American comics start with asking Iron Man a question.

“Fine! You win!” After a moment of contemplation, Loki shrugged. “I can tell you the information this time, but when it’s my turn to answer questions, you also need to tell me the information I want to know.”

“Of course!” Nick Fury nodded as if it were the most natural thing in the world.

Option D is obviously impossible.

Loki then shared his thoughts with everyone, "Midgard is the territory of my father Odin. How dare Thanos exterminate the humans on Midgard? He wouldn't dare do that even if he had a hundred lives!"

Loki's perspective was one that no one had actually considered, but after some deliberation, they still raised some questions.

“Loki, I know Odin is the Allfather, the ruler of the Nine Realms, and a powerful figure in all the galaxies. But the universe is so vast, it wouldn't be strange if there were beings who weren't afraid of Odin, would it?”

Captain America spoke first, his expression serious, to Loki.

“What you say may make sense, but Thanos is not that kind of person,” Loki said to Captain America with great certainty.

"How do you know that?" Tony Stark immediately asked sharply from the side.

"Why do you think I came here to steal the Tesseract?" Loki's words caused everyone present to pause slightly, their expressions changing subtly.

Previously, people had speculated that Thanos was the mastermind behind the Battle of New York, and now, Loki's words have definitively confirmed this.

Loki's attempt to steal the Tesseract was indeed orchestrated by Thanos!

"It really is Thanos!" Captain America's expression suddenly turned extremely serious. "So the person who showed you the true power of the Tesseract and gave you the Chitauri fleet is indeed Thanos."

"You guys really know a lot." Loki's face showed a slight look of surprise, and he paid even more attention to the quiz system.

"So, I understand Thanos. Why do you think Thanos wanted me to invade New York? It was just a careful test of my father!"

"Thanos had this idea for a long time, but he never dared to act on it until I, the prince of Asgard, appeared, and he dared to put this idea into practice."

"Thanos is a coward, a wimp! A scoundrel who only dares to do petty things behind my father's back because he's afraid of my father's name!"

Loki then spoke to everyone with a disdainful expression.

Everyone present felt a little strange. Thanos had always been seen as an invincible cosmic overlord, making everyone feel breathless.

This is the first time I've heard someone speak so disparagingly of Thanos.

"But in the future, Thanos did indeed invade Earth." After a moment of contemplation, Black Widow raised this question.

"What did you say? Thanos invades Midgard? That's impossible!" Loki immediately shook his head upon hearing this. "With my father around, Thanos wouldn't dare."

"Could it be... that Thanos collected all six Infinity Stones back then?"

Tony Stark speculated, "The only time we know Thanos appeared on Earth was during Endgame, when he had already collected all six Infinity Stones."

"He collected all six Infinity Stones?" Loki's face showed surprise again.

If that's the case, then it's understandable that the other side dared to provoke Odin.

So the question is, what stage was Thanos at during the Ultron era?

Everyone can be certain that Thanos did not collect all six Infinity Stones at that time, since Ultron had one.

But you can't say that Thanos dared to challenge Odin when he collected all six, but wouldn't dare when he collected five or four.

Such a judgment is rather far-fetched.

"It seems the intelligence Loki provided is useless to us." Hawkeye Barton shook his head slightly.

“While it didn’t eliminate option D from our list, thank you for the information, Loki.” Nick Fury shrugged at Loki.

At least Loki helped everyone confirm that Thanos was the mastermind behind the Battle of New York, which is actually a significant achievement.

“No, I’m not finished yet,” Loki said again. “Thanos may have become bolder after obtaining the Infinity Stones, daring to provoke my father, but annihilating all of humanity is not Thanos’s style.”

Thanos always adhered to one principle: kill half and spare half!

"He invaded the universe and destroyed many planets, but he always only killed half of all life!"

Loki's words immediately made everyone's eyes light up. If that's the case, then option D can be eliminated without a doubt.

"Kill half and spare the other half?" Tony Stark couldn't help but curl his lip first. "What is this? False mercy? To comfort your blood-stained heart?"

“Thanos is a madman. How would we know what a madman is thinking?” Black Widow shrugged, then glanced at the big screen. “So the answer to this question is B?”

Everyone present was momentarily speechless.

"Isn't it ironic and absurd to exterminate all of humanity for the sake of world peace?" Nick Fury couldn't help but complain out loud.

“No, Nick Fury.” Tony Stark shook his head and said to Nick Fury with a serious expression, “I’ve said it before, you can’t look at things with human logic.”

"In my opinion, option B is the most logical and plausible option."

“Stark, we’re all ears.” Nick Fury shrugged and gestured for Tony Stark to listen.

Tony Stark continued his eloquent speech under everyone's watchful eyes.

