The Martial God of the Marvel World

Chapter 346: Tony Stark's Cheating

Soon everyone knew why Red Skull was so enthusiastic about persuading people to sacrifice, which made it much more difficult for Red Skull to persuade people again.

Everyone was already very distrustful of Red Skull, and now that Red Skull's personal interests were involved, they trusted him even less.

What the Red Skull said was not a lie, but if there was no personal gain involved, then everyone would still believe him after rational thinking. But now that there is a vested interest, the credibility of his words immediately fell to the bottom. Everyone suspected that the Red Skull had not revealed any key information, but deliberately tempted people to die in order to break free from the shackles of the Soul Stone.

Natasha clashed with the Red Skull several more times, but when the Red Skull became alert, he showed the qualities of a top agent and made Natasha return empty-handed.

If it was any other enemy, the Avengers would have captured him and tortured him to make him reveal all the information. But the Red Skull was a soul, and everyone was completely helpless against him.

The Red Skull also took advantage of this to the extreme, popping up from time to time to harass, like a fly, buzzing in people's ears. He firmly believed that as long as one is human, there are weaknesses, and when a person is exhausted and mentally haggard, he will naturally have an opportunity to take advantage of him.

Everyone is extremely annoyed with the Red Skull, this toad that doesn't bite but is annoying, but they can't do anything about him.

"Tony, can't you think of a way to put this guy in a cage?" Professor Hulk, who was annoyed to the point of punching the Red Skull but to no avail, turned to Tony for help helplessly.

Tony put down the tools in his hand, pushed up his goggles, looked at the Red Skull who was proudly circling around Professor Hulk, and sighed:
"You are also a physicist. You should know that the scientific community on Earth has no theories or knowledge to refer to regarding things like souls. This should fall into the realm of magic. It's a pity that Strange is not here, otherwise he would definitely have a way to deal with this ghost-like thing."

Professor Hulk thought about the day when the Sorcerer Supreme Gu Yi slapped his soul out, and he agreed with Tony's words.

"Are we going to let him wander around like this? I'm worried that he might leak our information to Thanos."

"Don't worry about that. Not to mention that he can't stay away from the Soul Stone, even if he wants to leak the secret to the Dark Legion, he has to understand our arrangements." Tony glanced at the Red Skull with contempt, "It's not that I look down on him. This old illiterate is still at the technical level of World War II. He can't understand what we are doing at all!"

Tony took an energy switch from the automatic defense device, shook it at the Red Skull, and said provocatively: "Hey, you illiterate old World War II veteran, do you know what this thing is for?"

The Red Skull's face was all red, and it was hard to tell whether he was gloomy or not, but looking at his tightly furrowed muscular eyebrows, one could tell that he was extremely angry.

"Hmph! You will regret it!" The Red Skull said this and turned away.

Seeing the Red Skull being humiliated, everyone was so happy that they stopped what they were doing and started laughing.

Only Tony, after laughing a few times, looked at Steve, restrained his smile, and apologized in a rude manner: "Sorry, Steve, the illiterate old man from World War II I was talking about was not you."

Steve glanced at Tony with a bad mouth and said angrily, "You are indeed Howard's son. Both father and son are so annoying!"

It was unknown whether the Red Skull was stimulated or not, and he did not appear in the public's sight in the following days. However, Tony found from the surveillance video that the Red Skull often wandered around in the defense position transformed from the super battleship in the dead of night, and he did not know what he was checking.

However, it is obvious that Red Skull does not know that in current technology, there is something called a micro camera that can expose everything he does to everyone.

Although the Avengers laughed at the Red Skull harshly, they did not underestimate this early boss of Hydra at all. Instead, they paid close attention to every move of the Red Skull.

Everyone put aside their work and held a small meeting specifically to discuss Red Skull's matter.

"What do you think Red Skull is doing?" Steve crossed his arms and stared at the Red Skull on the screen moving between different devices with a cautious look.

"Maybe he was inspired by us last time, so he studied secretly to improve his scientific level?" Scott said with a smile.

His words reminded everyone of Red Skull's embarrassing performance that day, and caused people to laugh again.

Steve did not join everyone in laughing at the Red Skull. Instead, he shook his head and said seriously, "Don't underestimate him. I have fought him for many years and know how dangerous he is."

"Don't worry, Steve. We don't underestimate him." Scott quickly explained, "What I mean is that he might want to figure out how the communication equipment inside these things works, and then leak our intelligence to the Dark Army while we're not paying attention."

"Although the Red Skull is now a spirit, it is not that he cannot influence the real world. It is just that he is much inferior to those with physical bodies. And communicating with the outside world does not require much power. As long as you find the right frequency band, it can be easily accomplished."

"Killing someone with a borrowed knife is Hydra's favorite method, isn't it?"

What Scott said seemed to make sense, and this possibility was indeed the greatest, but Steve was still not reassured.

"That's all? I feel like this skill is far inferior to the Red Skull I encountered before."

Clint had never dealt with the Red Skull. His impression of the Red Skull was limited to books and the contact he had with him in the past few days. He did not have any preconceived judgments about the Red Skull. He explained to Steve:
"It's a different time now. At that time, he was the leader of Hydra and had a lot more human and material resources at his disposal. But now, he is just an ordinary soul bound by the Soul Gem, so what he can do is naturally very limited."

"Yes, there are indeed limits to what the Red Skull can do."

Tony also interjected, "His current military strength is inferior to any of us, so there is no need to worry about him using force to retaliate. Instead of using force against us, he might as well find a way to destroy our automatic defense positions, which will have a huge impact on the upcoming war."

The other Avengers also followed suit and expressed their opinions.

