Entering through the gap in the barrier, without the barrier blocking his vision and information, the scene inside quickly appeared before Tony's eyes. There was only one human in this barrier, which was the size of four or five streets. It was the little girl he saw in the afternoon. In the girl's arms was the yellow-furred ferret that Tony rescued in the afternoon.
Chasing closely behind her was a black, smelly thing that looked a bit like a slime. It seemed to move by bouncing? Judging from the trajectory of its bouncing, its flexibility was pretty good, but its speed was very poor because it never chose the shortest path. Even a little girl could run faster than it.
Boom! The flames from the armor's thrusters sprayed more vigorously, and in a flash, Tony inserted himself between the girl and the monster.
Several small cubes were thrown out of Tony's hands as the suit was maneuvering, and they fell to the ground and unfolded, forming the latest model of portable rangers.
Fire coverage!
Boom, boom, boom... The sound of heavy machine gun fire rang out on the street. The bullets hit the black mud and easily passed through it without causing any substantial damage.
'The target is not affected by physical attacks.'
Tony was not too surprised. When he was fighting against the magic side in the world of A Certain Scientific Railgun, he encountered many familiars that were not vulnerable to physical attacks, and he had already gained experience from them.
Click, click, click. The Ranger began to transform from machine gun form to stun gun form.
"Don't look at it. The person in the armor has no potential. It is impossible to hurt the body of thought transformed from the Holy Stone Seed with these crude weapons!" Snow Ferret shouted in the girl's arms. His voice was only audible to the girl. Perhaps this was a manifestation of "potential".
"Then... what should I do?" The girl was a little panicked. She was just an ordinary primary school student. Why did she have to encounter such a thing? Machine guns were out. Was this a battlefield in the Middle East
But to be honest, although she was nervous, she didn't feel scared at all, and even felt a little excited.
"What's your name?" asked the ferret.
"Nanoha, Takamachi Nanoha!" Nanoha replied.
Magnetic storm electric shock! The transformed Ranger fired one lightning bolt after another, which wrapped around the black mud slime as if it had substance, and clumps of black mud were pulled away from its body by the lightning bolts.
'The electric shock effect is good, the restriction and separation are quite obvious, and the target is not an insulator.'
While Tony was recording the battle information, he turned his head to look at the girl and the ferret in the back corner. He always felt that the ferret was doing something bad.
"Nanoha, I need your help. Please lend me your potential and give me a hand!" Snow Ferret said passionately and righteously.
At this time, he was similar to a cute-looking but actually insane creature called Kyubey.
"What should I do?" Nanoha moved her body to the corner. There was thunder and lightning outside, and the crackling was so loud that she couldn't hear what the ferret said.
The ferret picked up the small red bead around its neck and handed it to Nanoha, "Take it, close your eyes, and recite after me!"
"Well!" Nanoha held the red bead in her hand and slowly closed her eyes, "I am the inheritor of the mission...ah!"
Just after she finished speaking, Nanoha found herself being lifted up by someone. When she opened her eyes, she saw that it was the Iron Man who was just in the sky, the one who was evaluated by the Snow Ferret as having no potential.
With a click, the mask of the armor was lowered, and Tony's face appeared.
Seeing that it was the uncle from the afternoon, Nanoha was stunned for a moment and at the same time felt relieved. The ferret squeezed into Nanoha's arms, looking at Tony with two small eyes warily. Could this guy with no potential want to steal the Heart of the Rising Sun? ! Absolutely not! Even if the injury gets worse, he has to stop it!
"It's time for the kids to go to bed at this time." Tony said to Nanoha with a smile, then tilted his head to stare at the ferret, looking it up and down carefully several times.
"I'll take care of that thing, you'd better behave yourself, otherwise, I'll stew you!"
"Ah? Stew... stewed!" Nanoha was startled and hugged the ferret tightly.
"Don't be afraid, I'm just joking with it." Tony explained to Nanoha, then took off his mask and returned to the battlefield.
Nanoha watched Tony leave handsomely, then looked down at the ferret, and Tony's expression flashed through his mind. "Are you kidding? Even elementary school students are not that easy to fool, okay?"
