Lu Mingfei doesn't want to be a superhero

After escaping the terrorist base, Tony began to optimize the armor he had manually built, transforming it into a truly functional, high-tech suit of armor.

He kept this project a secret from everyone except Lu Mingfei and Ethan.

Lu Mingfei had access to Tony's lab. Sometimes when he went in to see Tony, he would find Tony either building his armor or studying his own blood.

Tony once proudly showed off his new armor blueprints to Lu Mingfei, but with Lu Mingfei's high school education, how could he possibly understand those things? Tony was really talking to a brick wall.

However, Lu Mingfei had at least memorized the shape of the armor in the blueprints, and when he compared it with the flashy "robot" in front of him, he naturally realized it.

Sure enough, the next moment, the "robot's" mask opened, revealing Tony's face behind it.

"It really is you, Tony," Lu Mingfei teased. "Looks like your experiment isn't going too well?"

"Mingfei? What are you doing here?"

Tony struggled to get up from the ground, and Lu Mingfei tried to help him up, but no matter how strong he was, he was still within the range of a normal person, and he couldn't possibly lift this metal shell.

"It's a long story, but to put it simply, I suddenly disappeared a while ago because I was teleported back to my own universe, and now I'm back," Lu Mingfei explained.

"You've already mastered the method of freely traveling between the two worlds?" Tony immediately guessed.

“It’s not exactly freedom…” Lu Mingfei scratched his head. “Let’s go back first, and I’ll explain in detail later.”

“I’m afraid not now. A lot of unexpected things have happened on my end,” Tony shook his head. “Those terrorists attacked me because Obadiah hired them to kill me. Later, they changed their minds and had me build missiles, which gave us a chance to escape. But now Obadiah’s plot has been exposed. He built a huge steel mech called Iron Monger. I was just fighting that thing…”

"Uh... excuse me, I'll interrupt for a moment. Is the Iron Monger you're talking about about three meters tall, all black, with a small head, and something like hydraulic rods on its body?" Lu Mingfei asked.

"How did you know?" Tony was stunned.

Lu Mingfei pointed behind Tony: "That's what I saw."

Tony turned around abruptly, and a huge steel monster fell from the rooftop, causing a strong tremor in the ground.

"Go Tony!" Lu Mingfei took off running.

“I really need to recharge,” Tony said, closing his mask. His voice was low and bitter. “I’m out of power.”

"Damn! Is your miniature reactor so fragile?" Lu Mingfei exclaimed in surprise.

As he spoke, Iron Monger raised his arm and fired a missile at Tony. Tony quickly used his remaining battery power to roll and dodge.

"Obadia tricked me and stole my reactor. I'm using the one in the cave now!" Tony explained as he dodged.

"Why didn't you build an extra one as a backup?" Lu Mingfei shouted as he ran away with his head in his hands.

"Next time definitely!"

Tony roared and was blasted away by more than a dozen heavy machine gun bullets. After landing, he struggled to get up, but it seemed that the bullets had damaged some functions of his suit, and he was unable to stand up.

"Oh! So it's our lucky one." Obadiah suddenly stopped attacking and looked at Lu Mingfei, who was hiding behind an air conditioner.

“Uh… Good evening, Uncle Obadiah?” Lu Mingfei poked his head out.

Lu Mingfei actually knew Obadiah. After all, he had a close relationship with Tony and often went to Tony's house to visit him. Over time, they got to know each other. In his impression, Obadiah was a kind old man who was occasionally a bit mischievous. Little did he know that he could know a person's face but not their heart.

Just like Zhao Menghua, although he appears to be well-dressed and respectable on the surface, he might actually be a hypocrite inside.

“Lucky guy, are you enjoying your vacation in Australia?” Obadiah asked.

Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment, then realized that this must be Tony's explanation to the outside world after he disappeared.

"It was quite enjoyable. I even boxed with a kangaroo. It used its fists, and I used my M249. I won every single time." Lu Mingfei tends to ramble when he's nervous, and it's hard for him to stop talking in this situation.

