Chapter 20: The Hero's Mask
Lan Xingyu and Tony were flying towards Kemila. Because he had to wait for Tony, Lan Xingyu slowed down.
Kemila was Yin Sen's hometown, and now it was threatened by weapons developed by his own company! This made Tony feel very guilty.
It was already daytime when they arrived at Kemila. Lan Xingyu didn't want to expose his abilities so quickly, and he especially didn't want to be photographed by the reporter hiding on the side. During the journey, he had developed a new skill: Golden Body Transformation.
This skill allowed Lan Xingyu to elementalize himself, and then reorganize the elementalized light particles. He turned into a human form that was 1.8 meters tall. He created this skill by referencing the Third Young Master of Aolai Country from an anime in his past life. Maintaining this state consumed almost nothing for him. It was also a very good way to hide his identity. Perfect!
Tony was a bit confused when he saw Lan Xingyu turn into a light man. "What are you doing? Isn't it troublesome to go out of your way to do this?" Because Tony knew that Lan Xingyu's body would automatically elementalize if it encountered an attack even without doing anything, adding this form was completely meaningless. Because if something couldn't hit Xingyu, it couldn't hit him, and if something could hurt him, it still could. It was completely pointless, right?
"Why do you want to become like this?" Since he had doubts, Tony asked.
"Tony, what do you think a superhero's mask is for?" Lan Xingyu didn't answer but asked back.
"Wind protection? Looking cool? Anyway, my mask is used to analyze things and protect my Face."
"No, Tony, you're wrong. You have all these points, but they aren't the main reason. Tony, remember, a superhero's mask isn't used to protect oneself, but to protect the people around them." Lan Xingyu said solemnly.
Lan Xingyu strongly resented Tony's move to publicize the identities of others in the original work. Yes, the members of the Avengers were all public. But apart from Hawkeye, did the others in the Avengers have people around them who needed protection?
Captain America slept for 70 years. Aside from a Carter who was already lying on a hospital bed and needed a little concern, there was no one else. And Carter was a founder of S.H.I.E.L.D., so there were already plenty of people protecting her. Scarlet Witch was also alone after her brother Quicksilver passed away. Vision, Black Widow, etc., were all alone. Not to mention Thor; my family isn't on Earth, so how can you threaten them? And what about Hawkeye's family? To protect them, he had to let them live alone in a location deleted from the map.
Like in the Civil War comics, when Spider-Man joined Iron Man's side and revealed his identity, then what? Aunt May was attacked and almost died. Lan Xingyu hoped Tony could realize this problem.
In Spider-Man: Homecoming, Tony held a press conference for Parker. Although Tony might have just wanted Peter to appear as Spider-Man at that time, it was also possible that he would reveal Spider-Man's identity like in the comics. If it were the latter, what would happen to Spider-Man's family? At the end of Spider-Man, didn't someone ask Vulture about Spider-Man's identity? If he knew Spider-Man's identity, what would these supervillains do?
Lan Xingyu didn't want Tony to become the Iron Man from the comics, so he said this to Tony.
Tony fell into thought, and Lan Xingyu didn't disturb him. They were almost at the town of Kemila. Lan Xingyu activated a new magic: Search. This was a spell that could locate anything the caster wanted to find within the magical range. The current range that Lan Xingyu could Search was about 300 kilometers.
With the magic Search, Lan Xingyu discovered that it wasn't just the town of Kemila that was under attack; there was another town more than 200 kilometers away from Kemila that was also under attack. And there was a terrorist army with five tanks, more than twenty modified jeeps, and over a thousand people heading towards that town.
"Tony, I found that another town is also under attack. Let's split up. You go to Kemila, and I'll go to the other town." Lan Xingyu said to Tony.
"Hmm, okay! Then be careful." Tony said seriously.
With a hum, Lan Xingyu turned into a streak of light and disappeared.