Tony was a little distressed when he returned to the battlefield. There was no problem with the handsome promise, but Tony didn't have any good idea about how to deal with the clay-like thing in front of him.
When he left the battlefield to stop the yellow ferret from causing trouble, Jarvis controlled the Rangers to change into various forms. He tried sonic weapons and energy weapons, but no matter what the effect was, the other side suffered no substantial casualties from beginning to end. The split mud blocks would merge with the main body as soon as they had the chance.
"What's the problem?" Tony held his chin and glanced at his opponent who was being crushed by the Ranger's attack, thinking about where the key point was. He didn't believe that this weak thing was immortal or that its vitality could be comparable to that of a tardigrade. It must be that he had not found a way to deal with it.
Behind Tony, Nanoha timidly took two steps forward. Looking at Tony's violent behavior, even a primary school student like her could see that the old man in front of her had a great advantage, but he just couldn't turn it into a victory.
Tony knew clearly about Nanoha's little tricks. He didn't want this to happen. He thought it could be resolved quickly, but he didn't expect it to turn out like this.
"How about launching this thing directly into the sun?" Tony looked up at the sky and saw that this galaxy also had a radiant star.
The more Tony thought about it, the more reliable it seemed. The temperature and environment on the sun were enough to vaporize the thing in front of him. Even if that happened, it could still be revived. When it was revived, it would be vaporized again by the sun's continued nuclear reaction. This could be considered a successful containment of the thing.
As for how to launch it to the sun, this is not difficult for Tony. There is no requirement for it to come back anyway. All he needs to do is send it within the gravitational capture range of the sun.
After deciding on the solution, Tony no longer felt distressed when looking at the black slime.
Instead, the black slime stepped back in response to Tony's gaze. It felt that a terrible malice suddenly erupted from an ordinary human who was watching the show nearby.
After taking two steps back, the black slime just happened to bump into the ranger behind it.
The ranger's outer armor lit up, and the light complemented that of the other rangers in front of him. In an instant, a controllable magnetic field was formed between the two, and the black slime was controlled by the magnetic field and dragged into the air. No matter how it struggled, it could not break free from the magnetic field.
Tony stretched out his right hand, and a Ranger sat down on the ground with a thud, white gas spurted out, and the outer shell was removed directly.
The surging mechanical force starts from Tony's right hand acting on the outer shell, and he starts to build it with his bare hands!
The shell slowly deformed and turned into a square box, and then some small parts fell out of Tony's personal space and stuck tightly to the four sides of the box.
After the work was completed, Tony grabbed Heizi and threw him towards the black slime. The magnetic field passed through the outer wall of the box and activated the parts inside, changing the direction of the magnetic field to form a cutting magnetic field. Under this circumstance, electric light flashed in the box.
The lid of the box snapped shut, isolating the black slime from the outside environment. Without a maintainer, the barrier began to dissipate bit by bit.
After the battle, the Ranger automatically returned to its original portable mode and was taken back into Tony's personal space.
"Ahem, the show is over. Where is your home? I'll take you home." Toniti came to Nanoha with a box, bent down and looked at her and asked.
Just as Nanoha was about to nod, the ferret in her arms opened its mouth and let out a series of calls, "Uncle, it wants to ask you what you are going to do with this thing?"
"What to do? Send it to the sun tomorrow morning." Tony squatted down and stared at the ferret and said.
The snow ferret paused. It saw full of malice in Tony's eyes, as if to say, if you make trouble again, I will shoot you up! This terrible threat made the snow ferret deeply realize that the man in front of him was a demon, and it was probably because of Nanoha that it was still alive.
"Sending to the sun, is that too far..." Nanoha said, looking up at the dark sky.
The snow ferret was startled and came back to its senses. He realized that he was a human, not a real snow ferret, so there was nothing to be afraid of.
Then, a flash of white light appeared on the snow ferret's body, and then moved from Nanoha's arms to the ground.
The white light faded away, and a child with orange-yellow hair appeared in front of Tony. Tony was full of doubt. Would this thing think that it could become a child and become a real child
"Cough, cough, cough." Yuno, the snow ferret, coughed twice. "We can't send it to the sun. This is an important archaeological discovery and needs to be sent back to the Space-Time Administration."
