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Chapter 50 You mere energy-devouring worms, take my lightsaber!

"Can't you solve it?" Jaeger asked.

"..." Tony's expression behind the steel mask wasn't good. "I'm afraid that won't work. There are too many of them, and the suits don't have enough energy left."

He never expected that chasing an energy-devouring worm would take him across the world. Moreover, before chasing this straggling worm, he had already gone through a fierce battle when the entire city of New York was invaded by energy-devouring worms, so he didn't have much energy left.

Even when he fell into this world, the suit's energy was exhausted. He could only barely fly to the vicinity of the cruise ship, which was suspected to be the hiding place of the energy-devouring insects, before falling into the sea.

Even though Tony had borrowed some of his spare power to power his suit before arriving here, emergency power is no match for professional industrial power or a new miniature Arc Reactor.

Therefore, the current power is only barely enough to kill a few more energy-devouring insects.

Of course, this is also partly why Tony can only use laser weapons at the moment.

After all, in a confined space, things like artillery shells make a lot of noise and the impact can hurt yourself, which is like killing a thousand enemies while losing eight hundred of your own.

However, if a laser weapon with low noise, high precision, and high lethality is chosen, it will consume a huge amount of energy, and the suit's battery will probably be depleted after just a few shots.

—On another note, Tony never expected to encounter a room full of energy-devouring worms... Don't these things need to devour the energy of at least half a city before they can even enter their breeding season?!

In just a few short minutes since the energy-devouring insects escaped into this world, where did they get such a large energy source to feed on, and even devour a whole brood of them!

He couldn't help but turn his gaze to Clark: "By the way, didn't you just say that the Energy-Devouring Bugs might be entering their breeding season? How did you know? Where did it absorb so much energy from?"

"Uh." Clark suddenly felt a little embarrassed. "What I was going to say was—the energy-devouring worms must have eaten the energy from my body."

Tony: ?

Jaeger: ?

Tony's eyes widened as if he'd seen a ghost: "You mean, you're carrying the energy of at least half a city?!"

Jaeger wondered if this was what made Clark so special? Was it the secret the poker table wanted him to investigate?

"To be precise, it's not about carrying it," Clark coughed, "—I am the energy source."

"..." Tony was now staring at Clark with a bizarre look, as if he'd seen a reactor grow legs and stand up. "You mutated too? What's your codename, Energy Man?"

"There's no such thing!" Clark choked, "I mean, I don't have a nickname..."

"But no matter what, the most urgent thing right now is how to deal with all these energy-devouring insects in this room." Jaeger quickly pressed down on their shoulders. "Alright, listen to my plan."

"Tony," Jaeger said, glancing first at Iron Man beside him, "what powers your suit?"

"It's usually a miniature arc reactor," Tony said, pointing to the glowing object on his chest. "In an emergency, it can also be powered by other high-power industrial power sources."

"I understand. I'll try my best to piece one together for you in the shortest amount of time," Jaeger said.

Tony couldn't help but say, "You can even assemble this? I don't have the blueprints right now, and I can't take it apart for you to study the specific structure."

"It's alright, as long as there's a physical object." Jaeger raised his hand and pressed it against the reactor on Tony's chest. A faint cloud of mist quietly seeped into it—as a type of mist that can penetrate any crack, the toxic mist began to rapidly analyze the corresponding structure.

While the poisonous fog was being analyzed, Jaeger looked at Clark again: "As for Clark... you can carry so much energy, you must have some special ability, right?"

"I used to have them," Clark explained, "but after losing the energy, my superpowers disappeared, and it will take some time for them to recover."

"How long will it take?"

"It's dawn," Clark said.

"So you're just an ordinary person with pretty much super strength now?"

Clark couldn't help but say, "But I can help too..."

"I didn't mean to leave you behind," Jaeger comforted him. "My physical abilities are just average, and I'm not as strong as you are now."

