I knew it!"
Tony Stark mumbled in a very confident tone.
It could be said that Nick Fury's move to contact Satan did not come as a surprise to Tony.
With all the Avengers potentially having their minds controlled by Loki, and all of them possibly being Loki's undercover agents, there weren't many choices Nick Fury could make.
And no matter how you looked at it, Satan was the safest and most efficient choice Nick Fury could make.
The Playboy mused that if he were Nick Fury, he might also seek out Satan.
So what about Satan?
He certainly did not disappoint Nick Fury.
Judging by his tone, Loki seemed to be nothing in his presence, as if he could definitely snatch back the Tesseract just by making a move.
And regarding this point,
Tony, who was always good at questioning and habitually questioned things, did not express much doubt this time.
The Avengers who would stand at the pinnacle of the Universe in the future had not yet surfaced; the current Avengers was still the first generation Avengers.
Under these circumstances,
If anyone had the greatest possibility and confidence to do such a thing, it was undoubtedly that Satan.
Moreover, Tony had witnessed Satan's power, and it was indeed very powerful.
Even someone as arrogant as Tony had to admit that he was far inferior to Satan at present!
Of course, that was just for now.
The Playboy also believed that one day in the future, he would definitely research powerful enough armors to leave figures like Satan far behind.
"Hail HYDRA?"
As these thoughts flashed through his mind, Tony's gaze roamed over the diary, and he quickly froze.
Judging by the diary's tone, Captain America actually shouted "Hail HYDRA" during the New York Battle?
What the hell!
"Hail HYDRA," wasn't that HYDRA's slogan?
Why would Captain America shout HYDRA's slogan?
Could it be that… Captain America was actually a HYDRA agent?
Captain America was not actually Captain America, but Captain HYDRA?
Tony's expression became quite something.
The diary had previously mentioned Captain HYDRA and the condition to verify if Captain America was Captain HYDRA:
Go to Vormir and see if Red Skull Schmidt was there.
If Red Skull was there, then Captain America was not Captain HYDRA.
If he wasn't, then it was hard to say.
But this verification method was undoubtedly nonsense for the Avengers, completely impractical.
Fortunately, the diary later revealed that S.H.I.E.L.D., oh no, Serpent S.H.I.E.L.D., had issued a warrant for Captain America's arrest.
Captain America had also worked with Black Widow, Nick Fury, and others to destroy HYDRA's Insight Project.
This cleared Captain America's suspicion.
Leading the diary holders to generally believe that Captain America was not a HYDRA undercover agent.
However, now, "Hail HYDRA"?
This immediately confused Tony again.
If Captain America wasn't Captain HYDRA, why would he say HYDRA's slogan?
The diary did not mention any cause and effect for this matter, nor any related intelligence fragments that could be connected to it.
Tony couldn't figure it out for a while.
But at the same time, another question surfaced in Tony's mind.
If Captain America really was Captain HYDRA, then he would obviously not just say "Hail HYDRA" once among his HYDRA colleagues.
It should have been many times.
So why was this particular "Hail HYDRA" during the New York Battle considered a famous scene by Zhou Cheng?
Adding to that, the diary had also mentioned famous scenes before, whether intentionally or unintentionally, but all those famous scenes were of "positive characters."
In other words, they were all famous scenes of superheroes, and not of villains or other negative characters.
So from this perspective, Tony was inclined to believe that Captain America was not actually Captain HYDRA.
It was just Captain America's "Hail HYDRA" that was currently truly unexplainable.
Besides that, there was another unexplainable thing.
Since "Hail HYDRA" was a famous scene that occurred during the New York Battle, then why would this famous scene still exist even if the New York Battle didn't happen?
Judging by this, does it mean that the "Hail HYDRA" that occurred during the New York Battle was actually unrelated to the New York Battle in the end?
This was truly a bit contradictory.
Clearly, there must be crucial related intelligence missing, which leads to this illogical situation.
But what exactly is missing, only Satan would know.
[Haha, I really didn't know before that Captain America had such a clever side.]
[What does it mean to win without shedding blood? This is what it means to win without shedding blood!]
[With just a few words, he easily tricked the staff from HYDRA, avoiding a fierce battle.]
[However, it would also be great to have Captain America re-enact the "elevator fight" from back then.]
[That is also one of the most exciting and classic battles in Marvel!]
Winning without shedding blood?
Tony finally understood, and he completely relaxed.
It seemed he had overthought things and was misled by Zhou Cheng's half-spoken description.
It turned out that it was just Captain America's strategy.
It was Captain America's way of tricking the staff from HYDRA.
So, the question arises, what exactly is the "staff" mentioned in the diary?
Why would it cause Captain America and HYDRA to both try to seize it?
No matter how you looked at it, it was a very important item!
Not only that.
Connecting it to "Hail HYDRA" being a famous scene from the New York Battle, does that mean this staff is also related to the New York Battle?
"Wait a minute!"
"staff!"
Immediately after, a flash of inspiration subconsciously crossed the Playboy's mind.
Tony's eyes lit up immediately.
The "spear" Loki was holding, wasn't that shaped like a staff?
Combining all these circumstances, one fact was now essentially beyond doubt:
The staff mentioned here in the diary must be the weapon in Loki's hand.
Moreover, according to previous information from the diary, humanity won the New York Battle, and the Avengers were victorious.
So, Loki being captured and his weapon being confiscated was indeed reasonable.
There was no problem with that.
But why would a prisoner of war's weapon fall into HYDRA's hands?
