Chapter 115 Mission Time Limit 2 Hours

The secret research institute of SHIELD.

Tony Stark, Bruce Wayne, and Dr. Banner all gathered here.

Peter Parker, perhaps because he accepted the mission and teamed up with Tony Stark, did not return to his own world after the game ended, and was also teleported to Tony Stark's side.

"Jarvis, tell me where Pepper is!"

After regaining his freedom, Jarvis came online, and Tony Stark went to rescue people as soon as possible.

"She's here!"

The bald director who had been waiting for a long time said first, "We all saw your warning, but I'm sorry, Killian is more cunning than we expected. When we found Miss Pepper, she had been injected with the Extremis virus."

Steve said, "But she is safe for the time being. Agent Coulson used his ability to freeze her... Tony, we are sorry."

Captain America looked a little guilty.

The video of the quiz game had already exposed Aldredge Killian's conspiracy in advance. Everyone who watched the video knew that this crazy paranoid would take revenge on Iron Man at all costs.

In the end, they were still a step late and failed to protect Pepper Potts.

Tony Stark was slightly relieved when he heard what they said. He came out of the Iron Man suit and patted Steve on the shoulder: "You didn't do well enough, but at least it's better than doing nothing."

The group came to another room and opened the door, and there was a biting cold.

In the middle of the room was a lifelike ice sculpture...

This was of course not an ice sculpture, but a frozen Pepper Potts. Her face was frozen with a painful expression, but on the exposed neck skin, there were lines like flames flashing.

"Coulson, you helped a lot!" Tony stared at his frozen girlfriend for a while, then turned to thank Agent Coulson.

Coulson has been guarding the 'ice sculpture'. Due to the ability of the ice fruit, he is not in a good mood at the moment. "Tony, I tried my best. It seems that there is a flame in her body, which continuously emits heat. Once the ice melts, she will burn herself to death or explode!"

Freezing can only temporarily suppress the heat in Pepper Potts' body, but this has both advantages and disadvantages.

The advantage is that as long as she does not thaw, Pepper Potts will not be in danger of life in a short period of time.

The bad news is that the side effects of the Extremis virus in Pepper Potts' body are very strong, and it also accumulates power during the freezing process, greatly increasing the risk of the host's self-explosion!

The side effects of the Extremis virus are terrible.

Especially in the injection stage, the experimental subject is in the most dangerous situation. He can only rely on his willpower and good luck to get through it, otherwise he will explode.

Although Steve and his team failed to catch Killian, they also obtained a lot of research data on the Extremis virus. From it, they learned that the drug injected by Pepper Potts has been improved, and the mortality rate has been reduced compared with before.

Objectively speaking, with Pepper Potts' strong character and will, there is actually more than a 50% chance that she can survive the initial side effects of the injection.

But they didn't know this at the time, and the best way they could think of was to let Coulson take action and freeze Pepper.

Although this suppressed the Extremis virus, it also suppressed Pepper, making it impossible for her to mobilize her own abilities to fight the Extremis virus.

However, the Extremis virus seemed to have undergone some changes in the fight against the freezing cold, causing the temperature in Pepper's body to rise abnormally.

If before being frozen, the probability of Pepper's self-explosion was only 30% to 40%, then now, this probability has increased to 80% to 90%!

Coulson was troubled by this, and he explained it briefly, "So, freezing Miss Potts may not necessarily help her, but may harm her."

Tony Stark frowned and sighed, "You know, this Extremis virus is actually not difficult to crack, but now... the problem is very troublesome."

In the quiz game, after watching a series of videos related to Aldredge Killian, Tony Stark's past memories gradually became clear.

He now remembered that he met the female scientist Maya at a dance party on New Year's Eve of the century.

The two had a pleasant and in-depth exchange that night, and Maya introduced her research results to him, which is the prototype of the current Extremis virus.

The time of one night was very short, but Tony Stark not only had a friendly exchange with Maya in a simple and easy-to-understand way, but also took the time to answer some key research questions for her.

To be honest, if Tony Stark was willing, Maya's research results would not be a secret in his eyes.

So after learning that Pepper was just infected with the Extremis virus, Tony was not too worried. He was confident that he could detoxify Pepper with his own ability.

But now the situation is different. Steve, Coulson and others froze Pepper with good intentions, but inadvertently increased the difficulty of rescue.

"Sorry, Tony..." Coulson sighed. He was also in a headache. In order to freeze Pepper, he even lost his life, but ended up doing more harm than good.

Steve stood up and said, "It's all my fault. I was the one who decided to let Coulson freeze Miss Pepper..."

"Come on, you really want me to cry with gratitude, right?" Tony rolled his eyes.

He didn't blame Steve and the others. After all, they didn't know anything at the time and only wanted to save people.

But he still said venomously: "To be honest, you should read more books. Your brain should be used to store knowledge, not to build big muscles. That's useless!"

"Mr. Stark..." Peter Parker, who had been watching silently beside him, couldn't help but remind him: "The mission we took on has a time limit. If the time is up, the mission will be directly judged as a failure."

"Really?"

Tony was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly called up the data panel. Sure enough, he saw the mission countdown, which was limited to two hours. It seemed to have started after they took on the mission.

But the countdown was in the corner of the panel. If you don't look carefully, it's really not easy to find.

This game planner is really cunning!

Now the countdown has gone for a little while, and there is only one and a half hours left for the mission.

"Don't worry, Peter, I won't let you fail your first mission." Tony Stark patted him on the shoulder and said.

"Mr. Stark, I'm wondering if this mission countdown is a hint of Miss Potts's life span? If the mission fails, will Miss Pepper Potts..."