"Ha, what a pleasant vacation!" Obadiah's voice was laced with resentment. "Why is it that you were just lucky enough to survive alongside Tony Stark and got shares in Stark Industries, while I had to work so hard for the Stark family for so many years!"

"Uncle, there's a saying in my hometown: 'Suffering a loss is a blessing.' As the saying goes, 'No pain, no gain.'"

Before Lu Mingfei could finish speaking, a bullet flew towards him, shattering the ground at his feet. Gravel flew up and hit Lu Mingfei's calf, causing him pain.

“Shut up! I’ve suffered enough. Now I’m going to become the true master of Stark Industries… No! I’m going to become the master of the world! With the blueprints for the Iron Man suit and the reactor, I can do anything!” Obadiah roared.

"Tony, aren't you done yet? Your uncle is already evolving into a movie villain!" Lu Mingfei said.

"Sorry, the joints of my armor seem to be damaged..." Tony lay on the ground, knowing that with his own strength, it would be difficult for him to stand up while supporting the metal shell once the armor was damaged.

“Go see your father, Tony!” Obadiah pointed the gun at Tony.

"Wait!" Lu Mingfei suddenly shouted.

"What's wrong?" Obadiah actually stopped what he was doing and looked at Lu Mingfei.

Lu Mingfei dashed to Tony's side, spread his arms wide, and looked ready to die: "If you want to hurt Tony, you'll have to step over my dead body first!"

Being killed by machine gun fire should trigger that power, right? Lu Mingfei felt a little apprehensive.

"Come on, give me a quick death!" His face was full of bravery and fearlessness, like a chivalrous outlaw from a storytelling performance.

Obadiah was silent for a moment, then said, "Although you are just a lucky one, I admit that you are indeed very courageous."

"Thank you..." Lu Mingfei had only uttered one word when the machine gun on Iron Tyrant's arm spat flames at him.

Damn it! You have no sportsmanship at all!

Lu Mingfei was pushed backward by the powerful recoil of the machine gun bullets. One bullet after another pierced his body. Logically speaking, he should have been torn to pieces by the hail of bullets from the heavy machine gun, but his body remained intact, only with many bullet holes.

Pushed all the way to the edge of the rooftop, Lu Mingfei shakily raised his left hand and, at the last moment before falling, gave Obadiah the middle finger.

Lu Mingfei's "corpse" was then pushed off the rooftop by a hail of bullets.

"Mingfei—"

Although Lu Mingfei had told him that he could recreate his power from the terrorist base when he was near death, Tony still couldn't help but worry when he saw Lu Mingfei being riddled with bullets and falling down.

Lu Mingfei said he was in a near-death state. What if he skipped the near-death stage and went straight into the completely dead stage?

But Tony had no time to worry about Lu Mingfei. Iron Monger lowered the hand equipped with the machine gun, raised the other hand, and aimed the missile at Tony's head.

The missile shot out, leaving a long trail of flame, but froze in front of Tony.

Iron Monarch, refusing to believe it, fired a few more missiles, all of which stopped in the same spot, neither advancing nor retreating, neither falling nor exploding, just hovering there like specimens.

"What kind of technology is this? An electromagnetic barrier?" Obadiah exclaimed in surprise.

"I think it should be considered biotechnology?" Tony himself wasn't quite sure.

"What biotechnology..."

Obadiah suddenly sensed something was wrong; the Iron Monger control panel in front of him suddenly displayed a rapidly increasing energy level.

He instinctively looked in the direction of the energy reaction.

A dark shadow shot into the sky from the edge of the rooftop, its wide, black wings leaving a slowly disappearing afterimage on the retina.

Obadiah and Tony looked up at the same time.

A tall, slender figure stood in mid-air, its entire body covered in jet-black scales. The bony protrusions on its face formed a majestic and ferocious mask, and its pupils seemed to flow with molten gold. Its wings spread behind it, and the wind naturally gathered under the membranous wings to support it. Although it did not flap its wings, it was able to float in the air.

