Above the Rivers Hotel, a ball of scorching golden-red flame was suspended in the air, revealing a graceful human-shaped flame outline and only a majestic, sacred and inviolable beautiful face.

Not far to her right, there was a cloud of eerie black smoke floating.

The figure of a charming female ghost emerged from it, and together with the fire goddess and the silver metal man who flew out of the Rivers Hotel, they surrounded Zhou Tianyi and the other two in the center, confronting each other vigilantly.

Just then, an inopportune voice came from behind everyone.

Daenerys frowned slightly and turned her head to look, only to see a black fighter plane rushing towards them.

As it was about to get closer, the door of the fighter plane opened, and a beam of fire flew out of it, quickly flying in front of everyone.

"Ladies and gentlemen, why don't you invite the hospitable Mr. Stark to have a party in New York?"

Iron Man Tony, wearing a golden and red armor, stopped in the air, took a quick glance at the current battle situation and the combatants, and then turned his gaze to Zuo Yu in the broken window of the hotel next to him.

"Jed, you hurt my heart. I thought we were good friends..."

“We are really good friends.”

Zuo Yu smiled and raised his glass to Tony, then added: "But we are just good friends in the business world, and the good ones are limited - you don't even want me to invest in Stark Industries - as for the battlefield, that's another story!"

"……battlefield?"

Tony frowned. “I always thought you were a legitimate businessman.”

Zuo Yu nodded calmly: "Indeed, I am."

Tony shook his head and said, "Using New York as a battlefield is not a legal business practice."

"That's a long story..." Zuo Yu smiled and waved at Tony, "If you don't mind, you can come and sit for a while. I have a bottle of good wine that I just opened, which is perfect for entertaining friends."

“…”

Tony glanced at everyone, hesitated for a moment, then turned and flew towards the broken window.

Seeing this scene, Natasha on the fighter plane in the distance turned pale and couldn't help but remind:

"Don't forget what you're here for, Mr. Stark."

"Don't worry, I won't forget it!"

Tony replied perfunctorily, then asked Jarvis to cut off the connection with SHIELD. He ignored Natasha and others with dark faces, and went straight into the hotel, looking around at the messy rooms.

"...Well, I have to say, the decoration here is indeed very battlefield party style."

"We had a little quarrel among our friends. Sorry to have embarrassed you, Tony."

Zuo Yu greeted Tony warmly. After Tony sat on the only intact sofa in the room, Zuo Yu magically took out a brand new wine glass and poured wine for Tony. He glanced at him and smiled:

"To be honest, I didn't expect you would actually work for SHIELD."

"Cooperation, just cooperation. After all, you guys are making too much noise, and I can't just pretend to be deaf and dumb."

At this point, Tony paused, looked at the wine glass that Zuo Yu extended, and politely refused: "Just put it on the table, thank you, you know, I don't like taking things from others."

“…Oh, yes.”

Zuo Yu put down the wine glass with a smile, and then sat directly opposite Tony.

At the same time, the six people outside the window finally broke the strange silence and started fighting each other.

Balls of flames containing terrifying high temperatures and fire power exploded in the air, mixed with eerie ghostly auras, black ghost claws that were several feet wide and looked like the hands of a devil, as well as sword lights of various colors that were either gold, red, green or blue.

The raging flames and black smoke obscured the battlefield, making it impossible for outsiders to see what was inside.

Fortunately, from time to time, there would be flashes of sword light cutting through the darkness, briefly revealing the battle between the crowds to the public.

Occasionally, there would be the roar of explosions caused by fists and feet colliding, clearing out the flames and black smoke in a small area, but soon, the subsequent explosions of flames would engulf the battlefield again.

“…”

Tony frowned, looking at the energy results scanned by Jarvis on the blue light screen in front of him, and couldn't help but feel shocked.

Each of the six mysterious super-powered humans in front of me seems to be a humanoid self-propelled energy source containing terrifying energy. With a punch or a kick, they can unleash tremendous energy comparable to weapons of mass destruction.

Especially the woman who was wrapped in flames. The energy in her body was so abundant that she was like a second sun rising in the daytime.

She sprayed countless golden-red flames as if they were free, and even if the air in a certain area was burned out, she could still summon huge amounts of flames out of nothing.

This behavior simply went against the scientific common sense in his mind, and made him doubt his life...

Tony looked for a while, suppressed his shock, and turned to look at Zuo Yu.