Shouldn't it be more reasonable for it to fall into S.H.I.E.L.D.'s hands?
So it was very clear that at this time, Nick Fury had no idea that S.H.I.E.L.D. was Serpent S.H.I.E.L.D.!
This could also be verified from reality.
Given HYDRA's terrifying level of infiltration, if Nick Fury hadn't gotten the diary and obtained relevant information from it,
He would definitely still be in the dark now!
So, during the New York Battle, HYDRA must have still been well hidden within S.H.I.E.L.D. and had not been exposed.
But if that's the case, another contradiction arises.
Since Captain America used the phrase "Hail HYDRA" to trick the staff from HYDRA, it means Captain America had already seen through the identities of those HYDRA undercover agents!
Doesn't this contradict the previous analysis?
Or did Captain America not know the identities of those HYDRA undercover agents beforehand, but only found out by chance because something happened?
But even so, shouldn't Captain America have reported this to Nick Fury?
And not privately trick the staff away?
Besides that, the word "re-enact" also made Tony feel a bit confused.
What does "re-enact" mean?
Did Captain America have an "elevator fight" with these people before?
Judging by the diary's tone, if Captain America hadn't used trickery, he might have had another "elevator fight" with these people.
If that's the case, since a fierce battle had already occurred once, did these people have no guard against Captain America?
Were they still easily tricked by Captain America?
No matter how you looked at it, everything felt a bit awkward and illogical.
And there was more than one such awkward and illogical point.
Clearly, it must be due to the lack of crucial related information.
Did the diary not mention it, or did he just not remember it?
Tony began to fall into deep thought.
And a few seconds later,
The wrinkles on Tony's brow suddenly smoothed out, and a flash of inspiration crossed his mind.
"That's it!"
"It must be like this!"
Tony couldn't help but murmur to himself; he recalled another extremely crucial piece of information:
The diary had previously mentioned that during the New York Battle, other Avengers had traveled through time.
Their purpose for time travel was unknown, but it resulted in Loki being captured by the TVA.
And undoubtedly, the Captain America who shouted "Hail HYDRA" must be the future Captain America!
Only then would everything make sense.
Because he came from the future, he knew about the unexposed HYDRA, and he had experienced an "elevator fight" before.
That's why those HYDRA agents who had an "elevator fight" with Captain America had no guard against him and were easily tricked by him.
Because for them, the "elevator fight" that Captain America had already experienced once hadn't actually happened yet!
It clicked!
After inserting the identity of the future Captain America, all the illogical points became logical.
The logic flowed smoothly, with no more flaws.
It couldn't be wrong.
The Captain America who shouted "Hail HYDRA" must be the future Captain America!
So this was the reason why the future Captain America had lived in seclusion with Peggy Carter for so long, and then suddenly appeared during the New York Battle?
Just for the staff?
"It seems that staff must be something extraordinary!"
Tony sighed softly, making such a natural judgment.
In an instant, Tony developed a great interest in the staff.
What exactly was this thing, that it was so important, important enough to make someone travel through time for it?
It was just a pity.
Up to this point, Tony's understanding of the staff was also extremely limited.
Besides seeing the staff emit energy attacks and being used as a club to hit people, he hadn't seen anything special about it.
He couldn't think of anything for a while.
The Playboy thought for a moment and, getting no results, decisively gave up.
Instead, he began to ponder another extremely important question.
Since the Tesseract had already been stolen by Loki, it was not an exaggeration to say that the New York Battle had officially begun.
So at this time, had the future Avengers already traveled through time and secretly infiltrated New York?
Or would they travel through time in the near future?
Tony wasn't particularly interested in the other Avengers.
But he was very interested in what his future self would be like, the great Tony.
[Not only are the stories inside the elevator incredibly exciting, but the stories outside the elevator are even better!]
[Captain America, who successfully obtained the staff, actually met another version of himself, can you believe it?]
[And was mistaken for Loki by that other self!]
[The two Captain Americas even had a big battle.]
[It's truly astonishing that Captain America, who could block a blow from the Purple Sweet Potato with multiple Infinity Stones, couldn't even defeat his past self.]
[It seems Captain America's "five-five split" attribute isn't as effective when applied to himself.]
It was indeed like that!
Tony realized that his analysis was indeed correct.
The Captain America who shouted "Hail HYDRA" was indeed the Captain America from the future.
Not only that, but he also met his past self!
Had things really developed to such an interesting point?
One must know that Captain America was different from ordinary people; this guy was a hundred years old now and still looked the same as he did seventy years ago!
The super serum made his aging extremely slow.
Would his future self, who came from the future, still be as young as his past self?
Oh, right, one also had to factor in the time Captain America spent with Peggy Carter in the past.
"Mistaken for Loki?"
Tony then raised an eyebrow. Why would such a thing happen?
Captain America and Loki were completely different people, with no similarities; how could they be mistaken for each other?
And the person who mistook Captain America was not some old man with failing eyesight, but another Captain America.
Would someone like Captain America make such a basic mistake as mistaking someone?
And not just a general mistake of mistaking someone, but mistaking himself for someone else!
This kind of thing seemed absurd, like a joke.
So after some thought, Tony felt that the problem was very likely not with Captain America.
But with Loki.
After all, the probability of Captain America having such a "mistake in seeing" situation was too low.
The mistake here should be a situation like this:
Captain America saw someone who looked exactly like him, but still believed that the person with his face was Loki.
After all, the two Captain Americas fought, so it's clear they met face-to-face, not from a distance.