Chapter 1

Stark Tower.

At the press conference site.

Click, click, click!

Flashes from cameras from all directions illuminated Tony Stark's face.

Tony Stark, dressed in a suit and looking dashing, stood on the podium. Despite the professional makeup artist's efforts, some bruises and scars on his face were still clearly visible.

The battle with Iron Monger last night was extremely dangerous.

Tony Stark was lucky to have survived.

"..."

"You can certainly question the official statement, but you can't insinuate that I'm some kind of superhero. I'm not cut out to be a hero!"

"I have so many character flaws and have caused so much trouble for everyone..."

"Please read from the script, will you?" His good friend Rhodey couldn't help but lean in.

"Sure!" Tony Stark responded, then picked up the piece of paper in his hand.

But as soon as he opened his mouth,

"The truth is... I am Iron Man!"

Whoa!

The entire scene erupted as if a bomb had been dropped.

No one among the reporters on the scene could remain calm; they all rushed towards Tony Stark.

This was explosive news.

Only one young man, who looked to be around twenty-one or twenty-two, with a clear and refined face and an East Asian appearance, remained calm.

He couldn't help but let out a sigh that only he could hear: "This day has finally come!"

Indeed, Zhou Qing had been waiting for the day when Tony Stark would become Iron Man!

If you ask how Zhou Qing could predict this?

It's simple: Zhou Qing is not from this world but is a穿越者 (穿越者 means "穿越者" in Chinese, which can be translated as "穿越者" in English, but in this context, it means "time traveler" or "穿越者" more accurately) who loved watching Marvel movies in his previous life.

Therefore, he was very clear about the direction of some key figures and events in this world.

According to Vision's theory, since Tony Stark announced himself as Iron Man, extraordinary events in this world will become more and more frequent.

The Marvel era will officially begin!

Zhou Qing had been waiting for this day for a long time.

Because the task the system assigned to Zhou Qing, at this point in time, could only be completed with the help of Iron Man.

Like all other time travelers, Zhou Qing was also bound to a "cheat" system. After all, a time traveler without a cheat is an unqualified time traveler.

However, Zhou Qing's cheat was a bit problematic; it was a dungeon system.

The first task the system issued was to kill the big boss of Resident Evil, Dr. Isaacs.

This task was quite difficult, almost impossible to complete.

Having watched "Resident Evil," Zhou Qing knew that Dr. Isaacs was always in a state of hibernation within the Hive, and the entire base was currently sealed off, controlled by the AI Red Queen.

Without mentioning other things, the first step, entering the Hive, was something Zhou Qing couldn't even do.

Even if Zhou Qing managed to enter the Hive by some means, the Hive was filled with zombies and other bio-monsters.

Zhou Qing was not like Tony Stark, who could create cool armor, nor was he like Captain America, who had a superhuman body. He was just an ordinary person who had just graduated from university.

Apart from being handsome, he had nothing else to offer.

How could he possibly deal with those things?

Not to mention, Dr. Isaacs himself, like the heroine Alice, was an enhanced human, and he was even more powerful than Alice.

Even Captain America might not be able to defeat him.

This task was simply impossible for Zhou Qing to complete!

For this reason, Zhou Qing had been troubled for many days.

However, after a period of frustration, Zhou Qing suddenly discovered a loophole in the system: the dungeon only issued tasks to Zhou Qing but did not specify who should complete them!

In other words, Zhou Qing could find someone to help him complete the task!

This was a turning point.

So, after some contemplation, Zhou Qing decided to seek out Tony Stark, or more accurately, Iron Man, on this day.

Turning his head to glance at Tony Stark, who was being hurriedly escorted away by Rhodey, Coulson, and others, Zhou Qing did not rush after him like the other reporters.

Instead, he quickly walked to Pepper Potts' side.

As long as he could win over this woman, he would have won over Tony Stark.

"Miss Potts." Zhou Qing politely greeted Pepper, but his words were outrageous, "Excuse me, could you arrange a meeting between me and Mr. Stark?"

Pepper was taken aback and couldn't help but look at Zhou Qing as if he were a fool.

Who do you think you are to want to meet Tony?

And you're just a young kid?

"Excuse me, sir..."

"Zhou Qing."

"Mr. Zhou, Mr. Stark's schedule is already full, but you can tell me what you need to see Tony Stark about, and I'll see if I can try to arrange it."

Pepper said with a warm smile.

Zhou Qing, of course, didn't take such a perfunctory response seriously. Pepper was being polite, but it was just good professional etiquette, nothing more.

She wouldn't take his words seriously.

But Zhou Qing could guarantee that in a few seconds, she would.

"Of course, I recently discovered a parallel universe and want to find a scientist to study it with. After much thought, I believe only Mr. Stark has the qualifications for this." Zhou Qing continued with his outrageous claims.

"Excuse me, did you say 'parallel universe'?" Pepper's voice rose an octave, suspecting she had misheard.

If Zhou Qing dared to confirm, she would definitely take off her high heels and use the sharp heel to hit Zhou Qing's head!

Zhou Qing smiled and snapped his fingers.

Snap!

A small spatial portal appeared in front of Zhou Qing and Pepper.

"This is..." Pepper's mouth dropped open.

"Miss Potts, this is the gateway to the parallel world." Zhou Qing said with a smile, then pointed to the bracelet on Pepper's wrist, "May I borrow it?"

"Oh... of course."

Clearly stunned, Pepper subconsciously replied and immediately took off her bracelet, handing it to Zhou Qing.

Although she had no idea why Zhou Qing needed her bracelet.

Zhou Qing took Pepper's bracelet and threw it into the spatial portal, then controlled the portal to close.

Pepper's bracelet was gone!

Pepper was speechless!

The bracelet had disappeared!

This couldn't be some kind of holographic projection or visual deception.

Could it be... this young man really opened a portal to a parallel universe?