He stood precisely at the center where the moon's and Obadiah's lines of sight met, like a dark cross about to divide the full moon.

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Chapter 14 Bloodline Awakening

On the rooftop of Stark Industries headquarters building.

Obadiah looked up at the dark shadow in the sky and froze inside the Iron Monger.

Now he understood why Tony publicly gifted Lu Mingfei shares after escaping from the terrorist base.

As a veteran of the Stark Industries and a friend and right-hand man of Tony's father, Howard Stark, Obadiah has access to secrets that ordinary people would never have access to.

For example, there are a very small number of people in this world who possess special powers.

It now appears that Lu Mingfei was one of them.

However, according to Obadiah's understanding, these people are usually not excessively strong.

For example, in his mind, Captain America is one of the best, capable of easily defeating a fully armed elite squad head-on on the battlefield.

But that's his limit. No matter how strong Captain America is, his body can't defend against bullets, let alone stop fired projectiles.

Now, Obadiah watched as the bullets and missiles he fired hovered in front of Tony, unable to cause any damage.

Iron King raised both arms at the same time, and machine gun bullets and missiles were unleashed at the fastest speed towards Lu Mingfei in the sky.

Lu Mingfei flapped his wings slightly, and an invisible force gathered in front of him to form a barrier. The missile exploded upon impact.

But the missile's flames spread for only a moment before being restrained by another force, maintaining its bizarre burning posture.

Iron Monger's firing lasted for nearly a minute, with countless metal objects and explosives being dumped onto the barrier in front of Lu Mingfei.

Until the Iron Monger stopped firing due to running out of ammunition, the invisible barrier in front of Lu Mingfei bent forward, encompassing the fire and explosion, turning into a dazzling fireball with a diameter of more than one meter.

Lu Mingfei reached his hand, which had almost transformed into a dragon's claw, into the fireball, as if he had grasped something, and then pulled it out abruptly.

Thanks to the helmets on their Iron Man suits, Tony and Obadiah could clearly see what Lu Mingfei was doing.

As Lu Mingfei withdrew his hand, a crimson, glowing metal weapon appeared in his palm. It looked like a combination of a knife and a sword, straight, slender, and menacing.

The crimson sword was drawn, seemingly taking away the heat of the fireball itself, leaving only a slightly reddish lump of metal in its place.

These are impurities discarded after weapons are melted down.

Lu Mingfei raised his hand and casually tapped the clump of scrap metal with the hilt of his sword. The clump of metal fell like a meteor and crashed into Iron Tyrant.

Obadiah hurriedly maneuvered the Iron Monger to dodge, but the cumbersome mech was ultimately not as agile as the Tony armor. Half of his body was hit and he was sent flying in a spinning motion.

By the time Iron King struggled to his feet, Lu Mingfei had already landed slowly, his dark membrane wings folding behind him, and the sword he held upside down looked like a solidified flame.

"What kind of monster are you?!" Obadiah exclaimed in terror.

Lu Mingfei didn't speak. He was like a black shadow, swiftly rushing in front of Obadiah, his sword leaving a bright red trail in the night sky.

When the shadow became clear again, Lu Mingfei had already appeared behind Iron Monger. One of Iron Monger's arms had broken off from his shoulder and flown away, the metal from the broken section already melting and dripping from the high temperature.

Lu Mingfei turned around, his golden eyes illuminated by the firelight, displaying a magma-like color.

“Wait—I surrender, I surrender!” Obadiah quickly raised his other arm.

The knife had just grazed his cockpit, and the scalding heat traveled through Iron Monger's shoulder to the cockpit, making half of his arm feel unbearably hot.

If this fight continues, not only will Lu Mingfei's weapon of unknown material easily destroy Iron Monarch's body, but even if it can't break through his defenses, if Lu Mingfei slashes at the cockpit a couple more times, he'll be roasted alive inside.

Lu Mingfei tilted his head, then transformed into a black shadow once more, his sword leaving long trails in the night sky.

Three times in a row, Lu Mingfei cut off the remaining three limbs of the Iron Tyrant.