"The experiment failed completely!" Dr. Banner sighed in disappointment.
"That's not right!" Tony's disappointed eyes suddenly condensed, "Look at the ground, the dust in one area is obviously a little thinner than the surrounding areas."
Dr. Banner also looked at it carefully and found a problem.
This trace is so thin that even a machine may not be able to detect it, but Tony and Dr. Banner are not ordinary humans. Their eyes are simply more sinister than any sophisticated machine, and no clue can be hidden from them. Eye.
Dr. Banner took a few steps forward, checked it carefully again, and said with joy, "The experiment was successful!"
"The time machine once appeared here, but it was stolen!"
"Look at the surveillance equipment and see who did it!"
Tony came to a corner, performed some secret operations, and then a console popped up. He called up the surveillance video on the console, but to his surprise, there was nothing unusual on the surveillance video.
Tony frowned and said gloomily:
"The surveillance equipment is still there, but the videos in it for a period of time have been replaced. The other party did it very cleanly, and no traces can be seen at all."
"This is definitely not something that ordinary forces can do. Let's not talk about how to find the base where we hide the time machine. It is impossible for ordinary people to pass through the security defenses I set up on the periphery without leaving a trace, enter this hall, and also put the time machine Taken away."
"Moreover, in order to prevent the surveillance equipment from being destroyed, I have many surveillance devices hidden in the dark. They use alien technology. I can easily crack them and replace the videos. The technical level is not low. !”
"Are there any suspects?" Dr. Banner also carefully checked the surrounding defense facilities to make sure they had not been triggered.
"Unfortunately, no!" Tony rubbed his forehead with a headache, "In principle, all magnetic field experts have this ability."
"A magnetic field expert with astonishing wisdom, don't be too simple if you want to learn any technology!"
"But the thing is, if those muscle rods were willing to learn science, maybe I wouldn't have to worry about erasing the magnetic field rotation."
"In addition, there are many people in Hydra who can do it. For example, the intelligent life Dr. Zola. But he is already dead!"
"Speaking of intelligent life, Jarvis and Ultron can do it too. But they are their own people and would not do such a thing."
"In addition to technical masters, there are definitely mutants and aliens who can do it. However, I am not familiar with these alien masters and have no idea who they might be."
"It may be possible to use reality gems, and other space gems may also be used if used with human hands."
"Tsk!" Tony took a casual inventory and found that there were too many people who could do this, but almost none of them were suspicious.
He felt anxious again and became a little impatient, "I don't know which bastard stole the thing!"
"If the experiment was successful, the soul projection should have stolen the Pym particles. I don't know if he put the Pym particles into the time machine and kept them until now."
"Damn it!"
"Is our current timeline the world before the change or the world after the change?"
Dr. Banner thought carefully and couldn't be sure.
"It's difficult to judge this matter."
"If it's a changed world, it can explain why the world has become so bad now!"
"The reason why Hydra's power has developed so powerfully and rapidly has been found."
"The most troublesome problem is that Hydra may not travel to the time we set on the time machine. They may travel forward, and maybe very far forward."
"It's not necessarily that far ahead." Tony retorted: "Compared with the history of other worlds, you will find that the difference between the two universes is after the arrival of Master Zhanliu. Before that, it was basically the same history. , not much has changed”
"Not necessarily!" Dr. Banner said meaningfully: "There are no mutants in other universes!"
Tony was startled, "You mean, the mutants created by Hydra traveling back in time?"
"I don't know." Dr. Banner slowly shook his head. "If our current world has been changed by crossing the timeline, then everything that is different from another universe may have been changed."
"For example, Captain America was inexplicably brainwashed by Hydra and became the captain of Hydra."
"For another example, there is an ocean kingdom inexplicably appearing under the sea. I have never heard Namor's name mentioned by the Avengers from another world."
"In fact, I have a not-so-good guess..." Dr. Banner hesitated and said hesitantly: "Do you think Master Zhanliu was summoned by Hydra?"
"No way?" When Tony heard this, he was shocked and the hair on his back stood up.
