Zombie Marvel? Luckily, I'm Superman!

In a short period of time, the battlefield and its surrounding environment underwent a dramatic change. The land was covered by lava and a dark red mist. The mist was more like a form of pollution, having little impact on visibility, but it drove people to madness upon contact.

This phenomenon quickly spread to half of Earth.

After that decisive battle, very few superhumans survived the eroded hemisphere and remained relatively conscious. Tony Stark was one of them. However, Tony Stark didn't possess any superhuman abilities to begin with, and he lost his mind shortly after the erosion occurred. Fortunately, he was wearing his Iron Man suit. After Jarvis sensed something was wrong and received no response to his calls to Tony several times, he decisively activated the emergency protocol, maneuvering the suit to forcibly leave the battlefield and automatically return to the safe zone.

In summary, the erosion of the hemisphere wasn't directly caused by Thanos, but the Thanos event was more like the trigger that ignited everything. A large number of top-tier superhumans engaged in intense battles in a specific area, disrupting something that was originally stable, and possibly opening up passages for certain monsters.

The reason why half of Blue Star can still remain normal is because the erosion seems to be conscious, or perhaps it has other purposes. After covering half of Blue Star, it mysteriously stopped. Why it stopped is still unknown.

Those superhumans who survived within the eroded zone, but who underwent mutations or were corrupted and lost their minds, would not easily leave the eroded hemisphere.

Over the years, Tony has been searching for ways to combat the erosion and investigating its origins, but he has clearly not found anything.

After reading this information, Lin Yi, who originally wanted to praise the shield, couldn't bring himself to do so.

"Is that all the information you have?" Lin Yi asked. "What about how the other Tony appeared? And where are the research records related to Tony in the Corrupted Lands?"

"You're not impotent, are you, little lizard?"

The shield, looking utterly speechless, conjured a lizard head and flipped the camera towards Lin Yi: "Big brother, the places I can enter are areas connected to the network!"

"Those core secrets you mentioned, especially the origins of the other Tony and the raw data from the corruption research—would someone with Tony's personality be foolish enough to store them on servers connected to the public internet or even an internal local area network?"

"That's absolutely impossible! He must have a physically isolated local database to store that data and research findings. Without an external interface, how am I supposed to get in? I don't need to knock, but the problem is, I can't even find the door!"

Lin Yi understood: "So, if I want to know something deeper, I have to find that stored database and then make a physical connection?"

"That's right, so if you really want to dig deep, you'll have to go to Tony Stark, or find his independent database."

"Understood." Lin Yi nodded, silently increasing the importance of the data on the eroded hemisphere and the origins of the other Tony. He knew Tony fairly well; the only things he kept in his independent database, besides the data on the Mark II suit, were the data on the cosmic virus. The Tony here should be similar.

It seems there are quite a few unsolved mysteries surrounding Earth, and they're rather chaotic. To find out more, it appears we can't bypass Tony Stark.

Lin Yi stroked his chin, feeling a bit troubled. He didn't really want to make contact with Tony in this universe. Even if he went directly to him and politely inquired, the other party would most likely not cooperate.

"Hey! How about I ask that old lady for a Soul Gem? We can just talk to the key person directly and find out what we need to know, right?" Lin Yi thought this was a good idea—direct, straightforward, and convenient!

"Good idea, but it won't work." Shield shook his head. "Why don't you take another look at this document I just found?"

Lin Yi had a thought, and the shield immediately sent over a short message.

Records show that since the erosion zone appeared on Earth, the Infinity Stones have simultaneously lost their corresponding...

My beautiful old baby! Are the Cosmic Stones useless now?

"Since the Infinity Stones are unusable, this shouldn't be caused by the erosion of Earth, right?" Lin Yi subconsciously ruled out this option.

The shield had the same idea.

"According to what the Black Granny said, and combined with the current information from the Vision Body, the abnormality in the operating rules of this universe has likely existed for a long time. It's just that the erosion zone appeared on Blue Star relatively late; similar situations may have already occurred on a large scale on other planets."

The shield analyzed, "As for the appearance of erosion zones on Earth and the simultaneous failure of the Infinity Stones, it is highly likely to be a coincidence. It is probably the result of the universe's abnormal rules failing to be repaired for a long time, and thus entering an irreversible state of collapse."

"If these speculations are correct, the time left in this universe should be running out."

"Oh, by the way, I also found some highly classified files. I saw several records that only had numbers and brief headings, but no specific content. These records involved the extraordinary power of this blue planet and some information from the universe. If we can find this information, it might be more helpful in understanding this universe."

"So, you really can't get around Tony, or rather, Tony's independent database."

"...Of course, there are actually two other information acquisition channels." Shield chuckled.

"Develop idealistic abilities to generate a kind of interconnectedness with all things, and communicate with the universe to obtain the information you want."

"For the other one, you can ask another 'old acquaintance'."

"The Ancient One in spirit form?" Lin Yi replied.

The Ancient One is indeed a good source of information.

"That's right, but Gu Yi didn't join the war in the Eroded Zone at the time. He didn't take any action against the Eroded Zone afterwards either, as if he knew about it all along but didn't make any contact."

"It's possible that the Ancient One here is also involved. In any case, whether you come into contact with Tony, the Ancient One, or anyone else, you should be careful."

Lin Yi listened to the description of the shield and fell silent. He sat quietly on the edge of the water tower, looking down at the scenery below.

After waiting a while and receiving no response, Shield couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong? Are you scared?"

"...What nonsense are you spouting?" Lin Yi finally spoke, his voice tinged with amusement.

He looked up, tossed the last piece of chocolate into his mouth, and chewed slowly. His eyes were half-closed, and the corners of Lin Yi's mouth couldn't help but curve upwards.

"I suddenly felt that this universe seemed to have some meaning."

He was somewhat intrigued. The fact that the sun couldn't recharge didn't frighten him; energy reserves weren't a problem for him at this stage.

Instead, after being "idle" for so long, this level of unknown difficulty and unknown information appeared in front of him, piquing his interest.