"According to option B, Ultron was created to maintain world peace. Logically speaking, what direct relationship does maintaining world peace have with the survival of all mankind?"

Everyone present was taken aback by Tony Stark's question. They instinctively wanted to refute it, but couldn't come up with any rebuttal.

If you really think about it carefully, you really can't find a direct link between peace and the survival of humanity.

"Peace means the absence of war. If Ultron was created with the aim of maintaining world peace, then eliminating war is Ultron's ultimate goal."

"Does this principle contradict the extermination of all humanity?"

"Even annihilating all of humanity would better implement this principle, because all wars on Earth are caused by humans."

"If all of humanity were wiped out, there would be no more wars, and the Earth would enjoy lasting peace."

A brief silence fell over the scene; everyone was speechless and stunned by Tony Stark's words.

"Based on human thinking, everyone naturally assumes that the premise of peace is that all of humanity is still alive. If everyone dies, although there is no more war, it is not peace."

"Because when everyone dies, nothing has any meaning."

"But what about robots? No war, no peace! That's the logic of robots!"

"That's why I said option B makes the most sense."

Chapter 174 Ultron's Betrayal: Targeting All of Humanity

After Tony Stark's long speech, everyone present was gradually convinced by him.

As Tony Stark said, if we set aside preconceived notions based on human logic, option B is indeed the most logical option.

It can even be perfectly integrated into the jigsaw puzzles that everyone currently knows in real life.

After all, Earth's future is fraught with disasters, facing repeated alien invasions and suffering from war.

Given this context, it's entirely plausible that Stark would design a robot in the future to maintain world peace.

"Options A, C, and D all have logical inconsistencies, while option B is the most plausible. Therefore, the answer to this question is already known."

Hawkeye Barton made the final decision, glancing at everyone before speaking.

“I’ll answer this question. Is everyone okay with that?” Tony Stark immediately stepped forward and addressed the group.

The reward for this question is the Mark 42 armor blueprint, which is useless to anyone else; it can only be truly valuable if given to Tony Stark.

Moreover, Tony Stark basically analyzed this question himself, so it's only natural that he would answer it.

No one expressed any objection.

"I choose B, for the sake of world peace!" Tony Stark immediately gave his answer to the big screen.

[Correct answer!]

[Congratulations to Tony Stark for winning a set of Mark 42 armor blueprints!]

[The reward has been issued, please check your account!]

With these system notification sounds, a USB drive suddenly appeared in Tony Stark's hand.

Without a doubt, it was the complete set of blueprints for the Mark 42 armor.

"Mark 42?"

Black Widow recalled something, and a smile involuntarily crept onto her lips. "Was it that Mark 42 that smashed itself to pieces? That was truly memorable!"

"Even so, it was thanks to it that I severely damaged Killian, wasn't it?" Tony Stark said dismissively.

Tony Stark was quite satisfied with the Mark 42 blueprints as a reward. The biggest highlight of this suit of armor was its modular assembly.

This feature, when used properly, can sometimes be very useful.

For example, when Killian blew up Tony Stark's villa and buried it at the bottom of the sea, if it weren't for this function, Tony Stark would have been turned into dust at the bottom of the sea forever.

The reward for this blueprint is nothing special. After exchanging a few casual words, everyone started talking about other things.

Until the system notification sound plays.

[The quiz is complete. Answer explanations will now be played!]

With this prompt, a corresponding video appeared on the big screen.

However, in a place resembling a laboratory, Tony Stark and Dr. Banner, dressed in a white lab coat, were having a conversation.

"What's that noise?" Dr. Banner seemed to have heard something and turned to ask Tony Stark.

“It’s the scepter!” Tony Stark replied. “We’ve been trying to figure out why Strucker is so creative, so I’ve been analyzing the gems…from the inside out.”

The words "Strucker" and "scepter" immediately made the timeline of this event clear to everyone.

Clearly, this incident occurred after the scepter was stolen from the Strucker base.

“You might recognize this,” Tony Stark’s voice continued as he projected a yellow digital image.

"Jarvis?" Dr. Banner immediately recognized what the digital projection was.

"Doctor!" Jarvis greeted Dr. Banner as well.

“Initially, Jarvis was just a natural language interface, but now he commands the Iron Legion, and he manages more things than anyone else, except Pepper.”

Tony Stark briefly explained Jarvis's awesomeness to Dr. Banner, while also introducing an even more awesome being.

“But Jarvis isn’t anymore. Let’s look at the competition.” Tony Stark then projected another blue digital image.

It was an "energy cluster" similar in form to Jarvis, and it was clearly also artificial intelligence, but it was much larger than Jarvis.

Dr. Banner was also very surprised by this.