"But it's okay, technology changes lives." Jaeger changed the subject a second later, "What weapons are there specifically designed to deal with these bugs? I can assemble them myself."

Clark: "..."

Yeah, I almost forgot that the thing next to me is a walking armory that can assemble anything.

"They're afraid of heat," Tony said. "But not just any kind of heat. It has to be high enough to kill the insects before they can absorb the heat."

"Furthermore, the carapace of the energy-devouring insects is very hard, so melee weapons have limited effectiveness against them."

"By the way, the energy-devouring worms can also spew out something like a small laser cannon from their mouths by absorbing the surrounding energy, so we need to be careful."

"Emmm..." Jaeger listened to these weaknesses, thought for a moment, and then suddenly his eyes lit up. "I suddenly know what kind of weapon to make."

So for the rest of the time, Tony and Clark watched as Jaeger ran around the hallway searching for building blocks, assembling the items as fast as he could...

Assembly complete. Obtain "Miniature Arc Reactor x1"

With the help of the toxic fog, Jaeger successfully drew the corresponding assembly diagram in his mind and handed the assembled miniature reactor to Tony.

"Damn, you actually managed to put it together." Tony was quite surprised. "Surprisingly, it's pretty good, little puzzle boy."

Jaeger, who was delighted with the nickname, was speechless upon hearing this and could only silently choose to continue using the weapon he had previously planned.

High temperature... enough to cause enough damage... weapon...

Something naturally came to mind for Jaeger.

To do this, Jaeger even dismantled two LED light tubes in the corridor to gather the building block parts he needed.

Fortunately, the final assembly went smoothly, and a few minutes later, Jaeger was holding two assembled slender tubular objects in his left and right hands respectively.

At first glance, this thing seems a bit incomprehensible and doesn't seem to have anything to do with "weapons".

But at the very moment of transformation—

[Assembled complete, you have obtained "Luke Skywalker Lightsaber x2"] (Note)

What was originally just a pseudo lightsaber blade made of LED light tube blocks transformed into an actual, high-temperature plasma bound into the shape of a sword blade, suddenly bursting out with a dazzling green light!

"...I was just trying it out, but it actually worked!" Jaeger thought.

After all, unlike the power module whose principles he already understood, or the miniature reactor after analyzing the poisonous fog, the principle of the lightsaber is unknown, and it is impossible for Jaeger to see the actual object.

The problem is that lightsabers already have corresponding modules in the LEGO series!

That's LEGO number 40730 – Luke Skywalker Lightsaber.

As it turns out, just as Jaeger had guessed, if the LEGO series already had corresponding modules, then Jaeger wouldn't need to know the principles to build the corresponding items using the instruction manual with the corresponding numbers.

It seems that many of the items in the LEGO display cases I saw at the Parrels Building were also built in this way.

Pulling himself out of his reverie, Jaeger couldn't help but brandish his lightsaber a couple of times before handing one to the stunned Clark: "Here, a lightsaber, you have one too."

Clark instinctively gripped the somewhat futuristic weapon, his blue eyes reflecting a blinding green light. For a moment, he was in a daze: "Using a Star Wars lightsaber to fight insectoids... how could I have such a dream..."

"How is it?" Jaeger asked Tony excitedly as they replaced the reactor. "The high-temperature plasma lightsaber meets the insecticidal standards, right?"

"..." Tony refused to admit that he was somewhat tempted to have Jaeger assemble a lightsaber for him as well. Although he already had an energy sword, lightsabers were a different kind of sentiment. He could only stubbornly say, "Heh, barely acceptable."

"Come on, I can tell from your eyes that you like it a lot," Jaeger said.

Rolling his eyes, Tony turned to the door, trying to avoid the problem: "Never mind, killing the bugs is more important."

"And be careful, I might not be able to look after you if a fight breaks out! Watch yourselves." The steel mask fell down with a clanging sound. "Iron Man First!"

As soon as he heard that sound, he kicked the door open and raised the light cannon in his hand towards the swarm of insects filling the room.