"…won't you introduce me to your good friend?"

Zuo Yu laughed and stretched out his hand towards the wine glass on the table, motioning him to taste the wine first.

Tony frowned slightly, hesitated for a moment, then opened his visor, picked up the wine glass and took a sip.

"Well, it tastes good, almost as good as the batch of red wine I collected two years ago..."

"It's your collection of wine, which you gave me half a year ago. Have you forgotten?"

"……Yeah?"

Under normal circumstances, Tony would not blush or feel nervous even if someone exposed the truth of his absent-mindedness.

But now, considering that this behavior might reveal his guilty conscience, Tony couldn't help but cough twice and said softly: "Jade, for Lin's sake, I think you and Rivers are friends, so... I will speak frankly."

Zuo Yu laughed when he heard this, and before he could speak, he answered first: "Don't worry, Tony, I know what you are worried about. We have strict regulations and will never harm innocent people."

"……you?"

Tony quickly grasped the meaning of Zuo Yu's words.

Zuo Yu smiled without saying anything, neither answering nor denying.

Tony frowned. "As far as I know, the two battlefields in the United States did not hurt the people, but your damaged blocks and buildings were destroyed in the battle..."

Zuo Yu smiled and said, “Rivers Industries will be fully responsible.”

Tony looked at him steadily and shook his head, saying, "Don't think I don't know the situation of Rivers Industries. You are currently short of funds, and it is absolutely impossible for you to come up with such a large amount of funds."

Zuo Yu smiled and looked out the window: "We can't take it out, but they can."

Finally, they got to the topic he wanted to talk about. Tony's heart moved, so he asked, "Who are they?"

Zuo Yu smiled and pointed at Daenerys: "See that woman? She is the emperor and goddess of a country. She controls the wealth and believers of an entire country. Her wealth is much higher than that of our Rivers Industries!"

...The Emperor and the Goddess?

Tony was stunned for a moment, frowned and asked: "Aliens, or parallel universe?"

Zuo Yu shrugged: "It's all right, whatever you want to understand."

Do you want to evade this question?

Tony frowned and said in a deep voice: "Jed, I have always wanted to ask, what kind of organization is behind you, who organized you, a group of powerful superpowers, and what is your purpose?"

Hearing Tony's question, Zuo Yu thought for a moment and nodded, "Considering the time, it's time to tell you something - do you remember Kamar-Taj that I mentioned to you?"

Tony raised his eyebrows and nodded: "Of course, the magician organization hidden on Earth."

"The Supreme Sorcerer may not like your title." Zuo Yun spread his hands and said with a smile, "But it's all the same. You can think of us as an organization similar to Kamar-Taj, usually hiding in the dark side of the earth and never appearing in the public eye."

"They will only show up when there is a major crisis..."

"Major crisis?" Tony was noncommittal. "To be honest, I don't see any crisis more serious than your existence."

Zuo Yu smiled and said, "If it weren't for us, the guy who came out of the Cosmic Cube would have summoned a dark army from the universe over New York, and you and your group of friends who you don't have any friendship with yet would have united under the guidance of Nick Fury and formed a team called the Avengers to fight against the crisis in front of us and in the future."

"...with all due respect, this sounds like a Hollywood blockbuster."

Tony first made a habitual joke, then frowned and asked, "But what is the Cosmic Cube, and who is the guy who walked out of the Cosmic Cube?"

Zuo Yu was surprised and asked, "Didn't Nick Fury tell you?"

Tony shook his head with a dark face.

Zuo Yu chuckled and said, "Then you are in luck, because I plan to tell you the relevant information for free."

After that, Zuo Yu briefly introduced Tony to the past history of the Cosmic Cube on Earth, and then said with a smile: "Over the years, SHIELD has been secretly studying the Cosmic Cube, trying to use the energy in it to create weapons."

"But the Cosmic Cube is not something that humans can control after all. SHIELD's research has not yielded any significant results, and instead attracted powerful enemies from the stars. After discovering that the Cosmic Cube has been activated, we determined that it is too dangerous to leave the Cosmic Cube in human hands, so we plan to retrieve it from SHIELD and Loki."

"As for now, the Cosmic Cube has been successfully recovered, but there are more people involved in the recovery. Everyone wants to get the first share of the credit, so it's currently in the stage of competing for credit. I believe you should understand..."