The Martial God of the Marvel World

Chapter 386 How did Zhan Liu come to this universe?

"The experiment is a complete failure!" Dr. Banner sighed in disappointment.

"No!" Tony's disappointed eyes suddenly focused, "Look at the ground, there is a place where the dust is obviously thinner than the surrounding area."

Dr. Banner also looked carefully and indeed found the problem.

The 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 sharper than any high-tech machine, and no clues can be hidden from their eyes.

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 was stolen!"

"Check the surveillance equipment to see who did it!"

Tony came to a corner and did 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 abnormal in the surveillance video.

Tony frowned and said gloomily:

"The surveillance equipment is still there, but the video footage from a certain period of time has been replaced. The other party did it very cleanly, and there is no trace at all."

"This is definitely not something that ordinary forces can do. Let alone 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 take the time machine away."

"Moreover, in order to prevent the monitoring equipment from being damaged, I have many monitoring devices hidden in the dark. They use alien technology. They can easily crack them and replace the video. Their 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 people with strong magnetic fields have this ability."

"For a person with a strong magnetic field and amazing wisdom, it is too easy to learn any technology!"

"But the problem is, if those muscle guys were willing to learn science, I wouldn't have to bother trying to eliminate the magnetic field rotation."

"Besides that, there are many people in Hydra who can do it. For example, Dr. Zora, an intelligent life form. But he is dead!"

"Speaking of intelligent life, Jarvis and Ultron are also possible. But they are all our own people and would not do such a thing."

"In addition to technical experts, there must be mutants and Inhumans who can do it, but I am not familiar with these alien experts and have no idea who they might be."

"It may be possible to use the Reality Gem. Other Space Gems may also work if used in conjunction 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 things!"

"If the experiment is 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 about it carefully, but still couldn't be sure.

“It’s hard to judge.”

"If this is the world after the change, it can explain why the world has become so bad now!"

"We have found the reason why Hydra's power has grown so powerful and so fast."

"The most troublesome problem is that Hydra may not travel to the time we set in the time machine. They may travel forward, and maybe very far forward."

"Not necessarily earlier." Tony retorted: "Compared with the history of the other world, you will find that the difference between the two universes lies in the arrival of Master Zhan Liu. Before that, it was basically the same history, without much change."

"That may not be the case!" Dr. Banner said meaningfully, "There are no mutants in the alien universe!"

Tony was shocked. "You mean, Hydra traveled back to a long time ago and created mutants?"

"I don't know." Dr. Banner shook his head slowly. "If our current world has been changed by traveling through time, 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 example, there is a marine kingdom that appeared out of nowhere under the sea. I have never heard the Avengers from another world mention the name of Namor."

"In fact, I have a not-so-good guess..." Dr. Banner hesitated for a moment and said hesitantly, "Do you think Master Zhan Liu was summoned by Hydra?"

"No way?" Tony was shocked when he heard it, and the hair on his back stood up.

He took a deep breath, calmed himself, then shook his head and retorted: "Impossible!"

"You know Master Zhan Liu's character. He will never be controlled by anyone!"

"Moreover, if Hydra had a strong man like Master Zhan Liu back then, they would have killed us all and unified the world!"

Dr. Banner shook his head. "I'm not saying that Master Zhan Liu is a Hydra thug. I just suspect that maybe Hydra was conducting an experiment that went wrong and brought Master Zhan Liu here."

"You forgot that we analyzed before that in order to form a parallel world, there must be treasures of the Infinity Stone level to power it. So the question is, how was our universe formed?"

"If something went wrong when Hydra was experimenting with the space gem, and they brought Master Zhan Liu from another world, and provided him with the energy to generate our parallel world, then everything makes sense!"

Tony took a deep breath and froze in place, his brain working at high speed, and he was speechless for a long while.

After a long while, Tony let out a long breath, "These are logically plausible, but there is a lack of evidence. And even Master Zhan Liu himself may not know how he got here."

"It's a pity that my soul projection failed and I couldn't get the relevant memories. Otherwise, I should be able to determine whether Master Zhan Liu's coming here was an accident or not."

He reached out and patted his cheek, changing the subject.

"Let's change our thinking!"

"According to the traces on the ground, we can see that the time machine was not lost at the beginning, but was stolen after being placed here for a period of time." "Also, the other party deliberately did not touch the outer defense facilities and adjusted the surveillance video, which means that the other party deliberately wanted to mislead us and make us think that the experiment failed."

"What is the thief's intention?" Dr. Banner was puzzled. "Will you stop your research just because of a failed experiment?"

"Of course not!" Tony rejected it flatly. "But if we make a wrong judgment and rule out the correct option, aren't all other experiments doomed to fail?"

"That may not be the case." Dr. Banner shook his head. "Science never has only one way. Maybe we will waste some time, but I believe that we will be able to find another way to build the right time machine."

Tony agreed with this and nodded, saying, "That's right. Even if we don't use this method, we can definitely find other ways and won't go astray."

"This approach can only waste some of our time at most. What's the point? In the end, we have to use a time machine to change the past anyway." Dr. Banner touched his chin and said hesitantly.