In less than a minute, Lan Xingyu arrived at the town. Seeing the terrorists about to shoot at the civilians, Lan Xingyu directly activated the super-light-speed mode, applied two amplification spells to himself, and flashed into the crowd like a light. One could only see a golden light flashing through the town, and all the terrorists were struck down to the ground.
Lan Xingyu demonstrated his title of Golden Flash to the fullest here. He appeared in the sky between their town and the convoy in his Golden Body Transformation. The terrorists also discovered him. They started shooting at Lan Xingyu in the sky, and the tanks also prepared to aim.
Seeing this, Lan Xingyu smiled slightly. Stretching out both hands, a golden staff appeared in Lan Xingyu's hands.
Waving the golden staff in his hand, Lan Xingyu chanted: "Aolai fog, fruit and flower fragrance, one strike of the Sea-Stabilizing Staff makes ten thousand demons bow." After speaking, he threw the golden staff at the terrorists. After an explosion, nothing remained in that area.
If it weren't for Lan Xingyu using magic to suppress the spread of the explosion's aftermath, the town behind him would have been destroyed by it.
"Done, why am I so excellent?" Looking at his masterpiece, Lan Xingyu struck a cool pose in the sky, then turned into a golden light to meet up with Tony.
As soon as he found Tony, he saw Tony being blasted down by a cannon. Watching Tony's tumbling figure, Lan Xingyu laughed irresponsibly. As for worrying about Tony? Are you kidding! What do you think the Asgard Materials that Lan Xingyu gave to Tony were? A cannonball that couldn't even break Tony's armor in the original work wanted to hurt the current Tony? Does my Asgard metal have no Face at all?
Lan Xingyu directly transmitted his voice to Tony: "Wow! Tsk tsk tsk! That was quite a fall. Don't worry, I've already recorded it for you. No need to thank me."
Tony's already gloomy Face became even gloomier. Now he finally confirmed that Lan Xingyu was a black-bellied monster wrapped in a cute appearance. He had just shown off his love in front of him, right? Was it necessary? He couldn't beat him, no way! So angry!
"Jarvis, I want to create a new document called the Anti-Brat Armor Series." Then, as if venting his anger, he rushed directly in front of the tank that had just bombed him. Carrying the cannon muzzle, he performed a shoulder throw, and then a small missile appeared on the arm of the armor and was fired at the overturned tank.
Then he turned around. Men never look back at explosions! What, you ask why Lan Xingyu looked back? I, Lan Xingyu, am still a child, okay? Don't make jokes! I don't understand!
Seeing Tony flying over, Lan Xingyu unhurriedly put away the glass ball in his hand.
Tony's mouth twitched when he saw this. You were definitely doing it on purpose. Where that cute and well-behaved Lan Xingyu in the cave went, I don't know. The Lan Xingyu in front of me must be fake!
Ignoring Tony Stark's belly-aching, Lan Xingyu called for him to withdraw. They had been out for a long time, and if it were any later, Little Pepper Potts would be worried.
Suddenly he remembered, it seemed like Tony had a scene where he was chased by two Raptor fighter jets.
Sure enough, in Lan Xingyu's perception, two fighter jets were flying towards them. To avoid trouble, a magic circle lit up in Lan Xingyu's hand.
"Invisible" After the ripple of the formation, Lan Xingyu and Tony became invisible. Then he said to Tony, "How about we use a Teleportation Gate to go back!" They had flown enough.
The reason they flew here before was to let Tony relax his mood. Now that things were done, there was no need to fly for so long. After all, Tony couldn't wear the armor for too long; the current Tony already had some palladium poisoning.
"Hmm, okay." Tony also agreed and began to slow down. Lan Xingyu opened a Teleportation Gate in front of them. The two returned directly to the laboratory.
After saying goodbye to Tony, Lan Xingyu returned to his room to wash up and sleep. After all, he was still a child. He had accompanied Tony on a flight all night and cleaned up a bunch of terrorists during the day. Although his body could handle it, his spirit was a bit tired...
No need to keep asking, keep caring, keep panicking, keep heartache. Love only has three words: Walk together.