He took a deep breath to calm his mind, then shook his head and retorted: "Impossible!"
"You know Master Zhanliu's character, there is no way he can be controlled by others!"
"Moreover, if Hydra could have had a strong man like Master Zhanliu back then, it would have killed us all long ago and then unified the world!"
Dr. Banner shook his head, "I'm not saying that Master Zhan Liu himself is a thug of Hydra. I just wonder if something went wrong when Hydra was conducting some experiments, so they brought Master Zhan Liu here. of."
"You have forgotten that we have analyzed before that in order to form a parallel world, there must be infinite gem-level treasures to power it. So the question is, how did our universe come into being?"
"If something went wrong when Hydra was experimenting with space gems, and brought Master Zhanliu from another world, and provided him with the energy to generate our parallel world, then everything would make sense! "
Tony took a deep breath and froze on the spot, his brain running at high speed, and he was speechless for a long time.
After a long time, Tony took a long breath and said, "These are logically reasonable, but there is a lack of evidence. And even Master Zhanliu himself may not know how he got here."
"It's a pity that my soul projection failed and failed to allow me to obtain relevant memories. Otherwise, I should be able to determine whether Master Zhanliu's coming here was an accident."
He reached out and patted his cheek, changing the topic.
"Let's change our thinking!"
"It can be seen from the traces on the ground that this time machine was not lost at the beginning, but was stolen after being placed here for a period of time."
"Moreover, the other party deliberately did not touch the peripheral defense facilities and adjusted the surveillance video. This shows that the other party deliberately wanted to mislead us and make us think that the experiment failed."
"What is the purpose of the thief doing this?" Dr. Banner was puzzled. "Would you stop research just because one experiment failed?"
"Of course not!" Tony categorically rejected, "But if we make a misjudgment about this and eliminate the correct options first, wouldn't all other experiments be doomed to fail?"
"That's not necessarily the case." Dr. Banner shook his head. "Science has never been one way. Maybe we will waste some time, but I believe that we will be able to find another way to create a correct time machine."
Tony was convinced of this, and nodded, saying, "Yes, even if we don't use this method, we can definitely find other ways, and we won't completely go astray."
"Then this approach will only waste some of our time at most. What's the use? In the end, we have to use a time machine to change the past." Dr. Banner touched his chin and said hesitantly.
Tony thought for a while and guessed: "Maybe the thief wants to use the time machine first, so he wants to slow us down. If the thief changes the world first, then we will probably not have the chance to build a time machine again. .”
Dr. Banner's eyes lit up, "In other words, the thief hasn't used the time machine to change the world yet!"
Tony then added:
"That means that my soul projection did not successfully steal the Pym particles. Maybe it was destroyed by Dr. Pym during the theft."
The two of them complemented each other with each other's words, and used logical deduction to piece together a complete puzzle of the general situation.
Now, everything was straightened out, all the doubts were resolved, and even what happened to Tony's soul projection during the mission was deduced.
"Although the thief got the time machine, he doesn't have Pym particles, so he has no power source. So he needs to slow down our progress, seize the Pym particles for himself, and use the time machine to buy time!"
"It has been a while since the thief obtained the time machine, but he still failed to obtain the Pym particles from Dr. Pym. This shows that his strength is not actually that high. He mostly relies on the power of the organization."
The two looked at each other and shouted in unison: "Hydra!"
As a world-renowned villain organization, if there is no suspicious target, all bad incidents can be blamed directly on Hydra, so there is no problem.
Moreover, the most important thing is that this kind of random labeling will never fail in nine cases out of ten.
As long as you think that this bad thing is done by Hydra, then it is very likely that it is really done by them!
"We must immediately build another identical time machine, send me back to the past, and erase the ability to rotate the magnetic field. Otherwise, there will be long nights and dreams, and there may be an accident at some point!" Tony is impatient, and he wants to go back to start work immediately, and grab the opportunity. Complete time travel before Hydra.
"There's no need to be in such a hurry." Dr. Banner was much more stable than Tony. "Since Hydra hasn't used the time machine for so long, it won't be too late."
