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Again, Time Reversal?
Amid everyone’s cries of alarm, Tony turned around, preparing to knock Namor back again, but then he heard a light chuckle beside him. Someone teased, "Wow, what a sorry sight. The elegant long-range warrior, pacifist, Mr. Tony Stark."
Then, before his eyes could adjust, the fierce-looking Namor was kicked hard in the face. He clearly saw Namor’s face twist and deform, with several teeth flying out from one side of his mouth.
Namor was then kicked flying, bouncing across the surface of the water like a skipping stone until he vanished at the edge of their vision.
Tony let out a long breath and glared at his master, Zhan Liu, who was grinning beside him. He shouted irritably, "Damn it! What took you so long?"
Zhan Liu reached out and shifted Peter in his arms, checking his injuries. Only after confirming that Peter wouldn’t die did he grin and say, "Who said I just got here? I arrived before you did. When you called me, I was already standing in the sky. You just didn’t look up."
"And you just stood up there watching? You didn’t even come down to help? Peter was dying!" Tony was exasperated.
"Relax. A martial artist’s vitality is extremely tenacious. How could he die so easily? Peter’s injuries are only slightly worse than last time. He’ll be fine after resting for a few days."
"After reaching the Twenty-Five Heavens, the body’s self-healing ability becomes extremely outrageous. No matter how serious the injury, it can recover quickly."
"If you can reach the Fifty Heavens, you can perform Cellular Reconstruction. No matter what kind of disability the body suffers, as long as either the brain or the heart remains undamaged, the body can be restored through Cellular Reconstruction. And it doesn’t only work on yourself; you can also use it to heal others."
"How about it? Doesn’t that sound tempting?" Zhan Liu coaxed him with a grin.
Tony looked at Peter skeptically and felt that going to the hospital would still be better.
He tossed Zhan Liu aside and ignored him, hurrying straight toward the helicopter. Nick definitely had emergency medicine there.
At the far end of the sea, a wave more than a thousand meters high came crashing toward them again.
Tony looked back at it, then ignored it. Even if the sky fell, someone taller would hold it up. Since the tallest person had already arrived, there was nothing left for him to do.
He was a billionaire, the owner of Stark Industries, the genius Tony Stark, and a pacifist. He was absolutely determined never to return to the battlefield.
This one incident had already been terrifying enough. He had nearly died down there.
The fact that he had risked going into the water once was already giving Nick enough face. There absolutely, definitely wouldn’t be a next time.
However, he didn’t know that this sort of thing was like cross-dressing: there were only zero times and countless times.
Zhan Liu glanced back at the distant wave and completely lost hope in Namor’s brain.
With such an obvious difference in strength, Namor had actually come running to his death. Not killing him would practically be an insult to his stupidity.
Zhan Liu swept his gaze across the waves but saw no sign of Namor. It seemed that Namor had retreated into the sea again.
But that trick wouldn’t work on Zhan Liu. It seemed Namor hadn’t learned enough from last time’s lesson.
Zhan Liu shot into the air and arrived above a certain spot on the sea. Then he suddenly accelerated downward, plunging straight down and boring a gigantic hole through the surface of the sea as he headed directly toward Namor in the depths.
The gigantic hole lasted only a few seconds before the surrounding seawater came roaring in and filled it. At the same time, the huge wave advancing toward the shore collapsed with a thunderous crash. Clearly, Namor no longer had the energy to keep it standing.
Zhan Liu carved a white trail through the water as he rapidly dove straight down.
Namor hurriedly changed position and fled deeper into the distance, but a few seconds later, Zhan Liu caught up with him.
Namor turned and thrust his spear at him, but Zhan Liu reached out, seized it, and snatched it away.
The shaft trembled constantly in Zhan Liu’s hand, as if trying to break free of his control, but it was completely unable to escape his iron grip.
Seeing that he couldn’t get away, Namor wasn’t afraid in the slightest. He lunged forward, intending to fight Zhan Liu to the death.
Last time, Zhan Liu had only been kicking him for fun, but today, he wasn’t in the mood to play with him.
Zhan Liu sidestepped the attack, then reached out and gripped Namor by the neck. He tightened his grip, then twisted.
Namor’s physical abilities were actually at a superhuman level. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have survived taking a blow from Tony’s Magnetic Field Rotation at the Fifteen Heavens level. But against the power of Magnetic Field Rotation at the Twenty-Five Heavens level, his body was no better than an ordinary person’s.
After removing Namor’s head from his neck, Zhan Liu casually impaled it on the spear and flew away with it held aloft, leaving only Namor’s corpse behind to feed the fish.
Not long afterward, a squad of Sea Clan Warriors arrived there. After discovering Namor’s corpse and discussing the matter, they carried their Sea King’s headless body into the depths of the sea.
Zhan Liu flew straight back to the martial arts school, which had also suffered from the flood. The entire courtyard was covered in water.
Zhan Liu couldn’t do anything about this problem either.
He tried waving the divine spear, attempting to drive the water out of the courtyard, but the useless thing didn’t give him the slightest bit of face and was completely worthless.
Zhan Liu simply planted the spear upside down beside the main hall, with its tip pointing upward and Namor’s head impaled on it.
Namor was dead, so the flood would inevitably recede. But the process might take several days, so they had to find somewhere to stay for the time being.
Besides, with such a massive flood, no disciples would be coming over to practice their martial arts, and there wasn’t anywhere in the courtyard for them to train anyway.
What should you do when there’s a problem? Find the Senior Apprentice-Brother!
Although the Senior Apprentice-Brother wasn’t a monkey, he was useful wherever he went.
Zhan Liu had never been polite with Tony. Whenever he needed money, he asked Tony for it. Whenever he needed something done, he ordered Tony to handle it.
Tony was his disciple, after all. Did a master need a reason to have his disciple do something?
Tony didn’t care about such things either. He had plenty of money, and when it came to handling matters, it was basically just a phone call. He didn’t need to do anything personally.
After calling Tony, Zhan Liu went to the tallest hotel in the downtown area.
Although the lower two floors of the hotel had been flooded, everything above them remained perfectly intact.
In fact, because many families had suffered disaster and had no choice but to take boats to the hotel for lodging, the hotel had ended up making a fortune.
Zhan Liu flew straight to the temporary lobby on the third floor. After smoothly completing the check-in procedures, he was respectfully escorted by the lobby manager to the presidential suite on the top floor.
After ordering dinner through the hotel, Zhan Liu was enjoying Michelin-level cuisine when the door rang and a black egg walked in.
Nick came to Zhan Liu’s side and sat down as if he were an old acquaintance.
"Mr. Zhan, ever since the last Time Reversal, S.H.I.E.L.D. has been very courteous toward you. We have something to ask your help with now. Of course, we’ll provide appropriate compensation."
"What is it?" Zhan Liu put the steak he had cut into his mouth and chewed carefully.
"I’d like to ask you to help contact that Sorcerer Supreme and have him perform Time Reversal on New York, saving the hundreds of thousands of civilians who died today."
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