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"So, that's it? This small, glowing triangle should be able to replace that slowly suicidal palladium arc reactor on my chest?"

Tony Stark held the new elemental core in his hand, his voice still laced with skepticism, but the light in his eyes shone brighter than the element itself.

He felt that vibrant hope.

That was the mystery left by his father, and also his lifeline.

"Of course it will work! Do you doubt the gods' construction team?"

Thor slapped Tony hard on the back, the slap nearly sending Tony, who hadn't even had time to put on his armor, crashing into the floor.

Tony vowed that he would wear his armor every time he was with Thor from now on.

Thor let out a hearty laugh.

"To celebrate the birth of another master blacksmith in Midgard, according to Asgardian tradition, we must drink! Not only drink, but we must also smash the cups afterward!"

His eyes gleamed as he looked at the last few remaining whiskey crystal glasses on the bar.

"Stop! Halt!"

Tony instantly stepped in front of the bar like a mother hen protecting her chicks, making himself the last line of defense.

"That's a limited edition crystal glass! There's only one set left! I don't care what strange customs you Asgardians have, here at Stark Tower, any form of... well, you know... I also like this... and then smashing the glass on the ground!"

"But how can we express joy without smashing it?"

Thor looked confused and turned to look at Shuen.

"Hey, you glowing friend, isn't that what you do where you're from?"

Xiu En floated in mid-air, deep in thought, figuring out how to fool them.

"We don't usually break them; we chew the glass and the wine together, you know, so as not to waste them."

"Okay, I understand."

Tony closed his eyes in pain.

"One is a violent maniac, the other a pica sufferer. Jarvis, initiate the evacuation."

"I know a place where there are so many cups that you could smash them all day and still not finish. And there's plenty of space for you to let your true nature run wild."

Tony snapped his fingers.

"A yacht party. My Ocean Princess is right at the dock, with a wine cellar full of wine and an endless supply of glasses."

"yacht?"

Hugh's eyes flickered. He had wanted to buy it with the Black Card back in Gotham, but he hadn't done so yet.

"Is that some kind of large sandwich floating in the water?"

"No, that's a ship. A very big, very expensive ship, and you can't eat it."

Tony warned seriously.

"Furthermore, this is my private property, and taste tests on its hull are prohibited for any reason."

Half an hour later.

A sports car sped through the streets of New York.

The passenger seat was occupied by the blond Thor, who insisted on sticking his head out to enjoy the breeze, while Shum sat in the back seat.

"So, we're going to go to the beach and smash things, then drink that kind of water that won't get you drunk, and finally watch this tin man show off his big ship?"

Sunflower Ivy chuckled softly.

"Your happiness is truly simple."

I think so too.

Xiu En sat in the back seat, still clutching a piece of new element waste he had taken with him when he left.

"However, perhaps there's something else on the beach. Like some kind of deep-sea seafood?"

Tony, who was driving, saw this scene in his rearview mirror and his hand trembled, almost driving the car into the Hudson River.

"Jarvis!"

He spoke softly into the headset.

"Notify Pepper to order another batch of industrial-grade bite-resistant tape, and also that waste from the new element—don't throw it away, pack it all up and send it to the yacht."

pier.

The Ocean Princess gleamed in the sunlight, resembling an elegant swan on the sea.

But in the next few hours, the swan welcomed the noisiest group of guests of its life.

"Again!"

Thor was holding a stainless steel beer barrel.

That's right, because Tony didn't want him to break the cup, so he put it directly on the bucket.

He tilted his head back and drank wildly, the golden liquid flowing down his beard.

After finishing his drink, he let out a satisfied roar and slammed the bucket, foam and all, onto the deck.

"Bang!"

The deck groaned, but miraculously it wasn't smashed through.

"Well done! Jarvis, record the impact resistance data!"

Tony held a glass of red wine; he had learned to find data amidst destruction.

Meanwhile, on the other side, Xiu En was lying on the ship's side, staring blankly at the propeller beneath the sea.

"That thing looks like it's spinning pretty fast."