"That's right! And the worst thing is that we are completely unable to restrain him now. Who knows when and where he will do something!"

"I think we can ask Friday to increase surveillance on Red Skull, and immediately sound the alarm if he shows any ill intentions."

"Given Red Skull's personality, if he doesn't move, then he'll hit the target. He won't give us a chance to react. It's better to authorize Friday to directly mobilize the weapon system in the defensive position to stop him in time."

"This is a good idea. Friday is a model employee and works online 24 hours a day. We just need to install a few more cameras. Red Skull doesn't seem to recognize this thing." "The function of the camera is not difficult to see. It's better to install a miniature one."

A group of people began to discuss how to monitor the Red Skull and how to prevent the Red Skull from causing damage in time.

After a while, Steve suddenly noticed Tony sitting next to him in silence, thinking about something, so he asked:

"Tony, what do you think? Or, what else have you thought of?"

Tony glanced at everyone and said hesitantly, "Since the incident with Ultron, I have never given too much authority to artificial intelligence like Friday."

Everyone couldn't help but fall silent, and recalled the horror of the day when the Internet was completely dominated by Ultron.

After a moment, Professor Hulk spoke up and said, "Tony, Friday is different from Ultron. You developed it, so you know it best."

"I know. I'm just..." Tony waved his hand and rubbed his brow, "I'm a little worried."

"What are you worried about?" Professor Hulk was very surprised. It was rare to see Tony worrying about gains and losses like this.

After carefully considering his words, Tony slowly said, "Everything we have now is based on the information provided by the Red Skull. But we all know that the Red Skull must be hiding more from us. I'm not sure whether the information that the Red Skull has concealed will cause great harm to us."

"Friday is artificial intelligence. I'm afraid Red Skull has never heard of it. What harm can it do?" Steve was completely unfamiliar with artificial intelligence. Putting himself in Red Skull's shoes, he thought that Red Skull certainly didn't understand it either.

"The key is not the Red Skull, but the Soul Stone!" Tony took a deep breath and sighed, "The power of the Infinity Stones is really terrifying. Since the Soul Stone can create Vision and the Red Skull, can it also turn Friday into a real soul?"

After hearing this, everyone was shocked.

If at the critical moment of the battle, your own artificial intelligence betrays you and all the prepared weapons attack you, then you will be completely doomed to failure.

"Is this kind of thing so easy to do? To turn an artificial intelligence into a human?" Scott exclaimed.

"Other things may not work, but the Soul Stone, most likely can!" Tony's brows were full of solemnity. "Even if Friday becomes a human, he may not be our enemy, but we have all seen the power of the Infinity Stones. Who knows how far it can go? We really can't take this risk."

"Now what?"

"Originally I was planning to focus on dealing with the incoming Dark Army, but now it seems that Red Skull is also a considerable threat. To deal with external threats, we must first stabilize the internal situation. I decided to spend some time researching soul-related technologies to see if I can create a force field or something to restrain Red Skull first."

"Do you need my help?" Professor Hulk asked proudly.

"The automatic defense facilities have not been transformed yet. You have to spend more time here. Leave the Red Skull to me. I will take care of him!"

When Tony Stark gets serious, he's just a jerk.

The technology on Earth has almost no research on the soul. There are only very rare words and phrases about the soul. Rather than scientific knowledge or theoretical research, it is more of a fantasy.

Trying to create weapons and equipment that can restrain souls based on these so-called "research results" that are not much better than the theories made up by science fiction authors is not much easier than asking an elementary school student to create a systematic subject out of thin air.

This kind of thing is simply an impossible task, but Tony Stark is a guy who specializes in turning the impossible into the possible.

In just a few months, Tony's research has advanced by leaps and bounds, even faster than ***.

Before the automatic defense facility was modified, Tony's spirit binding field was created. The efficiency of a group of people's efforts was not as high as Tony's alone. Just based on this, Tony can brag for a while.

"Thump, thump, thump..." Tony proudly presented the results of his hard work over time in front of everyone, put them on the table, and started showing off.

"The weapon in front of you is the epoch-making product that I have worked so hard on for several months - the Soul Binding Spear!"

"From today on, the history of mankind's inability to deal with spirits will end!"

"In order to make this gun, I proposed seventeen theories and confirmed four of them. Based on these four theories, I constructed a new discipline, which I named spiritual science. There are many branch disciplines under spiritual science, such as spiritual mechanics, spiritual magnetic field science, and spiritual energy science..."

“Okay, okay!” Steve couldn’t stand his boastful speech in the name of introduction, so he interrupted him directly, “Just tell us how to use this thing!”

Tony spread his hands in dissatisfaction, "Don't do that, it really dampens people's enthusiasm!"

"After we return to Earth, we will prepare a grand party for you and invite all your friends to come so that you can show off to your heart's content. But right now, we are very busy with work and have no time to listen to your long speech."

"Okay." Tony picked up the gun on the table angrily and demonstrated to everyone: "It's almost the same as a normal gun. But this gun doesn't shoot bullets, but energy fields. The gun is powered by the Ark reactor at the back, and here in the middle of the converter, through... some method you don't need to understand, it is converted into an energy field that can affect spirits."

"To put it simply, all you have to do is point this gun at Red Skull and hold the trigger. The energy field will act like a rope, binding him tightly. You lead him back to the base and put him in the force field cage I prepared."

"Understood!" Everyone immediately took a Soul Binding Spear and dispersed to look for Red Skull, intending to kill this lingering guy first.

But the crowd ran from morning to night, from the bottom of the mountain to the top, and even dispatched fighter planes to search the surrounding area within a thousand miles, but they still couldn't find any trace of the Red Skull.

Red Skull is missing!
(End of this chapter)