American comics start with asking Iron Man a question.

The others didn't seem too surprised either.

Infinity Stones are not something that can be found so easily.

Black Widow then asked Nick Fury to confirm whether Hank Pym's daughter Hope was indeed a secret agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., and received a negative answer.

"Then my previous deduction was correct!" Tony Stark was slightly excited. "The future predicted by the quiz system is indeed the future of other parallel universes!"

The others also breathed a slight sigh of relief.

Since Hope isn't a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, it's unlikely that the first Ant-Man will kill all the Avengers.

"Hank Pym, he actually possesses that kind of power?" Nick Fury was quite surprised.

To be honest, he had underestimated Ant-Man's abilities before.

Nick Fury then fell into deep thought. Hank Pym was getting old and was a "traitor" to S.H.I.E.L.D., so the chances of recruiting him back into S.H.I.E.L.D. were slim.

Then you absolutely can't miss the second Ant-Man, Scott Lang.

He had already investigated, but Scott Lang was still just an ordinary company employee and had no connection with Hank Pym whatsoever.

Nick Fury didn't want to interfere too easily, lest his interference cause the future to go astray. If it resulted in the other person not becoming the second Ant-Man, that would be terrible.

"Everyone, I have some things to take care of, so I'll be leaving now!"

After exchanging some information, Tony Stark stood up, bid farewell to everyone, and left the secret base.

Everyone at the scene had a guess about what they were there for.

Naturally, the goal was to eliminate the mysterious leader of the Ten Commandments, Mandarin, also known as Gillian.

As you all guessed, the first thing Tony Stark did upon returning to Stark Tower was to order Jarvis to search the entire internet for all information about Killian.

Previously, we didn't know Mandarin's true identity, so we couldn't find any useful information.

But things are different now. Following the map, the efficiency is incredibly high.

Jarvis presented Tony Stark with everything related to Killian.

Tony Stark was confronted with images of the Killian using veterans for human experimentation and of terrorist attacks carried out by them.

"That's really a scumbag."

Tony Stark couldn't help but say that seeing that the other party was such a complete terrorist, Tony Stark felt even less guilty.

"T1000, this task is assigned to you."

Tony Stark then instructed the T-1000 who was waiting nearby, "I'll give you a suit of armor to support you. You can take this guy down, right?"

The T1000's system is already connected to Jarvis, and it has complete knowledge of information about the Kirian.

No further introduction is needed.

“That’s enough!” T1000 replied to Tony Stark with utter indifference.

Although the Kylian's body has a strong self-healing ability and the high temperature it generates is enough to threaten the T1000, don't forget that the true value of the T1000 is its high level of intelligence, which is no less than that of humans!

It also has the ability to transform into any shape at will!

The T1000 will choose an appropriate strategy to deal with the Kyrians.

With Jarvis and the Iron Man armor providing support, taking down a mere Kyrian shouldn't be a problem.

Just as Tony Stark had predicted, only three days later, the T-1000 delivered good news: Killian had been successfully eliminated.

The process of eliminating it is also very simple.

T1000 transformed into the appearance of one of Killian's confidants and approached Killian. Taking advantage of Killian's inattention, T1000's arm transformed into a sharp blade and chopped off Killian's head in one swift motion.

Even with its powerful regenerative abilities, Killian couldn't possibly grow a new head and died on the spot.

The T1000 then destroyed the entire base.

The whole process went very smoothly.

It wouldn't be an exaggeration to describe it as effortless.

After killing Killian, Tony Stark breathed a slight sigh of relief; his "number one rival" was finally dealt with.

However, Tony Stark still cannot let his guard down, since Killian is actually just a minor problem.

He also needs to prepare for even bigger trouble.

That's right, it's the Battle of New York.

In the days that followed, Tony Stark continued to work tirelessly on developing more advanced Iron Man armor, while also having Jarvis continue to mass-produce the armor.

In preparation for the possible arrival of the Chitauri in New York in the future.

In just over a year, more than fifty suits of armor have appeared in the basement of Stark Tower.

Of course, Tony Stark wasn't the only one busy during this period.

No one was idle.

Especially the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents led by Nick Fury.

After obtaining a complete set of surveillance drones from Tony Stark, Black Widow, Hawkeye Barton, and Coulson, under Captain America's leadership, conducted an in-depth and comprehensive investigation into Hydra.