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"Moreover, now that Hydra has been destroyed, we don't know whether the time machine was destroyed during the war."
"Besides, all of this is our inference. If the judgment is wrong, problems may easily arise."
"Rather than blindly start a time race with Hydra, it would be better to first confirm whether the time machine was stolen by Hydra and whether it still exists now."
After hearing what Dr. Banner said, Tony frowned, "Although Hydra has been disbanded now, it's probably quite difficult to get them to honestly explain their problems, right?"
"What else are you asking?" Dr. Banner glanced at Tony angrily, "Can't you just read their memories directly?"
This is indeed easy. With Tony's current speed, let alone reading only part of Hydra's memory, even if he reads the memories of everyone in the world, there will be no difficulty.
The only thing that limits this approach is Tony's own moral bottom line.
"You know, Dr. Banner, I always hate reading other people's memories." Tony had a sullen face and was very resistant. "This makes me feel very uncomfortable."
"I'm not Peter. I believe in the kind of person who allows everyone in the world to have no privacy from each other and share their thoughts."
"I retain my own privacy and respect the privacy of others, and am unwilling to engage in such unscrupulous behavior."
"But now we need this approach to find the truth!" Dr. Banner said earnestly and tried hard to persuade, "We are not doing it for our own selfish interests, but to prevent the world from being destroyed by Hydra. Finding the time machine as soon as possible can prevent the past from being destroyed by bad guys. Tampering is an act of justice!”
"Can actions done through unjust means really be considered justice?" Tony looked at Dr. Banner with dissatisfaction and retorted: "Today, we can do the act of reading other people's memories in the name of justice. , then tomorrow we will probably continue to hold high the banner of justice and do more evil things."
"Just like Peter, the new world he created is also under the banner of increasing communication between people. It is the standard 'for your own good' way of doing things!"
"Everyone has their own internal driving force for doing things. In their minds, what they do is not necessarily evil, but more of a 'correct' behavior based on different perspectives."
"But extreme justice ultimately brings evil results."
"The only thing that can stop us from going down the evil path is our moral bottom line, and we cannot break through it!"
"This is not about reading the memories of one or two people. If it is only a few people, of course I understand what it means to be a stopgap measure. But this is about reading the memories of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people."
"We cannot break through this bottom line!"
Seeing that Tony was very resistant to this approach, Dr. Banner had no choice but to give up. He sighed and said, "Okay, what should we do now? Ignore Hydra and directly accelerate our plan?"
Tony lowered his head and thought for a while, then raised his head and said, "Other than Pym particles, the only ones that can be used as power for the time machine are the Infinity Stones. As long as we ensure that these things will not fall into the hands of Hydra, there will be no Too risky.”
"Now we have three Infinity Stones on hand, and the Reality Stone can be obtained from Wanda soon. The Time Stone is in the hands of the Supreme Master and will not be obtained by Hydra. Although the Space Stone is also on the earth, the Space Stone was In the Serpent Shield Bureau, Hydra failed to use it, which means that the space gem cannot activate the time machine, and it does not matter even if it falls into the hands of Hydra."
"The key lies in the Pym particles."
"My soul projection did not steal the Pym particles, so the current Pym particles should have sunk into the sea together with the American continent."
"Or, we should arrange for some robots to conduct underwater searches near Dr. Pym's original address to see if they can find the missing Pym particles."
"I think that whether the time machine is with Hydra or not, its owner will definitely go there to look for Pym particles. Maybe we can meet the thief there."
"When the Americas broke up, a large amount of water washed over the earth, washing away everything on the surface. Moreover, when the continental plate sank, the whirlpool it brought was huge, making the underwater undercurrents turbulent, and the Pym particles may not be able to survive. It will stay where it is," Dr. Banner added.
"Or, we should develop a detection instrument to specifically look for Pym particles, instead of just searching for swords in places where the land was originally sinking."
"Good idea, this shouldn't be difficult for us. But we need to get a sample of Pym particles."
"Go find the Avengers from another world, they have them there!"
