American Comics: The Matrix

Chapter 450 Hydra Captain

"We'll snatch the watch from him?"

Pietro pointed to himself.

"Excuse me, who just got defeated and beaten up? It was us!"

“But if he doesn’t transform, he’s just an ordinary person,” Harry said. “If it were our Class, I might think there’s no hope, but…”

But could a mere zombie possibly stump these elite plumbers?
“Yeah, we have a white-haired, non-mainstream, chuunibyou guy and a dinosaur kid.” Tony Stark woke up at some point.

His body was twisted into a pretzel shape, and it wouldn't be easy for it to recover. An excessive dose of the drug could cause the newly formed body to become deformed.

Therefore, almost every bone needs to be shaped before it can grow.

I won't go into how painful it was.

“Not only that, we also have canned cured meat. How about we leave you there to attract their attention?” Pietro immediately retorted. He simply didn’t like the nickname Tony gave him.

"Do you want to destroy me?"

Tony joked.

Then he became serious again, and his body began to move in the nutrient solution, pressing against the glass.

"Actually, I've been listening to this for a while now."

“Just now?” Pietro raised an eyebrow.

“From when you reminisce about your wonderful childhood.” He still knows how to talk.

"Guys, isn't there anyone like me who, after hearing that story, thinks the zombie kid didn't do anything wrong?"

he asked.

Peter and the others remained silent.

As the movie's plot unfolds, the situation often spirals out of control because the first person to turn into a zombie was not killed.

"But what if your family members turned into zombies?"

Tian Xiaowen choked up as she spoke.

She wished she could rush into the nutrient solution and drag Tony out.

"Can you just stand by and watch someone die?"

"Can you bring yourself to wipe them out?"

"Don't you ever think about the possibility that, just in case, there might be a way to cure them?"

Tony slammed his fist on the glass: "I'm trying to prevent this from happening! Steal that guy's watch, and then what?"

"You've spent nearly twenty years researching an antidote with no progress. Are you expecting a miracle to happen in the next few hours?"

"Of course, I'm not saying I'm completely on their side. After all, that madman is planning to drag two universes down with him. My suggestion is, this universe is beyond saving, so let Otto just blow up this planet."

Tian Xiaowen fell silent.

She actually knew Tony was right.

She harbored a dream, but she couldn't drag another world down with her desire to save Ben.

“I know some survivor camps. I’ll mark their locations on the map. We have six hours left. Please help them get out of here,” Tian Xiaowen sighed.

She lay out her body as if she had accepted her fate. The belief, or rather the "lie," that had kept her alive all along had been exposed. What remained in this body was not even despair, but only exhaustion and numbness.

But Tony's next words made her angry again.

"survivor?"

"No survivors!"

His gaze swept over everyone present.

"No one, including us, is allowed to leave this Earth!"

"Stark, are you insane?!"

Wanda glared at him.

She felt Tony hadn't been beaten enough. But in the past, Tony had found it difficult to look Wanda in the eye because he felt guilty.

This time was different. He didn't back down at all, and said seriously, "Who knows if those survivors are really not infected? Even if they aren't, who can say they won't carry the zombie virus? We are the same! I will never allow something that could destroy the world to be brought back!"

"You want us all to die here together?"

Pietro looked at him in disbelief.

“Mr. Stark, aren’t you going a bit too far?” Peter asked as well.

Is it extreme?

Tony countered, "The fact that this virus can contaminate the entire universe shows how terrifying it is!"

If only Earth were infected, blowing up a planet would have been enough. But Ben Tennyson's goal was to destroy the entire universe through a collision crisis, which proves that the spread of the virus has reached an unimaginable level.

If this universe can't be defended, Tony doesn't think he can handle things on his side.

"I'll just say it."

He changed the subject, his expression becoming kind: "Pepper is pregnant."

“Then you shouldn’t have done that,” Harry said. “I heard Howard died young, and you know better than anyone the impact of a lack of fatherly love on a child in childhood.”

“I know,” Tony nodded, “but it’s still better than her being born in a post-apocalyptic world.”

“Listen, I’ve done a lot of awful things in my life, most of the time because of arrogance, thinking ‘it’s okay to do this,’ ‘it’s no big deal,’ ‘I can handle this’… and what was the result?”

"We must not assume that survivors are harmless. If all infected people mutate after being bitten, then where did the first zombie come from?"

“But how can we lay a hand on innocent people?” Peter found it hard to accept.

He was called "conscience," and even though he wasn't as rigid as other Spider-Men under Bant's influence, it was still too much of a stretch to ask him to take action against innocent people who weren't infected.

Perhaps those people persevere through their suffering just so that one day hope will rise again.

But what they received was not hope, but a group of executioners from another universe.

“Don’t get me wrong, Peter. We’re not here to be saviors,” Tony said. “Saving them isn’t our duty, but rather a matter of the last vestige of justice in our hearts. But if this ‘justice’ conflicts with the safety of our universe, I will not hesitate to stand on my side!”

“Perhaps you are right, Mr. Stark,” Peter said, “but at least we can’t jump to conclusions without trying.”

"Twenty years is just twenty years for Dr. Dong Wu and Xiao Wen, but there are many more of us! Wanda and Eunice know more magic, and you, even Ben acknowledges that you are a genius. He says you are a person cursed by knowledge, but now you don't even dare to try."

"Six hours? Who says we can't create a miracle? Or is it that the famous Tony Stark has lost even this much confidence?"

Tony is much more mature than before.

"A provocation tactic?"

"Don't think I'll fall for it."

“There’s no harm in trying, Tony,” Eunice said. “Even if it doesn’t work, we can just activate the Annihilation Weapon again.”

They were all prepared to sacrifice themselves here.

With this realization, even Tian Xiaowen, who initially harbored resentment, couldn't say anything.

They did not ruthlessly destroy the last hope of this universe, but instead paid the price for this decision with their own lives, sharing the fate of this universe.

"And maybe the smaller group can solve it faster than us."

Peter said with a hint of anticipation.

But in reality, the situation on Bant's side wasn't much better.

Inside the massive aircraft carrier, Steve Rogers, with a hydra embroidered on his chest, stood before Bant and the others, sizing up these visitors who claimed to be from another universe.

Captain of Hydra.

Bant is a little numb.

Before setting off, he never imagined that he would come to a world ruled by Hydra.

Moreover, the leader of Hydra is Steve Rogers.

He bet that if Steve himself knew about this, he would frantically pull out ten dollars and stuff them into his pocket.

(End of this chapter)