He muttered to himself.

"If you don't stop it and just bite into it, it probably has a strange texture that feels like it's still automatically stirring in your mouth?"

"Don't!!!"

Tony threw down his wine glass and slid to his knees to rush in front of Shum.

"You really can't eat that!"

Tony shook his head frantically, but Shum didn't react much.

"Alright, if you dare drool over the bottom of my ship again, I'll have Jarvis cut off all the power to the ship and make you lick a mouthful of seaweed."

Tony, exhausted, stood guard on the ship's side, blocking Shuen like a miser.

Xiu En regretfully withdrew his gaze.

"If you don't want to eat, then don't eat. You're so stingy."

Xiu En muttered to himself.

"But my stomach needs to be soothed; regular food simply can't fill the calories I've burned thinking about new elements."

Xiu En muttered to himself.

"But my stomach needs to be soothed; regular food simply can't fill the calories I've burned thinking about new elements."

"Thinking? You were clearly just waiting for dinner the whole time!"

Ivy mercilessly exposed his lies.

"Then let's eat something that truly belongs to the sea."

Xiu En seemed to have seen something, and his eyes lit up.

"Hey! What are you doing?"

Before Tony could react...

Xiu En raised his finger.

A golden beam of light, more dazzling than the midday sun, pierced the surface of New York Harbor like a spear of God.

"boom!!!"

A water column, fifty meters high, mixed with white steam, shot into the sky, causing even luxury yachts to shake violently in the shockwave.

Tony had to hold onto the railing to avoid being thrown off, while Thor next to him excitedly raised an empty barrel and cheered, as if he were watching an Asgardian fireworks display.

As the water splashed down, a huge shadow emerged from the surface.

Get the squid!

That was a nightmare!

A giant squid over 20 meters long, its body covered with grayish-brown spots.

That is evidence of mutation caused by long-term immersion in heavy metal and radioactive wastewater.

One of its tentacles was thicker than an adult's thigh, covered with suckers that were wriggling wildly and were steaming hot from being instantly cooked by the high temperature.

"Look, this is what seafood should be like."

With satisfaction, Xiu En used golden light to scoop the monster, which was almost the size of a submarine, directly out of the water and levitate it in mid-air.

"All-natural, no additives, except for a possible slight excess of metals, but that's where the flavor comes from."

Half an hour later.

Tony remained expressionless.

Now, there's a huge teppanyaki grill that Xiu En made right there.

Xiu En would occasionally breathe out a mouthful of golden divine fire to heat it up.

Ivy directed her vines.

The green tentacles transformed into kitchen helpers, each vine wrapped with a kitchen knife that seemed to have appeared out of nowhere, slicing the giant monster's tentacles into neat squid rings.

"Sizzle!"

The tentacle pieces landed on the scorching heat shield, releasing a rich aroma.

"This thing is abnormally mutated and definitely contains a lot of heavy metal deposits."

Ivy had a vine wrapped around a spice bottle, sprinkling sea salt and chili powder on it.

"But if you're eating from a metal trash can, heavy metals might actually be a supplement."

"That's right!"

Thor had long since abandoned his barrel and was now sitting on the pedestal of an overturned lifeboat, a two-meter-long roasted tentacle in his hand, his mouth dripping with oil.

"Asgard only has roasted wild boar, and this stuff tastes pretty good! Chewy and flavorful!"

"Hehe, of course."

Xiu En gave a vague and unclear comment.

"Now this is what you call a snack."

Tony stood aside, watching the revelry with a complex expression.

His obsessive-compulsive instincts screamed, his scientific inclinations sounded an alarm, but his human sense of smell...

Damn, this smells amazing.

Especially the most exquisite part of the body, which turned golden-red under the scorching heat of the divine fire, with oil dripping down and making a sizzling sound.

"Want one, sir?"

A golden tentacle wrapped around a perfectly roasted piece of meat and brought it directly to Tony's nose.

"Don't tell me you only eat vegetarian food. Don't worry, I just purified it with golden light. The radiation and toxins inside are now just perfect seasonings."