"Important archaeological discovery?" Tony looked as if he was being fooled. "Then why are you here? And who are you? Ferret or human?"
"My name is Yuno Skrea. The snow ferret is another form of mine, which I use to heal my wounds. I am a barrier magician living in Midzilda, and my job is to excavate and explore ruins." Yuno explained his background clearly, hoping to get Trusty.
"How old?"
"I'm less than ten years old this year."
Tony was even more unconvinced. Which race would allow a child who was only ten years old to engage in the excavation and exploration of ruins? Unless the calculation of age was different, or that race was extremely short-lived.
"You are human, like Nanoha?"
"I can't say we are exactly the same, but in general we are indeed the same species," Yuno continued.
"Sorry, I don't believe it." After listening to Yuno's words, Tony directly expressed his attitude. He not only did not believe Yuno's identity, he also did not believe that Yuno was a human being.
If Nanoha hadn't been here, Tony would have flown so fast today that his true form would have been revealed!
"No, what I said is true. I was originally on a scheduled ship to return to the Space-Time Administration to hand in my findings..."
Tony took out two bottles of drinks from his own space, unscrewed one and handed it to Nanoha, drank the other one himself, and listened to Yuno's explanation casually.
"But for some reason, a vicious incident suddenly occurred on the ship, and a huge explosion occurred..."
"Poof!!!" Tony spat out a mouthful of drink. Damn it, he met his own victim.
"You mean the liner exploded? The spaceship?"
Yuno saw that Tony seemed to believe it, so he nodded quickly, "Yes, it was one of the few scheduled ships on this remote route. I also came to this world through the ship's teleportation array at the last moment, but I was still injured. If you don't believe me, just look!"
Yuno said as he opened his coat, blood oozing out of his abdomen due to his defense.
Facing Yuno who was looking up at him, Tony was a little silent. He squatted down, took out a bottle of fast recovery potion for all races produced by the main god space, and handed it to Yuno, "Drink it first, I believe you, and I apologize to you..."
"Apologize? Apologize for what?" Yuno drank the potion and found that his injuries began to recover immediately.
"Actually... I'm not from this world either. Your shuttle exploded because my spaceship collided with it..." Tony closed his eyes. If Yuno intended to retaliate, he would not resist.
"Can you tell me how many people survived?" Tony said heavily with his eyes closed.
Upon hearing this explosive news, Yuno took a step back and looked at Tony in shock, with the Midzilda-style magic circle in his hand already deployed behind his back.
"You were also the one who cast the curse at the beginning?!" Yuno said gritting his teeth.
"Wait, wait, curse ritual? What does that mean?" Tony suddenly opened his eyes, and he looked like a death row inmate on the electric chair who found that the case had taken a turn for the better.
Seeing Tony's genuine look, Yuno didn't disperse the magic circle, but logically thought Tony wasn't pretending. "Before the spaceship exploded, everyone on board had died one after another. The first mate said it was a curse. When the explosion occurred, I was the only one left alive on the ship."
When Tony heard the news, he didn't know what expression he should show for a moment. It was not right to be happy, after all, so many people had died. But if he was sad, he couldn't help it.
Swish, at this moment, a very girlish magic wand appeared between Yuno and Tony.
"You can't fight!" It turned out that Nanoha saw that Yuno and Tony were getting more excited than each other, so she came out to stop them.
“You you you you…” Yuno was shocked as if he had seen a ghost. “How did you activate the Heart of the Rising Sun?!”
"Ah?" Nanoha thought back and realized that a new voice had just sounded in her mind. "It just started like that. There were instructions. It's very simple."
There are instructions, it’s very simple!
These two words dealt Yuno a critical blow, and he fell to his knees. "Although I know there is a big gap between me and the genius, there is no need to exaggerate to this level."
Nanoha was a little confused when looking at Yuno, she really thought it was very simple, wasn't it just activating a magic wand.
Tony, who was standing next to him, looked at Yuno with a look of defeat, turned his head and looked to the side, and found that the surrounding environment was extremely damaged by the battle. He subconsciously complained in his heart - what kind of rubbish barrier is this? The inside and outside share the same space?! Can this be called a barrier?!
(Thanks to V Wangchen for the 100.asxs.coin reward.)