The results of the investigation were shocking.

A large number of undercover agents have been uncovered. Not to mention anything else, more than half of the top executives of S.H.I.E.L.D. are Hydra agents.

This is only up to now.

As the investigation continues, no one can be sure how much the list will grow.

One thing is certain: S.H.I.E.L.D. can no longer truly be considered S.H.I.E.L.D., since more than half of its top management are no longer S.H.I.E.L.D. personnel!

This doesn't even include the other mid-level leaders and ordinary special agents.

S.H.I.E.L.D. has completely changed.

Frankly speaking, Lu Dan is in a real bind trying to figure out how to deal with this mess, but there's not much of a good solution at the moment.

Because Hydra has far too many undercover agents.

There is no one left in S.H.I.E.L.D. that can be trusted. Nick Fury's every move could be discovered by Hydra if he is not careful, and he has no power to capture those Hydra spies.

I'm afraid that even the slightest movement would alert them and could even lead to another assassination attempt.

That's not the worst part.

The most critical issue is that even if Nick Fury really had the power to capture all the Hydra agents, if he did, S.H.I.E.L.D. would be completely paralyzed.

After all, the current S.H.I.E.L.D. is operated by Hydra!

So far, besides pretending to know nothing while conducting a secret investigation, there's not much else that Lu Dan can do.

After all, he had other more important things to do, such as preparing for the arrival of the Chitauri.

Although Thor finally understood Odin's true intention a year ago with everyone's help, through constantly learning from Captain America and even carrying out related missions with Captain America, he picked up the hammer again.

Odin then used dark energy to bring him back to Asgard, but whether Thor could stop Loki from descending to Earth and prevent the Battle of New York was anyone's guess.

"Sir, the first sample is ready!"

While dealing with some matters at the secret base, Black Widow came over in person to report.

Nick Fury's spirits lifted, and he immediately stood up: "Take me to see!"

As he spoke, Nick Fury followed Black Widow into a secret laboratory, where they saw a long "whip" on a shelf.

The whip crackled and sparkled with electric arcs, dazzlingly beautiful in a way that was hard to describe.

Nick Fury grabbed one of the handles, swung the electric whip, and lashed it hard at a table next to him.

Snapped!

The table was ripped in two, and smoke was still rising from the broken pieces.

"Ivan Vanko has finally done something good!" Nick Fury put down his whip and said with great satisfaction.

Indeed, that whip was none other than Ivan Vanko's electric whip.

Unlike before, after Ivan Vanko was arrested in Morocco, he never had the chance to be rescued by Justin Hammer again.

Because S.H.I.E.L.D. quickly intervened in the matter, they transferred Ivan Vanko to S.H.I.E.L.D. for detention.

Firstly, Nick Fury knew that Ivan Vanko would cause quite a headache in the future, so he naturally took precautions in advance to prevent Hammer Industries from rescuing him.

Secondly, after learning about the Chitauri invasion, Nick Fury felt that Ivan Vanko's electric whip could still play a certain role.

So they used S.H.I.E.L.D.'s methods to pry all the technology out of Ivan Vanko, and finally secretly executed him.

That's why we see this scene before us.

"Sir, the Ark Reactor is too inefficient and the production cost is too high. It needs to be improved."

One of the researchers adjusted his glasses and spoke to Nick Fury.

“Then let’s hurry!” Nick Fury said to the researcher immediately, “Also, I need to produce a batch as soon as possible; this matter cannot be delayed.”

"Sir, I don't have enough men."

"Then let's use one person as two!"

After Nick Fury forcefully gave the order, he and Black Widow walked out, asking as they went, "How's Falcon Wing doing?"

"The wings aren't a big problem; that's already a mature and complete technology." Black Widow nodded.

The Falcon Wings were also one of the preparations Nick Fury made for the Battle of New York.

He found the researchers from the military's Falcon program and recruited them; everything went quite smoothly.

"How's the special forces team formation going?" Nick Fury asked again.

"It's not very satisfactory, but we'll have to make do with it." Black Widow shrugged.

Nick Fury nodded, understanding the situation.

"Sir, we've encountered a problem."

At that moment, Coulson made a phone call, causing Nick Fury's expression to turn extremely serious: "The Tesseract has activated on its own!"

The Cosmic Cube activates autonomously!

Is Loki about to steal the Tesseract?