Tony hesitated for a second. Just a second.

"Jarvis, write this down: if I'm going to die, it will definitely be because these two poisoned me."

Then he took a bite.

"uh-huh."

Tony's eyebrow twitched.

"A little salty? But the texture is surprisingly like beef?"

Soon after, Thor and Tony were both full.

Xiu En was picking his teeth.

He looked at the mountain of tentacle meat piled on the hot plate, a feast that even a gluttonous god like Thor and an invisible glutton like Tony hadn't finished eating.

"Are you full already? You've only eaten such a small amount."

Xiu En shook his head.

"Fortunately, there are still many people growing up on my side. Wasting food is a serious crime."

Shuon's clone is preparing to return to Gotham.

"Wait, is that some kind of spatial folding force field?"

Tony was still holding half a piece of uneaten squid, a portable scanner in his hand, and data streams flashing wildly on his glasses.

He saw Xiu En raise his hand and make a gesture towards the void, a gesture that was less like casting a spell and more like packing something.

The golden light, soft as flowing water, enveloped the remaining tentacle chunks of flesh.

"Hey! Leave some of those for me!"

Thor protested, holding up a barrel of wine.

"I was even planning to take some back as a snack with my drinks!"

"I'll definitely do it next time, big guy. I'll be back in a bit."

Xiu En grinned.

The golden light suddenly contracted, and the mountain of food vanished without a trace in an instant.

Main universe, Gotham City, Martha Wayne Memorial Home.

It was lunchtime.

Ordinary food was laid out on the long table in the cafeteria.

Jeremy was idly poking at the luncheon meat on his plate with his fork.

Xiu En's true form and Ivy's true form, who was watering a flower, both paused at the same time.

"They're here."

The two voices overlapped.

The next second, it seemed as if a golden crack appeared in the ceiling of the orphanage.

The rich aroma of meat made all the children, all the staff, and even the aunties busy in the kitchen freeze in their tracks.

"What is that?"

Joestar happened to be there too. He sprang up from his chair, his eyes fixed on what seemed like the gates of heaven opening.

"That's a gift from another world! It's the spoils of the Lord's hunt!"

"Quiet! Nobody move!"

Just as the large pile of shimmering golden pieces of roasted meat floated above the long table, countless emerald green vines shot out and instantly wove into a large net, catching these "visitors from outer space".

Ivy's true form emerged from the shadows, a thin vine from her fingertip piercing into a tentacle, clearly indicating she was going to examine it.

"The heavy metal content has been completely removed."

"Radiation readings? Hmm, although there is trace amount of radiation, it's all residual divine power, so it doesn't matter."

"You mean it's edible, boss?"

Jeremy swallowed hard.

Ivy glanced at him.

The large vine net instantly disintegrated, revealing that each vine was wrapped with a large piece of squid meat, just the right size for the children to eat, which was then placed on each person's plate.

"Eat up, you little devils."

She turned away, no longer looking at the children's jubilant expressions.

"Praise be to the sun! Praise be to the divine messenger! Damn, this is so delicious!"

Joestar's mouth was stuffed full of meat, and the elastic mutant seafood burst with delicious juice between his teeth. With each bite, he felt a warm current flow down his throat into his stomach and then spread to his limbs.

The soreness I had experienced during training had miraculously disappeared.

Joestar held up the meat.

"Children! Eat this! It will give us bodies as strong as iron, so we can fight for God in this cursed city!"

A flash of golden light, and Joestar was slammed to the ground.

"Shut up, Joestar. Don't fool the kids. Kids don't need to fight."

Xiu's true form opened its eyes, clearly still troubled by the fanatic's noise.

"That's squid, a giant deep-sea squid. Eating it won't make you grow scales, it'll just make you stronger. Eat it quickly, it'll get fishy when it cools down."

Inside the orphanage, the sounds of chewing and laughter drowned out the ever-somber winds of Gotham outside the windows.

Watching the children wolf down their food, Xiu En leaned back in his chair.