Tony thought about it 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 may never have another chance to build a time machine."

Dr. Banner's eyes lit up, "That means the thief hasn't used the time machine to change the world yet!"

Tony then added:
"That means my soul projection failed to steal the Pym particles successfully. Maybe it was destroyed by Dr. Pym during the stealing process."

The two of them talked back and forth, complemented each other, and used logical reasoning to piece together a complete puzzle of the situation.

Now, everything was sorted out, all doubts were resolved, and even the experience of Tony's soul projection during the mission was deduced.

"Although the thief has obtained the time machine, he does not have Pym particles, and therefore 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!"

"The thief has had the time machine for quite some time, but he still hasn't been able to get the Pym particles from Dr. Pym. This shows that his strength is not that high, and he probably relies on the power of the organization."

The two looked at each other and shouted at the same time: "Hydra!"

As a world-renowned villain organization, they can simply blame Hydra for all the bad incidents that cannot find any suspicious persons.

And, most importantly, this kind of random accusation will most likely not go unfounded.

As long as you think that Hydra did this bad thing, then it is very likely that they really did it!

"We have to build another identical time machine immediately to send me back to the past and erase the ability to rotate the magnetic field. Otherwise, there will be more trouble than we bargained for, and an accident might happen at any time!" Tony is an impatient man. He immediately goes back to work and completes the time travel before Hydra.

"There's no need to be so anxious." Dr. Banner was much more steady than Tony. "Since Hydra hasn't used the time machine for such a long time, it doesn't matter if they wait a little longer."

"Besides, now that Hydra has been destroyed, we don't know whether the time machine was destroyed in the war."

"Besides, all of this is our inference. If we make a wrong judgment, it could easily lead to problems."

"Instead of blindly engaging in 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."

After hearing what Dr. Banner said, Tony frowned. "Although Hydra has disintegrated now, it may be difficult to get them to confess the problem honestly, right?"

"What else are you asking?" Dr. Banner gave Tony a reproachful look, "Why don't you just read their memories?"

This is indeed easy. With Tony's current speed, let alone reading part of Hydra's memory, even reading the memory of everyone in the world would not be difficult.

The only thing that limits this practice is Tony's own moral bottom line.

"You know, Dr. Banner, I always hate reading other people's memories." Tony's face was gloomy and he was very resistant. "It makes me feel very uncomfortable."

"I am not Peter. I believe in sharing the world's thoughts without any privacy."

"I retain my own privacy and respect the privacy of others, and I am unwilling to engage in such reckless behavior."

"But now we need this approach to find the truth!" Dr. Banner tried to persuade earnestly, "We are not doing this 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 tampered with by bad guys. It is an act of justice!"

"Can actions done through unjust means really be considered just?" Tony looked at Dr. Banner with dissatisfaction and retorted, "We can read other people's memories in the name of justice today, so tomorrow we will probably continue to hold high the banner of justice and do even more evil things."

"Just like Peter, the new world he created was also under the banner of increasing communication between people. It was the standard 'for your own good' way of doing things!"

"Everyone has their own internal motivation to do things. In their minds, what they do is not necessarily evil, but more of a 'correct' behavior under different perspectives."

"But extreme justice will ultimately lead to evil consequences."

"The only thing that can stop us from going down the evil path is our moral bottom line. We cannot cross it!"

"This is not about reading the memory of one or two people. If it were just a few people, I would certainly understand what expediency means. But this is about reading the memory of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people."

"We can't break 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 speed up our plan?"

Tony lowered his head and thought for a while, then looked up and said, "Besides Pym particles, the only thing that can be used as a power source for the time machine is the Infinity Stones. As long as we make sure these things don't fall into the hands of Hydra, there won't be much risk."

"We now have three Infinity Stones, and we will soon get the Reality Stone from Wanda. The Time Stone is in the hands of the Sorcerer Supreme, and Hydra will not get it. Although the Space Stone is also on Earth, it was in SHIELD back then, and Hydra was unable to use it, which means that the Space Stone cannot activate the time machine, so it doesn't matter even if it falls into the hands of Hydra."

"The key lies in the Pym particles."

"My soul projection failed to steal the Pym particles, so the Pym particles should have sunk into the sea along with the American continent."

"Or, we should arrange some robots to conduct underwater searches near Dr. Pym's former residence to see if we can find the lost Pym particles."

"I think that whether the time machine is in Hydra's possession or not, its owner will definitely go there to look for Pym particles. Perhaps we can meet the thief there."

"When America broke apart, a large amount of water washed over the earth, washing away everything on the surface. And when the continental plates sank, the vortexes they brought were enormous, causing the underwater undercurrents to surge, and the Pym particles might not remain in their original positions," Dr. Banner added.

"Or, we should develop a detection instrument to specifically look for Pym particles, rather than just looking for them in the place where the land originally sank."

"Good idea. This shouldn't be difficult for us. But we need to get a sample of Pym particles."

"Go find the Alien Avengers, they have it!"

(End of this chapter)