming through the communicator.
Tony seemed to be getting a bit carried away with the flight and said to Lan Xingyu: "Xingyu, how high have you ever flown?"
"I don't know, I haven't specifically calculated it."
"Shall we race?"
"Alright."
Hearing this, Lan Xingyu secretly took out a small magic crystal.
Truly, like master, like student!
Tony and Xingyu turned into a line, then like two lines, shooting straight up into the clouds.
Unfortunately, the scene from the original work where Tony freezes and falls didn't happen, which disappointed Xingyu a little.
But thinking about it, it made sense; Tony was now using the metal Materials provided by Xingyu to build the armor, so naturally, those problems wouldn't occur.
In the end, they turned back after flying to 100,000 feet.
Tony landed on the roof, and Xingyu once again took out the small glass ball, looking at Tony with a playful expression.
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing, let's go back!"
Tony gave a confused "hmm" and disengaged the thrusters.
Then... "Thump," "Boom," and then the sound of car horns?
Xingyu walked up to Tony: "Tony, your house isn't up to par; this is shoddy construction. Tsk tsk tsk! By the way, take a look at this."
Tony watched the image ball projected by Xingyu showing his recent state, and instantly felt like life was meaningless.
Playing was one thing, but Xingyu still helped Tony to the mechanical platform and helped him remove the armor.
He also gave him a set of healing spells.
Instantly, Tony was revived on the spot and began to correct some of the problems that had just appeared in the armor.
He also started working on the color scheme of the armor.
Seeing that Tony was fine, Lan Xingyu prepared to leave.
If he hadn't wanted to see the first flight of Tony's armor, he would already be playing Monster Hunter World.
You read that right, Marvel also has monster hunter, and the update speed is even faster than in Lan Xingyu's previous life.
It seems Iceborne is coming out in a few days.
Xingyu said goodbye to Tony and left the laboratory.
Sitting on the sofa, he said to Jarvis: "Raise the keyboard, open my monster hunter. I'm going to start raising a cat!"
That's right, the reason Lan Xingyu liked monster hunter was because he could raise a Palico!
Entering the game, after going through some plot, Lan Xingyu started creating his character and cat.
Lan Xingyu chose a male for the character and finished immediately.
He had to complain that the characters in monster hunter really weren't good-looking.
It left Lan Xingyu with no desire to customize the face at all.
As expected, this is a game for petting cats.
Compared to the player's character, the Palico character creation was much more fun.
In the end, Xingyu created a cute little cat with white fur and black stripes.
Only then did Lan Xingyu satisfactorily end his cat customization journey.
Just as he was preparing to continue the plot and start hunting, Tony walked up from the laboratory.
He said to Lan Xingyu: "I'm going to a banquet, are you coming?"
A banquet? Lan Xingyu's eyes lit up.
Wouldn't there be lots of delicious food?
He just happened to not know what to eat tonight.
He might as well go to the banquet and have some fun.
"Jarvis, help me finish this part of the plot and save it, thanks."
Then he said to Tony: "Alright! Let's go, let's go eat!"
There was no help for it; currently, Lan Xingyu could only go eat, at most adding some civilized ball-watching.
He couldn't do anything else... What a pity...
Lan Xingyu and Tony arrived at the banquet location.
As soon as they got out of the car, Tony caused a stir.
Lan Xingyu said "I'm going to go play by myself" and took off; he didn't want to become tomorrow's news.
Otherwise, all sorts of strange news would come out, and he wouldn't be able to show off properly in his future school life.
Tony saw Lan Xingyu flash into the banquet alone and didn't pay much attention.
After all, with Xingyu's strength, no one could bully him.
Lan Xingyu had just flashed into the banquet when he saw a famous old gentleman, Stan Lee!
Lan Xingyu couldn't help but want to be mischievous.
He secretly transmitted his voice to Mr. Stan Lee: "Which Universe are you planning to visit next, old man?"
Stan Lee turned his head in surprise, but saw nothing.
Then he was patted by Tony, and when he turned to the other side, there was still no one.
Tony's unintentional assist completely confused the old man Stan.
What was going on?
The world is too big, and life is so short.
One should live it as much as possible in the way one wants to; that's how it should be.
Don't you think...