"It tastes good?"

Ivy had somehow walked up to him.

"That's natural."

Xiu En smiled and pointed to the corner of his mouth.

"You're hopeless."

Although Ivy said that, the sunflower clone on her shoulder was swaying back and forth, clearly indicating that she was in a good mood.

Xiu En and Ivy head to the greenhouse.

Xiu En sprawled out on the vine-covered recliner that Ivy had specially woven for him, completely disregarding his image.

He crunched and chewed the alloy parts he had smuggled back from his clone.

"Could you please stop making this noise in my greenhouse?"

Ivy was using a long pair of tweezers to carefully pick up a small piece of squid meat and feed it to the black-gold carnivorous flower that was baring its fangs in the corner.

"That's a rare, discontinued item."

Xiu En swallowed the alloy, then smacked his lips, seemingly still wanting more.

"Do you know how much this part cost in that world? It's more expensive than the best caviar."

"In my opinion, it's just another piece of industrial waste that's hard to digest."

Ivy watched as the carnivorous plant swallowed the chunk of flesh and excitedly waved its metal tentacles, nodding in satisfaction.

"However, the effect of this alien protein on stimulating plant activity is truly amazing. Perhaps I can cultivate a kind of street lamp grass that can glow like a searchlight even on this damn cloudy day."

Just as Xiu En was about to retort, his cell phone vibrated.

Xiu En sighed and pressed the answer button.

Bruce appeared with a face full of anxiety that he didn't say, accompanied by the background noise of data streaming and keyboard clatter.

Good afternoon, Xiu En.

"The satellite just detected a spatial folding reaction over the welfare home, accompanied by a giant biosignal, and the air raid siren almost went off."

He paused, then cracked a joke.

"Don't tell me you brought back some monster from another world as a pet."

"First of all, that's not a monster, it's lunch."

Xiu En held up a finger and shook it, correcting him with a self-righteous air.

"Secondly, I have turned it into a source of nutrition for the children, and now it is a completely harmless organic fertilizer in reserve."

"Lunch."

"Okay, lunch, whatever, as long as it doesn't involve demolishing buildings in Gotham. But that's not why I'm talking to you."

The scene shifts to a huge round conference room with several currently empty seats.

"The Justice League meeting will begin in two hours."

Bruce rubbed his temples.

"Diana's over there, and so is that fast kid, and that guy with the fork who's still causing trouble in the sea. I need you there."

"I'm not going. I'd rather use that time to sunbathe under a UV lamp or let the Gothamites sunbathe."

"Diana said that despite the current tight budget, she has still prepared a high-profile banquet."

Bruce threw out the bait with a blank expression.

"Moreover, it is said that there are many special metals that no one can handle."

In that instant, Ivy swore she saw the golden light in Xiu En's eyes suddenly surge three degrees.

"For world peace."

Xiu En suddenly sprang up from the recliner, expressing his opinion in a righteous and stern manner.

"As a member of this planet, how could I possibly miss such a meeting that concerns the future? Where is it located? Is the venue even big?"

"I'll have Cyborg send you the coordinates."

"Also, tone down your light a bit."

Communication was cut off.

"I'm not going."

Before Xiu En could even speak, Ivy had already anticipated his prediction.

She turned around and continued fiddling with her carnivorous plant, her tone resolute.

"That's your gathering. I'm not a hero; I prefer to be with plants."

"There's no Diana feast here."

Xiu En tried to persuade him.

"There isn't even a bunch of megalomaniacs here who could blow up half the city if they got together."

Ivy didn't even give him a second glance.

"Well, that's a shame, you were willing to go with me last time."

Xiu En shrugged.

"Then I'll have to take it with me."

He pointed to the sunflower that had been hanging on his shoulder, pretending to be dead.

Ivy sighed, which was taken as tacit approval.

Sunflower Ivy immediately patted her leaves loudly, clearly looking forward to the trip.

Ivy herself and Sunflower Ivy said in unison.

"If you see any interesting or rare plants, remember to bring samples back. x2"